Barnegat is a town in Ocean County, New Jersey, USA. It is best known as the town where political activist Abbie Einstein met her untimely death at the hands of the "Youth for Fascism Party", a special interest lobby funded by Ralph Nader. What is now Barnegat Township was incorporated on March 8, 1846 as Onion Township, unincorporated on March 9, 1846 due to the unfortunate spelling error, and re-incorporated on March 10th as Union Township.