Colonial New Jersey Records - Marriages, Wills & Deeds

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New Jersey Colonial History
By William Nelson, 1900
Vol. XXII Marriages 1665-1800
678 pages, indexed, searchable
Vol. XXI Deeds 1665-1800
770 pages, indexed, searchable
- Bonus Book
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Vol. XXIII Wills 1670-1730
662 pages, indexed, searchable
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William Nelson's
New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800
is
perhaps the most frequently consulted book in New Jersey genealogy.
You also receive Nelson's invaluable
Patents and Deeds and Other
Early Records of New Jersey, 1664-1703
, both published originally as
part of the official
Archives of the State of New Jersey
.
Another official collection included on this CD--absolutely seminal in
genealogical research--is the
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, etc., in
the Office of the Secretary of State,
which features 185,000 entries arranged
under the twenty-one present-day counties of New Jersey
VOLUME XXII.
MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1665-1800
EDITED, WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION ON THE
EARLY MARRIAGE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE
PRECEDENTS ON WHICH THEY WERE FOUNDED,
BY WILLIAM NELSON,
CONTENTS.
THE EARLY MARRIAGE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE PRECEDENTS ON
WHICH THEY WERE FOUNDED:
I. INTRODUCTION. Primitive Marriage Customs, ix. Roman Marriage
Law, ix. Ecclesiastical Regulation of Marriages, xii.
II. FORMATIVE INFLUENCES AS TO THE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN NEW JERSEY.
I. The Dutch Law of Marriage, xviii. II. The Swedes, xxvii. III.
Marriage Kites in England, xxxiv. IV. Scottish Marriages, xlviii.
V. New England Marriage Customs, Ivii. VI. Friends' Marriage
Customs, Ixi. VII. Early New York and Pennsylvania Marriage
Laws, Ixix.
III. MARRIAGE IN NEW JERSEY. The Sovereign Power in the Colony,
Ixxi. Marriage Licenses by Gov. Carteret, Ixxvi. Earliest Marriage
Laws in New Jersey, Ixxviii. Some Early Divorces, Ixxix. Second
Marriages, Ixxxi. More Colonial Marriage Laws, Ixxxiii. Some
Burlington Marriages, 1680-1684, Ixxxv. Protecting Unwary Maid-
ens, Ixxxvii. An Ante-Nuptial Contract, 1686, Ixxxviii. A Mar-
riage that was a Failure, xc. The Colonial Practice as to Marriage
Licenses, xci. A Marriage License in 1695, xciii. Lord Cornbury's
Instructions, xciv. The Laws of England Applicable to the Colo-
nies, xciv. Some Peculiar Marriage Customs, xcvi. A Word as to
"Bundling," xcviii. 1 he Marriage Act of 1719. xcviii. The Prac-
tice Regarding Marriage Licenses, cv. Prof. Kalm's Description of
the Practice, cvi. A Swedish Criticism, cviii. Hostility to the Mar-
riage License System, ex. Objections of the Episcopal Clergy of
New Jersey, cxii. Bishop White, of Pennsylvania, on Marriage
Licenses, cxiii. Decay of the License System, cxvi. The Marriage
Act of 1795, cxvi. Later Legislation, cxxi. Divorces by the Leg-
islature, cxxiii. Divorces by the Court of Chancery, cxxiv.
INDEX TO MARRIAGE BONDS AND MARRIAGE RECORDS IN THE OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE AT TRENTON, 1
HACKENSACK REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1695-
1800, 467
SCHRAALENBURGH REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS,
1724-1801, - - - 515
CONTENTS.
BERGEN COUNTY CLERK'S MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1795-1800, - - 553
BERGEN REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1664-1801, 555
ESSEX COUNTY CLERK'S MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1795-1801, 582
LYONS FARMS BAPTIST CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1795-1800, - 599
SECOND RIVER REFORMED (DUTCH) CHUECH MABRIAGE RECORDS, 1730-
1774, 1794-1800, 605
CHRIST CHURCH, NEW BRUNSWICK, MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1758-1778, - 620
NEW BRUNSWICK REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS,
1794-1799, 625
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERK'S MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1795-1800, - 629
SCOTCH PLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1758-1761, - 641
CHESTERFIELD (BURLINGTON COUNTY) FRIENDS' MONTHLY MEETING
MARRIAGE RECORDS, 1686-1800, - - 650
ILLUSTRATIONS
Fac simile of a Marriage Bond, 1768, - - Front
Fac simile of a Marriage Bond, 1772, - - Opposite page 1
VOLUME XXI.
Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703
CONTENTS.
PREFACE, ix
PART I. EAST JERSEY RECORDS.
Liber No. I : I
A stumpy folio, of which 183 pages are written on from the front and 155
pages from the back. This contains Indian deeds, patents and other con-
veyances, confirmatory patents, licenses for the purchase of lands from the
Indians, town charters, court proceedings, etc., 1650-1678. The calendar of
the reversed side has been reserved for a future publication.
Liber No. 3: 28
A folio, 177 pages written up in front, and 38 pages from the reversed
side. This contains orders establishing courts, regulating the sale of liquor
to Indians, decree of divorce, licenses to keep taverns, and for whale fishing,
wills, administrations^ inventories of estates, court proceedings, patents and
other conveyances, military and civil commissions, grants and concessions,
letters, instructions and orders relative to the government, allowances of
lands for immigrant servants, etc., 1665-1682.
Liber No. 4: 48
A large folio of 500 pages, of which only 36 from the front and 13 from
the back are filled with writing, consisting of patents, Indian and other
deeds, court proceedings, surveys of lands, administration of estates, etc ,
1679-1682.
Liber A: 52
A very large folio, of 444 pages; the leaves have been folded twice, ap-
parently for the purpose of filing, before being bound. It contains many
documents of the greatest importance relating to the government of East
Jersey; also deeds, wills, administrations, patent?, list of imported indented
servants, agreements for the sale of land, powers of attorney, confirmations
of patents, orders and instructions in relation to the government of East Jer-
sey, road records, etc., 1676-1688.
Liber B: 91
A folio of 537 pages, containing patents, deeds, mortgages, confirmatory
patents, wills, bonds, letters and other documents relating to the government
of East Jersey, etc., 1680-1688.
Liber C: I3O
An immense folio of 344 pages on one side, and '278 pages on the reversed
side, containing powers of attorney, patents, deeds, confirmations of patent,
mortgages, wills, administrations, appointments of guardians, Indian deeds,
leases, writs of election, returns of same, proclamations, acts of the Assem-
bly, orders, letters, instructions and other documents relating to the govern-
ment of East Jersey, 1670-1703.
Liber D: 162
A folio of 450 pages. Commissions, mortgages, deeds, wills, administra-
tions, accounts of quit rents, patents, chattel mortgages, Indian deeds, "let-
ters testimonial," confirmations of patents, leases, agreements, headlands for
imported indentured servants, 1672-1694.
Liber E: 199
A folio of 546 pages. Confirmations of patents, deeds, wills, appoint-
ments of guardians, powers of attorney, warrants for surveys, patents, letters
of administration, bill of sale of slaves, returns of surveys, leases, inden-
tures of service, 1672-1698.
LiberF: 246
A very large folio of 743 pages. It consists mostly of deeds, but also
contains some patents, confirmations of patents, wills, returns of surveys of
roads, mortgages, partitions, "letters testimonial," leases, Indian deeds,
1680-1698.
Liber C: 295
A large folio of 370 pages, mostly deeds and patents, with some wills and
letters of administration and ''letters testimonial," leases, mortgages, assign-
ments, powers of attorney, Indian deeds, award of arbitrators, 1683-1702.
PART II. WEST JERSEY RECORDS.
Liber A, Town Grants, New Salem: 339
A small folio, of 90 pages, containing patents from John Feuwick, and
assignments of the same, 1679-1699.
Liber A, or Revel's Book of Surveys : 345
A small folio of 155 pages on the front side, returns of surveys in Burl
lington and Salem counties, including Daniel Leed's surveys; on the reverse
side 17 pages, letters and other papers relating to Daniel Coxe's possessions,
and surveys of lauds in Burlington and Cape May counties, 1680-1704.
Liber B, Part I: 394
A large folio of 378 pages, containing memoranda of Indian and other
deeds, powers of attorney, leases, agreements, mortgages, commissions, con-
veyance from Daniel Coxe to the West Jersey Society, 1677-1694.
Liber B, Part II: 447
A large folio, pages 379-749: Deeds, mortgages, leases, letters, royal
patent for wrecks, flotsam and jetsam ; deeds from the West Jersey Society
for lands in C.ipe May, ship charters, powers of attorney, commissions, mar-
riage certificates, letters of guardianship, bonds, receipts for legacies, wills,
etc., 1687-1703.
Fenwick's Surveys, I676-I7O6: 541
A small folio of 35 pages, containing returns of surveys in the township
of Salem, 1678-1706.
Salem Surveys, No I : 546
A small folio cf 18 pages, containing warrants for surveys, returns of sur-
veys in the township of New Salem, 1676-1679.
Salem Surveys, No. 2: 548
A small thin folio of 73 pages: Warrants for surveys and returns of sur-
veys in Sairm, with memoranda of deeds, leases, miscellaneous memoranda
as to agreements, various occurrences, minutes, court proceedings, political
essay by James Nevill, Indian vocabulary (about 230 words), leases, etc ,
1678-1688.
Salem Surveys, 1676: 534
A small, thin folio of 178 pages, containing oaths of office of John Fen-
wick and others, agreement of settlement and division of lands in Fenwick's
Colony, warrants for surveys, orders of John Fenwick, returns of surveys,
Laws, Orders and Acts of Assembly of New Jersey, 1675, commissions, etc.,
1676-1681.
Salem No. I : 559
A small, thin folio, of 147 pages, containing the Royal Grant of Charles
II to the Duke of York, for New Jersey, New York and New England, and
mesne conveyances for West Jersey and Fenwick's Colony; Indian deeds to
Fenwick; patents from Fenwick for lands in Fenwick's Colony, 1675-6; in-
dentures of agreement relating to the Colony, 1664-1699.
Salem Deeds, Liber B: 565
A small, thin folio of 175 pages, containing patents from Fenwick, and
deeds for the same, 1672-1702.
Salem Deeds, No 2: 373
A small, thin folio of 165 pages, containing deeds for lands in Fenwick's
Colony, patents, schedules of personal property, Indian Deeds, etc., 1678-
1686.
Salem Deeds. No. 3: 578
A small folio of 260 pages, containing deeds, mortgages, etc , 1680-1687.
Salem Deeds, No. 4: 385
A small folio of 172 pages, containing deeds, 1683-1689, and list of pas-
sengers on the "Shipp called the Griffin."
Salem Deeds, No. 5: 591
A small, btout folio of 495 pages, containing deeds, mortgages, assign-
ments, leases, etc., of lands in Salem, 1686-1695.
Salem Deeds, No. 6: 611
A small folio of 263 pages, containing deeds, assignments, leases, mort-
gages, agreement between the purchasers in Fairfield, etc., 1 685-1699.
Salem Deeds, No. 7: 624
A small folio of 269 page?, containing deeds, mortgages, assignments,
agreements, returns of resurvey?, commissions, etc., 1698-1703.
Nevill's Book of Deeds, Liber A : 643
A small, thin folio of 181 pages, containing records of deeds made by
James Nevill, as agent of William Penn, Proprietor and Governor of Penn-
sylvania, and of Salem Tenth, West Jersey, for lands in Salem Tenth, 1684-
1692.
Greenwich Town Lots: 646
A small, thin folio of 29 pages, containing records of deeds from Execu-
tors of John Fenwick, for lands in the Town of Greenwich, in Salem Tenth,
1686-1703.
Volume (Gloucester Deeds, No. I : 648
A large folio of 1 50 pages, containing principally records of deeds for
lands in Old Gloucester, 1677-1689; with a few poweis of attorney and as-
signments; also accouuts of Richard Floyd, Treasurer to the Corporation for
New England, 1650-1665.
Vol. a Gloucester Deeds, No. 2: 653
A thin folio of 180 pages, containing accounts of farm rents by the Mer-
cers' Company of London, for various parishes in England, 1652-1664, 23
pages; deed^for land in Old Gloucester, 1684-1700, and a few miscellaneous
papers.
Liber C Gloucester Deeds, No. 3: 662
A stout folio of 474 pages, containing records of deeds for lands in Old
Gloucester, 1681-1703, and some surveys and resurveys of such lands.
General Index :
Names of Persons and Subjects, 685-709, 710-719, 731-733, 748-764
Indian Landowners' Names, - - 709-710
Names of Places (principally in New Jersey), - - 733-748
Occupations, 718-731
Supplementary Index:
Names of Persons, Places (principally in England, Scotland and
Ireland)
and Subjects omitted in the General Index, - 765-770
VOLUME XXIII.
CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, 167O-173O.
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