General William Maxwell
In Honor of
Born in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1733.
His Scothch-Irish parents brought family here to Greenwich Township in 1747.
Never married and died in Hunterdon Co., Nov. 4, 1796 and buried in this churchyard.
Always a Soldier, from Private to General.
With Braddock at Fort Duquesne in 1755 and at Ticonderoga, Quebec
and the Great Lakes in 1775, in provincial congress of New Jersey.
Oct. 23, 1776 Brigadier General in the Continental Army. Fought in Canada, Brandywine, Germantown and at Valley Forge and battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown, Scotch Plains, Connecticut
Farms and Springfield. With Sullivan against Indians in 1779.
Resigned July 25, 1780. Elected to the assembly.
"An honest man, a warm friend to this country."
so wrote Washington
Marker is on Greenwich Church Road, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
