In 1783, Nehemiah Carpenter, Samuel Baker, and Jeremiah Hartshorn conveyed to the selectmen and their successors forever four acres of land on which the meeting house had been built for use as a town common. Carpenter also gave one hundred and eleven rods of land near the meeting house for a centre burial ground, and as the deed was signed he noted that the piece of land given by him for a burying place was for that, and that only. Several graves were later removed to Rock Hill Cemetery to provide space for the town's Civil War Memorial.