Special Collections

New Jersey Manuscripts File

African School - Parsippany, N. J.

• See also Slavery-N. J.
• Constitution of the African Association of New Brunswick, adopted, Jan. 1, 1817.
• Minutes of a meeting about the African School at Parsippany, 1822-1823 (missing)?
• Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills, by Spring, Gardiner, 1820, Chapter VIII, his exertions in behalf of Africa.
• Sermon preached at Newark, October 22, 1823, before the Synod of New Jersey for benefit of the African School by Samuel Miller, D. D.
• New Jersey in the founding of Liberia, West Africa (1816-1899): A guide to major persons, institutions and reference collections by Carl P. Burrowes, January 1990.
• A Plea for Africa a sermon preached October 26, 1817 in the first Presbyterian Church in the city of New York before the Synod of New York and New Jersey by Edward D. Griffin, D. D.
• Address to the public on the subject of the African School lately established under the care of the synod of New York and New Jersey, 1816.
• African School in New Jersey, undated, unknown author.
• New Jersey and the Negro, pages 40, 52 and 98. Bibliography with references to the African School.
• John Richards deeded land in 1718 for Presbyterian Church at Parsippany, no source or date.
• Notes prepared December 2008 for Lion Television which was preparing a program on this topic for PBS.

Aqueduct-Morris County

• One share of water in the Morris Aqueduct, July 13, 1827. (copy)
• Waterworks. Morris Aqueduct. History of Morris County, pages 153-154.
• The Water Works System. Northwestern New Jersey: a history of Morris, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties, page 374-375.
• The Morris Aqueduct Company: New Jersey’s First Water Company by Arthur Mierisch.
• Part 1:1798-1869 December 2012 www.gardenstatelegacy.com
• Part 2: 1860-1923 September 2013 www.gardenstatelegacy.com
• Additional Water Supply, Dover Index, May 14, 1897 page 7.

Bible Records-Abstracts-Index

• Index to the 3 volume set of Bible records abstracts owned at the Morristown Public Library, published in the Morris Area Genealogy Club Newsletter, June 1988 and September 1988.

Boonton-History (Folder # 1)

• Old Boonton, by A. D. Fowler. January 1967.

Boonton-History (Folder # 2)

• Historical Discourse on Boonton, delivered before the citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Isaac S. Lyon. 
• Pioneer Days in Boonton, NJ in Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, v. VIII , July 1923 pages 287-99.

Cemeteries-Hunterdon County

• Tombstone inscriptions from Hunterdon County Cemeteries:
• Allerton M.E. Church Cemetery, copied July 19, 1917
• Sandy Ridge Cemetery, copied August 2, 1917
• Unknown Cemetery, pages 17-24 missing
• Sergeantsville M.E. Church Cemetery, copied August 10, 1917
• Voorhees Burying Ground, copied May 21, 1916
• Wyckoff Burying Ground, copied Sept. 10, 1916
• Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, copied October 14, 1922
• Mount Airy Cemetery, copied October 2, 1920
• Larison’s Corner Cemetery, copied 1918 

Cemeteries – Middlesex County

• Selected tombstone inscriptions from the Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick, N. J.
• Washington Monumental Cemetery, South River, N. J. Century-old rumors are laid to rest, at last. Hundreds were buried in unmarked graves in this N. J. cemetery. Star-Ledger, Jan. 6, 2019, p. A17. 

Cemeteries – Mercer County

• Historic cemetery seeks place on national registry (Riverview Cemetery): land is resting place for some NJ notables. Star Ledger, November 6, 2016, page A2
• Riverview Cemetery-1858. A History of Trenton 1679-1929. Princeton U. Press, 1929, pages519-520.
• Riverview Cemetery. Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey, Rutgers U. Press, 1994, pages 121 and 190.

Cemeteries-Morris County

• Revolutionary War cemeteries with names of those buried in each
• Tombstone Treasures in Whippany Cemetery
• Patriots and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Township of Hanover Buried in Whippany Cemetery, Donald B. Kiddoo, 1979.
• Tombstone Inscriptions and Records, Church-Family and Private Cemeteries in Jefferson Township, NJ, copied by Hector H. Brown, June 7, 1971.
• Record of Grave Stones in Cemetery at Succasunna, N. J. in section on right hand of the church. (name of the church not included on the photocopied pages)
• Diagram and Directory of the Mendham Hill Top Cemetery, published 1926.
• Time Effaces All Epitaphs Graven in Stone, Friends Meeting House & Cemetery Association of Randolph Township, by Richard T. Irwin and Richard G. Irwin, 1933.
• Morris County Gravestones: Two Meyersville Cemeteries, Long Hill Township & Meyersville Presbyterian Churchyard The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, volume 91 (2016):42-51 
• Morris County Gravestones: Rockaway Valley United Methodist Churchyard, Boonton Township. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, volume 91 (2016):161-165
• Morris County Gravestones: New Vernon Presbyterian Churchyard. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (72:32-40, January 1997) (72:137-143, September 1997)
• Roll of honor: lists of Randolph’s dead, their various places of burial stated as far as known. Dover Index, May 28, 1897 page 5
• Morris County Gravestones: Long Hill Cemetery, Village of Stirling, Long Hill Township. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Volume 93 (2018): 148-156.
• Morris County Gravestones: Some Small Burial Grounds (Green Pond Graveyard, Milton Baptist Churchyard, Hiller Burial Ground, Clark M. Bolton Burial Plot, Vreeland Family Burial Ground, Cooper Family Burial Ground, Stites Family Burial Ground and Miller-Vreeland Burial Ground.  The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (68:9-13, Jan.1993)
• Hurdtown (Methodist Church) Cemetery, Jefferson Twp, NJ Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, vol. 29, no. 4, Dec. 2016, page 15.
• Burials in the John Hancock Cemetery, Florham Park, New Jersey: a compilation of death records, death certificates, and obituaries by Linnea B. Foster, 2016. Review of this source in Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, September 2016, page 10. With catalog record for the book owned at the Morristown-Morris Twp. Library.
• Morris County Heritage Commission, New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape workshop handouts, March 23 and March 30, 2011. 

Cemeteries-Somerset County

• Tombstones Ancient Methodist Cemetery, Anderson Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey from the collection of Mrs. Raymond Vanderhoff of Bernardsville
• Cemeteries of Somerset County
• Stories of some interesting people buried in the churchyard. (McCollum, Brown, Southard, Hand, Cooper, Dayton, Drummond, Kinnan, Dunham) Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge, NJ
• Burial plot yields clues to lives of Jersey slaves (Bedminster, NJ) Star Ledger, June 22, 2016, page 15.
• Bedminster must scan land for history (letter by Mary Jane Fennell). Star Ledger, January 14, 2019, page A6.
• At graveyard’s edge, a haunting concern (Bedminster, NJ). Star-Ledger, January 20, 2019, page A17.

Cemeteries-Sussex County

• The Cemetery at Old Minisink Village
• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July 1986. 

Chester, N. J. - History

• see Tredway Family - Surname File

Church Records-Morris County

• Church members, marriages & baptisms, at Hanover, Morris. Co., N. J. during the pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green, and to the settlement of Rev. Aaron Condit, 1746-1796.
• Protestant Churches in Morris County, (partial list) September, 1965.
• The First Presbyterian Church of Succasunna (index of the marriages performed by Rev. Elijah Stoddard until his death in 1913) from Morris Area Genealogy Society, vol.5, no.2, June 1992.
• Presbyterian Church, Mt. Freedom, Randolph, NJ Record of Births-Baptisms, Membership List,1840’s
• St. Peter’s Church, Morristown, NJ Sermon preached by the Rev. Craig Biddle on March 21, 1965 regarding his visit to Selma, Alabama.
• St. Patrick’s R. C. Church, Hibernia, Morris Co.,NJ Certificate of  Incorporation. Recorded on March 7, 1883.
• Swedish Free Mission (Congregational) Church, Dover, N. J. Dedicatory Service from the Dover Index, March 26, 1897, p.4.

Church Records-Somerset County

• Early birth, marriage and death records from records of the Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Under Dr. Robert Finley, 1795-1817. Under Dr. John Rankin1800's. Basking Ridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Church Records-Sussex County

• First Presbyterian Church of Sparta, NJ Sermons given by May Elinor Eppler:
• Abigail, a woman of color  (a black woman belonging to Colonel Joseph Jackson)
• (October 31, 1976)
• Christmas in 1776 and 1976 (December 26, 1976)
• The epitaphs of our forefathers  (on tombstones of this church) (Jan. 25, 1976)
• George Washington and his Spartan friends, the Robert Ogden family (Feb. 20, 1977)
• Loyalist or Patriot (April 25, 1976)
• Sexton’s duties, 1786 (Feb. 29, 1976)
• Sparta Presbyterian women from 1893 to 1908 (June 27, 1976)

Courts-Morris County

• Morris Court of Sessions: July 1778, State vs. John Pizer:Indictment for seditious words.
• Morris Court of Sessions: March term 1778, State vs. John Hutchinson: Indictment for seditious words.
• March Quarter Session: March Term 1778, State vs. Frederick Cole: Indictment for Seditious Words.
• Morris Court of Quarter Session: July1779, State vs. Solomon Boyle: ind. For Seditious Words.
• Morris Sessions: July 1796, State vs. Josiah Wilson: Indictment for Misdemeanor for Indecency.
• Special Court Morristown: May 17, 1832, State vs. Amos Bowers: Charge and Conviction for Petty Larceny
• State of New Jersey, Morris County: August 1832, Conviction of John Jackson, a colored man, for petty larceny 
• Plea before the judges of the inferior courts of common pleas at Morristown, 1781, Nathaniel Willis v. Samuel Van Horne.
• Records concerning the Morris County Court House. Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, v. VIII, n.3, New Series, July 1923, Pages 281-286.
• The Restoration of Lady Justice (Morris County Courthouse). by Peg Shultz. The Heritage Review. Fall 2018.

Crime and Criminals-Morris County

• Prisoners in Morris County, 1851-1852. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (77:21-23, January 2002)

Distilleries

• see also Ochs (surname File)
• Nettie Ochs Cider Mill, Livingston NJ. (Who is Nettie?)

Distilleries - Morris County

• see Tredway Family - Surname File

Education-Morris County

File 1 Morris Junior College

• Morris Junior College, Morristown, New Jersey, brochure, no date.
• Morris Junior College, Commencement brochure, class of 1938.
• Morris Junior College. Opening Exercise brochure, September 22, 1936.
• Morris County Junior College, Catalogue for 1936-1937.
• Morris County Junior College, blank certificate concerning the right to wear the Block M(letter) of Morris County Junior College during a sports season.
• Morris Junior College, Salient Facts, date stamp September 9, 1937
• Morris Junior College, Morristown, New Jersey, date stamp March 17, 1938.
• Morris County Junior College, Bulletin no.1, August 1936.
• Financial campaign letter dated March 15, 1938.
• Morris County Junior College, Bulletin 1935-36, May 1936.
• Morris Junior College, Character Building in Morris Junior College. Date stamp May 12, 1937. 2 copies
• Report Urges Two-Year College for Morris. Daily Record, Oct.29, 1964, page 20.
• Starting New Jr. College Nothing New. Daily Record, July 1, 1966, page 13.  

File 2 Schools

• Material collected by Mrs. Aldus Pierson on the history of Schools in Morris County. December 5, 1939 (photocopy of handwritten document). Also in NJ Reference. NJ371.010974 Thu
• School appropriation documents of May 1829 (photocopies) for Chatham, Hanover Township, Jefferson, Mendham, Morris Township, Pequannock, Randolph, Roxbury, Washington Township and Morris County.
• Education and Entertainment at the Morris Academy 1792-1869 by Arthur Mierisch
• September 2014 www.gardenstatelegacy.com
• Centennial of the Washington Valley School House 1869-1969  ( brief history of the school house which was part of historic house tour, no source and no date) possibly from
• Washington Valley Schoolhouse, 1869-1960 by Barbara Hoskins, 1969. NJ 974.974 MORT HOS
• Commencement exercises, Parsippany-Troy Hills Township Schools, June 14, 1939
• Commencement exercises, the Parsippany School, June 15, 1945

File 3 County College of Morris

• Documents supplied by County College of Morris in answer to a question about a “charter” for this college.

Education-New Jersey

• Rutgers Magazine. Fall 21016. 250^th Anniversary Commemorative Issue: Celebrating a Revolutionary Idea in Education. 80 pages. 

Executions-Morris County

• Previous executions in this county at Morristown (Antoine LaBlanc, Jane Noff, Cruvier (?), George Acker, Peter J. Cucel, Luigi Luinignani, James Treglown). Dover Index, June 21, 1895, page 5.
• X. Capital Punishment. Compiled Statutes of New Jersey, 1911. 
• Execution of Acker at Morristown. New York Times, March 30, 1860, page 8. 
• Summons to the execution of August Bergermann. June 20, 1895. Morris County Court House.
• Hanged by the neck, August Bergermann pays the penalty of the law, the closing scenes at the gallows. Dover Index, June 21, 1895, pg. 5.
• The trial and execution of August Bergermann cost the county $1,800 (of this amount Sheriff Backer received $250 and Van Hise, the hangman, $250) Dover Index, July 19, 1895, page 5.
• Execution of Peter Cucuel. New York Time, Nov. 26, 1895, page 5.
• Green Village “The old Peter Cukel house was burned down last week which removes another old landmark. It was one of the oldest houses in the village. It also had a sad history, being the house where about twenty-five years ago in a fit of malignant rage Peter Cukel stabbed and killed his wife with a corn knife and subsequently paid the penalty of his crime on the gallows in Morristown”. Dover Index, July 19, 1895, page 4.
• The death penalty:execution of Luzignani, the wife-murderer. New York Times, May16, 1873, page 8.
• The death penalty: James Treglown hanged for the murder of Minnie Chergwin. New York Times, April 19, 1883, page 8.
• Summons to the execution of David Wilson. June 3, 1897, Morris County Court House.
• Negro hanged at Morristown, David Wilson executed for the murder of his wife. New York Times, June 4, 1897, page 3.
• Killed his wife with an ax. Dover Index, June 12, 1896, page 7.
• A wife-murderer hanged. History of David Wilson’s fiendish crime and his neat execution. Dover Index, June 4, 1987, page 5.
• Hangmans’s earnings. Dover Index, June 11, 1897, page 2.

Freeholders-Morris County

• List of Freeholders of Morris Town, 1776 from Historic Morristown, New Jersey: the story of its first century by Andrew M. Sherman, 1905.
• List of Freeholders of Morris County, Aug. 31, 1752 (Hanover, Poquanack, Morris Twp, Mendom and Roxberey) from The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol.16, no.1, January 1941.
• List of Freeholders of Morris County, Aug. 31, 1752. (Hanover Peqannnoc Twp., Morris Twp., Mendham Twp., Roxberey Twp  from True Democratic Banner, Jan 27, 1887.
• Morris County May 11, 1831. Minutes of a board meeting. (one photocopied page)

Jersey City-History

• A series of articles written by Jersey City students for awards given by the New York Times. The articles were published in the New York Times during the month of October 1910.

Ku Klux Klan - Morris County

• see Tredway Family - Surname File

Montville Township, N. J.-History

• A descriptive history of Towaco, New Jersey by Martha Read Adams  (3 typewritten pages, with handwritten note on last page “died 5/4/1959”)
• Martha Read Adams (birth 1881 and death 1959) Burial: Whitehall Methodist Church Cemetery, Towaco, NJ from findagrave via Ancestry database
• Martha Adams, 1930 U.S Census Record via Ancestry database 

Morris Canal Company

• see Tuttle/Tuthill Family - Surname File

Morris County Children’s Home

• (Incorporated December 6, 1881 by the Morris County Charities Aid Association)
• 1883 statistics of cost and residents, NJ Bureau of Industrial Statistics, Annual Reports, vol.6 1884
• 1883-1884 NJ Dept of Health death statistics Morris County, including children
• 1885-1920 US and NJ censuses, Children’s Home
• Daily Record, Oct 31, 1959 page 1. Spectacular Blaze Guts Mansion
• Morris County Children’s Home from None Outsings Parsippany
• Cemetery, list of known burials, Genealogical Society of NJ, vol. 50, no.25
• Deed, transfer of Wharton property willed to Children’s Home (1936) by Ann Flartey
• Obituary, Ref. Thomas S. Mutch, Daily Record, Dec. 29, 1992 page 11
• Tax maps
• Little ones’ grave plot forsaken Daily Record, July 21, 1985
• Morris County Gravestone “Little Lost Cemetery” Genealogical Magazine of NJ, v.50, no. 1, January 1975
• Woman honors father at Little Lost Cemetery, Daily Record, December 14, 1976
• A child’s forever friend, man tends to Morris cemetery for orphaned kids.. Daily Record, Dec. 3, 1999
• Our Charitable Institutions: the Morris County Poor House and the Children’s Home
• The Morris County Children’s Home Plan is told to Jr. Women
• Twenty-two children were removed from the Poor House to the Children’s Home
• Old Boonton and the Jersey City Reservoir. Glass Case NJ 974.974 Boo Dem

Mortality Schedules-Morris County

• 1870 U.S. Mortality Schedules, Morris County, New Jersey. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (79:31-37, January 2004) (79:75-82, January 2004)
• 1860 U.S. Mortality Schedules, Morris County, New Jersey. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (73:73-82, May 1998)

New Jersey – Description and Travel

• Travels through Chatham, Madison, Morris Plains, Dover, Newton, Netcong, Stanhope, Hackettstown, and Boonton. Two page story written by F. Bernice Bronner Barnett (born 1893 in Keyport, NJ) of her trip with her father Harvey Bronner in 1915 (?).
• Letter (dated 1/8/1982) from Betty Anne Lane, Denville, N. J. about the story.
• Social Security Death Index, 1940, 1910 Census Records for Francis Bernice Bronner Barnett. 

Physicians

• see also Woodruff, Dr. Marietta H. Crane - Surname File
• Early Physicians in America, Feb 8, 1845 and February 16, 1876 copied from a handwritten list in an old copybook presented as a Bicentennial gift by the Basking Ridge DAR chapter to the Somerset County Medical Society, Somerville, N. J. on July 25, 1973. 3 pages.
• American Medical Necrology copied from American Medical Association Transactions, vol. 16, 1865. pages 631-632.
• A note to promise payment to Dr. John Darbe, 1764.
• A note to promise payment to John Darby, 1787.

Post Offices - New Jersey

• List of all the post offices in NJ in 1800 with place and date established.
• Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society. New Series, v. VII, 1922, page 166.
• The growth of our postal facilities. Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, New Series, v. VII, 1922, pages 217-220.
• The Somerset Mail in 1797. Somerset County Historical Society, vol. 6, 1917, pp. 313-4.

Randolph Township-History

• From the Vail home, Randolph
• Randolph Township by Rev. B.C. Megie  (from Munsell, W.W. & Co., History of Morris County, N. J. pp. 290-318)
• Religion in Randolph Twp. By Richard Irwin (1973)
• Tales of Old Randolph, Rev. B. C. Magie (Megie)

Roads-Morris County

• Summaries of Road Returns, W.P.A. Projects:
• Hanover-Pequannock 1771 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills-Boonton) Summary written in March 1938.
• Hanover-Pequannock 1786 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills-Boonton-Montville) Summary written in April 1938.
• Boonton-Hanover 1894 (now Boonton and Parsippany-Troy Hills) Summary written in November 1939.
• Hanover 1903 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills) Summary written in November 1939.
• Photocopy of a document appointing six surveyors to lay out a public road in Mendham and Morris Twp., September 14, 1836.
• Photocopy of one share of stock in the Washington Turnpike Company, December 19, 1810. 

Rockaway Township-History

• Letter to Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, Rockaway, New Jersey, from William Jackson, New York, February 22, 1859

Rockaway Township-History

• Rockaway Township by James H. Neighbor from History of Morris County, Munsell, 1882.
• Rockaway River: a Gateway of the Iron Region from Stories of New Jersey, 1937-38.
• Rockaway Township. Report by Sue Radwanski and Carmen Bergdal (no date)
• Capt. Josiah Halls. Company (no source, no date)
• Map of Rockaway Township (Including Beach Glen, Green Pond, Hibernia, Marcella and Mount Hope) August 15, 1940.
• Rockaway Township, 1844-1964, formation and list of municipal changes
• Split Rock Reservoir, picture of smelter

Sheriff-Morris County

• Sheriff Discovers Historical Papers. Daily Record, September 15, 1976. Sheriff John Fox uncovered historical papers in a courthouse vault. This file contains photocopies of some of these papers.

Slavery-New Jersey

• see also African School-Parsippany, N. J.
• see also Douglas, Simon (Surname File)
• see also Cemeteries-Somerset County
• List of slave births and their owners in Morris County. Undated list from unknown source. Includes mother's name, child's name, sex, date of birth and owner's name. 
• List of children born to slaves in Morris County.  Handwritten list with no source or date.
• Manumissions – partial listing taken from “Black Emancipated Princetonians, 1804-1839”. Contains emancipated slave name, age, possible year of birth, date of manumission and slave owner’s name.
• Liberty and Property: New Jersey and the Abolition of Slavery from New Jersey History, Winter, 1970.
• The attitude of the Society of Friends towards slavery from the Camden County Historical Society, 1929.
• Address of the president of the New Jersey society for promoting abolition of slavery, Trenton, 1804.
• Constitution of the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery to which is annexed extracts from a law of NJ passed the 2d of March 1786.
• Right and wrong in Boonton.  Proceedings of the public meetings. Organization of an anti-slavery society in 1834.
• N. J. and the 13th amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
• N. J. and the 14th and 15th amendments to the U. S. Constitution.
• Slavery in Colonial American.
• New Jersey and the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Rumor of (1734) slave revolt upset Somerset County. Bernardsville News, July1, 1976,
• To the legislative council and general assembly of the state of New Jersey. ...The New Jersey Society for promoting the gradual abolition of slavery. No date and no source.
• New Jersey and the Negro. Bibliography of slavery related sources.
• Title to the ownership of a slave dated 1821, 1826 and 1842. Chester, N. J.
• New Jersey: a stop on the underground railroad from The Crossroads (N. J. Historical Society), 1971.
• The underground railroad in New Jersey from Stories of New Jersey, New Jersey Writers' Project, 1939-40 Series.
• Route of the North Star by John T. Cunningham from Tercentenary Tales, Oct. 1963.
• Particular Lists of Slaves, 1798 Federal Direct Tax Lists, Middletown Township, Monmouth County and Hanover Township, Morris County. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (82:9-17, Jan. 2007)
• Burial plot yields clues to lives of Jersey slaves. Star Ledger June 21, 2016, p. 15.
• Hidden chains: report details Rutgers’ colonial-era relationship with slavery. Star Ledger, November 19, 2016, page 1.
• Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History brings university’s untold story out of the shadows (news release) November 18,2016 at:
• http://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/scarlet-and-black-slavery-and-dispossession-rutgers
• An uncomfortable truth: Scarlet and Black, a presentation of a new volume of little-known Rutgers history, reveals the place of slavery in the early years of the university’s founding. Rutgers: the magazine for alumni and friends of the state university New Jersey, Winter 2017, pages 40-3.

Somerset County – New Jersey

• Map of the Early Purchasers of Hillsborough and Franklin Townships. Somerset County, N. J. Compiled from Reeds Map 1685 and Local Maps. This is a photocopy from the book Historical discourse on occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Reformed Dutch Church of Millstone by Corwin, Edward Tanjore. J. J. Reed, 1866. NJ Glass Case 285.732 Cor
• Peapack-Gladstone history concerning the Indian Chief  known as Paul and his burial at Mt. Paul. 

Taverns

• Tavern License Petition for Black Horse Inn 1797 (Mendham)
• Tavern License Petition for Black Horse Inn 1802 (Mendham)
• Tavern License Petition for Brick Tavern (Drake Tavern) 1830 (Chester)
• Remonstrance against the Renewal of a License for the Powerville Hotel, late 1800's
• Ghost whisperings: things may not be as “tranquil” as they appear at this historic home and former tavern (Peter Brown’s Tavern) in Chester, New Jersey. Black River Journal, Late Summer 2016.
• She ran hotel 40 years (Phoenix House, Mendham). Dover Index, Jan. 18,1907, p.10.

Veterans-Morris County

• A collection of programs from the annual Memorial Day Celebration in Dover, Morris County, N. J. beginning with 1922,  followed by others from the 1950’s. Contains names of men from Dover who served in the wars from 1812 to WWII. Some of the programs also include place of burial and cemetery.
• Memorial Day 2015 Program of the Rockaway, Marcella and Denville Memorial Association with lists of veterans of all wars buried at Marcella Union Cemetery, Presbyterian Cemetery, St. Cecilia’s Cemetery,, Denville Cemetery, St. Peter & Paul Cemetery and other private cemeteries.

Veterans-Morris County-Civil War

• L. D. Babbitt: photocopy of his honorable discharge dated 1863.

Veterans-Morris County-Civil War-Pension Applications

• Pensioner: Phebe (Boyd) Crane, widow of veteran George Crane
• Pensioner: Jane (Boyd) Doland, widow of veteran John Doland 
• Pensioner: Ann (Vail) Hewitt Stearns, widow of Gideon R. Hewitt
• Pensioner: Margaret (Tone?) Maseker, widow of veteran Alex D. Maseker
• Pensioner: Sarah Isabell (Powers) Mills, widow of John W. Mills
• Invalid pension for veteran Farrington Price Moore
• Pensioner: Harriet (Morrison) Mott, widow of veteran Alexander L. Mott

Veterans-Morris County-Revolutionary War-Pension Applications

• Morris County Pension Applications of Revolutionary War Veterans from The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol.23, no.2 April 1948. Names: William Radley (Chatham), Lewis Noe (Chatham), James Donalson (Chatham). Moses Day (Chatham), Jacob Genung (Chatham), Daniel Cockrem (Morris Twp), Samuel Lacy (Chatham), Josiah Hunt (Chatham)
• Morris County Pension Applications of Revolutionary Veterans from the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol.25, no.3. Names: Nicholas White (Roxbury), John M. Kinney (Roxbury), James Mead (Roxbury), Cornelius Drake (Morris), Nathaniel Salmon (Roxbury), Daniel Guard (Roxbury)

Washington Township, NJ-History

• Long Valley Long Ago: being the memories and philosophical remarks of one of that generation, a boy in the period just after the war between the states, recorded for publication long afterward. Reprinted with new matter, 1952.
• Also in NJ Reference NJ974.974 LON LON 

Washington Valley Historic District

• Centennial of the Washington Valley School House, 1869-1969 ( 11 copies with no source or date, guide to historic house tour of the area?)
• Houses on tour: Jacob Smith, circa 1800; John Smith, 1788; Mattaniah Lyon, 1763; Jacob Arnold, 1789; The Distilliery Lott”; Samuel Loree Plantation; Phineas Chidester Farm; Ludlow Farm, circa 1760;Ezekiel Whitehead, circa 1855
• Little Red Schoolhouse Center of Big Doin’s Daily Record June 18, 1969, page 15.
• (ceremonies marking the building’s centennial year and the  unveiling of the site marker are scheduled for Saturday)

Wills-Morris County

• This is a partial index beginning in 1788 to Morris County Surrogate Court Estate Files. The actual documents are on microfilm in the Morris County Hall of Records, Surrogate Office. Files 1-88. Dated 4/87.

Wills- New Jersey

• New Jersey Wills at Albany, N. Y.  from The Genealogy Club of the Library of the New Jersey Historical Society, Publication No.3 , May 1983

Witchcraft-New Jersey

• Abigail Sharp – a New Jersey Witch? The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey (75:114, September 2000).
• Some Allusions to Witchcraft in Colonial New Jersey. The New Jersey Law Journal, vol. XVII, no.6, June 1894.
• 1727-Abigail Sharp sued Abraham Shotwell for allegedly calling her “an old witch” and saying he saw her “flying all night”, in addition to appearing atop his house as a cat and bewitching his horse, which subsequently died. 350 Years of New Jersey History (2014) page 28.
• Devils and Witches, pages 13-15, in The Secret History of the New Jersey Devil, by Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
• Abigail Sharp: New Jersey’s One Witch by Heather Husted October 18, 2021
• https://www.njstatelib.org/abigail-sharp-new-jerseys-one-witch/
• The Wandering Witch of Pottersville, by C. G. Wolfe. Black River Journal, Fall 2022, page 10.

Women – Morris County

• MCHC Symposium rescheduled for Saturday March 31, 2007 (Gloves Off: Exceptional Women of Morris County) The Heritage Review Spring 2007, page 1.
• Women in the History of Morris County. David Mitros
• New Jersey Women’s History (Morris County Library New Jersey Reference Sources)

DB November 9, 2021

NP January 22, 2025

Morris County Library Sources-Historic Homes

Bible Record Abstracts-Index

• Index to the 3 volume set of Bible records abstracts owned at the Morristown Public Library, published in  the Morris Area Genealogy Club Newsletter, June 1988 and September 1988.

Boonton, New Jersey – History

• Old Boonton, A.D. Fowler, Boonton, N. J. January 1967.
• Historical discourse on Boonton, delivered before the citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the evenings of September 21 and 28 and October 5, 1867, by Isaac S. Lyon. Printed at the Daily Journal Office, 1873. 
• Cemeteries-Hunterdon County, N. J.
• Tombstone inscriptions from Hunterdon County Cemeteries: Allerton M.E. Church Cemetery, copied July 19, 1917 
• Sandy Ridge Cemetery, copied August 2, 1917 
• Unknown Cemetery, pages 17-24 missing
• Sergeantsville M.E. Church Cemetery, copied August 10, 1917
• Voorhees Burying Ground, copied May 21, 1916 Wyckoff Burying Ground, copied Sept. 10, 1916
• Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, copied October 14, 1922
• Mount Airy Cemetery, copied October 2, 1920
• Larison’s Corner Cemetery, copied 1918
• Cemeteries – Middlesex County, N. J.
• Selected tombstone inscriptions from the Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick, N. J.

Cemeteries-Morris County

• Revolutionary War cemeteries with names of those buried in each Tombstone Treasures in Whippany Cemetery
• Patriots and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Township of Hanover Buried in Whippany Cemetery , Donald B. Kiddoo, 1979.
• Tombstone Inscriptions and Records, Church-Family and Private Cemeteries in Jefferson Township, N.J., copied by Hector H. Brown, June 7, 1971.
• Record of Grave Stones in Cemetery at Succasunna, N. J. in section on right hand of the church.
• (name of the church not included on the photocopied pages)
• Diagram and Directory of the Mendham Hill Top Cemetery, published 1926.
• Time Effaces All Epitaphs Graven in Stone, Friends Meeting House & Cemetery Association of Randolph Township, by Richard T. Irwin and Richard G. Irwin, 1933.
• Cemeteries-Somerset County, N. J.
• Tombstones Ancient Methodist Cemetery, Anderson Road, Bernardsville, New Jersey from the collection of Mrs. Raymond Vanderhoff of Bernardsville
• Cemeteries of Somerset County

Church Records-Morris County

• Church members, marriages & baptisms, at Hanover, Morris. Co., N. J. during the pastorate of Rev.
• Jacob Green, and to the settlement of Rev. Aaron Condit, 1746-1796.
• Protestant Churches in Morris County, (partial list) September, 1965.
• The First Presbyterian Church of Succasunna (index of the marriages performed by Rev. Elijah Stoddard until his death in 1913) from Morris Area Genealogy Society, vol.5, no.2, June 1992.
• Presbyterian Church, Mt. Freedom, Randolph, N.J. Record of Births-Baptisms, Membership List,1840’s

Colleges and Universities-County College of Morris

• News articles, course schedules, research papers, and catalog for the years 1936-37

Hangings

• Compiled Statutes of New Jersey.  April 12, 1910.  X. Capital Punishment
• Summons to the Execution (1895)

Historic Houses-Parsippany

• Bowlsby-De Gelleke House, 320 Baldwin Road, Parsippany, New Jersey, by Alex D. Fowler, January 1975. 

Historic Houses-Montville Twp.

• Letter from Robert Guter, Morris County Planning Board, July 10,1974 regarding his list of  Montville sites to be included on a Historic Sites Inventory for Morris County.

Jersey City-History

• A series of articles written by Jersey City students for awards given by the New York Times. The articles were published in the New York Times during the month of October 1910.

Morris County – Courts

• Plea before the judges of the inferior courts of common pleas at Morristown 1781, Nathaniel Willis v. Samuel Van Horne.

Morris County-Landowners

• List of Freeholders of Morris County: a list of the several freeholders in the county of Morris…taken by virtue of a rule of the Supreme Court by John Ford, sheriff of the county of Morris this 31^st day of August 1752. Included are 435 names and five townships.

Morris County-Minutes of the Board of Freeholders – 1831

• Includes one photocopied page of minutes.

Morris County-Road Returns, Roads

• Summaries of Road Returns, W. P. A. Project 1628-14:
• Hanover-Pequannock 1771 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills-Boonton) Summary written in March 1938. Hanover-Pequannock 1786 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills-Boonton-Montville) Summary written in April 1938.
• Boonton-Hanover 1894 (now Boonton and Parsippany-Troy Hills) Summary written in November 1939. 
• Hanover 1903 (now Parsippany-Troy Hills) Summary written in November 1939.
• Photocopy of document appointing six surveyors to lay out a public road in Mendham and Morris Twp., September 14, 1836. 
• Photocopy of one share of stock in the Washington Turnpike Company. December 19, 1810. Photocopy of one share of water in the Morris Aqueduct, July 1827.

Morris County-Sheriff’s Reports

• Sheriff discovers historical papers Daily Record (September 15, 1976). Bills for the sheriff’s office covering the years 1828-1831, written in sprawling script, were one of several historical papers Sheriff John Fox uncovered in a courthouse vault. These are photocopies of some of those papers.

Morris County-Surrogate-Index of Wills

• Partial index beginning in 1788 to Morris County Surrogate Court Estate Files No.1-88.

New Jersey – Description and Travel

• A descriptive history of Towaco (Montville Twp), N. J. by Martha Reed Adams, undated Travels through Chatham, Madison, Dover…by F. Bernice Barnett (nee Bonner), 1915.

New Jersey-Description and Travel-Tour Guides

• Various tour guides to New Jersey. Earliest publications are dated 1926 and 1940, but most are from the 1960’s or later.

Parsippany Presbyterian Church- African School

• Constitution of the African Association of New Brunswick, adopted Jan. 1, 1817.
• Minutes of a meeting about the African School at Parsippany, 1822-1823.
• Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Chapter VIII, his exertions in behalf of Africa.
• Sermon preached at Newark, October 22, 1825 before the Synod of New Jersey for the benefit of the African School, by Samuel Miller, D.D.
• New Jersey in the founding of Liberia, West Africa (1816-1899): A guide to major person, institutions and reference collections by Carl P. Burrowes, January 1990.
• A Plea for Africa a sermon preached October 26, 1817 in the first Presbyterian Church in the city of New York before the Synod of New York and New Jersey by Edward D. Griffin, D.D.
• Address to the public on the subject of the African School lately established under the care of the synod of New York and New Jersey, 1816.
• African School in New Jersey, undated, unknown author.

Pension Application

• Pensioner: Jane, widow of veteran John Doland
• Morris County Pension Applications of Revolutionary War Veterans from The Genealogical
• Magazine of New Jersey vol. 25, no.3
• Pensioner: Margaret, widow of veteran Alex D. Maseker

Pension Files – Civil War – Morris County

• Veterans: Farrington P. Moore, Gideon P. Hewitt, John W. Mills, Alexander L. Moth, Phebe Crane (widow of George Crane)
• Veteran L.D. Babbitt, photocopy of his honorable discharge, 1863.
• Index to Widows Relief Petitions 1913-1918

Physicians

• Early Physicians in America, Feb 8, 1845 and February 16, 1876 copied from a handwritten list in an old copybook presented as a Bicentennial gift by the Basking Ridge DAR chapter to the Somerset County Medical Society, Somerville, N. J. on July 25, 1973. 3 pages.
• American Medical Necrology copied from American Medical Association Transactions, vol. 16, 1865. pages 631-632.
• A note to promise payment to Dr. John Darbe, 1764.
• A note to promise payment to John Darby, 1787.

Randolph Township-Manuscripts

• From the Vail home, Randolph
• Randolph Township by Ref. B.C. Megie (? ) (from Munsell, W.W. & Co., History of Morris County, N. J. pp. 290-318)
• Religion in Randolph Twp. By Richard Irwin (1973) Tales of Old Randolph, Rev. B. C. Magie (?)

Rockaway Township-History

• Letter to Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, Rockaway, New Jersey, from William Jackson, New York, February 22, 1859

Schools-Morris County

• History of Schools in Morris County, N.J. by J. W. Thurber, April 15, 1876. Photocopy of a handwritten manuscript. Book owned in the NJ Collection
• Material Collected by Mrs. Aldus Pierson on the History of Schools in Morris County, December 5, 1939.  7 pages

Schools-Somerset County

• Look to your schools: a treatise on the progress of education in the Township of Bernards, by Melvina M. Oehlers, 1973.

Sermons

• First Presbyterian Church of Sparta, N. J. Sermons by Mary Elinor Eppler: Abigail, a woman of color (October 31, 1976)
• Christmas in 1776 and 1976 (December 26, 1976)
• The epitaphs of our forefathers (January 25, 1926)
• George Washington and his Spartan friends-the Robert Ogden family (Feb 20, 1977)
• Loyalist or patriot (April 25, 1976)
• Sexton’s duties, 1786 (Feb. 29, 1976)
• Sparta Presbyterian women from 1893 to 1908 (June 27, 1976) St. Peter’s Church, Morristown, NJ :
• Sermon by Rev. Craig Biddle on the church’s visit to Selma, Alabama (March 21, 1965)

Slavery

• List of slave births and their owners in Morris County.
• Manumissions – partial listing taken from “Black Emancipated Princetonians, 1804-1839”. Contains emancipated slave name, age, possible year of birth, date of manumission and slave owner’s name.

Somerset County – New Jersey

• Map of The Early Purchasers of Hillsborough and Franklin Townships. Somerset County, N. J.
• Compiled from Reeds Map 1685 and Local Maps. This is a photocopy from the book Historical  (Somerset County, cont’d)
• discourse on occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Reformed Dutch Church of Millstone by
• Corwin, Edward Tanjore. J. J. Reed, 1866. NJ Glass Case 285.732 Cor
• Land holders in Somerset County in 1766 according to survey by Benjamin Morgan compiled by
• Mrs. Edmund M. Oehlers, Basking Ridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Somerset Hills in the eighteenth century compiled by Mrs. Edmund M. Oehlers, Basking Ridge Chapter, of the Daughter of the American Revolution, 1973.
• Peapack-Gladstone history concerning the Indian Chief  known as Paul and his burial at Mt. Paul. 

Somerset County-Vital Statistics

• Early birth, marriage and death records from records of the Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Under Dr. Robert Finley, 1795-1817. Under Dr. John C Rankin, 1800s.  
• Return of births in the Township of Bernards, County of Somerset, State of New Jersey from the first day of May 1850 to 1904.
• Index to return of births in the township of Bernards, County of Somerset, State of New Jersey, dates (?)
• All from the Basking Ridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Sussex County-History

• An historical sermon designed as a memorial to the inhabitants of Wantage, Sussex County, N. J.: containing an account of the first emigrants, their pedigree, dangers, deliverance, habits, religion, means of instruction, increase, improvements, and the present state of society among their descendants preached January 7^th, 1844 in the Second Presbyterian Church, Wantage, by the Rev. Peter Kanouse. New York, M.W. Dodd, 1844. (original publication)

Veterans-Morris County-Dover

• A collection of programs from the annual Memorial  Day Celebration in Dover, Morris County, N. J. beginning with 1922, followed by others from 1950’s.Contains names of men from Dover who served in the wars from 1812 to WW II. Some of the programs also include place of burial and the name of the cemetery.

Taverns

• Tavern License Petition for Black Horse Inn 1797 (Mendham)
• Tavern License Petition for Black Horse Inn 1802 (Mendham)
• Tavern License Petition for Brick Tavern (Drake Tavern) 1830 (Chester)
• Remonstrance against the Renewal of a License for the Powerville Hotel, Late 1800’s

Wills- N. J.

• New Jersey Wills at Albany, N. Y.  from The Genealogy Club of the Library of the New Jersey
• Historical Society, Publication No.3 , May 1983

Historic Preservation Surveys for the towns of:

• Boonton
• Chatham Borough
• Chatham Township
• Chester Borough
• Chester Township
• East Hanover
• Flanders
• Florham Park
• Gillette
• Green Village
• Hanover
• Hanover Township
• Harding Township
• Kenvil
• Kinnelon
• Lincoln Park
• Madison
• Millington
• Montville Township
• Morris Plains
• Morris Township
• Morristown
• New Vernon
• Passaic Township
• Pompton Plains
• Stirling
• Succasunna

Palladium of Liberty (Morristown newspaper) Jan. 1, 1817 - May 28, 1834

One (1) reel microfilm in NJ History collection. Contents includes

• Slavery in New Jersey: runaway slaves, rewards, slaves for sale
• News of the national legislature and NJ state legislature
• Local news which covered more than just Morristown. Somerset, Sussex and other counties were covered.
• International news such as the death of Napoleon and a detailed account of his autopsy
• News from other states with excerpts from other local newspapers
• Marriages with names of the bride and groom and their home locations
• Deaths which included name and age with cause of death such as: sudden, scarlet fever, childbed (young women), consumption, decay, old age and typhus fever. At a certain time period typhus fever became more frequently mentioned in the death notices. A small epidemic? In the death notices for small children their names were not mentioned. Instead they were listed as infant son of.... or child of...... and gave the names of the parents.
• Advertisements for medicines
• Advertisements for services: dentist, stores
• Items Lost
• Items Stolen with description of the item and reward offered. Many of these seemed to be animals such as horses, sheep or hogs.
• Poems
• Farms and property for sale
• Sheriff's Sales
• Lists of town officers
• Lists of person taxed
• Odd news stories of curiosities such as ghosts
• Legal notices

Donna Burkey

Reference Dept

Morris County Library (NJ)

November 2010