First Presbyterian Church Plaque - Newark, NJ, USA
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A plaque in the front of the church honoring the 47 Revolutionary War soldiers and patriots buried in the church cemetery
Waymark Code: WMHPER
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 07/31/2013
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Alexander Macwhorter, a fervent patriot, was reverend at the First Presbyterian Church, during the Revolutionary War.
During the Battle of Trenton, he served as a spiritual advisor to American Washington's troops; later he was also Chaplain to General Henry Knox's Brigade.
The Revolutionary War caused serious damage to the original First Presbyterian Church building, but in 1791, the church was rebuilt, using brownstone quarried in Newark.
A plaque on the front of the church reads:
A MEMORIAL
TO THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
AND PATRIOTS
WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE BURIED
IN THE CEMETERY ADJOINING THIS CHURCH
John Alling
Samuel Alling
Jabez Baldwin
Moses Baldwin
Sylvanias Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin
David Bankds
Nathaniel Beach
Elisha Boudinot
Caleb Bruen
Eleaser Bruen
David Burnet
Abiel Camfield
Thomas Canfield
David Crane
David D. Crane Jr.
David E. Crane
Joseph Crane
Richard Cunningham
Thomas Eagles
Samuel Farrand
Samuel Foster
William Grant
Samuel Hay
Samuel Hayes
David Hays
Stephen Hays
David Hedden
James Hedden
Nehemiah Hedden
Samuel Huntington
Eliphelet Johnson
Samuel Jones
Alexander Macwhorter
John Ogden
Caleb Parkhurst
William Pennington
Jabez Pierson
John Roberts
Uzal Sayrs
William Peartree Smith
Jasper Tenbrook
Daniel Tichenor
David Tichenor
Moses Tichenor
Thomas Ward
Caleb Wheeler
THIS TABLET IS REVERENTLY PLACE BY THE
NOVA CAESAREA CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
TO COMMEMORATE ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 15, 1941,
THE 275TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF OLD FIRST CHURCH
AND THE
150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ERECTION OF THIS BUILDING
1941