
Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The FamilySearch Library collects indexes and abstracts of newspaper vital records, but does not have any New Jersey newspapers. The New Jersey State Archives also has a large collection of over 5,000 microfilms of newspapers, which can be requested by interlibrary loan. The largest collections of New Jersey newspapers are at the New Jersey State Library, New Jersey Historical Society, Rutgers University Library, and Library of Congress. Most of the 4,400 titles in this book have been microfilmed and can be borrowed through interlibrary loan. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1977. Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970. FS Library Book 974.9 H28w.įor a guide to New Jersey newspapers, refer to: Lambertville, N.J.: Hunterdon House, 1988.

Notices from New Jersey Newspapers, 1781-1790.

These series are described in greater detail in New Jersey History. 1-5) of Archives of the State of New Jersey. Information from various newspapers, 1704 to 1782, was published as Extracts from American Newspapers Relating to New Jersey in the first series (vol. Earlier events were often published in Pennsylvania Newspapers.


This was soon followed by the New Jersey Journal in 1779. The earliest regular newspaper published in New Jersey, The New Jersey Gazette, began publication in December 1777.
