Natick Indian Plantation &
Needham West Militia Company

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Burial Markers - Natick and Needham West Minute and Militia veterans

South Natick Burial Ground - Eliot St. behind Eliot Church

1. Maj. Joseph Morse (marker damaged), wife Rebekah d. Dec. 6, 1769 age 27
2. Lt. Timothy Smith d. July 1, 1803 age 79 (ed. note, older brother of Capt. Aaron Smith)
3. Oliver Bacon d. March 2, 1803 age 78
4. Moses Sawin d. Sept. 12, 1831, wife Silence Sawin d. Nov. 13, 1784 age 27, epitaph: "Sleep my friends and take your rest, to call you home God thought the best." wife Catherine Sawin d. Sept. 2, 1834 age 73, epitaph: "My friends, think; yeare mortal."
5. Addison P. Kingsbury d. July 18, 1818

   North Natick (Felchville) Cemetery

6. Sgt. John Bacon, Jr. - A. Smith's militia co.
7. Stephen Bacon, Jr. - A. Smith's militia co.
8. Jonathan Dunn - A. Smith's militia co.
9. Isaac Bacon
10. Timothy Bacon - A. Smith's militia co.
11. Moses Bacon - A. Smith's militia co.
12. Cpl. Joseph Drury - A. Smith's militia co.
13. Sgt. Isaac Underwood - C. Kingsbury's Minuteman Co.
14. Sgt. Isaac Goodenow, Jr. - C. Kingsbury's Minuteman Co.
15. Cpl. Thomas Hall - C. Kingsbury's Minuteman Co.

    Wellesley - West Parish Cemetery - Church St. and Washington St.

16. Capt. Aaron Smith d. Dec. 4, 1795 age 66, wife Beulah d. Dec. 11, 1796 age 62, son Aaron Smith, Jr., Esq. d. April 20, 1833 age 62, son's wife Susannah d. Feb. 23, 1842 age 77
17. Capt. Ephraim Bullard d. April 2, 1826 age 78

    Natick Praying Indian Burial Grounds & Wamsquon Association Memorial Marker

2006 Boston Globe/David Kamerman Photo - Indian Marker Dedication - June 2006

• Prior to 1750 Natick Praying Indians were interred in a burial ground on the north bank of the Charles River and opposite the Eliot Church. The area is bounded by the present Bacon Library to the west, the Eliot Montessori School to the south and the Josiah Spaulding house to the east. After 1750 Natick Praying Indians were interred at the burial ground just west of the Town Common on Pond Street. A marker and memorial stone was placed by the Wamsquon Association (descendents of Solomon Wamsquon, a Natick Praying Indian Revolutionary War corporal) in 1900 and replaced in 1976 by the Town of Natick.

  The Town of Natick and its Veterans Agent currently maintain this site and have placed markers appropriate to the Natick Praying Indians Revolutionary War service, having rededicated the marker and added memorial stones for eighteen Natick Praying Indian war veterans.

  Human remains from Natick's Indian period were found on Glen Street in South Natick according to local newspaper reports. A Natick Bulletin & Tab article stated that the skeletons were of two women and one man in their 30s or 40s who died in the early 1700s; and that they were found on land which was adjacent to a subdivision. The state archeologists said the graves were unusual because they were so shallow - less than three feet deep - and there was no evidence of coffins. The bones were handed over to the state Commission on Indian Affairs and have since been reburied. (NT&B 11/14/2003) Indian artifacts have also been found near the 1748 Pelitiah's tavern, on Eliot Street. This site is currently under threat of development. These sites were all within the former Natick Praying Indian village in what is now South Natick.

  Dover Praying Indian Memorial Marker

  
  A second Natick Praying Indian Marker sits on Dover Common on Springdale St., just opposite the Dover Town Hall. The marker is on the highest point of the common and memorializes the Natick Praying Indians and their Apostle John Eliot. This is the location from which Natick Praying Indian Thomas Ferrit and members of Natick's Bacon family (the Claybrook Bacons) joined the Dedham Minutemen on their 1775 march to Menotomy where they fought Lord Percy's Regulars.

Website References

1. Natick Historical Society
2. Archives and Lexington Alarms, XIII, 98.
3. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 33 page 299, Volume 69 page 46, and Volume 48 page 346.
4. A Brief History of Natick Natick Historical Society and Museum
5. Middlesex Court records, marriages and deaths
6. Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, and his Descendants by Thomas Baldwin, 1915
7. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 1896
8. Historical, Natural History and Library Society of South Natick, 1883, 1884, 1909, 1930.
9. African American and American Indian Patriots of the Revolutionary War, NSDAR 2001
10. F.W. Coburn, Muster Rolls of the Participating companies of American Militia and Minutemen
11. 1750 Natick map
12. The Genealogical History of Dover, Massachusetts; pages 20-21.
13. Five Pounds of Currency, Three Pounds of Corn, Wellelesley's Centennial Story - Hinchliffe
14. History and Directory of Needham, Austin Bacon 1889
15. Grave markers - South Natick Burial Ground
16. Records of Wellesley, MA Historical Society
17. Records of Sherborn, MA Historical Society
18. Records of Dover, MA Historical Society
19. Patriots of Color: A Peculiar Beauty and Merit African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road and Bunker Hill by George Quintal Jr., National Park Service consultant
20. The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Buckley

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The Natick Company of Minutemen appreciates the help and encouragement of our sponsors; The Natick Historical Society and Museum for providing parade and firing grounds, The Morse Insitute Library, Natick's VFW Post, and the Town of Natick and its veterans organizations. The Natick Minutemen can be reached at kaltofen@aol.com. The Natick Company of Minutemen is a historical reenactment organization that is open to all and dedicated to the memory of its citizens who fought and died in the War for Independence.