| Cemetery Number | SK064 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JAMES BILLINGTON LOT |
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| Location | NORTH RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | E |
| Pole Number | 794 |
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| Size in Feet | 30 |
| Size in Feet | 30 |
| Inscriptions | 1 |
| Fieldstones | 15 |
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| Exist? | NO |
| Last seen date? | 1958 |
| Newest | 1841 |
| Oldest | 1839 |
| Vandalism | N |
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| Pole | N |
| Comment | This cemetery was located, probably until 1958, east of North Road at telephone pole #794, midway between the road and the Saugatucket Pond. It was thirty feet square with no enclosure. It contained sixteen burials with one inscribed stone and fifteen fieldstones.
James N. Arnold visited this cemetery Apr. 17, 1881, his #288, “east of Mr. Dye’s house on side of pond a burial yard on hill without protection.”
The state registration list calls this the Potter lot and says it was removed to Oakdell Cemetery in 1958. The Pettaquamscutt Historical Society book indicates they found only one unmarked grave, and it quotes Bill Sweet “this grave may be a Dye rather than a Potter. The original Dye house was located so close to this grave as to suggest this possibility.” It further states that an “old resident claimed grave exhumed.”
In his journal Daniel Stedman sheds a little light on an additional burial that may never have had a gravestone. He wrote: “March 3, 1841, Two young men Got Blowed up with the Cannon Loading at Peacedale. Lias Crumb died Soon and Potter lived until next day at half past 10 o’clock A.M. and then died. Buried 6th, Elder Leonard preached from Isaiah 32-11 meeting at Asa Dies [Dye’s] and buried in the James Billington Burying place. (I and my wife went).” |
| Condition | good |
| Enclosure | no enclosure |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | grass-well kept |
| Terrain | level |
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