Old Wesley Cemetery in Goshen, New Jersey

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Goshen swainton Road, near Dennisville Court House Road and the rail road tracks.
Goshen, New Jersey, USA

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20 Memorials
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The original John Wesley church in Cape May County was located in Goshen, NJ, off of Goshen Swainton Road, (originally called Indian Trail). The church was founded by runaway slave John West from North Carolina and his wife Elsie Smith West. Elsie, who was a Cape May County slave, was freed after her husband purchased her release from Jedediah Tomlin. (c.1823) The Old Wesley church was used as a house of prayer from 1840-1908. It was the first organized negro methodist church in Cape May County.
In 1908. a new church was built a couple of miles east in Swainton. The original church and burial ground were abandoned about the same time. They burial ground today has a few stones and bricks. It exists as a small clearing surrounded by woods and overgrown wood roads.