New Jersey Books

Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey: A Guide (Paperback)

by Janice Kohl Sarapin

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Rutgers University Press (September 1994)

Language: English

ISBN: 0813521114

Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches

History of Salem County, New Jersey: Being the Story of John Fenwick's Colony, the Oldest English Speaking Settlement on the Delaware River

by Joseph S. Sickler

This publication starts around 1675 (the history of the Dutch and Swedes) and continues to the late 1890s, pulling from local newspapers, church material, &c.

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Heritage Books Inc (November 2004)

ISBN: 1585494763

Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700 (9308) (Paperback)

by David Dobson

Mr. Dobson continues with his series of booklets pertaining to unexplored aspects of Scottish genealogy. The first of these new titles is his Scottish Quakers and Early America, the aim of which is to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the Scottish origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East Jersey in the 1680s.

Quakerism came to Scotland with the Cromwellian occupation of the 1650s. Scottish missionaries eventually spread the faith to various locations throughout the country, including Aberdeen in the Northeast, Edinburgh and Kelso in the southeast, and Hamilton in the west. The Society of Friends never grew to large numbers in Scotland, however, owing to its persecution by both the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, as well as civic authorities. Understandably, a number of Scottish Quakers ultimately emigrated to the North American colonies; for example, there were some Scottish Quakers among the landowners of West Jersey as early as 1664, and between 1682 and 1685 several shiploads of emigrants left the ports of Leith, Montrose, and Aberdeen for East Jersey.

Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the United States in manuscript and in published sources, David Dobson has here amassed all the genealogical data that we know of concerning members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins of Scottish Quakers living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation in the descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume, the entries typically give the individual's name, date or place of birth, and occupation, and sometimes the name of a spouse or date of marriage, name of parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland, place of indenture, date of death, and the source of the information. Without a doubt this is a ground-breaking work on the subject of Scottish emigration to North America during the colonial period.

Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey (Volume 3) (Paperback)

by Charlotte D. Meldrum

List of members, births, deaths, certificates, marriages and minutes from Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting; Birth records, marriage licenses; births, deaths, marriages, certificates and minutes from Upper Evesham Monthly Meeting; birth records of a Quaker physician; Burlington County marriage license records; baptisms of St. Andrews PE Church, New Jersey Catholic Baptism records, 1759-1781; and Register of the Church of St. Ann's.

(1995), 2003, 5½ x 8½, index, paper, 211 pp.

Paperback: 211 pages

Publisher: Heritage Books Inc. (November 2003)

ISBN: 1585490547