Researchers aim to show cemetery is final resting place of enslaved people who helped build NJ town

WNYC News | Mar 3, 2023
A half-dozen researchers hope to show, through continued exploration of primary historical records and through the use of ground-penetrating radar in the next few months, enslaved people are buried in the deteriorating Cedar Grove Farm Burial Ground. The site is the final resting place of late-1700s estate owner Thomas Doremus, his descendants and other early Dutch settlers.

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