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.

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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)]