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Soule Street Smallpox Cemetery - Soule Street

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The nine people buried here all died of smallpox in December 1777.

This cemetery is referred to in the book "History of the town of Middleboro, MA" by Thomas Weston, as the "Old Smallpox Cemetery". He describes this cemetery as "Old Smallpox Cemetery, now overgrown with pine wood and underbrush, at the corner of Brook and Soule streets, near the Plympton line.".

Mr. Weston, also wrote about the small-pox pest houses, in the chapter "Civil History", on page 575: "One of them was located in the Soule neighborhood, in the house now standing near Brook Street; at the time it was owned by Seth Eddy, a brother of Captain Joshua Eddy. Rev. Sylvanus Conant and eight of his parishioners were taken here and died.".


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​​Click this link for Google directions to this cemetery - ​GPS = 41.93205, -70.83647
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