Both the Dorland Cemetery on Sunset Road in Montgomery Twp. Somerset County, NJ and the Conewago Cemetery on Swift Run Road are comprised of grave makers which are basically field stone rocks which, if lucky, are marked with initials and a date. The date of the Dorland Cemetery is around 1735 with burials ending by 1800, while the Conewago Cemetery probably was established ca. 1772 however burials continued into the 1900's with only two burials, one a gypsy boy buried ca. 1910-1912 and David Weaner burial in 1964. More times than not, there is just a stone marker and those can be just the tip of the stone, the stone may have sunk into the ground, fallen on its side so only a odd shaped stone sticks up, that kind of thing. Most of these are rough read colored stones at Conewago and field stones which seem to be cut in a long narrow shape with an indent half way down the stone at the Dorland cemetery. Conewago RDCh. families later erected the more familiar gravestones on a few family plots, but today there are many unmarked graves, the field stones long gone. There was a man, Gerry Byers, a german man who was employed by the church in the 1700's who was the custodian of the cemetery, whether or not he was responsible for the cutting of the field stones was never mentioned but these were not just superficial stones, they were long enough and mostly narrow, as were the Dorland stones to be sunk deeply into the ground. The Dorland field stones were crushed by heavy farm equipment which had been parked there and/or pushed down under the ground by the weight of the equipment. While the Conewago Cemetery was enclosed by a stone wall, the Dorland cemetery was never that fortunate. There is a limited list of burials for Conewago but in order to determine whether or not your ancestor was actually buried there, the baptismal, deacons records and wills need to be consulted. They are not going to actually state that so and so was buried there, however. Since the church was located next door to the cemetery, later closer to Route 30, and there was also a southern cemetery for the use of the Low Dutch living in that area. If someone in this community died between 1772 and say 1804 when the church was closed what remained of the congregation scattered to other churches. Some of these families were buried in the church cemetery. Burials did, as mentioned take place after 1804, as not all families migrated to Kentucky or Ohio, however, they were few. Burials in the early years seemed to be not in family plots but when the person died, so you have the members of the congregation mixed together. Initials and dates, if lucky, were chiseled or scratched into the stone but they were professionally done. That may have been Mr. Byers job to do. He and his family also migrated down to Kentucky in 1783 -1790. At one time apparently there was a list of burials and a map showing their location at Conewago which the caretaker in 1963 had in his possession. Arther Weaner could never get him to show this map to him. He could point out the location of who was buried where, but that document has never been made public, we know from the John Dorland Cremer book that 30 to 40 burials were in the Dorland cemetery with head and footstones. The major concern is that throughout many counties and states because they ancient Dutch burial grounds did not look like what people in the last century felt cemeteries should look like, well then they were just a field of rocks. This is probably been the largest cause of their demise, farmers plowed them under, developers built houses on them, that kind of thing. Does any one else have a early Dutch family cemetery or know of a Dutch Church cemetery in which the early burials were marked with field stones? Judy Cassidy