A Very Grave Matter: Gravestones and Burying Grounds of New England Ancestors Genealogy First Settlers of New Hampshire Maine Massachusetts NH ME MA : photos : Metcalf Rock Pasture Burial Ground : NEAR THIS SPOT LIE BURIED ELIZABETH BISCO 1775 JANE (JEWETT) TODD 1778 JEREMIAH HAZEN 1779 LT. SAMUEL BURBANK 1781 A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION AND SEVEN OTHERS NAMES UNKNOWN WHO DIED OF SMALLPOX ERECTED 1945 THE ROWLET HISTORICAL SOCIETY- powered by SmugMug

The Metcalf Rock Burial Ground was a smallpox cemetery established in 1775. It is located about a half mile off Rte. 133 in Rowley on Longmeadow Drive. There was a so-called Pest House, designed for the care of those with small pox, nearby. All photos donated by and copyright © of Bill Boyington.

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gravematter > METCALF ROCK PASTURE
BURIAL GROUND 1775
SMALL POX CEMETERY

HERE LIES BURIED LIEUT. SAMUEL BURBANK.
HE HAD A DISTINGUISHED RECORD IN
THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION AND WAS
THE ONLY ROWLEY SOLDIER AT THE
SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE AT SARATOGA.
ON HIS RETURN, DIED OF THE SMALLPOX
IN THE PEST HOUSE NEARBY IN 1781.

TEN OTHERS ARE BURIED HERE.
ROWLEY HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1988

ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA

gravematter > Metcalf Rock Pasture Burial Ground photo

gravematter > NEAR THIS SPOT LIE BURIED
ELIZABETH BISCO 1775
JANE (JEWETT) TODD 1778
JEREMIAH HAZEN 1779
LT. SAMUEL BURBANK 1781
A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION
AND SEVEN OTHERS NAMES UNKNOWN
WHO DIED OF SMALLPOX
ERECTED 1945
THE ROWLET HISTORICAL SOCIETY

NEAR THIS SPOT LIE BURIED
ELIZABETH BISCO 1775
JANE (JEWETT) TODD 1778
JEREMIAH HAZEN 1779
LT. SAMUEL BURBANK 1781
A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION
AND SEVEN OTHERS NAMES UNKNOWN
WHO DIED OF SMALLPOX
ERECTED 1945
THE ROWLET HISTORICAL SOCIETY