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The steeple of this church commands a rich prospect. It is said that Governor Gage ascended here to gaze at the confla- gration of Charlestown, and the battle of Bunker Hill.
The cemetery on Copp's Hill was much injured during the revolutionary war. From an adjacent battery the soldiers used some of the gravestones for targets, mutilated others, whenever
# Charles Shaw, Esq., author of the " History of Boston," was born in Bath, Maine, and took his degree at Harvard University, 1805, with the second part in his class and a high reputation as a scholar. Ile studied law with Nathaniel Coffin, Esq., of Bath, practised some years in Jefferson, Lincoln county, and afterwards went to Mont- gomery, in Alabama, where he was appointed a judge, and died. He was a man of elegant taste, excelled in his knowledge of the Latin language, - being, it was said, among the uncommonly few who could scan Horace with a musical cadence. Though a poet and a fine writer, he only left this little work in memoriam.
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a patriotic epitaph thereon excited their ire or envy, and took many to pave the hospital for their invalids. But the worst enemy to the memory of the dead - disgraceful as it may ap- pear - was among our own citizens. For within a few years, some of the slabs - solemnly inscribed as they were - individ- uals carried off with impunity to cover drains, make foundations for chimneys, lay at the bottom of tombs for coffins to rest on, or at their mouths to close up the aperture.
There was a period in the burial history of our country which reflects no honor on a Christian land ; especially when we re- member that the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, and even the Turks, in their cypress-planted cemeteries, ever honored the ashes of the dead. It seemed not enough to erect temples to God, without regard to any order of architecture, without form or comeliness, looking like steepled barns, and then. to use them for unholy purposes and town meetings; but, in too many instances, the very churchyards were neg- lected, unfenced and uncared for, the graves exposed to horses, cattle, and dogs, not a tree nor a flower suffered to shade or bloom there, and neither walk nor path laid out among the falling, straggling stones, for the pensive mourner to muse over a loved one, or drop a tear over his grave. The sexton appeared to be the only frequent visitant to the spot; the first with his spade and pick to disturb the solitude of the scene after the funeral procession had buried the dead out of their sight and gone home. This is no colored nor fanciful descrip- tion of hundreds of village churchyards, within twenty years past, on the hills and in the valleys of New England. Are there not, even at this day, such desecrated spots of burial in some of our neighboring cities ? Let Worcester and Roxbury answer! If the manes of departed worth could speak from their dishonored graves, they would envy even the fate of Pali- nurus in his watery tomb, -
" Nudus in ignota, Palinure, jacebis arena,"
But, thank Heaven, a change is coming over the land. It is
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not in Mount Auburn alone, nor at Laurel Hill in Philadelphia, nor on Green Mount in Baltimore, nor in the Greenwood Cem- etery in New York, nor in the time-honored churchyard at New . Haven, where a more enlightened taste and holier feelings pre- vail. A degree of veneration is awakened, and a regard for the sanctuary of the grave is more generally felt in the busy world. We have begun to honor the ashes of the dead, and their mem- ory is cherished from the siinple green mound, adorned with shrubs and flowers, to the solid granite and architectural mar- ble of the costly tomb. It soothes the heart of the mourner of refined feelings to think, when he walks in the valley of the shadow of death, that his beloved ones are not forgotten.
It is remarkable that, amidst such desecration of these ancient memorials on Copp's Hill, so many epitaphs escaped destruc- tion, and can be identified .; for in addition to losses thus sus- tained, very many gravestones have been removed, with the remains they guarded, to churchyards in distant places, there to be preserved with reverence.
A singular instance of depravity, however, did occur in Copp's Hill Burying-ground. Here once rested the bones of Thomas Hutchinson, - father of' Governor Hutchinson, - one of the greatest benefactors of this city and country, and also the bones of his father Elisha, son of the famous Edward Hutch- inson, who fell in an attack of the Indians at Quabaog, in Brookfield, and a descendant from the celebrated Ann and her husband, Governor William Hutchinson, of Rhode Island. Their bones are now scattered before the four winds of heaven! Their tomb has passed into the hands of strangers. Over their beautiful coat of arms their name has been expunged, and the name of Thomas Lewis inserted !
One would think that decency - if there were a drop of modest blood to curdle round the heart at such a thought-of baseness - would at least have discovered some veneration for our departed patriots, if the sanctuary of the tomb, which all nations have respected, had no influence. Even the poor In- dian, by whom the sepulchral mounds in his fatherland have
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ever been regarded with the loftiest feelings of reverence, would have raised his tomahawk to cut off the sacrilegious hand which dared to violate the home of his honored dead.
An infamous custom has prevailed among some of the sextons in this city of speculating in tombs. Finding a poor widow, or dilapidated heir, having a share or fractional interest in some old tomb under his care, the grave-digger, aware of the absence or death of the principal owner, and that "a living dog is bet- ter than a dead lion," purchases it for a trifle, seizes the whole by prescription, or threats of the law, calls it his own, erases the family name, clears out the sacred relics which lie there, and then makes a trade of his mortmain right, by selling a berth for dead strangers in the city, at eight, or ten, or twelve dollars apiece, as the case may be. This has been repeatedly done on Copp's Hill, King's Chapel, and other burial-grounds in the city.
Nor is this all. After the tombs have been filled up by the re- mains of strangers, their corpses have been carted out of town in the night season, or buried in a hole dug at the bottom of the tomb, pounded down in one horrid, hideous mass, and covered over, to make way for more death-money. An aged gentleman of respectability, residing near Copp's Hill, told me he has seen loads of broken-up coffins removed from tombs thus desecrated ; and a lady in this city recently remarked that within fifteen years she was in that cemetery, and there saw a collection of coffins heaped up for removal; on the fragments of one of which skin and hair adhered - the hair black and glossy - the long, fine hair of a female ; and she shuddered and turned away from the spectacle !
In King's Chapel Burying-ground, there is a tomb on the north side, near a window of the room of the Massachusetts Historical Society, where the sexton, lately deceased, thus used it for speculation, erased the family name on the great brown stone tablet, and put his own in its place.
Such sacrilege is outrageous. It almost makes the blood boil with indignation. Is the law against profanity of the dead a mere spider's web, made by the weak to favor the wicked ?
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What would be the feelings of the tender mother, or affectionate daughter, in the days of their mourning, should it be. told them, "The grave is no resting-place for the dead ; the sacred ashes of a husband or father will one day be scattered by the hand of the sexton, and a greedy, unprincipled grave-digger will claim your ancestral tomb for a mere pittance, and turn it into a mercenary charnel-house to suit his purposes " ?
If there be any doubt of the facts here stated, let the records of the Probate Office in Boston be searched for twenty years past. It will there be seen how many sextons have left a leg- acy of tombs in their will, as a profitable investment to their heirs. Names could be mentioned, but I forbear. Will not "A SEXTON OF THE OLD SCHOOL" point his heavy artil- lery against this abomination ? It ought to be investigated and denounced, so that no speculator in tombs and bones would dare to show his head among a church-going people. Let the city authorities look to this matter, and put a stop forever to a species of merchandise, next only to that of Burking for the dissecting room !
Copp's Hill Burying-ground is a locality full of reminis- cences. It is pleasing to observe, that the city authorities have sought to preserve the garden of the dead, and put it under the care of a faithful person. It has been furnished with a Cochituate fountain, and has become a favorite place of prom- enade to citizens in the northern part of the city, remote from the refreshing walks of our beautiful Mall. It is worthy of the stranger's notice ; more especially if he feel interested in the antiquities of this city. He will see tombs with heraldic insig- nia of other times carved on the tablets; those of Hutchinson, Mountford, Goodrich, Gee, Clark, Lee, and Greenwood will arrest his eye. Nor can he pass unobserved the venerable, time-touched sepulchres of those Reverend and revered men, Andrew and John Elliot, Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather, learned doctors of divinity, scholars of note and pastors of ce- lebrity in their day, with whom the history of New England is, and forever will be, associated. IJere their remains have long
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slept, unconscious of the thunders which shook this hill in 1775, and of the tread of thousands of visitors to this spot, and of the voices of many a playful school, which for nearly three gen- erations of national prosperity have echoed near their silent mansion of death. Friend and foe, female loveliness and in- fantile beauty, here lie side by side; in a word, here is the dust of many a daring, lion-hearted, devout first settler in the town of Shawmut, now the expanding city of Boston.
He will see one gravestone where Grace Berry lies beneath, singularly shaped, and marked by the bullets of a British foe before the evacuation of Boston, when unholy hands used it for a target; in another spot is the slab, which designates the ashes of Nicholas Upshall, of the Ancient and Honorable Ar- tillery, a public-spirited man, persecuted for religious opinions among a religious people ; and a little farther off stands a me- morial to Captain Thomas Lake, an early settler, and large pro- prietor in Maine, " an eminently faithful servant of God," who was slain by the Indians, at Kennebec, August 14, 1670.
While meditating among the tombs in this shady necropolis, he may observe in the south-west corner a large and stately monument of granite, over a capacious sepulchre, dedicated to seamen of all nations, by the Rev. Phineas Stowe, pastor of the First Baptist Bethel Church in Boston, 1851 - a generous and highly honorable testimony of respect to that noble and too little valued class of our citizens. And from this spot let him, as he muses from grave to grave along these gravelled walks, turn to the north-east angle of the cemetery, where he will see a marble pyramid over the tomb of Ellis, and by its side, within the iron railing, a wide-spread weeping willow. Siste, viator. Traveller, pause ; for that willow casts no vulgar shade. It is an exotic. It grew up from a shoot taken from that lonely tree which hangs over the deserted grave of the great Napo- leon at St. Helena ; and it needs no poetry of the heart to feel, as we gaze upon the umbrage, as if every sea breeze from the eastern world touched its leaves with sorrow, and called forth a train of mournful reflections at the fate of that wonderful man !
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The compiler of this book of Epitaphs has spared no pains to verify the facts he has published. He has sought the aged, and listened to their early recollections ; he has caused many an old gravestone, buried beneath the sod, to be dug up and carefully examined; and he has descended into vaults, and from thence brought up hidden treasures. The work he has done will be valuable, because it will tend to perpetuate names and dates, which a few years more would render it difficult to resuscitate, and which the antiquary of another generation might explore in vain among the fugitive landmarks of tradition. What OLD MORTALITY accomplished with hammer and chisel on the tomb- stones of the Covenanters he has endeavored to perform with spade and pen.
He only asks encouragement as a reward of labors which the circumstances of his life forbid him, in justice to his family, to bestow gratuitously. Should this volume meet with the appro- bation of the liberal descendants, whose ancestral memorials he has attempted to preserve by the imperishable power of the press, he will soon offer to the public a similar work on King's Chapel Burying-ground - the materials of which are in a state of preparation.
The assistance kindly afforded him by John P. Bigelow, Esq., Mayor of Boston, he would gratefully acknowledge; and also that of many other gentlemen, -some of high standing, - whose names he would gladly mention ; but a selection would seem invidious, and to enumerate them all might encroach upon the patience which this long, but he hopes not useless, preamble may have wearied.
BOSTON, August, 1851.
[The compiler is indebted to the kindness of JOHN II. SHEPPARD, Esq., for the valuable Introduction to this volume.]
List of Cugrauings.
VIEW OF COPP'S HILL,
FRONTISPIECE.
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GREENWOOD
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CLARK
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MARTYN
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MARINERS' TOMB,
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THORNTON
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SNELLING
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LORING
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MONUMENT TO MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH WARREN,
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" THE APOSTLE ELIOT,
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Capu's Will Burinl Grunnd.
MATHER TOMB.
THE REVERE ** DOCTORS INCREASE, COTTON, & SAMUEL MATHER were intered in this Vault
'TIS the TOMB OF our FATHER'S MATHER CRO ** ER'S
I DIED Augt 27th 1723 ÆE 84 C DIED FEB 13º 1727 ÆE 65 S DIED JUNE 27mh 1785 Æ 79
JOANNA DAUGHT OF WILLIAM & ANNE COPP AGED 6 MONTHIES DIED MARCHI ye 20 1625 *
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CAPT THOMAS LAKE AGED 61 YEERES AN EMINENTLY FAITHFULL SERVANT OF GOD & ONE OF A PUBLIC SPIRIT WAS PERFIDIOVSLY SLAIN BY ye INDIANS AT KENNIBECK AVGVST ye 14th 1676 & HERE INTERED THE 13 OF MARCH FOLLOWING.
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Here lyeth ye body of JOHN LAKE Son to CAPT. THOMAS LAKE Aged abovt 24 years Deceased ye 27 of Iune 16 90
HOOTON & WATTS' TOMB.
Deacon IOHN PHILLIPES Aged 77 yeares Deceased the 16 day of December 1682
& HANNAH HARES
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HEZEKIAH HARES aged 1 year 11 mo deced ye 31 of January JOHN HARES age 9 months deced ye 23 of August 1674
Here lyes buried the Body of CAPT RALPH HARTT Who departed this life the 14th of March 1776 Aged 77 years
CHILDREN OF WM.
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JOHN ye Son of JOHN & ANNABEL SALISBURY Died December ye 15 1704 in ye 14 year of his age.
ELIZABETH wife to NICHLAS SALSBVRY aged 53 years departed this life ye 17 of February 1 68
ELIZABETH late wife GEORGE ROBINSON aged about 40 Years deceased ye 7th of July 1697
Here lyeth ye Body of THOMAS LUSCOMB aged about 35 Years deed October ye 15 1694
Here lyeth buried ye Body of GRACE BERRY ye Wife of THOMAS BERRY Age about 58 Years who died May ye 17 1 6 2 5
Memento Mori Fugit Hora Here Lyes the Body of NATHANAEL ADAMS Aged 60 Years Deceased the 29th of March 1682%
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* * re lyeth buried * ody of ELIZABETH * EARE Relict of * ILLIAM WEARE Aged 90 Years decd ye 27 of September 1681
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IOHANA PHILLIPES the Wife of JOHN PHILLIPES Aged 80 Yeares deceased ye 22 of October 1675
Here lyeth bvried the Body of JOHN SAXTON Aged 38 Years departed this Life the 31 day of IVLY 1686
1677 ABIGAIL AYRES AGED 27 YEARS DYED yº 2 OF JANWARY
ELIZABETHI CHIAPIN ye Daughter of EBENEZER & ELIZABETH CHAPIN Aged about 16 mº Died August ye 23 1694
ELIZABETH SHUTE aged 1 Week Dyed ye 2 Febvar- 1665
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MICHAEL POWELL aged 67 Yeares Desesed the 28 of December 1672
LYDIA BROUN Wife to WILLIAM BROUN aged about 46 Years decd July ye 30 1 680
ISAAC GRIFFIN aged about 55 Years died July ye 29 1693
SARAH RULE aged 9 Years died July ye 5 1690
ELIZABETH Daughter of JOHN & ELIZABETH PICKERIN Aged 16 mº Died August ye 27 1690
Here lyeth buried ye Body of EDWARD GRANT Aged about 50 Years dect ye 19th day of June 16 82
ALES HOWARD Relict of LEFTT WILLIAM HOWARD Aged 72 Years decd Nov ye 18 1681
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Here lyes the Body of EXPERIENCE MILES Aged 49 Years decd January the 26 16 *0
WILLIAM TYER Aged 26 Years died Iavaryy 14 16 66
MARTHA HASEY Aged 12 Yeares dyed the 4th of May 16 76
REBEKAH HOOPER the Davghter of GORG HOOPER Aged 2 Yeares & 10 Weeks Dyed the 15 of October 1 6 7 5
Here Iveth buried ye Body of ALEXANDER ADAMS Aged 62 years dyed ye 15th day of January 1 677
NATHANIEL SAXTON Aged 19 Years dyed ye 15 of September 1 677
Here lyeth buried ye Body of MARY BULL Wife to JAMES BULL Aged about 75 yeares died ye 29 of August 1688
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LYDIA HOUGH Wife to WILLIAM HOUGH Aged 38 years decd ye 26th day of February 1 6 8
CHARLES FARNUM Aged 3 years & 6 m Decd January ye 21 - 1 6 7 %
Here lyeth buried ye Body of WILLIAM KENT Aged 57 years decd June ye 9th 16 91
In Memorial of DORATHY VPSHALL Aged 73 Yeares deceased the 18 of September 1675
ANNAH READE Wife to Obadiah Reade aged 33 years Dyed ye 13 day of September 1 6 8 0
Here lyes the Body of FRANSIS WARD Wife to SAMUEL WARD Aged 83 Years dyed the 10th of Ivne 1 690
Here lyeth buried ye Body of MARY WINSLOW Daughter to Mr. Samuel Winslow Aged 3 years Departed this life June ye 2d 16.81
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Here lyes the Body of JOHN PITTOM Aged about 54 Years died February 30th (?) 1699
THE 3 CHILDREN OF OBADIAH & ELIZABETH GULL
Obadiah Gill aged
Obadiah Gill
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August 1682
dyed ye 3 of July 1678
Samuel Gill aged 3 years & 7 mouths dyed yº 6 day of June 1679
Here lyeth buried ve Body of RICHARD COLLACOTT Aged 83 years Dyed July ye 7 1686
MARY HUNTING ye daughter of SAMUEL & MARY HUNTING Aged 13 months & '25 days Died July ye 29 1699
Here lyeth ye Body of JOHN MAVERICKE Son of JOHN & MRS ELIZABETHI MAVERICKE Who died July 17 1734 aged 10 years & .6 mº
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Here lyes buried the Body of MRS MARY GILBURT Relict of Capt Thomas Gilburt aged 63 years Decd Decmr ye 30th
MRS. SARAHI SHAW 1799
JACOB HALL'S TOMB.
Here lies intered the mortal part of MR JOHN ADAMS who departed this life March ye 1st 1783 Æ 67 years,
Here lieth buried ye Bodi of OBODIAN GILL Deacon of ye North Church in Boston Aged 50 years decesed January ye 6-1700
Here lyes ye Body of MRS MEINITABEL MAVERICKE Wife of Mr Jotham Mavericke Aged 24 years dyed June 30th 1 7 4 7
Here lyeth buried ye Body of JOSEPH SHAW SENIER Aged 56 years died May ye 7th 1701
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Sacred to the Memory of MR JACOB HAWKINS Who professed faith in Jesus Christ about 14 Years & about 1 year a Preacher of the Gospel. He was one of a sound Judg- ment meck & happy Spirit. He ended his days in peace July 10th 1797 aged 31. years.
EDWARD CARNES' TOMB.
In Memory of MR JOSHUA BOWLES who died Augst 31 1794 Ætat 72
In Memory of MRS MARY BOWLES Wife of
Mr Joshua Bowles who died Janry 16 1780 Ætat 52
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
Here lyes ye Body of MRS HANNAH STODDARD Wife to Mr After Stoddard Who died December ye 29th 1755
Here lyes buried the Body of MR JOSIAH CLARK Who decd August the 27th 1726 aged 45 year
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Reader Beneath this Stone is deposited the Remains of MAJOR THOMAS SEWARD Who gallantly fought in our late REVOLUTIONARY WAR And through its various Scenes behaved With Patriotic Fortitude and Died in the Calms of domestic Felicity as becomes a universal Christian November 27th 1800 Ætat 60
" The lonely turf where silence lays her head, The mound where pity sighs for hond dead, Such is the grief where sorrow now doth sigh, To learn to live is but to learn to die."
Also SARAH SEWARD his Wife Obiit March 14th 1800 MEtat. 63
Here lies buried in A stone grave 10 feet deep CAPT DANIEL MALCOM MERCHIT Who departed this life October 23d 1769 Aged 44 years A true Son of Liberty a Friend to the Public An Enemy to Oppression and One of the foremost in opposing the Revenue Acts on America
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Here lyes ye Body of MRS MARY HARTT Wife to Mr Ralph Hartt Aged 34 years and 2 mo decd Agust ye 2d 1733
Here lyes buried ye Body of MRS LOIS HARTT The Wife of Capt Ralph Hartt Aged 46 years deceased Novr 5th 1751
Mr George Worthy Lake Ruth Worthy Lake 1718 1718
Mrs Ann Worthy Lake 1718
ELIZABETH late Wife George Robinson Aged about 40 years deceased ve 7th of July 1697
Here lyes buried ye Body of MRS MARY THACHER Widdow late Wife of Judah Thatcher of Yarmouth departed this life Novr ye 30 1708 in ye 68th year of her age
Here lyes ye Body of MR FRANCES HUDSON aged 55 years decd June ye 13 1 7 32
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Here lyeth intered the Body of . NATHANIEL GREENWOOD Aged 53 years Departed this life July the 31 1684
Here lyes buried ye Body of DAUID COPP Elder of ye Old Church in Boston Aged 78 years decd November the 20 113
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Here lyes ye Body of HARVEY THOMAS Aged 39 years who departed this life Sept ye 12th 1 7 5 0
Here lyes ye Body of MR THOMAS DELAPLACE Died Decr ye 25th 1733 in ye 60th year of his age
Here lyes the Body of MRS MARY CONEY Who died Jan'y ye 30th 1749-50 aged 80 years
Here lyes buried ye Body of MR NATHANIE AYRES aged 67 years & 6 mº decd December ve 4th 1731
Here lyes buried ye Body of MRS SARAHI WALES Wife to Mr Timothy Wales decd May ye 3d 1726 in ye 57th year of her age
Here lyes ye Body of HANNAH GREEN Wife to John Green Cenr Aged 63 years & about 4 mº Died January ye 3d 17 1 .7 18
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Here lies ye Body of MRS ABIGAIL FURBUR the Wife of Mr Richard Furbur Who died July ye 11th 1750 Aged 33 years
Here lyes buried The Body of CAPT WILLIAM DOWRICK aged 38 years & 3 mº died March ye 10th 1748g
Here lyes ye Body of HANNAH SHUTT Daughter of Capt Michael and Mrs Mary Shutt aged 16 years and 8 months who deceased April the 29th 1709
Here lyes ye Body of MRS MARY SHUTT the Wife of Capt Michael Shutt aged 45 years and eight months who deceased September the 16th 1709
Here lyeth Buried ye Body of JOHN GREEN Senior aged 59 years Died February ye 25 1703
Here lies the Body of MRS ELIZABETH AUSTILL Wife of Capt Joseph Austill Who died June ye 18th 17 67 In the 80 year of her age
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Here lies buried the Body of MRS REBECCA CLARKE Widow of Mr John Clark Aged 82 years died Janry 24 17 63
Here lyes the Body of MEHETEBEL SCARLET Wife to Mr Humphrey Scarlet Decd June ye 26th 1733 In ye 434 year of her age
Here lies the body of MRS MARY WATSON wife of CAPT JAMES WATSON aged 59 years died Oct Ist 1743
Here lyes buried the body of MR JAMES WATSON decd July ye 22d 1738 in ye 58th year of his age
Here lyeth buried ye Body of MR JOSEPH BUCKLEY Aged 42 years and 6 mounthes Died Jan ye 1 1701
Here lyeth buried ye Body of JOSEPH GLIDDEN aged about 32 years Died Nouer ye 24 1700
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Here lves buried ye Body of MRS MARTHA PEARSON formerly ye wife of MR JOHN GOODWIN Aged 76 years who departed this life Sept ye 26 1728
Here lyes buried the Body of JOHN GOODWIN. aged 65 years departed this life June ye 21st 1712
Here lyes buried ye Body of MRS MARY GOODWIN aged 85 years died July ye 16th 1759
Here lyes ye Body of DORCAS BALLARD Wife to Daniel Ballard aged about 57 years died June ye 224 1719
Here lyes ye Body of ABIGAIL COOPER Wife of Edward Cooper died March ye 11th 1718 in the 31st year of her age
Here lyes buried ye Body of MRS HANNAH WOODBURY Wife to Mr Andrew Woodbury Who departed this life July 28th 17 3 3 ye 37th year of her age
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JEREMIAH MERRILLS Aged about 70 years decd August ye 25 1719
Here lyeth ye Body of SUSANNAH WADSWORTH ye Wife of Timothy Wadsworth Deed April ye 34 1704 in ye 37th year of her age
Here lyes buried ye Body of CAPT RICHARD HARRIS aged about 63 years who decd March ye 10th 1713 14
Here lieth ye Body of MICHAEL NOWEL aged about 33 years Died Aug ye 27th 1 6 9 6
Here lies ye Body of REBACCA Wife to OBADIAH WARFIELD aged 38 years died May the 28 1 7 1 5
Here lyes buried the Body of MR DEAN GROVER Aged 46 Years decd August 15 1. 7 3 4
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Here lyes buried ye Body of MR ROBERT SEARES who departed this life Decembr 29th 1732 in ye 76 year of his age
Here lyes ye Body of ABIGAIL THOMAS Wife to William Thomas decd May ye 4th 1717 · in the 33d year of her age
SACRED To the Memory of MR PAUL FARMER who died December 26th 1791 aged 77 years
Here lyes ye Body of WILLIAM MUMFORD aged 77 years died Novr ye 2Ist 1718
In Memory of MR THOMAS CHRISTY who died Octr 21st 1798 aged 62 years
Here lyes ye Body of MRS ABIGAIL INGHAM late Wife of Mr North Ingham who decd April ye 10th 1728 in ye 36th year of her age
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