In a message dated 6/15/03 9:25:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, djfab@dmci.net writes: > Subj: [NJUnion] Visting Union County > Date: 6/15/03 9:25:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:djfab@dmci.net">djfab@dmci.net</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com">NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > I will be visiting at the end of this month and hope someone can give me > some guidance about the best places to find information on my family. > They were Presbyterians, from the Revolutionary era. Any suggestions? > > I'm especially interested in Elizabeth. > What were their names? I have a book on burials at the Elizabeth Presbyterian Church Cemetery and perhaps I can find them and set you on that path. Were they from the town of Elizabeth or from Elizabethtown. At the time of the American Revolution all of Elizabethtown was in Essex County. My ancestors went out to Cranford, Union Township and Westfield. Westfield Library has a terrific Local History Room which is run by the "Historical Society of the West Fields". Westfield Presbyterian Church and Cemetery have a lot of old records, many found in the library. There is a book called "The Way We Were: The Story of Old Elizabethtown" which may be of some benifit. You can ask for that at your local library. Some records are kept in Essex County for that time period, many would be kept at the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton. I have not tried to get anything from the City of Elizabeth myself, but you might try. Hope this helps. Dave from Long Island