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Revª. Asa Packard. Caroline Farnsworth.
John Lowe. Mrs. Marv Lowe.
Mrs. Nancy Packard.
Rufus Fletcher.
Amos Wheeler. Mrs. Lucy Ann Fairbanks.
Charles Miller.
Mrs. Prudence Wheeler. Emma W. Goss.
Martha Ballard.
Lorinda Lowe.
Charles Wyman. Isaiah Moore. Mrs. Nancy Wyman. Mrs. Martha [Lowe] Gibbs. Caroline Lowe.
Ira G. Childs.
William Nowell.
Haskell McCollum.
Sarah Bruce.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nowell. Anson Lowe. Mrs. Sylvia [Lowe] McCollum Mrs. Mary Tower. Mrs. Lydia Stevenson.
Mrs. Phebe Emerson.
Mrs. Abigail W. Childs.
Esther Eaton. Mrs. Rosella C.Whitney.
These, with eight others- Erastus B. Bigelow, Mrs. Susan W. Bigelow, Mrs. Polly [Brigham] Bigelow, Horatio N. Bigelow, Mrs. Emily W. Bigelow, Charles Humphrey, Mrs. Jane Humphrey and Sarah Goss-were the original members, organized May 22, 1839, as the Evangelical Congregational Church of Lancaster.
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LANCASTER RECORDS.
ADMISSIONS TO MEMBERSHIP.
1839. Joseph Wilder, Jr. -
1840. Mrs. Ruth Wilder, Mary C. Nowell, Mrs. Sarah Carter, Joseph Marshall, Mrs. Caroline V. Marshall, Diana S. Locke, Elthina Eager, James S. Law- rence, Mrs. Susan Davis, Sarah Stone, Joseph D. Huntington, Mrs. Rebecca P. Packard, Mrs. Lucretia Wyman, Mary Anne Osgood, Marietta Mills, Nancy Hayward, Lucy S. Stevenson.
1841. Mrs. Mary P. Bradley, Mary E. Tower, Mary Townsend, Mrs. Lucinda W. Cook, Mrs. Ann M. Carter, Dorcas Fletcher, John Carr, Mrs. Mary Carr, Martha White, Daniel Haverty, Josiah Childs, Jr., Harriet Olds.
1842. Mary Fletcher, Julia A. Tower, Rachel Damon, Martha A. Maynard, Oliver Studley, Mrs. Elizabeth Studley, Joseph B. Parker, Mrs. Mary New- man, Catharine P. Farnsworth.
1843. Martha E. Wilder, Lydia Warner, Mrs. Jonas White, Maria Newman, Louisa Toombs, Polly Sawyer, Mary C. Sawyer, Charles Packard, Sewall P. Talman, Abigail Wilder, Levi Greene, Mrs. Achsah Greene, Nathaniel Rice, Eliza H. Sawyer, Lucy Harris, Jonathan Holt, Jr., Eunice Welling- ton, Levi Houghton, Eliza Houghton, Eliza Ellen Houghton, James T. Saw- yer, Sophia Greene, Mary C. Packard.
1844. Isaac F. Woods, William Grassie, Caleb T. Symmes, Mrs. Nancy R. Symmes, Horace Faulkner, Mrs. Eliza Faulkner, Emily H. Faulkner, Lor- amon D. Howe, Mrs. Mary D. Howe.
1845. Anna P. Lee, Nathan S. Robinson, Mrs. Lucy T. Robinson, Mrs. Harriet Whitney, Thomas H. Whitney, Mrs. Salome Whitney, Elizabeth Grassie, Alexander Grassie, George Grassie, Mrs. Elizabeth Grassie, Mrs. Charlotte A. Woods, Gilbert Greene, Mrs. M. Antoinette Greene, Eliza Ann Tyler, Timothy J. Fairbanks.
1846. Robert C. Houghton, Mrs. Lucy Houghton.
1847. Mrs. Elizabeth Buss, Edward L. Johnson, Mrs. Sibyl Miller, Mrs. J. C. Stiles, R. Francina Priest, Nancy Elizabeth Priest, Thomas B. Nichols, Martha B. Wilder, Mary Ann Townsend, Norton E. Pratt, Clarissa M. Pratt, Lydia Pratt.
1848. Elizabeth D. Clark.
I849. Thomas G. Grassie.
DEATH REGISTER. Kept by Reverend Charles Packard, 1840-1849.
Reverend Charles Packard, first pastor of the First Evangelical Congrega- tional Church in Lancaster, was ordained January 1, 1840. His memoranda of marriages, in the first record book of the church, have been used to correct his returns as copied into the town books, and need not be repeated here. His list of deaths was irregularly kept, and is as follows :
1843. Feb. I. Mrs. Warren Damon, 30.
Feb. 24. Infant child of Henry Low, 3 days.
Mar. 20. Rev. Asa Packard, 84.
May 14. Mrs. Rufus Fletcher, 74; Fever.
May 14. Mrs. Fidelia French, 47; consumption.
Oct. 12. Infant child of John Taylor, 3; typhus.
Oct. 21. Mrs. Levi Green; consumption.
= Nov. IO. Seth Fairbanks, 44; dropsy of heart.
1844. Jan. 14. Oscar Marcellus Wilder, 4; scarlet fever.
Jan. 27. Mrs. Lorenzo Woodbury of Bolton, 42; lung fever.
Feb. 2. Mrs. Nancy Packard, 80; lung fever.
Feb. 14. Mrs. Anne Woodbury of Bolton, 81; lung fever.
Apr. 5. Mrs. Samuel Damon, 85; fever.
May 4. Infant child of Woodworth, 3 mos.
July 31. Infant child of Caleb & Nancy Sawyer, 8 mos .; humour.
Dec. 4. Child of Silas & Sarah Greenleaf, 6 years; typhus fever.
1847. Feb. 12. Mrs. Eaton, 96.
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I8. Rhoda Bell, 46; Liver.
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UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
Mar. -. Dolly Carr, -; consumption.
Apr. 30. Mrs. Martha Parker, -; consumption.
May 29. Elizabeth Nowell, 21: consumption.
June 23. Miss Dickenson at Alms House; fever. Carter at Alms House; consumption.
July 23. Infant child of Jeremiah Moore; bowel complaint.
Aug. 19.
Infant child of Joseph & Sarah Wilder; bowel complaint.
Aug. 22.
Woodbury, 91. Farmer.
Aug. 26.
[Silas] Fairbanks. Farmer.
Aug. 29.
Infant child of Mr. Seaver, I; Dysentery.
Sept. 15.
Mrs. C. P. Farnsworth; Typhus fever.
Sept. 18. Robert C. Houghton, 34; Typhoid.
Oct. 4.
John W. Dame, 112; Bowel complaint.
Oct. 19.
Child of Vanduser, 4; Croup.
Oct. 27.
Mrs. Eliza A. Bates, 20; Typhus.
Nov. 6.
Mrs. Lucy Houghton, 39; Typhoid.
Nov. 28. Jona. F. Houghton, 9; Typhoid.
Dec. 4. Jonas Houghton, 87.
Dec. 13.
Patty Maynard, 60; Fever.
Dec. 18.
Infant child of Mr. Gould, Clintonville, I year.
Jan. 27.
Mary E. Phelps, 22; Consumption.
Feb. 14.
Infant child of John C. Stiles, 14 mo .; Brain.
Aug. 15. Brabrook, 30; Consumption.
Sep, 9. Child of Jer. Moors, 4 wks.
I849. April 9. Joseph Davis, 68; Bowels.
Aug. 22. Mary Low, Clintonve, 74; Epilepsy.
Aug. 28. Mrs. Matilda Worcester, Clintonve, 43; Dysentery.
Sep. 9. Mary E. Maynard, 2; Dysentery.
Sep. 12. Henry Woods, 4; Dysentery.
Oct. 14. Olive Haynes (Bolton), 82; Old age.
Dec. I. Henry D. Pierce, 37; Intemperance.
FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
In the books of the First Universalist Society of Lancaster no register of baptisms, marriages or deaths is found. A list of those who signed their names to the constitution as adopted April 30, 1838, follows :
Josiah Fay. John Hawks.
Alice Hawks. Cynthia K. Hawks.
Assenath Barbour. Mary P. Nourse.
Jonas Wheeler.
Bela Marsh.
Elizabeth A. Ross.
John Bennett. John Richards.
John Swan. Voted out.
James S. Lawrence.
Eliza A. Dorrison.
Suell Wade. J. P. Nurse.
Samuel Damon. Harriet B. Fay.
Nabby W. Fletcher.
Joseph Whitney. William W. Bragg. William Pitts. Joshua Fletcher.
Julia A. Fletcher.
George Sawyer.
Sampson W. Evans.
John W. Damon.
Sarah W. Haven. Sarah Richards. Salome Pratt.
James Pitts. Benjamin Wilder. J. M. Damon. Nathan Whitney. Aaron Sawin.
Henry Sawyer. Moses Stow. John Lawton.
Luther Gaylord. Miles Gaylord. Garry Sanford. David Randall. Elisha Turner. E. W. Richards.
Charles Wood.
Henry Norcross. Christopher Jones.
Joseph Farwell. John R. Wyman. Lucinda Pitts. Almira Johnson. Harriet Damon.
Nancy Dorrison.
Sally H. Hawks.
Eliza W. Osgood.
Eliza W. Stow. Almira J. Hide.
John M. Whitney.
1848. Jan. 7.
Isaac Miller, 42; Palsy and Insane.
Oct. 13.
Albert Crane, Esq., of Oswego, 49; bilious fever.
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LANCASTER RECORDS.
The members of the church in 1850 were :
Benjamin Whittemore. Eliza Stow.
Sarah Ann Howe.
Mandana M. Whittemore. William Pitts.
Elmira Hyde.
John Bennett.
Seth G. Pitts.
Andrew J. Brown.
Orion Newton.
Susan B. Pitts.
Sarah A. Willard.
Catharine B. Newton.
Susan Bennett.
Louisa Fleming. Luther Grover.
Samuel Chickering.
Stilman A. Sawtell.
Benj. B. Whittemore.
Edward J. Crossman.
Susan Chickering. Luther Gaylord.
Billings H. Ridley.
Susan Crossman.
Laura Gaylord.
Henry F. Newton.
Harriet B. Fay.
Moses Stow.
Elisha Turner.
Rosella C. Whitney.
DEATH REGISTER.
Kept by Reverend George M. Bartol, First Church, 1847-1849.
1847. Aug. [19.] Zenon Pierce, 42. Consumption.
Sept. 12. Silas, son of Joseph S. & Amanda Seaver, 4. Chol. Morb.
Sept. 14. Nancy, wife of Moses Dickinson, at Alms House, 63. Ship Fever.
Sept. 16. Mary Janette, dr. of Joseph S. & Amanda Seaver, 2. Chol. Morb.
Sept. 21. Moses Dickinson, at Alms House, 72. Ship Fever.
Sept. 23. Sarah E., dr. of Sidney & Sally Harris, 16 yrs. Typhus Fever.
Sept. 24. Patrick, son of Patrick & Margaret McLinn, 6 mos., at Alms House.
Sept. 24. John Harrison, son of John H. & Mary Maynard, 3 yrs. IO mos. Scarlet Fever.
Sept. 26. Erastus Henry, Scarlet Fever.
James Stone, 48. Disease of Liver.
Oct. 6. Emma, dr. of Hollis & [Hannah] Davis, 6 yrs. 4 mos. Acci- dent, Falling Cart Body.
Oct. 13. Oct. 16. Lucy, wife of Samuel Allen, 84 yrs. 9 mos. Consumption. Abby Goddard, dr. of John & Sophronia Fuller.
Oct. 16. Joel Wilder.
Oct. 29. Julia Ann, dr. of Curtis & Huldah Sargent. Throat Distemper. Ann Elizabeth, dr. of Jonathan & Charlotte Buttrick, II mo. 23 days.
Nov. 23. Sarah Ann, dr. Elias & Lucy Danforth, 26. Consumption.
1848. Jan. I. Mary A., wife of Archibald Fairbanks, 47. Internal Cancer.
Feby. 14. Eliza Adeline, child of Wm. & Hannah Matthews, 812 days.
Mar. 17. Maria, wife of Sherman Conant, 42. Erysipelas.
April 5. Prudence Haskell, at Alms House, 78. Consumption.
April 22. Jane Augusta, dr. of Widow Mary Childs, 20. Consumption.
May II. Susan, wife of Benjamin Houghton, 57. Cancer.
June 6. Deacon Jonas Lane, 87. Old age.
July 4.
June 12. Charlotte Kimball, wife of John C. Hoadley, 24. Consumption. Thomas Watson. Accident. Fell & run over by his Cart & Oxen.
Aug. 5.
Fordyce Nourse, 39. Typhoid Fever.
Aug. 9. Adelina, dr. of Widow Roxy Freeman (cold.). Dysentery.
Sept. II. Samuel Davis, son of Eldad & Nancy Butler, 5 mos. Dysen- tery.
Sept. 14. Elizabeth, widow of Gates Thurston, 86. Old age.
Oct. I. Sylvester Phelps, 79.
Oct. 17. Eunice, wife of Nathan Bennett, at Alms House, 72. Con- sumption.
Oct. 27. William A., son of Wm. & Elsey Ballard, 25. Consumption. Nov. 20. Anna Maria, dr. of Dr. Right & Mary Z. Cummings, 20. Con- sumption.
¥ 9 months.
Oct. 2.
Nov. 3.
Caroline A. Turner.
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1849. Jany. IO. Winfield, son of Curtis & Huldah Sargent, 3 months.
" 16. Elias Sawyer, 47. Consumption.
Jan. 26. Polly Washburn, 84. Old age.
Feby. 12.
Miss Sally Carter, 68. Influenza.
Feby. 17.
Ann, widow of John Sargent, 76. Lung Fever.
Feby. 19. Rosellina Maria, child of Wm. & Eunice Derby, 7 m. Influenza.
May 18. Sophronia W., wife of Eliphaz Ballard, Sr., 75.
May 26. At Sterling in Rev. Mr. Mellen's absence, Luke Wilder, 67. Dropsy of the Heart.
May 28. Martha Butler, dr. of John & Nancy Laughton, 19. Consump- tion.
June 23. Lydia Ann, dr. George & Lucinda B. Stratton, 15 m. 19 d. Croup.
Mrs. Mary Locke, 67. Consumption.
July 10.
July 4. Mrs. Sarah Lawrence, 52. Consumption.
July 21. David Steuart Robertson, formerly of Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 32. Bilious Fever.
Aug. 5. John Henry, son of Geo. W. & Martha R. Howard, 19 m. Dys- entery.
Aug. 14. Mary E. S., wife of Augustus P. Burditt, 26 yrs. Congestion of the Brain. Burial in Leominster.
Aug. 20. Samuel Wilder.
Aug. ? Nancy, widow of David Newell, 80. Old Age.
Sept. 27. Elijah Colburn, 78. Paralysis.
Oct. 20.
Mrs. Sally Smith, died at Boston. Dysentery.
Nov. 2.
Caroline M., wife of Wilder S. Thurston. Consumption.
Nov. 3.
John Goss, at Alms House, 66. Consumption.
Nov. 5. At Northborough, - Barrett. Old Age.
Nov. 20. Elizabeth, widow of Moses Sawyer, 84. Old Age.
Dec. 16. (At Sterling) Nancy, widow of Elias Sawyer, 57. Consumption.
JUDGE JOSEPH WILDER'S MEMORANDA.
In the Lancaster Library is a memorandum book used by Judge Joseph Wilder chiefly for record of public business transacted by him. Scattered through the volume are the following entries not found in the town-clerks' books :
Joseph Wilder, the Son of Joseph and Lucy Wilder, was born ye 17 of Novem- ber, 1173.
Lucy Wilder, Otober ye 31st, 1715.
MARRIAGES CONSUMMATED.
Thomas Styles with Sarah Hartwill, May ye 14, 1728. Holland with - Temple,
Homes with Ruth Farnsworth,
Jonathan Beman and Martha Smith of Lancaster about ye 16th or 23d of March, 1732.
Samuel Gibs and Lediah Moor of Lancaster, April ye 12th, 1732.
Ebenezer Dakin and Abigail Beman Jr.,
William Sawyer and Hannah Whetcomb of Lan., August ye 25, 1732.
Jonathan Bellows and Judith Tezer of Southborough, - 27, 1732.
James Smith of Coventry and Sarah Atherton of Harvard, May ye 29th, 1733, pr Joseph Wilder, Justice of peace.
Obadiah Cooley of Brookfield and Martha Wilder of Lancaster, April ye 24th, 1734, pr Joseph Wilder, J. P.
Samuel Johnson & Mary Snow, July ye 25th, 1734, pr J. Wilder.
Benjamin Wilder and Jane Robins, January ye 9, 1734-5.
Jonathan Fairbank and Thankful Sawyer, April ye 8th, 1735.
John Chenery and Keziah Kendal was married Sept. ye 11th, 1745, pr J. Wilder. July ye 3, 1746. Jonathan Prescott married to Vashti Houghton.
July ye forth, 1746. John Bennet Jr. and Keziah Wilder was married.
EPITAPHS IN LANCASTER BURIAL GROUNDS OF DATE PRIOR TO 1850.
THE OLD BURIAL FIELD.
The founders of the town, and their descendants during the 17th century at least, buried their dead without formal services-following the custom of the Puritans in England-and perhaps a plot of ground for the family graves was sometimes selected within the home lot or orchard. Early in the present cen- tury ancient graves were visible near the sites of both the Roper and the Pres- cott garrisons. But in the infancy of the Nashaway Plantation, land adjoining the meeting-house site was set apart for common use as a "burying place." The practice of marking graves by incribed headstones probably did not begin until after the resettlement, one apparent exception being that of Mrs. Dorothy Prescott, who died in 1674. The oldest date now to be found is that over the grave of the first John Houghton-1684. For half a century all memorial stones were but fragments of slate riven from some ledge, or rough granite slabs, upon which unskilled hands rudely incised name and date,-the latter being often upon a foot-stone or on the back of the head-stone. Many of the older inscriptions are illegible to most eyes. In his History of Lancaster, Rev- erend A. P. Marvin has given a plan of this ancient burial place, upon which the marked graves are located and numbered, and has added literal copies of the epitaphs. In the following carefully revised list of inscriptions the same numbering is adopted. Their arrangement is indicated by division lines. Num- bers omitted are of stones not lettered, or of misplaced foot-stones found to belong with other numbers.
1. In Memory of A | Father, & 4 Children. | Mr Andrew Wilder died Dec: | ye 28th. AD, 1764, in ye 56th. | year of his Age.
Death is a Debt, to Nature due, | Whic I have paid : & so must You.
Andrew, Son of Mr. An | drew & Mrs. Elizabeth | Wilder, was Still Born | Sept: ye 4th. 1741. Ruth, Daut. of Mr. A. & | Mrs. E. Wilder, died Jan: | ye 19th. 1753, in ye 8th. | Year of her Age. | Joseph, Son of Mr. A. & | Mrs. E. Wilder, died Aug: ye 15th, 1775,[55] in ye 3 | Year of his Age. | Deborah, Daut. of Mr A. & Mrs. E. Wilder, died Aug; | ye 22ª, 1755, Aged | II Days.
2. In Memory of Mr. | JOHN PHILLIPS, | Who died Nov. ye | 23ª, Anno- Dom. 1776: | Aged 56 Years. | And also two of his Sons; | John, died Oct. ye 29th, | 1776: Aged 5 years. | Samuel, died Nov. ye 2ª, | 1776: Aged 3 years. | Like- wise, of his Daughter, | Rebecca, died Oct. ye 26th, | 1776: Aged 22 Months.
3. In Memory of | BATHSHEBA ROBBINS | widow of | Mr EDWARD ROB- BINS, | who died | Oct. 16, 1805, | in the 86 year of | her age.
4. In Memory of | Mr EDWARD ROBBINS, | who depated this life | Oct". 9th, 1791, in ye | 78th. Year of his age
5. Here lies interred | ye Body of Mr. | JOHN PHILLIPS | Who departed | this Life January | ye 31st, Anno-Dom. | 1763, Aged 70 Years.
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6. In Memory of Mrs | LYDIA PHILLIPS, | who departed this | Life May ye 31st. | Anno-Dom. 1760: | Aged 29 Years.
7. In Memory of | REBECCA PHILLIPS | who died July ye | 4th. Anno- Domini, 1775 | Aged 53 Years.
8. In Memory of Mr. | JONATHAN PHILLIPS, | who departed this | Life July ye 20th. | Anno-Domini 1780: | Aged 44 years.
9. In Memory of | Jotham Robbins, Son | of Mr Edward & | Mrs. Bath- sheba | Robbins, who died | November ye 24th. | 1763, Aged 17 years, | 7 Months and 24 Days.
IO. Mr. Edward | Robbins, Junr. | 1763. [On a foot-stone.]
II. Here Lyes the | Body of Jacob | Waters of | Charls Town | Aged 65 Years & | 7 Mo Who Died | at Lankester | Decembr ye 15th 1714
12. Here lies interred | ye Body of [Mr. | EPHRAIM WYMAN, [ who deceased on ye | 17th, of Feby. Ano-Do. | 1780: in ye 30th | Year of his Age.
Death levels All, both the wicked | and the just : Man's but a flower, and his | end is dust.
13. ERECTED | in Memory of | Mr. NATHANIEL WYMAN, | who died | Dec 15, 1801, | Aged 55. | A Pattern of Honesty & Industry.
14. Here lies interred | Ye Body of Mrs. | MARY WHITNEY | (ye Wife of Mr. JONATHAN WHIT | NEY) who deceas'd | Jan. ye 12th, AD. 1778: | in ye 34th. Year | of her Age.
15. Sacred | To the Memory of Mr. | NATHANIEL WYMAN, | who died June ye 5th, AD. | 1776, in ye 58th Year | of his Age.
The stroke of Death hath laid my Head, [ Down in this dark and silent Bed; The Trump shall sound, I hope to rise, | And meet my SAVIOUR in the Skies.
16. Here lies Buried | ye Body of Mrs. MARY | WYMAN ye Wife of | Mr. Nathaniel Wyman | who died on May ye | 8th. 1759, in ye 37th. | Year of her Age. | Her Father deceased | the same Day.
17. ERECTED | In Memory of | Mrs. SUBMIT WYMAN, | (Relict of Mr. Na- than1. Wyman) | who died | Novr, 25, 1804, in the | 74th year of her | age.
18. In Memory of | Elizabeth Daught, | of Mr Abijah & | Mrs. Abigail | Wyman who | died July ye 20 | 1766, Aged II | Years, & 10 Month.
19. HERE LIES BURIED | YE BODY OF MR | JOHN BENNIT WHO DEPART- ED | THIS LIFE | DECEMbr YE 30th | A. D. 1748. | AGE 29 YEAR | II M & IO DS. 20. In Memory of Mrs. | Bathsheba Bennitt, ye | Wife of Capt. John | Ben- nitt, who died | Febry. ye 7th. 1762, | Aged 67 years. | Remember Death.
21. In Memory of Capt. | John Bennitt, who | died June ye 5th. 1761. | Aged 68 years.
O Death Thou'st Conquer'd me, | I by thy Dart am Slain ; But CHRIST has conquer'd thee, | And I shall Rise again.
22. HERE LIES BURIED | Ye BODY OF MR | SAMUEL BENNIT WHO DE- PARTED | THIS LIFE JULY 6th. | A. D. 1742. | AGE | IN Ye 77th. YEAR OF HIS AGE.
23. MARY MOORE | DECEASED | SEPTEMBER 26 | 1705
24. ANNA SERS
26. HERE LYES THE BODY OF LEVI THE SON OF SALM | ON & REBECAH GODFREY | WHO DEPARTED THIS | LIFE MAY 3 1789 | AE 7 M & 8 DAYS.
27. In Memory of A | Father, & 4 Children. | Mr Mathew Clark, died | July ye gth, ADom: 1760. | in the 56th. Year of his | Age. | Mary, died Jan'y. | ye 27th, 1749, in ye | 9th year of | her Age. | John, died | May ye 15th, | 1751, Age | 3 Weeks. | Mathew, died | July ye 24th, 1750, | in ye gth. Year | of his Age. | Sarah, died | October ye 6th, | 1758, in ye 3ª | Year of her Age.
28. In Memory of Mrs. | Martha Wilder, Wife of | Mr Gardner Wilder, who, | died March ye 7th, ADomi. | 1764, Aged 27 years.
My Loveing friends, as you pass by, | On my cold Grave but cast your Eye ; Your Sun like mine may set at Noon, | Your Soul be call'd for Very soon ; In this dark Place you'll quickly be; | Prepare for death & Follow me.
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29. In Memory of | Gardner, Son of | Mr. Gardner & | Mrs. Martha | Wil- der, who | was Stillborn | Sept. ye 17th, | 1761.
30. Here lies Buried | The Body of Mrs. Hannah Buss | Ye Wife of | Mr John Buss, | Who Died | March ye 14 A D | 1738 | in ye 56 | Year of Her Age.
31. Here lies Buried | The Body of Mr | John Buss Who | Died April | The 30 A D | 1734 Aged | About 55 | Years.
32. ERECTED | in memory of | Mrs. MARY LOCKE, | Wife of Mr. Wm Locke, | who died Nov 17th | 1796: in the 50th. ] Year of her Age.
The sweet remembrance of the just | Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.
33. ERECTED | in Memory of Mrs. | REBECCA WILDER, | Wife of Joseph Wilder, Esq. | who died Sepr. Ioth. | 1789: in the Soth. Year | of her Age.
Here sleeps the flesh, unconscious, close confin'd, But far, far distant, dwells th' immortal Mind.
34. Here lies interred ye | Body of Mr. | JAMES LOCKE, | who deceased on | ye Igth of March AD. | 1772, in ye 33ª. Year | of his Age.
Behold the numerous Croud | That's Mouldering in the Ground
Ready to Start when CHRIST commands | The awful Trump to Sound.
35. Here lies interred ye | Body of Mr. | SAMUEL LOCKE, | who died April ye 13th, | A D. 1775, in ye 73ª. | Year of his Age.
The stroke of death hath laid my Head, | Down in this dark and silent bed; The Trump shall sound, I hope to rise, | And meet my SAVIOUR in the Skies.
36. Here lies interred ye | Body of Mr. | JOSIAH LOCKE | who died May ye 16 | A D. 1769, ÆEtats. 33.
Every Man at his best | State; is altogether Vanity | Cease ye from Man, whose Breath is in his Nostrils; and | trust in ye EVER LIVING GOD.
37. Esther, Daut. of | Mr. Joseph & Mrs. | Esther Locke, | died March ye 25th, | 1768. Aged | 6 Months & I | Day.
38. Abel, second Son | of Mr Josiah and | Mrs. Esther Locke, | died Oct: ye 13th. | 1766. Aged 2 | Months & I Day.
39. In Memory of | Rebecah Daut. of Mr. | Ephraim Wilder ye 3d. | & Mrs Lucretia | his Wife, who died | May ye 14th. 1766. | Aged 8 Months & | 7 Days.
40. Abel, first Son | of Mr. Josiah and | Mrs. Esther Locke, | died May ye 6th. | 1765, Aged 3 | Months, & 20 Days.
42. In Memory of, | Mr JOHN WARNAR, | Who Departed this | Life March the 27th. AD | 1776, in the 41st Year | of his age:
To the, O Stone, We Recommend this Dust,
Commanding the in Faith to Keep Your trust. Take this Body and secure in entomb Until the Day of Resurrection comes.
43. Here lies interred ye Body | of Col. OLIVER WILDER. | who died March ye | 16 ADomini 1765, ] in the 71 Year of | his Age. .
The stroke of Death hath laid my Head, | Down in this Dark & Silent Bed; The Trump shall sound, I hope to rise | And meet my SAVIOUR in the Skies.
44. HERE LIES BURIED | Ve BODY OF MRS | MARY WILDER |WIFE OF COM | OLIVER WILDER | ESQ' WHO DEPARTED | THIS LIFE JUNE Ye ] 15th A-D 1748 | IN Ye 53ª YEAR OF HER AGE.
45. In Memory of | Timothy son of | ye Revª, Timothy | and Mrs. Anna | Harrington, who | Decd. June ye 16th. | 1749. AEtats 7, | Months & 25, Days.
46. Sacred | to the Memory of Mrs. | ANNA HARRINGTON, | Ye amiable consort of ye Revª. TIMOTHY HARRINGTON, | who, resigned to the Will of | GOD, & depending entirely | on the LORD JESUS for | Salvation, deceased on | May ye Igth AD. 1778. / ÆEtats. 62
47. The Reverend | TIMOTHY HARRINGTON | Etatis So, | Fourth Pastor of the Church in Lancaster, | Died December 18, 1795. | Endued with superior abilities, he happily | united the manners of the Gentleman, with | the unaf- fected gravity of the Divine, and was | especially distinguished for | benevo- lence of heart. | The sacred doctrines he taught, were enforced | by an uniform example in the practice of the | domestic, social, and moral | virtues. | A con-
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sistent and rational view of the Gospel; | a faith in the Saviour of the world; | and a reliance on the mercy of GOD, [ inspired him with ye joyful hope | of a resurrection to | eternal life.
" Be thou faithful unto death, and | I will give thee a crown of life."
48. HEAR LY ETH THE BODY OF ABIGAIL | THE WIFE OF |HENRY HO UGHTON. | AGE 31 | 17II
49. HASADIAH THE DAUGHTER OF HENRY AND |ABIGAIL HO UGHTON: |AGE 2 ' Y |2 ' M ' D | 17II
5I. In Memory of Mr. | HENRY HASKELL | who died April | ye Ist. A Dom, 1779. | in ye 73ª Year | of his Age.
The sweet Remembrance | of the Just, | Shall Flourish when they | sleep in Dust.
52. John | Swan | ÆT 3%; Y.
54. HERE LIES | BURIED ye BODY | OF MRS MARY CARTER, | ye WIFE OF MR. EPHRAIM CARTER | WHO DECd MAY | ye 30th, 1738, & IN ye | 21st YEAR OF HIR AGE.
55. Here lies Buried the | Body of Mrs. Eliza | beth, ye Wife of Mr. | Jos- eph Osgood who | Died October ye 9th | 1755, in the | 34th Year of her | Age.
57. In Memory of | The Reverend John Whiting, | second minister of Lan- caster, | Killed by the Indians | September II, A. D. 1697. | This Stone in place | Of one broken and decayed | is set by the Town, A. D. 1878. [See 66.]
58. HENRY |HOUGHT | ON THE SON OF | HENRY & | ABIGAIL | HOUGH- TON | AGE I ' Y | 6 M ' D | 1702
59. A SON OF | HENRY & | ABIGAIL HO | UGHTON. | A. 6 W | 1708
60. JOHN | HOUGHTON |DECEASED | APRIL | 29. Day | 1684.
61. ABIGA | IL D OF | J. M. H.
63. In | MEMORY | of | Dr: Stanton Prentice, who | deceased on ye first of Decer. | Anno Domini 1769. Æts: | 58.
"This Life's a Dream, an empty show ; | But ye bright World to which I go, Hath Joys substantial & sincere : | When shall I wake & find me there?"
64. HERE LIES INTERRD | THE BODY OF | M' EBENEZER SWAN | WHO DECEASED AUGUST Ye 22ª | A DOM. 1750 | AET 42.
65. Here lyes Buried | ye Body of ye Revnd. Mr. | ANDREW GARDNER, Who Decd. Octor. 26th | Anno Domi 1704, in ye | 30th Year of His Age.
66. MR |JOHN .... ITING | PAST .... OF THE | CHURCH .... LANI | DECEASED SEPTEMBER |II DAY | 1697. [See 57.]
67. Ye REVd. MI JOHN PRENTICE |PASTOR OF Ye FIRST CHURCH | IN LAN- CASTER |DIED JAN. 6th A. D. 1747-8. | ÆTAT. 66. IN HIS DOCTRINE | HE WAS LEARNED, JUDICIOUS, PLAIN, SEASONABLE, & UNREPROUEABLE. | IN HIS CON- UERSATION, STEADY, SOBER, TEMPERATE, PEACEABLE, WATCHFUL, IN- STRUCTIUE, PRUDENT AND BLAMELESS IN HIS HOUSE RULING WITH ALL | GRAUITY A TENDER HNSBAND, A GOOD FATHER, A KIND MASTR, & GIUEN TO HOSPITALITY. IN HIS PUBLIC CHARECTER, A TRUE GOSPEL BISHOP, IN HIS PRIUATE CAPACITY-A GENT". & AN EXEMPLARY | CHRISTIAN; HIS MEM- ORY IS PRECIOUS, & HIS PRAISE IN Ye CHURCHES.
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