Hathaway-Chace Cemetery in Somerset, Massachusetts

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Coordinates: 41.75622, -71.13734
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This cemetery is listed as Pierce-Chace Cemetery #SOM.819 Somerset Historical Commission report dated 13 May 1983. The sign at the cemetery today is Hathaway-Chace Cemetery. Location: southwest side of Marble Street between County Street (Rte. 138) and Riverside Avenue.

The cemetery has a low stone wall around it, and the rear has weeds, poison ivy, brush, and tall grass. Many stones are broken, lying down, and many only have jagged bits of slate or fieldstone remaining.

It was established in a deed dated 1722,(Bristol County Deeds, Book 18, page 22) and also noted in the 8 June 1738 will of John Pierce, "Whereas I have sold a parcel of land to my son Clothier out of which I have reserved three rod, and half square as may appear by the deed of sd land which shall lye and remain for ever for a burying place for me and my posterity and a convenient way from the road to the burying place."

The Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton has an anonymous, undated transcription of 31 stones in Pierce-Chace (VC331C, 5-7) which contains some errors in names and dates.