Middlesex County MA Archives Cemeteries.....Olde Burying Ground ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ma/mafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: 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