When John Apgar was born on 18 August 1805, in Mount Pleasant, Alexandria Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, his father, Frederick Apgar, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Mettler, was 21. He married Mary Ann Gray on 1 March 1827, in Warren, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Clinton, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States in 1880 and Alexandria, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America in 1880. He died on 2 April 1894, in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Alexandria Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
Post office est. 1829
Americanized form of North German Epgert: habitational name from a village in the Rhineland called Epgert. The surname Epgert is very rare in Germany. Compare Apker .
History: Friedrich Epgert alias Frederick Apgar, from Westerwald Rhineland-Palatinate, died in Cokesbury, NJ, in 1760. Sergeant Peter Apgar served in the Hunterdon County, NJ, militia in the American Revolutionary War.
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