Ancestry.com has some tax lists online in the census collection, search specifically in the records entitled "New Jersey Census, 1772-1890." I have seen Bethlehem Twsp. in 1793 (but as part of Essex County) and Bridgewater and Hillsborough, both Somerset, in the 1805 and 1806 tax lists. I am not sure what else they have in this category. Here is how Ancestry.com describes this database: Description: This collection contains the following indexes: 1772-1822 Tax Lists Index; 1800 Cumberland County Federal Census Index; 1824-1832 Bergen County - Paterson City; 1830 Federal Census Index; 1840 Federal Census Index; 1840 Pensioners List; 1850 Federal Census Index; 1850 Slave Schedule; 1860 Federal Census Index; 1870 Federal Census Index; 1890 Veterans Schedule; Early Census Index. - John Lilly <malik@scs-net.org> wrote: Thanks to everyone who tried to answer my question. The anwer is, that all the census records for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, for the State of New Jersey, were destroyed by Fire, so they don't exist. There are some tax lists, I am told, but I haven't located them yet. Sorry, very sad news to me, and I am sure to you as well. Now that we understand this fact, what can we use to document our families in NJ in this time frame? What resources are available? Has anyone found online tax lists? Or do we have to go to the State? Library? County archives? Of course there should still, and are plenty of church records and cemetery records, which can be used to document our family there, then we have history books which may mention our family, as well as land records, Wills, Deeds, law suits, etc. I have gotten so used to CENSUS records, that I am very dissapointed to have to work WITHOUT them. Let's all have a discussion of what you all have found, either online, or at libraries, for the time frame of 1790 thru 1820, to document your families in NJ. I know that www.olivetreegenealogy.com does have some great stuff, I look there almost daily, and I will have to go back to see what specific they have for early NJ. I personally am researching : Brouwer/Brower and Manning in NJ. Best regards, Lilly Martin ==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== Visit the Updated Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!