Ledge Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine}}

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|country = United States

|location = Gilman Road
Yarmouth, Maine

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|owner = Town of Yarmouth

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Ledge Cemetery, also known as the Cemetery under the Ledge,Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Maine Historical Society (1899), p. 76 is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, United States.[https://yarmouth.me.us/index.asp?SEC=8C3D6D97-4591-4BB2-BC92-DE639FD7ECB8&Type=B_BASIC Cemeteries in Yarmouth] – Town of Yarmouth official website Dating to 1770, it stands on Gilman Road, around {{convert|450|feet}} southwest of the older and smaller Pioneer Cemetery.Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) Some headstones bear dates earlier than 1770, for many burials—such as that of Revd. Nicholas Loring—were removed from the older cemeteryThe Maine Genealogist and Biographer: A Quarterly Journal, Volumes 1–3 (1875)

The original First Parish Congregational Church, known as the Old Ledge Meetinghouse, stood near the site between 1730 and 1818. Its first pastor was Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Cutter. Tristram Gilman, for whom Gilman Road is named, was the fourth pastor. He served in the role for forty years, and was buried in the Ledge Cemetery upon his death in 1809, aged 73. His wife, Elizabeth Sayer, is buried beside him.Yarmouth Revisited, Amy Aldredge

Several sea captains are also interred here, including those from the Drinkwater family.A Seafaring Legacy: The Photographs, Diaries, Letters, and Memorabilia of a Maine Sea Captain and His Wife, 1859–1908, Julianna FreeHand, Alice Drinkwater, Sumner Drinkwater (1981), p. 4 {{isbn|9780394517711}} Captain Theophilus Drinkwater, son of Allen and Hannah Drinkwater, gave his name to nearby Drinkwater Point Road.[https://archive.org/stream/oldtimesmagazine18791880yarm/oldtimesmagazine18791880yarm_djvu.txt "Old Times: a magazine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine"]

Of a settlement that originally contained a school, a tavern and a cemetery, only the cemetery and the ledge doorstep of the church remain.