Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Morristown

Burying Ground of the Presbyterian Church
Details
Location	Morristown, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°47′53″N 74°28′45″W / 40.79806°N 74.47917°W / 40.79806; -74.47917
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Part of	Morristown District (ID73001126)
Designated CP	October 30, 1973

The First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is a historic churchyard cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a contributing property to the Morristown District, on October 30, 1973.^[1]

The oldest interments date to 1731. There is a mass gravesite for about 150 soldiers of the American Revolutionary War who died from smallpox in 1777.^[2]

• Samuel Beach Axtell (1819–1891), U.S. Congressman, Governor of Utah and New Mexico
• Silas Condict (1738–1801), delegate to the Continental Congress^[2]
• John Doughty (1754–1826), Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer
• Jacob Ford Sr. (1704–1777), iron manufacturer, politician and judge^[2]
• Jacob Ford Jr. (1738–1777) and Theodosia Ford (1741–1824), owners of the Ford Mansion, used by General Washington during the Revolutionary War^[2]
• Jonas P. Phoenix (1788–1859), US Congressman
• George Vail (1809–1875), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857.^[3]

• List of cemeteries in New Jersey
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey

• Media related to First Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Morristown, New Jersey) at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• First Presbyterian Churchyard at Find a Grave