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Cemetery NumberSK141
TownSOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery NamePELEG BABCOCK LOT
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LocationMATUNUCK SCHOOLHOUSE ROAD
StateRI
DirectionN
Pole Number6731
Distance300
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Deed Page 
Size in Feet40
Size in Feet40
Inscriptions3
Fieldstones18
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?2003
Newest1862
Oldest1845
Vandalism 
Veteran 
PoleN
CommentThis cemetery is located 250 feet north of the road at #1245 Matunuck Schoolhouse Road at telephone pole # 6731 / 25 / 52 about one mile west of Moonstone Beach Road. This is opposite Coddington Way. It is forty feet square, with a stone wall on the north and east sides, and it contained 21 burials with three inscribed stones and eighteen fieldstones. The marble stones for Peleg Babcock, his wife Sarah, and their daughter were moved to the Perryville Cemetery (SK047) after Arnold visited this cemetery in 1880. James N. Arnold recorded this lot Oct. 8, 1880, his #152, “on land of Christopher Browning south of farm house in open lot unprotected.” “Note this yard is overrun with a dense growth of briers and weeds.” Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Conditionpoor
Enclosurestone wall
Gateno gate
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A