In a message dated 10/20/2006 10:58:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi-- I'm new to this list--I'm planning a trip to NJ, and thought I'd like to see my forebears' gravesites--if I can find them. William Wood arrived in Burlington county in 1677, his wife Mary Parnell arrived in 1682. Their farm was near Crosswicks and they were of course Quaker. He died in 1722, she in 1740. Can anyone shed light on what cemeteries in the area are the right age and right denomination for my search? thanks- Marcia Wood Hecker St Louis MO --- Marcia- My experience has been that you will likely not find any graves for these early ancestors. First of all the early Quakers didn't tend to mark their graves with any sort of standard tombstone. A perfect example would be the graves of John Darnell and Hannah Borton Darnell on the PAWS farm in Burlington County. The little family graveyard is on public display along the Nature Walk at PAWS Farm and are very representative of the early family plots. John and Hannah are buried along with other family members on the hillside right on the farm. The family burial plot includes graves marked only by small bricks with the initials JD and HBD on them for John and Hannah. This would have been the custom although many small family farm graves are not marked at all and have long since been lost to development. Plus many of the very earliest Quaker graves were never marked at all--it would have been considered ostentatious and worldly. Joan