History, Geography, and Genealogy - New Jersey

Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History

http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox9.php 

Full text of Giles R. Wright's 1989 publication. 

Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/VarJers.html 

Actual cases relating to slavery in New Jersey.

Cemeteries of New Jersey

http://www.interment.net/us/nj/index.htm 

Search the online transcriptions of various New Jersey cemeteries.

Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive of New Jersey History

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh 

Material about Jersey homesteads and the Great Depression, social protest in the 1960's, the Revolutionary era, the Civil War era, the World War II era, and Paul Robeson's career at Rutgers.

Delaware (Lenape) Tribe of Indians

http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/ 

The homepage for the Lenape Indian Tribe.  Learn about Lenape customs, clothing, and history. 

New Jersey Digital Highway

http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/ 

"Where history, culture and learning merge."  Currently in development the New Jersey Digital Highway will serve as a starting point in local historical studies.  Already you can sample images about New Jersey's immigration experience. 

New Jersey Documents

http://www.state.nj.us/njfacts/njdocs.htm 

The 1665 grant to Berkeley and Carteret, the 1665 "Concessions and Agreement," the Constitution of 1776 and its 1947 revision.

New Jersey: The Crossroads of the American Revolution

http://www.revolutionarynj.org/

The war in New Jersey, a chronology of events, links to other New Jersey historical sites and a calendar of activities celebrating the 225th  anniversary of the American Revolution.

New Jersey Historic Maps

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html 

From the Rutgers Cartography Department.  Includes county and period maps, as well as links to other historical resources.  Especially strong in Middlesex County maps.

New Jersey Resources at RootsWeb

http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/NJ.html 

Especially valuable for finding genealogy materials. Access, by county, to lists of surnames and of immigrants arriving by ship, the Social Security Death Index, Bible records, biographies, deeds, obituaries, pensions, and wills.

Vital Records

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/new_jersey.htm

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where to write for birth, marriage, divorce, and death records in the State of New Jersey.

Women's Project of New Jersey

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/ 

Laws, letters, petitions, poems, reports, and more about the conditions affecting New Jersey women, Black and white, from the Revolutionary era to contemporary times.  Website also includes notable facts, timeline, and images. 

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