Old Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground Explained

Upper Springfield Meetinghouse
Nrhp Type:	hd
Nearest City:	Wrightstown, New Jersey
Coordinates:	40.0444°N -74.6417°W
Nocat:	yes
Built:	1727
Added:	August 24, 1979
Refnum:	79001479

Old Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground is a cemetery located in Springfield Township and Wrightstown, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

The cemetery and the accompanying meeting house were placed on both the New Jersey (state ID # 875) and the National Register of Historic Places (Reference # 79001479) in 1979.^[1]

Notable burials

• Thomas Newbold (1760-1823), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1807 to 1813.^[2]
• George Sykes (1802-1880), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845, and was reelected in 1845 to fill a vacancy, serving until 1847.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Burlington County, New Jersey

External links

• Old Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground / Upper Springfield Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
• Old Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground at Find A Grave

Notes and References

1. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/burlington.pdf New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places
2. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000064 Thomas newbold
3. https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001131 George Sykes