sons because "ye church had restored to their communion brother Samuel Tilden, who he looked upon as a disorderly walker and an ignorant man, who had not knowledge enough to come to communion."
   Rev. Atherton Wales preached in this church 56 years, and during the revolutionary period.

   Epitaphs I deciphered from old gravestones, from a century to nearly two centuries old, in the cemetery at the rear of the Unitarian church, Marshfield Hills, on the part known as "God's Acre."

   "Here rests the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant (born in 1714) died in 1788, aged 74."

"The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish while they sleep in dust."

   "Here rests the body of Joseph Bryant, Esq., who died May 6, 1796, in the 53rd year of his age."

"Why should we start and fear to die,
What timerous worms we mortals are,
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there."