A massive work--forty years in the making--there's never been a reference book like this for the state of New Jersey. The 100,000 biographies recorded by Mr. Sinclair, were extracted from no fewer than 2,000 volumes scattered among collective sources, not single-volume biographies. This fact alone establishes this book as the key reference work for New Jersey biography. It hardly needs to be said that Mr. Sinclair's book will prove to be an invaluable tool for genealogists given the obvious connection between biography and family history, as well as the fact that a number of the compiler's 237 sources contain not only biographies but genealogical sketches.

Originally published in 1902 as Volume XXIV of the First Series of the New Jersey Archives, this eBook edition is reformatted for ease of reading, but is complete and unabridged, including footnotes, addenda and corrected errata. The content is a chronological compilation of extracts from American newspapers relating to events in New Jersey from 1762 through 1765. Here are the published reports of runaway servants and slaves, land sales, political issues, the progress of the Stamp Act, Biographical Appendix, Index and much more. This masterfully crafted eBook is fully searchable and fully printable (628pp, 1.95 Mb).