The record of the New Jersey Council of Safety is a little known but important source for New Jersey history during the American Revolution. The function of the Council of Safety was to protect the state from the enemy while providing the militia with whatever they needed in order to fight. This work is an "abstraction" of the important proceedings found in the five volumes of the records of the ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books, Inc.
Written By: Richard S. Hutchinson

Manufacturer: Heritage Books, Inc
Written By: John Clement

Manufacturer: The Lewis Pub. Co
Written By: William Nelson

Manufacturer: Stationers' Hall Press
Written By: John Littell

In the Preface Mae W. Allen writes, "What this history is will be quickly apparent to anyone reading it. We have quite simply gathered from books, from newspapers, from people who remember, and even from children who have asked questions and recorded the answers all the stories, factual or fictional, that committee members could collect and preserve.

Because someone reading a book always knows ...

Manufacturer: Alloway Township Bicentennial Committee

As one of the original colonies, New Jersey is considered the ancestral home of millions of Americans living today. This present work, a joint project of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey and the Genealogical Publishing Company, acknowledges the pressing need for comprehensive, scholarly works on New Jersey families, and it therefore brings together all of the compiled material ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co

For over a century Chambers' Early Germans has been the standard reference for genealogical research on families of northwestern New Jersey. In spite of its title, it is as useful for families of English, Scottish, or Dutch origin as for German. The bulk of the work is devoted to genealogies of families from the counties of Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, and Warren and to genealogies of the early ...

Manufacturer: Stemmons Publishing
Written By: Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers

Manufacturer: Stemmons pub
Written By: Lucius Q. C Elmer

A massive work--forty years in the making--there's never been a reference book like this for the state of New Jersey. The 100,000 biographies recorded by Mr. Sinclair, were extracted from no fewer than 2,000 volumes scattered among collective sources, not single-volume biographies. This fact alone establishes this book as the key reference work for New Jersey biography. It hardly needs ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Helen Maher

Manufacturer: H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Written By: Charles Shimer Boyer