contains 221 rods, near the East meeting-house, and gives the following boundaries of the premises conveyed, being two parcels of land described as one parcel, beginning at a stone on the north side of the road, and thence running "north, 45 deg. east, 10½ rods to a stone; then north, 36 deg. west, 15 rods to another stone, in Dea. Seth Allen's range; then south, 39 [59] deg. west, 16½ rods in Allen's range, to the road; and then by the road 19½ rods, to the first bounds," being the same premises now enclosed and used for a burying-ground, containing, by recent survey, 227 square rods of land.

   The grantor in this deed, Matthew Allen, Jr., was a son of the second Samuel Allen, born June 10, 1708, and died July 21, 1787.   He is called junior because he was a younger man than his cousin, Matthew Allen, son of Elisha Allen, born April 11, 1708, and who died Ocober [sic] 8, 1784.   This Matthew Allen, Jr., lived at the Leonard Hill place; married a daughter of Seth Brett, 1807 [1735], and had a family of six children.   His father, Samuel Allen, Jr., lived in front of Thomas Rogers' house, and died 1750, nine years before his son, Matthew Allen, Jr., gave this deed of the burying ground.   His father's estate was divided among his six children, 1750.   The whole of which homestead was bounded northeasterly by the road, there, being about seventy rods wide; and southwesterly by Matfield river, or meadow on that river.

   Only one reference to this burying-ground has been found in old documents, and that is in the deed of Samuel Allen, Sen., the old town clerk, to his youngest son, Nehemiah Allen, who was born 1681, and died about 1733, and who was an uncle of said Matthew Allen, Jr.   This Samuel Allen, Sen., made his will June 29, 1703, proved Dec. 21, 1705.   This deed is dated June 28, 1703, one day before his will, and was acknowledged December 11, 1704, and recorded December 20, 1705, in book 6, on pages 58 and 59, and is substantially as follows:

   "We, Samuel Allen, Sen., and Sarah, his wife, of Bridgewater, do give, grant, and bequeath, after our decease, our whole tract of land adjoining to our new dwelling-house, excepting the half-moon meadow, the rest, being near 100 acres, unto our son, Nehemiah Allen, in Bridgewater, to the northerly side of John's river (Matfield); begining at river, and running along by the top of the bank of said half-moon meadow, to the land of our son Samuel; then running northeasterly to a swamp white oak mark, and in same line to a small red oak and dead white oak, and on the same line up to the highway on the plain; the southerly^east side is butting on said John's river; running northeasterly, joining to the lands of Thomas Whitman, straight to causey and highway above Goodman Harris, his house; then by