Bibliography of Land Record Materials at The North Jersey History … Record... · 2019-03-14 ·...

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Bibliography of Land Record Materials at The North Jersey History and Genealogy Center

The Morristown and Morris Township Public Library

Compiled by Linda Ross, 2014

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Call Number Author and title Medium Description Type

H2 Col Colonial Conveyances: Provinces of East and West New Jersey, 1664-1794

Photocopy of typewritten materials; bound

2 volumes Land records

H2 Earl Early Surveys: East and West New Jersey 1875

Bound volume of handwritten journal

Early surveys of land in Morris County, NJ; surveys and deeds 1688-1763

Land records

H2 East Gen Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, South Orange, NJ: The Board, 1954; 4th Edition, 1979

Pamphlets in envelopes

H3S05 Bern Bask Sti

Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, Correspondence 1765, 1779; genealogy chart of Lord Stirling; deed to George Luke Ryerson, witnessed by Stirling

Typewritten transcripts of original correspondence; in envelope

Land records, genealogical information

H929 Wills of the Ford Family Typewritten material, bound

Wills of 1. Theodosia Ford; 2. Jacob Ford, Sr.; 3. Jacob Ford, Jr.; 4. Gabriel H. Ford; 5. Henry A. Ford

Wills

H929 Hedges Hedges, Russell, Hedges family: abstracts of old deeds and papers in the possession of Mrs. Lyman Fish, Brookdale Road, Florham Park, NJ, 1940-41

Typewritten, hard bound

Land records, deeds

H929 MSS Cutler

The Cutler Collection 1763-1974 Contains land records, political documents, financial, legal and personal papers of the Cutler family in Morris County

H929 MSS Hals

Edmund D. Halsey papers 1793-2906 Manuscript Collection of papers: legal abstracts, surveys and search notes for properties in the town of Denville and the townships of Rockaway, Pequannock and

Land records

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Hanover, NJ, from the 19th century

H929.01 Hat Hatcher, Patricia Law, Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records, Cincinatti, Ohio: Betterway Books, c2003

Book Instructional

H929.01 Hon Hone, E. Wade, Land & Property Research in the United States, Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1997

Book Instructional

H929.01 New Str

Stryker-Rodda, Kenn, New Jersey County Tax Ratables, 1778-1892, South Orange, NJ: Kenn Stryker-Rodda, 1971

Typewritten material in binder

Analysis of New Jersey ratables on microfilm; county, township, date, book and reel number given

Land records

H973.314 Co abstract

Coldham, Peter Wilson, American Loyalist Claims, Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1980-

Book Abstract of claims granted to loyalists

Land records

HM Cour Deed

Copy of deed to the Morris County Courthouse property conveyed to the Chosen Freeholders of Morris County by James Wood and his wife. Dated September 20, 1826 and recorded October 23, 1826. Book T-2, page 227 &c

Photocopy of typewritten document; in envelope

Land records

HM Land American Civilization Institute of Morristown, Morris County deeds 1740-1924, Morristown, NJ, 1968

Photocopies of typewritten materials; bound

Five volumes. V. 1 Oct 14, 1740–Mar 30, 1803 V. 2 May 31, 1746–Sep 15, 1813 V. 3 Mar 23, 1782-Mar 22, 1841 V. 4 Feb 10, 1798-Mar 5, 1924 V. 5 index Index compiled by American Civilization Institute of Morristown 1968

Land records

HM Land Morris County, New Jersey Deeds Typewritten Unpaged. “No identification as Land records

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material, bound to who compiled these deeds or for what purpose.”

HM Land Bro Brown, Virginia Alleman, Morris County Heirs to Estates, 1785-1900, Washington, NJ: Genealogical Researchers, 1984

Book - paperback Abstracts of partitions and divisions of Morris County estates filed at Morristown, NJ, 1785-1907. Includes index

Land records

HM Land Can Canfield, John D. and Garretson, Lemuel B., compilers, Morris County Deeds 1750-1840

Typewritten material

Deeds copied or abstracted. Index compiled by Barbara Hoskins, 1970

Land records

HM Land How Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County and some unrecorded deeds, 1749-1796(?)

Handwritten; bound Copies and some drawings of land tracts in a ledger

Land records

HM Land How Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County, 1749-1796

Typewritten material; bound

Revised and expanded 1969; duplicates and adds to the contents of the ledger but excludes drawings

Land records

HM Land Pil Pilch, Henry W., compiler, Some Deeds at Washington’s headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey

Photocopy Unpaged Land records

HM Land Roa Hall, R. J., S, H., Morris County Road Records Book A 1760-1795

Photocopy of typewritten material, bound

Index compiled by Barbara Hoskins; includes some hand drawn maps

Land records

HM Land Sch Scherzer, Robert; Cobbett, Frederick B. and Pilch, Henry W. compilers, An index of ancient deeds, etc., recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, Trenton, NJ, covering lands within the bounds or in the vicinity of the present Morris County

Photocopy of typewritten materials in binder

Unpaged Land records

HM Loan Mor Morris County Loan Office Mortgages Photocopy of typewritten materials, bound

Mortgages for Morristown and Morris Township copied from Books I and II of Morris County Loan Office Mortgages by John

Land records

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Canfield, 1776-1787. Includes indexes

HM1 Sale book to enter Sales in 1856 Notebook Clippings posted in notebook. Morris County sheriff sale notices, 1856-1859

Land records

HM1 Cutl ABS Abstracts of deeds and plottings to land holdings of Augustus V. Cutler, 1850-1898

Handwritten documents, hand drawn maps. Oversize, in archival box

Land records

HM1 Gen New

Casagrand, Eleanor, Another Place to Look: Morris County Mortgages, Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, v. 5 September 1992, pp. 12-14; December 1992, pp- 2-4; v. 6, March 1993, pp. 10-12; v. 7, December 1994, pp. 13-14

Newsletters in 3-ring binder

Land records

HM1 Ha Halsey, Edmund D, Field book and surveys, 1869-1879, v. 1 and v. 2

Handwritten notebooks

2 volumes; surveys, maps, handwritten notes

Land records

HM1 Ha Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and records number 3

Handwritten notebook

Maps, handwritten notes Land records

HM1 Ha Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and records, number 10

Handwritten notebook

Maps, handwritten notes Land records

HM1 Ha Q Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and surveys

Photocopy of handwritten materials (in 12”x15.5” envelope)

Maps, photocopy of handwritten originals of various dates. Contains index

Land records

HM1 Min Sa Sagurton, Wilma, Index to Guy Minton Title Searches

Typewritten material in binders

Indexing for the 88 volumes in the library’s collection

Land records

HM1 Sea Seaton Hackney Farm Photocopy of typewritten material; in envelope

Resume of materials in office files on Seaton Hackney Farm. Farm was formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moore, and is

Land records

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now a part of the Morris County Park System

HM2 Han Howe

Transcript of letter to Gideon Howell to Deborah Howell Pierson, 1770, and transcriptions and photocopies of deeds to Gideon Howell from Jacob Allerton, 1769

Photocopies Unpaged Deeds

HM2 Hand Ble

Bleything, George D. Various documents relating to a suit over property located in Hanover Township with Julia H. Bleything as complainant and George D. Bleything and his sister Lydia Julian Halstead as defendants. Documents include indentures, conveyances of property, briefs of the principals and an application for membership in the DAR of Julia H. Bleything. Dates covered by materials, 1857-1930

Land records, court documents

HM2 Mend Cla

Clark, Henry, Documents relating to the surveys and indentures of various pieces of property near Mendham, either purchased or sold by Henry Clark

Typewritten materials; in envelope

Land records

HM2 Mend Cla

Clark, Henry, Letters about Mendham Township [genealogies and land titles] to Edward Howell, January 1911 – October 1912

Typewritten materials; in envelope

Land records, genealogical information

HM2 Roxb Suc Tho

Thompson, Robert, compiler, Properties in Succasunna Village prior to 1810

Typewritten manuscript, hand drawn map; in envelope

Property records; separate map, 32” x 30:

Land records

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HM6 MS (7” x 10” envelope)

Map of 43 parcels of land Map Advertisement of sale of forty-three parcels of land situated at Morristown, New Jersey with description of locations

Land records

HM6 MSS Morr

Morristown, New Jersey Property Deeds and Land Titles: 14 Franklin Street records, 1850-1943; 1983

Manuscript Contains documents pertaining to the ownership of the house at 14 Franklin St., Morristown, NJ. The house is listed on the Morris County Historical Sites Survey and New Jersey Historical Sites Inventory 1988/89. Deeds, mortgages, title searches and agreements; some historical information plus the will of Charles D. M. Cole, owner

Land records

HS County Estate and Deed Indexes available on microfilm at the State Archives, Genealogical Society of New Jersey Newsletter, Fall 1997, p. 32, New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 1997

Newsletter Article in Genealogical Society of NJ newsletter, Fall 1997, p. 32

Land records

HS Hanover, New Jersey Deeds 1725-1800, New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, v.3, pp. 60-64, Metuchen, NJ: 1918

Journal article Land records

HS Landowners and Freeholders of Morris County, 1748-1752, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, v. 16, pp. 60-65, New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey,

Journal article Includes Hanover, Pequannock, Morris Township, Mendham Township and Roxbury Township

Land records

MF LH 0049 Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County, New Jersey, and some

Handwritten material

Handwritten transcribed deeds from Morris County, NJ with

Land records, deeds

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Unrecorded Deeds, Morristown, NJ: Joint Free Public Library of Morris town and Morris Township, 1984

land plates, in a daybook dated 1908 of Edward Howell. The deeds are from the 18th and 19th centuries.

LH Pers Vorpahl, Beverly (Smith), Unjumbling Land Deeds, Family Chronicle, January/February 2000, pp. 55-57

Journal article Instructional

MF LH 0001 Schroeder, Harold W., collector, The Harold W. Schroeder Collection on the Morris County Free Library, Whippany, NJ, 1715-1972, Morris town, NJ: Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1983

Microfilm Collection of information on local history, family history, deeds, land surveys of the Morris County area in 18th and 19th centuries. Notebooks of Morris County deeds; notebooks of Morris County and Passaic County surveys c. 1719; notebooks on local history, families, historical houses

Land records, deeds, family history

MF LH 0007 New York Historical Society; James Alexander, Morris County papers from the Alexander collection, New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1951

Microfilm 2 reels, 35mm; includes miscellaneous land surveys, maps and descriptions of real property of the 18th century in Morris County. Collected by James Alexander

Land records

MF LH 0047 Index to Deeds, Mortgages and Loans in Morris County in Washington Headquarters Library, Morristown National Historic Park, National Park Service, Morristown, NJ: Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1984

Microfilm Deeds

MF LH 0075 Registers of Deeds of the County of Morris books A-E, 1784-1802, Morristown, NJ: Joint Free Public

Microfilm Microform copy of manuscript books in the Morris County Clerck’s Office

Deeds

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Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1988

Misc MSS New Jersey Council and General Assembly

Manuscript Council Bill No. 14, an act for the relief of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown [to enable the trustees to sell 61 acres in Hanover Township, known as the Horsehill tract] 1841

Land records

Pilch File Pilch, Henry W., compiler Loose documents in folders in file drawers

Miscellaneous documents including property and estate records, deeds, surveys, personal and business correspondence for the following Morris County and Morristown individuals and families:

Beach family

Collver family

Commeseau, Nicholas

Condict family

Flury, Victor

Ford family

Freeman family

Hedges family

Hoffman, Samuel W.

Johnson, Mahlon

Kemble family

Lee family

Lovell family

Luse-Muchmore family

Pierson family

Land records

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Shelley family

Thompson, Joseph W.

Pilch File Pilch, Henry W., compiler Loose documents in folders in file drawers

Miscellaneous documents including property records, deeds, surveys, for the following Morris County communities and landmarks:

East Hanover Township

Great Swamp

Hanover Township

Harding Township

Hibernia

Hibernia School District

Jefferson Township

Littleton

Madison

Mendham

Millington

Morris Academy

Morristown

Pequannock Township

Randolph Township

Rockaway Township

Roxbury Township

United States Hotel

Wick Farm

Land records

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New Jersey Outside Morris County Call Number Author Medium Description Type

H2 James James II, King of England, 1633-1701, Newark, NJ: Newark Public Library, 1964

Photograph of original and transcribed documents, in envelope

Photograph of original indenture that created New Jersey in 1664; includes map drawn in 1656 showing the area now known as New Jersey

Indenture

H3M5 Ewin Fel

Felcone, Joseph J., Land Transaction in Ewing Township, Mercer County, NJ 1687-1760, Princeton, NJ: J. J. Falcone, 1983

Typed transcript in hard cover

Includes index Land records

H3U5 Eliz Eli Book “B” Elizabeth Town: Abstract from original in Princeton Library

Photocopies of documents, in envelope; oversize

Book of surveys of land within the bounds of the original territory claimed by the people of Elizabethtown under their grant from Gov. Nichols

Land records, surveys

H3H1 Win Winfield, Charles Hardenburg, History of the Land Titles in Hudson County, NJ 1609-1871, New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1872

Book Includes maps and atlas Land records

CASS GE 0036 Barker, Bette Marie, Land records/maps/tax ratables and related materials in New Jersey, Toulon, IL: Triad, 1990

Cassette Recording of lecture given at National Genealogical Society’s National Capital Area’s Tenth Anniversary Conference, June 6-8, 1990

Instructional

H2 STE Stewart, Frank H., Indians of Southern New Jersey, Woodbury, NJ: 1932

Indian land transfers; land titles Land records

H3A1 Stee Steelman, James F., Unrecorded deeds in the possession of the Atlantic County Historical Society, Somers Point, NJ: Atlantic County Historical Society, 1993

Typewritten materials in paper binder

Compiled by James F. and Georgene L. Steelman; indexed by Frederick M. Cramer

Land records, deeds

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Call Number Author Medium Description Type

H2 East Cun Cunningham, John T., The East of Jersey: a History of the General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1992

Book Includes index Land records

H2 West Jers Pet (in vault)

Kollock, Shepard, The petitions and memorials of the Proprietors of West and East Jersey, to the Legislature of New Jersey: together with a map of the State of New Jersey, and the country adjacent; and also an appendix containing extracts from several original papers, and instruments, tending to elucidate the subject matter of the said petitions, &c, New York: Shepard Kollock, 1784

Book Land tenure records

H3G1 Stee Steelman, James F., Index of land documents in the possession of the Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, NJ: Gloucester County Historical Society, 1993

Typewritten Materials in paper binder

Compiled by James F. and Georgene L. Steelman; deeds, surveyor’s documents, miscellaneous land documents

Land records, deeds

H3SO Bro Brown, Virginia Alleman, Somerset and Hunterdon Counties: Abstracted from partitions and divisions, 1809-1904, Lamberville, NJ: V. A. Brown, 1986

Typewritten, soft bound

Probate records, land titles Land records

H3MI1 Bro Brown, Virginia Alleman, Middlesex County, NJ Heirs to Estates from partitions and divisions filed at New Brunswick, 1780-1870, Washington, NJ: Genealogical Researchers, 1988


Probate records, land titles Land records

HS Peters, Thomas A., Petition of 404 inhabitants of Newark Township,

Journal article

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Essex County, to the king in council: 23 October 1750, Genealogical Magazine Of New Jersey, vol. 66, pp. 65-70, New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey

H3B1 Arch Wardell, Pat, Bergen County Deeds (abstracts), The Archivist, Midland Park, NJ: Genealogical Society of Bergen County, V. 26, May 1999, pp. 7-8; August 1999, p. 8

Journal article

HS NJARC 1st Ser v.21

Nelson, William, ed., Patents and Deeds and other early records of New Jersey, 1664-1703, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976

Book Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey. Includes indexes

Deeds, land records

H3B1 Davi Davis, John David, Bergen County, NJ deed records, 1689-1801, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995

Typewritten, bound in soft cover

Deeds

H3Bu1 Deed Burlington County deed abstracts vol. 1 no. 1 March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1996

Newsletters, in envelope

Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds from mid-1600s to late 1800s

Deeds, genealogical data

H3Bu1 Hutc Hutchinson, Richard S., Burlington County, NJ deed abstracts: books A, B and C, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c2000


Includes name index Deeds

H3C1 Van Van Name, Elmer Garfield, A paper relating to old deeds belonging to the Camden County Historical Society: with an index of unrecorded deeds, Camden, NJ: The Society, 1960

Typewritten transcripts bound in laminate

Deeds

H3Hu1 D’Au D’Autrechy, Phyllis B., Hunterdon County index of persons, places and subjects: deed book 1 to 1795,

Typewritten, laminate bound

Deeds

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Flemington, NJ: Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission, 199?

H3MI1 Hutc Hutchinson, Richard S., Middlesex County, New Jersey deed abstracts: Book “1”, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000

Paper bound Includes index Deeds

H3MI1 Deed Middlesex County deed abstracts vol. 1, no. 1, March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1995

Newsletters in envelope

Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds, from mid-1600s to late 1800s

Deeds

H3MO1 Hutc Hutchinson, Richard S., Monmouth County, NJ deeds: books A, B, C & D, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000

Paper bound materials

Abstracts derived from the County Clerk’s copies of recorded deeds 1669-1714. Includes index

Deeds

H3MO1 Deed Monmouth County deed abstracts vol. 1 no. 1 March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1996

Newsletter in envelope

Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds, from mid-1600s to late 1800s

Deeds

H3S1 Van Van Name, Elmer Garfield, Old deeds belonging to the Salem County Historical Society with an index of unrecorded deeds, Salem, NJ: Salem County Historical Society, 1981


Deeds

H3SU1 Down Downing, Clyde W., Sussex County deed abstracts, abstracted and compiled by C. W. Downing, 1999


Deeds

H3E1 Bro Brown, Virginia Alleman, Abstracts of Essex County, New Jersey partitions and divisions of estates 1793-1881, recorded at Newark, New Jersey, Washington, NJ: 1981

Paperback book Contains illustrations and maps Land records

HS Klett, Joseph R., Loan Office Mortgages, 1776-1799, Gloucester County, Genealogical Magazine of

Journal article Mortgages

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New Jersey, v. 72, pp. 81-88, 119-126; v. 73, pp. 43-48, 63-70, 101-108, New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey

H3Hu1 D’Au D’Autrechy, Phyllis B., vol. 1 of Mortgages of Hunterdon County 1766-1793: index of persons, places and subjects, Flemington, NJ: Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission, 1991

Typewritten material, soft bound

Land records

HS Stratford, Dorothy A., Salem County Loan Office Records 1733-1751, Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, v. 54, pp. 116-125; v. 55, pp. 41-48,79-85

Journal article Land records

H3W1 War Alleman, Helen Potter, Warren County, New Jersey, abstracts of divisions and petitions filed at the courthouse, Belvedere, NJ, from 1825-1946, Washington, NJ: V. A. Brown, 1978

Typewritten, hard bound

Land records

MF LH 0052 Manuscript of the records of the original surveys of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library Rare Books & Special Collections, 1965

Microfilm Signed by all parties in interest 1729 to replace the original records destroyed at that date 1729-1788

Land records

H2 Brown Brown, Virginia Alleman, Abstracts of partitions and divisions of the New Jersey counties of Monmouth, Mercer and Burlington, Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1993

Paperback book Includes indexes Court records

H3SU1 Bro (also LH

Alleman, Frederick R., Abstracts of divisions of Warren and Sussex

Photocopies of transcripts (also on

Land records

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2207) County estates filed at Sussex County courthouse, Newton, NJ 1789-1918

microfiche)

H3SU1 Bro (also LH 2205)

Brown, Virginia Alleman, Maps of divisions of Warren and Sussex County estates filed at Newton, NJ 1789-1918

Hand drawn maps, soft bound (also on microfiche)

Maps

H2 Kle

Klett, Joseph R., Using the records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors, Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Archives, c. 2008

Instructional

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