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Harrington Farm Cemetery

Five Farms Road · Mt. Vernon / Widgeon area · Hungary Neck District #5 · 1877 Atlas map: Hungary Neck District No. 5

Cemetery No. 911-E-29

Location and Site Information

Harrington Farm Cemetery site
Harrington Farm Cemetery site. Click photograph to enlarge.

Located on the old Harrington farm on Five Farms Road in the Mt. Vernon area, near Widgeon and Widgeon Wharf. The recorded location is about 1,500 feet southeast of the Wicomico River shoreline and just south of Stone Creek.

The 1877 Atlas places the grave near the homes of Dr. T. W. Stone and M. Welsh.

  • Latitude 38° 16' 02" N
  • Longitude 75° 46' 21.6" W

Grave Recorded

The site record reports one very worn slab. Rebecca F. Miller's transcription was difficult to read and was recorded approximately as:

Enhanced view of the Harrington Farm grave
Enhanced view of the surviving grave. Click photograph to enlarge.

Unidentified / Difficult-to-Read Grave

Transcription

_ M armour wilams
March 19 1704
27, 1797

Reading note: The wording above is retained from the contributor record because the stone was described as very hard to read. No attempt has been made here to silently "correct" the name or dates.

Contributor Notes

Listed by Rebecca F. Miller and Philip Lee Goldsborough on March 21, 1993. The contributor record identifies the property at that time as 14090 Five Farms Road, Princess Anne, Maryland.

Location image for Harrington Farm Cemetery
Contributor location image. Click photograph to enlarge.