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Name | Middletown |
Alt names | Middleton | source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004387 |
Type | Inhabited place |
Coordinates | 40.383°N 74.117°W |
Located in | Monmouth, New Jersey, United States |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
Middletown is an inhabited place, listed in Wikipedia
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Middletown is one of the oldest sites of European settlement in New Jersey. It was established in 1664, after the English conquest of New Amsterdam; but there was unauthorized settlement before that. Several small historic cemeteries are in the area.
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Local Cemeteries
- the Throckmorton-Lippit-Taylor Burying Ground
- Old First Church, 69 Kings Highway, founded 1688
- Christ Episcopal Church, 92 Kings Highway, established 1702
- Middletown Reform Church, 121 Kings Highway, chartered 1836
- All Saints Memorial Church, 202 Navesink Ave, opened 1864
Local Archives
Prominent Settlers
- Penelope Stout was born in 1622 in Amsterdam, Noord, Holland, died in 1732 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, English Colony, at age 110
- Richard Stout son of John Stout and Elsabeth Bee , was born in 1605 in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, England, died on 23 Oct 1705 in Middletown, Monmouth, N.J., at age 100
- Joseph Murray
- Clinton P. Heath was born a slave in 1852 in North Carolina and was the co-founder of the Clinton Chapel, A.M.E. Zion Church, on Red Hill Road.
- John Throckmorton Sr., from Providence, Rhode Island, died about 1684.
- Edward C. Burdge
- Melvin A. Rice
- John Stillwell
- Edward Taylor, Esq., was born August 20, 1712 and died January 18, 1783
- Richard Hartshorne
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