Robbins Library / Arlington Library, Arlington, Massachusetts -- History and Genealogy Room

Side view of the Library entrance.

The History and Genealogy collection was on the 4th floor. It is kept locked, so a librarian had to take me up there, I also needed permission from the director to take photos, only stipulation was that I don't take pictures of people.

The room is larger than shown in these few photos, but I wanted to show more of the old sections of the Library. You'll see why.

 

View of the library from the cemetery across the driveway. Notice the two British flags, in honor of two who died near that spot during the Revolutionary War.

American
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
Known to be
Buried in This Cemetery

JOHN ADAMS	THOMAS HADLEY
JOSEPH ADAMS	ELIAS HAVEN
WILLIAM ADAMS	JOHN HILL
JOHN BACON	THOMAS HILL
JOSEPH BALCH	JOSEPH LOCKE
JOSEPH BELKNAP, JR.	AMOS MILLS
NATHANIEL CHADWICK	JONATHAN PARKER
NATHAN CHAMBERLIN AMMI CUTTER	BENJAMIN PEIRCE SOLOMON PEIRCE
AMMI CUTTER, JR.	JAMES PERRY
SAMUEL CUTTER	ABEDNECO RAMSDELL
WILLIAM CUTTER	JEDUTHAN WELLINGTON
WILLIAM DICKSON	SAMUEL WHITTEMORE
WILLIAM FLINT	JOHN WINSHIP
EPHRAIM FROST	JASON RUSSELL
SAMUEL FROST	JASON WINSHIP
STEPHEN FROST	JABEZ WYMAN

Erected by
Menotomy Chapter Daughters
of the American Revolution
1941

Old front entrance on Massachusetts Ave. Garden to the right, see below.

Jane (__) Jenison Brooks, Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

Below is my 7th great-grandaunt's tombstone. She married first to Peter Jenison (see last week's post), and after his death, she married Joseph Brooks. She, her 2nd husband and child were buried together in this cemetery.

Here Lies Buried

The Body of

Mr^s Jane Brooks

Consort of

Joseph Brooks

Who Dec^d Nov^r

The 16 A D

1753 in The 70

Year of Her Age.

Here Lyes Interred

The Body of Mr.

Joseph Brooks of Lincoln

Who Departed This Life

Sept 17 1759 in Y^e

78 Years of His Age.

(Joseph Brooks was my first cousin 9 times removed.)

Here Lies Buried

Y^e Body of

Joseph Brooks Jun^r

Only Son of M^r

Joseph and Mr^s Jane

Brooks Who Dec^d

Septm^br Y^e 7^th

Anno Dom 1749

in y^e 24^th Year

of His Age.

Brooks plot above.
When you turn around, you'll see this lovely field.

While driving around, I came across a memorial to five British soldiers, shown below. Since the cemetery is in Lincoln, the town where Paul Revere was captured by the British soldiers (then released). I shouldn't have been surprised to see it because other markers for British soldiers are in Concord as well.

Summer 2014

May 2, 2015

Five 

British Soldiers
Slain April 19, 1775

Were Buried Here.

Erected by the

Town of Lincoln

1884.

 Precinct

Burial Ground

____

"This acre given by

Ephraim Flint is Lincoln's

oldest cemetery, established

in 1748 by the second

Precinct of Concord as a

burial ground.

This preceeded the

incorporation of Lincoln

as a separate Town by

6 years."