The Christopher Vought House - now has a historic marker!  The Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission sign (below) as seen from Grayrock Road, with the middle school through the trees.  

The new Vought House sign makes it official:  Loyalists were a big part of that conflict we call the American Revolution, especially here in Hunterdon County.  

There were honorable men and women on each side, such as the Vought Family among the Loyalists, and Captain Thomas Jones and Charles Stewart among the Patriots.  It was a civil war, sometimes dividing fathers and sons like New Jersey’s Governor William Franklin and his father Benjamin.  A war fought for the rights of Englishmen, our British American heritage.

This marker is a milestone in promoting greater appreciation of our local history and in the Vought House gaining the recognition it richly deserves as the most significant Revolutionary era site in Hunterdon County.  It’s a sign of big things to come!