Founders Monuments and Cemeteries in Massachusetts

For some time, I have been thinking of posting a few of my favorite posts that Massachusetts researchers seem to enjoy. As the title states, they are cemeteries and Founders Monuments.

Special Monuments in Massachusetts

Founder's Monument  --  Watertown, Massachusetts

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/09/founders-monument-watertown.html

First Settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/08/first-settlers-of-newbury-ma.html

Founders of Hartford, Connecticut

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/06/founders-of-hartford-connecticut.html

Lexington, Massachusetts  --  One monument with 77 Names

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2014/10/lexington-massachusetts-one-monument.html

Cemeteries in Massachusetts

A Makeover for a 1660 No. Andover, Massachusetts Cemetery plus a A Digital Guide to the Old Burial Ground  (See bottom of page.)

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4664905362839287500#editor/target=post;postID=7164358016418485356;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=13;src=link

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA  --  How to locate Records from Home or in Person

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4664905362839287500#editor/target=post;postID=7399437004814752832;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=10;src=link

How to Find a Tombstone in the Old Cemetery in Lexington, MA, My Stearns / Stone for Tombstone Tuesday

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South Parish, Andover   Three Cemetery Databases for One Cemetery and Not One was Complete. What Would You Do?

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I Wanted to Know More and I Found a lot from a Great Cemetery Database Dedham

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Watertown Book, with Map and List of Burials at the Arlington Street Burying Ground

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Billerica Public Library, Billerica, Massachusetts (History and Genealogy Collection)

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Founder's Monument -- Watertown, Massachusetts

Statue of Richard Saltonstall.

The scene below depicts my ancestor, Roger Clap, soon after he landed, being greeted by the local Indians. This scene is on the Watertown Seal. Roger also has a memorial seen HERE.

Henry H. Kitson, Sculptor

FOUNDERS

Thomas Arnold
John Ball
John Barnard
Ellis Barron
William Barsham
Michael Barstow
Thomas Bartlett
Richard Beach
Richard Beers
Joseph Bemis
John Benjamin
John Bigelow
Nathaniel Biscoe
Edmund Bloys
William Bond
Nathaniel Bowman
Thomas Boylston
Henry Bright, Jr.
Thomas Brooks
Abraham Browne
Richard Browne
George Bullard
Charles Chadwick
Lambert Chenery
Garrett Church
Hugh Clarke
John Coolidge
Benjamin Crispe
Henry Curtis
James Cutler
Richard Cutting
Robert Daniel 
Edward Dix
John Doggett
John Eaton
John Eddy
Simon Eire
John Eliot
Robert Feake
John Firmin
David Fiske
John Fiske
Nathan Fiske
Thomas Flagg
John Flemming
Samuel Freeman
Richard Gale
Edward Garfield
John Goss
Christopher Grant
Nicholas Guy
William Hagar
William Hammond
Robert Harrington
Thomas Hastings
Justinian Holden
Ephraim Child
Samuel Hosier

Edward How
Miles Ives
William Jennison
Robert Keyes
Richard Kimball
William Knapp
John Knight
Edward Lamb
John Lawrence
Edmund Lewis
John Livermore
John Lovering
Hugh Mason

John Masters

Thomas Mayhew

Isaac Mixer

Joseph Morse

George Munnings

Jeremiah Norcross

John Oldham

John Page

William Paine

George Parkhurst

Daniel Patrick
Anthony Peirce
Brian Pendleton
Thomas Philbrick

Rev. George Phillips
John Prescott
John Reynolds
John Richardson
Thomas Rogers
Sir Richard Saltonstall
Richard Sawtell
Robert Sanderson
Robert Seely
William Shattuck
John Sherman
John Smith
John Spring
Isaac Stearns
John Stimson
Gregory Stone
Simon Stone
Samuel Stratton
Joseph Tainter
Gregory Taylor
Samuel Thatcher
John Traine
Martin Underwood
Richard Waite
John Warren
Roger Wellington
John Wetherell
Timothy Wheeler
John White
John Whitney
Richard Woodward

First Settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts

Descendants of 

These First Settlers

Erected This Memorial

ROBERT ADAMS	WILLIAM MOODY
CILES BADGER	ANTHONY MORSE
JOHN BAILEY	WILLIAM MOULTON
RICHARD BROWN	EDMUND MOORES
THOMAS BROWN	NICHOLAS NOYES
RICHARD BARTLETT	JAMES NOYES
JOHN CHENEY	JAMES ORDWAY
AQUILA CHASE	JOHN OSGOOD
NATHANIEL CLARK	THOMAS PARKER
THOMAS COLMAN	RICHARD PETTINCELL
TRISTRAM COFFIN	DANIEL PIERCE
ROBERT COKER	JOHN PIKE
JOHN CUTTING	WILLIAM PILLSBURY
JOHN DAVIS	FRANCIS PLUMER
RICHARD DOLE	JOHN POORE
RICHARD DUMMER	SAMUEL POORE
JOHN EMERY	EDWARD RAWSON
WILLIAM GERRISH	JOHN REMINGTON
EDMUND GREENLEAF	EDWARD RICHARDSON
THOMAS HALE	HENRY ROLFE
ABEL HUSE	ROBERT SAVORY
WILLIAM ILSLEY	HENRY SEWALL
JAMES JACKMAN	HENRY SHORT
HENRY JAQUES	THOMAS SMITH
JOHN KELLY	ANTHONY SOMERBY
RICHARD KENT	WILLIAM SAWYER
JOHN KNIGHT	STEVEN SWETT
RICHARD KNIGHT	WILLIAM TITCOMB
GEORGE LITTLE	RICHARD THURLOW
PERCIVAL LOWELL	DANIEL THURSTON
HENRY LUNT	ABRAHAM TOPPAN
ROBERT LONG	DAVID WHEELER
HUGH MARCH	THOMAS WHITTIER
WILLIAM MARSTON	JOHN WOODBRIDGE
NATHANIEL MERRILL	EDWARD WOODMAN

Update as of October 28, 2013. I discovered a website, Sons and Daughters of Newbury. Information is given as well as a list of the Heads of Families Who Settled in Newbury Previous to 1700, which is different from the above list on the monument.

Monument front and back.

The above photo was taken in the summer of 2013. In late October I drove by and discovered all the shrubs had been removed.

 NOTE: These photos were taken in December 2015. Apparently the shrubs were removed, and I kind of think the wires above were too.

 Lower Green, first settlement site, 1635.

Founders of Windsor, Connecticut

Twenty-one of my direct ancestors were Founders of Windsor, Connecticut. A list of all the founders is below, with my directs in blue. The photo shows the town common, with the First Church of Windsor, Windsor Historical Society, monument of my ancestor, Maj. John Mason, and a smaller monument dedicated to all the Founders of Windsor with their names engraved.

Historic Windsor common, Windsor, Connecticut.

George Abbot	Matthew Griswold	John Porter
Benedictus Alford	Thomas Gunn	Edward Preston
Samuel Allen	William Hannum	Mathew Rainend
Matthew Allyn	John Hawkes	Philip Randall
Thomas Barber	Anthony Hawkins	Jasper Rawlins
John Bartlett	William Hayden	John Reeves
Margaret (Barrett)	John Haynes	John Rockwell
(Huntington)	William Hill	William Rockwell
Stoughton	John Hillier	Bray Rossiter
Thomas Bascomb	Thomas Holcombe	John St. Nicholas
Thomas Bassett	William Holmes	Robert Saltonstall
John Bennett	Mary Holt	Richard Samos
Richard Birge	William Hosford	Matthias Sension
John Bissell	John Hoskins	(St. John)
John Branker	Simon Hoyte	Nicholas Sension
Jonathan Brewster	Samuel Hubbard	Richard Sexton
Thomas Buckland	Ephraim Huit	Thomas Staires
William Buell	William Hulbert	Aaron Starks
Joshua Carter	George Hull	Francis Stiles
George Chappel	John Hurd	Henry Stiles
Daniel Clarke	Humphrey Hydes	John Stiles
Henry Clarke	Joseph Loomis	Thomas Stiles
Joseph Clarke	Roger Ludlow	Thomas Stoughton
Aaron Cooke	Henry Lush	George Stuckey
Thomas Cooper	Thomas Marshfield	John Talcott
Nicholas Denslow	Ann Marshall	John Taylor
Thomas Dewey	Thomas Marshall	Stephen Terry
Thomas Dibble	John Mason	Thomas Thornton
John Drake	Mary (Merwin)	William Thrall
John Dumbleton	(Tinker) Collins	John Tilley
John Dyer	Miles Merwin	Peter Tilton
John Eels	Simon Mills	Michael Try
Bygod Eggleston	John Moore	Frances (Unknown)
William Filley	Thomas Moore	(Clark) (Dewey)
Thomas Ford	Thomas Newberry	Phelps
Henry Foulkes	Thomas Nowell	Richard Vore
Walter Fyler	Richard Oldage	John Warham
William Gaylord	Thomas Orton	Richard Weller
Francis Gibbs	John Osborn	Richard Whitehead
Giles Gibbs	Nicholas Palmer	Arthur Williams
William Gilbert	Elias Parkman	John Williams
Jeremiah Gillett	Thomas Parsons	Roger Williams
Jonathan Gillett	Edward Pattison	David Wilton
Nathan Gillett	George Phelps	Robert Winchell
Matthew Grant	William Phelps	John Witchfield
Thomas Gridley	George Phillips	Henry Wolcott
Edward Griswold	Humphrey Pinney	John Young
	Eltweed Pomeroy
	Samuel Pond

Permission to use Founders list given by Windsor Historical Society.