Official Records

The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of New Jersey are included among Record Group 21 at the:

        National Archives at New York City
        One Bowling Green, 3rd Floor
        New York, New York 10004

        Email: newyork.archives@nara.gov

A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/nyc/holdings

A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).

 
Additional Records of the U.S. District Courts of New Jersey are held at the:

        Historical Society of the United States District Court
        for the District of New Jersey
        U.S. Post Office and Courthouse Building
        P.O. Box 419
        Newark, NJ 08102

Bibliography

"Biographies of Judges and Justices Who Sat in the Federal Trial Courts for the District of New Jersey, 1789-1989." In Collections of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey , vol. 1, Newark: The Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1989.

"A Brief History of the Federal Courts for the District of New Jersey." In Collections of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, vol. 1, Newark: The Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1989.

Presser, Stephen B . Studies in the History of the United States Courts of the Third Circuit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. pp. 69-127.