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Lee Wolfe
Top - View looking through the ruins of the Old Swack Church. Opposite page - Oliver
Barnet9s memorial stone in Oldwick. (Photos by Lee Wolfe)
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man who gave Readington Township its
name. An avid genealogist, David9s interest
in rescuing Hunterdon9s imperiled cemeteries began with an abandoned ancestral plot,
The Reading Burial Ground, also known as
the Reading-Johnson Burial Ground, in
Stockton. The cemetery belongs to a 250year old farm which is located on land originally surveyed and owned by another of
David9s ancestors, Colonel John Reading,
the father of Governor John Reading and
a West Jersey Proprietor, who is known as
the earliest
