At a Town Meeting
on April 7, 1846, it was "Voted to instruct the
Selectmen to Examine the Gibbs lot & also into the
subject of extending the old Burying ground if they
shall find either of them proper, to either extend the
present burying ground or purchase the Gibbs lot."
"But if they find any other place more suitable
they shall report the same at a special or annual Town
Meeting."
At another meeting
on April 5, 1847, they "Voted to appoint a committee
of five to locate a Burying ground & they shall
find a suitable piece of ground to instruct them to
purchase it for that porpose." "Julius Alfred,
Willis Wilson, W.S. Goodsell, Jeremiah Holt and Joseph
Bronson were appointed to that committee.
Nothing seemed to
come of these two actions and five years later, at a
Town Meeting on November 24, 1852, it was "Voted
to instruct the Selectmen to make inquiry for suitable
ground for burying purposes, to ascertain if whether
the same can be had, the terms & to report to the
annual meeting to held on the first Monday of October
next."
At the next Town
Meeting on October 3, 1853, there is no record of any
report but they did take the following action: "Voted
to instruct the Selectmen to purchase an addition to
the Old Burying Ground if the same can be bought of
Mr. Hungerford at a reasonable price, if not to purchase
a lot for a burying ground forthwith at any price."
It was now seven
years since they started looking for land and this action
apparently brought results because we find the following
in volume 17 of the Harwinton Land Records on Page 16,
which is dated June 22, 1854:
