[Thanks to Linda Smith for transcribing this chapter]
CHAPTER LVI.
Cemeteries and Streets.
The oldest cemetery in town is the old Winslow burying-ground, adjoining the Webster tomb in the South portion of the town. Here are buried the remains of some of the old Colonists. Mrs. Edward Winslow, wife of the governor, mother of Peregrine White, and mother of Governor Josiah Winslow, lies buried here. Here also are the remains of Peregrine White, claimed as the first white child born in New England, and here the first native born Governor of New England, Josiah Winslow, lies buried, and other Colonists. The remains of the Thomases, who were noted Colonists in Pilgrim days, and the ancestors of eminent men living before and during the Revolution, lie in this cemetery. Here lie the remains of one of the sweetest and greatest singers America has had, Miss Adelaide Phillips.
At the side of this holy ground is buried perhaps the greatest statesman America has produced, the eminent Daniel Webster, and his family, including his son, Major Edward, who was killed in the war with Mexico, and his other son, Col. Fletcher, who was killed in the Battle of Bull Run, in the Civil war of 1861. Probably there is no cemetery in New England more ancient, save at Plymouth, and none holds more distinguished dead in its enclosure than the Winslow burying ground, and yet it is comparatively little known.
Then there is the cemetery at the southerly part of the town, adjoining the First Congregational church, near by the railroad station. Another is a Marshfield Hills, in the rear of the Unitarian church. A century or more ago, this church secured and laid out what was known as "God's