Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Morristown

The First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is a historic churchyard cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a contributing property to the Morristown District, on October 30, 1973.

History
The oldest interments date to 1731. There is a mass gravesite for about 150 soldiers of the American Revolutionary War who died from smallpox in 1777.



Notable burials

 * Samuel Beach Axtell (1819–1891), U.S. Congressman, Governor of Utah and New Mexico
 * Silas Condict (1738–1801), delegate to the Continental Congress
 * John Doughty (1754–1826), Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer
 * Jacob Ford Sr. (1704–1777), iron manufacturer, politician and judge
 * Jacob Ford Jr. (1738–1777) and Theodosia Ford (1741–1824), owners of the Ford Mansion, used by General Washington during the Revolutionary War
 * Jonas P. Phoenix (1788–1859), US Congressman
 * George Vail (1809–1875), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857.