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First Cemetery

Marlboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA

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    Coordinates: 42.86555, -72.72779
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Although a few burials had been made on private farms and near the corner of the first Meetinghouse in the early 1770's [which would later become Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery], the first officially recognized cemetery was established in 1776, shortly after the citizens of New Marlborough had met as "freemen" to select a delegate to join with the Provincial Congress "to transact important affairs relative to the alarming situation that the Province was reduced to through cruel and unjust and oppressive acts of the British Parliament..."

One of the first burials, in 1777, was that of the young wife of Captain Jonathan Warren, who had joined the "rebellion" known as the Revolutionary War. The location would later be called The First Cemetery.

Perilous times and the confusion of war on their home soil caused laps in record keeping and the First Cemetery fell into disrepair, hidden in the woods. It was defunct by 1782.

All that remains is a tablet on a boulder, the only Marker there, which reads:

THIS TABLET MARKS
THE FIRST CEMETERY
IN
THE TOWN OF MARLBORO
--------------------
About twenty people
were buried here.

It is located deep in the woods, tangled and overgrown off Route 9, easterly, and not far from the Phelps Family Cemetery. A guide is needed to find the area; contact the Marlboro Historical Society.

Bio for this cemetery by Shirleen Farley (history4sure), member #46997739.

















Although a few burials had been made on private farms and near the corner of the first Meetinghouse in the early 1770's [which would later become Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery], the first officially recognized cemetery was established in 1776, shortly after the citizens of New Marlborough had met as "freemen" to select a delegate to join with the Provincial Congress "to transact important affairs relative to the alarming situation that the Province was reduced to through cruel and unjust and oppressive acts of the British Parliament..."

One of the first burials, in 1777, was that of the young wife of Captain Jonathan Warren, who had joined the "rebellion" known as the Revolutionary War. The location would later be called The First Cemetery.

Perilous times and the confusion of war on their home soil caused laps in record keeping and the First Cemetery fell into disrepair, hidden in the woods. It was defunct by 1782.

All that remains is a tablet on a boulder, the only Marker there, which reads:

THIS TABLET MARKS
THE FIRST CEMETERY
IN
THE TOWN OF MARLBORO
--------------------
About twenty people
were buried here.

It is located deep in the woods, tangled and overgrown off Route 9, easterly, and not far from the Phelps Family Cemetery. A guide is needed to find the area; contact the Marlboro Historical Society.

Bio for this cemetery by Shirleen Farley (history4sure), member #46997739.

















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