. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. ly side is : — In memory of Seventy two Seamen who perished in Plym-outh harbour on the 26, and 27, days of December 1778, onboard the private armed Brig, Gen. Arnold, of twenty guns,James Magee of Boston, Commander, sixty of whom wereburied on this spot. On the northwesterly side : — Capt. James Magee died in Roxbury, February 4, 1801;aged 51 years. On the southwesterly side : — Oh ! falsely flattering were yon billows smoothWhen forth, elated, sailed in evil hour,That vessel whose
. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. ly side is : — In memory of Seventy two Seamen who perished in Plym-outh harbour on the 26, and 27, days of December 1778, onboard the private armed Brig, Gen. Arnold, of twenty guns,James Magee of Boston, Commander, sixty of whom wereburied on this spot. On the northwesterly side : — Capt. James Magee died in Roxbury, February 4, 1801;aged 51 years. On the southwesterly side : — Oh ! falsely flattering were yon billows smoothWhen forth, elated, sailed in evil hour,That vessel whose disastrous fate, when told,FilPd every breast with sorrow and each eyeWith piteous tears. On the southeasterly side : — This monument marks the resting place of sixty of theseventy two mariners, who perished in their strife with thestorm, and is erected by Stephen Gale of Portland, Maine, astranger to them, as a just memorial of their sufferings anddeath. 24 Another of Mrs. Austins characters is HannahHowland, who is said to have died of a broken hearton account of Rings sad end. Her stone is to be. found on the crown of the hill, not far from the LeBaron graves. Its inscription reads : — Sic Transit Gloria MundiTo the memory of Miss Hannah Howland, who died of aLanguishment, January ye 25th 1780 /Etatis us they languish, & for us they dieAnd shall they languish shall they die in vain. Readers of Dr. Le Baron and His Daughterswill recall the following reference to the graves of theHowland family: — 25 Consider Howland slept with his fathers on Burying Hill, andRuth Bryant, his loving wife, had meekly followed him may see their stones today, in the shadow of that majesticthough mistaken monument to the memory of John Howland,the Pilgrim, who married Elizabeth Tilley, and not Elizabeth,daughter of childless Governor Carver. There too may you se&a plaintive little stone to the memory of Consider son to Mr Considerand Mrs. Ruth Howland, Aged 7 years.
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