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Pine Grove Cemetery is referred to as GR1 Pine Grove Cemetery in the "Vital Records of Topsfield Massachusetts to the year 1849" and TPF.800 Pine Grove Cemetery in the "MACRIS survey of Massachusetts Cemeteries".

Pine Grove Cemetery, the oldest of the three cemeteries owned and maintained by the Town of Topsfield is located on Haverhill Road (MA Rte. 97). The cemetery is first mentioned in town records in 1706.

The date of the first interment is unknown. "Rude pasture stones" in the southern end of the cemetery mark the early graves (Dow, p. 431). The oldest legible gravestone was erected in memory of Sergeant Ebenezer Averill (1669-1717) who died December 22, 1717. Other notable graves include that of Reverend Joseph Capen (1658-1725) and wife Priscilla, and a memorial to the Smith family.”

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Entry plague to Pine Grove Cemetery (Topsfield).

Inscription: "The Meeting House built in 1663 formerly stood about one hundred feet to the left of this spot. In 1675 during King Philip's War, it was enclosed by a stone fort with a watch house at the southeast corner. (erected by the Topsfield HIstorical Society.)

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Capen Family[]

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Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts.

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