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Gordon Hill Cemetery

Memorials	:	0
Location	:	Exeter, Rockingham County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.9619440, -70.9958300
Description	:	This cemetery is on the south (left) side of Route 111 to Kingston beyond Perkins (once Gordon) Hill, perhaps 500 feet in from the road. The cemetery is to the right and behind the house at 140 Rt. 111 and opposite Cross Rd. to the Transfer Station. As a town cemetery, there is public access and minimal parking to the right of the driveway. This is a rather large burying ground, and burials here are probably as early as 1710 or earlier. Its origin is apparent from the following extract from a 1757 will of Thomas Gordon (1678-1761), son of... Read More	This cemetery is on the south (left) side of Route 111 to Kingston beyond Perkins (once Gordon) Hill, perhaps 500 feet in from the road. The cemetery is to the right and behind the house at 140 Rt. 111 and opposite Cross Rd. to the Transfer Station. As a town cemetery, there is public access and minimal parking to the right of the driveway. This is a rather large burying ground, and burials here are probably as early as 1710 or earlier. Its origin is apparent from the following extract from a 1757 will of Thomas Gordon (1678-1761), son of Alexander Gordon, a Scottish soldier captured by Cromwell's army during the Third English Civil War in about 1650 and sent to the colonies as a prisoner: " I give and bequeath to my two sons, viz. Benjamin and Nathaniel Gordon, their heirs and assigns forever, all my Homestead, my Dwelling House and Bam and other buildings thereon excepting half an acre of land to be reserved for a Burying place as convenient as may be where my last wife was buried and several of my children and grandchildren, and a convenient way to and from it to the County road leading from Exeter to Khrgston (sic)." This has been a town cemetery for many years, and the town has several times spent money for its maintenance. The lot is rectangular and slopes downward to the east, with a gully/wash running through the middle. It is about 225 feet wide and 180 feet deep, and contains nearly an acre. It was once enclosed by a stone post fence with rails of timber about four or five inches square in cross section. The fence is now in very poor repair, consisting only of the granite posts. Part of the cemetery is overgrown with bushes and black cherry, and most of it is under a canopy of pine and oak trees. Several of the stones are lying flat and some covered are with leaves and earth. Most of the stones are of gray slate, and nicely carved; others are of white marble. Many of the oldest graves are marked by unlettered field stones, some have crude initials, and in some cases the age is given, but no year. It is highly probable there are more burials than extant stones but there are no known records documenting burials here.

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