Pilgrim Guide Book to Plymouth, Massachusetts: With a Brief Outline of the Pilgrim Migration and Settlement at PlymouthAtwood, William Franklin
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Pilgrim Guide Book to Plymouth, Massachusetts: With a Brief Outline of the Pilgrim Migration and Settlement at Plymouth
Atwood, William Franklin
Plymouth (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Others are: No. 31—Thomas Faunce 1646-1745. Elder First Church
1699-1745. Town Clerk 1685-1723.
No. 36 is the grave of Nathaniel Jackson. The stone is the oldest
Masonic stone on the hill. It is dated 1743.
No. 37—Stone over the grave of Francis LeBaron 1704. The “Nameless
Nobleman.”
No. 41—Grave of sailors from brig Gen. Arnold who perished in Plymouth
Harbor. James Magee of Boston was the unfortunate commander of this
ill-fated ship. The site is marked by a monument erected through the
generosity of Stephen Gale of Portland, Maine. This is on the west side
of the hill.
No. 42—Tabitha Plasket, June 10, 1807. (Epitaph on following page).
No. 43—Gen. James Warren lot. Patriot and Soldier.
No. 45—Site of fort built in 1622; the lower part was used for a church;
also fort built in 1675—100 ft. square with palisades 10½ ft. high.
There are many peculiar epitaphs, some in prose and some in verse, and
expressive of about every shade and degree of sentiment. A few of these
follow:
(Blue stone, slate. Top and right-hand corner gone) Capt. Ellis Brews——
and Nancy —— wife died Dec. 13, 189— aged —4 years (where lines appear
letters and figures are obliterated). The name, however, is Brewster,
and originally read—Son of:
“He listen’d for a while to hear
Our mortal griefs then turned his ear
To angel harps and songs and cried
To join their notes celestial sigh’d and dyed.”
(Low blue slate. Sound and compact. Symbol). In memory of Frederic, son
of Mr. Thomas Jackson and Mrs. Lucy, his wife who died March 15, 1788,
aged 1 year and 5 days.
O! happy Probationer! accepted, without being exercised!—It was thy
peculiar Privilege not to feel the slightest of these Evils, which
oppress thy surviving kindred.
(Blue slate; pyramidal; good condition. At top bust of female under
curtain drapery. The epitaph is from Young’s Night Thoughts,
“Narcissa.”)
Fanny Crombie, daughter of Mr. Calvin Crombie and Mrs. Naomi, his wife.
Departed this life June 25th, 1804, in the 8th year of her age.
As young as beautiful and soft as young
And gay as soft and innocent as gay.
Note: In quoting these epitaphs the writer has referred to book compiled
in 1894 by the late Benjamin Drew of Plymouth.
(Blue slate. Good condition. Weeping willow and urn.)
To the memory of ISAAC COAL, son of Mr. Isaac Coal and Mrs. Sarah, his
wife, who died Aug. 28, 1825, in the 17th year of his age.
Friends and Physicians could not save
His mortal body from the grave
Nor can the grave confine him here
When CHRIST shall call him to appear.
(Blue slate. Good condition. Weeping willow and urn).
In memory of Mrs. Tabitha Plasket, who died June 10, 1807, aged 64
years.
Adieu vain world I have seen enough of thee
And I am careless what thou say’st of me
Thy smiles I wish not;
Nor the frowns I fear
I am now at rest my head lies quiet here.
(Stone of blue slate. Moss grown. Defaced. Cleft Broken Symbol.)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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