First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge

First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge. . , The First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge is home to the oldest Presbyterian congregation in Middlesex County and the sixth oldest in the state. Located at 600 Rahway Avenue and known as “The Old White Church”, its first service was conducted May 27, 1675, in a small wooden Meeting House that served as both a non-denominational place of worship and the seat of local government until the early 1700s. In 1710, a Presbyterian majority within the congregation made the Meeting House their official Church. The present structure was built in 1803 by Johnathan Freeman., The cemetery, in use since 1675, contains some of the best examples of 18th-century Puritan funerary art. The oldest legible tombstone dates to 1690. Notable burials include a freed slave, Jack; Mary Compton Campbell, the first white child to be born in Woodbridge in 1668; patriot/First Presbyterian Church Pastor Reverend Azel Roe; 75 American Revolutionary soldiers of whom the most famous is General Nathaniel Heard, leader of the Middlesex County militia in their arrest of New Jersey Loyalist Governor William Franklin., More information visit www.wthpc.org , Woodbridge Township Historic Preservation Commission , Mayor John E. McCormac Woodbridge Township 2013 ,