Burlington County Deed Book A
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02530
- Source Type
- Civil Document
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- Burlington County Clerk
- Location Created
- Burlington County
- Date
- 1785 – 1788
- Description
- Deed Book A is a bound volume containing manuscript records recorded by the Burlington County Clerk from 1785 to 1788. The original book is housed at the New Jersey State Archives in the Burlington County Clerk's Office Deeds series (control number CBUCL007). Select pages from the book have been scanned by the State Archives and can be accessed via the State Archives' searchable database called Early Land Records, 1650-1900s. This book primarily contains land deeds and related property records. Intermixed with land deeds in this book are 22 manumission records.
- Language
- English
- Format
- bound manuscript volume
- Archival Collection
- Burlington County Clerk's Office, Deeds, 1785-1901 and Indexes, 1785-1921 & 1948 (CBUCL007)
- Related Resource
- Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, searchable database at the New Jersey State Archives
- New Jersey State Archives catalog record for Series: Burlington County Clerk's Office Deeds (CBUCL007)
- Record Contributor
- New Jersey State Archives
- Resource class
- Bibliographic Resource