The loss of New Jersey’s census records prior to 1830 has bedeviled researchers for generations. An 1817 list of Warren Township freeholders (land owners paying taxes) abstracted by Dorothy Stratford of the Somerset County Historical Society helps fill the gap. Researchers should note that the following list is not complete:
 

Adams, Charles

Allen, Gideon

Allen, Joseph

Alwood, Benjamin

Ayres, Dugal

Bird, Isaac

Bird, John C.

Bird, Jonas

Boice, David

Brokaw, Isaac I.

Brown, Stephen

Brown, Thompson

Cadmus, Abraham

Cadmus, Frederick

Campbell, Edward

Coddington, Archibold

Coddington, Benjamin

Coddington, John

Cole, Elias

Cole, Freeman

Compton, Joshua

Compton, Reuben

Coon, Aaron

Coon, Benjamin

Coon, Levi

Coon, Reuben

Corey, John

Corey, Parkhurst

Cosad, Samuel

Covert, Luke

Drake, Noah

Dunn, Jonathan

Eaton, Josiah

French, David Jun.

Giddis, Ashur

Giddis, Jacob

Giddis, John

Jennings, Benjamin

Jennings, John

Kelly, Joseph

Kirkpatrick, Alexander

Linn, Henry

Little, Benjamin

Lollar, James

Lollar, Michael

Manning, Isaac

Manning, Isaac Jun.

Monday, David

Moore, Isaac

Moore, Isaac B.

Moore, Reuben

Randolph, Edward

Randolph, Stelle

Shotwell, Ralph

Smalley, Isaac

Townley, George

Vail, Abraham

Vail, Edward

Vail, Samuel

Van Doren, Isaac

Vermule, Cornelius

Vermule, Frederick

Wooden, Ezra

[From October 2004 issue of the newsletter of the Somerset County Historical Society]

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