Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . rd,who expired Feby ye 20th, 1703-4, age 79 years. He lived long, but still was doing good,And in his countrys service lost much a life well spent, hes now at very name and memory is blest. At the grave of another son the headstone readsas follows : — 49 Here lyes interred ye body of Mr. Joseph Bradford, son ofthe late Honorable William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plym-outh Colony, who departed this life July the loth, 1715, in theeighty-fifth year of his age. The following ,are some of the inscriptions of theo
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . rd,who expired Feby ye 20th, 1703-4, age 79 years. He lived long, but still was doing good,And in his countrys service lost much a life well spent, hes now at very name and memory is blest. At the grave of another son the headstone readsas follows : — 49 Here lyes interred ye body of Mr. Joseph Bradford, son ofthe late Honorable William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plym-outh Colony, who departed this life July the loth, 1715, in theeighty-fifth year of his age. The following ,are some of the inscriptions of theolder stones : — Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Hannah SruRTKVANr, agedabout years. Dec. in March, 170S-9. Here lyes Iniried the l)dy of Mr. Thomas Faunck, rulingelder of the First Cliurch of Christ in IhMnouth. I )eceasedPeby 27, I74v in the ninety-ninth year of his age. The fathers — where are they? Blessed are the dead who che in the Lord. [Elder Faunce was the last who held the oftice ofruling elder in tlie church. He was contemporary. GRAVE OF DR. FRANCIS LE BARON,THE NAMELESS 50 with many of the first comers, and from him comesmuch of the information we possess about the locali-ties now venerated.] The epitaphs in old graveyards possess much in-terest to the lovers of the quaint and curious, andthis first cemetery of New England is not withoutits attractions of that kind. The following are someof the most interesting: — This stone is erected to the memory of that unbiased judge,faithful officer, sincere friend, and honest man, CoL. IsaacLoTHROP, who resigned his life on the 26th day of April, 1750,in the forty-third year of his age. Had Virtues charms the power to saveIts faithful votaries from the stone had neer possessed the fameOf being marked with Lothrops name. A row of stones on the top of the hill, near themarble tablet marking the locality of the WatchTower, is raised to the memory of the ministers ofthe First Parish. Back of th
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