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   Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for New Jersey and other states.
   You can view rotating animated maps for New Jersey showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps
   You can view rotating animated maps for New Jersey showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries . You can view a list of maps for other states and State Department of Transportation Maps at County Maps.

  Federal Population Schedules that exist for New Jersey are 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. The 1800 Census has Cumberland County only. Among the few surviving schedules of the 1890 federal census are some for Jersey City, Hudson County.
  There are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Slave Schedules exist for 1850 & 1860. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Union Veterans Schedules were conducted in 1890. The originals and films of the corresponding mortality, agricultural, industry/manufacturing, and other federal census schedules are available at the New Jersey State Library and on film at the state archives.

  State Schedules: State censuses were also taken in New Jersey every ten years from 1855 through 1915 and are available at the New Jersey State Archives, the New Jersey State Library, Rutgers, the New Jersey Historical Society (1855-85), and the Newark Public Library. Unfortunately, they are not complete for 1855, 1865, and 1875, and none are indexed. The information in these censuses is similar to that found in federal censuses, except that most of the 1855 and 1865 censuses list only the head of the household. In the county clerk's vault in Newark are the original state censuses for Essex County, 1855-75.

Censuses taken of Paterson residents from 1824 to 1832 by the Reverend Samuel Fisher were published by AIS. Two earlier “censuses” have been published for New Jersey: Kenn Stryker-Rodda, Revolutionary Census of New Jersey (1972; reprint, Lambertville, N.J.: Hunterdon House, 1986) was constructed from tax records, and James S. Norton, New Jersey in 1793 (Salt Lake City: the author, 1973) was taken from militia rosters, with tax records substituting for those counties with missing militia lists.

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