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New Jersey State Archives Searchable Catalog: Series Record Details

Series Record Description

Attention: the catalog is under construction. Records are currently being revised and descriptions may change.

Control #:	SDEA1006
Series:	Department of Defense Adjutant General's Office Revolutionary War Records of Commissioners of Forfeited Estates, 1777 - 1795
Arrangement:	By county, then document type
Format:	7 boxes, 1 map drawer (5 cubic feet)
Notes:	See also the series: Salem County/ Court of Common Pleas/ Writs of Execution to Sell Real Estate of Loyalists. Note that the guide only indexes loose records; researchers should also review the account books filed at the end of each county's section.

Guides:

Finding Aid

Content Lists:

Manuscript List

DESCRIPTORS:

Department:

Department of Defense

Military:

Adjutant General (Office of)

Subject:

Loyalists, Torries, Royalists (Revolution)

Military, Wars, War-Related

Revolutionary War, 1775 - 1783 (also American Revolution)

Records Type:

Partitions (Divisions of Land, Property and/or Estates)

Era:

18th Century

Related Subject:

Estates, Wills, Probate

County:

Statewide (New Jersey, All or Most Counties)

Related Foreign Entity:

British Army (Colonial and Revolutionary War periods)

Main Collection:

State Government (Departments and Agencies)

MANUSCRIPTS:

Box 1:

Statewide Records
Bergen, Burlington, Cape May &
Cumberland Counties

Box 2:

Essex County, items #2.1 - #5.50

Box 3:

Essex County, items #5.51 - #5.120
Gloucester County (all)
Hunterdon County (all)
Middlesex County, items #1.1 - #3.19

Box 4:

Middlesex County, items #3.20 - #4.8

Box 5:

Monmouth County (all)

Box 6:

Morris County (all)
Salem County (all)
Somerset County (all)
Sussex County (all)

OV Box 7:

Ber. 2.18, 2.19, 3.3; Essex 2.2, 3.16,
3.24, 3.39, 5.26; Hun. 4.1; Mid. 3:34,
3.48, 3.6, 3.76, 3.78, 4.1, 4.2, Mon.
3.22, 3.35, 4.4, 4.9, Mor. 4.1, Som. 3.6

Map Folder 8:

Bergen 4.1 and Monmouth 4.3
[oversize]

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