Hello, Yes, I have only some of the people on my site. I don't have all the copies from the issues given below for all the names. When I have a chance to get copies of all pages from GMNJ and as I have time, I will hopefully get more names added. I live in Michigan and don't have access to all GMNJ articles. I am also trying to be careful of copyrights on other published information. If someone is inclined to transcribe the names from the below listings, I would be happy to add those names to my website. Audrey ---------------------- Forwarded Message: --------------------- From: "Kathleen Pantano" <kpantano@hotmail.com> To: NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJUnion] Reference for Quote? - Scotch Plains Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:17:56 +0000 Hi Mike, I don't have a list of the members, but the information I do have will help you get one. The gravestones for the Scotch Plains Baptist Church Yard were published in the GMNJ vol. 35, no. 2 pp 62-69, Vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 130-137; Vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 29-38; Vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 86-96. The introductory paragraph reads: "The Scotch Plains Baptist Church was organized August 5, 1747, by fifteen members from Piscataway Baptist Church at Edison (Stelton), Middlesex County. A building had been erected in 1742, which was enlarged in 1759. The first pastor was the Rev. Benjamin Miller, who served from February 13, 1748, until his death on November 14, 1781. He was suceeded in 1785 by the Rev. William Van Horne. The church, whith it's adjoining burial ground, is located on the southeast corner of Mountin and Park avenues in Scotch Plains. These inscriptions were first copied in 1922 by members of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, and subsequently supplemented by them on November 4, 1952. The early brownstones in the graveyard are in poor condition. Many in brackets were either missing or illegible in 1952. An unusual number of later stones omit the age, and some have no dates whatsoever. Family researchers are also referred to "Scotch Plains Baptist Church Members, 1747-1814," published in the January 1932 issue of this magazine (Vol. 7, no. 3), and to "Scothc Plains Baptist Church Marriage Records, 1758-1761," printed in the New Jersey Archives (First Seried, Vol. 22). The original church records have been microfilmed by Rutgers University Library." I'm sure you can get a copy of the articles referenced through Inter-library loan. Audrey Shields Hancock has lots of information from this cemetery, along with additional sources of information, on her website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/NJCh-Cem/UnionCoNJSctch Plns /ScotchPlainsBptHOME.html . While I haven't gone through it line by line, there appear to be more people listed on the GMNJ list than on the website (the purposes are different). happy hunting - Kathleen Pantano >From: Mike Miller <mmiller@pcsia.net> >To: NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NJUnion] Reference for Quote? >Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:49:52 -0600 > >Does anyone know about the membership list mentioned below? Is there a >history published of these forty new members (besides the present one >below) >or an online source? Church Minutes book somewhere? > >Mike Miller > >From: > >http://www.geocities.com/baptist_documents/1871hist_spbc.html > >referring to Rev. Benjamin Miller of the Scotch Plains Baptist Church: > >"The character of the licentiate manifested itself in the work of the >pastor. >The new interest at Scotch Plains rapidly expanded. The list of members >contains the names of forty persons under the same date with the >constituent >membership. Some of these may have united, by letters, from other places; >but >the most were undoubtedly baptized by the young pastor. Under date of June >11, 1748, four more names are recorded; October, 1748, sixty others. > >When the Philadelphia Association published its first statistical table, in >1761, Scotch Plains reported a total membership of one hundred and >thirty-four; more than three times the numerical strength of the parent >body >at the same period. " > > >==== NJUNION Mailing List ==== >www.rootsweb.com/~njunion > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ==== NJUNION Mailing List ==== www.rootsweb.com/~njunion ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237