The cemetery is located at the south end of Read Street below Allen Avenue in Riverside and at the northern neck of Bullocks Cove.

The cemetery was founded in 1655, when the area was part of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest colonial cemeteries in Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Little Neck Cemetery in East Providence contains the graves of John Brown, Jr. who purchased Wannamoisett from the Massasoit Osamequin in 1643, Elizabeth Tilley who was a passenger on the 1620 Mayflower voyage to Plymouth,  and Captain Thomas Willett, who settled in Rehoboth in from 1643 and later served as the Mayor of New York City in 1665 and 1667 because he spoke Dutch.

From Wikipedia and Little Neck Cemetery - Sowams Heritage Area webpages