The Area Surrounding the Old Church Farm
On the map below Cranbury is located in the lower left-hand portion. Cranbury Station is a few miles to the east. Hightstown and Perrineville are to the south and in neighboring Monmouth County are Tennent, Englishtown and Freehold. Deys and Dyes lived in all of these areas.Additions will occur as resources become available. If you have something to add please contact me at jbutler@uh.edu
Cranbury, New Jersey is alive and well.
Pictorial Displays from Middlesex County, New Jersey
Old Tennent Presbyterian Church
The marker to the far left reads "HANNAH the wife of John B. Dey. Hannah Dey was the daughter of Captain John Dey and Mary Baird [Laurens (1) > Hans (2) > James Hans (3) > James (4) > Captain John (5) > Hannah (6)] and John B. Dey was her first cousin, the son of Benjamin Dey [Laurens (1) > Hans (2) > James Hans (3) > James (4) > Benjamin(5) > John B. (6)]
The picture above is from Nancy Robertson who writes .... "bought by John Dye, Sr., 1725, Old Church Farm.
The first small church in the neighborhood was built on one corner of it. Building recently burned down - and
the two gravestones behind it have all be stolen, but that is where our ancestors are burried."
The Old Yellow Meeting House at Freehold, New Jersey
Built about 1733 -- Thanks Regina Barry.
Yellow Meeting House Church Yard - 1
Yellow Meeting House Church Yard - 2
Yellow Meeting House Church Yard - 3
Yellow Meeting House Church Yard - 4
Yellow Meeting House Church Yard - 5
