ASSEMBLY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 4825
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: DECEMBER 12, 2022
The Assembly State and Local Government Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 4825.
This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $150,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding to the Department of State for the Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House located in the Borough of Hopewell, Mercer County.
The Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House was originally built in the late 1740s on land donated by John Hart. Mr. Hart, one of five delegates from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is buried in a cemetery that is part of the church property.