^ a b "Piscatawaytown Burial Grounds - Middlesex County, New Jersey".^ a b c "Piscatawaytown burials ground GPR project report" (PDF).^ a b c d "Piscatawaytown Burial Ground – Edison, NJ".
"Survey reveals almost 100 burials in the 'colored burial ground' at historic Piscatawaytown Burial Ground in Edison 11 have been identified".
^ a b c d e Change, Kathy (March 3, 2022). James Episcopal Church Piscataway" (PDF). The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography, Trenton, New Jersey, 1969. "A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey: Comprehending a General View of Its Physical and Moral Condition, Together with a Topographical and Statistical Account of Its Counties, Towns, Villages, Canals, Rail Roads, &c., Accompanied by a Map". New York, Chicago, Lewis historical publishing company. ^ "History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1664-1920". ^ Governors of New Jersey Archived November 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey State Library. James Episcopal Church, Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ". ^ a b Survey, Historic American Buildings. ^ a b "Revolutionary War Sites in Edison, New Jersey". Settled in the late 1600s by New Englanders, this historic site once consisted of a town hall, militia training ground, stockade, jail, church, burial ground and houses." "The remnants of the Piscataway village and town commons can still be seen in modern Edison Township. "History Revealed In Piscatawaytown and Edison", TAP into Piscataway, September 9, 2015. ^ a b Middlesex County Office of Culture and Heritage. ^ "NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF). United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. List of neighborhoods in Edison, New Jersey. In total, there have been 1,815 burials identified as of 2015, with 1,494 of those burials having gravestones. Only 11 of those individuals have been identified. Ī ground-penetrating radar scan of the burial ground conducted in 2021 identified 98 graves in the southwest corner of the grounds which has been designated as the colored burial ground. The highest ranking veteran buried in the grounds is Brevet Major General Thomas Swords, a veteran of the Mexican War and Civil War, buried in 1886. This includes British soldiers who had died in the Revolutionary War and were buried in a common grave in 1777. There are many veterans from various wars buried in the grounds. The oldest readable gravestone is that of the Hoopar brothers, aged 10 and 12, who died of mushroom poisoning. There had been burials at the location before the granting of tract, with one readable gravestone dating from 1693. The Piscatawaytown Burial Ground is one of the oldest recorded cemeteries in Middlesex County and maintained by the township. James Church as a barracks and a hospital from December 1776 to June 1777.Ī June 1835 tornado caused damage to many of the gravestones as well as Saint James Church. The Post Road (a post road, now Woodbridge Avenue) was a main land artery for British communications and movement of supplies and troops. Ĭonsiderable military activity and battles known as the Forage War took place during the Revolutionary War in the Piscatawaytown area in 17. Saint James Church was established in 1704 and the original structure built in 1724. The settlement comprised a town hall, militia training ground, stockade, jail, church, burial ground and houses. The Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey granted a tract of land for a burial ground and a town common on March 5, 1695. Raritan Township was renamed Edison in the 1950s. On March 17, 1870, portions of adjacent Piscataway and Woodbridge were used to form Raritan Township. Other settlements included Quibbletown and Raritan Landing. Soon thereafter additional settlers from the Piscataqua River, the state boundary of New Hampshire and Maine moved to region, bringing the name. In 1666, the first proprietary Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Philip Carteret, granted 12 new settlers from Massachusetts a 100 square mile allotment of land that was later founded as the townships of Piscataway and Woodbridge. Piscataway was settled New Englanders in the 17th century. The Raritan were bands of the Lenape people living around the Raritan River and its bay, in what is now central New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. 
James Church, the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and the Piscatawaytown Common, near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge Avenues.
It was established in the 1660s as the original village in what was then within Piscataway. Piscatawaytown is the oldest neighborhood in Edison in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
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