Re Almshouse records, I stumbled across an interesting site while searching something else a few weeks ago. http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=0020 The NJ Historical Society in Newark has the archives of a former governor, Peter Dumont Vroom. He was an attorney located in Warren/Sussex/Hunterdon/Morris County during his early career (he moved around: Schooleys Mountain, Hackettstown, Flemington, etc, but in areas being researched by people on this list) If you scroll down, or search on the word "poor" (edit + find) you'll see listed several analytics for Poorhouse cases, as in -Knowlton Township Overseers of the Poor vs. Hardwick Township Overseers of the Poor -Amwell Township Overseers of the Poor vs. Mansfield Township Overseers of the Poor My semi-educated guess is that different municipalities argued over which would be responsible for a pauper, but I could be wrong. In any event, as the above citations are included in the archival collection headed "Case Files 1816-1818" they would apply to a vey early period of time. Researchers may also be interested to scan the names in the analytics as many of them are those being searched on this board. Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Lake" <mlake@mlake.net> To: <njwarren@rootsweb.com> Cc: <lmuessig@peoplepc.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [NJWARREN] Almshouse Records > >> The Almshouse Records are at the Warren County Historical Society in >> Belvidere. > > Do you happen to know the years of coverage? > > -- > Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NJWARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >