[2] Prior to 1868, the cemetery was an informal burial ground on the farm of John Van Cleef.

The act named the initial seven members of corporation that would manage the cemetery, specified that all future members must be owners of burial plots within the cemetery, and that a new board would be elected annually by vote proportional to the number of plots owned.

[7] Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (c. 1691 – c. 1747) was a Dutch-Reformed minister and theologian who immigrated in 1720 to the Raritan River valley of New Jersey[8] to lead the congregations at Raritan, New Brunswick, Six-Mile Run, Three-Mile Run, North Branch and Harlingen.

[9] When in 1884 his descendants decided to place a stone on his grave, they could not determine where his body was interred.

In contending for a Spiritual Religion his motto was, "Laudem non quaero, culpam non timeo."