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North Falmouth Cemetery 1804 - Present
Location: 153 Old Main Road, North Falmouth, behind North Falmouth Congregational Church Earlier readings of inscriptions: · 1968-1970 by William M. Dunkle The tree-lined road leading to the back of the North Falmouth Congregational Church opens onto the burying ground which is surrounded by a white picket fence, with granite posts and a wrought-iron entry gate. Carvings of traditional motifs and sentimental verses are found on gravestones of slate, granite, and marble. The earliest burials date from 1804, many years before John Nye of North Falmouth sold, on 6 December 1827, for $7.50, a 60-rod fenced-in lot of land with access road for a burying ground to nineteen North Falmouth men. Purchasers included fourteen members of the Nye family, three members of the Crowell family, and one member of each the Eldred and Ellis families. Between 1804 and the 1827 sale of the land, seventeen internments took place there. Before the North Falmouth Congregational Church was built on Old Main Road in 1832, there were six additional internments of North Falmouth residents. The earliest burials were memorials to North Falmouth sea captains Reuben Nye (son of land owner John Nye) and Joshua Crowell who both died at sea on October 9, 1804. Twenty-four additional sea captains were buried in the cemetery, as well as several North Falmouth Revolutionary War veterans. More than 1,000 burials have taken place between 1804 and the present. Know all men by these present, that I, John NYE of Falmouth in the county of Barnstable and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yoeman, in consideration of the sum of Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents in hand paid by:
all of Falmouth, county and state afore said, yoemen, the receipt whereof I acknowledge, do give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto said Benjamin, Prince, Warren, Ebenezer, John Jr., Stephen, Alvin, Francis Jr., James, Samuel, Jr., Ervin, Joshua, Shubael, Charles, Nathan, John, Charles, Adonah and Samuel, their heirs and assign forever, a certain enclosed lot of land for a Burying Ground lying in Falmouth, near Ervin Nye's in the eastward side of the road containing sixty rods more or less bounded by the fence as it now stands with a priviledge of a road to pass and repass to and from said Burying Ground to the public road, with all the priviledges thereof to them, the said Benjamin, Prince, Warren, Ebenezer, John Jr., Stephen, Alvin, Francis Jr., James, Samuel, Jr., Ervin, Joshua, Shubael, Charles, Nathan, John, Charles, Adonah and Samuel, their heirs and assigns and I, the said John Nye for myself, my heirs, executors or administrators in covenant with said Benjamin et al, ... in witness we have herewith set out our hand and seal this sixth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twenty seven.
How to Read the Individual Record North Falmouth Cemetery
Others buried in this grave/plot or listed on gravestone: Information from Gravestone, additional data provided by Col. Oliver B. Brown ~ 1970 from Falmouth Town Records. FGS Vital Records Project. NFC Records. Information added in this color denotes the information was obtained from The Town of Falmouth, Vital Records to 1850, (out of print) and/or The Town of Falmouth, Vital Records to 1872 (unpublished) by Col. Oliver Brown. Information added in this color denotes the information was obtained from The Town of Falmouth Annual Reports from 1870 through 1930. Information added in this color denotes information obtained from the burial records.
Inscription:
PRIVATE means buried after 31 December 1970.
There are two ways to enter the cemetery and find the Individual Record.
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