The First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey is one of the oldest churches in the Presbyterian denomination. It was the seat of the

Presbytery of New Brunswick The Presbytery of New Brunswick is a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 1738 the Presbytery of East Jersey was merged with the Presbytery of Long Island and renamed the Presbytery of New York, and two days after that, the Presbyter ...

which is now located in

Trenton, New Jersey Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. It was the capital of the United States from November 1 to December 24, 1784.Presbytery of East Jersey Presbytery and presbyterium may refer to: * Presbyterium, a body of ordained, active priests in the Catholic or Anglican churches * Presbytery (architecture), the area of a church building more commonly referred to as the "chancel" or "sanctuary" ...

was merged with the Presbytery of Long Island and renamed the

Presbytery of New York The Presbytery of New York was a presbytery formed in 1717 as the Long Island Presbytery by the division of the Presbytery of Philadelphia into three sections. It covered the Province of New York The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a ...

, and two days after that, the

was created. In late 1726, or early 1727 Reverend Gilbert Tennent was ordained pastor of the congregation. The church records were destroyed or lost, during the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...

when British soldiers were quartered in the manse. The records of the First Presbyterian Church (Newark, New Jersey) were destroyed at the same time. Because of damage to the church from the war, a new building was set up to replace the damaged one. In 1937 John Gresham Machen was condemned by the Presbytery of New Brunswick for disobeying higher authorities in a religious court hearing held in

Pastors

* Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) 1726 to 1743. * Thomas Arthur (minister) 1746 to 1751. * Israel Reed 1768 to 1786. * Walter Monteith 1786 to 1794. * Joseph Clark (minister) 1797 to 1813. * Levi J. F. Huntington 1815 to 1820. * Samuel B. How 1821 to 1823. * Joseph H. Jones 1821 to 1823. * Robert Birch 1839 to 1842. * Robert Davidson (minister) 1843 to ?. * Howard Crosby (1826–1891) 1861-1862. * William White Knox (1843-1929) circa 1900. * Szabolcs S. G. Nagy 1977 to 2010.

Notable burials

* John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1807), mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey.

External links

History
Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick
Three sermons: with a foreword and a brief history of the Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey
(1947)

References

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