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This project is part of the State of New Jersey Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from California. You can add profiles for: People born in New Jersey People who lived in New Jersey People who died in New Jersey When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit. If yo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bergen County, New Jersey. Official Website The origin of the name of Bergen County is a matter of debate. It is believed that the county is named for one of the earliest settlements, Bergen, in modern-day Hudson County. However, the origin of the township's name is debated. Several sources attribute the name to Bergen, Norway, whil...
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 winte...
Wikipedia Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) is a seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and the largest of ten seminaries associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is the second-oldest seminary in the United States, founded in 1812 under the auspices of Reverend Dr. Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Universi...
Princeton University Official Website Wikipedia Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural scienc...
The earliest permanent settlements in Cumberland County were along the Cohansey River. Between 1680 and 1700, settlers had begun to carve out of the South Jersey wilderness a home for themselves and their families. Meaningful permanent settlement in what is now called Cumberland County dates from 1675 when John Fenwick purchased his tenth of West New Jersey from Lord John Berkeley . Fenwick es...
Wikipedia Thomas Edison State University, formerly Thomas Edison State College, is a public institution of higher education located in Trenton, New Jersey. One of New Jersey's 11 public universities and colleges, Thomas Edison State University offers degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level. Thomas Edison State College was approved by the New Jersey Board of Education in December 1971, a...
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...
Note: While using ANY genealogical website or program...please be informed that ANY possible family connections are NOT valid until they can be verified with documentation. This Edington clan has been hard to trace and document - where I and others feel should be investigated more I have put "Questionable" in the suffix box - this is especially done if conflicing data has been given over the ye...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Passaic County, New Jersey. Official Website Passaic County was created on February 7, 1837 and was named for the Passaic River. Adjacent Counties Orange County, New York Rockland County, New York Sussex County Bergen County Essex County Morris County Municipalities & Communities Bloomingdale | Clifton | Cooper | G...
List of United States Representatives from New Jersey New Jersey's current delegation to the United States House of Representatives as of January 2023: 1st district -- Donald Norcross 2nd district -- Jeff Van Drew 3rd district -- Andy Kim 4th district -- Chris Smith 5th district -- Josh Gottheimer 6th district -- Frank Pallone
This cemetery is located on CR 519, Mt. Pleasant, Alexandria (Township), Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Find a Grave US Gen Web New Jersey Civil War Gravestones
This cemetery is located on 2 Race Road, Union (Township), Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 64 Baptist Church Road, Pattenburg, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Find a Grave Billion Graves Antiquity Echoes
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....
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Sussex County, New Jersey. Official Website 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 the route o...
This cemetery is located on 124 Readington Road, Readington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It's also known as Dutch Reformed Cemetery . Find a Grave New Jersey Civil War Gravestones
This project is for those buried in The Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. From Find a Grave : This old cemetery is located across the street from the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church and Cemetery. It is adjacent to the Union Cemetery and surrounded by a stone wall. The Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard cemetery, also known as Grandin Cemetery, is ...
Please add your pioneer and notable ancestors of Hopewell to this project. Collaborators, feel free to update the page, add resources, documents, images ...==origins==Hopewell’s first inhabitants were Lenapes, an Algonquin tribe who welcomed Europeans because they needed protection from other Indians. Their Hopewell villages were Wissamonson [Woodbridge] and Minnepenasson [Stoutsburg]. New Jers...
This cemetery is located on Wantage Township. Northeast Corner, Intersection of Rt. 519 and Crigger Road, in Sussex County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 12 Lusscroft Road, Beemerville, Sussex County, New Jersey. Find a Grave
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 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 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 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...