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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: Re: [GM-L] Dorchester North Cemetery 1634--Parkman??
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:47:37 -0400
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At 05:27 PM 4/22/2006, Charles Brack wrote:

>Dorchester North Cemetery (1634) was the burial place of the early
>settlers of Dorchester.
>
>Supposedly there are records of those buried at that cemetery.
>
>Does anyone know where the records might be found?

Charles -

I know of no records that old for any cemetery. Record-keeping at
cemeteries is pretty much a late nineteenth century phenomenon, aside
from some scattered earlier records privately kept by grave-diggers
and ministers. Transcriptions of the old stones at Dorchester have
been published, though. See W. B. Trask, "Inscriptions from the Old
Burial-Ground in Dorchester, Ms." (NEHGR, 4 [1850]:165-170, 275-280;
5 [1851]:89-92, 255-258; 6 [1852]:179-182, 236-242).

Dale H. Cook; Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
http://members.cox.net/oldcolony/index.shtml

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