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The Old Burying Hill (or Old Hill Burying Ground) is found by the Bartlett Mall, in between Auburn Street and Greenleaf Street off of High Street in Newburyport. When this cemetery was established in 1729 the town was still part of Newbury. Newburyport formed a seperate town in 1764. See it's location and get directions at Yahoo Maps. Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Mary McHard the virtuous & amiabe Conort of Capt. William McHard of Newbury Port, who amidt the laudable exertions of avery ueful & deireable life, in which her Chritian Profeion was well adorned and a fair copy of every ocial vir- tue diplayed, was in a tate of health uddenly ummoned to the Skies & natched from ye eager embraces of her friends, (and the throbbing hearts of her dicono late family confeed their fairet propects of ublunary bles were, in one moment dahed) by wal- lowing a Pea at her own table; whence in a few hours he weetly breathed her Soul away into her SAVIOURS arms on the 8th day of March A.D. 1780 Æt. tis 47 This mournful tone, a faithful Monument of Virtue ???????? ?????????? ??????????? ![]() Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Mary McHard the virtuous & amiabe Conort of Capt. William McHard of Newbury Port, who amidt the laudable exertions of avery ueful & deireable life, in which her Chritian Profeion was well adorned and a fair copy of every ocial vir- tue diplayed, was in a tate of health uddenly ummoned to the Skies & natched from ye eager embraces of her friends, (and the throbbing hearts of her dicono late family confeed their fairet propects of ublunary bles were, in one moment dahed) by wal- lowing a Pea at her own table; whence in a few hours he weetly breathed her Soul away into her SAVIOURS arms on the 8th day of March A.D. 1780 Æt. tis 47 This mournful tone, a faithful Monument of Virtue ???????? ?????????? ???????????
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