Hunterdon County, New Jersey Genealogy

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Parent County

 * 1714, formed in West Jersey including from part of Burlington County

Boundary Changes

 * 1739, part formed into Morris County
 * 1838, part formed into Mercer County with more being added in 1839
 * 1844, Hopewell twp. returned from Mercer County and Tewksbury twp. to Somerset County
 * 1845, Hopewell twp. back to Mercer County and Tewksbury twp. from Somerset County
 * 1965, Somerset county boundary clarified.

Neighboring Counties
Mercer | Morris | Somerset | Warren | Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Minorities
Slave Manumissions On-line This series includes original manumission papers filed by Hunterdon County slaveowners (with overseers of the poor and justices of the peace) as early as 1788. The documents are among those originally copied into two manumission/slave birth books now (1993) held by the Hunterdon County Historical Society in Flemington. Abstracts of the recorded manumissions were published in Some Records of Old Hunterdon County, 1701-1838 by Phyllis B. D'Autrechy (Trenton: 1979), pp. 147-157, 173-196, 201-204. Well over 500 acts of manumission during the period 1787-1856 are recorded in the Hunterdon County manumission books, while original papers for only 56 are included here.

This series is arranged chronologically. The items have been listed using the following format: • name of slave owner: • name of slave (age if recorded), • other identifying information if included, • location, • date [remarks].

To aid in research, three name indexes have been added following the contents list.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog