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  – 
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.