Excerpt from Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 In securing genealogical data for the Gene alogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, it has been the constant desire of the editor to present material hitherto inaccessible to the general reader and even to many gene alogists. Therefore. Recourse has been had to manuscript court records and to proceedings of the legislature. A portion whereof has never been printed. This is particularly true of the section entitled The Genesis of Mercer Coun ty. For convenience, an outline of township organization is given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.