Genealogial Records Useful to Westfield New Jersey Researchers

The Presbyterian Church in Westfield

Baptism, Marriage and Funeral record transcriptions
The Burial Ground of the Westfield Presbyterian Church

History of the burial ground

Burial Ground Tombstone Inscriptions
(A-G) (H-N) (O-S) (T-Z)
Map of gravestone locations and photographs of headstones:

Plan Map of the Entire Cemetery

Section One grave locations and photographs
Section Two grave locations and photographs
Section Three grave locations and photogaphs
Section Four grave locations and photographs

First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown
Numbered Plan Map of the Burials in the Cemetery [from Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burial Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St. Johns Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1664-1892 by William O. Wheeler & Edmund D. Halsey, 1892]
[left side of map] [right side of map]
Membership List 1824
Springfield Presbyterian Church

History of the church
[report from the Historic Buildings Section in the National Archives on the Springfield Presbyterian Church]
Elizabeth Town Records

The 174 'Clinker Lots' of Elizabethtown (1699-1700)

List of the Signers of the " An Answer to the Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery" (1750)

A List of the Freeholders in the County of Essex September 1, 1755

Elizabethtown Petition dated July 1744 - includes 309 signatures of many male residents of Elizabethtown [coming soon...]
Township of Westfield - Federal Census Records

- 1830 Census [completed!]

- 1840 Census
- 1850 Census [should be completed by end of July 2005!]
- 1860 Census
- 1870 Census
- 1880 Census
- 1890 Civil War Veteran Schedule
- 1900 Census
- 1910 Census
- 1920 Census
- 1930 Census
Township of Westfield

Birth records
Westfield Tax Rateables [very useful as a "substitute census" for landholders/householders of the town]

Westfield March 1779 Westfield Ward Township of Elizabeth
Westfield February 1780 Westfield Ward of Elizabeth
Westfield July 1781 Westfield Ward Township of Elizabeth
July 1782 Westfield Ward of Elizabeth Township
July 1783 Westfield Ward of Elizabeth Township
July 1789 Westfield Ward of Elizabeth Township
July - August 1790 Westfield Ward of Elizabeth Township
July - August 1796 Scotch Plains District of Westfield Township County of Elizabeth
1796 Township of Westfield
1810 Scotch Plains District Township of Westfield
1810 Poor & Dogs Tax - Westfield Ward County of Essex
1811 Scotch Plains District Westfield Township County of Essex
1811 Poor & Dogs Tax - Westfield Ward
1812 Scotch Plains District Westfield Township
1812 Poor & Dogs Tax Westfield Ward
1813 Scotch Plains District Westfield Township Essex County
1813 Poor & Dogs Tax Westfield Ward
1814 Scotch Plains District Westfield Township
1814 Poor & Dogs Tax Westfield Ward
1815 Westfield
1815 Scotch Plains District Township of Westfield
1820 Westfield District Westfield Township
1820 Scotch Plains District Township of Westfield
1821 Scotch Plains District Township of Westfield
1821 Poor & Dogs Tax Westfield District in Westfield Township
1822 Westfield District in Township of Westfield
New Jersey State Census Information
Tavern Licenses for Essex County, New Jersey - 1700's
Miller-Roll Cemetery in Springfield, New Jersey (gravestone inscription transcript)
[also known as the Old Methodist Cemetery]
Brooks Roll gravestone photograph [October 2000 - courtesy of Audrey Shields Hancock]
Keziah [Ross] Miller gravestone photograph [October 2000 - courtesy of Audrey Shields Hancock]
Rahway Public Cemetery in Rahway (Gravestone inscription transcript)
"Feltville" Cemetery gravestone photographs [New Providence, Union County, New Jersey]
Cemetery Information Sign
Gravestones: John Willcocks William Willcocks Joseph Badgley Phebe Badgley Willcocks

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