Farms: Abandoned Places - Brewer Cemetery in Farmingdale Township Monmouth County New Jersey
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Record of Brewer Cemetery - Farmingdale, New Jersey "Record of the Brewer Cemetery, Farmingdale, New Jersey," compiled by Constance Cornwell, is a typescript dated about 1946, and can be found at the New Jersey State Library. A photocopy of this typescript was included in the William B. Bogardus Collection, and a scanned PDF is now up online. Record of the Brewer Cemetery - Farmingdale, New Jersey The burials that are found in this cemetery are primarily from the 19th century, but it is apparent that the property was originally the family burial grounds of the family of Adam Brewer (1696-1768/69) of "Squancome, Shrewsbury Township." Adam Brewer, in his will dated 22 August 1768, sets aside one acre to be reserved for a burying ground. Google Maps places the Brewer cemetery in Howell Township (which is incorrect, the cemetery is physically in the Borough of Farmingdale). It is located on Lakewood-Farmingdale Rd. (Rte 524). Howell Township was created out of Shrewsbury Township in 1801. In 1903 the Borough of Farmingdale was formed out of Howell Township. A map of Monmouth County, New Jersey from the 1770s (exact date unknown) is online courtesy of Rutgers Special Collections and Archives. This map has few details, but Shark River is labeled along the right side of the map (enlarge the image to see this). On the modern Google map (pan out) it can be seen that the Brewer cemetery is about five miles directly west of Shark River. Although a scale is not included on the 1770s map, it appears probable that the cemetery might be in the general location of what is marked as "Squancom Bridge." The cemetery transcriptions include numerous surnames other than BREWER. Some are related to the Brewers by marriage. Of the Brewers, the oldest burials are of John E. Brewer (1754-1837), his wife, Constant (Hulet), and George Brewer (1770-1851). John E. Brewer and George Brewer were brothers, sons of Elazerus Brewer and Francis Morris. The few other Brewer burials are members of their families. This group of Brewers are descendants of Adam Brouwer of Gowanus, Long Island. Source: http://brouwergenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/06/record-of-brewer-cemetery-farmingdale.html
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To find the oldest one it will look like the 1769 stone Tall skinny stones Flying skull will be the oldest 1700s
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Think my GGG aunt is there Sarah Brewer
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Thanks for the depressing video .lol I wonder how many are unmarked graves.
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Just like being there. It's so wonderful that you've taken the time to share this with others. I was wondering if you might take some information from the stones next time you visit the cemetery. Jacob, Adam and Elazarus Brouwer (Brewer) are my 6th, 7th and 8th great grand fathers ....there may be some relatives at this site. O
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Lol --I just was thinking the same as I took a stroll here yesterday. I wonder if there is old cellar holes around here. Lots of thorny bushes ----cool place though,I going to get some Infrared shots there in a few days
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actually if your ever in that area again if your familiar with the bridge close to there it takes you on I95 there is a pull off on that bridge people go fishing there but there is another cemetery down there. it looks really old. so under that bridge is graves. you should do a video on that i always wanted to go down there. brisbane is cool to but i got in alot of trouble for that lol so dont go there. thats on the same property as allaire state park
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im from howell nj ..always spent time in farmingdale but i lived not to far from there but years back there was a report that someone went back there and broke the grave stones. i would of thought they would fix it but it looks like they didnt.