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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)",
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