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GEORGE WASHINGTON ARMSTRONG,
Was born Feb. 22, 1792, He held a commission in the war of 1812, as 1st Lieut. in 10th Regt. U. S. Inf. signed by James Madison Presd't U. S. and John Armstrong, Sec. of U. S. War Dept. He served in the Boston Light Inf. Co. (Tigers) Also as Ass's Engineer on Fort Strong, an in Forts Warren & Indipendence and the Water Battery, He was Sec. of the War Office for fitting out Privateers and Letters of Marque. He was a Franklin Medal Scholar in the class with the Hon. Edward Everett, in 1803,-4, By him this memorial was inscribed in 1866
A needless and melancholy tragedy underlies the words of the following epitaph :
HERE Lyes INTERRED THE BODY OF MR. BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE, SON OF TIe HONORABLE DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, ESQ'R, WHO DEC'D JULY ye 3d 1728, IN ye 20th YEAR OF IIIS AGE.
Young Woodbridge fell mortally wounded in the first duel fought in Boston. He was the son of a Barbadoes merchant and on completing his education had been admitted to partnership
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with Jonathan Sewall, a leading merchant. His opponent was Henry Phillips, twenty-four, freshly graduated from Harvard, and successor with his brother, Gillam, to the bookselling business of their father, Samuel Phillips. The pair, who had quarrelled over cards, fought with small swords in the evening, on a knoll of the Common, near where stood an ancient powder-house. Woodbridge, who was thrust through the body, died on the spot before morning. Phillips, who was slightly wounded, was assisted by his brother, Gillam, and by Peter Faneuil, to make his escape to the British man-of-war Sheerness, which conveyed him to France. Within a year he died of grief at Rochelle.
Though the Granary contains more famous personages, yet it is not so rich in poetical effusions and striking epitaphs as is Copp's Hill. Perhaps the longest and most original piece of elegian verse runs as follows :
TO THE MEMORY OF ME WILLIAM WARDEN PRINTER OBSIT, March J8th J786 Aged 25
William thy Mother confecrates this Stone,
A mark of Friendfhip, and of Love fincere;
While in her Memory, ever thou will Bloom, And in her Heart forever will be dear.
While private Friends deplore their heavy lofs, The Publick at thy Death their grief difplay; The ufefull Prefs no longer from thy hand, Shall to the liftning World the Tipe convey.
Yet, while we mourn, permit the briny Tear, To wet thy Ashes, mouldering in the Duft; Tho fnach'd by cruel Death in early years, To Heaven's bleft realms with folid Hope we truft.
On the ornate monument southeast of the Franklin tomb, erected in memory of Gershom Flagg, were carved the follow- ing lines :
To limits fix'd our Deftined Course we bend And with resistlefs Haste, to Death's pale Empire tend ; From fcene to fcene our Shifting Moments go ; And then return the Ground the Dust we Owe, Virtue alone unmov'd can hear the call, And face the ftroke that makes all Nature fall.
The early severance of a scholar from his books is told in this wise !
In memory of DANIEL JONES JUNE A.M. Who having been early deprived of a diftinguished Genius By disease of Body Made a happy Exit Angst 234 1779 In the 29th Year of his Age.
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Here penfive Reader make a moment's paufe Think how precarious ev'ry human Joy See Nature's Bloom difrob'd by nature's Cause And Death releafing what it cant' deftroy.
Thanks be to God that giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jefus Chrift.
An extremely incongruous name is enshrined in the following epitaph :
IIere lyes the Body of MRS WAITSTILL TROTT, the Wife of MR THOMAS TROTT; She died June ye 8th 1744 in the 39th Year of Her Age
On the tombstone of John Downing, who died April 29, 1694, aged 53, was inscribed the following fantastic conceit :
I bargained with Chrift for room below He grantf a manfion in his upper ftorie, thuf God givef more than we do afk or know inftead of Grace, Uninterrupted glorie.
The following epitaph speaks for itself :
To the Memory of CAPT. WILL'M CLAGIORN, of New Bedford, Who died in a fit of the Apoplexy. On a Vifit to this Town, Feb'y Ye 24th, 1793, in the 60th Year of his Age.
Here lies entomb'd, beneath the turfed Clod, A Man belov'd, the nobleft work of God; With friendly throbs, thine heart shall beat no more, Clos'd the gay Scene, the Pomp of Life is o'er.
A hint of unpleasant experiences to come is conveyed in these stanzas on the death of Sarah, the three-year old daughter of Capt. Levi Stutson :
Beneath, an infant sleeping lies, To carth her afnes lent, IIereafter, shall more glorious rife, But not more Innocent.
When the archangel's tru'emp shall blow, And fouls to Body join, What Crouds will with their lives Below Hlad been as fhort as thine.
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The memory of Abiah Holbrook, "master of the South Writ- ing School," who died at fifty-one in January, 1769, was thus preserved :
Still fpeaks the Inftructor from the folemn Shade, Ye living learn the lefsons of the Dead; Repine not that thefe dreary Vaults conclude A Life of Labours for the Publick Good. Calm fleeps the Flefh - Far-diftant, unconfin'd, In Joys unbounded wakes the immortal Mind.
Apart from the patriot orator who opposed the writes of assistance, there sleeps another James Otis in the Granary, dead in the same year, as told by the following inscription :
In Memory of JAMES OTIS Who Died July 7th, 1783, Aged 2 Years and 6 Months.
A rather ingennous epitaph is the following :
In Memory of John Wheatley An induftrious member of society, And a humble chriftian, who departed this Life 12th March, 1778. Æt. 72
Over the two children of Noah and Elisabeth Stoddard, who died in 1787 and 1791, each aged fifteen months, were carved the following lines :
In Memory of SOPHIA STODDARD Who Died Sept'r 2Jst, J787, Aged J5 months.
In Memory of NOAH STODDARD Who died August 27th, J791, Aged J5 months.
Children of Noah & Elizabeth Stoddard.
Here lies two lovely babes, whose early breath Was fnatch'd by crewel, not untimely Death; Hence did they go, juft as they did begin, Sorrow to know, before they knew to Sin.
Another instance of incongruous name :
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF CAPT JOHN UNDERDOWN DECD AUGT 3D 1736 IN YE 34TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
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Some of the other interesting epitaphs follow :
Sacred to the Memory of MRS Ann Barbara Bender who died Septr. 12th 1794 Aged 48 Years
While weeping friends bend o'er the filent Tomb. Recount her Virtues & their lof's deplore ; Faith's piercing eyes dart thro' the dreary gloom And hail her bleft, where tears fhall flow no more,
HERE LYES VE BODY OF M ----- LYON, BORN IN SUNDERLAND AGED About 30 YEARS DIED DECEMBR YE 29TH 1725/6
What ist fond mortal that thou woldst obtain
by spining out a painfull life of cares thou livest to act thy childhood ore again
and nought intend's but grief and seeing years Who leaves this world like me Just in my prime Speeds all my busnes in a littel time [Part of face gone.]
Here lies interr'd the Remains of MRS MARY PEIRCE Confort of MR NATHL PEIRCE of this Town Mercht she Died of the Small Pox July 20th 1776 Etatis 21
Behold this little Pile enfolds my Limbs, And puts a Period to my Time below, Mortal attend there's no mutation here, Ere long you will Participate my Lot
In Memory of Betfey Donnifon, daugtr of Mr. James & Mrs Catherine Donnifon; who died Feby J3th J789 Aged 2 Years
Hail happy babe, fince thou hast taken flight, Through Chrift thou dwelft in realms of glorious light ; Thy Stay was fhort on earth, nor did'ft thou know, The pain of parting with thy friends below.
Here Lies Buried the Body of Mrs ELIZABETH RICE, Wife of Mr ELIAZER RICE, who Died Augft ye 4th 1763 in the 49th year of her Age.
The wide Mouth'd Grave Proclaims around, Attend ye Mortals, to the Sound ! Now is your Time, for Death prepare; Work, Wisdom nor Defigns here.
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Here lies the Body of Mr SAMUEL MCCLUER, who died Angst 13, 1759 in ye 69 Year of His Age
When in declining Age I ftood Death came & have my life he wld And in ye ftrugle Death gave me A. fall Lo here I lye till Chrift doth call
TE Children Of AndreW & Melicen Neal
ElizabeH NEal ElizabeIt NEal ANDreW NEal
Aged 3 Dayes Aged 2 Weeks Aged 18 MonHS
DecD 1666
Dec! June ye 12 DecD
As also ye Body Of
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Hannah NEal Is HEre INer'd
Let us hope that the expectations of the man who lies beneath the following epitaph were fully realized.
Farewell Vain World I have Enough of the
and now I'm Careles what thou Say'st of me
What Faults thou Seest in me Take Care to Shun Theres worke within thy Self That Should be Done Thy Smiles I Court not nor thy Frowns I fear
My Cares are past my head lies quiet here
EDWARD CARTER DIED NOVR 11th 1742, AGED 45.
Here lyes ye Body of JOHN
KENT, Son of MI JOHN & Mrs BATHSHEBA KENT, who Died Octobr 31ft 1737 Aged 7 Years & 9 Months
Read this and Weep -but Not for Mee,
Lament Thy Longer Mifery,
My Life Was Short, My Grief ye lefs
Blame not My Hafte to Happinefs
At a meeting of the Select men april the 25th, 1729.
A List of the Toombs in the South Burying place on the South Line & Numbred vizt.
Jonathan Belcher Esqr. No. 1
Oliver Noyes Esqr No. 2
Capt. James Gouch. No. 3
m! Thomas Cushing. No. 4
Capt. Thomas Steel. No. 5
m! James Bowdoin. No. 6
m! William Foy No.
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m! George Bethune. No. 8
in! Ezekiel Lewis. . No. 9
m! Robert Guteridge No. 10
in! William Webster No. 11
Jeramialı Allen Esqr No. 12
William Harris Esqr No. 13
Capt. adina Bulfinch No. 14
m! Joshua Henshaw. No. 15
m! John Gill, now Thomas Hancock . .No. 16
m! David Colson. No. 17
Doe! Thomas Creese. No. 18
m! Henery Geneue. No. 19
m! John Coney . No. 20
m! Samuel Barrett No. 21
m! Jonas Clark. . No. 22
m! Jonathan Jackson. No. 23
m! William Downs, pinmaker. No. 24
m! Samuel Rand. No. 25
m! Thomas Wallis No. 26
Capt. Elizar Darby. No. 27
m! Silence Allen . No. 28
m! David Deming No. 29
Capt. John Bonner No. 30
m. William Spikeman No. 31
m! Henry Gibbons No. 32
m! Jeramiah Belknap. No. 33 m! William Bowen. No. 34
m! John Durant. No. 35
Penn Townsend Esqr No. 36
m! John Borland .. No. 37
No. 38
m! Joseph Brandon No. 39
m! Barret Dyer. No. 40
m! Nathan" Cunningham
No. 41
m! William Wheeler Jun! Capt. Wm Blak. No. 42
Capt. John fairwether. No. 48
m! Thomas Down. No. 44
messrs John & Thomas Hill
Capt. Cyprian Southack. No. 46
John Jekiel Esqr No. 47
m! James Pemberton No. 48
m! John Hunt. No. 49
Nathan11 Byfield Esqr No. 50
m! John Dolbeare. No. 51
m! William Young No. 52
mr frances Wardwell No. 53
mr William Lee. No. 54
mr John Wendall. No. 55
major Paul Maseareen No. 56
mr Thomas Jackson .No. 57
m! Andrew Tylor. No. 58
m! francis Gatooni .. .No. 59
m! Nicholas Buttolph No. 60
Win Welsteed Esqr. His family . No. 61
Doc! Nathan" Williams No. 62
m! Wm Wheeler Jun! No. 63
m! William Palphrce. No. 64
messnrs Zecha & Cornelius Thayer No. 65
m! Robert Pattishall. .No. 66 Capt. James Blin. No. 67
mr Richard Checkley No. 68
mn! Jonathan Williams Jun! No. 69
m! Thomas Hubbard. No. 70
m! Benjamin Emmons No. 71
No. 45
m's Ann Green. .
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m! John Indicott. No. 72
m! Joshua Blanchard No. 73
m! Edward Gray. No. 74
The Hon. John Osborne, Esq! No. 75
m! Edmund Quincey No. 76
m! Thomas Jackson
.No. 77
m! Isaac Walker
No.'
m! John Buttolph
No. 79
m! Joseph Green No. 80 Deacon Jacob Parker No. 81
Deacon John Clough. No. 82
Heirs of Sam! Greenleaf Deced.
No. 83
Capt. Jonathan Armitage .No. 84
Doctor John Gibbins No. 85
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