Historic newspapers · New Jersey

New Jersey historic newspapers: 40,967 free digitised pages

Name: New Jersey historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for New Jersey in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, N.J.)	1903–1959	6,574
The Jersey City News (Jersey City [N.J.])	1889–1906	5,339
The Lambertville Record (Lambertville, N.J.)	1872–1968	2,751
The Monmouth Inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)	1865–1933	2,644
Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark, N.J.)	1909–1916	1,908
The Penn's Grove Record (Penn's Grove, Salem Co., N.J.)		1,861
Bridgeton Pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.)	1884–1919	1,761
West-Jersey Pioneer (Bridgeton, N.J.)	1851–1884	1,599
Gloucester County Democrat (Woodbury, N.J.)	1878–1932	1,423
The Mount Holly News (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.)	1891–1942	1,230

Counties

Middlesex 8,244 pages
Hudson 5,596 pages
Salem 3,507 pages
Cumberland 3,360 pages
Essex 3,139 pages
Hunterdon 2,906 pages
Monmouth 2,866 pages
Atlantic 2,408 pages
Burlington 2,014 pages
Gloucester 1,423 pages

Cities

Perth Amboy 6,574 pages
Jersey City 5,596 pages
Bridgeton 3,360 pages
Newark 2,967 pages
Lambertville 2,906 pages
Freehold 2,774 pages
Penns Grove 1,861 pages
Jamesburg 1,667 pages
Woodstown 1,646 pages
Pleasantville 1,427 pages

By decade

1760 to 1769 4 pages
1770 to 1779 314 pages
1780 to 1789 436 pages
1810 to 1819 69 pages
1820 to 1829 60 pages
1850 to 1859 550 pages
1860 to 1869 1,173 pages
1870 to 1879 1,576 pages
1880 to 1889 4,218 pages
1890 to 1899 8,142 pages
1900 to 1909 10,147 pages
1910 to 1919 9,781 pages
1920 to 1929 4,587 pages
1930 to 1939 15 pages
1940 to 1949 12 pages
1950 to 1959 11 pages
1960 to 1969 9 pages

Languages

English 40,967 pages

Ethnic press: African American

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