Excellent email! I am not sure that there is a complete listing of Easton MA vital records. I have ancestors from Easton, Elijah Storey and his wife Susannah Philips. My family's oldest document is signed by Elijah Story, son of the above Elijah, on his 20th birthday February 28th 1805, on a compound interest college paper. There are no town records which contain his birth record. I had once seen a list of those warned out of town, and Elijah ended up in Needham MA purchasing land from Lemuel Mills and marrying his daughter, Anna Mills in 1813. Craig Plymouth > [Original Message] > From: Barbara Tourtillott <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 10/25/02 12:52:51 AM > Subject: RE: [MABRISTO] Easton MA cemeteries > > Snowy: & List > > Found the following list in the History of Easton, by William L. Chaffin > book: > Regards > Barbara Tourtillott > > Names & Descriptions taken from book: (which was written in 1886) > The Old Burying Ground: - Oldest Cemetery in Easton, situated on Church > Street > once called the Cynthia Drake Road. > > The Thomas Manley Cemetery: - The level plain east and southeast of the > Old Philip Willis place always went by the name of Lathrop's Plain in the > last century. East of that plain is a small hill, the summit of which is a > plateau; this is the location of a now unused graveyard, one of the oldest > in town. It is about one hundred yards from Lincoln Street, and about two > hundred yards southeast of Lincoln Spring. > > The Lieut. John Williams Burying-Ground: > On the south side of Prospect Street, a few rods from the Bay Road, is a > small cemetery, which is second or third in order of age among the burying- > grounds of Easton. > > The Ferguson Burying-Ground: > At the foot of a lane leading to the Picker field in North Easton Village, > close by the stream and upon a small natural mound, there is a cemetery now > over > one hundred and twenty years old. > > The Old Bay-Road Cemetery: > Previous to 1772 several interments had been made on the undivided land on > the east > side of Bay road just south of Joseph Randall's place. > > The Elijah Howard Cemetery: > Not many rods east of the Asa R. Howard place and on the south side of the > road is a > burying-ground, fifty by eighty feet in dimensions. > > The Pine-Grove Cemetery: > > January 4, 1796, Joseph Hayward presented to the inhabitants of Easton > forty-two rods > of land "to be occupied by them as a burying-field," they to "keep the same > well > fenced," etc. > > Washington Street Cemetery: > on Washington Street.... purchased of Thomas Drake, October 13, 1795, by the > trustees > of the Methodist Society. > > The Isaac Lothrop Cemetery: > On Purchase Street, near the corner by Joseph Towne's, is a burying-ground. > > The Col. John Williams Graveyard: > On the north side of Prospect Street, nearly opposite the old Williams > Graveyard. > > The Seth Pratt Cemetery: > South of the Pratt homestead in South Easton on the east side of the road, > was the > gift of Leiut. Seth Pratt > > The Central Cemetery: > north of the Centre, land owned by Benjamin Bates. > > The Oliver Howard Burying-Ground: > On the south side of Short Street, east of the railroad track, it is a small > family > cemetery. > > The Wilbur Graveyard: > In the extreme northwest corner of town, on the farm-land of Peter > McDermott, and about > fifty rods northeast of his house is a small graveyard. > > The Keith Graveyard on the Bay Road: > Just south of Thomas Keith's, and a little distance north of Beaver Street, > on the > east side of the Bay road. > > The William Dean Cemetery: > Opposite the Archippus Buck place in Poquanticut is a small cemetery, fifty > by eighty > feet in dimensions, which is well laid out and carefully walled in. > > The Dr. Edward Dean Cemetery: > On a gravelly knoll at the Furnace Village, just south of the schoolhouse > and on the south > side of the road. > > The Elijah Copeland Graveyard: > South of the old Copeland place on the Bay road, just opposite the end of > Beaver Street > and some distance from the road is a small family graveyard. > > The Nehemiah Howard Graveyard: > Just north of the Horace Howard Place is a cemetery which was set apart by > Nehemiah Howard. > > The Capt. Jedediah Willis Graveyard: > In the southeast corner of the field, next south of the Sheperd house on the > Bay road, is > a small cemetery which seems to be entirely devoted to a Branch of the > Willis Family. > > The Asa Newcomb Graveyard: > On the north side of Maple Street, in the extreme southwest corner of the > town. > > The Asaph Howard Burying-Ground: > On the west side of Pine Street, a short distance south of High Street. > > The Apollos Clark Burying-Ground: > Abt fifty rods south of the Littlefield road, now named Summer Street, and a > little west > of Abiel Littlefield's there is a small burying-ground. > > The Record Cemetery: > On the street running west from Macey Record's is a small cemetery. > > The John Selee Cemetery: > on the west side of Mill Street, a few rods from Rockland Street. > > The Silas Phillips Graveyard: > On the north side of Depot Street, west of the old Silas Phillips place. > > The Almshouse Burying-Ground: > a lot of land three hundred yards southwest of the present site of the > Almshouse. > > The Furnace Village Cemetery: > Lincoln Drake gave to Daniel Belcher & others a piece of land on the east > side of > south Street in the Furnace Village. > > The Easton Cemetery (South Easton): > above South Easton village on the west side of Washington Street. > > The Roman Catholic Cemetery: > on the north side of Canton Street, just west of the old Ferguson place. > > The Village Cemetery (of North Easton): > near the Unity Church. > > Mentions 2 abandoned burying grounds. > One of them was just west of a large boulder on the Alonzo Marshall (now > O.A. Day) place, not far east of the railroad-track. > > A graveyard in the field owned by E.W. Gilmore, near where his hinge factory > stands. > > -----Original Message----- > From: George D. Snow [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MABRISTO] Easton MA cemeteries > > > Would a fellow rooter please give me the names and addresses of > the old cemeteries in the town of Easton MA > Thanks much, > snowy > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Craig Crowell Baker --- [email protected] --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.