Old Newton Burial Ground: Five Thousand Souls Since 1762

The Old Newton Burial Ground is one of the oldest cemeteries in Sussex County, New Jersey. The oldest portion was dedicated in seventeen sixty-two as part of the original town plot. The ground was enlarged around eighteen twenty, and in eighteen thirty-seven Job S.

Halsted donated three-fifths of an acre to the Presbyterian Church to expand it further. By eighteen seventy-six, historians estimated that roughly five thousand people were buried here, including many of the earliest European settlers of the county. That number makes it not just a local graveyard but a primary record of colonial and early American life in northwestern New Jersey, holding the remains of generations who built the region before the Revolution and long after it.