Witnesses to a nation: Hatfield museum marking graves of 217 people tied to Revolutionary era

HATFIELD — Living until 1847, when she turned 86, Experience Phelps Dickinson’s simple stone at the Hill Burying Ground indicates she was a teenager when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Nearby, the more elaborate gravestones for Obadiah Dickinson, a deacon in town who was 72 in 1776, and for his second wife, Martha Waite […]