Cemetery - Burlington, NJ
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N 40° 04.625 W 074° 51.698
18T E 511797 N 4436321
In 1695, settlers of Burlington, New Jersey acquired land for a cemetery on the corner of West Broad and Wood Streets. St. Mary's Episcopal Church was built there in 1702, making it the oldest Episcopal church in New Jersey.
Waymark Code: WM67FX
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 04/17/2009
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"Behind the churches is the CEMETERY, originally called Christian burying ground to distinguish it from the burying ground of the Quakers. In the shadows of great trees between boxwood-lined paths lie many distinguished citizens."
---- New Jersey: A Guide to its Present and Past, 1939
St. Mary’s churchyard is the resting place of many prominent citizens of Historic Burlington, New Jersey.
"The earliest known headstones date from 1706 and 1707, respectively marking the graves of Mary and Edman Steward. Also buried within Bowes Reed, a Revolutionary leader and mayor of Burlington; Joseph Bloomfield, a Revolutionary War officer, mayor and governor of New Jersey; Elias Boudinot, patriot, president of the Continental Congress, and director of the U.S. Mint; William Bradford, Boudinot’s son-in-law and Attorney General of the U.S.; and, several bishops of the Episcopal Church (G. W. Doane, William H. Odenheimer, and Wallace John Gardner). A few distinguished parishioners, such as Colonel Daniel Coxe, and the first rector, John Talbot, were accorded the ancient honor of being buried within Old St. Mary’s Church"
--- from St Mary's Parish website
There are hundreds are graves here, many which have long since become illegible from time and erosion.