Lamington is an unincorporated area within Bedminster Township

Bedminster Township, New Jersey

Bedminster Township is a Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 8,165....

, New Jersey

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. It contains the Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery and the Lamington Black Cemetery

Lamington Cemetery, Bedminster

Lamington Cemetery is an African American cemetery in the Lamington section of Bedminster Township, New Jersey, located on Cowperthwaite Road. It is sometimes called Lamington Black Cemetery or Cowperthwaite African American Cemetery. The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic...

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The name

"Lamington" is a corruption of the Native American

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 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".

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.

National Register of Historic Places

The Lamington Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1984, it is district #84002802.

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Lamington include:

• John Van Dyke
  John Van Dyke
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   (1807–1878), represented in the United States House of Representatives
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   from 1847 to 1851.
• John Honeyman
  John Honeyman
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   (1729–1822), alleged "spy of Washington" during the American Revolutionary War
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   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.