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Somerville Cemetery, Somerville
Somerville Cemetery refers to two cemeteries located in Somerville, New Jersey, in the United States. The "Old Cemetery" was founded about 1813, but its small size meant that it quickly filled. In 1867, the "New Cemetery" (a much larger burying ground) was founded across Bridge Street from the Old Cemetery. The New Cemetery has a large African American section, an artifact of an era in which burials were often segregated by race.
==Old Cemetery==
"Old Cemetery", also sometimes referred to as "Old Raritan Cemetery" or the "Bridge Street Cemetery", is located at the intersection of South Bridge Street and 5th Street. It is distinct from the Old Dutch Parsonage Cemetery, located at Washington Place and South Middaugh Street, founded in 1751.〔Sarapin, p. 106.〕 Old Cemetery traces its founding to about 1813, when John Whitenack purchased of land on Bridge Street for a burying ground on behalf of the First Dutch Church of Raritan. The earliest burial is allegedly William Hartwick's child.〔(Snell and Ellis, p. 679. ) Accessed 2013-04-18.〕 The earliest burials were near the front of the cemetery on Bridge Street, and are quite close to the wall. Many of the earliest names belong to the Dutch settlers of the area: Freylingheysen, Hardenburgh, and Voorhees.〔
In 1847, John C. Garretson agreed to donate about of land around the cemetery's edges. Gradually, additional land was purchased, until the cemetery had .〔
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