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* He was a man of nice sense of honor, kindly disposed to all, a warm-hearted FRIEND, and a devoted Christian. He left a handsome property to his widow and children, who now reside in Auburn, N. Y.
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ezer Hunt, jr., graduated at Harvard College 1795-was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820-1. He married a daughter of the Hon. Samuel Henshaw, of Northampton, and died June 9, 1835, aged sixty. Lewis Hunt died unmarried.
Dr. David Hunt had thirteen children. Two of his sons, Seth and Alfred, now reside in Northampton, both married. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Dr. Edwin Cook, of New York, and died some years since.
HON. EBENEZER HUNT, M. D., DIED DEC'R. 26, A. D. 1820, AGED 76 YEARS.
A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE FAITHFUL DISCHARGE OF PUBLIC
OFFICES, PROFESSIONAL DUTIES, AND DOMESTIC
CHARITIES, ADORNED WITH CHRISTIAN
GRACE, AND CHEERED BY CHRISTIAN HOPES, SPEAKS HIS EULOGY, AND CONSTITUTES HIS MEMORIAL, 'HIC REQUIESCAT.'
IN MEMORY OF MRS. SARAH HUNT, WIFE OF DOCT. EBENEZER HUNT, WHO DIED AUGUST 12TH, 1803, AGED 59 YEARS.
" HOW POPULOUS, HOW VITAL IS THE GRAVE, " THIS IS CREATION'S MELANCHOLY VAULT,
" WHERE CHANGE SHALL BE NO MORE."
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HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF JOHN CHECKLEY, AGED 76 YEARS,
DECEASED YE IST OF JANUARY, 1684-5.
HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF
MARY,
DAUGHTER TO SAMUEL AND MARY CHECKLEY,
AGED 16 MONTHS AND 12 DAYS, DEC'D YE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1684. -
HERE LYES
HERE LYES
YE BODY OF
YE BODY OF
PETER GEE,
GRACE GEE,
AGED 74 YEARS,
WIFE TO PETER GEE,
DEC'D JAN'Y YE 25TH,
AGED 80 YEARS, DECEASED DECEMBER
1682.
YE 10TH, 1688.
HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF MR. MOSES WODLON, WHO DEC'D JUNE 9TH, 1730, AGED 20 YEARS AND 17 DAYS.
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[This gravestone stands on the east side of the Cemetery, between the front gate and Park-street Church.]
HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF
MR. BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE,
SON OF
THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY WOODBRIDGE, ESQ. WHO DEC'D JULY YE 3D, 1728, IN YE 20TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
[NOTE.] He was the first person killed in a duel in New England. See Boston Evening Transcript, 1851, "SIGMA."
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF CAPT. BENJAMIN RUSSELL, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 29TH, 1760, IN THE 63D YEAR OF HIS AGE.
IN MEMORY OF MR. JEREMIAH RUSSELL, SON OF MR. JEREMIAH AND MRS. MARY RUSSELL, DIED NOV'R 15TH, 1785, AGED 22 YEARS.
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HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF MRS. SUSANNAH RUSSELL,
WIDOW OF MR. JOSEPH RUSSELL,
DEC'D NOV'R THE 10TH, 1744, IN THE 85TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF
ASAPH ELLIOTT,
AGED 35 YEARS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER YE 3D, 1685.
JACOB ELLIOTT,
LATE DEACON OF YE 3D CHURCH OF CHRIST, IN BOSTON,
DEC'D YE 17TH OF AUGUST, 1693, ÆTATIS SUÆE 61.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. SILENCE ELIOT,
WIDOW OF MR. JOSEPH ELIOT,
SHE DJED THE 8TH OF JUNE, ANNO DOM. 1744,
AGED 78 YEARS.
CABOT.
HON. GEORGE CABOT, a Senator, was born in Salem, Mass., in 1752. The name was, perhaps, originally Cobbett. His early employment was that of a shipmaster ; but his visits to foreign countries were made sub- servient to the enlargement of his knowledge. At the age of twenty- five he was a member of the Provincial Congress at Concord, in which body he opposed the project of establishing by law a maximum of prices, and contended for entire freedom of commerce. He was also a member of the State Convention for considering the Constitution of the United States. Being appointed, a few years afterwards, a Senator of the United States, he co-operated in the financial views of Hamilton, and assisted him by his extensive commercial knowledge. May 3, 1798, he was appoint- ed the first Secretary of the Navy ; but declining it, B. Stoddard received the appointment. Of the Eastern Convention, assembled at Hartford in 1814, during the war, Mr. Cabot was the president. He died at Boston, April 18, 1823, aged seventy-one years.
Destitute of the advantages of a public education, Mr. Cabot was yet distinguished for his intelligence, and almost unequalled for the elo- quence of his conversation, especially on the topic of the French Revo- lution. He was master of the science of political economy. In the party divisions of his day, he was a decided federalist-the friend of Hamilton and Ames. He had also enjoyed the confidence of Washing- ton. His fellow-citizens entrusted him with numerous offices, evincing their reliance on his wisdom and integrity. In private life he was most amiable, courteous and benevolent. He was a professor of religion in
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the church of which the minister was Dr. Kirkland, who, after his death, married his daughter.
John Cabot, a Venetian, who first discovered the continent of Amer- ica, was perfectly skilled in all the sciences requisite to form an accom- plished mariner. He had three sons, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sanctius, all of whom he educated in a manner best calculated to make them able seamen. Encouraged by the success of Columbus, who returned in 1493 from his first voyage, he was determined to attempt the discovery of unknown lands, particularly of a northwest passage to the East Indies. Having obtained a commission from King Henry VII., empowering him and his three sons to discover unknown lands, and to conquer and settle them, and giving him jurisdiction over the countries which he should subdue, on condition of paying the king one fifth part of all the gains, he sailed from Bristol with two vessels, freighted by the merchants of London and Bristol with articles of traffic, and with about 300 men, in May, 1497. He sailed towards the northwest till he reached the lati- tude of 58 degrees, when the floating ice and the severity of the weather induced him to alter his course to the southwest. He discovered land June 24, which, as it was the first that he had seen, he called Prima Vista. This is generally supposed to be a part of the island of New- foundland, though in the opinion of some it is a place on the peninsula of Nova Scotia in the latitude of 45 degrees. A few days afterwards a smaller island was discovered, to which he gave the name of St. John, on account of its being discovered on the day of John the Baptist. Continuing his course westwardly, he soon reached the continent, and then sailed along the coast northwardly to the latitude of sixty- seven and a half degrees. As the coast stretched toward the east, he turned back and sailed toward the equator, till he came to Florida. The provisions now failing, and a mutiny breaking out among the mari- ners, he returned to England without attempting a settlement or con- quest in any part of the new world. In this voyage, Cabot was accom- panied by his son Sebastian, and to them is attributed the honor of first beholding the continent of North America ; for it was not till the fol- lowing year, 1498, that the continent was seen by Columbus. But this
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circumstance is of little importance; for, as Irving remarks, “when Columbus first touched the shore of the western hemisphere, he had achieved his enterprise, he had accomplished all that was necessary to his fame; the great problem was solved; the New World was dis- covered."
Sebastian Cabot, an eminent navigator, the son of the preceding, was born at Bristol. When about twenty years of age he accompanied his father in the voyage of 1497, in which the continent of the new world was discovered. About the year 1517 he sailed on another voyage of discovery, and went to the Brazils, and thence to Hispaniola and Porto Rico. Failing in his object of finding a way to the East Indies, he returned to England. Having been invited to Spain, where he was received in the most respectful manner by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, he sailed in their service on a voyage of discovery in April 1525. He visited the coast of Brazil, and entered a great river, to which he gave the name of Rio de la Plata. He sailed up this river one hun- dred and twenty leagues. After being absent on this expedition a number of years, he returned to Spain in the spring of 1531. But he was not well received. He made other voyages, of which no particular memorials remain. His residence was at the city of Seville. His em- ployment in the office of chief pilot was the drawing of charts, on which he delineated all the new discoveries made by himself and others; and, by his office, he was entrusted with the reviewing of all projects for dis- covery. His character is said to have been gentle, friendly, and social, though in his voyages some instances of injustice towards the natives, and of severity towards his mariners, are recorded. In his advanced age he returned to England and resided at Bristol. He received a pen- sion from Edward VI., and was appointed governor of a company of merchants, associated for the purpose of making discoveries. He had a strong persuasion that a passage might be found to China by the north- east. By his means a trade was commenced with Russia, which gave rise to the Russian company. The last account of him is, that in 1556, when the company were sending out a vessel for discovery, he made a visit on board. " The good old gentleman, Master Cabota," says the
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journal of the voyage in Hakluyt, " gave to the poor most liberal alms, wishing them to pray for the good fortune and prosperous success of our pinnace. And then, at the sign of St. Christopher, he and his friends banqueted, and for very joy that he had to see the towardness of our intended discovery, he entered into the dance himself among the rest of the young and lusty company ; which being ended, he and his friends departed, most gently commending us to the governance of Almighty God." He died, it is believed, in 1557, aged eighty years. He was one of the most extraordinary men of the age in which he lived. There is preserved in Hakluyt a complete set of instructions, drawn and signed by Cabot, for the direction of the voyage to Cathay in China, which affords the clearest proof of his sagacity. It is supposed that he was the first who noticed the variation of the magnetic needle, and he published " Navigatione Nelle Parte Settentrionale," Venice, 1583, folio. He published also a large map, which was engraved by Clement Adams, and hung up in the gallery at Whitehall ; and on this map was inscribed a Latin account of the discovery of Newfoundland.
INSCRIPTIONS. 197
IN MEMORY OF DEACON JOHN ELIOT, WHO DIED NOV'R 14TH, 1771, ÆTATIS 79.
ALSO,
MRS. SARAH, WIFE OF DEACON JOHN ELIOT, WHO DIED SEPT. 6TH, 1755, AGED 60.
AND
MRS. MARY, WIFE OF DEACON JOHN ELIOT, WHO DIED NOV'R 26TH, 1761, AGED 46 YEARS.
HERE LYETH YE BODY OF MRS. MARY MOVLD, WIFE TO CAPT. SAMVIL MOVLD, AGED 38 YEARS, DIED JUNE YE 21TS, 1709.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. ANN,
WIFE TO MR. JOHN ASHLEY,
DEC'D APRIL YE 16TH, 1736, IN YE 25TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
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TO THE MEMORY OF
MR. WILLIAM WARDEN, PRINTER, OBIIT MARCH 18TH, 1786, AGED 25.
WILLIAM, THY MOTHER CONSECRATES THIS STONE, A MARK OF FRIENDSHIP AND OF LOVE SINCERE; WHILE IN HER MEMORY EVER THOU WILT BLOOM, AND IN HER HEART FOR EVER WILT BE DEAR.
WHILE PRIVATE FRIENDS DEPLORE THEIR HEAVY LOSS, THE PUBLICK AT THY DEATH THEIR GRIEF DISPLAY ; THE VSEFUL PRESS NO LONGER FROM THY HAND SHALL TO THE LISTENING WORLD THE TIPE CONVEY.
YET, WHILE WE MOURN, PERMIT THE BRINY TEAR TO WET THY ASHES, MOULDERING IN THE DUST ; THOUGH SNATCH'D BY CRUEL DEATH IN EARLY YEARS, TO HEAVEN'S BLEST REALMS WITH SOLID HOPE WE TRUST.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. BENJAMIN PARKER, MERCH'T,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1760, AGED 54 YEARS.
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*ERE LIES THE *** Y OF MR. * ALTER ROSS, DIED DEC'R 10, 1751, AGED 21 YEARS.
IN MEMORY OF CAPT. SAMUEL DASHWOOD, WHO DIED FEB'RY 15TH, 1792, AGED 65 YEARS.
MASONIC EMBLEMS.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. GERSHOM FLAGG,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 23D DAY OF MARCH, MDCCLXXL AGED 66.
TO LIMITS FIX'D OUR DESTINED COURSE WE BEND, AND WITH RESISTLESS HASTE, TO DEATH'S PALE EMPIRE TEND ; FROM SCENE TO SCENE OUR SHIFTING MOMENTS GO, AND THEN RETURN THE GROUND THE DUST WE OWE. VIRTUE ALONE UNMOVED CAN BEAR THE CALL,
AND FACE THE STROKE THAT MAKES ALL NATURE FALL.
[NOTE. ] The above monument stands 49 feet southeast of the Franklin Monu- ment.
MR. JEAN CHILD.
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CHILD.
ROBERT CHILD, a physician, was educated at Padua, and came to Massachusetts as early as 1644. His object was to explore the mines of this country. In 1646 he and others caused disturbance in the colony by a petition supposed to have originated with William Vassall, in which he complained that the fundamental laws of England were disregarded, and that freeborn Englishmen, if not members of one of the churches, were denied civil privileges and debarred from Christian ordinances. He prayed for redress, and threatened to apply to Parliament. He was summoned before the court, and accused of " false and scandalous pas- sages," &c., and fined fifty pounds. His trial is related by Winthrop. When he was about to proceed to England with his complaint, he was apprehended, and suffered a long imprisonment. His brother, Major John Child, of England, in his indignation, published a pamphlet, enti- tled, " New England's Jonas cast up at London," containing Child's peti- tion to the court, &c., 1647. This was answered by Winslow in the " Sala- mander," alluding to Vassall as "a man never at rest but when he was in the fire of contention." The reason of the title of " Jonas " was this, as we learn from the paper : when the ship in which Vassall proceeded to England in 1646, was about to sail, Cotton, in his Thursday lecture, said, that writings carried to England against this country, would be as
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Jonas in the ship, and advised the shipmaster, in case of a storm, to search the chests and throw over any such Jonas.
There was a storm ; a good woman at midnight entreated Thomas Fowle if he had a petition to give it to her. He gave her, not the peti- tion to Parliament, but a copy of the petition to the General Court. This was thrown overboard ; yet a copy of the same, and a petition to Parliament were safely cast up at London .- Winthrop; 2 Hist. Col. iv. 107-120.
Ephraim Child, of Watertown, was admitted freeman in 1631; he came to New England in 1630. He was elected Representative to the Great and General Court in the years 1635, 1646, 1649, 1650, and from 1652 to 1662, excepting 1653 and 1658. He was a deacon of the church, and died Feb. 13, 1663, aged 70. Twelve of the name, and seven spelling it CHILDS, had graduated at the N. E. Colleges in 1826.
Joseph, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman in 1654.
William was admitted freeman in 1634 .- Farmer's Gen. Reg.
Timothy Childs, M.D., a physician of Pittsfield, Mass., and a patriot of the Revolution, was born at Deerfield in February, 1748, and passed several years at Harvard College. Having studied physic under Dr. Williams, he commenced the practice at Pittsfield in 1771. In the political controversy with Great Britain he engaged with zeal. In 1774 he was chairman of a committee of the town to petition the Justice of the Court of Common Pleas to stay all proceedings till certain oppres- sive acts of Parliament should be repealed. When the news of the battle of Lexington was received, he marched to Boston with a company of minute men, in which he was enrolled in the preceding year. Being soon appointed surgeon of Col. Patterson's regiment, he accompanied the army to New York, and thence to Montreal. In 1777 he returned to his practice in Pittsfield, in which he continued till his death. For several years he was a Representative in the General Court, and also a Senator. In his politics he warmly supported the republican party, which came into power with the accession of Mr. Jefferson to the Pres- idency in 1801. He died February 25, 1821, aged seventy-three. Till within a few days of his death he attended to the active duties of his
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profession, in which he was eminent. Great and general confidence was reposed in his skill. He had always been the supporter of religious institutions, though not a professor of religion : in his last sickness he earnestly besought the Divine mercy, and spoke of the blood and righteousness of Christ as the only hope of a sinner .- Thatcher's Med. Biog .; Hist. Berkshire, 380.
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PEMBERTON.
JAMES PEMBERTON came over as early as 1630, and requested to be nade freeman October 19, 1630.
James, of Newbury and Boston, was admitted freeman 1648. His sons were : John, born at Newbury, February 16, 1648; Thomas, born 1652, died 1693; Joseph, born 1655-the two last at Boston, where he probably died, October 11, 1696.
John, of Boston, was admitted freeman May 18, 1631. John, of Boston, was admitted freeman 1634-was a member of the church, from which he was dismissed to Newbury in 1649.
Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, minister in Boston, the son of James P., one of the founders of the " Old South " church, graduated at Harvard College in 1691, and was afterward a tutor in that seminary. He died February 13, 1717, aged 44. His wife, Mary Clark, survived him, and married Henry Lloyd, the father of Dr. Lloyd. He left one son and three daughters. He was a very eminent preacher. He wrote in style strong and argumentative, and eloquent. With great powers of mind and extensive learning, ho united a zeal which flamed. His passions, when excited, were impetuous and violent; but when free from the excitement of any unpleasant circumstance, he was mild and soft. The talent of reasoning he possessed in a high degree, and he was a master of speech. He was a faithful servant of Jesus Christ, preaching the gospel with zeal, and exhibiting in his life the Christian virtues. In prayer he was copious and fervent. His sermons were illuminating, practical, and pathetic; delivered with very uncommon fervor. To-
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wards the close of his life he was afflicted with much pain · but, under his weakness and infirmity, he was enabled to do much for the honor of his Master and the good of his brethren. His election sermon, preached in 1710, entitled, " The Divine Original and Dignity of Government Asserted and an Advantageous Prospect of the Ruler's Mortality Re- commended," is much and justly celebrated. It is reprinted in a volume of sermons which was published in 1727.
Ebenezer Pemberton, D.D., minister in Boston, the son of the pre- ceding, was graduated at Harvard College in 1721. After he began to preach he was invited in April, 1727, by the Presbyterian Church, in New York, to succeed Mr. Anderson, the first minister, with the request that he would be ordained in Boston. Through his benevolent exertions the congregation was greatly increased, so as to be able to build an edi- fice of stone in 1748. In 1750, A. Cumming, afterwards minister in Boston, was settled as his colleague ; but both were dismissed about the year 1753-the former on account of indisposition, and Mr. Pemberton through trifling contentions, kindled by ignorance and bigotry. He was succeeded by Mr. Bostwick. Being installed minister of the new brick church in Boston, March 6, 1754, as successor of Mr. Welsteed, he continued in that place till his death, Sept. 9, 1777, aged seventy-two. Dr. Lathrop's society, whose meeting-house had been destroyed by the British, united with Mr. Pemberton's in 1779. He was a man of a de- votional spirit, who was zealous and respectable in his ministerial work.
He published a sermon before the Synod, 1731; before the Commis- sioners of the Synod, 1735; sermons on several subjects, 8vo., 1738; Practical Discourses on Various Texts, 12mo. Boston, 1741; on the Death of Dr. Nicoll, 1743; on Mr. Whitefield, 1770; at the Ordination of Mr. Brainerd, 1744; of J. Story, 1771; Artillery Election Sermon, 1756; Election Sermon, 1757; Salvation by Grace Through Faith, in eight sermons, 1774.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF MRS. MARY TRASK, WIFE OF MR. ELIAS TRASK. SHE DIED SEPT. YE 23D, 1743, IN YE 33D YEAR OF HER AGE.
TRASK.
WILLIAM TRASK came to New England with Governor Endecott, and arrived at Salem, September 1628; requested to be made freeman 19th October, 1630; was a captain, and represented Salem five years, from 1635 to 1639. He died in 1666, and was buried under arms, leaving children-Mary, born, 1637; William, baptized September 19, 1640; Susan, Mary, and John .- Prince, i. Annals, 174; Felt, Annals, Salem, 227.
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HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF MR. ANDREW ELIOT,
WHO EXCHANGED THIS LIFE FOR A BETTER
MAROH 28TH, 1749, ETATIS 66.
MRS. RUTH ELIOT,
RELICT OF
MR. ANDREW ELIOT, DIED SEPTEMBER 26, 1760, ÆTAT 85.
HERE LIETH BURIED YE BODY OF MR. JOHN DOWNING, AGED ABOUT 53 YEARS, DEC'D APRIL YE 29, 1694.
I BARGAIN'D WITH CHRIST, FOR ROOM BELOW, HE GRANTS A MANSION IN HIS UPPER STORIE ; FOR GOD GIVES MORE THAN WE DO ASK OR KNOW, INSTEAD OF GRACE, UNINTERUPTED GLORIE.
MEMENTO MORI, FUGIT HORA. HERE LYES YE BODY OF
GILBEART COLSWORTHY, WHO DECEASED SEPTEMBER YE 24TH, 1710, IN YE 67 YEAR OF HIS AGE. [NOTE. ] This stone stands 18 feet west of Franklin's .Monument.
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TOMB.
COAT OF ARMS.
HERE LYES INTERED YE BODY OF
MARY TU*
RELICT OF JOHN TUTHILL,
AGED 67 YEARS,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER YE 19, 1705.
HERE LYETH INTERED YE BODY OF
THOMAS HUBBART, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 7TH DAY OF NOV'R,
IN YE 64 YEAR OF HIS AGE.
HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF
MRS. MARY.
OF DEACON THOMAS * * * * *
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST
ANMO DOMINI 1720,
IN THE * * YEAR OF HER AGE.
[Here is the mouth of the tomb belonging to the]
HON'BLE JOHN OSBORNE, ESQ.
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TOMB OF WILLIAM DOWNS CHEEVER,
REPAIRED BY
JOHN DERBY IN 1803,
RESTORED BY
GEORGE CHEYNE SHATTUCK, 1852.
IN MEMORY OF
MARY GILES, GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM WARLAND, DEC'D, WHO DIED JUNE 27, 1791, AGED 20 YEARS.
"THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST,
" SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST."
TO THE MEMORY OF
NATHAN ABRAHAM,
SON OF MR. NATHAN AND MRS. ELISA ABRAHAM, DIED 16TH MAY, 1766, AGED 22 MONTHS.
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MRS. REBECCA GEORGUS.
INSCRIPTIONS. 209
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. THOMAS ANDREWS, DIED JUNE YE 2D, 1752, Æ. 35.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
AM* MOORCOCK,
WIFE OF NICHOLAS MOORCOCK,
AGED 5 9 YEARS AND 2 MO.
DEC'D OCT. YE 13, 1721,
AND 4 CHILDREN AND 2 GRANDCHILDREN.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
WILLIAM LOWELL, AGED 53 YEARS AND 6 MO.
DEC'D AUGUST YE 3D, 1736.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. MARY AMOS
WIFE TO MR. DANIEL AMOS,
DIED JUNE YE 14TH, 1750,
AGED 36 YEARS.
SHE WAS A VIRTUOUS WIFE AND KIND MOTHER.
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HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. JOHN PINCKNEY, AGED 54 YEARS, DEC'D OCT. YE 25, 1738
LIEVT. GEORG* SHORTER, AG * * ABOVT 50 YEARS, DYED AUGUST YE 1ST, 1711.
IN MEMORY OF DANIEL JONES, JUN'R., A. M.,
WHO HAVING BEEN EARLY DEPRIVED OF A DISTINGUISHED GENIUS BY DISEASE OF BODY, MADE A HAPPY EXIT AUG. 23D, 1779, IN THE 29TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 1
HERE, PENSIVE READER, MAKE A MOMENT'S PAUSE, THINK HOW PRECIOUS EVERY HUMAN JOY,
SEE NATURE'S BLOOM DISROB'D BY NATURE'S CAUSE, AND DEATH RELEASING WHAT IT CAN'T DESTROY.
"THANKS BE TO GOD WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY, THROUGH
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST."
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HERE LIES THE BODY OF
THOMAS READ,
SON OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. HANNAH READ,
AGED
WHO DIED OCT. 8TH, 1765, 5 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. SARAH MAHONEY,
DAU'R OF MR. CAIN MAHONEY, OF MARBLEHEAD, AGED 26 YEARS, DIED NOV. 29, 1734.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ANN BARBARA BENDER, WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1794, AGED 48 YEARS.
WHILE WEEPING FRIENDS BEND ORE THE SILENT TOMB, RECOUNT HER VIRTUES AND THEIR LOSS DEPLORE; FAITH'S PIERCING EYES DART THROUGH THE GLOOM,
AND HAIL HER BLEST WHERE TEARS SHALL FLOW NO MORE.
PETER FANEUIL,
AND THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY.
ONE may as successfully search for that identical peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked, as for the original hall that Peter Faneuil built. Like Rachel's first-born, it is not. After all the repara- tions, and changes, and hard hammerings, she has undergone, we may as well search within the walls of Old Ironsides for those very ribs of live oak which, some fifty years ago, were launched in the body of the frigate Constitution.
In the olden time, the market-men, like the mourners, went “about the streets." The inhabitants were served at their doors. As early as 1634, Gov. Winthrop, in his journal, speaks of a market which was kept in Boston, " on Thursday, the fifth day of the week." This weekly market on the fifth day is mentioned by Douglass as of 1639. (Vol. I. page 434.) This, I think, refers only to a gathering of sellers and buyers at one spot, and not to any "visible temple " for storage and shelter. Citizens differed as to the best method of getting their provant. Some preferred the old mode, as it was supposed to save time ; others were in favor of having a common point, with a covered building. Parties were formed ; the citizens waxed wroth, and quarrelled about their meat like angry dogs. Those who were in favor of market-houses prevailed. Three were erected; one at the Old North Square, one where Faneuil Hall now stands, and one near Liberty Tree. People were no longer supplied at their houses.
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