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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITES IN HACKETTSTOWN, NEW JERSEY



OLD PRESBYTERIAN BURIAL GROUND

Old Presbyterian Burial Ground

291 Main St.

Map / Directions to the Old Presbyterian Burial Ground

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The Old Presbyterian Burial Ground is currently the subject of an ongoing restoration project.

An article about the restoration can be found here.

For more information, contact Charles Prestopine at 908-852-5941.

The Old Presbyterian Burial Ground is next to the First Presbyterian Chapel. This cemetery contains the graves of 29 Revolutionary War soldiers: [1]

Ezekiel Ayers 2nd

Ensign,

Sussex County Militia Obadiah Ayers

Private,

Middlesex County Conover Bowne

Private;

Lt. Clyde Regiment, Brown Company Joseph Campbell

Private; First Battalion, Second Establishment Robert Caskey

Private; Continental Line John Clark

Private;

Second Battalion, Second Establishment:

Captain Hendry's Company, Second Regiment James Cook

Colonel, Morris County Edward Dunlop

Paymaster John Hance

Private

First Battalion, Second Establishment;

Captain Forman's Company, First Regiment John Hockenbery

Private

Captain Ballard's company, Third Battalion, Second Establishment

Also militia Greshon Hull

Captain

Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon John Kemple

Private

Graham Regiment, Hermance Company William Lawrence

Private

Essex County

Also: Matross, Captain Neil's Eastern Company Artillery, State Troops

William Morgan

Member of Captain Helm's 9th Company, 2nd Regiment of the New Jersey Line

John Patrick

Private

Crane Regiment, Lockwood Company Jacob Phillips

Private

Captain Martin's Company, Fourth Battalion, Second Establishment Jeremiah Pool

Wagoner

Continental Line John Robertson

Private;

Morris County John W. Schenck

Captain;

Third Regiment, Hunterdon County Jacob Sharp

Private

Fisher Regiment, Snook Company Isaac Smith

Colonel

1st Regiment, Hunterdon County Archibald Stewart

Private

Webster Regiment, Company Long John Stewart

Sergeant

Eastern Battalion, Morris County Militia Robert Stewart

Corporal, Captain Bonds Company Samuel Stewart

Private

McCrea Regiment, Doty Company William Stewart

Private

Captain Bonds Company, 4th Battalion; Joseph Sutton

Private

3rd Regiment, Hunterdon Company John Vliet

Major,

1st Battalion, Somerset County William Wire

SITE OF THE HOME OF ROBERT WILSON AND MARTHA STEWART WILSON

Lt. Robert Wilson House Site

176 Main St.

Map / Directions to the Robert Wilson House Site

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Robert Wilson was an Irish immigrant who became a successful merchant in Philadelphia. Wilson had joined the army after news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, the first battles of the Revolutionary War. When George Washington was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Army by Congress in Philadelphia in June 1775, Wilson was one of the officers who accompanied General Washington on his trip to take command of the army in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a brief period of service as muster-master-general, Wilson's poor health led him to leave the army.

In January 1776, he married Martha Stewart. the daughter of Colonel Charles Stewart, who served as George Washington's Commissary-General of Issues. In 1777, Robert and Martha Wilson purchased property in Hackettstown and lived in a house that was located at this site. Robert died in 1779 at the age of twenty-eight; Martha was left a widow at twenty. Because of her father's position in the Army, Martha met and entertained many important Revolutionary War figures, both in Hackettstown and at her father's house in Hunterdon County. These include George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Marquis La Fayette, Nathaniel Green, Horatio Gates, William Maxwell and Casimir Pulaski.

Martha's life spanned an interesting period. She was born December 20, 1758, eighteen years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. She died at age 93 on March 15, 1852, just nine years before the start of the Civil War. Shortly before turning 90, she was interviewed by author Elizabeth F. Ellet for her 1848 book, The Women of the American Revolution. Ellet wrote a thirty-page chapter about Martha based on these interviews, including Martha's experiences during the war. The following visit to George Washington to Hackettstown in 1780 is described: