As soon as the matter of locating the meeting house had been
decided,, steps were taken by the town to locate a burying
ground nearby, although the earliest settlers had already set
apart a lot for burial purposes in the south part of the
district near King's Row. We find on the town records that at a
town meeting held March 17, 1734-35, it was voted "That Steward
Southgate, Barnard McNitt and Isaac Magoon, Jr., be a committee
to pitch upon and lay out a piece of land for a Burying place."
Then the records go on to say, "The Burying place layed out May
the 12th, 1735, began at an oak bush with a great stone rolled
against it, standing about ten rods east of the meeting house,
being the norwest corner of the Burying place; thence S. 36
deg., E. 12 rods, to stones on the side hill; thence E. 36 deg.,
N. 13 rods to a stone against the little Pond in the southeast
corner; thence N. 36 deg., W. 12 rods to a stone against a
little Hollow in the noreast corner, thence to where we began 13
rods." In 1788 the town add