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Navasink. Reformed (Dutch). See Marlboro.
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Newark. First Presbyterian Church. A copy of the charter, June 7, 1753, is printed in the Minutes of the Synod of New Jersey for 1993. See New Jersey Archives, Vol. XVI, p. 429. Minutes, etc., 1781 to date. Registers of Members Baptisms. Marriages, and Deaths, 1850 to date.
Newark. Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal). Patent to ( Rev. ) Edward Vaughan, John Schuyler, Josiah Ogden, George Lurting, David Ogden, John Lndlow, David Ogden, junior, William Kingsland, William Turner, George Vrelandt, Daniel Peirson, Roger Kingsland and Emanuel Cocker, and the rest of the congregation of the Church inhabitants of Newark, Second River, New Barbadoes Neck, and Acquachnong, ag " The Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of Trinity Church at Newark," February 4, 1745 .- Liber C2 of Commissions, pp. 105-110, in Secretary of State's office, Trenton.
On petition from the Rector, Church Wardens and major part of the Vestrymen of Trinity Church, the former patent of incorporation was revoked and annulled, and a new charter granted to Isaac Brown ( Rec- tor), John Schuyler, Josiah Ogden, David Ogden, John Ludlow, David Ogden, junior, William Kingsland, William Turner, George Vrelandt, Daniel Pierson, Roger Kingsland, Emanuel Cocker and Richard Broad- berry and the rest of the congregation of the church, inhabitants of Newark, Second River, New Barbadoes Neck and Acquachnong by the name and stile of " The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry Men of Trinity Church at Newark," February 10, 1:46-7 .-- Liber C2 of Com- missions, pp. 142-149, in Secretary of State's office, at Trenton. Printed in The Days of Old. A Centennial Discourse delivered in Trinity Church, Nawork, N. J., February 22, 1848, by Matthew H. Henderson, M. A., Rector, Newark, 1346. pp. 47-53. The regular registers of the church have been preserved since 1806. Tombstone inscriptions (about 215) and copy of register of deaths. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Newark. Tombstone Inscriptions in Burying Grounds in Newark and vicinity, copied very carefully in 1847 by Dr. John S. Condit, and bound up in one volume, pp. 218. In N. J. Historical Society.
Newark. List of Deaths, from the Centine! of Freedom, Newark, 1796- 1810 .- Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. I, pp. 17-31.
& New Brunswick. Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal). Patent of incorporation to (Rev. ) Robert MeKean, Edward Antill, Peter Camp- bell, William Mercer, Francis Costigin, Samuel Campbell, Brook Farmer. William Harrison, Francis Brasier, Philip French, Anthony White, Paul Miller, Joseph Vickars, Patrick Riley and Bernardus Legrange, and the rest of the communicants and members of Christ Church in the city of New Brunswick. as " The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church in New Brunswick," November 2, 1761 .- Liber C2 of Commissions, pp. 244-252, in the Secretary of State's office, Trenton. The original charter was lost during the Revolution. An abstract is printed
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in 1 Record of Christ Church, New Brunswick, Diocese of New-Jersey, by the Rev. Alfred Stubbs, Rector of the Parish, New York, 1850, pp. 51-52. See Vom Jersey Archives, XVII, p. 206. Marriage Records, 175S- 1778 .- N. J. Archives, XXII, pp. 620-624.
New Brunswick. Reformed. (Dutch). Baptisms, 1717 to date ; Officers and Members, 1717 to date ; Marriages, 1794 to date; early consistorial records quite imperfect ; Officers and Members, 1717- 1867, printed in the Rev. Dr. Richard H. Steele's "Historical Dis- course at the 150th anniversary of the church," New Brunswick, 1867, pp. 206-223. Marriages, 1794-1900 .- N. J. Archives, XXII, pp. 025- 628, The charter of the five churches-Raritan, North Branch, New Brunswick. Six Mile Ran, and Millstone-dated June 7, 1753, is printed in Historical Discourse delivered at the celebration of the One Hun- dred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Reformed Dutch. Church, Now Brunswick, N. J., October 1, 1861, by Richard H. Steele, D. D., Pastor of the church, New Brunswick, 1-67, pp. 199-202; also in Ficiy Tors at Raritan. Eight Memorial Sermons, with Notes for a History of the Reformed Dutch Churches in Somerset County, N J .. by Abraham Messler, D. D., Pastor of the Church at Raritan, New York, 1873, pp. 318-323. See also V. J. Archives, XVI, pp. 3:6. 420.
New Brunswick. First Presbyterian. " Minutes from 1784 have been kept with great regularity." Registers of Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, not so full.
New Germantown. Zion Evangelical Lutheran. Minutes, 1749, and 1767 to date; other records and registers, 1757 to date. The original charter, 1707, is preserved by the church : printed nearly in full in Our Home, Somerville, 1873, pp. 120-121. Records of the Corporation of Zion in New Germantown in West Jersey. Births and Baptisms. Contributed by Ben Van D. Fisher .- N. Y. Gen. and Bio. Record, XXXI to XXXIV. (1900-1903.) Full and exact transcripts from the records.
Neshanic. Reformed. ( Dutch). Minutes, from 1757 ; Baptisms, from 1760 ; Marriages, from 1700. Patent of incorporation to (Rev. ) Jo- hannes Martinus Van Harlingen, Philip Van Artsdalen. Cornelius Sebring, Martinus Hooglandt, Joshua Coshun, John Verbryk and John Van Dyck, the present Minister, Elders and Deacons, and all such as now are or hereafter shall be admitted members of said Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Shannick. as " The Ministers, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Shan- nick in Hillsborough in the County of Somerset and Province of New Jersey," April 6, 1775 .- Liber AB of Commissions, pp. 178-181, in Secre- tary of State's office, Trenton. See Hillsborough.
New Providence. Presbyterian. Session Records from 1737 to date ; Trustees' Records, 1756 to date ; Baptisms, 1527 to date ; Marriages and deaths, none. No attempt was made in the earlier books to keep ses- sional records separate from the records of parish meetings. The secular
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business of the congregation was transacted in the earlier years in parish meetings instead of by trustees. It has never been the practice of this church to preserve a record of deaths or marriages.
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Newton. Sussex County. Christ's Church. Patent of incorporation to (Rev.) Czal Ogden, junior, Nathaniel Pettit, Archibald Stewart, Edward Pigot, William Hall, Nathan Armstrong, Amos Pettit, John Pettit, Charles Pettit, Thomas Anderson, John B. Scot, James Show, and other inhabitants of New Town in the county of Sussex with the rest of the inhabitants of Newtown in communion with the Church of England, a: "The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ's Church at New Town, in the county of Sussex and province of New Jer- - sey," . A. D. 1774. (No month nor day. ) -- Liber AB of Commissions, pp. 159-167, in the Secretary of State's office, Trenton. Original, dated August 15, 1774, in possession of the church. Church records : Trustees' minutes, from 1827 ; Baptisms, from 1820 ; Marriages, from 1821 ; Deaths, from 1843 ; Communicants, 1824 to date.
Newton, Camden County. Friends' records of Marriages at Burling- ton, Salem, Newton (now in Camden county), Haddonfield, Chester (Moorestown ), Evesham, and Woodbury Creek-particularly of mem- bers of Newton families-are given in Sketches of the First Inmigrant Set- ters of Newton Township, Oll Gloucester County, West New Jersey, by John Clement, Camden, 1577, pp. 387-411. See Haddonfield.
. North Branch. Reformed ( Dutch). See Readington.
Northfieldl. Baptist Church, organized 1788. The early registers of Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths were Lot kept in the Church Book, but in the private records of the different pastors, who carried them away when they left.
Old Springfield. Friends' Preparative Meeting. List of Men bers, 1831. Original Records in Friends' Library, Philadelphia.
Orange. First Presbyterian. Some fragmentary manuscript records kept by the Rev. Caleb Smith, 1756-1762, and by the Rev. Jedidiah Chapinan, 1766-1784, and preserved in private hands, give lists of mem- bers in 1756, and 1756-1762, 1766-1783 ; Baptisms, 1760-1784. In History of the Oranges, by Stephen Wickes, M. D., Newark, 1892, pp. 149-153, 206-210.
Orange. Tombstone Inscriptions from the public cemetery, 1847 ; pp. 154. In N. J. Historical Society.
Paramus. Reformed ( Dutch). Members, 1790 to date ; Baptisms, 1740 to date ; Marriages, 1799 to date. Copy of the record of Members, 1790 ; and Baptisms, 1740-1550, in Holland Society of New York. Marriages, 1799-1801 .- N. J. Archives, XXII, pp. 549-551.
Passaic. Reformed (Dutch), formerly the Acquackanonk. Members, 1726 to date; Marriages, 1725 to date; Baptisms, 1692 to date; Con- sistories, 1694 to date. A copy of these records to 1816 is in the Holland Society of New York. The earlier records of members and baptisms
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were kept in the Hackensack church. The records have been published in part in The Church Tablet. a periodical issued by the pastor, be- ginning with Vol. I, No. 10, October, 1896. .
Paterson. History of the Old Dutch Church at Totowa (now the First Reformed), Paterson, New Jersey, 1755-1337. By William Nelson. Bop- tismal Register (in the original Dutch), 1756-1808. Svo. Pp. 170.
Paterson. Second Reformed. The Pastor and the Church, etc. New York, 1896. Svo. Pp. 172, xxiii. Communicants, pp. 23; Baptisms, pp. 23 : Marriages, pp. 22. The registers are given in substance, from 1827, when the church was organized.
Paterson. The First Presbyterian Church of Paterson, New Jersey. I. Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1818-1891. II. Miscellaneous Documents. III. Minutes of the Session, 1813-1802. Compiled and edited, with notes, by William Nelson. Paterson, N. J. 1833. Svo. Pp. vi, 456; Index, pp. 457-482. The records of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and communicants of this church have been for the most part well kept and carefully pre- served ; but some of the marriage records were carried off by a former pastor (who performed the marriage ceremony), and are in a Western Historical Society.
Peapack (or Pepack). See Lamington.
Pemberton. Baptist Church, organized, 1764. Records prior to 1800 burned.
Penn's Neck. Swedish- Lutheran Church Records. Copy in Gene- alogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Perseppeny. Reformed ( Dutch). See Montville.
Perth Amboy. Friends' Records. See Rahway.
Perth Amboy. St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal. Established per- haps before 1700 ; chartere:1. 1718 : church site donated, 1719 ; church erected, 1720-1721. Vestry minutes. 1721-1774, 1782 to date. Consid- erable early records of minutes, etc. Patent of incorporation to Thomas Gordon, George Willocks, William Eier, John Barclay, James Alexander, and John Stevens, and the rest of the inhabitants of said town of Perth Amboy in communion with the Church of England, as " The Church Wardens and Vestry of St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy." July 30 1718 .- Liber C2 of Commissions, pp. 15-21, in Secretary of State's office, Trenton.
Perth Amboy. Tombstone inscriptions (66) prior to 1800. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Peter's Valley. See Leighton.
Pilesgrove. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes, 1827-1830; Births and Deaths, 1756-1529. Women's Minutes, 1828-1830. Original records in Friends' Library, Philadelphia.
Piscataway. Baptist Church, organized 1680. Minutes, 1781-1800 ; Baptisms, 1781-1800 ; Marriages, none ; Deaths, occasional.
Piscataway. Seventh Day Baptist. Records begin 1705, very im-
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perfect. Marriage Records, 1745-1776 .- New Jersey Archives, XXII, 643-647. These records were found a few years ago in Western Pennsyl- vania, and a copy made, from which they have been published as above.
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Piscataway. License to John Borrowe, Henry Prince (and four others), inhabitants of the town of Piscataway, in the county of Mid- dlesex, communicants of the Church of England, to creet a Church of England, November 10, 1712 .- Liber AAA of Commissions, p. 139, in Secretary of State's office, Trenton.
Piscataway. St. James's Protestant Episcopal. The old records were destroyed by fire many years ago. The present Church book dates from- 1825.
Piscataway. Abstracts from Town Book Register of Birthis, 1663-1793. Published ( in alphabetical order of surnames), in New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, Third Series, II, 73-80, 168-176 ; III, 10-18.
Piscataway. Tombstone inscriptions (80) of dates prior to 1800, copied in 1849. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Pittsgrove, Presbyterian. Organized April 30, 1741, as the Pilesgrove Presbyterian Church. Minutes from 1741, somewhat fragmentary.
Pittsgrove. Baptist Church. About 1741, but not formally organized until May 15, 1771. Minutes from 1771, quite imperfect.
Plainfield. Friends' Monthly Meeting. See Rahway.
Pluckemin. Tombstone inscriptions (26) in the old burying ground; copied in 1$ 2. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Pluckemin. Epitaphis (20) from Lutheran burying ground, with notes. In Now Jersey Historical Society.
Pompton. Reformed ( Dutch). Some tombstone data of this church are published in Nor Jersey Historical Society Proceedings, Third Series, II, 23-24.
Pompton Plains. Reformed (Dutch). Members, 1737 to date ; Bap- tisme, 1734 to date ; Marriages, 1736 to date. Members, 1737 ; Marriages, 1736-1809 ; Baptisms, 1734-1871. Copy in Holland Society of New York.
Preakness. Reformed (Dutch). Baptisms, 1831-1902; Marriages, 1842-1902 ; Deaths, 1837-1902, and tombstone inscriptions in neighbor- ing burying grounds. In Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, Nur Jersey. A History. 1895-1902. With Genealogical Notes, the Records of the Church, and Tombstone Inscriptions, by George Warne Labaw, pastor of the church, New York, 1902. 8vo. Pp. 252-315.
Princeton. First Presbyterian. Session records, 1805 to date, some earlier dates, scattering ; Trustees' Records, 1760 to date ; Baptisms, 1847 to date ; Marriages, 1848 to date; Deaths, 1800 to date ; Members, 1795 to date.
Quakertown. Friends' Monthly Meeting. See Burlington, Mt. Holly, and Quakertown.
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Quakertown. Friends' Meeting, 1713-1870. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. See Middletown.
Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meeting of Friends ( formerly held at Amboy and Woodbridge). Marriage records, 1687-1825. - Ne York Genealogied and Biographical Record, VIII, pp. 179-181 ; IN, 08-37. Birthe, 1703-1793. - Ilid, IX, 64-71, 174-180; X, 20-23, 139-143; XI, 42-46. Copy, 1687-1871, in Genealogical Society of Pennsyl- vania.
Readington ( formerly North Branch). Reformed (Dutch). Minutes, 1719 to date ; Meinbers, 1721 to date ; Baptisms, 1721 to date. Consis- tories, 1710-1881; Members, 1721-1881, in the History of the Reformed Church, at Readington, N. J., 1719-1881, by the Rev. Henry P. Thomp- son, New York, 1852, pp. 95-132.
Readington. Presbyterian. See Lamington.
Richland. Friends' Meeting. See Middletown, Richland, etc.
Ringces. St. Andrew's church. See Amwell.
Rockaway ( Morris County ). Presbyterian. Elders, 1758-1878 ; Trus- tees, 1757-1978 ; Members, 1758-1878. In Historical Manual of the Rocka- mag Presbyterian Church, compiled by the Pastor, the Rev. D. E. Platter, Trenton, N. J., 1880, pp. 27-55.
Saddle River. Zion's Evangelical Lutheran. Church minutes from 1800 to date; Communicants, 1776 to date; Baptisms, 1772 to date; Marriages, 1:20 to date ; Deaths, 1820 to date.
Salem. First Baptist Church, organized 1755. Minutes, sparso to 1800 : Baptisms, sparse to 1800; Marriages, none before 1800; Deaths, occasional, 1795 to date.
Salem. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes, 1676-1854, Births and Deaths, 1686-1SS6. Women's Minutes, 1682-1835. Original Records in Friends' Library, Philadelphia. Copy ( 1676-1858) in Genealogical So- ciety of Pennsylvania.
Salem County. Friends' Records Quarterly Meeting, Women's Min- utes. See Gloucester, Salem, and Cape May.
Schraalenburgh. Reformed (Dutch). Records of Baptisms, Marriages, Communicants, and Officers, 1724-1801 .- Collections Holland Society, Vol. II, New York, 1$91. Svo, pp. 387. Marriages, 1724-1801, in alphabet- ical order. -- V. J. Archives, XXII, 515-552.
Scotch Plains. Baptist Church, organized 1747. Minutes, September, 1747, to date ; Baptisins, September, 17+7, to date ; Marriages, very few ; Deaths, none, except an occasional note of death of some prominent member of the church. Marriages, 1758-1761 .- N. J. Archives, XXII, 647-649.
Second River. Reformed ( Dutch). See Belleville.
Shrewsbury. Christ Church ( Protestant Episcopal). Patent of incor- poration to William Leeds, Henry Leonard, John Throckmorton, Sanmiel Osborn, Thomas Morford, James Hutchins, Jeremiah Stilwell. John
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Redford. Jacob Dennis, Paul Hill, Benjamin Cooper, Pontius Stelle, Samuel Pintard, Anthony Pintard, Josiah Holmes, and the rest of the inhabitants of the town of Shrewsbury and Middletown in communion with the Church of England, as "The Minister, Church Wardens, and Vestry of Christ's Church in the town of Shrewsbury," June 3, 1738 .- Liber C2 of Commissions, pp. 150-154, in Secretary of State's Office, Trenton. Minutes, Vol. I, May Ist, 1747-March 15th, 1564 ; Vol. II, 1854, to date. Parish Register, Vol. I, Baptisms, January 6, 1733-1824; Marriages, February 2, 1734-1824; Burials, September 8, 1734-1824; Vol. II, 1824, to date. This church originally included St. Peter's, Freehold, and the records cover all parts of the then county of Mon- mouth-Allentown, Freehold, Middletown Point (i. /. Matawan), Amboy, Cranbury, and Brunswick, besides points in what is now known as Ocean County. The minutes commence with this entry : " May 1st, 1747, at a meeting of the Vestry for the county of Monmouth." On the fly leaf of the Parish Register is inscribed : "Record Book of the Epis- copal Churches in Monmouth County, New Jersey, From 1733." Com- municants, 1541 to date.
Shrewsbury. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Births, 1641-1869; Mar- riages, 1674-1853 ; Deaths, 1666-1876. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Shrewsbury. Friends' Records. Marriages, and Births, 1674 to date ; Minutes, 1735 to date. See Monmouth County.
Shrewsbury. Inscriptions on Gravestones. Taken from the Rimsen Burying Ground, Suroxbury, N.J. By Rev. William White Hance .- N. Y. Genenlogical and Biographical Record, XXXIV. (1903. ) Substance of inscriptions.
Shrewsbury. Presbyterian. Session Records, 1785-1808, 1821 to date ; Minutes of Trustees, 1:24 to date, with sundry omissions in the earlier years ; Baptisms, 1786 to date ; Marriages, 1852 to date; Deaths, 1852 to date; Members, 1785 to date. No minutes before 1821. The various clergymen seem to have considered the marriage records their private property, and carried them away on leaving the church.
Six-Mile-Run. Reformed (Dutch). Baptisms, 1743-1805. Orizina! records deposited in the Gardner A. Sage Library, New Brunswick.
Solebury. Friends' Meeting. See Middletown, Richland, etc.
Somerville (formerly Raritan). Reformed ( Dutch). Minutes. 16 00. and from 1721 to date : Members, 1699 to date ; Baptisn.s, 1699 to date ; Marriages, 1700 to date.
South Plainfield (originally Samptown). Baptist Church. Organized, 1792. Minutes, 1792-1903, excepting 1800 to 1803, which were lost ; Baptisms, 1793-1903 : Deaths, 1801-1903 ; Marriages, no records kept by the church, but by the pastors as their private property.
Spotswood. St. Peter's. Patent of incorporation to Reverend Wil- liam Ayres, the Right Honorable David Carnegie, Esquire, commonly
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called Lord Rosehill, John Lewis Johnson, Frederick Bucklew, John Rue, Thomas Newton, John Beclay, junior, Joseph Perrine, James Rue, David Stout, Samuel Neilson, Richard Lott, James Abrahams, and John Perrine, and the rest of the inhabitants of Spotswood, in connec- tion with the Church of England, as " Minister, Church Wardens and Vestry of Saint Peter's Church in the town of Spotswood." November 23, 1773 .- Liber AB of Commissions, pp. 143-153, in Secretary of State's office, Tremon.
Springfield ( Union County). Presbyterian. Session Records from 1802 to date ; Records of Trustees, 1824 to date ; Baptisms, 1818 to date ; Marriages, IS18 to date ; Deaths 1818-1828 ; Members, 1802 to date, with some notes of deaths and dismissions. Township Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1842 to 1860, or later, in keeping of the Town Clerk.
Springfield. Inscriptions (340) from stones standing in 1901 in the sec- ond cemetery west of the church. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Succasunna. Inscriptions (162) from Succasunna graveyard, 1855. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Swedesboro. Lutheran. Patent of incorporation to John Wiksew, Thomas Denny, John Denny, Lawrence Lock, John Lock, John Rambo, James Steelman. John Hole, and Benjamin Rambo, and the rest of the communicants in said church as "The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Sweedsborough near Raccoon Creek," A. D. 1765 .- Liber A.A. of Com- missions, pp. 420-5, in Secretary of State's office, Trenton.
Swedesboro. Trinity Church (originally Swedish Evangelical Lu- theran, now Protestant Episcopal, in the Diocese of New Jersey). Bap- tisms, 1713-1815 ; Marriages, 1714-1814; Burials, 1713-1814; also later records. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Tennent. Old Tennent ( Presbyterian). Minutes of Session mostly destroyed by fire in 1869 ; a few seanty records prior to that date have been gathered up; Members, scattering but extensive records up to 1869 ; thence to date ; Baptisms, 1731-1778, 1784-1817, 1873 to date ; Marriages, a few scattering records to 1869; thence to date ; Deaths, most of the records from 1703 to date ; many genealogical notes are being gathered by the pastor, the Rev. Frank R. Symmes. Baptismal Records, 1725-1760, and early burials in . neighboring cemeteries, in His- tory of the Oll Tamient Church, with Biographical Sketches of its Pastors, written by the Rev. Frank R. Symmes, Fifteenth Pastor, Freehold, 1897 Svo, pp. 1IS-143.
Trenton. First Presbyterian. Organized, 1712; Church built, 1728 ; rebuilt 1805, and again in 1839. From the very interesting and valuable History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, by the former pastor, the Rev. Dr. John Hall, it appears that the early records were de- stroyed. In view of the inaccuracies and errors which gradually crept into the Register of the Church in times past, the session of the Church
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in 1841 resolved to revise the Register, correct it as far as the informa- tion to be obtained on the most careful inquiry might render it possible, and to transcribe it when corrected in a new book, which was done in the year 1842. The first name on the first page of the Register of Com- municants is under date of 1806. The records in the possession of the church are as follows: Minutes of Trustees, from 1757 to date ; Session Recorde, 1806 to date ; Baptisms, 1806 to date ; Marriages, 1806 to date ; Deaths, 1806 to date ; Members, 1806 to date. List of Pastors, 1736-1904 ; Elders, 1760-1904; Deacons, 1771-1904; Trustees, 1756-1904 ; Communi- cants, at the end of 1903 ; Pew Holders, at the end of 1903, and other data,-in a very beautifully-printed Manual of the Religious Society or Congregation of Christians, usually known as the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton, 1903, pp. 9-29.
Upper Evesham. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes, 1794-1836 ; Births and deaths, 1693-1882; Women's Minutes, 1794-1857. Original records in Friends' Library, Philadelphia.
Upper Springfield. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes, 1783-1844; Marriages, 1783-1830 ; Births and Deaths, 1717-1833 ; List of Members, 1783. Women's Minutes, 1783-1828. Original Records in Friends' Li- brary, Philadelphia. Records, 1755-1827. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Upper Walpack. See Walpack.
Walpack. Reformed Dutch, organized 1737. The legal and eccle- siastical title is "The Church of Walpack," and comprises under one charter four separate churches, each having a pastor of its own. Two of these churches. one at Dinumans Ferry, Pa., and the other in Leigh- ton, New Jersey, formerly Peter's Valley, New Jersey, comprise what is now designated as the Upper Walpack Reformed Congregation. Two other churches, one at Bushkill, Pa., and the other in Flatbrookville, New Jersey, comprise what is now designated as the Lower Walpack Congregation. The separation of the Upper and Lower Walpack churches under separate pastors occurred in 1855. The recent church records were burned in a fire in Flatbrookville, in the autumn of 1902. The early records, to a comparatively recent date, comprise Minutes of Consistory, Baptisms, Marriages, and Members, from 1741. See His- torical Discourse, by S. W. Mills, Ellenville, N. Y., 1874.
Walpack Township, Sussex County. Old Dutch Church. Baptisms and Marriages, 1741-1810. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsyl- "ania.
Wantage. First Baptist Church, organized 1756. All the records prior to 1850 were lost some years ago. The church keeps no records of marriages, such records having been kept by the several pastors as their private property.
Wantage. Second Baptist Church, organized 1798. No records prior to 1800, and few since.
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Washington. First Presbyterian. Minutes of Session, 1848 to date ; Minutes of Trustees, 1787 to date ; Baptismis, 1851 to date; Deaths, 1861 to date ; Marriages, 1851 to date; Members, 1831 to date.
Westfield. Presbyterian Church. Members, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, nearly complete, from 1759 to date. Copy also in private handy in Westfield. The records prior to 1759 were burned by a young man to destroy a record of discipline against him. A complete history of the church, including records of all the membership and all the marriages, arranged alphabetically, and a great portion of the bap- tisms, together with biographical sketches of all the pastors, and other data, has been for twenty years in course of preparation by the Rev. Newton W. Cadwell. of Atlantic City, formerly pastor of the Westfield church. Copy of records of communicants, renewers of covenants, etc., in N. J. Historical Society.
Whippany and Hanover. Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monu- ments in the Garegards at Whippany and Hanover, Morristown, 1894. Svo. Pp. 93. See Hanover.
Woodbridge. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes, 1686-1728. Copy in Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
Woodbridge. Record of Marriages, Births and Deaths, transcribed literally from Liber A. and Liber B., Town Books ; also Friends' Mar- riages, Woodbridge and vicinity, in History of Woodbridge and Vicinity. by the Rev. Joseph W .. Dally, New Brunswick, 1873, pp. 314-363. See, also, Rahway.
Woodbridge. Inscriptions (396) of dates prior to 1800, from ceme- teries of Woodbridge, 1540. In New Jersey Historical Society.
Woodbury. Friends' Monthly Meeting. Minutes. 1785-1802 : Mar- riages, 1780-1862; Births and Deaths, 1702-1865. Women's Minutes. 1785-1872. Original Records in Frien Is' Library, Philadelphia.
Wrightstown. Friends' Meeting. See Middletown, Richland, etc.
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Burlington. Friends' Meetings. Copious extracts from the minutes of Burlington Monthly Meeting ( beginning 15th of 5 mio. 1678), of the Quarterly Meeting (beginning 29th of 9 mo. 1681), and of the Yearly Meeting (beginning 28th of 6 mo. 1681) ; also marriages in Burlington Monthly Meeting up to 1750, List of Ministers, 1678-1881-in Friends in Burlington, by Amelia Mott Gummere. Philadelphia, 1884. Svo. Pp. 100.
Connecticut Farms. Presbyterian. Session Records from 1:00 to date ; Trustecs' Records, 1789 to date : Baptisms, 1809 to date ; Mar- riages, 1800 to date ; Deaths, 1813 to date ; Members, 1813 to date.
Deerfield. Presbyterian Church. Log house built about 1737; re- placed 1771 by a new church, which was enlarged 1859. Apparently under one Session with Greenwich until 1700. Minutes of Meetings of
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Congregation frota 1792, with many gaps; Session Records, 1795 to date, with some gaps ; Members, ISO1 to date ; other records fairly com- plete from 1831. Some miscellaneous papers as far back as 1747.
Greenwich ( Cumberland County). Presbyterian. Session Records, from November 10, 1744, to date ; Trustees' Records, 1791 to date ; Bap- tisias, 1751 to date ; Marriages, 1781 to date; Deaths, 1747 to date ; Members; 1771 to date. The earliest records are supposed to have been lost when the parsonage was burned. in 1740. The records from 1747 to 1804 are very imperfect. The church has a deed, dated April 24th, 1717, for "one aere of land in trust for the people called Presbyterians, on the north side of Cobansey to build and establish a meeting house for - the publie worship of God." Some subscription lists, from 1735, and extracts from the Minutes, from 1747, are given in History of the Presby- terian Church, Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey, by Enoch Fith- ian, M. D., Bridgeton, 1871, pp. 6-18.
Greenwich ( Sussex County). First Presbyterian. Records of Ses- sion from 1503 to date; Records of Trustees, 1882 to date; Baptismis, 1801 to date ; Marriages, 1798 to date ; Deaths, 1834 to date ; Members, 1803 to date. The church hopes to come into possession of carlier records soon.
. MISCELLANEOUS.
There are about ten thousand marriage bonds on file in the office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, having been given pursuant to a statute passed in 1719, repealed in 1795. An index to these bonds, giving the names of the men and women named in them as intending marriage, arranged in alphabetical order, is printed in New Jersey Archives, XXII, pp. 1-465. The index also includes a considerable number of marriages recorded in the same office. many prior to 1719, and some in a volume of marriage licenses, 254 pages, 1733-1751, containing records of about 1500 marriages.
A list of thirty-seven marriages, 1666-1632, by James Bollen, at Elizabethtown. Woodbridge, and vicinity, recorded in the Secretary of State's office, but omitted from the above index. is given in the writer's Historical Sietch of the Law of Marriage and Divorce in New Jersey, Paterson, N. J., 1904.
Roman Catholic baptisms and marriages in New Jersey prior to 1800 were celebrated principally by missionary priests from Philadelphia (no priests being allowed in New York until after the Revolution). Many records of such baptisms and mar- riages, from Ringwood and Long Pond on the north, to Salem
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CHURCH RECORDS IN NEW JERSEY.
in the south of New Jersey, are to be found in the registers of St. Joseph's Church. Philadelphia. 1758 to 1800. published in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, I (1887), II, III, IV, VIII (1897). A few (particularly of. Northern New Jersey ) are to be found in the Goschenhoppen Registers, 1741-1764, published in the same periodical, II, 316-332; III, 295-398.
The New Jersey Historical Society has a considerable collec- tion of tombstone inscriptions, copied from burying-grounds in various parts of the State, mostly forty years ago. Recently a well-directed, systematic movement has been started by the Woman's Branch of the Society to collect similar inscriptions and preserve them in carefully-indexed manuscript volumes in the Society's library. The plan is to copy the inscriptions in full down to 1850. At this writing substantially all the tomb- stones (at least all in public burying-grounds and churchyards) in Burlington, Essex, and Monmouth Counties have been copied. The following is a partial list : St. Mary's Church, Burlington 761; Parsippany, about 200; Trinity, Newark. 215; Bloomfield Stone House Plains. about 200; Crosswicks ; Lawrenceville, about 300; Connecticut Farms; Belleville, Christ Church bury- ing ground ; Princeton, Friends' burying ground : Allentown, Presbyterian ; Bordentown grave yard, and Hopkinson family plot ; Mansfield, Friends'; Pearsonville, Baptist burying ground. It is also proposed to compile lists of marriages and deaths from the early newspaper files.
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