Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760

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Wills and inventories show the increase or decrease in wealth of the family. This database covers the time period when English law governed the American colonies. From about 1680 it was the general practice to deposit wills with the Provincial Secretaries, together with inventories of estates, accounts of executors and administrators, and other papers pertaining to such matters. These records were brought together in 1790 or shortly thereafter, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, where they are now carefully arranged and preserved. As the earlier wills were recorded in many different volumes, it was thought best to arrange the wills in the alphabetical order of testators' or intestates' names. This database has records for the years 1670-1760. Researchers may find information about the deceased, including occupation, residence, relatives, and property owned. The data will be helpful for anyone with ancestors living in colonial New Jersey.

Sources Ancestry.com. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: New Jersey Historical Society. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1901.

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