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From: Dennis Sutton <>
Subject: Early Burial Ground, Stockton, NJ
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:01:13 -0400


Found the following regarding an old cemetery in Stockton while
transcribing the Hunterdon Democrat. Might be of interest to Rittenhouse
or Cavanagh families. Don't know if this published anywhere else at this time.

Old Grave Yards.
A correspondent of the Hunterdon Independent writes as follows: One
hundred years ago, grave yards, or places where the dead were buried, were
quite numerous in this part of the country. They were usually located in
out of the way places. Some of them are now overgrown with trees. Others
have entirely disappeared and are now farm land. Many of the graves were
marked with common field stones, bearing no names or dates. One of these
burial places can be seen on the farm of Maurice Wolverton, near
Stockton. Here a few of the graves are marked with white marble head
stones, on which are the following names and dates:
P. Rittenhouse, born 1724, died 1791.
Sarah Rittenhouse, widow of Peter Rittenhouse, Died Dec. 16 – 1844 – 76 yr.
of her age.
P. Rittenhouse, son of Elisha and Isabel his wife, was born 1798, Died 1804.
Stachys Rittenhouse died April 11, 1827, 22 years of his age.
John Blake, died Dec. 9 – 1826 – 47 yrs. 2 da.
Ann Cavanaugh, wife of John Cavanagh, died Dec. 24, 1810, aged 20 yrs., 6
mo. 4 da.
Hannah Cavanagh, wife of John C., died 24 – 1814, age 22 yrs. 10mo. 5 da.
Jacob and Letitia Lamberts’ son, born Jan. 15 -1815. died infant.
John Cavanagh, named above, is supposed to have been the John
Cavanagh, who was Sheriff of Hunterdon County from 1818 to 1821.
Elisha Rittenhouse was the son of Peter, and lived on and owned the
mill property about one mile south of Locktown.


Dennis Sutton



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