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From: DAVID A SHERMAN <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon County Historical Society Holdings
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:52:58 -0400


Thanks for this great info........
I am an hour from here and can't wait to get back and do some research

good luck to all

Dave Sherman

----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah B Naylor/Farhar <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon County Historical Society Holdings


> 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 a. Over 300 published and unpublished genealogies.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 1000+ photographs, scrapbooks an unpublished manuscripts read before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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