Jan. 1915. 



RECORDS. 



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ment and are consequently much neglected. 

 Visits to several of these burying grounds 

 since the previous article was written have 

 convinced us of the urgent necessity of pre- 

 serving these valuable records of an essen- 

 tial portion of the history of our country. 



Fig. 21. 



& 



Rutland, Mass. 1777. 



The notes here given are necessarily 

 somewhat fragmentary and disconnected and 

 are printed with the idea of awakening an 

 interest in the subject, but in a larger work 

 which we have in hand we shall treat the 



