Hudson County, NJ in the Revolution

Hudson County, New Jersey 

in the Revolution 

No counties listed.  They are all New Jersey. The search feature on each book's site works, sometimes! Revolutionary pensioners : a transcript of the pension list of the United States for 1813 BALTIMORE SOUTHERN BOOK COMPANY 1953 As of 1813 there were 57 New Jersey pensioners, see page 27.  Search is not working. The pages of the book cover the other 13 states as well,    Georgia became a state in 1898.   See pages of the states that adjoin New Jersey, New York-Pennsylvania-Delaware also. http://archive.org/stream/revolutionarypen00unit#page/n3/mode/2up ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Official Register of the Officers and Men  of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War  By New Jersey Adjutant general's office   William Scudder Stryker 1872        878 pages, searchable http://books.google.com/books?id=4Yg-5sOYFxwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There is an alphabetical list of privates starting on page 484. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution John Watts de Peyster Collections of the New York Historical Societyfor the Year 1914 https://archive.org/stream/musterpayrollsof47newy#page/322/mode/2up New Jersey starts at the bottom of the page and is about sixteen short pages. Other states are also in the front of the book. More states in this book https://archive.org/stream/musterandpayrol00socigoog#page/n5/mode/2up ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Compiled service records If you have found someone in the New Jersey Revolutionary Armies, this link is to the compiled service records for New Jersey.   You might want to have their regiment number handy from the  register book above.  Look for the alphabet letter of the surname. (A-B, etc.) This is just a list of search results on archive.org with the links. http://archive.org/search.php?query=compiled%20revolutionary%20war%20new%20jersey%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ============================================== Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots Index (ancestry) There are 63 pages of names listed in alphabetical order.  Over 3000 names. You can edit the search page to find a certain relative's name. You can also find soldiers from other states by changing the search location. ============================================== These lists are for the entire state of New Jersey 1813 New Jersey Pension List  1818 New Jersey Pensioners Of The United States  1820 New Jersey Pension List  New Jersey Pensioners Of Revolutionary War Struck Off The Roll  - includes Hudson County

Hudson County Burial grounds ~ Snake Hill ~ Laurel Hill

Hudson County Burial grounds ~ 

Snake Hill ~ Laurel Hill

  In 1820, a county poorhouse farm was established on 200 acres of land in what would eventually become Hudson County, directly across the river from Manhattan. By the end of the century, it had become the sprawling Snake Hill complex, named perhaps for the black water snakes that lived in marshes along the property. The complex included an almshouse, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, and tuberculosis, smallpox, and isolation hospitals, as well as three burial grounds that took in not only the dead of Snake Hill but also the unknown and unwanted from surrounding municipalities such as Jersey City and Hoboken. In the twentieth century, the grim amalgamation of institutions was given the cheerier designation of Laurel Hill.

the rest of the 2005 magazine article by Kristen M. Romney from archeology.org 

http://www.louisberger.com/our-work/project/potters-field-secaucus-nj-us

                                         

Debunking the Myth.pdf

Graveinfo burial list

Information

News January 17, 2003    
Today Judge Thomas Olivieri made his decision today to grant  the Turnpike Authority the right to disinter the remains of those found in the section of cemetery lying within the Secaucus Interchange Project, to be re-interred at the Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey.


Judge OKs disinterment to make way for new road

Date: January 19, 2003
Publication: Times, The (Trenton, NJ) Page: a6 SECAUCUS (AP) _ A judge approved the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's plan to dig up bodies from an old burial site to make way for a new interchange serving a railroad transfer station and commercial hub.The authority was given permission Friday to disinter graves in an area of the potter's field where as many as 3,500 people could be buried. Any remains found will be re-interred at a cemetery in North Bergen. The authority needs to excavate the site to construct a $235 million...

The largest disinterment in U.S. history.  4,569 bodies transferred.  About 5,000 may still be buried in the near vicinity.  

(NJ turnpike exit 15X)

 Memorial at Snake Hill site

wikipedia

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Cemetery Memorial

photo

Inscription

Maple Grove Park Cemetery

Asylum records

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Snake Hill Documentary

free youtube trailer 2min.

I have not watched the 72 minute documentary.
It is for sale ($25+shipping) or to rent ($3) on amazon.

Documentary storyline

Catholic cemeteries in Hudson County

Holy Name cemetery burial index is online

http://www.rcancem.org/find-a-loved-one-search

There are no ages listed though. If you find someone there you can get the age from the microfilms or send me an email from my website.

Holy Cross cemetery also on the rcan site is very close by and many from Hudson County were buried there.

St. Peter's cemetery in Jersey City is also on the microfilms and if you checked the first two cemeteries I can check St. Peter's for you.

website: bitly.com/jcgeney

microfilms are available from the LDS at familysearch.com