The West Jersey History Project promotes and publishes historical research about West Jersey. They have digitized books, maps, land records, histories, photos and more for West Jersey.
West Jersey is also known historically as South Jersey, one of two orginal colonies in New Jersey which includes these present day counties: Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, and parts of Mercer, Hunterdon, and Warren.
Residence Records
Land & Property
New Jersey – NJA Volume 21 Calendar of Records 1664-1703 – a collection of summaries of almost all of the earliest Deeds and Surveys recorded in colonial New Jersey.
New Jersey – Some New Jersey Coastal Survey Maps from around 1839 to 1848
West Jersey – Surveys at West Jersey History Project
Selected Surveys by Thomas Sharp
Projected Plan of Egg Harbor City – 1857
John Clement’s Maps and Drafts – 7 Volumes plus City Abstracts
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
New Jersey – New Jersey 1780
New Jersey – New Jersey 1795
New Jersey – New Jersey 1823
Burlington County – Scott’s 1876 Combination Atlas of Burlington County
Salem County – Placenames of Salem County
Medford – Medford Historic Sites
Maps at West Jersey History Project
East and West Jersey 1664-1702
John Worlidge 1696(small version)
Large(1.2 mb) version of the John Worlidge 1696 map in orgiginal alignment
Large (1.2mb) version of the John Worlidge map 1696 in vertical alignment
George Cook; Geological Survey of New Jersey 1888
Maps from J.D. Scott’s Combination Atlas Map of Burlington County NJ – 1876
Maps from D.L. Steward’s Atlas of Cumberland County New Jersey – 1876
Combination Atlas Map of Mercer County NJ – 1875
Everts and Stewart Combination Atlas Map of Salem and Gloucester Counties – 1876
Coaxon Township – Paer of Burlington County – 1844-45
A few Pages from the Woolman and Rose Atlas of the Jersey Shore – 1878ounty Map Page
NJ maps from the Atlas of Philadelphia and environs: G. M. Hopkins 1877
Lake and Beers Map of Philadelphia and Vicinity – 1869
Blunt’s 1815 Chart of the Delaware River
Daily Life Records
Articles
Atco Lake And Dam: Its Origins And History David L. Wilcox
Jordantown and Its Cemetery by Paul Schopp
Early Brickmaking in the Colonies by Nat Ewan
A History of Parvin State Park as rewritten by Harold Wegner
A Brief History of Camden by Paul Schopp
Books
The Quaker Colonies by Sydney G. Fisher
History of Nova Cæsarea by Samuel Smith
Battles and Skirmishes of the Revolutionary War in New Jerseyby David C. Munn
New Jersey Colonial Records: Volume 21 Calendar of Records 1664-1703
Place Names of Salem County N.J. by Josephine Jaquett and Elmer VanName
Notes on Cumberland County Place Namesby Lots of People
History Of The Early Settlement And Progress Of Cumberland County New Jersey; And Of The Currency Of This And The Adjoining Colonies. By Lucius Q. C. Elmer
Watermills of Camden County by William Farr
Moorestown and Her Neighbors> by George DeCou
Placenames in and about Haddonfield by William R. Farr
A Self-Guided Tour of 63 of Medfordπs Historic Sites
Historical Sketch of Cropwell Meeting
Court Records
New England – Record of the Upland Court
Diaries
New Jersey – Diary of Sarah Thomson’s trip to Tuckerton in 1809
New Jersey – Excerpts from the Letterbooks of Asa Matack
Ethnic & Minorities
Gloucester County – Gloucester County Slavery Records
Gloucester County – Minutes of the Gloucester County Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Government & Town Records
New Jersey – Basic Colonial Documents
New Jersey – The NJ Colonial Conveyances 1660-1780
Camden County – Index of Road Returns and records relating to present-day Camden County. Compiled by Edward Fox
Gloucester County – Records of Old Gloucester County
Burlington County – Burlington Court Book
Chester – Chester Township (Moorestown) Minute Book
Newton – Newton Township Minute Book – 1723-1782
History
New Jersey – History of Parvin State Park
Medford – Medford Historic Sites
Newspapers
New Jersey – Excerpts from the Valley Ventura 1907
Photographs, Postcards, and Images
Cape May – Cape May County Postcards
West Jersey – Images at West Jersey History Project
West Jersey – Post Card Images of West Jersey
Burlington County – Historic Images of Burlington County
Hunterdon County – Historic Images of Hunterdon County
West Jersey – Historic Images of West Jersey
Religion & Religious Life
West Jersey – West Jersey Quaker Meetings
Societies
Gloucester County – Minutes of the Gloucester County Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Slavery and Servitude
Gloucester County – Gloucester County Slavery Records
Gloucester County – Minutes of the Gloucester County Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
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