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East Bridgewater Indian Burying Place

Memorials	:	13
Location	:	East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, USA
Description	:	Also known as the Robbins Pond Indian Cemetery. Located off of Pond St. near Robbins Pond. No gravestones mark this cemetery, whose exact location had been lost in the 20th century. After the land on which the cemetery is located was sold in the early 2000s, archaeology was conducted to locate, protect and preserve the cemetery. Latham discussed this cemetery in the late 19th century: Williams Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Illustrated with Plans and Views (Bridgewater, Mass.: Henry T. Pratt, 1882), 186: "There is an Indian burying-place at Robbins' Pond, on a piece of high ground on the south side of... Read More	Also known as the Robbins Pond Indian Cemetery. Located off of Pond St. near Robbins Pond. No gravestones mark this cemetery, whose exact location had been lost in the 20th century. After the land on which the cemetery is located was sold in the early 2000s, archaeology was conducted to locate, protect and preserve the cemetery. Latham discussed this cemetery in the late 19th century: Williams Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Illustrated with Plans and Views (Bridgewater, Mass.: Henry T. Pratt, 1882), 186: "There is an Indian burying-place at Robbins' Pond, on a piece of high ground on the south side of the road, fifty rods west of the bridge over Satucket river, at said pond. This ground was formerly covered with a heavy growth of pine timber, always private property. None but colored people are known to have been buried here, and probably not more than ten to fifteen graves there, and no gravestones with inscriptions thereon. There was no Indian settlement around this pond before 1651. It is called Robbins Pond from John Robbins [sic, Anatehuant alias Robin], an Indian, who early lived near it. Those persons who have lived or been buried at this place have come from abroad; mostly from Marshfield, Assawampsett Pond, and South Kingstown, R.I., and have been Indians, negroes, and mixed blood." Wampanoag sachem Ousamequin alias Massasoit had sold much of the East Bridgewater area from a center point at the fishing weir located on the north side of Robbins Pond. White settlers purchased the majority of these Bridgewater lots, however, Anatehuant alias Robin purchased land near the weir and shortly thereafter encouraged other Indian families to join him there. By the 18th century several families had purchased land at the pond. Thus an informal village under Robin's leadership was formed at Satucket, located halfway between Titicut in Bridgewater/Middleborough and Mattakeeset in Pembroke (a footpath called Tunk connected Robbins Pond to the village of Mattakeeset on Pembroke Ponds). Following the end of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783, several former slaves married into the families still residing on Robbins Pond. Burials here likely include members of the Indian families ROBINS, JAMES, PEGIN and others, and the family of former slave John Jess (enslaved by Loyalist Col. Josiah Edson Jr. of Bridgewater).

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