Hanover Cemetery Documents

VERSO:

at funerals, and to prescribe the compensation of One dollar for one burial

(It is understood that when the hearse is used by people out of the village & by persons not belonging to either of the Relig ious Societies, such use shall be paid to the Treasurer at the customary rates for carriages per mile).

Voted that there be appropriated to the use of Dartmouth College in perpetuity twelve lots Thirty two by twenty four feet each, constituting a square, lying on the North table land and bounded on the South by a line straight line between the stones No. 22 & 36, and that a deed of conveyance be given to the Treasurer of Dart. College, where he shall give to the Association a deed of the land granted by the College adjoining the Cemetery North, containing about One acre.

Attest John Richards Secretary

RECTO:

Hearse

Copy - see file.

"The undersigned, original subscribers for purchasing the Hearse now commonly used for burial on Hanover Plain do hereby make over our right and title to said Hearse to the Dartmouth Cemetery Association on condition that said Hearse continue to be appropriated to the common use of the citizens of Hanover Plain for burial.

J. G. Ward Monroe Pike Jabez Douglass A B Closson Russell Smith Asa Brown W^m H Poole Willis Kinsman G W Kibling Jason Dudley J S Patch S. H Tracy"

The Treasurer appointed Madison Aldridge to take charge of the hearse-house & hearse from Jan 1. 1852

Attest, J Richards Sec.