Henry Rutgers

One road running alongside this graveyard is now called Rutgers Street (signed as but not technically part of Route 7). He was a Presidential Elector chosen by the legislature in 1808 1816 and 1820. His home served as a barracks during the British occupation of New York in 1776.

In 1865 Rutgers' body had been finally laid to rest in an unmarked grave within the Dutch Reformed Church's plot at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The college had been founded as a seminary for the Reformed Church in America and appealed to Colonel Rutgers a devout member of the church with a reputation for philanthropy for aid. In gratitude and hoping the college would be remembered in the Colonel's will the trustees of renamed it Rutgers College on December 5 1825.