Native American Burial Ground

There appears to have been a Native American burial ground before 1600 in West Andover on the site that later became the Shattuck Farm. Altough ceramics from earlier times found on the site, do suggest a early settlements, when the Europeans settled in what was to become Andover, there were no Native Americans in the area of the settlement. The population had been erased by a plague in the early 17th century. This is consistant with the practice that Native Americans deserted areas where there had been death's and disease.

See

• Camp In the Bend of the River: Prehistory at the Shattuck Farm Site, (Andover Room R 974.42 Lue), pages 32, 33, 294, 309, 311.
• Farms

--Eleanor 11:38, December 18, 2006 (EST)

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