Thank you!

My name is Tim Brown from Troop 6 in Caldwell, New Jersey, and The Veterans of the Old Burying Ground at Caldwell is my Eagle Scout project. It was assembled with the help of our wonderful researchers (Jill Ann Bardi, Stephen and Noraleigh Brown, Eileen Crean, Mackenzie C, Christine McGrath, JB Mollet, Martha Rioux, and Matthew Warren), our superb writers (Kate, Nora, Noraleigh and Stephen Brown, Eileen Crean, Aidan L, Christine McGrath, Aidan Musser, John O’Brien, and John Pascal), and our exemplary narrators (Andrew and Chris Crean, Ed Kohler, JB Mollet, Nicholas R, John Rogacki, Tyler R, Ryan and James Stevens, Billy S, and Matt Summers). I would like to thank our stellar photographers (Bill Bartlett, Noraleigh Brown and Marie-Lys Mollet), my loyal tech support Nora Brown and Matt Summers and our incomparable web designer, Rudy Garbely, without whom, you wouldn’t be reading this at all. Finally, I would like to thank the gracious members of the West Caldwell Historical Society for supporting me in such an exciting project. We hope to bring to you a new understanding and depth to the experience of our Caldwell Revolutionary War veterans, do enjoy your visit!

Biographical information about our veterans came from the following sources:

New Jersey. Surrogate's Court (Essex); Probate: Essex, Passaic and Morris Counties, New Jersey. Source Information: Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: New Jersey County, District and Probate Courts.

Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; National Archives, Washington. D.C.

Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company.

Ancestry.com. History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Shaw, William H.. History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1884.

National Archives; Washington, D.C.; Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War; Record Group Title: War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records; Record Group Number: 93; Series Number: M881; NARA Roll Number: 643. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data:

• Compiled Service Records of American Naval Personnel and Members of the Departments of Quartermaster General and the Commissary General of Military Stores who Served During the Revolutionary War; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M880, 4 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, RG 93; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M881, 1096 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, RG 93; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Ancestry.com. An historical survey of the First Presbyterian Church, Caldwell, N.J. [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Berry, C. T.. An historical survey of the First Presbyterian Church, Caldwell, N.J.. N.J.: unknown, 1871. (Thomas Gould, p.13)

Ancestry.com. Origin and annals of the "Old Church on the Green": the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Origin and annals of the "Old Church on the Green": the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield. Bloomfield, N.J.: S. Morris Hulin, 1901. (Stephen Fordham, p. 67)

Ancestry.com. An historical sketch of Montclair from its earliest settlement to the centennial anniversary of national independence [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Harris, F. H.. An historical sketch of Montclair from its earliest settlement to the centennial anniversary of national independence. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Times Steam Print., 1881. (Stephen Fordham, p.10)

Ancestry.com. Bloomfield old and new : an historical symposium by several authors [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Bloomfield old and new : an historical symposium by several authors. Bloomfield, N.J.: Centennial Historical Committee, 1912. (First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, p. 52)

Frazza, Al. “REVOLUTIONARY WAR SITES IN CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY.” Caldwell, New Jersey Revolutionary War Sites | Caldwell Historic Sites, 2019, www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/caldwell_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm.

Lockward, Lynn G. A Puritan Heritage; The First Presbyterian Church in Horse-Neck (Caldwell, N.J.). 1955.

“Remembering New Jersey's Essex County People.” RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project Global Search, Historical Society of West Caldwell, New Jersey, 2017, wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi.

Stryker, William S. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (Trenton: Wm. T. Nicholson & Co.) 1872.

“The Muster Roll.” Muster Roll, Valley Forge Park Alliance, 2019, valleyforgemusterroll.org/muster.asp?id=NJ28168 (Jacob Kent)