Nathan Bowen wrote on Bowen-480: I am curious as to the source of Richard's burial as being Burial Hill? I would have assumed that he was buried in the 'ring of green', now Newman cemetery. I would suggest that Richard Bowen was buried in the northwest section of the now Newman Cemetery (Find a grave CEMETERY ID 1973359) The following is quoted, to give historical context, from: https://preservation.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur406/files/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/east_providence/eapr_historic-resources-of-east-providence.pdf "Originally set off between 1643 And 1658 as a common burial ground for the early settlers of Rehoboth , the cemetery occupied a small plot of land close to the first meeting house 1646-ca. 1675 ‘near the center of the Ring of-the Green, the town common. The cemetery was subsequently enlarged in 1680, 1737, and 1790. - -Since the burial of William Carpenter in 1658 - - the first recorded interment here - - it has been continuously used by the community and serves as the resting place for many locally prominent citizens. Here are -the graves of the Reverend Samuel Newman, founder of Rehoboth and first pastor of Newman Congregational Church, and of other early Rehoboth settlers, the only extant sites associated with these individuals and their lives. A remarkable number of grave markers from the 1600s survive at Newman Cemetery- -‘certainly among the largest, if not the largest, group of seventeenth-century gravestones in Rhode Island today.'"
