These documents are derived
from the Road Return Books of Old Gloucester County, Burlington County, The
Court Records of Old Gloucester County and the Gloucester Township Minute
Book. A road return is a survey of the route of a road that has either been
proposed or that will be modified. It is possible that some roads may predate
their first survey. Camden County, the location of the roads mentioned in
these indices, was split off from Gloucester County in 1844.
Ed Fox, who put this
material together, went through the aformentionsed sources and made note of
such persons and places as he could determine to be associated with roads
now in, or running in to, Camden County. The index covers a time period from
the mid-eighteenth century to 1825.
This version of the index
is exhaustive and that said, the OCR’d version of the index is less
than perfect. However, as with other documents presented here, we determined
that it is better to get something useful, albeit flawed, out instead of waiting
for perfection. The good news is that a cleaned up version is already in the
works.
Finally, if anyone has
time on their hands and wants to do this for the other West Jersey counties,
please let us know. It would be great to cover the whole territory. Finally,
these are coming out in sections so that’s why everything isn’t
there yet..
Click on the Road book
nameto see the index for that book.
