The First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is a historic churchyard cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a contributing property to the Morristown District, on October 30, 1973.
History
The oldest interments date to 1731. There is a mass gravesite for about 150 soldiers of the American Revolutionary War who died from smallpox in 1777.
Notable burials
- Samuel Beach Axtell (1819âÂÂ1891), U.S. Congressman, Governor of Utah and New Mexico
- Silas Condict (1738âÂÂ1801), delegate to the Continental Congress
- John Doughty (1754âÂÂ1826), Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer
- Jacob Ford Sr. (1704âÂÂ1777), iron manufacturer, politician and judge
- Jacob Ford Jr. (1738âÂÂ1777) and Theodosia Ford (1741âÂÂ1824), owners of the Ford Mansion, used by General Washington during the Revolutionary War
- Jonas P. Phoenix (1788âÂÂ1859), US Congressman
- George Vail (1809âÂÂ1875), represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857.
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