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Cemetery Number	SK084
Town	SOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery Name	MAJ EBENEZER ADAMS LOT
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Location	NORTH RD
State	RI
Direction	E
Pole Number	988
Distance	390
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Deed Book
Deed Page
Size in Feet	60
Size in Feet	75
Inscriptions	2
Fieldstones	34
Tombs
Exist?	YES
Last seen date?	2023
Newest	1799
Oldest	1797
Vandalism	N
Veteran
Pole	G
Comment	This cemetery is located 390 feet east of North Road at telephone pole #988. It is also three hundred feet south of the new (2001) Potter Hill School at #537 North Road and can best be reached from the school. It is 60 feet x 75 feet, in good condition, enclosed with a stone wall; the historical cemetery sign is in good condition. It contains 35 burials with two inscribed stones and 34 fieldstones. This cemetery was visited Feb. 27, 1880 by James N. Arnold, his #39, “on land of late Azel Noyes a short distance south of his house is a burial yard walled with a ____ wall stone containing members of the Potter family and those of some of his early relatives being separated by groups. We counted in all 21 full and 14 small graves marked rudely and one of which we read on dark slate … Penelope Potter 1797.” The Ebenezer Adams monument is a cemented stone monolith about eighteen-feet-tall erected by the DAR in 1897. Recorded by John Sterling and James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Condition	good
Enclosure	stone wall
Gate	no gate
Growth	cleared
Terrain	level
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Cemetery Burial Map	N/A

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