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Quaker researcher tells trustees the town already owns Quaker Cemetery; volunteers could help with basic cleanup
Summary
Guest Kathleen Wooten told Brentwood trustees the Quaker Cemetery likely contains Clifford and Dudley family burials, that Quaker meetings do not claim maintenance responsibility, and that the town deed shows ownership; trustees welcomed documentation and possible cleanup if Quakers confirm it does not conflict with beliefs.
Brentwood — Kathleen Wooten, a member of the Lawrence (Mass.) Quaker meeting, briefed the Brentwood Cemetery Trustees on May 7 about the history and condition of the town’s Quaker Cemetery and the Quaker meeting that once used it.
"Hi, my name is Kathleen Wooten, and I'm a member of the Lawrence, Massachusetts Quaker meeting," she said, and described work she will do in the New England Quaker archives at UMass Amherst to locate primary records about the Brentwood meeting. Kathleen said the Brentwood…
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