The Old Scots Burying Ground is a historic cemetery located on Gordon's Corner Road in the Wickatunk section of Marlboro Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

[3] The Old Scots Burying Ground is about an acre in size,[4] about 195 feet above sea level[5] and dates back to 1685.

[10] In 1945, in an attempt to clean out the site of vegetation and over-growth, a bulldozer was used on the property and as a result some headstones were dislodged and broken stones removed.

[12] The monument is currently owned by the Synod of the Northeast who holds the property deed but it is maintained by the Old Tennent Church.

The location was known as "Free Hill" or "the upper meeting house"[14] and was the site of the first recorded Presbytery session.

[15] By 1705[16] a refined church was constructed and a notation in the court record of the location as a "publick meeting house".

Allen Henry Brown, which led to the erection of this monument this tablet is set as a memorial by the Synod of New Jersey".

[27] On another side of the monument written at the base is "Elder Walter Ker" and under his name is "Acts VIII 4" (Meaning: "Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.

")[28] On one side of the monument there is an inscription: "Erected under the supervision of the Synod of New Jersey in 1899 to recognize the good providence of God in planting the Presbyterian church in this county and to commemorate the first recorded ordination by a Presbytery in the American colonies.

The general Presbytery assembling in the Old Scots meeting house on this ground December 1706, ordained John Boyd, who died August 30th 1708 and was buried here.

They found Twenty-two artifacts including window glass, nails and a clay pipe stem fragment.

Testing in an area west of the monument mound, uncovered the remains of an intact dry-laid foundation wall approximately two-feet wide.

It has been determined that in addition to the use of the property as a church and cemetery, it is possible that American Indian groups my have utilized this site as well.