NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides, Department of Defense, New Jersey Militia, Records, 1793-1868

Record Group:	Department of Defense
Subgroup:	New Jersey Militia
Series:	Records, 1793-1868
Accession #:	1969.006 prob.
Series #:	SDEML001
Guide Date:	8/2003 (SRB)
Volume:	32.5 c.f. [29 boxes, 17 oversized boxes, 1 map folder]

Contents

Content Note

This series contains elections, commissions, officer’s lists, resignations, muster rolls, returns, correspondence, and other records of the New Jersey Militia. The records are organized by county, then by record type and date.

Contents

Box 1

Statewide and Multiple Brigades:

Adjutant General's Office, Correspondence (1 folder)

General Correspondence (1 folder)

Multiple Brigade, Correspondence (1 folder)

Officers, Multiple Brigades (1 folder)

Multiple County Brigades, Returns (1 folder)

Unknown County/Brigade, Correspondence (1 folder)

Brigade Not Identified, Resignations (1 folder)

Brigade Not Identified, Muster Rolls-Attached Items (1 folder)

Brigade Not Identified, Returns (1 folder)

Squadron Not Identified (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, Brigade Not Identified, 1860-1861 (1 folder)

Horse Artillery (1 folder)

Veteran Regiments, Returns (1 folder)

Brigade Unknown, Inventory (1 folder)

Capt. Lambert's Company of Artillery, Muster Roll (1 folder)

Officer Elections, Statewide (1 folder)

Report of Cavalry, Statewide (1 folder)

Statewide Elections, Attached Items (1 folder)

Statewide Elections, Cavalry (1 folder)

State Offices, Resignations (1 folder)

Veteran Battalion (1 folder)

Veteran Regiments, Correspondence (1 folder)

Veteran Brigade, Resignations (1 folder)

Veteran Brigade, Muster Rolls (1 folder)

Not Clearly Identified (1 folder)

Box 2

Atlantic Brigade:

Elections, 1858 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Correspondence-Attached Items, 1862 (1 folder)

Atlantic and Cape May Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1861 (1 folder)

Elections, 1862-1863 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Box 3

Bergen Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1806 (1 folder)

Elections, 1793-1864 (15 folders)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1804 (1 folder)

Roll of Jersey Blues, 1 Oct. 1862 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1805-1863 (1 folder)

Bergen Infantry Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1798 (1 folder)

Bergen Cavalry:

Elections, 1798-1802 (1 folder)

Box 4

Burlington Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1852 (1 folder)

Elections, 1793-1866 (18 folders)

Muster Rolls and Returns, 1808, 1846 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861-1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1798-1863 (1 folder)

Burlington Brigade:

Correspondence

Affidavit of George W. Tucker, 1834 (1 folder)

Burlington and Gloucester Cavalry:

Elections, 1824-1826 (1 folder)

Box 5

Camden Brigade:

Elections, 1850-1868 (2 folders)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1856-1868 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1858-1861 (1 folder)

Box 6

Cape May Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1794 (1 folder)

Elections, 1793-1798 (2 folders)

Oaths & Performance Bonds, 1814-1816 (2 folders)

Resignations, 1801 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1812 (1 folder)

Cape May Independent Battalion:

Elections, 1800-1857 (6 folders)

Box 7

Cumberland Brigade:

Commissions, 1793 (1 folder)

Elections-Attached Items, 1795-1808 (1 folder)

Elections, 1794-1862 (13 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1795-1861 (1 folder)

Returns-Attached Items, 1808 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1805-1850 (1 folder)

Offer of Service to United States, 1807 (1 folder)

Oaths & Performance Bonds, 1807-1812 (4 folders)

Cumberland Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1803 (1 folder)

Elections, 1796-1798 (1 folder)

Box 8

Essex Brigade:

Commissions, 1793-1798 (1 folder)

Elections-Attached Items, 1792-1862 (1 folder)

Elections-undated, 1792-1809 (7 folders)

Box 9

Essex Brigade:

Elections, 1816-1839 (13 folders)

Box 10

Essex Brigade:

Elections, 1840-1868 (4 folders)

Minutes of Brigade Board, 1861 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls-Attached Items, 1861-1862 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1808-1868 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1794-1863 (1 folder)

Resolution to form a company in Montclair, 22 Jun 1868 (1 folder)

Returns, 1807 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1793-1868 (2 folders)

Box 11

Essex Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1801-1853 (1 folder)

Elections-1790s - 1850s (2 folders)

Independent Essex Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1852-1857 (1 folder)

Elections, 1852-1858 (3 folders)

Minutes of Brigade Board, 1857 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1857 (1 folder)

Statement to dispute election, 1855 (1 folder)

Correspondence regarding Irish Volunteers, 1854-1855 (1 folder)

Newark Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1858-1867 (1 folder)

Elections, 1858-1868 (3 folders)

Inspection Returns, 1864 (1 folder)

Leaves of Absence, 1861-1862 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1866 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1858-1864 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1858-1869 (1 folder)

Newark Cavalry:

Elections, 1865 (1 folder)

Union Blues:

Muster Roll, 1846 (1 folder)

Orange Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1858 (1 folder)

Elections, 1858-1861 (2 folders)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Box 12

Gloucester Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1799 (1 folder)

Elections-undated, 1793-1862 (13 folders)

Muster Rolls/Inspection Returns, 1807-1862 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1863 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1806-1809 (1 folder)

Gloucester Cavalry:

Elections, 1796-1827 (1 folder)

Box 13

Hudson Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1852-1861 (1 folder)

Elections, 1840-1869 (6 folders)

Inspection Returns, 1868 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1856-1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860-1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1861-1868 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1854-1867 (1 folder)

Box 14

Hunterdon Brigade:

Commissions, 1793 (1 folder)

Elections-Attached Items, 1792-1861 (1 folder)

Elections-undated, 1793-1820 (11 folders)

Box 15

Hunterdon Brigade:

Elections, 1821-1867 (11 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1807-1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860-1862 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1784-1862 (1 folder)

Returns, 1809 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1794-1864 (2 folders)

Certificate of Satisfactory Performance, George W. Day, 1860 (1 folder)

Hunterdon Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1797-1859 (1 folder)

Elections, 1790s - 1860s (2 folders)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Returns, 1807 (1 folder)

Hunterdon and Mercer Cavalry:

Elections, 1861-1862 (1 folder)

Box 16

Mercer Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1861-1862 (1 folder)

Elections, 1838-1865 (6 folders)

Leave of Absence, 1862 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1862 (1 folder)

Roll of Company A, 2nd Regiment, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1859-1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1863 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1841-1866 (1 folder)

Mercer Cavalry:

Elections, 1843-1844 (1 folder)

Box 17

Middlesex Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1862 (1 folder)

Elections-undated, 1787-1863 (15 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1826-1837 (12 folders)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1862 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1794-1861 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1796-1864 (2 folders)

Middlesex Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1803-1805 (1 folder)

Elections, 1790s - 1830s (2 folders)

Correspondence, 1796 (1 folder)

Box 18

Monmouth Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1794-1858 (2 folders)

Elections-undated, 1793-1861 (11 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1807, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1803, 1862 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1798-1862 (1 folder)

Monmouth Cavalry:

Elections, 1793-1856 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Returns, 1807 (1 folder)

Box 19

Monmouth and Middlesex Cavalry:

Elections, 1804 (1 folder)

Monmouth and Ocean Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1861-1862 (1 folder)

Elections, 1861-1866 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, undated (1 folder)

Officers, 1861-1863 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1862-1867 (1 folder)

Box 20

Morris Brigade:

Commissions, 1801 (1 folder)

Elections-Attached Items, 1794-1862 (1 folder)

Elections, 1792-1829 (12 folders)

Box 21

Morris Brigade:

Elections, 1831-1864 (4 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860-1861 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1857-1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1800-1866 (1 folder)

Returns, 1793-1860 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1800-1864 (1 folder)

Box 22

Morris Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1793-1800 (1 folder)

Elections, 1790s - 1860s (2 folders)

Ocean Brigade:

Elections, 1857-1858 (1 folder)

Box 23

Passaic Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1851-1859 (1 folder)

Elections, 1838-1868 (5 folders)

Muster Rolls, undated (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1860-1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1854-1861 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1843-1868 (1 folder)

Box 24

Salem Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1786-1800 (1 folder)

Elections, 1793-1867 (13 folders)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1795, 1868 (1 folder)

Returns, 1867 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1806-1864 (1 folder)

Salem Cavalry:

Elections, 1798-1823 (1 folder)

Box 25

Somerset Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1792-1838 (1 folder)

Elections, 1792-1862 (20 folders)

Leave of Absence, 1862 (1 folder)

Muster Rolls, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Officers, undated (1 folder)

Resignations, 1798-1862 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1797-1854 (1 folder)

Somerset Cavalry:

Elections, 1798-1823 (1 folder)

Box 26

Sussex Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1792-1862 (1 folder)

Elections, 1789-1823 (13 folders)

Box 27

Sussex Brigade:

Elections, 1824-1863 (7 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1807 (1 folder)

Offer of Service, 1807 (1 folder)

Officers, 1797, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1803-1863 (1 folder)

Returns, 1806 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1778-1863 (1 folder)

Sussex Cavalry:

Elections-Attached Items, 1792-1793 (1 folder)

Elections, 1790s - 1850s (2 folders)

Muster Rolls-Attached Items, 1807 (1 folder)

Box 28

Union Brigade:

Elections, 1857-1864 (2 folders)

Officers, 1863 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1861 (1 folder)

Returns, 1867 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1857-1862 (1 folder)

Box 29

Warren Brigade:

Elections-Attached Items, 1862 (1 folder)

Elections, 1824-1863 (7 folders)

Muster Rolls, 1862 (1 folder)

Oaths of Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Officers, 1861 (1 folder)

Resignations, 1831-1864 (1 folder)

Correspondence, 1807-1843 (1 folder)

Warren Cavalry:

Elections, 1808-1832 (1 folder)

OV Box 1

Brigade Not Identified, Muster Rolls and Returns, 1862 (1 folder)

Statewide, Muster Rolls and Returns, 1798 (1 folder)

Veteran Battalion, Inspection Return of Capt. Isaac Van Dorny's Company, 17 December 1867 (1 folder)

1st Detached Brigade of Militia of New Jersey, Asst. Adjutant General Cornelius W. Tolles Co., 3 July 1861 (1 folder)

Atlantic Brigade:

Commissions, 1861 (1 folder)

Atlantic and Cape May Brigade:

Commissions, 1861 (1 folder)

OV Box 2

Bergen Brigade:

Muster Rolls and Returns, 1807-1808 (1 folder)

Returns, 1805-1858 (14 folders)

Commissions, 1793-1862 (4 folders)

OV Box 3