Whitney Cemetery on Colebrook

Location and Site Information

Located in the Champ area on the west side of Goose Creek, which enters the north side of the Manokin River. The burial ground lies within the historic Colebrooke tract, patented to William Cole on October 20, 1662 for 550 acres. The site measures about 55 by 80 feet on a low rise in an arable field. Fieldstones with initials suggest an early burying ground, although only one inscribed tombstone was found.

• Latitude 38° 10' 16" N
• Longitude 75° 47' 12.4" W
• 1877 Atlas map Dames Quarter District No. 2

Transcription note: The wording, spellings, uncertain readings, and bracketed field notes below are retained from the contributor record. Obvious formatting artifacts from the old word-processing file have been removed, but uncertain text has not been silently corrected.

Graves Recorded

Cemetery note: No other stones were visible and none were located by probing. A fieldstone marked with a “G” and another stone with a crudely etched “F” (and possibly another undecipherable letter) were recorded.

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Contributor Notes

Listed Sunday, February 7, 1993 by Philip L. Goldsborough, Rebecca F. Miller, and Francis Lawrence.

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