Old Town Cemetery
The first town burying ground, this cemetery was constructed in 1663 and last used in 1939. Most of Sandwich's earliest families are buried here. See if you can find the graves of some well-known Sandwich people and their families. Here are a few to get your started:
Here is a list of every person buried in the cemetery -- http://sandwichhistory.org/cemeteries/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Old-Town-BG-Excel-Spreadsheet-web-version.pdf and here is a map showing the location of all headstones and monuments -- http://sandwichhistory.org/cemeteries/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Old_Burying_Ground_09212009.pdf
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- Thomas Tupper – Founder of Sandwich; one of the Ten Men of Saugus
- Edmond Freeman – Founder of Sandwich; one of the Ten Men of Saugus
- Thomas Burgess – Grandfather of author Thornton Burgess
- Benjamin Fessenden -- Owner and proprietor of the Fessenden Tavern, known today as the Daniel Webster Inn
- Captain Adolf Bell – The famous Capt. Adolph Bell, cast in 1675, and donated to the meeting house by Adolph's widow in gratitude for finding and burying her husband's body after a shipwreck. Peter Adolph's life was lost in a shipwreck in 1703 in Cape Cod Bay while sailing from New York to Boston. His body and those of his crew washed up on East Sandwich or Scorton Beach and received a Christian burial.
Here is a list of every person buried in the cemetery -- http://sandwichhistory.org/cemeteries/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Old-Town-BG-Excel-Spreadsheet-web-version.pdf and here is a map showing the location of all headstones and monuments -- http://sandwichhistory.org/cemeteries/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Old_Burying_Ground_09212009.pdf
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To log this geocache on opencaching.us, the password is 1663.