See potter's field on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "This phrase derives from the reference to the potter's field in the New Testament, Matthew 27:7: ‘And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.’ (King James Version; spelling modernized).",
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"ref": "1862. David W. Mitchell, Ten Years in the United States (Elder Smith, p. 157)",
"text": "The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field."
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"ref": "1917. Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village (Mead Dodd, p. 10)",
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"ref": "1925. Hastings Hornell Hart, Two Reports on the Reorganization and Reconstruction of the New York Prison System (Prison Association of New York 1925, p. 30)",
"text": "Hart's Island has been used for the past 50 years as a potter's field for the burial of the paupers."
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"ref": "1941 (amendment): Administrative Code of the City of New York, 21-110, originally chapter 24, Department of Public Welfare, Title A, 603-10.0 (also 1953; this is the current, 2007, version)",
"text": "Potter's field. The commissioner shall have charge of the Potter's Fields, and when the necessity therefor shall arise, shall have power to lay out additional Potter's Fields or other public burial places for the poor and strangers and from time to time enclose and extend the same to make enclosures therein and to build vaults therein, and to provide all necessary labor and for interments therein. The Potter's Field on Hart's island, however, shall remain under the control of the department of correction, and the burial of deceased paupers therein shall continue under rules and regulations established by the joint action of the departments of social services and correction, or in case of disagreement between such departments, under such regulations as may be established by the mayor."
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"ref": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:",
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