Footstone: Aaron

My days ware few, & I but small,
I did my work, now CHRIST is all.
Wood

[Urn and Willow Tree.]

626. Erected In memory of | FRANKLIN, | Son of Capt. Jedediah & | Mrs. Betsy Wood, | who died | Sept. 13, 1824: | Æt. 2 mo. & 13 dys.

How calm are thy slumbers | thou sweet little stranger,

Unmindful of sorrow | regardless of danger.

Thy mild spirit left thee as pure as it found thee

Ere the cold cares of life spread | their darkness around thee.

Footstone: F. W.

[Two Trees.]

627. MARIA LOUISA dau'. of Lieut Jedediah & | Mrs. Betsy Wood, | who died | July 13, 1813. | Æt. 3 years 4 month'

Footstone: M. L. W.

Happy infant early blest

And in peaceful slumbers rest.

[Double Stone with Urns and Willow Trees.] 628-629. PETER WOOD | Esq. | died March 5, | 1820, Æt. 79.

Impartial judge of all the world

I trust my cause to thee,

According to my righteousness

So let my sentence be.

Mrs. SIBBEL, wife of | Peter Wood Esq. | 1822, Æt. 82.

Woods.
[Death's Head.]

630. In memory of | Mr. ALPHEUS WOODS | who

died October 25th | 1794 Ætatis 67.

(See lines, next page)

Farewell vain man! I've had enough of thee;
And now I'm careless what thou say'st of me.
What fault thou'ft feen in me, take care to shun,
There's work within thyself which should be done :
Thy fmiles I court not, nor thy frowns do fear,
My cares are paft, my head lies quiet here.

Footstone: Mr Alpheus Woods

[This grave has a Revolutionary marker.]

631. Coll BENJAMIN | WOODS [Died 1740?]

[Death's Head.]

632. Here lyes Buried |

Body of M". DOROTHY

WOODS, Wife to M'. James | Woods; Who died |

Nov. 10th, 1734, in ; | 37th Year of her Age

Footstone: Mr DOROTHY | WOODS

[A Scroll.]

633. ELISABETH WOOD'

Daughter of M'. |

Wife she

Alpheus Woods & | M" Millifcent his

died March 9th 1769 Aged 9 Years

Footstone: E. W.

[Death's Head.]

634. Here lies; Body of | M" HEPZIBAH WOOD' Wife of Deac" James | Woods who died | Decemb'.; 31 1768 | in 67th Year of her 1

age.

Footstone: [A Leaf] Mrs Hepzibah | Wood.

Reader Remember Death

[Death's Head.]

635. In Memory of | Deacon | JAMES WOODS | who departed this | life April 10th, | A D 1772; |

Ætatis 77.

Paffing with Melancholy ftate,
By all these folemn heaps of fate,
O think! as foft and fad You tread,
Above the Venerable Dead:

Time was like You, we life poffeff'd,

And time fhall be when You fhall Reft.

Footstone: [A Scroll] Deacon | JAMES WOODS | 1772.

Reader! Remember Death.

636. MELISCENT WOODS | died April 17th, 1781. Aged 51 Years. She was Wife to | Alpheus Woods; | And Excelled in Virtue and Piety.

Now I am wrapped in Everlasting Sleep,

You neither hear me Sigh, nor fee me Weep.

Footstone: MELISCENT WOODS 1781

[She was a daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Howe.]

[Urn and Willow Tree.]

637. Erected In memory of

Mrs. SARAH, |

Widow of Mr. Alpheus Woods, | who died | Feb.

18, 1825 | Æt. 90.

Footstone: S. W.

[Her maiden name was Bent.]

[Death's Head.]

638. TIMOTHY WOODS | the Son of Coll. | Benjamin & M". | Elizabeth Woods | died March 11th, | 1740 | aged 17 months

[This stone is broken.]

Woodward.

639-640. MARY D. | Died June 12, 1854, | Æ. 9 mos.

ANNA | Died Mar. 16, 1866, | Æ. 8 mos.
Children of | M. W. & C. H. Woodward.

[Urn and Willow Tree.]

641. In memory of | Mr. MOSES | WOODWARD, | who died | Sept. 8, 1835; | Æt. 64.

Fond memory, like a mocking bird,

Within the widowed heart is heard
Repeating every touching tone

Of voices, that from earth have gone.

Footstone: M. W. J. (misplaced). [See No. 322.]

Not Xdentified.

Sci [] co [

[The above may have been members of the Temple family.]

]ar | aged 29.

DESCRIPTION AND PLAN OF THE SPRING HILL

BURYING GROUND in 1737.

From MARLBOROUGH TOWN RECORDS.

Here is Recorded marlborough ould burring-feeld may 23-1737 ye Suruay of the Buring field in marlborough viz ye ould Burring field and I find four acres & 46 Rods & bounded as followeth and all parties Concarned being Present and begun att ye Draw Barss and runs northerly with Capt Thomas Amsdens Land 15 Rods to a heap of Stons : then angling a little & Runs 18 Rod to a heap of Stons then Runs easterly by the Land of Thomas How: angling by mark trees & Staks 20 Rod to a heap of Stons, then 20 Rod to a heap of Stons then angles a Little and Runs Six Rods & half by Sd How & part by the Land of James Brown: then Runs Southerly angling by a highway & ye Land belonging to the Heirs of mr William Thomas to where it begun. Suruayed by James Keys

may ye 23 1737 the Return of this on the other side being four acres & 46 Rods Is the most Easterly Buring Place in marlborough Called the ould Buring Place: was made the Day of the Date aboue sd and was accepted Attest William Ward moderator and Entered: here may ye 24-1737 by

Abraham Williams Clerk

(Burial place in W. laid out Nov. 7, 1729.)