Pioneer Cemetery, also known as the Pioneers Burial Ground and the Indian Fighters Cemetery, is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, United States.Cemeteries in Yarmouth – Town of Yarmouth official website Dating to 1731, it was the first public burial place in Old North Yarmouth, which was then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) It stands on Gilman Road, around northeast of the Ledge Cemetery, and almost directly across Gilman Road from the Cutter House, which was completed a year earlier.
Notable burials Ebenezer Eaton (1674–1735), killed by IndiansDescendants of Thomas Brewer: Connecticut to Maine, 1682–1996, with Allied Families, Dorothy Brewer Erikson, Jane Fletcher Fiske (1996), p. 370 Captain Peter Weare (1695–1743) Joseph Weare (1737–1774), Indian fighter, son of Captain Peter, nicknamed the Scout Deacon Jacob Curry Mitchell (1672–1744) Captain James Parker (1689–1732) Inscriptions recorded by Augustus W. Corliss in his late-19th-century publication Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine, and later reprinted in Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, include:
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Marker The marker for the burial ground, which was attached to a boulder, was removed to the town's historical society in February 2019, having been in place for ninety years, because some people found the term describing the Abenaki Indians tribe "savage enemies" offensive. Information regarding the intended meaning of the text will be displayed alongside it at the museum."Yarmouth removes historical marker calling Native Americans 'savage enemies'" – Portland Press Herald, February 13, 2019
The plaque reads:
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