NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: Department of State, Secretary of State's Office, Transportation Corporation Files, ca. 1816-1950s

NEW JERSEY STATE ARCHIVES COLLECTION GUIDE

Record Group: Department of State Subgroup: Secretary of State's Office Series: Transportation Corporation Files, ca. 1816-1950s Accession #: 1979.017 Series #: SSTSE008 Guide Date: 2/1992 (JK) Volume: 23.5 c.f. [47 boxes]

Box Contents | Company Name List

Content Note

The majority of the transportation corporations included in this series are railroad and street railway companies. These corporation files contain official documents pertaining to the corporate status and/or operations of each company, such as: incorporations (charters) and amendments, annual reports, agreements and leases, name changes, mergers, sales, route maps, etc. While some of the filings date to the early nineteenth century (e.g. documents from as early as 1816 in the Delaware and Raritan Canal file), most date from after 1875, when corporations engaged in business in were required by law to file with the Secretary of State annual reports providing the names and terms of the company's directors, officers, etc. (see P.L. 1877, chap. 68).

Box 46 of this series contains a card index to the corporation files, which not only records the years of annual reports received by the Secretary of State, but also reports individual filings for each company. A list of company names is provided following the box contents list below. The company name list provides the file number if a file exists for a company; in cases where a card exists without an actual file, "--" has been used in place of the file number. In either case, the card-file index should be consulted for possible additional information not found in the file itself (such as a charter citation or a Secretary of State's map reference).

Box Contents

Box File Nos. Box File Nos. Box File Nos.

1 1-17 16 222-229 32 442 2 18-38 17 230-248 33 443-460 3 39-54 18 249-261 34 461-478 4 55-73 19 262-283 35 479 5 74-82 20 284-294 36 480-499 6 83-99 21 295-298 37 500-525 7 100-108 22 299-302 38 526-550 8 109-118 23 303-327 39 551-568 9 119-129 24 328-344 40 569-583 file:///M|/highpoint/webdocs/state/darm/darm2011/guides/guides%20for%20pdf/sstse008.html[5/16/2011 9:42:54 AM] NJDARM: Archives Collection Guides: Department of State, Secretary of State's Office, Transportation Corporation Files, ca. 1816-1950s

10 130-147 25 345-361 41 584-590 11 148-154 26 362-371 42 591-625 12 155-164 27 372-386 (#1-2) 43 626-632 13 165-191 28 386 (#3-10) 44 633-643 14 192-210 29 387-407 45 644-656 15 211-221 30 408-426 46 Card index [original] 31 427-441 47 Card index copy; [3 binders]

Company Name List

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

NOTE: The following list of company names is alphabetized based on key words, i.e., punctuation within a name, and the words "the" and "and," have been disregarded. The date of incorporation (charter), or the earliest filing date recorded on the index card, is provided in parentheses after each company name.

Company Name File

Absecon and Bay Railroad Company (1869) -- Allentown Railroad Company (1870) -- Alloway and Quinton Railroad Company (1891) 1 American Dock and Improvement Company (1864) 2 American Transportation and Navigation Company (1873) 3 Anglesea Railroad Company (1882) 4 Arlington Railroad Company (1887) 5 Asbury Park and Belmar Street Railway Company (1893) 6 Asbury Park, Bradley Beach, Belmar and Spring Lake Street Railway Company (1895) 7 Asbury Park Electric Railway Company (1887) 8 Asbury Park and Sea Girt Railroad Company (1898) 9 Associates of the Jersey Company (1804) 625 Atlantic and Brigantine Railroad Company (1887) 10 Atlantic City Beach Railroad Company (1891) 11 Atlantic City Branch Railroad Company (1891) 11 Atlantic City and Chelsea Passenger Railway Company (1902) 12 Atlantic City and Ocea