Spring Hill Cemetery, first known as “Marlborough's Ould Burrying Feeled,” stands on a raised plateau hidden from the surrounding streets near Brown Street. The oldest gravesite in Marlborough is that of Captain Edward Hutchinson, who, according to his gravestone, was shot by “treacherous Indians on August 2, 1675 [and] Dyed August 19, 1675” while on a peacekeeping mission to Brookfield and seeking refuge in Marlborough. Generations of leading Marlborough families are buried there, including the first two ministers of First Church, Reverend William Brimsmead and Rev. Robert Breck. Memorials to the prominent Goodale family include one for Lucy Thurston, daughter of Reverend Asa and Lucy (Goodale) Thurston, the first Christian missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, present-day Hawaii. Marlborough Revolutionary War soldiers buried there include Captain Uriah Eager, Deacon Abner Goodale, and Colonel James Wesson, who was severely wounded by a cannonball at the Battle of Monmouth but survived until 1809. In 1924, New York City philanthropist Artemas Ward erected the fence surrounding the cemetery; his first American ancestor, William Ward, was one of the founding fathers of Marlborough, died in 1687, and is believed to be buried there.