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I was able to spend a few hours in Chesterfield recently, visiting the site of Gershom Collier's mill and the Bofat Cemetery (named from nearby Bofat Hill), which is also on East Street, perhaps 1/2 mile to the east of the mill site. There are several members of the Collier family buried here. In the center of the photo is the grave of Jane (Collier) Damon, daughter of Gershom and Mary Kittle, and the sister of, among others, "my" ancestor John Collier who moved to Vermont, then Geauga County, Ohio. Jane was born in Boston about 1799, and died August 18, 1847, in Chesterfield, where the family had moved about 1805. She was the first wife of Jason Damon, whose stone is at the left. Jason's second wife, Ruth (Damon) rests beneath the right-hand stone. In the same row of stones are the markers for Ann/Anna Pelton, daughter of Catherine (Collier) Pelton, Jane's sister, and "Gerschom" Damon - so chiseled in stone - Jason and Jane's son.
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