The Unity Burial Ground is a small graveyard located on the southeast end of White Plain in the

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Trumbull, Connecticut Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders on the cities of Bridgeport and Shelton and the towns of Stratford, Fairfield, Easton and Monroe. The population was 36,827 during the 2020 census. Trumbul ...

. It is located a few rods north of the site of the first meeting house that was built in the parish of Unity, off of

White Plains Road White Plains Road is a major north-south thoroughfare which runs the length of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It runs from Castle Hill and Clason Point in the south to Wakefield in the north, where it crosses the city line and becomes ...

. The cemetery was laid out in 1730 and the first burial was that of 7 year old Samuel Bennitt on June 21, 1731. There are over 110 gravestones, 90 unmarked field stones and 241 known grave sites, and most of the original stones face east. This is unusual, as it runs contrary to the common practice of placing stones so that they face the road. The latest known burial was for Charles E Booth Jr. on August 17, 1935.

Pulpit Rock

In February 1694, Thomas Lake purchased land on the east side of the natural grassy flood plains of the

Pequonnock River The Pequonnock River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed 2011-04-01. waterway in eastern Fairfield County, Connecticut. Its watershed is located in five communities, wi ...

near an area called ''The Falls''. By 1705

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, White Plains Road, was laid out northerly past Lake's house to a natural rock outcropping called ''Pulpit Rock''. Pulpit Rock is located north of the present day intersection of White Plains Road and Unity Road. The first meetings of the Trumbull Congregational Church, established in 1730 as the Parish of Unity and later renamed Trumbull Congregational Church, were held at Pulpit Rock on White Plains Road. This church also served as a town meeting house until 1747 when a new church was built under the leadership of Reverend

James Beebe James Beebe (1717–1785), Reverend, presided over the Unity Parish at ''North Stratford'', now Trumbull, Connecticut, between 1747 and 1785. He was an Army Preacher in the French and Indian War and a patriot. Biography Beebe was born in Danbury ...

.Trumbull Historical website retrieved on 2010-07-09

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References

* Reverend Samuel Orcutt
''A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Volume 1''
Fairfield Historical Society, 1886 * Reverend Samuel Orcutt
''A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Volume 2''
Fairfield Historical Society, 1886 * ''History of Trumbull Dodrasquicentennial 1797–1972 Commemorative Book'', Trumbull Historical Society, 1972 {{DEFAULTSORT:Unity Burial Ground Trumbull, Connecticut Cemeteries in Fairfield County, Connecticut