Warren County, New Jersey Genealogy

Warren County, New Jersey ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

Description
Warren County is located in the northwest region of the state. It was created in 1824. Belvidere is the county seat. The county was named for the American Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren (1741–1775), who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Warren County, New Jersey Historical Facts
A Moravian settlement was established at Hope by 1769.

Parent County
Created 20 November 1824, from Sussex County.

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating New Jersey county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation New Jersey County Boundary Maps" (1683-1928) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Census

 * 1855 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1865 at FamilySearch — images
 * 1895 at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1915 at FamilySearch — index and images

Church Records

 * 1675-1970 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1796-1991 - at FamilySearch — index

Obtaining Copies of County Probate Records
Copies of recorded probate records and the estate files can be obtained from the surrogate's offices for a fee. Addresses of surrogate's offices are found in:


 * Eichholz, Alice, Editor. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1992. (.) Explains state-by-state history, vital records, census, background sources, periodicals, archives, libraries, societies, maps, land, probate, court, tax, cemetery, church, and military records. Includes county boundary map and table which shows when each county was created and the parent counties.

In addition, copies of the original wills, administrations, inventories, and guardianships sent to Trenton since 1901 can be ordered from:

Clerk of the Superior Court Records Information Center P.O. Box 967 Trenton, NJ 08625-0967 Phone: (609) 292-4978 Fax: (609) 777-0094

Online Probate Records
 * 1656 - 1999 New Jersey Wills and Probate Records 1656-1999 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1670 – 1760 Calendar of New Jersey Wills 1670-1760 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1670 – 1817 New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1678 - 1980 at FamilySearch — images

Courthouse
Warren County Courthouse 165 County Rd; 519 South Belvidere, NJ 07823 Phone: (908) 475-6211 Municipal Clerks have birth and death records. County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1825, divorce and court records. County Surrogate has probate records.

Societies
Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society 313 Mansfield Street PO Box 313 Belvidere, NJ 07823 Telephone: 908-475-4246 Website

Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission 8 Belvidere Avenue Oxford, NJ 07863 Telephone: 908-453-4381 E-mail:[mailto:manor@wcchc.org r@wcchc.org] Website

Hackettstown Historical Society 106 Church St. Hackettstown NJ Telephone: 908-852-8797 Website

Phillipsburg Area Historical Society 675 Corliss Avenue Phillpsburg, New Jersey 08865 Website

Birth

 * 1901-1903, at FamilySearch — index

Marriage
Online Marriage Indexes and Records

1606-1981 - New Jersey, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
 * 1670-1980 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1930-1938 - at FamilySearch — index

Warren County, New Jersey Websites

 * Warren County NHGenWeb
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Warren County, New Jersey History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Familytree101)
 * Warren County NJ Genealogy

Warren County, New Jersey Neighboring Counties



 * Hunterdon
 * Morris
 * Sussex
 * Bucks, Pennsylvania
 * Monroe, Pennsylvania
 * Northampton, Pennsylvania