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Seth WOOD and Elizabeth WILSON deeded land in 1838 to the community for the burial ground now known as the Wood Cemetery. In present times, many have called this the Rutland Hill Cemetery. It is not in Rutland, the land was given by the Wood family, and most burials there are members of the Wood family. All obituaries in my posession for burials there with one exception, call in the Wood Cemetery. The exception is my ancestor Polly COMFORT Smith whose obituary says Hawley Cemetery which is a mis-speliing of Holly, another of several names assigned to it. Just recently a sign was installed on the hill leading to the cemetery naming it the Rutland Hill Cemetery Road. I hope the publication of this deed will have some influence in correcting that error which I intend to protest. 

Deed Seth W. Wood to Public Community - Know all men by those present that I Seth W. Wood and Elizabeth his wife Both of Sullivan Township In the County of Tioga in State of Pennsylvania of the first, Witnesseth that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Have this day gave the publick a certain piece of land lying .. being on the north east Side of the farm now owned by the S. W. Wood in fee one half acre of land for the publick for a Burying Ground for Interment commencing at a pile of stones on the West of South West corner of the Side Hill where the place in now occupied that purpose then east 7 rods ...the pile of Stones, North East to a heap of Stones, then 12 Rod then Next 7 Rods to the place of Beginning and a ...pass way for the Road to Burying ground containing 8 ... being the same more or less. And I the said Seth W. Wood have this day gave & transferred the above mentioned piece or parcel of land to the publick community for the sole use of a publick burying ground in a place for interment as for that purpose and to be ...for that purpose When occasion call for the Same and I do hereby bind myself, my heirs and executors By these presents and have Quit claim and Will Warrant ... forever against all & every person whomsoever ... by or under me - Sealed and Signed by us the date above with our hands ad Sullivan Jany, th 1st 1838 the Sixteenth .. inter.. before Signed Seth W. Wood Elizabeth Wood In presents of Rufus Smith, Mary Wood, Tioga County. Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County came Seth W. Wood and Elizabeth his wife and knowledge the above Indenture to be there free .. and deed for the purpose above mentioned and desire that the same might be Recorded as Such according to law, Witness my hand at Sullivan the 6 day of Jany, to 1838. Rufus Smith - Recorded January 21, 1841. 

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