The asylum’s 1883 history credits Mr. Heaton with providing a cemetery lot. The passage does not identify the cemetery, lot number, people buried there, or burial dates.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: published 1883. Internet Archive item metadata explicitly carries Public Domain Mark 1.0. Page rendered from original scanned PDF to JPEG; no content edits.
Source: H. M. Packard (author); Press of O. A. Dorman, New Haven (printer); Printed page 11; PDF page 13 of 35; zero-based PDF index 12
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Orphan Asylum / Children’s Center of Hamden, SGC-NH-006, NH-002, “Cemetery-lot reference.” Source: H. M. Packard (author); Press of O. A. Dorman, New Haven (printer); Printed page 11; PDF page 13 of 35; zero-based PDF index 12. https://archive.org/details/1883HistoricalSketchOfTheNewHavenConnecticutOrphanAsylumCT/page/n12/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.