Dr. Carlos E. Godfrey Biography
The following paragraph was copied from:
History of Trenton 1679-1929, Published by The Trenton Historical Society, Chapter XV, Trenton Authors and Their Books:
TRENTON has produced not only able journalists but men and women of distinction in the more permanent forms of literature...
Dr. Carlos E. Godfrey has made many valuable contributions to the historical literature of the State and city, some of his publications being as follows:
The Commander-in-Chief's Guard, (1904, 302 pages) ; Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798-1800, (1914; originally printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography) ; The Dutch Trading Post (at Trenton), read before the Trenton Historical Society, March 20, 1919; The Lenape Indians, their Origin and Migration to the Delaware, (1919); Sketch of Major Henry Washington Sawyer, First Regiment, Cavalry, New Jersey Volunteers; Locating the Exact Site where Congress met in Trenton, 1784; Washington's March to Trenton on Christmas Night in 1776. All these are on file at the State Library, Trenton.
Dr. Carlos E. Godfrey served as the director of New Jersey Public Records Office from 1920 until his death in 1941. "The Public Record Office took responsibility for historical as well as current records. Godfrey worked closely with county and municipal governments in the care and preservation of records."
"Prior to his 1920 appointment as head of the Public Record Office [Dr. Carlos E. Godfrey] served as archivist/historian for the Adjutant General’s Office."
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