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This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely pop...
The church was built in 1747 and rebuilt in 1822. The cemetery is still active, and surrounds the church on 3 sides. It's also known as First Baptist Church Cemetery and Old School Baptist Cemetery . It's located on 46 West Broad Street, Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
Highland Cemetery is located in the western edge of Hopewell Borough, and its 14 acres cover a steep hillside of the Sourland Mountains. A small portion of the cemetery is in the borough, with much of it located in Hopewell Township. The original property was purchased in 1873 from Edward VanDyke and his wife, and was the cemetery established on May 17, 1877. Several graves are marked with sa...
The New York Giants are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement. The Giants hold their ...
Elizabethtown, New Jersey became a formal settlement in 1664. Elizabethtown was the first permanent English community in New Jersey, and is now known as Elizabeth, New Jersey.Profiles to be added to this project are the Elizabethtown Associates, 1664-1699. The following is an alphabetized list of associates. Those with an * beside their name are the associates known to have been in Elizabethtow...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, New Jersey. Official Website All of present-day Union County was part of the Elizabethtown Tract, which was purchased in 1664, by English colonists from the Lenape Indians that lived in the area of present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Union County was formed on March 19, 1857 and was the last of New Jersey's 21 counties ...
This cemetery is located on 984 Brass Castle Road, Belvidere, Warren County, New Jersey Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 2727 Belvidere Road, Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey. It's also known as Harmony Cemetery and Upper Harmony Presbyterian Cemetery . Find a Grave
Highlanders and Lowlanders The Scots are not to be confused with the Scotch-Irish, who were Ulster Irish and emigrated from Ireland Scotch-Irish Americans and not in not this Project - We are tracing our ancestors who were born in Scotland and emigrated directly from Scotland to the American Colonies, Canada, and Jamaica. Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after ...
Church building and old cemetery belonged to the Second Baptist Church of Hopewell, NJ. The congregation disbanded around 1930 and the Harbourton Cemetery Association was incorporated May 11, 1931 to maintain the cemetery property and plots of the many area people buried here. "Old Church Yard" was established in 1803. This rural cemetery has grown to ten acres with approximately three acres ...
This project is dedicated to the preservation to the history of the Pounds family, which has fathered a number of extensive branches across the United States. The surname Pound was first found in Hampshire where they were granted lands by Wiliam the Conqueror for their assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. They held a family seat as Lords of the manor of Drayton in that shire. The...
This project is for those buried in North Green Street, Tuckerton, Ocean County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, /ˈrʌtɡərz/, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey. Originally chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766, Rutgers is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" fou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morris County, New Jersey.= Official Website =Morris County was created on March 15, 1739 and was named for the Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Colonel Lewis Morris.The county was the site of the winter camp of the Continental Army after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton during the winter of 1777, as well as another winter ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Sussex County, New Jersey. Official Website History As early as 1690, Dutch and French Huguenot colonists from towns along the Hudson River Valley in New York began permanently settling in the Upper Delaware Valley (known as the "Minisink"). The route these Dutch settlers had taken was the path of an old Indian trail and became t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Salem County, New Jersey. Official Website History European settlement began with English colonists in the seventeenth century, who were settling both sides of the Delaware River. They established a colonial court in the area in 1681, but Salem County was first formally organized within West Jersey on May 17, 1694, from the Salem Te...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, New Jersey. Official Website Warren County was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 20, 1824. The county was named for Joseph Warren, an American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Adjacent Counties Monroe County, Penn. Sussex County Morris County Hunterdon Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Official Website Cumberland County is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. The county was formally created from portions of Salem County as of January 19, 1748. Adjacent Counties Atlantic County Gloucester County Cape May County Kent County, Delaware Salem County Municipalit...
Please add profiles of thosew ho were born, lived or died in Cape May County, New Jersey. Official Website Overview Cape May County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Much of the county is located on the Cape May Peninsula, bounded by the Delaware Bay to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east. Adjacent to the Atlantic coastline are five barrier islan...
This cemetery is located on 234 Paramus Road, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey. Find a Grave Official Website
Fort Dix, the common name for the Army Support Activity (ASA) located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Army post. It is located 16.1 miles south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Fort Dix is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force Air Mobility Command. As of the 2010 United States Census, Fort Dix census-designated place (CDP) had a total population of 7,716, of which 5,9...
From The Descendants of Founders of New Jersey :>A list of qualifying ancestors is below. The list is not exhaustive, and membership is not limited to descent from one of the names listed.>Instead, the names are presented as a starting off point for potential members who may already be able to document descent from one or more of the individuals previously certified as Founders.For more informa...
Wikipedia =----------------------------Drew University is a coeducational private university located in Madison, New Jersey, in the United States. Drew has been nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the serenity of its wooded 186-acre campus (753,000 m2) when compared to the busy suburban area surrounding the school. As of 2015, 2,113 students are pursuing degrees at the universit...
Ewing Church Cemetery dates back to 1709 when the congregation of First Presbyterian Church of Ewing began gathering here. Since that time, the church building has been torn down and rebuilt several times. The current stone structure that sits there today, also known as "1867 Sanctuary", was built in 1867. Ewing Church Cemetery & Mausoleum continues on today as a non-sectarian burial ground se...
This cemetery is located on 99 Main Street, Succasunna, Morris County, New Jersey. It's also known as Succasunna Presbyterian Church Cemetery . The congregation was organized in 1756 and the church opened in 1760. The historical marker says it was used as an arsenal and hospital during the Revolutionary War. The original church is no longer standing. The one you can visit now was built in 1853....