Hi All Regarding the GMNJ volumes 35 and 36 articles on the Scotch Plains Baptist Church - back issues of these magazines are probably available for purchase directly from the GSNJ. If anyone would like me to find out if these particular volumes and or issues are available, please let me know. (Back issues are $20 for a full volume or $8 for an individual issue, plus postage.) Joan M. Lowry (President, GSNJ) East Rutherford NJ mailto:jmlowry@earthlink.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Kathleen Pantano [mailto:kpantano@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:18 AM > To: NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NJUnion] Reference for Quote? - Scotch Plains > > > 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/Unio nCoNJSctchPlns/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