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Rowley Burial Ground

Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Route 1A near Route 133, Rowley · location approximate

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The Burial Ground set apart at the settlement of the Town of Rowley in 1639. Here are buried Ezekiel Rogers, Samuel Phillips, Samuel Shepard, Edward Payson and Jedediah Jewett, the earliest ministers of the town, and nearly all the original settlers.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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