Excerpt from Wethersfield Inscriptions: A Complete Record of the Inscriptions in the Five Burial Places in the Ancient Town of Wethersfield, Including the Towns of Rocky Hill, Newington, and Beckley Quarter (in Berlin), Also a Portion of the Inscriptions in the Oldest Cemetery in Glastonbury The first enlargement was made March 8, 1736, when Nathaniel Burnham, in return for land given him by the town, granted to the Society a piece of land on the west and a narrow strip on the south, thus nearly doubling the area of the original plot. The second addition was on January 29, 1760, when the ground was extended on the west by nearly a quarter of an acre, James Mitchell being the grantor. This brought the burial line nearly up to the foundations of the present church edifice, the cornerstone of which was laid May 6, 1761. February 25, 1853, the First School Society, into whose hands the care of the property had passed, purchased what is known as the Clapp extension on the east, containing a tri e over one and three - quarters acres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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