Forgive us our trespasses | MyCentralJersey.com | MyCentralJersey.com

PERTH AMBOY — A man named Robert Johnson was remembered.

So were women named Nancy Johnson, Betty Ellison, Susan Gibson, and Mary Johnson’s daughter, Mary, along with a 9-month-old baby, a 1-year-old child and a 2-year-old.

Although no one knew them personally, 38 slaves and servants of African descent who were buried in the cemetery at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in the 1700s and 1800s, many without their full names being recorded, were remembered Wednesday during a service of repentance and reconciliation at the historic church on Rector Street.

via mycentraljersey.com