The missing or alienated
original documents listed below are public records of the State of New
Jersey as defined by
47:3-16 and subject
to legal demand and recovery under 47:3-27 & 28. Be advised that
New Jersey State Archives has reported the theft of these and other
documents to the New Jersey State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). This list and similar postings are not intended to represent
the entirety of missing public documents of the State of New Jersey
and its subdivisions. Further, this list and similar postings are not
intended to necessarily represent the entirety of documents missing
from specific record groups.
Please be advised,
further, that New Jersey State Archives welcomes the voluntary return
of public documents. For more information about statutory authority
and procedures as well as
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November 1769 |
An
Act for laying a Duty on the Purchasers of Slaves imported into
this Colony.
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December 1769 |
An
Act to vacate the Sale of certain Lands, in the County of Middlesex,
late of
Thomas Leonard, jun. deceased, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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December 1769 |
An
Act for striking One Hundred Thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit.
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December 1769 |
An
Act appointing Commissioners for supplying the several Barracks
erected
in the Colony of New-Jersey; with Furniture and other Necessaries
for accomodating
the King's Troops in, or marching through the same; for supplying
Deficiencies,
and for defraying incidental Charges.
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December 1769 |
An
act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of the Crime
of
Horse-Stealing.
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December 1769 |
An
act for the better preserving of Oysters, in the Colony of New-Jersey.
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December 1769 |
An
Act the more effectually to regulate Ferry-Men and Ferries, within
this Colony.
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December 1769 |
A
Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act to enable the Rev.
Mr. Colin
Campbell, the present Rector of St. Mary's Church in Burlington,
with the Church
Wardens and Vestrymen of said Church, or the major Part of them,
to sell two
Hundred and Six Acres of Land in Somerset County, devised to the
Ministry of
said Church, and to enable Trustees to put the same to Interest
until a convenient
Glebe can be purchased near the said Church, and other Purposes
therein mentioned.
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March 1770 |
An
Act to revive and continue the Process and Proceedings lately depending
in
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and Court of General Quarter
Sessions of the
Peace, for the County of Monmouth.
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March 1770 |
An
Act to revive an Act, entitled, An Act to prevent Waste from being
committed
upon the Common Land allotted to the Patent of Secaucus, in the
Corporation of
Bergen.
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March 1770 |
An
Act to revive and amend an Act, entitled, An Act for better settling
and regulating
the Militia of this Colony of New-Jersey, for the repelling Invasions,
and suppressing
Insurrections and Rebellions.
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March 1770 |
An
Act for preventing dangerous Tumults and riotous Assemblies, and
for the more
speedy and effectual punishing the Rioters.
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October 1770 |
An
Act to naturalize Frederick Outgelt, Leonard Nymaster, Peter Lupp,
John Bower,
Lawrence Eykeinier, George Obert, Peter Obert, and John Irick.
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October 1770 |
An
Act to enable Persons who are His Majesty's Liege Subjects, either
by Birth or
Naturalization, to inherit and hold Real Estates, notwithstanding
the Purchase,
Grant or Devise, were made before Naturalization within this Colony.
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October 1770 |
A
Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act to settle the Quota's
in the several
Counties in this Colony for the levying of Taxes.
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December 1771 |
An
Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
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December 1771 |
An
Act to revive and continue two Acts therein mentioned.
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December 1771 |
An
Act for the Support of Government of His Majesty's Colony of New Jersey,
to
commence the First Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy-one, and to end the First Day of October, One Thousand Seven
Hundred
and Seventy-two, and to discharge the Public Debts, and Contingent
Charges thereof.
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December 1771 |
An
Act to rebuild, and hereafter to repair and amend, the Bridge over
Stony Brook,
near Worth's Mill.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable the Owners and Possessors of a Tract of Marsh and
Meadow at
Elsinborough, in the County of Salem, to uphold and maintain a
certain Bank for
draining the same Meadow, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for the Relief of Benjamin Ayars now a Prisoner in the Gaol
of the County
of Cumberland.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable the Owners and Possessors of Meadows and Tide-Marsh
lying
on Assiscunk Creek, within the Limits of the City of Burlington,
to erect and maintain
a Bank, Dam, and other Water-works across the said Creek, in order
to prevent the
Tide from overflowing the same.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for the Support of Government of His Majesty's Colony of New-Jersey,
to
commence the First Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy-two,
and to end the First Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy-three,
and to discharge the Publick Debts and Contingent Charges thereof.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to dissolve the Marriage of David Baxter, with Margaret his
Wife, late Margaret
Mac Murtry.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for the Relief of Richard Stevens with Respect to the Imprisonment
of his
Person.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable certain Persons to erect and draw a Lottery for raising
the Sum of
One Thousand and Fifty Pounds, to be applied for the Purposes therein
mentioned.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to prevent the holding of Fairs in the City of Burlington, Princeton,
and
Township of Windsor.
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September 1772 |
A
Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, An Act to impower certain
Persons
therein named to raise a Sum of Money by Subscription, or by Taxation,
to rebuild
and keep in Repair the Bridge over Raritan River, near Bound-Brook,
known by the
Name of Queen's Bridge.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable sundry of the Owners and Possessors of Meadows and
Tide-Marsh
lying on English's Creek, in the County of Burlington, to erect
and maintain a Bank,
Dam and other Water-words across the said Creek in order to prevent
the Tide from
overflowing the same, and to keep the former Water-course of said
Creek open and
clear, and to make the said Dam when erected a publick Landing.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to regulate the Practice of Physick and Surgery within the Colony
of
New-Jersey.
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September 1772 |
A
Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act to enable the Owners
and
Possessors of the Meadow and Swamp lying on a small Branch of Alloway's
Creek, in the County of Salem, to keep up and maintain the Dams,
Banks,
and other Water-works in the said Meadow, and to keep the Water
Courses
thereof open and clear.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for establishing the Boundary or Partition Line between the
Colonies of
New-York, and Nova-Caesarea or New-Jersey, and for confirming the
Titles and
Possessions.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for defraying Incidental Charges.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable all Persons who are His Majesty's liege Subjects, either
by
Birth or Naturalization, to inherit and hold Real Estates notwithstanding
any
Defect made before Naturalization within this Colony.
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September 1772 |
A
Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act for the speedy recovering
of
Debts from Six Pounds to Ten Pounds in the Inferior Courts of Common
Pleas
of this Colony for small Fees.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to prevent the Exportation of unmerchantable Flour to foreign
Markets.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for the inspecting and culling Staves, Heading, Hoops, Shingles,
Timber,
Boards and Plank; and for the inspecting and measuring Corn, Wheat,
and other
Grain, that shall be exported from the Province of New-Jersey beyond
the Sea.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for clearing and removing the several Obstructions of the free
Course of the
Waters in Pasaick River, and the several Branches thereof, between
the Little Falls
in said River and the Mill-Dam across said River near Day's Bridge
over said River,
and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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September 1772 |
An
Act to enable the Proprietors and Possessors of the Meadows, Swamps
and
low Lands of the Rivers Pasaick and Dead River to clear the same,
and remove
every Obstruction to the free Passage of the Waters from the Saw-Mill
formerly
belonging to Samuel Woodruff, Esquire, deceased, up the Stream of
the said River
Pasaick to the Mill known by the Name of Boyle's Mill, and up Dead
River to the
Bridge commonly called and known by the Name of Grant's Bridge.
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September 1772 |
An
Act for making Process in Courts of Equity effectual against Mortgagors
who
abscond and cannot be served therewith, or who refuse to appear.
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The missing or alienated
original documents listed below are public records of the State of New
Jersey as defined by New Jersey Statutes 47:3-16 and subject
to legal demand and recovery under 47:3-27 & 28. Be advised that
New Jersey State Archives has reported the theft of these and other
documents to the New Jersey State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). This list and similar postings are not intended to represent
the entirety of missing public documents of the State of New Jersey
and its subdivisions. Further, this list and similar postings are not
intended to necessarily represent the entirety of documents missing
from specific record groups.
Please be advised,
further, that New Jersey State Archives welcomes the voluntary return
of public documents. For more information about statutory authority
and procedures as well as amnesty and donations, click 
