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The place earliest used in town for a cemetery, so far as known, was the lot on the west side of the road, just north of Mrs. Rachel Shaw's, now occupied by C. W. Streeter as a pasture. Scarcely any race of these early burials, of which there were only a few, now remains. No headstones were erected. Another ancient cemetery lies on the east side of the road just south of the meeting-house.
This was in general use for perhaps twenty years, but was long since abandoned. The last interment here was that of Daniel Streeter, who suicided in 1855. Here were interred Jeremiah Robinson, who owned and operated the first corn mill in town, and his successor, Joseph Beals, the "Mountain Miller," and their families. These last named have been re-interred in the principal cemetery north of the meeting-house. In 1889, the writer witnessed the disinterment of the remains of Jeremiah Robinson, who died in 1824. Portions of the coffin still remained. One fragment bore his initials, J. R., formed by brass-headed nails driven into the wood, as was the custom in those days. Some 20 headstones bearing inscriptions still remain.--About twenty persons were buried in the pasture about half a mile north of Amos K. Griggs'. No headstones were erected, but the graves can still be distinctly traced. - History of the Town of Plainfield, p.56
March 22, 1790, "Voted that Simon Burroughs, Caleb White and Jeremiah Robinson be a committee to view the ground near Streeter's Saw-mill and Determine whether it be necessary to build a bridge over the Brook just above said mill or not." Later at the same meeting it was voted to build the bridge, which was probably one of the first in town. - History of the Town of Plainfield
Jeremiah was a Selectmen for Plainfield in 1791
It is believed that the grist mill, or "corn mill," as it was called, of Jeremiah Robinson, said to have been established in 1789, and the saw mill of Samuel Streeter, both on Mill brook, were the first mills of any kind established here, being mentioned in the records as early as 1791. In 1798 the grist mill was purchased by Joseph Beals, "the Mountain Miller," who managed the business until his death in 1813. - History of the Town of Plainfield, p.68
Jeremiah served in the Revolutionary War

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in Hilltop Cemetery, Row 20, Plot 18

Jeremiah married Martha (Patty) Ford on 27 May 1781 in Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Andrew Ford and Sarah Shaw) was born on 2 May 1755 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 12 Sep 1814 in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Josiah married Anna Barton. Anna and died. [Group Sheet]

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Andrew was admitted to the Abington Church in 1741. He was elected to several town offices: Fence Viewer 11 Mar 1745, Leather Sealer 10 Mar 1746, Field Driver 6 Mar 1749. He was paid by the town Treasurer for killing various pests in 1741,1742,1754 and 1765. He had no colonial or Revolutionary service in Massachusetts according to the records, but four of his sons served in the Revolution. Andrew was a yeoman and cordwainer; he may have established the tannery which located on the Ford side of the Southern grant. He inherited his father’s sawmill and received property from his father and grandfather,Andrew Ford. He bought land in Abington from Ebenezer Hunt in 1754 and sold land there to his relatives and neighbors. 1751-1777. It is not certain exactly where he lived in Abington. Two facts were known; first he never lived in his father’s house at 770 Washington Street, which he sold to Joshua Howe in 1760; his house was burned in 1757. Cyrus Nash reports on the latter. “ A child of Andrew Ford’s great great great grandchild of Andrew Ford, the first settler in this place from Weymouth. This child (?) burnt in a house of Mr. Andrew Ford’s which took fire by the children. After found that the house was on fire (Mr. Ford and his wife was absent at the time) the children run out of the house and left a child asleep in the cradle.” Evidently because “he had his house burnt in Nov. last” Andrew was allowed by the vote of the town, 30 May 1758 to draw his rates (taxes) out of the treasury and was paid 2.14, 7.1 by the town treasure, 13 Sept 1758. This house may have been the one at 50 Adams Street, originally owned by Hezekiah Ford;it was remembered only by the site of the cellar hole when Cyrus Nash was writing in the early 1800s. Andrew was placed in the West Abington settlement by Eldridge Payn in his 1896 map. Andrew and Sarah sold 59 acres with buildings in this area to Micha and John Hunt in 1777, Sept 1, when he was called yeoman of Plantation no. 5. He lived in the area organized as the district of Plainfield in 1785. He bought and sold land, according to the Hampshire County Deeds. Andrew and Sarah together with their children Andrew Jr. and his wife, Sarah, Elijah and Solomon Ford and Martha Robinson were original members of the First Church of Plainfield, 31 Aug 1786. Andrew may have built Ford’s Mill mentioned in Hampshire County Deeds, Books 2 page 152, 1788, when some of his sons deeded a share in it to Jeremiah Robinson. - The Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts

Andrew married Sarah Shaw on 25 Nov 1742 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John Shaw and Sarah Burrell) was born in 1724 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1791 in Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Andrew received property from his father, 1720 (Plymouth County deeds, vol. 16, p. 9), and land, housing, farm equipment by his father’s will, proved in 1725. He was appointed executor by his brother Hezekiah’s will, 27 Nov. 1721, and was named guardian of Hezekiah’s minor children, Hezekiah and Ruth, in 1723. He built two houses in Abington (Historical Society of Old Abington). The first one, at the present site of lOll Washington Street, was probably built after his purchase of the Woodward grant, 1706/7. His son Jacob lived and died in this house. About 1800 Jacob’s son Benjamin sold it to Capt. Richard Vining, who built another house there in 1815. Andrew’s second house, located at 770 Washington Street, was “new” about 1735. A house stands there today; the back part of dark stained shingle, with central chimney, is the original; it faces south. It was sold in 1760 by Andrew Ford IV to Joshua Howe (Plymouth County deeds, vol. 48, p. 194). A sign attached to the front of the house erroneously states that it was erected before 1700.
Andrew was called “Ensign” in the Abington records, 23 April 1728. He and his wife Mercy were on the first list of First Church members, 1724. He was on the committee to get the meeting house finished, 24 Dec. 1728, and on the committee, 1 March 1731, which made up the accounts regarding the finishing of the meeting house. Ten years later he was moderator of a meeting which was primarily concerned with the question of repairing the old meeting house or building a new one.
He was also active in civic affairs. He was elected Highway Surveyor three times, 4 March 1723, 1 March 1725, I March 1731. Twice he served on a committee to provide a schoolmaster for the town, 26 Nov. 1729, the first in Abington, and again 30 Dec. 1730. On 23 April 1728 he was trustee for a £60,000 loan to the town. On 8 Jan. 1730 he served on a committee to meet with Hingham, Hull, Scituate, Hanover, Weymouth and Braintree committees in an attempt to have this district create a new county. On 5 Dec. 1734 he was moderator of a town meeting to provide for the care of an indigent; and on 31 May 1736 moderator of a meeting concerned with the continuation of the same case. On 22 May 1738 he was moderator of a meeting on a petition to have the old “Colony Line” re-surveyed correctly; and on 31 March 1741 moderator of a regular Town Meeting. Andrew bought land in 1706/7 from Joseph and Isaac Poole (Plymouth County deeds, vol. 7, p. 208). This deed mentioned land of “ye sd John fford,” probably a clerical error as “Andrew” is the only previously-mentioned Ford. In 1724 Andrew bought land from William Reed; he sold property in 1740 to James Nash, in 1742 to Abraham Josselyn, in 1744 to Joseph Stoddard, in 1749 to Woodbridge Brown (Plymouth County deeds, passim.).
His will was written 12 June 1749 and proved 4 June 1750. He bequeathed to “beloved wife Allice” the privilege of living in the best room of either of his houses, also food supplies and firewood. His son Jacob received the northerly half of his farm, except for the sawmill. His son Andrew received the southern half of the farm and the sawmill. His daughter Hester Porter received thirty acres of land and her children, money. The children of his daughter Mercy Richards and of his daughter Mary Reed, also received money. Witnesses were: Samuel Brown, Ebenezer Bate, Jr., Mercy Brown. His sons Jacob and Andrew were named executors when the will was proved in 1750 (plymouth County Probate, vol. 12, p. 146, 147). - Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts

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in Mt. Vernon Cemetery

Andrew married Mercy Reed on 27 Nov 1706 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of William Reed and Esther Tomson) was born about 1682 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 4 Feb 1738 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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John married Sarah Burrell. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet]

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Andrew lived in Weymouth until he was almost thirty. Suffolk County deeds show that he bought property there 16 Feb. 1673/4 and 10 Feb. 1676/7 from Richard Phillips and his wife Mary (vol. 9, p. 12-13; vol. 10, p. 150-151). There is no military service in Massachusetts for him, but Andrew “Foard” is mentioned in an account of sundry payments made in 1673-1674, for the building of “the Castle,” a fortification on Castle Island in Boston Harbor (Secretary of State, Boston and Mrs. Colin Campbell, Historical Society of Old Abington).
Andrew took the oath of allegiance to Charles II with his father and brothers in Weymouth in 1678. Two other Suffolk County records concern him: the will of his father and the estate records of his first cousin, Jamess Lovell. Andrew1 Ford, 25 Feb. 1692/3, bequeathed his son 12 pence, which he judged sufficient with what he had already given him. The inventory of Jamess Lovell’s estate, 1717/18, mentioned land held in partnership with his “brother” Andrew Ford (Suffolk County Probate Record, vol. 20, p. 455, given in History of Weymouth, vol. 3, p. 394). Jamesa was the son of James, brother of Ellinor, Andrew’s mother; therefore, Andrew’s first cousin; “brother” may indicate a close friendship or some connection unknown to this historian.
About 1679 Andrew moved into the eastern half of the Souther Grant, purchased by Lovell and Ford in 1664 from the Plymouth Colony. Benjamin Hobart, the Abington historian, said he might have moved thete earlier and withdrawn because of Indian trouble. “Andrew Ford’s house” was mentioned, 13 March 1671/2, in a description of the Partridge grant, sold by Partridge to Thomas Andrews of Hingham (Plymoum Colony deed, vol. 3, p. 188). The deed stated: “The said land lyem near a mile to me south a little westerly from Andrew ffoards house.” “Andrew ffoards house” may have been a crude hut or cabin used while clearing the property; and may have been the house destroyed by the Indians, the incident to which Hobart referred. Andrew Ford probably built a more permanent dwelling south of the first after the title to the Souther grant had been cleared up, 1679/80. He was the pioneer settler there. Hobart located an early Ford house, by a pile of rocks, west of Deacon Cleverly’s, at the present fork of Washington and Adams Streets in North Abington. The site was marked, about 1930, by some of Andrew’s descendants and a bronze plaque affixed to a boulder, which reads: “Near this spot about the year 1679 Andrew Ford, second of the name in America, built the first house in the territory afterward incorporated as the town of Abington.” This house is mentioned in Plymoum Colony Judicial Acts, vol. 7, p. 310 (·98) in a report written, 2 July 1690, on me road from Middlebury, Bridgewater, etc. towards Boston, “ .... to ye road that goeth to Waymouth, and from thence as ye way now lyeth on ye westerly side of Andrew Foords house, & so to ye patent line .... “ The land on which Andrew lived was called Ford’s Farm or Farms, as already stated.
On 10 June 1712 Ford’s Farms and lands adjoining, together with the N. E. comer of the town of Bridgewater, were incorporated to form the town of Abington (Massachusetts Archives, Court Orders, vol. 9, p. 205).
On 5 March 1715/16 Andrew Ford was elected Selectman and Tax Assessor for the town. He was a founder of the Congregational Church, 1712, and on the list of members, 1724. On 3 Aug. 1715 he was elected to serve on a committee to make up accounts regarding the meeting house. In 1716 Andrew Ford, Sr., was paid 10 shillings for keeping school in his neighborhood. On 3 March 1718 he was reimbursed 15s. for Edward Derby’S taxes which he had paid (Abington Town Records, passim.).
Andrew Ford owned other land in Plymouth Colony besides his share in the Souther grant. He received fractions of the 2 x 3/4 mile grant from his father, from Elizabeth and Remember Briggs and from his brother Samuel, as was shown in the deeds quoted under Andrew Ford (Sr), and was one of the owners when the grant was divided in 1695. He and James Lovell acquired the Bradford grant in 1694 and in 1705 bought out the Indian claims to that property and the 2 x 3/4 mile tract. From Jacob Nash, in 1710, Andrew received an undivided half right in 60 acres; and, in 1712/13, transferred it to Rev. Samuel Browne. Andrew received land from James Lovell, 1722/3, and made grants to his son Hezekiah, to his son-in-law Richard Whitmarsh, and to his son Andrew (Plymouth County deeds, passim.). Andrew was named the heir of his brother Ebenezer and grantor of 16 acres of land in Woodbridge in 1702. - Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts

Andrew married Abiah Pierce about 1680. Abiah was born about 1654; and died. [Group Sheet]

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William was born probably before 1650; died at Weymouth between 26 Oct. 1705, and 12 Sept. 1706. He married, in 1675, Esther Tomson, daughter of Lieut. John and Mary (Cooke) Tomson of Middleborough. Her maternal grandfather was Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. (The Mayflower Descendant, 4: 22.) She also died at Weymouth between 26 Oct. 1705, when she was appointed executrix of her husband’s will, and 12 Sept. 1706. He resided on Pleasant Street in the South Parish. A part of his ancient house was occupied by Palmer Loud in 1888. He made his will 26 Oct. 1705, and it was probated 12 Sept. 1706. To his wife Hester Read he gave the use of his dwelling house and lands for life. To his eldest son William Read the new double house and land adjoining. To son John Reed his homestead. To son Jacob Reed land “in Ragged plaine.” To his daughters Bashna Porter, Mercy Whitmarsh, Mary Reed, Hester Reade, and Sarah Reade each £20. Sons William, John and Jacob Reed the remainder, Jacob to pay his youngest daughter, Sarah Reed, the £20. His friends Edward Bates, Sr., and James Humphrey, both of Weymouth, overseers. Witnesses: Edward Bates, Sr., John Bates, Jr., and Samuel Bates, Jr. - History of Weymouth Massachusetts
Excerpt: William Reade, (Sometime Reed-Read-Reid.) - 1639-1706, of Wessaguscus, renamed Plymouth, Mass. He was a Trooper under Captain Thomas Prentice; also under Lieut. Edward Oakes and also under Captain Isaac Johnson; also of the militia of Weymouth under Capt. William Torrey, 1675 and 1676, Mount Hope campaign. His wife was Esther Thompson of Middleborough, Mass., a grand-daughter of Mr. Francis Cooke, who came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620.
- Source: Ancestors of Captain Philip Reade, 3d Regiment of Infantry, U.S. Army : who, in a military capacity, aided to create, defend and preserve the colonies of North America between 1607 and 1776. by Philip Hildreth Reade, 1844- Fort Snelling, Minn. (1886) pg 7 / Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history ; G5266
William Read's will of 26 Oct 1705 mentions "my beloved Wife Hester Read", but probate records show it was presented to court at Boston 12 Sep 1706 by "William Read and John Read, Executors therein named ... the Execut'rx [Hester] being dead." - Source: "William Read's Will", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant, 23:72.
Abstract of the will of William Reed from Mayflower Descendant 23:72-74
"... my beloved wife Hester Read shall have the sole use and improvement of my dwelling house and some land and meadow adjoining ... and also the sole use and improvement of all my movables ... and I do enjoin my sons William Read and John Read to manage and improve the said lands and meadow for their mother according to her direction ... during her natural life." To "my eldest son William Read the new double house and land adjoining that I built for him ..." To "my son John Read my dwelling house wherein I live ... and all that my land adjoining and meadow ..." To "my son Jacob Read my lot of land in Ragged Plain..." To "my daughter Bashua Porter" £ 20, To "my daughter Mercy Whitmarsh" £ 20, To "my daughter Mary Read" £ 20, To "my daughter Hester Read" £ 20, To "my daughter Sarah Read" £ 20, To "my aforementioned three sons William Read, John Read and Jacob Read my part of the wharf and my common lot by the great pond and all my lands in the Township of Bridgewater and my part of the sawmill in said Bridgewater to be equally divided amongst them ... and further I do oblige my son William Read and John Read to pay my four daughters first mentioned above to each of them twenty pounds ... within two years after my decease and to do what work their mother shall need or require ... and I do hereby oblige my son Jacob to pay twenty pounds ... to my youngest daughter Sarah Read within two years after my decease, if she require it so soon." To "my five daughters before mentioned ... all my movables which shall remain after my wife's decease to be equally divided amongst them."

William married Esther Tomson about 1675 in Prob. Middleboro, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Lt. John Tomson and Mary Cooke) was born on 28 Jul 1652 in Barnstable, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died before 12 Sep 1706 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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