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Sussex County Ratables
“Colonial Tax Lists”

Municipality

Date

Book

Box

Item

GMNJ Issue

Reel

LDS Film #

Greenwich Twp.

September 1774

1792

84

6

40:94-96

19

411,318

Hardyston Twp.

September 1774

May 1780

August 1780

January 1781

1793

1794

1795

1796

84

84

84

84

7

8

9

10

40:127-130

19

19

19

19

411,318

Knowlton Twp.

September 1773

September 1774

1797

1798

84

84

11

12

40:130-135

40:130-135

19

19

411,318

Montague Twp.

September 1774

1781

1799

1806

84

84

13

14

40:135-136

19

19

411,318

Newton Twp.

1773

September 1774

1799A

1800

84

84

15

16

60:59-60

40:136-139

26

19

411,318

Oxford Twp.

July 1773

1801

84

17

40:140-142

19

411,318

Sandyston Twp.

September 1774

1781

1802

1806

84

84

18

14

40:142

19

19

411,318

Walpack Twp.

1773

1774

1781

1781

1803

1804

1805

1806

84

84

84

84

19

20

21

14

40:143-144

40:143-144

19

19

19

19

411,318

Note: There are no known tax lists for Warren County that have been microfilmed. Original lists for Warren County may exist at the County Court house in Belvidere. Sussex County lists are available on microfilm through a Family History Center or by visiting the New Jersey State Archives.


Assessment lists of the Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1862-66
a.k.a. “Internal Revenue Assessment lists for New York and New Jersey, 1862-1866“
National Archives microfilm publication: M603

"The assessment lists are arranged in four basic categories: (1) monthly, (2) annual, (3) special, and (4) miscellaneous. Each category is arranged by collection district and there under chronologically."

"The entries in the monthly lists are for taxes paid or collected on a monthly basis; those in the annual lists, for taxes paid or collected annually. The special lists augment incomplete monthly and annual lists. They also cover those taxes that were labeled by the assessors as 'special,' for example, the special income tax. The miscellaneous category covers taxes that cannot be identified by type or particular district or date.”

"The Internal Revenue Act of July 1, 1862, was intended 'to provide internal revenue to support the government and to pay interest on the public debt.' Monthly specific and ad valorem duties were placed on manufactures, articles, and products ranging from ale to zinc. Monthly taxes were levied on the gross receipts of transportation companies; on interest paid on bonds; on surplus funds accumulated by financial institutions and insurance companies; on gross receipts from auction sales; and on cattle, hogs, and sheep slaughtered for sale. Gross receipts of newspapers from advertising were subject to a quarterly tax. Annual licenses were required for all trades and occupations, and annual duties were placed on carriages, yachts, billiard tables, and plate."

District

Counties

Period Type

Date

LDS Film #

3

Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union,  and Warren

Monthly

 

September 1862 - February 1864

March 1864 - March 1865

January - December 1866

1534794

1534795

1534796

3

Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union,  and Warren

Annual

1862 – 1863

1864

1865

1866

1534813

1534814

1534815

1534816

3, 4, & 5

(3) Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset Union, Warren;
(4) Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Sussex;

(5) Essex, Hudson

Special

1863 - 1865

1534825