You may want to check to see if your local library system offers Heritage Quest - - the book available on line there. > >The Hunterdon County Library has a copy of the four volumes of this book in >its New Jersey Reference collection. > >At 01:09 AM 3/9/05 -0500, you wrote: > >Has anyone ever heard of the following book, or know where it can be >seen? > At $165, it's too expensive to purchase. > > > > > >http://bigtreebooks.com/info.asp?BTB=BTB129843CC&Type=&Cat=&SubCat=&SubCat2= > > > > > >GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, A Record of >the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the >Founding of a Nation - BTB129843CC > > > >Many of the essays begin with an explanation of the geographical origin >or >derivation of the familys surname, with a number of them going back to the >16th or 17th century. The sketches then trace the line forward from the >oldest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay. This is >followed by a detailed biography of that person, often with his photo, as >well as an enumeration of collateral lines related to the principal >subject. The index at the back of the final volume identifies some 4,800 >descendants of the main families listed below, which, in the aggregate, >constitute, arguably, the greatest collection of New Jersey genealogies in >a single place. Aaronson, Abbott, Abeel, Abrams, Ackerson, Ackley, Adams, >Agar, Albright, Alden, Alexander, Allen, Allinson, Anderson, Andrews, >Angell, Antrim, Apgar, Applegate, Armstong, Arrowsmith, Atkinson, Austin, >Bacheller, Bacon, Badgley, Baer, Bailey, Baird, Baker, Baldwin, Ballantine, >Bannard, Barker, Barnert, Barnes, Barrett,! > > Barringer, Barron, Barrows, Bartlett, Bartram, Bassett, Bateman, >Bayard, >Beach, Beam, Beekman, Beldon, Benjamin, Bennett, Bentley, Bergen, Berry, >Betts, Beugless, Beyer, Biddle, Bigelow, Binder, Bisbing, Bishop, Bissell, >Black, Blair, Blaisdell, Blanchard, Bleecker, Bleything, Blodgett, Blunt, >Bodine, Bogert, Boggs, Bogle, Bonnell, Booraem, Booth, Borton, Bothwell, >Bouker, Bowen, Bowne, Boylan, Boyle, Brady, Branin, Bray, Brick, Briggs > > > > > >==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== > >This mail list is archived at: > >http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/NJHUNTER > > > >============================== > >View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > >marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > >http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > >==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== >This mail list is archived at: >http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/NJHUNTER > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >