CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS FROM QUAKER BURYING GROUND AT HAVILAND HOLLOW NEW YORK This old cemetery is located across the street from where the old Testing House stood and opposite the old house of the Lane family. Very few stones were in evidence when the following inscriptions were copied in 1909. It is known however, that the first settler on Quaker hill, Nathan Birdsall, is buried here as are doubtless numerous of his descendants. Numbers of stones were so worn by age and weather that they were not readable and the place was being used as a pasture by foreigners who were occupying the old Lane home. The Meeting House of which I have a picture taken about 1894 had blown down previous to my visit there in 1909 Copied by Josephine C. Frost (Mrs. Samuel Knapp Frost)


Lane, Betsy Lane, died 19th of 12th month 1818. Age 27 years, 10 months end 6 days
Lane, Samuel Lane, died 30th of 8th month 1835 Age 61 years, 3 months and 10 days
Haviland, Esther Haviland , died 9th of 2nd month 1839 Age 72 years, 9 months and 21 days
Haviland, Daniel Haviland, died 8th of 2nd month 1832 Age 85 years, 9 months and 28 days A Quaker Preacher
Haviland, Died -- (? ) 1845 a son of James W. and Esther L. Haviland. Age 1 year, 9 mos. 29 days
Haviland, David Haviland, died June 22, 1862. Age 67 years, 9 months and 22 days
Haviland, Esther Haviland, died 16th of 10th month 1836. Age 42 years and 26 days
Lawrence, Jane Lawrence, spinster, died 17th of 9th month 1836. Age 26 years, 11 months and 26 days
Lane, Sophia Lane, died 17th of 2nd month 1834. Age 85 years, 8 months and 14 days
Lane, Jesse Lane, died 12th of 4th month 1809. Age 64 years, 2 months and 7 days Grandson of Theodore Lane
Durgy, Hannah, wife of Francis Durgy, died July 29, 1842 Age 48 years "Stay fond children stay thy tears. And weep not o'er my tomb Think not they mother's fate severe Since God has called her home."



Jane Langdon and her husband Nathan Birdsall lived to be about ninety years of age and were buried in the Quaker cemetery in Haviland Hollow, Dutchess Co., N.Y.