Thirteen Counties in 1776; First Mention; Four County Courts; Four Counties
in East Jersey Created in 1682,-Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth;
Boundary Lines; Counties Might be Divided into Townships; Defects in
Description of Lines; Attempts to Remedy Defects; In 1693, Counties in
East Jersey Divided into Townships; Somerset County, Boundary of;
Tenths; Representatives from, not from Counties; Officers Appointed for
Tenths, not for Counties; Courts at Burlington and Salem; Cape May, its
Boundary, Change in; Line Between Burlington and Gloucester Changed;
Burlington; Salem; Cape May; Bounds of Bergen, Essex, Somerset, Mid-
dlesex, Monmouth; Line Between Burlington and Gloucester; Assanpink,
Pensauquin and Old Man's Creeks; Salem; Cape May; Jecak's or West
Creek; Nine Counties in New Jersey at Time of the Surrender; Partition
Line Between East and West Jersey; Keith Line; Act of 1719 Providing
for Running Partition Line; Lawrence Line; Suit Settling which the Proper
Line; Cornelius vs. Giberson; Hunterdon; Hunterdon, Boundary of;
Boundary Line Between Somerset, Middlesex and Monmouth; Morris
County, Boundary of; Part of Essex Annexed to Somerset; Cumberland,
Boundary of; Townships in Cumberland; Somerset and Morris; Sussex
County, Boundary of; Legislature Passes Act Allowing Counties to Change
Their Boundary Lines; Electors in Morris, Cumberland and Sussex Al-
lowed to Vote in their own County; Each Allowed Two Representatives;
Thirteen Counties in New Jersey in 1776; Townships Made Corporations;
Wards and Precincts; Boundary Lines of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Salem, Cumberland; Cape May Defined; Warren, Bounds of; Camden,
Bounds of; Ocean, Bounds of; Now Twenty-one Counties in the State........302-32