| Cemetery Number | SK185 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | BENJAMIN WELLS LOT |
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| Location | BARBER POND RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | W |
| Pole Number | 5451 |
| Distance | 1390 |
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| Size in Feet | 55 |
| Size in Feet | 60 |
| Inscriptions | 6 |
| Fieldstones | 4 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 1907 |
| Oldest | 1842 |
| Vandalism | N |
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| Pole | N |
| Comment | This cemetery is located 1390 feet west of Barber Pond Road at telephone pole # 5451. It is five hundred feet south of the house at #634A Barber Pond Road called the Littlefield Place, but now owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Crocker (2003). It is east of Yagoo Pond, just south of the Exeter town line. The burial ground is 55 feet x 60 feet, in fair condition, enclosed with a stone wall; there is no historical cemetery sign. There are ten burials with six inscribed stones and four fieldstones. This cemetery is listed in the Exeter cemetery book as a lost cemetery, but it was found in South Kingstown in 1995.
James N. Arnold visited this lot Nov. 5, 1880, his #216, “on land of Benj. Wells, south of his house a burial yard of his family lot walled and in fair order.” He recorded the four stones that were there in 1880 and noted that there were two small graves at the feet of Mary Bicknell marked with rude stones. This cemetery was also recorded in 1930 by Gladys Palmer who put a copy of her transcript in the Langworthy Library in Hopkinton. She found it on the “Littlefield place” that she listed as being in Exeter.
Joshua Wells was the last Wells to live on this property. We were told by the current owners that he had a common-law wife who was not legally recognized and was forced off the property at his death in 1907. They showed us pictures of the couple and the notice of the 1908 public auction to sell one hundred and fifty acres containing a meadow, pasture, and wood land with an “old fashioned” house and other buildings.
Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
| Condition | fair |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | overgrown-trees |
| Terrain | level |
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