In 1742, on two acres of land acquired from Eleazar Taylor, space for the
Old Burial Ground and for a Meeting House, were laid out. Today, School
Street runs between the Old Burial Ground and a park, the park being the
original location of the Meeting House. The Old Burial Ground is bounded on
the north by Main Street, the East by School Street, and on the South and
West by two private residences. The Old Burial Ground is enclosed in a
stone wall with a gate on School Street at GPS coordinates 42.35100,
-71.73568 with some parking along Main Street, or across the street from the
gate.

Several surveys of the cemetery have been done over the years, but due to
the loss of earlier burial records, it is impossible to know for certain the
burials here, except those where grave stones were placed. There are
believed to be at least five unmarked Revolutionary War soldier's graves, as
well as the possibility other residents were buried in unmarked graves near
the back wall. Any memorials created before September 2010 have been
resolved with town history records as well as 1944 published research by
H.M. Cheever, December 1944 research by Hiram Harlow, and the photographic
exercise in 2010; these resulted in some redundant earlier memorials created
due to typographic errors being deleted, as well as several new memorials
being added to accompany previously missed gravestones.

In September 2010, a full photographic survey was completed, crosschecked
for completeness, and the photographs posted to the appropriate findagrave
memorials; as such, there are no photo requests beyond those now posted that
can ever be satisfied.

Out of the total cemetery, there were only two gravestones that were
unidentifiable, and their photographs were posted as well for completeness,
see last name of "unidentifiable".