April 30th, 1821. At a town meeting held this day, the following report
on cemeteries was made:
Gentlemen: The committee appointed by the town at their last meeting,
to provide one or more suitable places for graveyards, having attended
to the duty assigned them, report:
That Lemuel Bartlett and Hezekiah Chase will make a donation and deed
of gift to the town of one-half acre of ground where they and others
have interred on their land, and Amos Jones will sell for fifteen
dollars per acre any quantity for the above use where the burying
ground now is, near his house (now called the Farwell yard), and Daniel
Whitmore will also convey by deed to the town one-half acre of his
field near the liberty pole for seventeen dollars.
Respectively submitted, Isaac Adams, Joseph Stevens, Jacob Truworthy,
committee.
We have been told that the militia used to train in Mr. Whitmore’s
field, now owned by H. B. Rice, which accounts for reference to the
flag pole. Saturday afternoon before starting for California, Lawyer
Wm. Weeks set out the elm trees on the west side of the Whitmore yard.
He said it was for him to be remembered by.