Lamington, New Jersey

Lamington is an unincorporated area within Bedminster Township, New Jersey. It contains the Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery and the Lamington Black Cemetery.

The name

"Lamington" is a corruption of the Native American word for the nearby stream, the "Allemetunck" or the "Loamatong". Its name means "the place within the hills" or "the place of paint clay." There are 113 recorded variations on the spelling of Lamington, including "Lametunk".^[1]

The church

The Lamington Presbyterian Church was constructed in 1740. Church membership included Scots-Irish Presbyterians, Dutch and German settlers, tenant-farmers, large and small landowners, lawyers, teachers, millers, weavers, tailors, other craftsmen and workmen, slaves and freed blacks.^[1]

National Register of Historic Places

The Lamington Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, it is district #84002802.

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Lamington include:

• John Van Dyke (1807–1878), represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1851.^[2]
• John Honeyman (1729–1822), alleged "spy of Washington" during the American Revolutionary War lived the last 30 years of his life in the Lamington area and is buried in the Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery (his original gravestone, as well as a document showing his assigned church pew, is exhibited inside the church building).
• Adam Dumville (born December 14, 1983), former professor at LCU, Adam Dumville is widely considered an up-and-coming intellectual prodigy in the field of environmental law throughout New England.

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