In 1720, Thomas and Rachel Saltar, owners of a nearby mill and ironworks, deeded 25 acres to early Baptist settlers in the Upper Freehold region. Since then, the site has been under the continuous care and use of the Upper Freehold Baptist Church and its founding congregation. From 1720 until the 1850s, the grounds were the center of church life for local Baptists, and on Sundays the churchyard was alive with carriages and buggies as families came together to worship. A long carriage shed once stood west of the lane that approaches the Meeting House. The oldest part of the cemetery lies directly east of the Meeting House, extending to the northern tree line. Many of the older graves are unmarked or marked with fieldstones with no visible inscriptions. The oldest dated graves are those of John Saltar in 1723 and his father-in-law Elisha Lawrence in 1724. The cemetery contains approximately sixty graves dated prior to 1800. Many of these early headstones are decorated with poignant inscriptions and folk art that reflect the Colonial American experience and the deeply held beliefs of these early Baptist settlers. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Friends of the Old Yellow Meeting House was founded in 1975 to assure the preservation, care, and appropriate use of this historic site.