How to Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists to New Jersey 

1. Search online ships passenger lists. It wasn’t easy finding ships sailing to New Jersey, so many of the sites below only have one or two passenger lists.

• Ships Passenger Lists to New Jersey 1677 includes The Kent, The Greyhound, The Success aka Surrey, The Shield, The Martha (On The Trail of Our Ancestors)
• Ship Passenger list and history of Ship Henry and Francis of New Castle sailed from Leith, September 5, 1685, arrived at Perth Amboy, New Jersey December, 1685. (FirstMom’s Genealogy)

• Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coasts, and Great Lakes Passenger Lists 1820-1863
  Roll 1: 1820-1871; Roll 2: 1820-1873 ; Roll 3 1846-1871; Roll 4: 1820-1870 Roll 5: 1820-1873 Roll 6: 1820-1863 Roll 7: 1820-1835 Roll 8: 1845-1849 [$] Originally published by the National Archives as Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-63, this database includes passenger lists from the following ports: Annapolis, Maryland (1849), Dighton Maine 1820-1836, Edgartown Maine 1820-1870, Frenchman’s Bay, Maine 1821-1827; Bangor, Maine (1848); Bath, Maine (1825-67); Belfast, Maine (1820-51), Bridgeton, New Jersey (1825-28); and Cape May, New Jersey (1828), Bridgeport, Connecticut (1870); Fairfield, Connecticut 1820-21, Darien Georgia 1823-1825, Beaufort, North Carolina (1865), Charleston South Carolina 1820-1829