Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary ...

Elizabeth-Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St. John's Church, 1664-1892. New Haven, Conn., 1893. 8° Pp. 355.

Hackensack Reformed (Dutch)-marriages, baptisms, communicants, officers, 1686-1801. Collections Holland Society, Vol. I., pp. 349. 8° New York, 1891.

Hanover (now Whippany) Presbyterian Church-communicants, marriages and baptisms, 1746-1796. Morristown, 1893. 8° Pp. 32.

Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments in the Graveyards at Whippany and Hanover. Morristown, 1894. 80 Pp. 93.

Lyons Farms Baptist-proceedings, baptisms, marriages, 1769-1801. Proceedings N. J. Historical Society, Third Series, I., 162-177; II., 57-64, 119–130, 158-168.

Monmouth County-Tombstone Inscriptions Presbyterian Burying Ground, Middletown; Hendrickson Burying Ground, Middletown; Tallman Burying Ground on Pumpkin Point, Shrewsbury; Baptist Church Burying Ground, Middletown; Topanemus Burying Ground, Marlboro; Christ Church (Episcopal) Graveyard, Middletown; Golden Burying Ground, Middletown; the Ancient Lippit or Taylor Burying Ground, Middletown; the Hartshorne Burying Ground, Middletownin the Town Book of Old Middletown, 8° [Freehold, 1883], pp. 39-53. The Quaker Records of Shrewsbury, 1674-1731, pp. 55-66; some baptisms, 1659-1738, pp. 66-70.

Old Tennent Church, Freehold-History of the Church, by the Rev. Frank R. Symmes. Freehold, 1897. So Pp. 144. Baptismal records, 1735-1760, and early burials in neighboring cemeteries, pp. 118-143.

Morristown-Bill of Mortality, being a register of all the deaths in the Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, 17681S06. Morristown, 1806. 8o Pp. 112 (actually 116).

Record of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown. History and Records of the Trustees and Session, 1742-1882, pp. 240. 192, 168. Combined Registers, of births, marriages,

deaths and communicants, 1742-1885, pp. 328. Morristown, 1881-1885. Large 8。.

Newton Township-Friends' records of Marriages at Burlington, Salem, Newton (now in Camden county), Haddonfield, Chester (Moorestown), Evesham, and Woodbury Creek— particularly of members of Newton families-are given in Sketches of the First Immigrant Settlers of Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey, by John Clement. Camden, 1877, pp. 387-411.

Orange Presbyterian-baptisms, 1756-62, 1765-1784. In History of the Oranges, by Stephen Wickes, M. D., Newark, 1892.

Passaic Reformed (Dutch), formerly the Acquackanonk— the records have been published in part in a parish periodical. Paterson-History of the Old Dutch Church at Totowa (now the First Reformed, Paterson), 1755-1827. By William Nelson. Baptismal Register (in the original Dutch), 1756-1808. Paterson, 1892. So Pp. 170.

Second Reformed-the registers, in substance, are given in a recent history of the church.

Preakness Reformed (Dutch)-the records of baptisms, 1831-1902; marriages, 1842-1902, deaths, 1837-1902, and tombstone inscriptions in neighboring burying grounds, pp. 252-315, in a History of the Church, by the pastor, the Rev. George W. Labaw. New York, 1902. So Pp. 344.

Schraalenburgh Reformed (Dutch)-Records of baptisms, marriages, communicants and officers, 1724-1801. Collections Holland Society, Vol. II., pp. 387. 8° New York, 1891.

Church records of baptisms and marriages have a quasipublic character, especially as they are required by statute, and in view of this fact there has been legislation in some quarters making it the duty of the churches to provide safe receptacles for such records, to protect them against loss by fire, damp, or other exposure. In England, Ireland and Scotland the churches must either make such provision, or deposit their records in the Public Record Office, at London, Dublin or Edinburgh, respectively. In Massachusetts, the Public Record

Commissioner has been impressing on the church authorities the importance of protecting their records, with much success. A word as to the Index to Marriage Bonds and Licenses. The bonds were printed blanks, which were filled in by the officers of the locality where the parties lived, so that there is no standard of handwriting by which the names can be deciphered, and as for the signatures, no man is compelled to write his name legibly. So there may easily be errors in the index. Moreover, the chirography of the index itself is not exactly of the copperplate order, and so the difficulty of getting the names of the licensees correctly into print has been considerable. In cases of doubt reference was had to the originals, and the expert skill of Alexander H. Rickey, the former Assistant Secretary of State, or of John R. B. Smith, the present Assistant Secretary, was called into requisition, and always placed at the editor's service with unfailing readiness and courtesy.

ERRATA.

The names printed as Stiles, from Cape May 'county, on pages 359-360, and 384-385, should be Stites.

There is an error in the foot-note on page 592. Susan Kean was a daughter of Philip Van Brugh Livingston, a brother of Governor William Livingston; she was born April 5, 1759; married John Kean, September 27, 1786; he died in 1795. Governor Livingston's daughter Susannah was born. 1748 or 1749; married Judge John Cleves Symmes, September 10, 1794.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

THE EARLY MARRIAGE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE PRECEDENTS ON

WHICH THEY WERE FOUNDED:

I. INTRODUCTION.

Primitive Marriage Customs, ix. Roman Marriage

Law, ix. Ecclesiastical Regulation of Marriages, xii.

II. FORMATIVE INFLUENCES AS TO THE LAW OF MARRIAGE IN NEW JERSEY.

I. The Dutch Law of Marriage, xviii. II. The Swedes, xxvii. III.

Marriage Rites in England, xxxiv. IV. Scottish Marriages, xlviii.

V. New England Marriage Customs, lvii. VI. Friends' Marriage

Customs, lxi. VII. Early New York and Pennsylvania Marriage