Reference librarians have scanned and uploaded numerous Morris County historical documents for patron use. This is only a sampling of the vast New Jersey collection found at the library.
- 1738, County created by Royal Council.
- 1740-1951, incorporation of municipalities.
- 1752, landowners of Morris County.
- 1752-1771, land sales, Morris County, from Newspaper Abstracts, New Jersey Archives 30,000 acres.
- 1777, letter from John Jacob Faesh, to Col. James Abeel.
- 1778, Oct. 3rd, deed, Samuel Drake to Nathan Cooper (see Cooper’s Mill, Chester), from the Wm Henry Seward legal files (1778-1922).
- 1780, Morris County Tax Book A, index.
- 1789, MorrisTown, the song.
- 1790, Howell family letters, to Gabriel and Ezekiel, Hanover Township.
- 1799, Morris Aqueduct Company 1799-1923: history & finding aid, table of contents.
- 1801-1867, Morris Turnpike Company.
- Turnpike history.
- Route survey, 1802.
- Minute and account books, 1801-1867, manuscript collection MC773, Special Collections, Rutgers University.
- 1802-1816, stock purchases and dividends, account book of Thomas Gibbons, Esq.
- 1807-1811, Gibbons purchases.
- 1807-1809, inspection and licensing.
- 1808, complaint against Company, Legislative Council.
- 1808, Assembly action re: complaint.
- 1810, stock dividend, advertisement, Centinel of Freedom, Feb 20, 1810.
- 1811, Stock certificate.
- Session laws, 1801-1850.
- NJ Supreme Court, State v Morris Turnpike Company, 1818 [bridge repair].
see also, in library, lower court file on this case and (1840) Clark v Morris Turnpike Company [trespass]. - Judge Gabriel Ford, stock and bills to Turnpike Company.
- 1817-1818, bankruptcy of Canfield & Losey and its land sales to meet debt.
- 1818-1820, Chancery case, decision, writ and land sales, debt of Moses Hopping, Weldon Mine, Jefferson Township.
- 1814, Joseph Morris Lindsley (Lieut.), excerpts from his journal kept while serving in a company of Morristown militia, at the Jersey shore, War of 1812.
- 1835, Morris & Essex Railroad, prospectus.
- 1834-1882, Orphans’ Court land sale broadsides (120), samples.
- Indexed by: owners’ names, towns and year.
- 1895-1896, Dover Daily Journal obituary index.
- 1881-1929, Morris County Children’s Home (“The welfare of the child is our first consideration. A model home is our goal.”)
- 1892, Morris Township Republican Club campaign songbook.
- 1917-1919, 7th Battery, Morris County, NJ National Guard. Table of contents.
- 1900+ Prices in Morris County, from the Daily Record.
- 1925, Morristown & Erie Railroad, timetable No. 48.
- 1930, WPA project, land values of Morris County.
- 1936, 6 x 9, proof copy, vol. 1, no 1, Morristown, Federal Writers Project.
- 1934-1936, Jockey Hollow Wildflower Trail Campbell Keyser, gardener.
- 1930s, Great Depression in Morris, from pages of the Daily Record.
