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    1. GRIGGSTOWN REFORMED CHURCH
    2. Sharon / Harry Colquhoun
    3. Thanks to those of you who wrote me, thanking me for the info and asking me to "keep typing". In my usual efficient style I have deleted all the junk mail so I don't know who asked which questions. Here are some answers: The Griggstown Reformed Church parsonage was sold (they didn't know what year) to a Herbert B. Brush, known around the church as Uncle Herbert. He was a member of the church from June 5, 1910. He married Martha Van Doren in 1909. In 1967 he was 88. You do the math. He lived in the manse, which he purchased with the understanding that the church could buy it back when he wanted to sell. His heirs did, indeed, sell the parsonage back to the church in 1970 or so, at which time they sold the little Cape Cod they had purchased as a parsonage. They used the profit on the Cape to fix up the older home to make it habitable. >From the book "Rocky Hill, Kingston and Griggstown" c. 1998, by Jeanette K. Muser: "The Griggstown Cemetery Association was incorporated in 1924 and included an old section that was originally on a Veghte farm. In this old section are many of the original settlers of Griggstown. Some of the old names are Hoagland, Stats, Veghte, Elbertson, DeHart, Simonson, Oppie and VanDoren. In the much older Skillman-Beekman family cemetery are buried Thomas Skillman and Peter Vanderveer. In the Griggstown Cemetery are also 19 unmarked small brown gravestones for Irish laborers who died of the Asiatic cholera while building the Delaware and Raritan Canal. The local Ancient Order of the Hibernians has recently erected a special gravestone monument to those poor souls whose names will never be known." No, I don't have any cemetery listings. Thanks Sharon Moore Colquhoun Belle Mead NJ

    09/11/2000 12:37:30