Research in New Jersey - An Update to Links

 Some years ago I established a "New Jersey Documents" page on this website. A number of the documents here were housed online at RootsWeb's Free Pages which had problems in the past and it appears that some of the documents placed there cannot be accessed any longer. Below are some new links for the documents.

Bridgewater Inhabitants, 1777, SCHQ v. 1 (1983)

Church Records in the SCHQ, 1912-1919 

Counties of New Jersey

Brouwer-Brower-Bewer Found in New Jersey Calendar of Wills

Early Hunterdon County Deeds 

The individual documents for the 1753 Freeholders at Bedminster, Bridgewater, Eastern Precinct, North Precinct and Western Precinct, Somerset County, are lost. These lists were published in the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 17 (1942) which includes North, Bedminster, Bridgewater and Western Precinct and in vol. 18 (1943) which includes the Eastern Precinct. All are found in this one PDF.

Hunterdon County Tax Payers, 1778-1797 (Wm. B. Bogardus Collection)

Hillsborough RDC SCGQ v.1 (1983)

Raritan Baptisms, SCHQ v.2 (1913)

Raritan Baptisms, SCHG v.3 (1914)

Raritan Baptisms, SCHQ v.4 (1915)  

Somerset County Freeholders, 1790

Somerset County Historical Quarterly (SCHQ) Contents (Wm. B. Bogardus Collection)

The Somerset County Historical Quarterly was published from 1912 to 1919 by A. Van Doren Honeyman. Digital copies are available online at the Internet Archives site.

Recently Hank Graham, Administrator of the Brewer DNA Project, sent me links to searchable databases at the New Jersey State Archives website. These include Birth, Marriage and Death Records; Land, Probate and Court Records; Military and Wartime Records; and Photograph Collections. Copies of individual records do have to be purchased from the State Archives, however, the index entries do provide, in many cases, enough information. The Early Land Records, in particular, give a good deal of information and the search results are not limited to just grantors and grantees. Results also include mentions of a name when it appears within a deed as an adjoining land owner or witness. Supreme Court Case Files, 1704-1844, show 115 results for the surname BREWER, 36 for the surname BROWER, 29 for BRUER/BRUERE and even 2 for the surname BROUWER. Some are from the colonial period, including one for an Eldrick Brower in Hunterdon County in 1761, a name at this location and time that was heretofore unknown to me (could this be an Uldrick Brouwer?). Poke around, you might find something of interest.

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