J. W. Masters, the then Superintendent of Assam Company had proceeded to Assam in June 1839 and took up residence at Nazira who made Nazira as the Company's Headquarters. An old British Graveyard has been lying inside ONGC Colony Nazira Town. Here there are about 62 graves can be traced according to the list given by H. A. Antrobus. The buried include the historian William Robinson, the author of "A Grammar of Assamese Language" (1839) and "A Descriptive Account Of Assam:With a Sketch of the Local Geography,and a Concise History of the Tea-Plant of Assam." (1841).