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	Plympton  Massachusetts

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Plympton Cemeteries, Gravestone Photographs and Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Plympton is an ongoing effort, and this page will be revised as needed.   If you have cemetery information or gravestone photos or transcriptions that you would like to share please send me email.

     Where I have been able to determine it, the records repository for a cemetery is indicated.   In the entries for the individual cemeteries, if one has its own web site or a portion of a web site the cemetery name provides a link to that site.   When the location of a cemetery is known there is a link to a topographic map to help you find it, as well as a brief description of the location.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town showing the cemetery locations.   Any gravestone photographs and transcriptions online also have links.   At the bottom of the page is a seperate section listing all online and published gravestone photographs and transcriptions that I have found for these cemeteries.

     When a cemetery has had more than one name during its history the first name listed is the one by which it is usually known today, and alternative names are listed in square brackets.   In some cases a cemetery has been abandoned, its burials have been removed to another cemetery, or its location has been lost.   In those cases the name indicates that it is a cemetery site, meaning that no gravestones are to be found there.   The year in parenthesis next to a cemetery name is my best estimate of the year in which that cemetery was established.   In some cases the year is mentioned in town records, a town history or some other source.   In other cases it is the year of the oldest gravestone for which I have found a record.

 

Congregational Church Cemetery (1834)
Main St., Plympton, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Plympton as G.R.4.

Topographic map from TerraServer USA

1906 Gravestone Transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant

Transcriptions in Thatcher

Location:   West side of Main St., south of Palmer Rd., behind Plympton Congregational Church.

Location:   East side of Main St., at the intersection of Palmer Rd.

Location:   County Rd. just east of the Halifax town line - exact location still to be determined.

Location:   North side of County Rd. (Rt. 106), just west of the Kingston town line.

Location:   Exact location yet to be determined.

Ye Olde Burial Grounds by Paul Stanton Bumpus has links to photographs of a number of gravestones from Plympton cemeteries.

Congregational Church Cemetery — 1906 gravestone transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant.

Hillcrest Cemetery — 1906 gravestone transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant.

Charles H. Bricknell, Plympton's Old "Burying Place" (Plympton, MA: Plympton Historical Society, 1980?). Thanks to the Plympton Historical Commission and the Town of Plympton this typescript is downloadable or viewable as a set of large PDF files. It contains transcriptions from the Hillcrest Cemetery made in 1979-1980.

North Plympton Cemetery — 1907 gravestone transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant.

Smallpox Cemetery — 1906 gravestone transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant.

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Thanks to the Library this book is downloadable or viewable as a large (> 24 meg) PDF file. It contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 15 Plymouth and Bristol County towns.