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Entrance to the Old Burial Ground
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Wilhelmus Schutt
1765-1849
Wilhelmus Schutt was born about 1765 in Columbia County, NY. About 1788 he married Anna Tyler. He died Feb 23, 1849 in Mt. Washington, Mass.
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Abigail (Dibble) Benjamin
1741-1772
Abigail was born March 30, 1741 in Bedford, NY or Ridgefield, CT., daughter of John Dibble (1702-1773) & his wife Mary (1711-1799). January 20, 1761 she married Nathan Benjamin in Mount Washington. Abigail died there September 7, 1772
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Anna (Tyler) Schutt
Anna was born aboutt 1770. She married Wilhelmus Schutt about 1788 and died in Mount Washington September 15, 1851.
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Boeker
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Charles and Martha (Hall) Patterson
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Charles Patterson
1745-1837
Charles was born September 22, 1745 in Stratford, CT., the oldest son of Andrew Patterson (1719-1797) & Abigail Beardsley (1726-1811). He moved to New Fairfield, CT where he married his wife Martha Hall in 1768. In 1772 he carried his wife and oldest son to Mount Washington on horseback. He was the first Town Clerk and a Revolutionary War veteran. He died May 29, 1837 at the age of 92.
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Common Fieldstone marking unknown grave
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Illegible Dibble Family tombstone
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George M Dibble
1841-1846
George was born March 25, 1841 in Mount Washington a son of Jeremiah Dibble Jr & his wife Hannah. He died shortly before his 5th birthday on February 2, 1846 in Mount Washington.
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Illegible tombstone
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Jeremiah Dibble Sr
1784-1849
Jeremiah Dibble Sr was born April 12, 1784 in Mount Washington a son of Lieut John Dibble (1739-1826) & his wife Olive Henry or Joyce (1745-1811). He married in 1810 Elizabeth Schutt a daughter of Wilhelmus & Anna (Tyler) Schutt. Jeremiah died in Mount Washington January 24, 1849.
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Lieut John and Olive (Henry) Dibble
Lieut John Dibble was born August 13, 1769 in Bedford, NY or Ridgefield, CT a son of John Dibble (1702-1773) and his wife Mary (1711-1799). October 1763 he married Olive Henry or Joyce born July 15, 1745. John died in Mount Washington September 15, 1826. His wife Olive predeceased him June 10, 1811.
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Abigail (Dibble) Benjamin and her father John Dibble Sr
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John Dibble Sr
1702-1773
John Dibble Sr was born born 1702 in Bedford, NY a son of John Dibble (1673-1709) & Mary Severance (1681-1713). He married about 1730 Mary and was one of the original purchasers of land on Taghkanic Mountain (Mount Washington) from the Stockbridge Indians in 1757. He died Aug 1, 1773 in Mount Washington..
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Levi Wright
born 1817. Died Mar 6, 1854 at the age of 37.
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View of cemetery from the south/west corner
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Martha (Hall) Patterson
Martha was born September 13, 1751 in Stratfield, CT., a daughter of Elnathan Hall (1711-1774) and his 3rd wife Hannah Bishop (1718-1809). She married Charles Patterson in New Fairfield, Conn 1768 and with her husband moved to Mount Washington in 1772 where she died April 2, 1839.
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Robert Bartlett
1808-1808
Robert was the only son of Loring Bartlett (1786-1865) & his first wife Dorcas (1785-1808). He died October 2, 1808 at the age of 4 months.His mother Dorcas died 3 days later and was buried separate from her infant son in Chapinville Cemetery, Salisbury, CT.
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Wilhelmus and Anna (Tyler) Schutt
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Sterret Greek Marker
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Unknown Grave
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Unknown Grave
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Ezra A Dibble
born 1834 and died May 29, 1836 in Mt Washington, Ma. He was a son of Jeremiah Jr and Hannah M Dibble.
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Unknown Grave
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William Wright
1771-1852
William was born 1771 in Connecticut and died July 28, 1852 in Mt Washington. He married Ann.
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Old Burial Ground (1893)
Photo of the Old Burial Ground named as the Oldest Cemetery in Picturesque Berkshire published 1893.
Picturesque Berkshire, Part II South, The Picturesque Publishing Company, Northampton, Mass, 1893, Pg 93
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