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Bedminster Township, Hillside Ave, demolished municipal building. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T35719QK
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Bedminster Township, Hillside Ave, demolished municipal building. 2012. Clarence Dillon Public Library. RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T35719QK

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TitleBedminster Township, Hillside Ave, demolished municipal building
NameMelick, Aaron (Associated name), Kennedy, Wendy (Photographer), Dow, James B. (Associated name), Clarence Dillon Public Library
Date Created2012
SubjectLand, Burial grounds, Municipal buildings
DescriptionThis lot along Hillside Avenue, Bedminster was the site of the former town hall municipal building that was demolished in summer 2011. This corner of the lot is the approximate location of what is thought to be a "negro burying ground" as indicated in a deed for the property from 1801. The deed recorded the transaction as an "indenture for the sale of a one-tenth of an acre from Aaron Melick to three African American men" two of whom were slave and the third a "free negro." The deed states the property was to be used as a "burying ground for the Black people in the Neighborhood." The tract was sold for three dollars.

Since all African American were forbidden to to own land in New Jersey prior to the Revoluntionary War and that restriction was only gradually lifted, this sale is considered on of the earliest on record involving African Americans.

This burial ground is depicted in the 1873 F. W. Beers Atlas of Somerset County. In 1935, Bedminster Township made a property purchase from the estate of James B. Dow in order to construct the town hall. While the tract that contained the burial ground was not owned by Dow, his estate claimed it and it was included in the sale to the Township.
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present), Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820),
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T35719QK
CollectionClarence Dillon Public Library
Organization NameClarence Dillon Public Library
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