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• Monmouth County (N.J.) -- Biography
• Morris County (N.J.) -- Biography
• Princeton (N.J.) -- Biography
• Salem County (N.J.) -- Biography
• African American Methodists -- New Jersey -- Biography
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• Enslaved persons -- New Jersey -- Biography
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• Governors -- New Jersey -- Biography

• The Constitution and Government of the Province and State of New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of the Governors From 1776 to 1845, and Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar, During More Than Half a Century (Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society v7; Newark, NJ: M. R. Dennis and Co., 1872), by Lucius Q. C. Elmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Printed by S. Chew, 1877), by John Clement
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1630-1923; (3 volumes; New York and Chicago: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1923), ed. by Frances A. Westervelt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Citizens (Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883), by Thomas Cushing and Charles E. Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Citizens (Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883), by Thomas Cushing and Charles E. Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, New Jersey, 1630-1923 (3 volumes; New York and Chicago: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1924), ed. by Daniel Van Winkle
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• History of Monmouth County, New Jersey (Philadelphia: R. T. Peck and Co., 1885), by Franklin Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Morris County, New Jersey, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers (New York: W. W. Munsell and Co., 1882), contrib. by Edmund Drake Halsey, R. S. Green, John L. Kanouse, Robert Aikman, James F. Brewster, Monroe Howell, Burtis C. Megie, Samuel B. Axtell, E. W. Stoddard, and James H. Neighbour (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of Colored People of Princeton, N.J., 1800-1900 (c1913), by Anna Bustill Smith (PDF at archive.org)

• History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Citizens (Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883), by Thomas Cushing and Charles E. Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth; London: C. Gilpin, 1851), by William J. Allinson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth; London: C. Gilpin, 1851), by William J. Allinson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen, a Coloured Man, Who Lived and Died Near Mount Holly, New Jersey; To Which is Added, The Testimony of Friends of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Concerning Him (Philadelphia: John Richards, 1834) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth; London: C. Gilpin, 1851), by William J. Allinson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth; London: C. Gilpin, 1851), by William J. Allinson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML and TEI at UNC

• Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen, a Coloured Man, Who Lived and Died Near Mount Holly, New Jersey; To Which is Added, The Testimony of Friends of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Concerning Him (Philadelphia: John Richards, 1834) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays (1982), ed. by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner
  • PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine
  • PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Abbott Farm (Archaeology of New Jersey v2; Trenton: Archaeological Society of New Jersey and the New Jersey State Museum, 1956), by Dorothy Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery of Stone Implements in Glacial Drift in North America (1878), by Thomas Belt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• This is New Jersey: A Tercentenary Bibliography (compiled from the holdings of the Roscoe L. West Library, Trenton State College; 1963), ed. by Doris M. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Brief Advertisement Concerning East-New-Jersey, in America (Edinburgh: J. Reid, 1685), by George Scot, contrib. by James Drummond Perth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Making Do (New York: Macmillan; London: Collier-Macmillan, c1963), by Paul Goodman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Smith, Grant, and Irons Families of New Jersey's Shore Counties, Including the Related Families of Willets and Birdsall (1955), by James W. Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woolvertons: Early Legal Records of the Family in New Jersey, and the Descendants of Charles Woolverton (2) to the Seventh Generation (Philadelphia: Press of Harris and Partridge, 1932), by Emma Ten Broeck Runk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Jersey Browns (1931), by Charlotte Cowdrey Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony (Bridgeton, NJ: G. F. Nixon, 1876), by Thomas Shourds
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey (5 volumes, later ones subtitled "Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants"; 1903-1932), by John E. Stillwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Folks: Story of the Forefathers of Oliver Francis Mershon, M.D. As Told by Himself, in the Words of Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (Rahway, NJ: Privately printed by Quinn and Boden Co., 1946), by Oliver Francis Mershon and Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories of New Jersey (New York et al.: American Book Co., 1896), by Frank R. Stockton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Check List of New Jersey Imprints, 1784-1800 (American Imprints Inventory #9; Baltimore: WPA Historical Records Survey Project, 1939), by Lucile M. Morsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Check-List of New Jersey Imprints to the End of the Revolution (extract from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v24; originally published 1931), by Constance Helen Humphrey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Slipper Point Mystery (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Augusta Huiell Seaman, illust. by C. M. Relyea
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • searchable page images at Google; US access only

• The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays (1982), ed. by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner
  • PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine
  • PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org
• The Constitution and Government of the Province and State of New Jersey, With Biographical Sketches of the Governors From 1776 to 1845, and Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar, During More Than Half a Century (Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society v7; Newark, NJ: M. R. Dennis and Co., 1872), by Lucius Q. C. Elmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History (Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, c1988), by Giles R. Wright (PDF files at njstatelib.org)

• Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Printed by S. Chew, 1877), by John Clement
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Morris Canal and Banking Company: Final Report of Consulting and Directing Engineer, June 29, 1929 (Trenton: Morris Canal and Banking Company, 1929), by Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statue of Liberty National Monument, Liberty Island, New York (reprinted 1961), by Benjamin Levine and Isabelle F. Story (page images at HathiTrust)

• Truck-Farm Labor in New Jersey, 1922 (USDA dept. bulletin #1285; Washington: SPO, 1925), by Josiah C. Folsom
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Captain John Hatfield: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Captain John Hatfield, Loyalist (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1943), by Abraham Hatfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Architecture, for Those About to Build: Being the Best Examples, Domestic, Municipal and Institutional, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, With Observations Upon the Local Building Art of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Herbert C. Wise and H. Ferdinand Beidleman
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Botanical Club, 1905), by Ida Augusta Keller and Stewardson Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Commercial Canning in New Jersey: History and Early Development (Trenton: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1951), by Mary B. Sim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Proceedings, Constitutional Convention of 1942, by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)
• Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention to Form a Constitution for the Government of the State of New Jersey (Trenton: Printed by Franklin S. Mills, 1844), by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)
• Speeches on the Constitution of New Jersey (1943), by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)
• A New Constitution for New Jersey: Addresses by Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey, 1941-1944, by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)

• Constitution of the State of New Jersey (1941), by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)
• Speeches on the Constitution of New Jersey (1943), by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)
• A New Constitution for New Jersey: Addresses by Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey, 1941-1944, by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.