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	Scituate  Massachusetts

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Scituate Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Scituate is an ongoing effort, and this page will be revised as needed.   If you have cemetery information or gravestone 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 are links to street and topographic maps 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 transcriptions online also have links.   At the bottom of the page is a seperate section listing all online and published gravestone 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.

     My thanks go to the members of the Scituate Historical Commission, the Scituate Community Preservation Committee and the Scituate Historical Society for their excellent ongoing work to document and preserve the town's cemeteries.   Special thanks go to Historical Commission member Betty Miessner for introducing me to this work.   See the links below for the Scituate Burial Sites Survey.

 

Clapp Burying Ground (1774)
Union St., Greenbush, Scituate, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Scituate as G.R.12

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

Location:   South side of Union St., east of Old Country Way, Greenbush.

For records contact:   Supervisor, Public Grounds Division, 68 Captain Pierce Rd., Scituate, MA 02066
   Phone: (781) 545-8733; Fax: (781) 545-8704; Hours: Mon. - Fri. 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Location:   East side of Cudworth Rd., between 1st Parish Rd. and Country Way, Scituate Centre.

Location:   North side of Neal Gate St., west of Rte. 3A, Greenbush, in Cushing Memorial State Park.

Location:   On private property on the east side of Country Way, at the end of the driveway leading to #330.

Location:   West side of Country Way behind First Congregational Church, Scituate Centre.

Location:   East side of Mann Lot Rd., between Country Way and Pratt St., North Scituate.

Location:   On private property on the west side of Chief Justice Cushing Highway. The land is overgrown, making the tombs difficult to find and inaccessible to visitors.

Location:   East side at the end of Judge Cushing Way.

Location:   South of the Driftway, west of Ladd's Way, Greenbush.

Location:   North side of First Parish Rd. adjacent to First Parish Unitarian Church and south of Lawson Tower. It appears to now lie deep beneath a refuse pile.

Location:   South side of Meeting House Ln., west of Kent St.

Location:   North side of Clapp Rd., west of Mann Lot Rd., North Scituate.

For records contact:   (617)-545-1851.

Location:   Clapp Rd., North Scituate.

For records contact:   St. Mary of the Nativity Parish, 1 Kent St., Scituate Harbor, MA 02066.
   Phone: (781) 545-3335, Ext. 214.

Location:   Southeast corner of the intersection of Stockbridge Rd. and Meetinghouse Ln.

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of Stockbridge Rd. and Meeting House Ln., a part of Union Cemetery.

For records contact:   Supervisor, Public Grounds Division, 68 Captain Pierce Rd., Scituate, MA 02066
   Phone: (781) 545-8733; Fax: (781) 545-8704; Hours: Mon. - Fri. 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of Stockbridge Rd. and Meeting House Ln.

Location:   On private property on the east side of Booth Hill Rd., north of Chief Justice Cushing Highway. The land is overgrown, making the tomb difficult to find and inaccessible to visitors.

The Scituate Historical Commission, the Scituate Community Preservation Committee and the Scituate Historical Society have been working diligently to document and preserve the town's cemeteries. One result of their work is the 2007 Scituate Burial Sites Survey with its set of drawings which together constitute the foremost source of information about the town's cemeteries. Both are in PDF format and can be viewed or downloaded from the links above.

Men of Kent Cemetery, abstracted by David Hamblin in 1852 and published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1855.

Men of Kent Cemetery, transcribed by Nareen and Bob Lake in 2003.

Men of Kent Cemetery, abstracted by Mary Dean.

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.