The missing or alienated
original documents listed below are public records of the State of New
Jersey as defined by
47:3-16 and subject
to legal demand and recovery under 47:3-27 & 28. Be advised that
New Jersey State Archives has reported the theft of these and other
documents to the New Jersey State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). This list and similar postings are not intended to represent
the entirety of missing public documents of the State of New Jersey
and its subdivisions. Further, this list and similar postings are not
intended to necessarily represent the entirety of documents missing
from specific record groups.
Please be advised,
further, that New Jersey State Archives welcomes the voluntary return
of public documents. For more information about statutory authority
and procedures as well as
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February 1778 |
An
Act to divorce Ebenezer Stiles, of the County of Morris, from his
Wife.
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| 24
March 1778 |
An
Act for the better regulating the Quartering of Soldiers, and furnishing
of
Carriages, Horses, and other Necessaries for the Army.
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| 26
March 1778 |
An
Act to raise a Fund by Taxation for discharging the Debts and defraying
the
necessary Expences of the State of New-Jersey.
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| 28
March 1778 |
An
Act to repeal the second and third Sections of an Act, intitled,
An Act for
completing the four Battalions of this State in the Continental
Service, so far as
they relate to the hiring of Substitutes.
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| 28
March 1778 |
An
Act to repeal an Act, intitled, An Act for erecting Salt-Works,
and manufacturing
Salt within the State of New-Jersey.
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| 31
March 1778 |
An
Act to exempt four Men, to be employed at the Powder Mill belonging
to Jonas
Phillips and Joseph Lindsly, in the County of Morris.
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| 1
April 1778 |
An
Act to revive and continue the Process and Proceedings of the Courts
of
Common Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County
of
Bergen, and to alter the place of holding the same.
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| 3
April 1778 |
An
Act for the speedy and effectual recruiting of the four New-Jersey
Regiments
in the Service of the United States.
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| 4
April 1778 |
An
Act for constituting a Council of Safety.
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| 14
April 1778 |
An
Act for granting a Bounty upon Wool, Flax and Hemp, raised and sold
within
the State of New-Jersey.
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| 17
April 1778 |
An
Act to empower and direct the Commissioners of the Loan-Offices
in the
respective Counties in the State of New-Jersey to pay certain Monies
by them
received, into the Treasury; and also for applying certain Monies
now therein.
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| 18
April 1778 |
An
Act further to provide for the Cloathing of the New-Jersey Regiments
in the
Service of the United States.
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| 18
April 1778 |
An
Act to defray sundry Incidental Charges.
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| 17
June 1778 |
An
Act for the speedy and effectual Recovery of Debts due to the United
States
of America.
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| 20
June 1778 |
An
Act to empower certain Commissioners therein named to take Possession
of and lease out the Andover Iron Works in the County of Sussex.
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| 20
June 1778 |
An
Act to prohibit the Exportation of Provisions from the State of
New-Jersey.
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| 20
June 1778 |
An
Act to continue and amend an Act, intitled, An Act for constituting
a Council of
Safety.
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| 20
June 1778 |
An
Act for encouraging the Manufacture of Paper in the State of New-Jersey.
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| 22
June 1778 |
An
Act to suspend, for a limited Time, the Operation of an Act, intitled,
An Act for
regulating and limiting the Price of Labour, and of sundry Articles
of Produce,
Manufacture and Trade, and to prevent Forestalling, Regrating and
Engrossing.
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| 22
June 1778 |
An
Act for collecting, adjusting and settling the publick Accounts.
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| 24
September 1778 |
An
Act to revive and continue the Process and Proceedings returnable
to and
depending in the Supreme Court of Judicature of this State, and
to ascertain the
Times and Places of holding the said Court.
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| 1
October 1778 |
A
Supplemental Act to Act, intitled, An Act for recovering the Arrearages
of the
Ten Thousand Pounds Tax, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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| 1
October 1778 |
An
Act for the Ease and Relief of such Persons as are scrupulous of
taking an
Oath with the Ceremony of touching and kissing the Book of the Gospels,
by
allowing that of holding up the Hand in Lieu thereof.
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| 2
October 1778 |
An
Act for apprehending and delivering up to Justice all Persons residing
or taking
Refuge in this State, charged with Crimes committed in any other
of the United
States, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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| 2
October 1778 |
An
Act to alter the Place of holding the Inferior Courts of Common
Pleas and
General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
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| 5
October 1778 |
An
Act for the Relief of John Striker, Collector of the Township of
Hillsborough,
in the County of Somerset, respecting the Loss of a Sum of publick
Money by
Fire.
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| 7
October 1778 |
An
Act further to suspend the Operation of an Act, intitled, An Act
for regulating
and limiting the Price of Labour, and of sundry Articles of Produce,
Manufacture
and Trade, and to prevent Forestalling, Regrating and Engrossing.
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| 8
October 1778 |
An
Act for authorizing Persons elected Sheriffs and Coroners to act
in their
respective Offices before they are commissioned.
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| 8
October 1778 |
An
Act to defray sundry Incidental Charges.
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| 8
October 1778 |
A
Supplementary Act to the Act, intitled, An Act for regulating Roads
and
Bridges.
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| 8
October 1778 |
An
Act to prevent the farming our of publick Offices, or transferring
by Deputation,
the Powers annexed and incident to them, and for other Purposes
therein mentioned.
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| 8
October 1778 |
An
Act to continue an Act, intitled, An Act for establishing a Court
of Admiralty
and Customhouses within the State of New-Jersey.
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| 26
November 1778 |
An
Act to revive and continue an Act, intitled, An Act to prohibit
the Exportation
of Provisions from the State of New-Jersey.
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| 26
November 1778 |
An
Act to confirm certain private Laws passed in New-Jersey previous
to the
present Constitution.
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| 3
December 1778 |
An
Act further to suspend the Operation of an Act, intitled, An Act
for regulating
and limiting the Price of Labour, and sundry Articles of Produce,
Manufacture and
Trade, and to prevent Forestalling, Regrating and Engrossing.
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| 7
December 1778 |
An
Act for amending and maintaining the Causeway over the Great Cedar
Swamp,
in the Upper Precinct of the County of Cape-May, known by the Name
of the Great
Cedar Swamp Bridge.
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| 10
December 1778 |
An
Act to continue an Act, intitled, An Act for regulating the Election
of the Members
of the Legislative Council and Assembly, Sheriffs and Coroners of
the State of New-
Jersey.
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| 12
December 1778 |
An
Act for appointing a Commissary of Prisoners for this State, and
vesting him with
certain Powers.
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| 12
December 1778 |
An
Act to defray sundry Incidental Charges.
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| 14
December 1778 |
An
Act to explain and amend an Act, intitled, An Act to prevent the
Subjects of this
State from going into, or coming out of, the Enemy's Lines, without
Permissions or
Passports; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
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The missing or alienated
original documents listed below are public records of the State of New
Jersey as defined by New Jersey Statutes 47:3-16 and subject
to legal demand and recovery under 47:3-27 & 28. Be advised that
New Jersey State Archives has reported the theft of these and other
documents to the New Jersey State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). This list and similar postings are not intended to represent
the entirety of missing public documents of the State of New Jersey
and its subdivisions. Further, this list and similar postings are not
intended to necessarily represent the entirety of documents missing
from specific record groups.
Please be advised,
further, that New Jersey State Archives welcomes the voluntary return
of public documents. For more information about statutory authority
and procedures as well as amnesty and donations, click 
