Grave Site of Capt. John Leek/Leak Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery
(Photo by John H. Yates)
This web site is a work in progress to document known grave sites of Revolutionary War Patriots
in Southern New Jersey. Some links are not working as data is collected and processed.
I am currently processing the four volume set:
Hatcher, Patricia Law, Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary War Patriots,
Vol. 1-4, Heritage Books, Westminster, Maryland, 2007,
for Southern NJ grave sites.
These books are summaries of annual reports that the DAR has
provided to the Smithsonian Institution over the years.
They are a wealth of grave site information, but the quality varies.
Stay tuned.
New: On December 29, 2013 I finished entering the NJ data into a speadsheet. 3024 records.
They can now be sorted by cemetery and photos and GPS coordinates collected in field trips.
Much of the data is very crude, but it is what it is. New: On January 3, 2014 I finished a best effort first pass through the records identifying the
counties, if possible. So far: Southern New Jersey: 555, Northern New Jersey 2401, and 68 so far indeterminate.
For this project:
Southern New Jersey Counties:
Atlantic,
Burlington,
Camden,
Cape May,
Cumberland,
Gloucester,
Monmouth,
Ocean and
Salem.
Northern New Jersey Counties:
Bergen,
Essex,
Hudson,
Hunterdon,
Mercer,
Middlesex,
Morris,
Passaic,
Somerset,
Sussex,
Union and
Warren.
Notes:
The maps on this site have been fixed as of December 9, 2023. Google changed the
Maps API a long time ago, and it was not backward compatible. I finally took
three to four days to fix things.
This project has been effectively suspended, although modest additions may continue.
Not all the cemetery maps have push-pins of patriots in them. They have patriots
that have not been GPS located yet.
The newer Google Maps API has an icon in the upper right hand side of these maps that
allows toggling to a full screen view and back. This is very useful.
Each of the named cemetery maps include all of the currently entered data, but gives only a view
at the selected cemetery. Zooming out will show that. The map links from GPS coordinates DO NOT
have the data in them, they only show a map with a push-pin at the calling GPS coordinates.
Map -
This map shows ALL of the patriot graves whose GPS coordinates have been added to this site.
Zoom in/out and drag the map to your desired view.
Click on a push pin to see the Patriot name and GPS coordinates of that grave stone.
Remember that these GPS coordinates are accurate only to +/-15 feet, at best.
Note that these maps now have an icon to toggle going to full screen and back
on their upper right hand side.
All Cemeteries Map -
This map shows ALL of the cemeteries currently added to this site.
Notes:
Click on the Patriot's name for more information, when available.
Click on the GPS coordinates to see a map of that site.
Click on the Cemetery name to see a map of grave sites in that cemetery.
Click on a push-pin for information about it.
Birth, Death, and y m d (age in years months days, often used on grave stones)
are as reported on the grave stone, or as in obtained records.
Counties are present counties, not necessarily those at the time of the Revolutionary War.
The DAR#'s are found on the DAR site. Those sites are the sites of record
for more information on the Patriots.
When looking at the full map you will see a push pin in the Atlantic Ocean South East of
Atlantic City. These are from the dummy 39. -74. GPS coordinates used as a place holder for
some Patriots.
Raw Data Counts
A best effort determination of county was done on Hatcher's sparse data. This involved some
assumptions and is subject to some revisions for particular sites. The unknown
sites are sites in Hatcher's data for which no guess at all could be made.
Since the Hatcher book data is sparse and sometimes submitted in more than one year
by DAR chapters, cemetery names, patriot name spellings and completeness may vary.
The data is what it is. So these counts need to be taken as approximate, not absolute.
The data in these count files are from intermediate processing files from data analysis
scripts written to help analyze it. Because of the roughness of the Hatcher data,
these counts should be considered approximate, and subject to further analysis
before basing conclusions on them.
Sitelist South - South means Southern NJ counties as noted above.
Sitelist All - (Sites for which a county could not be assigned (sometimes guessed) are at the end of the list).
Absegami Yesteryear, Jack E. Boucher, The Atlantic County Historical Society, 1963.
A History of Little Egg Harbor Township, Leah Blackman, 1880, Reprinted 1963.
Along Absecon Creek, A History of Early Absecon, New Jersey, Sarah W. R. Ewing and Robert McMullin,
C.O.W.A.N. Printing, Bridgeton, NJ, 1965.
"Atlantic County Gravestone Inscriptions", Atlantic Heritage Center, Somers Point, New Jersey,
P-401.6 Vol 1-12.
Cemetery Tour: Zion United Methodist Church, 652 Zion Road, Bargaintown, Egg Harbor Township,
NJ 08234. A brochure available in a box at the edge of the Zion Cemetery, old side.
Churches & Graveyards of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, R. Marilyn Schmidt, Pine Barrens Press.
The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey, John F. Hall, 1900.
Disclaimer: The information provided on this site is only as good as its sources. Often sources
disagree. All attempts have been made to obtain DAR# numbers and matching that data with
identity, location, and cemetery data. The scope of this project is not to provide new information
other than documenting burial sites. The reader is encouraged to verify information for themselves.
If you find errors or additions, please use this
Contact
link to report your information and your sources.
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