New Jersey court records, 1698-1893.

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New Jersey court records, 1698-1893.

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Dockets of Burlington County Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace and of Inferior Court of Common Pleas (1788-1790), Essex County Court for the Trial of Small Causes (1882-1893, adjudicated before Daniel T. Clark), Essex County Court of Common Pleas (1835-1853, kept by Jeremiah Price, deputy sheriff), Trenton civil court (1812-1814, concerning debt litigation) and other Trenton court cases and legal matters (1799-1805) transcribed by Maskell Ewing (1758-1825) as town recorder, Supreme Court of the Province of New Jersey, and Union County court cases, charges, and actions taken by N. Bonnell as sheriff; account book (1786-1789) of costs of Morris County Court of Common Pleas; record book (1779-1795) of Morris County Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, concerning Revolutionary War pensions for widows and invalids; and minute book (1698-1712) of Cape May County Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Court of Common Pleas.

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Federal writer's project

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New Jersey. Court for the Trial of Small Causes (Essex County, N.J.)

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Bonnel, N.

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New Jersey. Supreme Court

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Clark, Daniel T.

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Henning, H. W.

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New Jersey. Court of Quarter Sessions (Cape May County)

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New Jersey. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Morris County)

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New Jersey courts known by the name of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace until codification of the Criminal Procedures Act of 1898. From the description of Morris County Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace record book, 1779-1795. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 54314480 ...

New Jersey. Court of Common Pleas (Cape May County)

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New Jersey. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Burlington County)

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New Jersey. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cape May County)

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New Jersey. Court of Common Pleas (Morris County)

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Morris County was established on March 15, 1738/1739 and was named after the Governor of New Jersey, Colonel Lewis Morris (1671-1746). The first Morris County court met at Morristown on March 25, 1740. Jacob Ford and Samuel Tuthill were the first judges appointed by the county in 1776. The attorney general acted as the Prosecutor of the Pleas before 1824, and if he was absent the court appointed a lawyer to perform his duties. A County Court of Common Pleas heard cases between two people as oppo...

Price, Jeremiah

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Ewing, Maskell, 1758-1825

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Maskell Ewing, Jr., the son of Mary Paget and Maskell Ewing, Sr., was born in Greenwich, New Jersey on January 30, 1758. He was appointed Clerk of the General Assembly in Trenton before he was twenty-one years old. Maskell, Jr. relocated to Trenton and stayed in the position of Clerk for the next twenty years. He also served as the Recorder of the City of Trenton from approximately 1799-1805 and, after moving to Philadelphia and then to Delaware County, Pennsylvania in 1805, he served as the Sta...

New Jersey. Court of Common Pleas (Essex County)

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Jurisdiction of the court is co-existent with county; judge is also judge of Court of Quarter Sessions, Special Sessions, Oyer and Terminer, and Orphan's Court. From the description of Court of Common Pleas/Court of General Quarter Sessions minutes, 1710-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960503 ...