Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad (New Jersey Route 49) and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1792 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The church and cemetery are also listed on both the New Jersey Register (ID #1029, since 1973)

Notable burials

Ebenezer Elmer (1752–1843), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807. Jonathan Elmer (1745–1817), represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1789 to 1791. Lucius Elmer (1793–1883), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1843 to 1845. James G. Hampton (1814–1861), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849. John T. Nixon (1820–1889), represented from 1859 to 1863. Elias P. Seeley (1791–1846), 11th Governor of New Jersey, serving in 1833. William G. Whiteley (1819–1886), represented Delaware in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861. General James Giles (1756–1825) Revolutionary War General who served under Washington Bloomfield H. Minch (1864–1929), President of the New Jersey Senate Joseph Archibald Clark (1822–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co. Clement Waters Shoemaker (1848–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co. and philanthropist. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard (1863–1942), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1906 to 1941. Hessian soldier from the American Revolutionary war

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

See also

Fairfield Presbyterian Church

National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, New Jersey

References

External links

Presbyterian Cemetery at The Political Graveyard

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Find A Grave

Bridgeton, New Jersey

Presbyterian churches in New Jersey

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey

Federal architecture in New Jersey

Churches completed in 1792

Churches in Cumberland County, New Jersey

Presbyterian

Protestant Reformed cemeteries

Cemeteries in Cumberland County, New Jersey

National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, New Jersey

New Jersey Register of Historic Places

18th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States

1792 establishments in New Jersey

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery