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FRIENDS' BURIAL GROUND [Shawtonhill] Quakers Burying Ground
Quakers Burying Ground
Quakers Burying Ground
Quakers Burying Ground
Revd Gavin Lang
R. Riddle Poor Law Collector
Alexr [Alexander] Dalgleish, Shawtonhill
Robt. [Robert] Hamilton, Shawton
023.02 A little enclosure formerly used by Quakers for burying their dead. There have been no burials in it for nearly a century, but the name of the ground are well known in the neighborhood. Recently, the Farmer of "Shawtons hill" had to repair the fences oe. [et cetera] for damaging them & trespass. There are no raised graves or Head Stones, to shew that it has been a Burying ground. It is still the property of the Quakers.

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