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Mattapoisett Cemeteries

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Mattapoisett 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 notes about the cemetery and a brief description of its 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 separate section listing all online, published and manuscript 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 may indicate 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.

 

Barlow Cemetery (1758)
Barlow Ln., Mattapoisett, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Rochester as G.R.22.

Street Map
Topographic Map from TerraServer USA

Transcriptions in Thatcher

Location:   Across Acushnet Rd. from Cushing Cemetery, at the end of Barlow Ln.

Location:   North side of Fairhaven Rd. west of Medell Rd.

Location:   South side of Wolf Island Rd. east of Long Plain Rd.

Location:   North side of Marion Rd. east of Jane Ln., behind the Quaker meeting house.

Location:   South side of River Rd. west of Acushnet Rd.

Location:   Unknown.

Notes:   This was probably a small cemetery used by members of the Mendell family, and may now be part of Cushing Cemetery.

Location:   North side of Marion Rd. west of Hillside Ave.

For records contact:   St. Anthony's Rectory, 22 Barstow St., Mattapoisett, 508-758-3719.

Location:   West side of North St. between Crystal Spring Rd. and I-195.

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.

Special Note: — The following NEHGS manuscript is cited as containing Mattapoisett cemetery transcriptions in David Allen Lambert, A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries (Boston: NEHGS, 2002). This work is not yet in the NEHGS online catalog, so I am awaiting further information in order to identify it.

MSS/CB/78