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This cemetery is located on 64 Baptist Church Road, Pattenburg, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Find a Grave Billion Graves Antiquity Echoes
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 popu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Salem County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 Tenth. Pit...
Please add profiles of thosew ho were born, lived or died in Cape May County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 islands that hav...
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 Municipalities...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was named for the city of Gloucester county of Gloucestershire in England. Woodbury, founded in 1683 by Henry Wood, is the oldest municipality in the county. The municipality of National Park hosts the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Red Bank where Fort Mercer once ...
In a dream I saw a city invincible... The City of Camden has been the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey since the county was formed on 13 March 1844. The city had been incorporated on 13 February 1828. However the initial European attempts at settlement in the vicinity of present day Camden can be traced back to 1626. Please feel free to add profiles of any and all persons who were bor...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Camden County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was formed on March 13, 1844, from portions of Gloucester County. The county was named for Charles Pratt , 1st Earl Camden, a British judge, civil libertarian, and defender of the American cause. Adjacent Counties Burlington County Atlantic County Gloucester County Phi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was established in 1837 and named for the Atlantic Ocean. Municipalities Abescon Atlantic City Brigantine Buena including: Landisville & Minotola Buena Vista Twp. including: Collings Lakes, East Vineland, Milmay, Newtonville and Richland Corbin City Egg Harbo...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ocean County, New Jersey. Official Website Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey, along the Atlantic Ocean. It was established on February 15, 1850, from portions of Monmouth County, with the addition of Little Egg Harbor Township which was annexed from ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hudson County, New Jersey. Official Website Hudson County, originally Lenape territory, lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609. Hudson County was originally called Pavonia, the land of the Peacock, after its original owner, the Dutchman Michael Pauw (Peac...
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 ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Somerset County, New Jersey. Official Website Somerset County is one of America's oldest counties, and is named after the English county of Somerset. The area was first settled in 1681, in the vicinity of Bound Brook, and the county was established by charter on May 22, 1688. Most of the early residents were Dutch. General George W...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Official Website The county was primarily settled due to its ideal location near the Raritan River and was established as of March 7, 1683, as part of the Province of East Jersey and was partitioned as of October 31, 1693, into the townships of Piscataway, Perth Amboy, and Woodbridge. Adjacent Counti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Official Website In 1609, the English navigator, Henry Hudson, and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel Half Moon spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook; however, some historical accounts credit this landing to present-day Keansburg. Among the first European settlers and majo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burlington County, New Jersey. Official Website Anglo-European records of Burlington County date to 1681, when its court was established in the Province of West Jersey. The county was formed on May 17, 1694, "by the union of the first and second Tenths." The county was named for Bridlington, a town in England. Burlington County was ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mercer County, New Jersey. Official Website History Named for Continental Army General Hugh Mercer, who died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777 and founded February 22, 1838, from portions of surrounding counties, Mercer County has a historical impact that reaches back to the pivotal battles...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jersey City, New Jersey. Jersey City is the county seat of Hudson County and lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay to its east and Hackensack River and Newark Bay to its west. Timeline History See Wikipedia for a complete History. 1800s 1804 - Land bought from Cornelius Van Vorst by the Associates of the Jers...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newark, New Jersey. Official Website Newark was settled in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat from the New Haven Colony. It was conceived as a theocratic assembly of the faithful, though this did not last for long as new settlers came with different ideas. On October 31, 1693, it was organized as a New Jersey township ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Essex County, New Jersey. Official Website The county is named after Essex, a county in the East of England. Newark, with a population density of 11,458.3 people/square mile, is the largest municipality in the county both in terms of land area and population, while Caldwell is the smallest in terms of land area and Essex Fells has...
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...
The College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university[5] in the Trenton suburb of Ewing Township, New Jersey, United States. TCNJ was established in 1855 by an act of the New Jersey Legislature. The institution was the first normal school in the state of New Jersey and the fifth in the United States. Originally located in Trenton proper, t...
This project focuses on the Jewish families who settled at Alliance Colony in Vineland, New Jersey and the surrounding communities including Brotmanville, Rosenhayn, Carmel, and Norma. 'The 43 original families' of Alliance, NJ, who arrived in 1882: Eli & Ethel Abramowitz, Eli & Feigeh Bakerman , Moses & Ethel Bayuk , Abraham & Channah Leah Berman , William & Beckie Cohen , Hersh & Jennie Colt...
This cemetery is located on 58 Ridge Road, Harmony, Warren County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
The Jewish community in Trenton, NJ in the early decades of the 20th Century, was a small tight-knit community with several thriving synagogues and seemingly lots of intra-Trenton Jewish marriages.In my wife's case (Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein), I see many Trenton-based surnames appearing over and over (Kohn, Goldstein, Azarchi, Cohen, Sutnick, Urken, Lefkowitz, Troll, Koslow, Habas, Siegel. a...