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This narrow strip of upland lies between the Fresh Kill road, now knows as Arthur Kill road and the before mentioned salt meadow. The buying ground is one of the very early ones, and one of the first community burying grounds on the Island. The strip of land between the old road and the steep bank leading down to the salt meadow, is so narrow that the gravestones were arranged in fifteen rows, containing from one to six stones in each row. Of the six earliest gravestones, dating from 1751 to 1761, all but that to the memory of Abraham Cole face west. The remaining thirty five stones face east, the usual custom in the earlier cemeteries. On November 4, 1888 the writer copied the inscriptions on a number of gravestones in this old burying ground. We find mention of twelve different family names; five English, five Huguenot or French and two Dutch.” The cemetery was designated a New York City landmark in 1968. The following is the transcription of the 1922 V.L.D. grave stone study. William T. Davis notes grave stones that were found in 1888 and not found in 1922. In 1989 FACSI updated this listing and note graves stones no longer visible or not found. Some of the last names which should be exactly the same are not, they are slightly different, example Marshel vs. Marshell. Grave stones are not a representation of ALL those buried in a grave or throughout the cemetery. Many did not have a monument and many were not added/inscribed on the existing grave stones These records were transcribed to the best of our ability, the records are in poor condition and extremely hard to read. If you find a discrepancy in these records, please make that correction in your own files. We will not make any alterations to this listing. If you find these records not compatible to your own family history, you are encouraged to seek death certificates or other legal vital records through the New York City Municipal Archives located in Manhattan. This cemetery interment listing is provided as a courtesy from Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc. to aid you in your genealogy or family history search only and should be not used as legal vital records. Transcribed by: Lynn Rogers First Name Last Name Soundex Aged Date of Death Date of Birth Row/Location Misc. Ann Ayres A620 56y,5m,1d 10/24/1828   9th row Wife of Elihu, white marble stone Elihu Ayres A620 69y,6d 5/30/1836   9th row White marble stone Abraham Cole C400 39y,1m 9/22/1751   3rd row Oldest extant stone in the cemetery Harmon B. Laforge L162 3y,3m,15d 5/26/1829   13th row Son of Henry S. and Catherine R. Jacob Laforge L162 16y,5m,11d 4/11/1838   13th row Son of Henry & Catharine Laforge, white marble John t. Laforge L162 5y,10m,1d 4/5/1838   13th row Son of Henry and Catherine, white marble John Marshall M624 86y 10/9/1811   3rd row Brown stone Catherine Marshel M624   3/18/1782 10/30/1757 3rd row Brown stone Susannah Marshel M624 89y 10/2/1801   3rd row   Elizabeth Oakley O240 76y 1/1/1819   11th row Israel & Elizabeth Oakley were the great great grandparents of Wm. T. Davis Israel Oakley O240 85y, 12/10/1824   11th row Brown stone, Abraham Parlee P640 44y,9m,23d 11/2/1760 1/10/1716 4th row Brown stone Bornt Parlee P640 72y 1/20/1825   5th row Brown stone Henry Parlee P640 78y,9m,9d 1/12/1831   5th row Found in 1888, not found in 1922 John Parlee P640 17y,9m,6d 1/2/1761 3/27/1743 4th row Brown stone John Parlee P640 40y 11/7/1824   5th row Son of Bornt Parlee, brown stone Rachel Parlee P640 91y,7m 6/18/1854   5th row Found in 1922, not found in 1989 Elizabeth Poillon P450 54y 6/6/1820   7th row Daughter of James and Catherine Sequine, brown stone Bornt Sequine S250 64y 7/17/1831   14th row White marble stone Catharine Gertrude Sequine S250 2y,7m,4d 11/22/1805   10th row Daughter of John & Margaret Sequine, brown stone Catherine Sequine S250 68y 8/12/1803   6th row Wife of James Sequine, brown stone Catherine Sequine S250 13y,4m 6/23/1831   15th row Daughter of George & Elizabeth Sequine, brown stone Cornelius Sequine S250 43y 10/2/1836   7th row White marble stone Frederick Sequine S250 63y,6m,25d 1/25/1837   14th row White marble stone Henery Sequine S250 26y 8/26/1819   10th row Son of John & Margaret Sequine James Sequine S250 63y,6m,27d 9/23/1795   6th row Brown stone James Sequine S250 27y,7m,7d 4/7/1826   7th row Son of Stephen & Susannah Sequine, white marble stone John Sequine S250 55y,10m,21d 10/6/1813 11/15/1757 10th row Brown stone Margaret Sequine S250 59y,2m,30d 3/7/1844   7th row Wife of Stephen Sequine, white marble stone Stephen Sequine S250 85y,10m,7d 2/5/1847   7th row White marble stone Stephen Sequine S250 18y,8m 6/13/1818   10th row Son of John & Margaret Sequine Susannah Sequine S250 34y,9m,4d 5/31/1804   7th row Brown stone Edmund Shea S000 17y,2m,24d 8/19/1826   8th row Son of William and rachell Shea, not found in 1989 John G. Shea S000 52y 10/8/1865   8th row Found in 1922, not found in 1989 Rachel Shea S000 39y 4/25/1819   8th row Wife of William Shea. Found in 1922, not found in 1989 Hitetia Simonson S552 67y 7/25/1789   2nd row Real name: Hilletje. Daughter of Henrick and Catherine Winant, Baptized 1/7/1722 Catharine Slaght S423   2/28/1760 4/5/1694 1st row Wife of Henrick, grave stone missing in 1989 Jacob Slaght S423 26y 6/20/1751   1st row Son of Henrick, grave stone missing in 1989 Ann Winant W553 25y,6m,23d 12/19/1828   12th row Wife of Bornt P. Winant. Found in 1922, not found in 1989 M.F. Winant W553 7m,5d 2/2/1828   12th row Son of Bornt P. and Ann Winant Peter Winent W553 104y 8/8/1758 1654 2nd row Grave stone missing in 1989
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