Manuscript Group 1408, Charles Caroll Gardner, Genealogist
Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs
Manuscript Group 1408,
Charles Caroll Gardner, Genealogist,
The New Jersey Historical Society
52 Park Place
Newark, New Jersey 07102
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Inventory reorganized by James Amemasor (2023)
Scope and Content Notes:
This collection consists of approximately 30,000 file cards which contain records on northern New Jersey families, twenty-nine books of notes on families labeled “A” to “Clark,” and thousands of pages of notes arranged alphabetically by family name. Also contains copies of tombstone inscriptions and other records.
| Box | Folder | Description | Date |
| 1 | 1 | Ailing Family | |
| 2 | A – Miscellaneous | ||
| 3 | A – Miscellaneous | ||
| 4 | Babbit | ||
| 5 | Badgley | ||
| 6 | Baker | ||
| 7 | Ball | ||
| 8 | Bangert | ||
| 9 | Beach | ||
| 10 | Bond | ||
| 11 | Brown; Cutler; Oliver, etc. | ||
| 12 | Budd | ||
| 13 | C – Miscellaneous | ||
| 14 | Cadmus | ||
| 15 | (Ship) Caledonia | ||
| 16 | Carter | ||
| 17 | Chandler | ||
| 18 | Chetwood | ||
| 19 | Clark | ||
| 20 | Coe | ||
| 21 | Conger I | ||
| 2 | 1 | Conger II | |
| 2 | Conklin | ||
| 3 | Cook | ||
| 4 | Cooper | ||
| 5 | Cory | ||
| 6 | Crane | ||
| 7 | Crowell | ||
| 8 | D – Miscellaneous | ||
| 9 | Davis | ||
| 10 | Day | ||
| 11 | Decamp & DeHart | ||
| 12 | Decatur | ||
| 13 | Denham | ||
| 14 | Dod & Dodd | ||
| 15 | D – Miscellaneous | ||
| 16 | Dickerson | ||
| 17 | Drake | ||
| 18 | Dunn | ||
| 19 | Edwards | ||
| 20 | Frazee | ||
| 21 | F – Miscellaneous | ||
| 3 | 1 | Gardner I | |
| 2 | Gardner II | ||
| 3 | G – Miscellaneous | ||
| 4 | H – Miscellaneous | ||
| 5 | Headley | ||
| 6 | K – Miscellaneous | ||
| 7 | Johnson | ||
| 8 | Jones | ||
| 9 | Larason | ||
| 10 | Lindsley | ||
| 11 | Lum | ||
| 12 | Lyman | ||
| 13 | L – Miscellaneous | ||
| 14 | M – Miscellaneous | ||
| 15 | Marlet – Merlet, etc. | ||
| 16 | Ma – Mo Miscellaneous | ||
| 17 | Marsh | ||
| 4 | 1 | Marshall | |
| 2 | Martin | ||
| 3 | Martin-Brown | ||
| 4 | Meeker | ||
| 5 | Miller | ||
| 6 | N – Miscellaneous | ||
| 7 | Ogden | ||
| 8 | O – Miscellaneous | ||
| 9 | P – Miscellaneous | ||
| 10 | Pack | ||
| 11 | Pierson | ||
| 12 | Price | ||
| 13 | R – Miscellaneous | ||
| 14 | (Fitz) Randolph & Randolph-Vail | ||
| 15 | Roberts | ||
| 16 | Ross | ||
| 17 | Runyon | ||
| 18 | S – Miscellaneous (Sa-Sm) | ||
| 19 | Scudder | ||
| 5 | 1 | Shippen | |
| 2 | Silversthorn | ||
| 3 | S – Miscellaneous (Sm-Sy) | ||
| 4 | Stout | ||
| 5 | Tichenor | ||
| 6 | Thompson | ||
| 7 | Tompkins | ||
| 8 | Townley | ||
| 9 | T – Miscellaneous | ||
| 10 | V – Miscellaneous | ||
| 11 | V – Miscellaneous | ||
| 12 | W – Miscellaneous | ||
| 13 | Ward | ||
| 14 | Wheeler | ||
| 6 | 1 | William | |
| 2 | Winnans I | ||
| 3 | Winans II | ||
| 4 | Winans III | ||
| 5 | Winans IV | ||
| 6 | Wood | ||
| 7 | Wooddruff | ||
| 8 | Young | ||
| 9 | NOTEBOOKS – A1 – A6
A1 – (in envelope) Miscellaneous data Union Avenue Cemetery, Freeman gen.
A2 (BBA2) – Hatfield’s Littell, Westfield, Springfilnd, N.P. Marriages – A-B.
A3 – Marriages C-D from Hartfield’s Mss – Westfield, Springfield, New Providence
A4 – Marriages E-M from Hartfield’s Mss
A5 – Westfield, New Providence – N-Z marriages
A6 – Westfield burial record – Newark (Elizabeth?) 1st Cemetery |
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| 7 | 1 | A7 – Miscellaneous data, marriages 1796-1799
A9 – Extracts from New Jersey Journal, May 1, 1782
Essex County deeds & court records, 1700s-1740s
A12 – Hatfield genealogy
A13 – A-M baptisms at Westfield, Springfield, Elizabeth, 1720-1800s
A14 – M-Z Baptism – Westfield (2nd Presbyterian Church), Springfield; Marriages (1st Presbyterian Church Elizabethtown; St. John’s Church (19th century)
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| 2 | A – 16 Essex County court records, 1715
A – 17 Scotch Plains church records
A – 18 Nutman Bible, Downer family, Crane Family, Orange Cemetery inscriptions
A – 19 Church histories, NJHS Mss
A – 20 Newark Town Record Book, Doty genealogy
A – 21 Elizabeth book |
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| 3 | A – 22 St. Johns Baptism
A – 23 Essex County wills, 1808-1810
A – 24 Second Presbyterian Church; Westfield Presbyterian Church; Springfield Presbyterian; Meth[odist]? Church
Note: It appears A – 22 and A – 24 are classified under A – 22.
A – 25 Elizabethtown wills II
A – 26 Not classified
A – 27 Miscellaneous notes
A – 28 Miscellaneous; Samptown Cemetery, Elizabethtown 1729, Newark Town Book |
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| 4 | A 29 Rahway inscription
A 30 – Union Cemetery; Scotch Plains Cemetery
A31 – Madison Cemetery; Springfield Cemetery; Essex wills
A 33 – New Jersey Journal 1781; Sentinel of Freedom obituaries
A34 – Tombstone inscriptions, Caldwell |
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| 5 | A35 – Obituaries; early history of PA; Munson genealogy; Essex pension
A36 – Information from people; Wade genealogy
A37 – Miscellaneous Caldwell data; Ely ancestry
A37 (2) – Pack of mss, NJHS library
A38 – Data book, B.
A39 – Early court records, Essex wills |
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| 6 | A40 – Staten Island church records; New Providence church records
A41 – New Providence deaths, Miscellaneous Essex County wills, trustees
A42 – Gideon Ross papers I
A43 – Miscellaneous papers NJHS, Connet papers, package II
44 – Morris County files
A45 – Miscellaneous data from Morristown court house, Carter records |
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| 7 | A46 – Madison church records
A47 – Essex Court records
A48 – Essex County wills after 1804
A49 – Orange burials-NJHS mss & baptism records (History of Oranges)
A50 – Wills from Trenton – Bedford, B
A52 – Partial record of deaths at Union 1814-1846 |
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| 8 | 1 | Index of names, Vol. I: A-P | |
| 2 | Index of names, Vol. II: R-Z | ||
| 3 | Index cards for “A-C” Series | ||
| 4 | Index of correspondents, Springfield, N.J. Branch of Gardner family; New Jersey families | ||
| 5 | Inscriptions in Essex & Union (Springfield, Lyons Farms, Springfield Revolutionary); New Jersey manuscripts – Gravestone Inscriptions, wills, deeds, Bible Records, Baptismal records | ||
| 6 | Ledger – Gardner genealogy | ||
| 7 | FILES (containing loose sheets)
Will Abstracts – B1 |
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| 8 | Will Abstracts – B2 | ||
| 9 | Will Abstracts (oversized) – B2 ½ | ||
| 9 | 1 | Will Abstracts – B4 | |
| 2 | Elizabeth Mss, NJHS Mss, Pensions 1840 – B5 | ||
| 3 | Will Abstracts – B6 | ||
| 4 | Elizabeth Mss, NJHS Mss B-10 (Book 11) | ||
| 5 | NJ Deed Abstracts – B10- B12 | ||
| 6 | BLACK BOOKS
Aa – Allen (Book 1) Alling – Badger (Book 2) |
1665-1800 | |
| 7 | Badgley – Baker I (Book 3)
Baker II – Baldring (Book 4) |
1665-1800 | |
| 10 | 1 | Burnet II – Burwell (Book 17)
Bush – Byram (Book 18) |
1665-1800 |
| 2 | Ca – Camfield (Book 19 )
Camfield II – Camp (Book 20) |
1665-1800 | |
| 3 | Camp II – Carhill (Book 21)
Carle – Carmichael (Book 22) |
1665-1800 | |
| 4 | Carnes – Carson (Book 23)
Carter (Book 24) |
1665-1800 | |
| 5 | Carteret – Casterline (Book 25)
Cathcart – Chancellor (Book 26) |
1665-1800 | |
| 11 | 1 | Baldwin I (Book 5)
Baldwin II – Ballard (Book 6) |
1665-1800 |
| 2 | Bampfield – Beach I (Book 7)
Beach II – Billard (Book 8) |
1665-1800 | |
| 3 | Billing – Bonne (Book 9)
Brasher – Broadwell (Book 12) |
1665-1800 | |
| 4 | Brokaw – Brown I (Book 13)
Brown II (Book 14) |
1665-1800 | |
| 5 | Bonnell – Brant (Book 11)
Bonnell (Book 10) |
1665-1800 | |
| 6 | Bruen – Bryant I (Book 15)
Bryant II – Burnntt I (Book 16) |
1665-1800 | |
| 12 | 1 | Chandler – Chapman (Book 27)
Chapple – Cisco (Book 28) |
1665-1800 |
| 2 | Clark (Book 29) |
