Location. Along south side of Northwood Lane (private), just west of intersection of Northwood Lane and Beech Hill Road. UTM: 19T 0551566, 4908905; Lat./Long.: N 44°19′53.7″ x W 68°21′11.6″

Directions. From the intersection of Routes 3 and 102/198 at the north end of Mount Desert Island, go straight ahead (south) onto Routes 102/198. In approximately 5.2 miles (and at the south end of the village of Somesville), turn right onto Pretty Marsh Road (Route 102). In about 0.2–0.3 miles turn left onto Beech Hill Road. (Note: this turn is easy to pass as it is just over a hill and in a curve.). In approximately 1.7–1.8 miles, turn right onto Northwood Lane. The cemetery is on the left in about 0.1–0.2 miles.

History. —

Notes. Mrs. Seth Thornton (Nellie Carroll Thornton) noted in her 1938 book Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor and Somesville that the “graves are now in the shadow of great evergreen trees but the ground is cleared and the place easy of access” (p. 238). There are four pieces of one or more broken stones leaning against a tree. A portion of two words is visible on one of the pieces. This Richardson Burying Ground, the name used by Thornton (1938), is not enclosed, and there are no discernible boundary markers other than a dirt road along two of the sides.

Names and dates on gravestones and other markers. (complete as of 18 August 2013)
ATHERTON
   Benjamin (husb. of Nancy (WASGOTT [sic])) - d. 12 November 1848 Æ 88 y. (lot; headstone; footstone)
   Lorenzo (son of William W. and Mary [no stones]) - d. 23 April 1836 Æ 2 w. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Nancy (WASGOTT [sic]; wife of Benjamin) - [no dates] (lot; headstone)
B.
   [...] [footstone only]
BILLS
   Cora E. (RICHARDSON; wife of Sterling A. [no stone]) - b. 1870; d. 1893 (gravestone)
DANBY
   Emily A. (wife of William [no stone]) - d. 20 October 1910 Æ 66 y. (gravestone)
FARWELL⁴
   Elvira (wife of Samuel [no stone]) - d. 2 April 1849 Æ 33 y. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
HAMBLEN
   [Sarah - see RICHARDSON]
K[ETUM?]⁵
   Isaac J. (son of John C. and Eleanor W. [no stones]) - d. 21 September 1833 Æ 19 y., 7 m.¹
LADD
   Daniel - d. 29 September 1834 Æ 31 y. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
LANPHER
   Adelmon William - b. 23 October 1894; d. 9 February 1969 (gravestone)
   Charles Warren [husb. of Juanita (MEANS)] - b. 1915; d. 1990 (headstone)
   Elaine Alice - [b. and?] d. 1944 (gravestone)
   Elinor Ann - b. 4 August 1941; d. 13 January 1943 (gravestone)
   infant (dau. of Marcellus M. and Sophia W.) - [b. and?] d. 28 February 1912 (gravestone)
   John C. (son of Marcellus M. and Sophia W.) - [b. and?] d. 1914 (gravestone)
   Juanita (MEANS; [wife of Charles Warren]) - b. 1919 (headstone)
   Marcellus M. (husb. of Sophia W.) - b. 1872; d. 1955 (headstone)
   Sophia W. (wife of Marcellus M.) - b. 1873; d. 1947 (headstone)
MASON
   Emily E. D. (wife of Capt. Timothy [D. or M.]² [no stone]) - d. 13 February 1874 Æ 31 y., 10 m., 18 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Freddie W. (son of Capt. Timothy [D. or M.]² [no stone] and Emily E. D.) - d. 26 July 1873 Æ 6 y., 11 m., 23 d. ("drowned") (lot; headstone; footstone)
   infant (son of Capt. Timothy [D. or M.]² [no stone] and Emily E. D.) - d. [no date] Æ 4 m., 3 d.³ (lot; headstone; footstone)
MEANS
   [Juanita - see LANPHER]
R.
   M. [footstone only]
RICHARDSON
   Anne (WHITEMAN;. wife of Charles Somes) - b. 24 July 1910; d. 15 June 1996 Æ 85 y. (headstone)
   Benjamin - d. 16 February 1866 Æ 76 y., 25 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Charles Somes (husb. of Anne (WHITEMAN)) - b. 8 September 1909; d. 14 December 1987 (headstone)
   Charlotte S. (dau. of John and Rhoda W.) - d. 14 March 1871 Æ 32 y., 8 m., 12 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   [Cora E. - see BILLS]
   Eleanor W. (wife of Nathaniel G.) - d. 30 October 1872 Æ 77 y., 1 m., 23 d.
   Ella (dau. of William J. and Emily A.⁷ [no stone]) - d. 7 March 1891 Æ 11 y., 6 m. (grave; headstone (front); headstone (back))
   Eugene (son of J. W. and E. R. [no stones]) - d. 25 April 1889 Æ 5 m. (grave; gravestone)
   Ezra G. (son of William S. and Lydia M. [no stones]) - d. 10 August 1874 Æ 7 y., 5 m. (gravestone)
   Gamage N. (husb. of Ruth H.) - b. 22 May 1840; d. 16 April 1911 (headstone)
   George S. - b. 17 February 1853; d. 20 May 1933 (gravestone)
   Henry (son of Stephen and Margaret "Peggy"; twin brother of John) - d. 28 May 1821 Æ 9 y. (lot; headstone; footstone)
   Howard P. (son of John and Rhoda W.) - "lost at sea" 1 December 1847 Æ 18 y., 4 m. (lot; headstone; footstone)
   John (husb. of Rhoda W.) - b. 3 February 1800; d. 20 February 1890 (gravestone)
   John (son of Stephen and Margaret "Peggy"; twin brother of Henry) - d. 4 July 1828 Æ 16 y. (lot; headstone; footstone)
   John G. (husb. of Sarah) - d. 29 January 1828 Æ 67 y. (gravestone)
   Josie R. (dau. of John and Rhoda W.) - d. 21 August 1873 Æ 23 y., 4 m., 22 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Lillie (dau. of J. W. and E. R. [no stones]) - d. 11 February 1886 Æ 2 y., 8 d. (grave; gravestone (front); gravestone (back); footstone)
   Lorenzo T. (son of William J. and Emily A.⁷ [no stone]) - d. 3 July 1899 Æ 15 y. (gravestone)
   Margaret (dau. of John and Rhoda W.) - d. 9 April 1848 Æ 14 y., 6 m. (lot; headstone; footstone)
   Margaret "Peggy" (wife of Stephen) - b. 1774; d. 1862 (headstone)
   Marion P. (dau. of William J. and Emily A.⁷ [no stone]) - d. 6 August 1878 Æ 3 y.
   Nathaniel G. (husb. of Eleanor W.) - d. 18 November 1861 Æ 68 y., 9 m.
   Rhoda W. (wife of John) - b. 7 February 1807; d. 31 December 1879 (gravestone)
   Richard (Capt.) - d. 7 February 1869 Æ 72 y., 6 m., 19 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Ruth H. (wife of Gamage N.) - b. 2 July 1840; d. 18 September 1889 (headstone)
   Sarah (wife of John G.) - d. 17 April 1810 Æ 47 y. (gravestone)
   Sarah (HAMBLEN; wife of Stephen) - b. 2 January 1797; d. 15 February 1878 (headstone)
   Stephen (husb. of Margaret "Peggy") - b. 1768; d. 1853 (headstone)
   Stephen (husb. of Sarah (HAMBLEN)) - b. 30 July 1791; d. 5 September 1877 (headstone)
   Thomas J. (son of John and Rhoda W.) - d. 29 March 1866 Æ 22 y. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Tryphosa A. (wife of William S. [no stone]) - d. 7 September 1862 Æ 37 y., 3 m., 2 d. (gravestone)
   Viola M. (dau. of Eugene D. and Nellie A. [no stones]) - d. 22 September 1890 Æ 7 m., 13 d. (grave; gravestone)
   Virginia Ruffin - b. 25 December 1898; d. 8 May 1986 (gravestone)
   William J. (husb. of Emily A.⁷ [no stone]) - d. 24 November 1892 Æ 53 y. (grave; gravestone)
ROBINSON
   Sarah (wife of H. C. [no stone]) - d. 31 October 1848 Æ 20 y. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
   Susan E. (dau. of George H. and Deborah [no stones]) - d. 11 June 1849 Æ 3 m., 11 d.
TAYLOR
   Eleanor J. (wife of Israel M. [no stone]) - d. 30 March 1853 Æ 20 y., 4 m., 15 d. (grave; gravestone; footstone)
WASGOTT [sic]
   [Nancy - see ATHERTON]
WHITEMAN
   [Anne - see RICHARDSON]
   [...]
   [...]⁶

Notes:
   ¹Remainder of stone is in concrete, thereby obscuring any further information it may contain.
   ²Different middle initial on different stones.
   ³Thornton (1938) gave 6 months as age at death.
   ⁴Thornton (1938) gave TARWELL as Elvira's last name and noted that her burial place was "marked by a slate gravestone" (p. 237). A slate stone found in 2000 unambiguously reads FARWELL.
   ⁵ Difficult to read.
   ⁶Stone broken.
   ⁷This is perhaps Emily A. DANBY (q.v.)?