Grave of George Coryell is associated with 1776 and the history of Graves. George Coryell operated the Delaware River ferry used by Washington and his army during the 1776 campaign. His grave commemorates a civilian whose strategically placed crossing supported military movement between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. George Coryell’s marked grave survives in the historic cemetery at Lambertville, New Jersey. The maintained stone and burial plot stand among other early graves, including local Revolutionary-era figures, preserving his principal physical memorial within an active burial landscape governed by cemetery conditions.

What stands here today is commemorative evidence: a marker directing attention to a historic place or event. Its installation belongs to a later period of public remembrance, while its subject belongs to the earlier history described above. This distinction matters when evaluating authenticity and preservation. The marker may not occupy the exact footprint of every action it recalls, but it anchors the story to the closest practical viewing point and encourages the surrounding landscape to be read critically.

A grave is both a burial place and a later act of remembrance. It connects an individual life to the public causes, offices, service, or hardships described in the record, while the monument reflects how later generations chose to preserve that memory. The inscription and setting should be read carefully: they may summarize a long career in only a few words. The site invites attention to biography, commemoration, and the changing ways communities define historical importance.

Within the broader theme of Graves, this place shows how national history was assembled from local actions. Strategy and policy depended on geography, labor, supplies, communication, and cooperation that varied from community to community. The event recorded here is therefore significant on two levels: for what happened at or near this location, and for the way that episode contributed to a wider sequence of military, political, economic, or social change. The marker makes that connection visible in the present landscape.

The people connected with the site experienced the event from different positions. Officers and public leaders left many of the surviving records, but soldiers, laborers, craftspeople, women, families, enslaved people, free people of color, Indigenous communities, and travelers also shaped the functioning of historical landscapes. Not every group is documented equally in this entry, so responsible interpretation should recognize both the evidence presented and the limits of the surviving account.

Taken together, the documentary account, the marker, and the surviving setting give this place its significance. The site is most informative when approached as part of a connected landscape rather than as an isolated point. Changes in roads, buildings, vegetation, and land use may obscure the original scene, but location still helps explain relationships among people and events. Preserving the marker and improving its interpretation keeps a locally grounded piece of history available for comparison with maps, records, archaeology, and other nearby sites.