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Department of the Treasury - Pre-1850 Records (including Revolutionary War Pay)


Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer John Stevens Jr. (1749-1838)
Accounts, 1777-1783
Control #:
STS02001
Format:
2 c.f. (4 boxes); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Sections of Item 1 are indexed by the Revolutionary War service slips and cards as Treasury Book No. 1.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
Division of Purchase and Property
Bureau of Real Property Disposals and Acquisitions
State Deeds Files, 1833-1996
Control #:
STSPU001
Format:
49 c.f. (97 boxes, 1 map drawer)
Arrangement:
By deed number
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Attendance Certificates of Legislators and Members of the Electoral College, 1761 & 1776-1804
Control #:
STSTR001
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Includes certificate from the Provincial Treasurer's Office.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Miscellaneous Accounts [No. 1], 1776-1799
Control #:
STSTR002
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 disbound vol.); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
By page number
Notes:
Sections of this volume are indexed by the Revolutionary War service slips and cards.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Receipts and Accounts of Joseph Lewis, Paymaster for the Sussex, Morris and Bergen Militia, 1778-1780
Control #:
STSTR003
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 disbound vol.); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
By page number
Notes:
Indexed by the Revolutionary War service cards and slips as Militia Pay - Morris, Sussex & Bergen Counties.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts and Receipts for Payments on Revolutionary War Depreciation Notes, 1781-1796
Control #:
STSTR004
Format:
0.25 c.f. (8 booklets, 1 copied mss.); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Sections are indexed by Revolutionary War service slips and cards as Misc. Accounts No. 1 & Indents A - Rev. War.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts and Receipts for State Notes Issued for Revolutionary War Contractors' and Surplus Certificates, ca. 1785-1796
Control #:
STSTR005
Format:
1.25 c.f. (2 disb. vols., 9 bklts., 4 folders); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Certs. issued by Condict & Ewing. Item 1 indexed by Revolutionary War service slips and cards as Auditor's Accounts, Book D.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of Interest Paid on Continental Loan Office Certificates, 1785-1791
Control #:
STSTR006
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 disb. vol., 1 mss. copy); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
By date span
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of Interest Paid on Revolutionary War Pay Certificates Issued by Pierce and Thompson, 1785-1791
Control #:
STSTR007
Format:
1.3 c.f. (4 disbound vols.); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Roughly by date span/interest year
Notes:
Certificates issued by John Pierce and Benjamin Thompson.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Receipts and Registers for Interest Paid on Revolutionary War Militia Indents, 1787-1796
Control #:
STSTR008
Format:
2 c.f. (5 disb. vols., 6 booklets); 2 reels (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Roughly by date span
Notes:
Item 1 indexed as Indents A - Revolutionary War and Item 4 idexed as Militia Indents, Second Year in service cards.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Registers of Payments for Pensioners, Pupils in Charitable Institutions, and Salaries of State Officers, 1821-1870
Control #:
STSTR009
Format:
0.75 c.f. (6 vols. [3 boxes]); 0.3 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Items 2 & 6 of this series are avaliable on microfilm.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of Certificates Received as Payment for Taxes, 1780-1782
Control #:
STSTR010
Format:
0.75 c.f. (2 boxes)
Arrangement:
By county
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Miscellaneous Accounts and Papers, 1776-1817
Control #:
STSTR011
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Individual Expense Accounts, 1777-1819
Control #:
STSTR012
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
Chronological

Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Auditor's Account Books, 1776-1830
Control #:
STSTR013
Format:
1.75 c.f. (3 disbound vols. and 1 bound vol.); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Bound volume covers the years 1796-1801 and has not been micro- filmed.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of Contractor's Certificates Received in Payment for Taxes and Returned to Joseph Lewis ..., 1780-1783
Control #:
STSTR015
Format:
0.2 c.f. (30 items)
Arrangement:
By county and collector
Notes:
Joseph Lewis was a Morris County Contractor.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Revolutionary War-Era Accounts of Taxes Received in Kind, 1781-1782
Control #:
STSTR016
Format:
0.03 c.f. (6 items)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Tax Collectors' Receipts and Certificates, 1780-1782
Control #:
STSTR017
Format:
0.1 c.f. (15 folders)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by county
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of the State of New Jersey with the United States Government, 1775-1799
Control #:
STSTR018
Format:
0.1 c.f. (7 items)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Miscellaneous Papers of James Ewing and Aaron Dunham, Auditors of Accounts, 1780-1788
Control #:
STSTR019
Format:
0.2 c.f. (16 items)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Includes 15 letters to Ewing and one report from Dunham.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Accounts of Monies Received by Sheriffs and Courts for Fines or Condemnations, 1777-1789
Control #:
STSTR020
Format:
0.1 c.f. (12 folders)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Receipt Books for One Years' Interest Paid on Collectors' Certificates, 1785
Control #:
STSTR021
Format:
0.02 c.f. (2 booklets)
Arrangement:
Chronological

Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Receipt Books for One Year's Interest Paid on Contractors' Certificates, 1785
Control #:
STSTR022
Format:
0.1 c.f. (3 booklets)
Arrangement:
Chronological

Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
County Tax Collectors' Surplus Certificates, 1780-1782
Control #:
STSTR023
Format:
6 c.f. (13 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by county and township
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Day Books, 1792-1821
Control #:
STSTR024
Format:
1 c.f. (4 vols.)
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Weekly Returns of James Ewing, Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office of New Jersey, 1785-1790
Control #:
STSTR025
Format:
0.15 c.f. (1 booklet); 1 reel (35-mm)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Payment Vouchers (General), 1813-1866
Control #:
STSTR028
Format:
63 c.f. (126 boxes)
Arrangement:
By year and voucher number
Notes:
Civil War military-appropriation vouchers are a separate series; this does, however, include payments to soldiers after 25 May 1865.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Oaths of Office and Performance Bonds of State Officials, 1845-1967
Control #:
STSTR031
Format:
2.5 c.f. (5 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Notes:
Includes Secretaries of State, Assistant Secretaries of State, Department of Labor employees, and various other officials.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
1837 Surplus Revenue Fund Records, 1837-1947
Control #:
STSTR033
Format:
0.75 c.f. (2 boxes)
Notes:
Includes bound scrapbook of deposit records [copies], arranged by county.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Miscellaneous Papers, 1792-1972
Control #:
STSTR034
Format:
2.75 c.f. (6 boxes)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Includes deeds, powers of attorney, correspondence, bank books, court fines, distribution of laws to counties, militia, etc.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Affidavits relative to Acceptance of Provisions of Bank Acts of 1835 and 1838, 1836-1838
Control #:
STSTR038
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)

Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Account Books, 1849-1951
Control #:
STSTR045
Format:
1.5 c.f. (7 vols.)
Notes:
Includes four vols. of blotters and incidental accounts, 1849-1866, and three vols. of unidentified accounts, 1895-1951.
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Series:
Department of the Treasury
State Treasurer's Office
Account of Sale of State Lands in Paterson, 1839-1840
Control #:
STSTR047
Format:
0.3 c.f. (1 vol.)


~ The collections listed on this page represent 139.85 c.f. of paper records and 11.3 reels of microfilm ~



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