Bibliography of Land Record Materials at The North Jersey History and Genealogy Center The Morristown and Morris Township Public Library

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1 Bibliography of Land Record Materials at The North Jersey History and Genealogy Center The Morristown and Morris Township Public Library Compiled by Linda Ross,

2 H2 Col Colonial Conveyances: Provinces of East and West New Jersey, Photocopy of typewritten materials; bound 2 volumes H2 Earl H2 East Gen H3S05 Bern Bask Sti Early Surveys: East and West New Jersey 1875 Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, South Orange, NJ: The Board, 1954; 4 th Edition, 1979 Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, Correspondence 1765, 1779; genealogy chart of Lord Stirling; deed to George Luke Ryerson, witnessed Bound volume of handwritten journal Pamphlets in s transcripts of original correspondence; in by Stirling H929 Wills of the Ford Family material, bound H929 Hedges H929 MSS Cutler H929 MSS Hals Hedges, Russell, Hedges family: abstracts of old deeds and papers in the possession of Mrs. Lyman Fish, Brookdale Road, Florham Park, NJ, The Cutler Collection , hard bound 2 Early surveys of land in Morris County, NJ; surveys and deeds Wills of 1. Theodosia Ford; 2. Jacob Ford, Sr.; 3. Jacob Ford, Jr.; 4. Gabriel H. Ford; 5. Henry A. Ford Contains land records, political documents, financial, legal and personal papers of the Cutler family in Morris County Edmund D. Halsey papers Manuscript Collection of papers: legal abstracts, surveys and search notes for properties in the town of Denville and the townships of Rockaway, Pequannock and, genealogical information Wills, deeds

3 Hanover, NJ, from the 19 th H Hat Hatcher, Patricia Law, Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records, Cincinatti, Ohio: Betterway Books, c2003 H Hon Hone, E. Wade, Land & Property Research in the United States, Salt H New Str H Co abstract HM Cour Deed HM Land Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1997 Stryker-Rodda, Kenn, New Jersey County Tax Ratables, , South Orange, NJ: Kenn Stryker- Rodda, 1971 Coldham, Peter Wilson, American Loyalist Claims, Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 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, Book T-2, page 227 &c American Civilization Institute of Morristown, Morris County deeds , Morristown, NJ, 1968 Book Book material in binder Book Photocopy of typewritten document; in Photocopies of typewritten materials; bound 3 century Analysis of New Jersey ratables on microfilm; county, township, date, book and reel number given Abstract of claims granted to loyalists 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 Instructional Instructional HM Land Morris County, New Jersey Unpaged. No identification as

4 material, bound to who compiled these deeds or for what purpose. HM Land Bro Brown, Virginia Alleman, Morris County Heirs to Estates, , Washington, NJ: Genealogical Researchers, 1984 Book - paperback Abstracts of partitions and divisions of Morris County estates filed at Morristown, NJ, Includes index HM Land Can HM Land How HM Land How HM Land Pil HM Land Roa HM Land Sch Canfield, John D. and Garretson, Lemuel B., compilers, Morris County Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County and some unrecorded deeds, (?) Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County, Pilch, Henry W., compiler, Some at Washington s headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey Hall, R. J., S, H., Morris County Road Records Book A 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 material Handwritten; bound material; bound 4 copied or abstracted. Index compiled by Barbara Hoskins, 1970 Copies and some drawings of land tracts in a ledger Revised and expanded 1969; duplicates and adds to the contents of the ledger but excludes drawings Photocopy Unpaged Photocopy of typewritten material, bound Photocopy of typewritten materials in binder HM Loan Mor Morris County Loan Office Mortgages Photocopy of typewritten materials, bound Index compiled by Barbara Hoskins; includes some hand drawn maps Unpaged Mortgages for Morristown and Morris Township copied from Books I and II of Morris County Loan Office Mortgages by John

5 Canfield, Includes indexes HM1 Sale book to enter Sales in 1856 Notebook Clippings posted in notebook. Morris County sheriff sale HM1 Cutl ABS HM1 Gen New HM1 Ha HM1 Ha HM1 Ha HM1 Ha Q Abstracts of deeds and plottings to land holdings of Augustus V. Cutler, Casagrand, Eleanor, Another Place to Look: Morris County Mortgages, Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, v. 5 September 1992, pp ; December 1992, pp- 2-4; v. 6, March 1993, pp ; v. 7, December 1994, pp Halsey, Edmund D, Field book and surveys, , v. 1 and v. 2 Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and records number 3 Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and records, number 10 Halsey, Samuel S., Field book and surveys Handwritten documents, hand drawn maps. Oversize, in archival box Newsletters in 3- ring binder Handwritten notebooks Handwritten notebook Handwritten notebook Photocopy of handwritten materials (in 12 x15.5 ) material in binders HM1 Min Sa Sagurton, Wilma, Index to Guy Minton Title Searches HM1 Sea Seaton Hackney Farm Photocopy of typewritten material; in 5 notices, volumes; surveys, maps, handwritten notes Maps, handwritten notes Maps, handwritten notes Maps, photocopy of handwritten originals of various dates. Contains index Indexing for the 88 volumes in the library s collection Resume of materials in office files on Seaton Hackney Farm. Farm was formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moore, and is

6 now a part of the Morris County Park System HM2 Han Howe HM2 Hand Ble HM2 Mend Cla HM2 Mend Cla HM2 Roxb Suc Tho Transcript of letter to Gideon Howell to Deborah Howell Pierson, 1770, and transcriptions and photocopies of deeds to Gideon Howell from Jacob Allerton, 1769 Bleything, George D. Clark, Henry, Documents relating to the surveys and indentures of various pieces of property near Mendham, either purchased or sold by Henry Clark Clark, Henry, Letters about Mendham Township [genealogies and land titles] to Edward Howell, January 1911 October 1912 Thompson, Robert, compiler, Properties in Succasunna Village prior to 1810 Photocopies Unpaged materials; in materials; in manuscript, hand drawn map; in 6 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, Property records; separate map, 32 x 30:, court documents, genealogical information

7 HM6 MS (7 x 10 ) Map of 43 parcels of land Map Advertisement of sale of fortythree parcels of land situated at Morristown, New Jersey with HM6 MSS Morr Morristown, New Jersey Property and Land Titles: 14 Franklin Street records, ; 1983 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 HS Hanover, New Jersey , New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, v.3, pp , Metuchen, NJ: 1918 HS Landowners and Freeholders of Morris County, , Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, v. 16, pp , New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey, MF LH 0049 Howell, Edward, Land Titles, Morris County, New Jersey, and some Manuscript Newsletter Journal article Journal article Handwritten material 7 description of locations 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., mortgages, title searches and agreements; some historical information plus the will of Charles D. M. Cole, owner Article in Genealogical Society of NJ newsletter, Fall 1997, p. 32 Includes Hanover, Pequannock, Morris Township, Mendham Township and Roxbury Township Handwritten transcribed deeds from Morris County, NJ with, deeds

8 Unrecorded, Morristown, NJ: Joint Free Public Library of Morris town and Morris Township, 1984 LH Pers MF LH 0001 MF LH 0007 MF LH 0047 MF LH 0075 Vorpahl, Beverly (Smith), Unjumbling Land, Family Chronicle, January/February 2000, pp Schroeder, Harold W., collector, The Harold W. Schroeder Collection on the Morris County Free Library, Whippany, NJ, , Morris town, NJ: Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1983 New York Historical Society; James Alexander, Morris County papers from the Alexander collection, New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1951 Index to, 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 Registers of of the County of Morris books A-E, , Morristown, NJ: Joint Free Public Journal article Microfilm Microfilm Microfilm Microfilm 8 land plates, in a daybook dated 1908 of Edward Howell. The deeds are from the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Collection of information on local history, family history, deeds, land surveys of the Morris County area in 18 th and 19 th centuries. Notebooks of Morris County deeds; notebooks of Morris County and Passaic County surveys c. 1719; notebooks on local history, families, historical houses 2 reels, 35mm; includes miscellaneous land surveys, maps and descriptions of real property of the 18 th century in Morris County. Collected by James Alexander Microform copy of manuscript books in the Morris County Clerck s Office Instructional, deeds, family history

9 Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1988 Misc MSS New Jersey Council and General Assembly Manuscript Pilch File Pilch, Henry W., compiler Loose documents in folders in file drawers 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 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 9

10 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 10

11 New Jersey Outside Morris County Call Number Author Medium Description Type H2 James James II, King of England, , Newark, NJ: Newark Public Library, 1964 Indenture H3M5 Ewin Fel H3U5 Eliz Eli H3H1 Win CASS GE 0036 H2 STE H3A1 Stee Felcone, Joseph J., Land Transaction in Ewing Township, Mercer County, NJ , Princeton, NJ: J. J. Falcone, 1983 Book B Elizabeth Town: Abstract from original in Princeton Library Winfield, Charles Hardenburg, History of the Land Titles in Hudson County, NJ , New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1872 Barker, Bette Marie, Land records/maps/tax ratables and related materials in New Jersey, Toulon, IL: Triad, 1990 Stewart, Frank H., Indians of Southern New Jersey, Woodbury, NJ: 1932 Steelman, James F., Unrecorded deeds in the possession of the Atlantic County Historical Society, Somers Point, NJ: Atlantic County Historical Society, 1993 Photograph of original and transcribed documents, in Typed transcript in hard cover Photocopies of documents, in ; oversize Photograph of original indenture that created New Jersey in 1664; includes map drawn in 1656 showing the area now known as New Jersey Includes index Book of surveys of land within the bounds of the original territory claimed by the people of Elizabethtown under their grant from Gov. Nichols, surveys Book Includes maps and atlas Cassette materials in paper binder Recording of lecture given at National Genealogical Society s National Capital Area s Tenth Anniversary Conference, June 6-8, 1990 Indian land transfers; land titles Compiled by James F. and Georgene L. Steelman; indexed by Frederick M. Cramer Instructional, deeds 11

12 Call Number Author Medium Description Type H2 East Cun Cunningham, John T., The East of Book Includes index Jersey: a History of the General Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1992 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, Book Land tenure records H3G1 Stee H3SO Bro H3MI1 Bro &c, New York: Shepard Kollock, 1784 Steelman, James F., Index of land documents in the possession of the Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, NJ: Gloucester County Historical Society, 1993 Brown, Virginia Alleman, Somerset and Hunterdon Counties: Abstracted from partitions and divisions, , Lamberville, NJ: V. A. Brown, 1986 Brown, Virginia Alleman, Middlesex County, NJ Heirs to Estates from partitions and divisions filed at New Brunswick, , Washington, NJ: Genealogical Researchers, 1988 HS Peters, Thomas A., Petition of 404 inhabitants of Newark Township, Materials in paper binder, soft bound, soft bound Journal article 12 Compiled by James F. and Georgene L. Steelman; deeds, surveyor s documents, miscellaneous land documents Probate records, land titles Probate records, land titles, deeds

13 Call Number Author Medium Description Type Essex County, to the king in council: 23 October 1750, Genealogical Magazine Of New Jersey, vol. 66, pp , New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey H3B1 Arch Wardell, Pat, Bergen County (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 1 st Ser v.21 H3B1 Davi H3Bu1 Deed H3Bu1 Hutc H3C1 Van H3Hu1 D Au Nelson, William, ed., Patents and and other early records of New Jersey, , Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976 Davis, John David, Bergen County, NJ deed records, , Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995 Burlington County deed abstracts vol. 1 no. 1 March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1996 Hutchinson, Richard S., Burlington County, NJ deed abstracts: books A, B and C, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, c2000 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 D Autrechy, Phyllis B., Hunterdon County index of persons, places and subjects: deed book 1 to 1795, Book, bound in soft cover Newsletters, in, soft bound transcripts bound in laminate, laminate bound 13 Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey. Includes indexes Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds from mid-1600s to late 1800s Includes name index, land records, genealogical data

14 Call Number Author Medium Description Type 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 Paper bound Includes index H3MI1 Deed H3MO1 Hutc H3MO1 Deed H3S1 Van H3SU1 Down H3E1 Bro HS Books, 2000 Middlesex County deed abstracts vol. 1, no. 1, March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1995 Hutchinson, Richard S., Monmouth County, NJ deeds: books A, B, C & D, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000 Monmouth County deed abstracts vol. 1 no. 1 March 1996, Hightstown, NJ: R. S. Hutchinson, 1996 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 Downing, Clyde W., Sussex County deed abstracts, abstracted and compiled by C. W. Downing, 1999 Brown, Virginia Alleman, Abstracts of Essex County, New Jersey partitions and divisions of estates , recorded at Newark, New Jersey, Washington, NJ: 1981 Klett, Joseph R., Loan Office Mortgages, , Gloucester County, Genealogical Magazine of Newsletters in Paper bound materials Newsletter in, soft bound, soft bound 14 Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds, from mid-1600s to late 1800s Abstracts derived from the County Clerk s copies of recorded deeds Includes index Abstract of genealogical data found in early recorded deeds, from mid-1600s to late 1800s Paperback book Contains illustrations and maps Journal article Mortgages

15 Call Number Author Medium Description Type New Jersey, v. 72, pp , ; v. 73, pp , 63-70, , New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey H3Hu1 D Au HS H3W1 War MF LH 0052 H2 Brown H3SU1 Bro (also LH D Autrechy, Phyllis B., vol. 1 of Mortgages of Hunterdon County : index of persons, places and subjects, Flemington, NJ: Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission, 1991 Stratford, Dorothy A., Salem County Loan Office Records , Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, v. 54, pp ; v. 55, pp ,79-85 Alleman, Helen Potter, Warren County, New Jersey, abstracts of divisions and petitions filed at the courthouse, Belvedere, NJ, from , Washington, NJ: V. A. Brown, 1978 Manuscript of the records of the original surveys of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library Rare Books & Special Collections, 1965 Brown, Virginia Alleman, Abstracts of partitions and divisions of the New Jersey counties of Monmouth, Mercer and Burlington, Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1993 Alleman, Frederick R., Abstracts of divisions of Warren and Sussex material, soft bound Journal article, hard bound Microfilm 15 Signed by all parties in interest 1729 to replace the original records destroyed at that date Paperback book Includes indexes Court records Photocopies of transcripts (also on

16 Call Number Author Medium Description Type 2207) County estates filed at Sussex County microfiche) courthouse, Newton, NJ H3SU1 Bro (also LH 2205) Maps H2 Kle Brown, Virginia Alleman, Maps of divisions of Warren and Sussex County estates filed at Newton, NJ Klett, Joseph R., Using the records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors, Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Archives, c Hand drawn maps, soft bound (also on microfiche) Instructional 16