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The Matthew Thornton Cemetery
Preliminary daytime walk through <-Back Here are some
photographs from our preliminary investigation which was done in full
daylight. No flashes were used.
Photo #1 This is the
historical marker on the side of the road. The
cemetery is right across the intersection from The Common Man
restaurant. The building the restaurant is in is actually the old
homestead of Matthew Thornton. For a long time it was called
Hannah Jack's Tavern, in honor of Matthew Thornton's wife, Hannah.
 Photo #2 The Cemetery
is
very green. There is a lot of empty space between sections of
stones. This leads us to believe that many of the stones have
decayed away over the years. The traffic is overwhelming at the
intersection since it is right off the highway. But when you
walk to the back of the cemetery which is down hill, the sound drops
off a bit.
 Photo #3 and #4 Here are the
stones of Hannah Thornton and her husband Matthew Thornton. For
those who don't know, Matthew Thornton was one of the men who signed
the
Declaration of Independence for the state of New Hampshire. He
lived to 89 years of age. A doctor by trade, once retired he ran
a
ferry across the Merrimack River and authored books. He had just
finished a book on the metaphysical nature of sin when he died.
He
noted he expected to call it one of the following, " Paradise Lost; The Origin of the Evil called Sin, examined;
or How it ever
did, or ever can come to pass, that a creature should or could do any
thing unfit or improper for that creature to do." The book was never published. It is
said that there are still copies of it with his decedents.
  Photo #5 This amazing
daytime light orb was the only anomaly that showed up on our film
during th preliminary investigation. It was taken without a
flash.
 Photo #6 Here is a photo of the same area taken only seconds later.  Photo #7 This is a close
up of the light anomaly.
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