Olde Burying Ground, Wilmington, Middlesex co, MA
Archive transcription
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Compiled from existing records and headstone readings by Susan Daily, 14 Sep
2005
[cullivans@gmail.com]
Background of this information and explanation behind transcription:
The Town of Wilmington has very good early vital records. The dates of death
for persons whose stones are either missing, unphotographed, or damaged beyond
legibility more than likely came from "the Kelley Book" located at the Town Hall
[Kelley, James E. Wilmington Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1730
to 1898. Lowell, MA: Thompson & Hill, 1898]. The basic information was mapped
and recorded originally for the cemetery in 1976 by William Meyer. It was
updated as part of a 1999 Eagle Scout Project by Roman Walsh. (See six-page paper
handout from the Wilmington Historical Commission for complete report.) The
transcriptions and other data entry were created by Susan Daily in August and
September 2005, from digital photographs taken at the cemetery on 8 May 2005.
Some of the data in the original report was corrected in the accompanying
spreadsheet based on the inscriptions found.
Misspellings (i.e. "thair" instead of "their") are not typos, but can be
verified by viewing the original photographs. Photo-software was used to examine
heavily damaged headstones in negative relief and grayscale to more accurately read
inscriptions. Inscriptions that are broken off, damaged, or obscured by lichen
are noted with a "[...]" where additional text was likely to be found if the
headstone were whole. In some cases, inscriptions are merely obscured by position below
ground or behind vegetation, and could be revealed in person, if one were to take care
not to damage the stone or grave.
To indicate superscript characters in month names, the period punctuation
indicates the end of the standard size characters, and the beginning of the superscript
characters. Other superscript characters (for example the ordinal letters for numbers, the
"r" in Mr., the "rs." in Mrs., and typically the "e" in ye) are not indicated, but should be
presumed. For those headstones where there were poems inscibed, these are set off with
quotation marks, and "/" indicates the end of each line. There is no indication in the
transcription for which characters are italicized, but can be assumed to be the case for most
of the poetry. Punctuation was noted where it was clear.
Select a name to see the headstone/footstone
No. Name on Headstone Death date Age
1 "Alexander, Benjamin" 1756 May 18 2y
2 "Alexander, Mary" 1760 Oct 25 32y
4 "Barron, Joshua" 1766 Jun 08 5wks
3 "Beard, Abigail" 1746 May 21 18y 10m 20d
5 "Brown, John Ball" 1777 Oct 16 6y 10m
6 "Burtt, Benjamin" 1793 Feb 01 71y 7m
7 "Burt, Jonathan" 1786 Dec 09 33y
8 "Butters, William" 1746 Feb 09 80y
9 "Carter, Abigail" 1762 Feb 15 1y
89 "Carter, Abigail" 1738 Jun 07 16y 11m?
10 "Carter, Ebenezer" 1746 Mar 01 52y
90 "Carter, Ebenezer" 1753 33y
11 "Carter, Infant Daughter" 1755 Apr 25 0d
91 "Carter, Infant Son" 1758 Sep 6 0d
12 "Carter, Lydia" 1774 Feb 14 79y
13 "Carter, Lydia" 1738 Jun 07
14 "Carter, Mary" 1738 Sep 26
15 "Carter, Timothy" 1760 Mar 21
16 "Cornell, Peter" 1807 Jan 27 71y
17 "Dummer, Samuel (Esq.)" 1738 Feb 06 48y
18 "Ford, Cadwallader (Esq.)" 1790 Nov 03 87y
19 "Ford, Mary" 1789 May 29
20 "Gilburd, Sarah" 1793 Feb 22
21 "Gray, Mary" 1738 Jan 29 31y
22 "Hamblitt, William" 1743 Jun 25 20y
86 "Harnden, Joseph" 1776 Dec 24 40y 1m
23 "Jaques, Samuel" 1774 Sep 30 44y 7m
24 "Jaquith, Ebenezer" 1800 Sep 18 87y
25 "Jaquith, John (Lt.)" 1781 Sep 18 77y
26 "Jaquith, Jonathan" 1778 28y
27 "Jaquith, Mary" 1743 Mar 28 32y
28 "Jaquith, Nathan" 1788 Nov 11 33y
29 "Jaquith, Patty" 1792 Oct 15 26y 10m 12d
30 "Jaquith, Samuel" 1753 Jul 04
31 "Jaquith, Tamson Morrill" 1796
32 "Jones, Elizabeth" 1738 Feb 18 16y 2m 8d
33 "Jones, Hannah" 1766 Apr 03 42
34 "Jones, Hannah" 1754 Nov 27 3y 9m 7d
35 "Jones, James" 1738 Feb 14
36 "Jones, Jonathan (Lt.)" 1753 May 24 50y 9m 17d
37 "Jones, Jonathan (Ens.)" 1763 Nov 26 42y 10m 27d
38 "Jones, Jonathan" 1754 Dec 13 5y 11m 20d
39 "Jones, Mary" 1738 Feb 05 8y 8m 20d
40 "Jones, Samuel" 1741 Feb 27 1d
41 "Jones, Samuel" 1738 Mar 03 14y 5m 13d
45 "Kendall, Patience" 1789 Apr 23 23y
42 "Killam, Benjamin" 1736/37 Jan 29 3y 10m
43 "Killam, Joseph" 1744 Oct 03
44 "Killam, Martha" 1732 May 20 40y 1m
46 "Lewes, Abraham" 1754 Jan 13 63y
47 "Morrill, Infant Son" 1763 Apr 22 0d
48 "Morrill, James" 1742 Sep 12 3m 3d
49 "Morrill, Mary" 1742 Jul 3 23y 11m 25d
50 "Pearson, Lydia" 1737 Jul 16 51y 2m
51 "Pearson, Lydia" 1770 May 19
52 "Person, Kendall (Capt.)" 1767 Feb 02 79y
53 "Pearson, William" 1731 Dec 13 9y 9m
54 "Pelsue, Susanna" 1770 Nov 28
55 "Pierce, Ebenezer (Lt.)" 1766 May 16
56 "Pierce, Hannah" 1767 Aug 14 60y?
57 "Pierce, Jacob" 1750 Dec 09 12y 21d
58 "Pierce, Johnathan" 1739 Apr 7 26y
59 "Pierce, Mary" 1764 Jan 26 80y
60 "Roberds, Giles" 1739 Oct 03 53y
61 "Sawyer, Jonathan" 1748 Feb 29 1y 8m
62 "Scales, Nathan" 1787 Oct 6 72y 10d
63 "Thompson, Abigail" 1759 Mar 17 69y 11m 17d
64 "Tompson, Abigail" 1757 Sep 15 29y
65 "Tompson, Infant Son" 0d
66 "Tompson, James (Deacon)" 1763 Jul 03 84y
67 "Tompson, Joshua (Lt.)" 1760 Jul 10 83y
68 "Tompson, Martha" 1749 Jun 03 66y 3m 25d
69 "Tompson, Richard" 1749 Sep 10 31y 1m
70 "Tucker, Joel" 1738 Jan 15 2y 9d
71 "Tucker, William" 1745 Apr 6 10m 6d
88 Unidentified Marker
72 "Walker, Abigail" 1738 Jun 27 13y 10m
82 "Walker, Samuel (Capt.)" 1771 Feb 13 77y
73 "Walker, Edward" 1738 Jun 10 8m
74 "Walker, Hannah" 1788 May 13 91y
75 "Walker, Infant Daughter" 1733 Jan 20 0d
76 "Walker, James" 1738 May 31 16y 1m
77 "Walker, Jonathan" 1738 May 17 12y 1m
78 "Walker, Judith" 1738 May 16 18y
80 "Walker, Nathan" 1738 May 18 10y 2m
81 "Walker, Richard" 1738 Jun 21
79 "Walker, Samuel" 1738 May 16 18y
83 "Wesson, Elizabeth" 1766 Apr 22 64y
84 "Wesson, Stephen (Deacon)" 1777 Jun 05 81y
85 "Winn, Hezekiah" 1772 Jul 25 67y
87 "Wyman, John" 1747 Nov 30 61y 15d