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Cyndy  > History > Massachusetts > OLD DEERFIELD (historic Deerfield), Franklin Co.,
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" Old Deerfield " cemetery, located on Old Albany Road or as it's called "Harrow's field".........this is a " town that time passed by"..............For serious Deerfield reseachers, there is a book: " Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1671; Susan McGowan & Amelia F.Miller, Pomcumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996 which can be ordered through the on line Deerfield Museum Store...............this part of Deerfield, now called "OLD Deerfield" was attacked in 1704 by the French and Indians from Quebec,Canada.
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Many of the stones are hard to read, if anyone knows about the folks, email me and I will put your info up with your email for researchers.
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There is a site for South Deerfield which is a section of Deerfield. They are posted separately to keep folks from getting confused.
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Cyndy > Looking south east.......Old Albany Road cemetery or if you prefer  Harrow's Field.
Cyndy > LOOKING SOUTH...........many stones missing
Cyndy > south-western view
Cyndy > This tablet is at the entrance of the " Old Albany Road Cemetery" a term started by George Sheldon, author of several town histories.
  I am going to call it  the Old Deerfield burying ground......
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                          The tablet states:
Family names of those interred in this burying ground:                  Alexander....
Allen....
Ames...
Amsden....
Arms....
Ashely....
Bardwell...
Barnard.....
Beamon...
Belding....
Billings.....
Birge...
Bradley....
Bull...
Burt....
Carter....
Catlin....
Champney....
Chandler....
Childs...
Corse....
Dickinson....
Felton.....
Field....
Forward....
Frary.....
French.....
Graves...
Harvey....
Hawks.....
Hinsdale.....
Hoit.....
Hunter....
Ingersol....
Kellogg....
Locke....
Long...
Mattoon....
Merriman....
Mitchell..
Morgan...
Munn....
Nims....
Parker.....
Phelps....
Price....
Root....
Russell....
Saxton.....
Selden.....
Sexton.....
Shattuck.....
Sheldon.....
Smead.....
Smith.....
Stebbins.....
Tyler.....
Wells.....
Williams....
Wright.
Cyndy > In Memory of Rev.SAMUEL MATHER, pioneer minister of Deerfield , 1673 - 1675, who lived in a house on this site....born at Dorchester,1650, graduated Harvard,1671; married HANNAH TREAT, dau of Gov.Robert Treat of Conn.,1676................................
Samuel was son of TIMOTHY  and grandson of RICHARD MATHER, minister of Toxysth, Eng. and Dorchester,Mass.............
Samuel was a minister at Windsor,Conn 1682-1728..........after 
Bloody Brook" massacre (1675), the town was destroyed (this town is now South Deerfield ) and the church scattered......at the request of the survivors, he waited 4 years, when there being no prospects of the re-settlement, he accepted the call from another church.
Cyndy > Monument to the "Dead of 1704"......the grave of 48 men , women, and children, victims of the French and Indian raid on Deerfield , Feb. 29, 1704.
  The monument sits on top of the large mound containing those killed that day.
Cyndy > (ZEEB ?) WELLS, son of Ebenzer & Mercy Wells, died Oct.6.1779, aged ?
Cyndy > JOHN HUNTER, son of JOHN & ELEANOR HUNTER,  died April 19,1787, aged 27
Cyndy > MRS. REBECCA, C----, of Doctor EDWARD BELDING, died 6th of Sept.___
(ZEEB ?) WELLS, son of Ebenzer & Mercy Wells, died Oct.6.1779, aged ?
 > (ZEEB ?) WELLS, son of Ebenzer & Mercy Wells, died Oct.6.1779, aged ?
(ZEEB ?) WELLS, son of Ebenzer & Mercy Wells, died Oct.6.1779, aged ?
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