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MEMORIALS
THE DEAD IN BOSTON;
CONTAINING EXACT TRANSCRIPTS OF
Inscriptions
ON THE
SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS
IN THE
Ring's Chapel Burial Ground,
IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
WITH COPIOUS HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THE METROP- OLIS OF NEW ENGLAND.
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BY THOMAS BRIDGMAN
BOSTON: BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY & CO., NO. 20 CORNHILL. 1853.
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€ 911.21
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by THOMAS BRIDGMAN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
TO THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK.
THE undersigned would express his deep-felt gratitude to members of the Massachusetts Historical and the New Eng- land Historic-Gencalogical Societies; to gentlemen of the public offices in Boston, particularly to the City Registrar ; and to many others of the same metropolis and vicinity, who have kindly aided him by their researches, advice and generosity, in bringing out this publication. Encouraged by such marked tokens of favor, he has been enabled to pre- pare this second volume, illustrative of the sepulchral mon- uments of the King's Chapel Burying Ground, and he hopes it may in some degree meet their wishes and expecta- tions.
THOMAS BRIDGMAN.
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Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS, Boston.
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AGGIDOXO12X
TO THE Don. Robert Charles Winthrop,
DISTINGUISHED AS A STATESMAN AND CITIZEN BY HIS EMINENT ATTAINMENTS, AND TO THE CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS, This Work is Respectfully Dedicated, BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Rev. Dr. Peabody, Rector of King's Chapel, has kindly furnished the following note :
I HAVE been acquainted with the labors of Mr. Bridgman, and after some examination of the accom- panying work, I am able to recommend it to those interested, as containing a correct and thorough account of the monuments in King's Chapel Burying-ground. EPHRAIM PEABODY.
Jan. 20, 1853.
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Contents.
POEM, BY MRS. SIGOURNEY, 0 INTRODUCTION,
LINES TO KING'S CHAPEL, BY S. G. BULFINCHI,
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INSCRIPTIONS, .
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
ISAAC JOIINSON, WITH POEM, BY MRS. SIGOURNEY, ON THE
DEATH OF LADY ARDELLA JOHNSON, 195
HOMER, .
197
JOSEPH TILDEN, .
204
JACOB WENDELL,
ELIZABETH HALL.,
206
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JOSEPH SEWALL,
207
JOHN COTTON,.
209
JOIIN COFFIN JONES, 214
STEPHEN HALL BINNEY,
. 216
HENRY PRENTICE,
. 213
BRINLEY,
219
VASSALL, .
223
ISAIAH DOANE,
ENOCH BROWN,
232
OLIVER WENDELL,
ROGER CLAP, .
239
SAMUEL SALISBURY,
253
BROMFIELD AND PHILLIPS,
254
BRATTLE,
. 259
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BRIDGE,
260
MARION,
263
PROCTOR,
270
BELL AND CRAFTS,
PITTS,
274
APTHORP,
276
BULFINCH,
251
COOLIDGE, .
283
236
LLOYD, .
TYLER, .
259
NICHOLAS SALISBURY,
201
WALDO,
202
DAWES,
293
SAVAGE,
297
301
AVERY,
SHIRLEY,
305
BOX,
308
WINTHROP,
300
GRANT OF ARMS TO WM. BROMFIELD,
316
LETTER FROM AMOS LAWRENCE, ESQ.,
317
FUNERAL OF LADY ANDROS,
. 315
List of Gugronings.
VWINTHROP COAT OF ARMS,
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WENDELL AND OLIVER COAT OF ARMS, 144
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King's Chapel Burial-ground.
TURN to yon ancient tombs ; for he is there, Who sweeps the moss from their gray lips, and brings Their prisoned words, letter by letter, forth Through rust of ages, to the eye again, - New England's Old Mortality.
Here rest Noble and thoughtful men, who boldly urged O'er the unfathomed main their slender keel, 'To cast amid the rocks a nation's seed, Guarding its infant life from 'whelming blast, And the red Indian's ambush. Here repose The Cecrops * of this Athens, - and a band Who on its first foundations toiled, and fell, Nor saw its glory even from such far heights As to the prophet's glance, on Pisgah's cliff, Revealed the promised land, and Israel's tribes In peace rejoicing.
* See Notes, p. 189.
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Seer and sage are here,
The head of honored rulers, and the heart That left no record, save the common throb Of this our taxed and frail humanity. They sleep as in the acorn sleeps the oak, Or in the depth of some untroubled lake The lily's germ, whose fresh, green, lustrous leaf, And fragrant flower, shall clothe its breast with pride. Like these they wake, but not like these shall fade : For to the trees of heaven there comes no frost, No sere decay, nor time to cast the leaf.
Then o'er this gate of funeral sorrow plant The banner-staff of immortality, And on its scroll inscribe His Name, who said The dead shall rise again.
Methinks I hear
A low, sweet whisper from each mouldering bed, " Yea ! we shall rise again. The trump shall sound, 'The sown in weakness shall be raised in power." So mourn ye not the holy dead, but lift The hymn of praise for life that cannot die.
L. H. SIGOURNEY. Hartford, April 6, 1852.
Butrounrtinn.
FOR the facts relating to the early history of the Chapel Burying-ground, we are indebted to Dr. N. B. Shurtleff, a gentleman distinguished for his general antiquarian lore, and who, in regard to this particular subject, has a more accurate and thorough information, probably, than any or all other persons among us.
As is well known, this was the first ground set apart for the burial of the dead, in the town of Boston. But at what time it was first enclosed and dedicated to its present use, can probably never be with certainty ascertained. Though the attention of many of those interested in the ancient relics and landmarks of the first settlers has been directed to this point, so far as can be discovered, no written or printed evidence has been pre- served, and no tradition possessing any degree of plausi- bility has been transmitted, which would warrant any con- fident statement in regard to it.
A tradition has been current which connects the form- ation of this burial-ground with the death of Isaac Johnson, the excellent friend and patron of the Massa-
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chusetts colonists. It has been commonly supposed that he lics buried within the walls of the cemetery ; and a grave-stone, not long ago, was to be seen near the south- west corner, which was pointed out to strangers as his. This tradition was adopted by Hutchinson, who informs us that Mr. Johnson " was buried, at his own request, in part of the ground upon Tri-montain or Boston, which he had chosen for his lot, the square between School- street and Queen-street." He also says that " he may be said to have been the idol of the people, for they ordered their bodies, as they died, to be buried round him; and this was the reason of appropriating, for a place of burial, what is now called the old burying- place, adjoining to King's Chapel."
But, notwithstanding this confident and unqualified declaration of Hutchinson, there is great reason to ques- tion its correctness. The journalist on whose authority he undoubtedly relied did not commence his jottings until more than forty years after the event is supposed to have taken place which he records. There is no evi- dence whatever that Mr. Johnson ever owned land in Boston, or had a dwelling-house there. The grave- stone, referred to above, was a thin slate stone. It was of the second kind used in the order of time, - the older ones being of a species of porphyritic greenstone, - and could never have been designed to mark the last resting- place of the most valued man among the first settlers.
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There are other considerations which would point to another place of sepulture. His wife, the Lady Arbella Johnson, whose death occurred only a month before his own, was buried in Salem. Mr. Johnson died Sep- tember 30, 1630. On the 2Sth of the same month, just two days previous, the Court of Assistants, of which he was a member, commenced a session at Charlestown ; and it was not until the nineteenth of the next month that, in accordance with a change determined upon some weeks previously, the General Court of the colony was held in Boston. It was between these two meetings that the removal to Boston took place. It is quite as probable that Johnson was in Charlestown, at the time of his death, as in Boston. If he died in Charlestown, in lack of any other information on the subject, it would seem to be more reasonable to suppose that his remains would have been carried to Salem, to be laid beside those of a wife so dearly beloved and so recently dead, rather than have been placed in a neighboring and unsettled town. It is with great reluctance that we throw doubt on a tradition of this kind, but we fear that there is not sufficient authority to warrant our receiving it as well founded.
The first known burial in Boston is thus mentioned by Gov. Winthrop, under the date of the 1Sth of February, 1630-1: "Captain Welden, a hopeful young gentleman, and an experienced soldier, died at Charles-
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town of a consumption, and was buried at Boston with a military funeral." Governor Dudley, in his letter to the Countess of Lincoln, uses the following language in relation to the same event : " Amongst others who dyed abunit this time, was Mr. Robert Welden, who, in the time of his sickness, we had chosen to be captain of 100 foot, but before he took possession of his place, he dyed, the sixteenth of this February, and was buried as a souldier, with three vollyes of shott."
The burial-ground, according to its present limits, is nearly square, and is situated in the most central part of the peninsula which forms the city proper, being bounded on the west by Tremont-street, and separated from School-street on the south by King's Chapel. Its principal entrance is from Tremont-street, although there is a gate on the easterly end of the Chapel, chiefly used as an approach to the twenty-one vaults beneath the chapel. Exclusive of these last, there are about seventy-nine tombs within the yard, making one hundred connected with the cemetery.
On entering this abode of the dead from the main entrance, the first object that meets the eye is a marble monument, erected in the early part of the present century, to the memory of a venerable and useful citizen, Hon. Thomas Dawes, who was for many years identified with the mechanical interests of the town. On turning to the left, or north-west corner of the yard, will be per-
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ceived the Winthrop tomb, within which have mouldered the. mortal remains of three distinguished individuals, father, son and grandson, each, in his turn, well known, in our historical annals, as Governor John Winthrop.
John Winthrop, Gov. of Massachusetts, died 26 March, 1649, æ. 61.
John Winthrop, Gov. of Conn., died 5 April, 1676, æ. 70.
John Winthrop, Gov. of Conn., died 27 Nov., 1707, æ. 68.
Not far from this sepulchre of a family thus distin- guished through successive generations, is a broad upright tablet, containing inscriptions of the decease of four of the early pastors of the first church of Boston, Cotton, Davenport, Oxenbridge and Bridge ; and a little aside from this memorial are the very modest and now obscure graves of Sarah, the widow of the beloved John Cotton and excellent Richard Mather, and of Elizabeth, the widow of Davenport; the former of whom died on the 27th of May, 1676, aged 75, and the latter on the 15th of the next September, aged 76.
In the immediate neighborhood, were buried many of those who held office in the management of the same church.
Proceeding a little further on the northern side of the yard, we meet with the oldest sepulchral tablet in the
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cemetery. It is that of Jacob Sheafe, an opulent mer- chant of his day, and bears the following inscription :
HERE LYETH INTERD THE
BODY OF IACOB SHEAFE OF
BOSTON WHO FOR SYME TIME LIVED AT CRAMBROCK
IN KENT IN OVLD INGLAND
HIER DECEASED THIE 22 OF
TH
MARCH 1658 AGED 58 YEARS.
The next tomb, as we advance, is that of the Brottle family ; and in the next were deposited the remains of Lady Andross, wife of the notorious Sir Edmund. Having proceeded thus far, we arrive at the north-east corner, where is situated the charnel-house, and in the vicinity of which is the grave-stone of Deacon William Paddy, one of the early settlers of the Plymouth colony, and subsequently of Boston. This last-mentioned grave- stone is of greenstone, and is the oldest upright stone in the yard. In 1530, while some workmen were em- ployed in removing the earth from the north side of the old building at the head of State-street, most generally known as the Old State House, this was found several feet under the surface. Several bones and pieces of wood were taken from the same place, which the incred- ulous readily believed to be remnants of the skeleton and coffin of Mr. Paddy. They, however, did not prove to be such. The stone was placed where it now stands,
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without any reference to the place where it was orginally erected. As the grave-stones of Mrs. Paddy, the widow, and of several of her children, are to be found in the chapel-yard, it is fair to infer that the remains of the deacon are also in the same yard; and that the stone, having been removed for the purpose of covering a drain, - a not uncommon occurrence, - has, after the lapse of many years, been restored to very nearly its proper position. Not far from the south-easterly corner, though not in its original situation, can be seen the grave-stone of Copt. Roger Clap, another of the ancient worthics. In the neighborhood of the south-western angle is the tomb of Major Thomas Savage, ancestor of the learned commentator of Winthrop.
By a singular caprice of a former superintendent of burials, many of the grave-stones in this burial-place have been removed from their original locations and placed in rows ; an act which it is very desirable should never be repeated.
Within a recent period, a feeling, and no doubt a well- founded one, of opposition to intramural burials, has been gaining strength. But there are few persons who would be willing to see this ground, where are the sepulchres of the fathers, disturbed. It is almost the sole visible memorial which remains of them. Their homes have crumbled, the churches in which they worshipped have been replaced by more recent struc-
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tures, the open hills from which they looked out on the sea and the forest have been discrowned, and almost levelled into the valleys, and the winding pathways of the new settlement have become the streets of an over- crowded city. Since the earlier monuments were erected, successive generations have come and gone ; the aborigines have disappeared from the wilderness, and the wilderness itself has shrunk away before the advance of civilized man. One war after another has shaken the land ; the feeble colony has become a com- monwealth; and, sundered from the parent country, a new empire has extended itself over the continent to whose dreary solitudes the first settlers fled as fugitives. Nothing remains the same, but the burial-places of the dead.
Were it only that, like a narrow peninsula, it connects the world that now is with the world that was, one would be glad to have the place remain undisturbed.
Among the persons interred here, were a large number of those most distinguished in the early history of the town. As one pauses beside their graves, he is reminded of the power of the individual life and charac- ter. We attribute many of our chief advantages to the institutions under which we live. But these institutions had their origin with men. Had the fathers who here lie buried been men of a less generous, upright and high- minded class, - had they been of a sordid and narrow
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temper, - the institutions and the character of the place would, to this day, have been on a lower level. The advantages which we enjoy are owing, in no small degree, to their intelligence, rectitude and piety. They still live in their influence, a perennial source of good to their descendants.
Among those buried here were those who on earth were widely divided from each other in their religious convictions. From these silent graves come lessons of charity and tolerance. They who would not worship together in the same temple, and who denounced each other's creeds and forms, have left their bodies side by side in the grave, while they have ascended together, we may hope, to meet the acceptance of the same all- merciful Judge. Were our eyes opened to look in on immortal scenes, we might behold those who on carth thought that they were serving their Maker by being cach other's enemies, now together worshipping the same God. The strifes of the earth are passed away, in the clearer light of a higher life.
It may not be that this silent enclosure, half walled out from the public gaze, can exert any powerful influ- ence on the throngs of the living. And yet, it shall sometimes awaken a more serious thought. It remains unchanged in the centre of this Maelstrom of busy and fevered life which whirls around it. It says to the rest- less and toiling multitude, Here soon shall be your home.
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Between these graves, pride and ambition, pleasure and selfishness and worldliness, shall sometimes walk, and . have the mind raised to higher and better thoughts. The burial-place of the dead, so far as it has any influence, is on the side of virtue and religion. It is associated with hallowed and affectionate memories. Its voice is one of perpetual rebuke to folly and sin. It warns men to serve God in lives of usefulness and righteousness and piety, while it directs the thoughts to that tribunal before which each man shall give account of the deeds done in the body.
As we look upon the grave, no doubt it is sad and dreary. How many swelling hearts have gone down into this realm of sleep ! For two hundred years, day after day, the gates have been opened for the entrance of those who were bearing some dear friend to his last earthly resting-place. What bitter tears have been shed around these tombs, as the bodies of the departed were laid away in their sides ! A little time passed, and they who thus wept were followed to the same place by another company of mourners. If this were the end, - if all hope and affection and memory went down into the grave to be extinguished forever, - who would dare to enter what would be a place of annihilation and despair ? But, thanks be to God, this is not the end! By the side of every open grave the believing heart hears the promise of Him who is the Resurrection and the Life.
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Thanks be unto God that with the memories of the past are blended still better and holier hopes of the future. If all that is saddest in the past seems to col- lect in cloud and shadow around the tomb, so also above it, in God's providence, is permitted to rise, clear and distinct, the brightest and most blessed hope.
" When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an angel sits upon the stone, - Like those of old, on that thrice-hallowed night, Who sat and watched in raiment heavenly bright, - And, with a voice inspiring joy, not fear, Says, pointing upward, that he is not here, That he is risen !"
LINES
ADDRESSED TO .
Ring's Chapel, Boston.
[A crown and two mitres, of wood gilt, formerly surmounted the centre and sides of the organ ; they were removed on the departure of the British army from Boston.]
CHURCH of my fathers ! round thy walls The city's murmur ebbs and falls, While, like a rock 'mid ocean's storm, Rises thy gray majestic form. That form, - thy name, - at once betray The period of the kingly sway. Then knelt within thy courts, hoar pile, The ruler from a distant isle, While high the crown and mitre shone, And prayers arose for England's throne. But on that day * whose memory dread Recalled how hapless Stuart bled,
* " King Charles the Martyr's Day."
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Ring's Chapel.
How then the penitential strain Rose plaintive through the loyal fane !
Passed is the sway of Briton's throne ; Thou art our God's, and his alone ! Nor crown nor mitre shines above ; Thou beamest still, celestial Dove ! Still, in their perfect symmetry, These columned arches rise on high ; And still, as on the chancel walls The light through Christmas foliage falls, Shines forth in characters of gold The law on Sinai given of old, And that loved prayer that bids us rise And own a Father in the skies !
Beneath thee laid in hallowed trust, Repose the ashes of the just. My dead are with thee, - those who trod Thy courts, and ever walked with God.
For ages built, by ages blest, Ever on thee God's spirit rest ! High-hearted men, and matrons mild, The youth, the maiden, and the child, In long succession here repair, To fill thee with the breath of prayer !
Bing's Chapel. 25
And when thy towered and massive wall, Time-struck, shall totter to its fall, Then to thy worshippers be given To join the immortal throng in heaven ! S. G. BULFINCH. Nashua, N. H., March 30th, 1852.
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Krscriptions
FROM
King's Chapel Burial-ground.
H
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JOHN WINTHROP Governor of Massachusetts Died 1649
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MAJOR GENERAL WAITSTILL WINTHROP Died Sept 7th 1717 aged 76 years
ANN WINTHROP SEARS the wife of David Scars died Oct 2d 1759 aged 33 years
26. 727
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King's Chapel
HERE LYES INTOMBED THE BODYES OF THE FAMOUS REVEREND AND LEARNED PASTORS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BOSTON VIZ
MR JOHN COTTON AGED 67 YEARS DECD DECEMBR THE 23º 1652 - MR JOHN DAVENPORT AGED 72 YEARS DECD MARCH THE 15TH 1670 - MR IOHN OXENBRIDGE AGED 66 YEARS
DECD DECEMBER THE 28TH 1674 - MR THOMAS BRIDGE AGED 58 YEARS DECD SEPTEMBER THE 26 1715
Inscriptions. 23
Here lyes buried The body of JOSEPH BRIDGHAM Ruling ELDER of ye first Church of Christ in Boston aged about 58 years departed this life January the 5th 170g
HOPESTILL BARNES the wife of IAMES BARNES aged 24 yeares deceased the 19 of AVGVST 1 6 7 6
HEARE LIETH YE BODY OF RICHARD SHARP aged 43 yeares departed this life ye 5th of AVGVST 16 77
(Latin inscription illegible.) *RE LYES Buried ye body of ** HN TAPPING aged *BOUT 50 Y *** S DYED September ye 14 16 78
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Ring's Chapel
FUGIT HORA MEMENTO MORI
JOSEPH TAPPING AGE 23 YEARS DECD DECR Ye 20 16 78
Sculpture of Time with his scythe and hour-glass. Death, with his dart, in the act of extinguishing the taper. Time is endeavoring to with- hold him, by clasp- ing his arm.
VIVE MEMOR LOETHII FUGIT HORA
TEMPUS ERAT
The 3 Children of Will
WILLIAM HOAR aged 2 months decd APRYL ye 14 1 67 1
SAMUEL HOAR aged 7 months decd Dec ye 2.4th 1673
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6th D
NOTE. Part of this monument is broken off and lost.
Here lyes ye body of THOMAS SMITH aged about 35 yeares deceased ye 2 of Nonember in the YEAR OF OUR LORD 1693
JOHN TOWERS son to William and Leah Towers aged 5 months decd March ye 17 1680
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Inscriptions.
"TOMB."
Founded 1670 By CAPT. WILLIAM DAVIS Died May 1675 and here deposited Repaired and Rebuilt July 1S10 By his great grandson EDWD DAVIS
DEACON THOMAS DYAR OF WAYMOUTH AGED 64 YEARS DIED IN BOSTON 15 OF NOVEMBER 1 6 7 6
Hear lyeth the body of MR WILLIAM PADDY aged 5S yeares departed this life Avgust the ** 1 6 5 8
NOTE. On the other side of this stone is this inscription :
HEAR SLEAPS THAT BLESSED ONE WHOES LIFE GOD HELP VS ALL TO LIVE THAT SO WIIEN THIS WORLD MUST LEUF WE EVER MAY BE HAPPY WITH BLESSED WILLIAM PADDY
This monument was found near the Old State House in 1830.
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Here lyeth buried ye body of THOMAS SKINNER aged 46 years died December ye 2Sth 1690
JOHN ye son of SAMLL & HANAII MARION aged 17 year dyed Febry ye 2Sth 1693 -10. V. I
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Inscriptions.
HERE LYETH INTERED THE BODY OF JACOB SHEAF E OF BOSTON WHO FOR SVME TIME LIVED AT CRAMBROCK IN KEN* IN OVLD INGLAND. HEE DECEASED THE 22 OF MARCH 165S AGED 42 YEARS
HERE LYETH INTERED THE BODY OF MRS MARGARET THATCHER FORMERLY WIFE OF MR J ** OB SHEAFE AND LATE VE WIFE OF THE REVEREND MR THOMAS THATCHER ETATIS 6S - OBIT 23D FEBRUARY 1693
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