This cache will take you to the Revolutionary-era Hillside and
Bottle Hill Cemetery, located on Main Street, Madison. This is the
resting place of many of Madison’s founding fathers, Revolutionary
war and Civil war soldiers. Including the 1777 table-top marker of
Presbyterian Pastor and Patriot Chaplain Azariah Horton
The Reverend Azariah Horton (1715-1777) was a Presbyterian
pastor, soldiers,and chaplain in the American Revolutionary war
under General George Washington.
While the Continental Army was in Morristown, during the winter
of 1777, smallpox appeared, and many soldiers as well as civilians
fell victims and died. To stop the disease from spreading General
Washington ordered all the troops in his army to be inoculated.
The Commander-in-Chief conferred with the pastors of Morristown,
Hanover, and Bottle Hill, including Reverend Azariah Horton, and
they assisted him in securing houses, and inducing the civilian
people to be inoculated.
The Reverend Azariah Horton ministered to the suffering soldiers
until he contracted the disease and himself died in March 1777.
This Main Street site actually contains two neighboring
cemeteries in one. The older section on the hill, called Bottle
Hill Cemetery, surrounded the original Presbyterian Meeting House
which opened in 1748.
The coordinates will take you to the marker of Reverend Azariah
Horton, where you will need to locate the information to the final
coordinates. The actual cache is hidden less then a mile away in a
town park.
N40 45. (A) (F) (A+C+E)
W074 23. (B+C+D) (D+F) (F)
To locate the coordinates to the final cache you must find the
following information:
A=__ The date Reverend Azarah Horton died?
1. 12th 2.18th 3.27th 4. 30th
B=__ Was the pastor of this church for how may years?
1.12 2.25 3.28 4. 31
C=__ Name of Azariah Horton's wife?
1. Pheobe 2. Mary 3.Eunice 4. Elizabeth
D=__ Azariah Horton's wife died at what age?
1. 45 2. 49 3. 50 4. 56
E=__ Name of Azariah Horton's Daughter?
1. Pheobe 2. Eunice 3. Mary 4. Elizabeth
F=__ Azariah Horton's Daughter died in what year?
1. 1783 2. 1780 3. 1776 4.1790
FIRST STAGE
Please park on the same side of Main street as the cemetery, as
you will be faced in the right direction when you head to the final
cache.
FINAL CACHE
The final cache is a Lock and Lock container located less then a
mile away from the cemetery. This area is a typical wooded park
with trails, and pleanty of NJ poison Ivy, take caution. Not far
off the trail.