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From: Deborah B Naylor/Farhar <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon County Historical Society Holdings
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:49:34 -0400


Hi All,

[Hopefully, the following will come to you as neat and readable as it
appears on my screen before I click send.]

The Hunterdon County Historical Society's library has been in existence
since the Society was founded in 1885. In 1963, through the bequest of the
late Hiram E. Deats, over 3,000 items were added. These included his
personal library and notes on the places and families of Hunterdon County.

Today, the library, ... consists of 5,000 printed volumes, manuscripts,
newspapers, maps, broadsides and photographs gathered and
preserve since the Society was founded.

NOTE: in the Autumn - 1965 issue of "Hunterdon Historical Newsletter"
p. 2, the library was located at 1 Maple Ave., Flemington, NJ "is open
each Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3 p.m." Today, the library is located at
114 Main Street, Flemington, NJ. Hours of operation: Thursday 1-3, 7-9
p.m."

I am approx. 1,945 miles from Flemington and I don't have access to any of
the following material. I have looked at some of the files concerning my
own
surnames.

1. THE DEATS GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION.
a. Over 300 published and unpublished genealogies.
b. Files on 1200 Hunterdon County families comprising the correspondence
of
Mr. Deats and the Historical Society's Genealogical Committ from circa
1890
to the present time.
c. The Deats notebooks represent the private genealogical work one by Mr.
Deats
during his lifetime.
d. Guides, references for genealogical research.

2. HISTORY.
a. Hunterdon County -- Approximately 300 published books, pamphlets,
1000+ photographs, scrapbooks an unpublished manuscripts read before
the Society.
b. New Jersey -- Extensive collection of local community, township, county
and
state histories complemented by histories and archives of neighboring
states
as well as publications of national interest.

3. TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
Records of 50 cemeteries are currently being type into one
alphabetical
file.

4. FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS
File in eight notebooks from which a card index is maintained.
Xerox copies from 100+ Bibles in the Society collection and Bibles
loaned
for coping.

5. VITAL STATISTICS
a. Marriages:
Hiram E. Deats -- Index, 1795-1875, published from County Clerk's
records.
Frank E. Burd -- Index, 1875-1900, notebooks compiled from
newspapers.
John W. Lequear -- Inex, 1870-1903, card file compiled from
newspapers.
b. Deaths:
John W. Lequear -- Index compiled, ca. 1880-1900, card file compiled
from news-
paper.
Frank E. Burd -- Index ca. 1900-present, card file compiled from
newspapers.

6. NEWSPAPERS
50 different newspapers -- some in bound volumes, other on microfilm.
See:
"Schmit, Hubert; The Press in Hunteron County, Flemington, NJ, 1960" an
"Wright, William and Paul Stellhorn, Directory of New Jersey
Newspapers,
1765-1970, Trenton, NJ, 1970."

7. VERTICAL FILE
Collection of publishe and unpublished clippings, brochures, pamphlets
and other documents of state and local cultural, genealogical and/or
historical interest filed by place or subject.

8. MICROFILM/MICROFICHE
a. Federal census records 1830-1910 for Hunterdon, Mercer, and Somerset
Counties.
b. State census records, 1855-1885 for Hunterdon County.
c. Newspapers, various church records, municipal and county records
including all Hunterdon County wills and administrations before 1807,
some wills and aministrations after 1807, deeds, tax maps and
records,
histories and genealogies.

MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts are unpublished handwritten documents, transcripts,
photoduplicates and include such items as correspondence, legal
correspondence, legal documents, diaries, journals, account books,
genealogical notes, non-current records of counties, town, institutions
an organizations.

Deborah Naylor/Farhar in Okeene, OK

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