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The Saddle and Pillion Burial Ground is the oldest burying place in Sandwich, named for the two rough fieldstones, one shaped like a saddle, that mark the graves of Edmund Freeman, a principal founder of the town in 1637, and his wife Elizabeth, who were buried here in the 1670s and 1680s. Descendants affixed commemorative bronze tablets to the stones in 1910.
Saddle and Pillion Burial Ground is a cemetery in Sandwich, Barnstable County. It is one of 67 cemeteries documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.7674, -70.5190 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 15 Rt 6A (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Commercial Building at 14 Rt 6A, Commercial Building at 18 Rt 6A, and House at 16 Rt 6A.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Saddle and Pillion Burial Ground on Tupper Road in Sandwich is one of the town's oldest colonial burying grounds, established around 1675, only a generation after Sandwich's founding in 1637. Its weathered early stones are characteristic of 17th- and 18th-century New England burial grounds, and the site lies within a local historic district.
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