I am going to collect in this post (and add to it over time) the sources used for the early history of the Province of West New Jersey. It will serve as a way to collect in one place all the sources used, and at the same time, make each post a little less cumbersome to read (I hope).

Adams, Robert M. 1983. The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account. New York: W. W. Norton.

Anderson, Fred and Andrew Cayton, Dominion of War; Empire & Liberty in North America, 1500-2000, 2005.

Barone, Michael. 2007. Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers. New York: Random House, Inc.

Bisbee, Henry H. 1959. “John Tatham, Alias Gray.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83, no. 3 (July): 253-264. htt;://www.jstor.org/stable/20089205.

Black, Frederick R. 1964, The Last Lords Proprietors: The West Jersey Society, 1692-1703. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, 1964, Rutgers University Library, Special Collections.

Brodhead, John Romeyn. 1867. The government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England, in 1688 and 1689. Morrisania, N.Y: Bradstreet Press.

Brodhead, John Romeyn and Berthold Fernow, 1883. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, new ser., vol. 3, Documents relating to the history of the early colonial settlements principally on Long Island, 1883; vol. 14, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York: Procured in Holland, England, and France, Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan, ed., New York (State) Legislature. Weed, Parsons.

Carswell, John. 1969. The Descent on England: A Study of the English Revolution of 1688 and Its European Background. NY: John Day Co.

Clement, John. 1912. “Billingsport.” Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3rd ser. 7, no. 2: 91-97.

Clement, John. 1894. “The Council of Proprietors of West New Jersey, Organized 1687.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 496-503.

Cook, George. 1888. Geological Survey of New Jersey, Map. The Vicinity of Camden – Burlington to Elmer to Winslow to Swedesboro. from the website “West Jersey History Project.”

Council of WJ Proprietors. 1688-1689. Minutes of the Council of West Jersey Proprietors. Burlington, NJ. N. J. Department of Archives and Records Management.

Davis, David Brion. 1998. That Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press.

Davis, John David. 2005. West Jersey New Jersey Deed Records 1676-1721. Heritage Books.

Farr, David. 1999. “John Blackwell and Daniel Cox: Further Notes on Their Activities in Restoration England and British North America.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 123, no. 3: 227-233. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093289.

Fleming, Thomas. 1984. New Jersey: A History, NY: W. W. Norton;  Nashville: the A.A.S.L.H.

Godfrey, Dr. Carlos E. 1922. “’The True Origin of Old Gloucester County, N.J. from some unpublished pages of Leaming & Spicer’s ‘Concessions 1681-1699,’ together with an appendix on Gloucester Town Township.” Camden History, vol. 1, no. 4. Read before the Camden County Historical Society, November 21, 1922.

Godfrey, Carlos E. 1933. When Boston Was New Jersey’s Capital, 1685-1689. Newark, NJ: N. J. Historical Society.

Goodwin, Maud Wilder. 1926. The Dutch and Quakers, New Haven: Yale University Press. vol. 5, Part I: Dutch & English on the Hudson by Goodwin; Part II Quaker Colonies by S. G. Fisher.

Honeyman, A. Van Doren. 1927. Northwestern New Jersey; a History of Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren & Sussex Counties, New York and Chicago, 5 vol.

McCormick, John D. 1888. “John Tatham, New Jersey’s First Catholic Governor.” Catholic Historical Society Researches, vol. 5 (1888): 79-92.

McCormick, John D. 1890. “John Tatham, New Jersey’s Missing Governor.” In History of Nova Caesaria by Samuel Smith, 1765. Appendix H. Sharp, 1890 reprint.

McCormick, Richard P. 1981. New Jersey, from Colony to State, 1609-1779. Newark, NJ: N. J. Historical Society.

Morris, Richard B. 1953. Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Harper & Brothers.

Myers, Albert Cook. 1912 Narratives of Early Pennsylvania West New Jersey and Delaware: 1630-1707. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York City, New York.

Nelson, William, ed. 1899. Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703. Vol. 21. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Paterson, NJ: The Press Printing Co.

Pomfret, John Edwin. 1956. The Province of West New Jersey, 1609-1702: A History of the Origins of an American Colony. New York: Octagon Books.

Pomfret, John E. 1964. The New Jersey Proprietors and Their Lands. N.J. Historical Series, vol. 9. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.

Pomfret, John Edwin. 1973. Colonial New Jersey, A History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Reed, Henry Clay, and George J. Miller, eds. 1944. The Burlington Court Book: A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West Jersey, 1680-1709. Washington, DC: The American Historical Asso.

Scull, G. D. 1883. “Biographical Notice of Dr. Daniel Coxe of London.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 7: 317-337.

Smith, Samuel. 1765. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria or New Jersey. reprint of the 1890 ed., Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1975. x, 573 pages. See pg. 199-200 for a reprint of the Constitution of the Council of Proprietors.

Stellhorn, Paul A., and Michael Birkner, eds. 1982. The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974. Trenton, NJ.

Stewart, Frank H. comp. 1941. Gloucester County Under the Proprietors. Reprinted from “The Constitution” April 9, 1941 to November 26, 1941. Printed by The Constitution Company, Woodbury, NJ. 46 p.

Stokes, Charles Esq. 1868. Paper read before the meeting of the Surveyors’ Association of West Jersey, held on Aug. 11, 1868.

Tanner, Edwin Platt. 1908. The Province of New Jersey, 1664-1738. New York.

Thomas, Gabriel. 1903 (1698). An Account of Pennsylvania and West New Jersey. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Co.

Turp, Ralph K. 1975. West Jersey Under Four Flags. Philadelphia: Dorrance.

Vexler, Robert I., ed. 1978. Chronology & Documentary Handbook of the State of New Jersey. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications.

Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. Weiss. 1964. The Early Promotional Literature of New Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural Society, Trenton, New Jersey.

Whitehead, William A., ed. 1881. 1687-1703. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey 1st. Newark, NJ: The Daily Advertiser Printing House.

Whitehead, William A. 1875. East Jersey Under the Proprietary Governments. Newark, NJ: Martin R. Dennis.