New Jersey Colonial Records

Online Records
''Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.''
 * 1665-1799- Colonial Marriage Bonds. Index available through the New Jersey State Archives.
 * 1700s-1800s- Index to inquisitions on the dead- images only.
 * 1703-1862- Index to naturalization records- images only.
 * 1712-1866- Estates and partitions- images and some indexed.
 * 1743-1845- Chancery court cases- images only.
 * 1749-1873; card index, 1761-1860- Naturalization records- images only.
 * 1770-1774- Court records- images only.
 * Index to Supreme Court cases before and after the Revolution- images only.
 * Index to Prerogative court records, sets one and two- images only.

History
A trading post built in 1618 by Dutch settlers was the first European settlement in New Jersey although it was not permanent. In 1640, Swedish settlers purchased land from the Lenape people which became part of New Sweden. New Sweden was soon conquered by the Dutch, becoming part of New Netherlands, and remained under Dutch control until New Netherlands was conquered by the British in 1664. Delaware was one of the original 13 colonies of the United States.

Resources

 * The journall of the procedure of the governor and councill of the province of New Jersey : from and after the first day of December anno D(o)m(i)ni -1682.
 * The Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of the Province of New Jersey, from 1738 to 1746. (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852).