Prince Rodgers Cemetery
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Prince Rodgers Cemetery

Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA

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    Coordinates: 40.59879, -74.60636
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This cemetery is also known by some as the 'VanderVeer Burying Ground', although there are several other cemeteries in the area with the same name. It "is thought to contain graves of the old Vanderveer family's black servants". Located on the south side of Foothill Rd. about 200 yards east of North Bridge St. in Bridgewater Twp., NJ., it sits on a small knoll set back a few feet from the street. The cemetery is a triangular shaped plot between two houses and is classified as abandoned. Some attempts have been made to keep down the underbrush by placing black plastic and wood chips on the ground. As can be seen in the photographs, the stones are broken and have been strewn about. Only two, those of Prince Rogers and Sarah Van Zandt, are legible.



Grave transcriptions 'Somerset Messenger-Gazette', Jan. 5, 1940.

Other background information:

'Old Burial Grounds of Bridgewater Twp.: A survey of ancient and historic family cemeteries', 7/2004, John Daniel Koblan

'North of the Raritan Lotts, A History of the Martinsville, NJ Area', 1975, Edited by Edward J. Maas




This cemetery is also known by some as the 'VanderVeer Burying Ground', although there are several other cemeteries in the area with the same name. It "is thought to contain graves of the old Vanderveer family's black servants". Located on the south side of Foothill Rd. about 200 yards east of North Bridge St. in Bridgewater Twp., NJ., it sits on a small knoll set back a few feet from the street. The cemetery is a triangular shaped plot between two houses and is classified as abandoned. Some attempts have been made to keep down the underbrush by placing black plastic and wood chips on the ground. As can be seen in the photographs, the stones are broken and have been strewn about. Only two, those of Prince Rogers and Sarah Van Zandt, are legible.



Grave transcriptions 'Somerset Messenger-Gazette', Jan. 5, 1940.

Other background information:

'Old Burial Grounds of Bridgewater Twp.: A survey of ancient and historic family cemeteries', 7/2004, John Daniel Koblan

'North of the Raritan Lotts, A History of the Martinsville, NJ Area', 1975, Edited by Edward J. Maas




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