Old Searing Farm Cemetery
I.U. Willets Rd.
Searingtown, NY  
Searing family graves

Located at I.U Willets Road near Old Searing farmhouses, west of Searing town Road.
What is probably one of the oldest cemeteries on Long Island is located on I.U. Willets Road on the original land grant or patent right called Searings. The patent covered all the land in Searingtown. This burial ground is near the old Searing House,  a short distance west of Searingtown Church. Here are buried many generations of Searing, the oldest decipherable stone being marked in the year 1711, being some years older than any stone in St. George, hempstead. there are some 10 stones on which nothing can be deciphered, they may be older. the stones are a sort of blue stone, roughly carved and weather beaten. There is a possibility that Simon Searing, the original settler is buried here.

A copy of the lay out of the Cemetery is as follows:

E.S. 1717 - not plain lettering worn away

S.S Dy Aug 17d 1723                                        J.S. Dy May ye 2 day 1746 (James Searing)

S.S. 1717 not plain lettering worn away

1711 lettering worn away                                J.S. Die Feb 24d 1739 (Jonathan Searing)

E.S. D Oct 16, 1729                                        S.S. 1720 XD

S. S.  Dy Oct ye 31d 1757 (Samuel Searing)

S.S. dy July ye 4 1773.      E.S. 1714        Samuel Searing  who departed this life October the 10th day in the year of our Lord 1791 age 52 year and 11 days. In memory of Sarah Searing. Sarah Searing daughter of Rev James Searing of Newport, Rhode Island. Who died on the 6th of Nov. 1815 age 62

 

Source:
Inventory of Local Historical Records
Nassau County
Town of North Hempstead
School District No 9
May 15, 1935
Article - Old Searing Farm Cemetery
G.C. Pearsall
Project Field Clerk

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