Burlington County Prison Museum Association 

For each entry after 1936, the search engine provides the following: name of the prisoner, arresting officer, when received, complainant, charge, committing officer and when discharged.  For entries before 1936, the complainant and arresting officer are not noted.
 

If you want to search an inmate or officer by name, type the last name into the search box and then click “search”.  For an advanced search, you can type the first name.

 

If you are searching by charge, remember that charges were noted differently by different people.  Thus, “assault and battery” might be “assault” or “A&B”.  Sometimes the charge was misspelled, e.g., “adultry”, “ludeness”, “poligamy”.  Many,
perhaps even most, of the inmates were vagrants and/or drunks and the charge might be noted as “tramp”, “drunk”, “disorderly”, “drunk and disorderly” or “D&D”.

To search the names of those received into the jail on any given year, month and/or day, enter the date by scrolling or typing the year, month and/or day.  Use the numeral for the month (e.g., “May” is “5”).

Be sure to “clear” between each search.

If you need further information, send us an email at info@pma1811.net.