Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Warren County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers and directories
Court records
- Clerk's Office · Justice of the Peace Dockets, 1805 - 1919 · CWACL0011805 - 1919
- Clerk's Office · Rough Minutes and Case Files of the Circuit Court, 1827 - 1914 · CWACL0061827 - 1914
- Clerk's Office · Book of Sample Court Forms and Notations, ca. 1880s · CWACL0111800 - 1900
- Clerk's Office · Minutes and Case Files of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1825 - 1941 · CWACL0131825 - 1941
- Clerk's Office · District Court Dockets and Judgments, ca. 1929 - 1948 · CWACL0151929 - 1948
- Clerk's Office · Supreme Court of New Jersey Case Files, 1894 - 1925 · CWACL0161894 - 1925
- Court of Common Pleas · Rough Minutes and Case Files, 1851 - 1915 · CWACP0011851 - 1915
- Court of Common Pleas · Petitions for Tavern Licenses, 1877, 1878 & 1901 · CWACP0021877 - 1901
- Court of Common Pleas · Judgments, 1825 - 1914 and Index, 1825 - 1862 · CWACP0031825 - 1914
- Court of Common Pleas · List of Causes, 1896 - 1915 · CWACP0041896 - 1915
Deeds and land
- Clerk's Office · Deeds 1823 - 1901 and Indexes, 1825 - 1911 · CWACL0021823 - 1911
- Clerk's Office · Mortgages, 1825 - 1866 and Indexes, 1825 - 1924 · CWACL0041825 - 1924
- Clerk's Office · Assignments of Mortgages, 1853 - 1900 and Indexes, 1850 - 1954 · CWACL0051850 - 1954
- Clerk's Office · Partitions of Real Estate, 1825 - 1946 · CWACL0071825 - 1946
- Clerk's Office · Deed and Mortgage Register, 1861 - 1866 · CWACL0101861 - 1866
- Surrogate's Office · Divisions of Real Estate, 1825 - 1877 · CWASU0061825 - 1877
Marriages, births and deaths
County government
Military records
Naturalization records
Wills and estates
- Surrogate's Office · Accounts of Executors, 1871 - 1898 · CWASU0011871 - 1898
- Surrogate's Office · Administration and Guardian Bonds, 1881 - 1924 · CWASU0021881 - 1924
- Surrogate's Office · Administration, Executor, and Guardian Bonds, 1861 - 1875 · CWASU0031861 - 1875
- Surrogate's Office · Letters of Administration and Guardianship, 1825 - 1911 · CWASU0041825 - 1911
- Surrogate's Office · Assignees Book, 1865 - 1922 · CWASU0051865 - 1922
- Surrogate's Office · Inventories, 1825 - 1901 · CWASU0071825 - 1901
- Surrogate's Office · Guardian Inventories and Accounts, 1850 - 1905 · CWASU0081850 - 1905
- Surrogate's Office · Orphans Court Minutes, 1825 - 1901 · CWASU0091825 - 1901
- Surrogate's Office · Petitions, Requests and Renunciations, 1871 - 1921 · CWASU0101871 - 1921
- Surrogate's Office · Receipts and Discharges, 1825 - 1903 · CWASU0111825 - 1903
- Surrogate's Office · Will Books, 1825 - 1901 · CWASU0121825 - 1901
- Surrogate's Office · Index to Probate Records, 1825 - 1956 · CWASU0131825 - 1956
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected county-created series from the New Jersey State Archives current searchable catalog. Dates, series identifiers and creating offices are retained. Statewide records appearing in county searches were excluded. A catalog entry may describe paper or microfilm held on site; consult its format, restrictions and detailed contents before requesting access.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Warren County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the county clerk and the surrogate, and any online record search the county offers.
- The county clerk
Deeds, mortgages and other land records, and naturalizations.
- The surrogate
Wills and estates.
- The New Jersey State Archives
In Trenton: state birth, marriage and death records from 1848, and the original wills and estate papers proved before 1901.
- New Jersey State Archivesfree
The state archives in Trenton, with state vital records from 1848, colonial and state wills, court records and state censuses.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "New Jersey, Warren" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Sussex County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Sussex County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1824, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
New Jersey began statewide registration in 1848, earlier than most states. The State Archives holds those records for the early years and also the wills proved before 1901.