Plympton's Hillcrest Cemetery dates to 1706 or earlier. It runs in a north-south direction along Main Street (Route 58) and covers approximately 14 acres. The Mass. Historical Commission Inventory form for Hillcrest Cemetery provides an excellent summary of the history and significance of the Cemetery.

Bricknell's Grave Marker Study
This page contains the entire volume of Plympton's Old "Burying Place". Plympton's Old "Burying Place" was compiled by a group led by Charles H. Bricknell in 1979 and 1980. Mr. Bricknell's Foreword provides some excellent background on their efforts and more detail on reading the Cemetery map (below).

Their work contains the location of each grave marker, and where discernible, its inscription. The locations are described in terms of Rows, Plots and Stones. Markers can be located by starting in the orientation map of the Cemetery, below. Rows are numbered 1 through 9 running west-to-east; Plots (columns) run south-to-north and are numbered 1 through 13. Not all Rows have 13 Plots due to the trapezoidal shape of the Cemetery. Each plot is 26' x 36'. X's on the map denote foot-stones; O's denote headstones. Detail maps for each Row can also be found below.

Caveat
The source material for the PDF scans on this page, regretfully, was a quite-faded mimeograph of Mr. Bricknell's work. As a result, and given the technology available to the Historical Commission, scans had to be done at a very high resolution (making them large; 500 - 900 KB per page) and precluding effective Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that would make the text searchable. The Commission is seeking an original copy of Plympton's Old "Burying Place" that would be more suited to OCR and is also considering transcribing the material to ultimately enable text searches.

Row & Plot Maps

	Orientation Map & Key		Row 5
	Row 1		Row 6
	Row 2		Row 7
	Row 3		Row 8
	Row 4		Row 9

Inscriptions & Locations

Page	Name Range	Page	Name Range
1	Alden - Bisbee	42	Loring - Loring
2	Bisbee - Bisbee	43	Loring - Loring
3	Bisbee - Bisbee	44	Loring - Magoun
4	Bisbee - Bonney	45	Magoun - Newell
5	Bonney - Bonney	46	Newland - Parker
6	Bonney - Bosworth	47	Parker - Parker
7	Bosworth - Blanchard	48	Parker - Parker
8	Bradford - Bradford	49	Parker - Perkins
9	Bradford - Bradford	50	Perkins - Perkins
10	Bradford - Bradford	51	Perkins - Perkins
11	Bradford - Bradford	52	Perkins - Prat
12	Bradford - Bryant	53	Pratt - Rickard
13	Bryant - Bryant	54	Rickard - Rickard
14	Bryant - Bryant	55	Rickard - Riehl
15	Bryant - Bryant	56	Riehl - Ripley
16	Bumpus - Chandler	57	Ripley - Ripley
17	Chandler - Churchill	58	Ripley - Ripley
18	Churchill - Churchill	59	Robbins - Samson
19	Churchill - Churchill	60	Sampson - Sampson
20	Churchill - Churchill	61	Sampson - Sampson
21	Churchill - Churchill	62	Sampson - Samson
22	Churchill - Churchill	63	Samson - Sherman
23	Churchill - Cobb	64	Sherman - Soule
24	Cobb - Crocker	65	Soule - Soule
25	Curtiss - Cushman	66	Soule - Soule
26	Cushman - Cushman	67	Soule - Standish
27	Cushman - Cushman	68	Standish - Standish
28	Cushman - Dean	69	Standish - Sturtevant
29	Despard - Elles	70	Sturtevant - Sturtevant
30	Elles - Ellis	71	Sturtevant - Thayer
31	Ellis - Ellis	72	Thayer - Thompson
32	Ellis - Fuller	73	Washburn - Weston
33	Fuller - Fuller	74	Weston - Weston
34	Fuller - Fuller	75	Weston - Whiting
35	Fuller - Haley	76	Whitman - Wright
36	Haley - Harlow	77	Wright - Wright
37	Harlow - Harrub	78	Wright - Wright
38	Harrub - Holmes	79	Wright - Wright
39	Holmes - Kitterell	80	Wright - Wright
40	Leach - Lobdell	81	Wright - Wright
41	Lobdell - Loring	82	Wright - Wright

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