Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . ir^.t^- :^ j?^ GRAVE OF THOMAS CLARK. Howland. The inscription on the latter stone readsas follows : — Here ended the pilgrimage of John Howland and Eliza-beth, his wife. She was the daughter of Governor arrived in the Mayflower, December, 1620. They had foursons and six daughters, from whom are descended a numerousposterity. 1672, Fehy 23(1. JijUN Howlanh, <if Ilymouth, ( lived to the age of eighty years. He was the last man tliatwas left of those that came over in the shi]5 called the May-flower, that li
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . ir^.t^- :^ j?^ GRAVE OF THOMAS CLARK. Howland. The inscription on the latter stone readsas follows : — Here ended the pilgrimage of John Howland and Eliza-beth, his wife. She was the daughter of Governor arrived in the Mayflower, December, 1620. They had foursons and six daughters, from whom are descended a numerousposterity. 1672, Fehy 23(1. JijUN Howlanh, <if Ilymouth, ( lived to the age of eighty years. He was the last man tliatwas left of those that came over in the shi]5 called the May-flower, that lived in Plymouth. — | Plymouth Records. Near the Bradford monument are tiie i;ra\cs ofhis family. ihe face of the stone at tlie grave of 48 his son, Major William Bradford, shelled off in1876-77, but the inscription has since been cut following is reproduced from a view takenof-the original, and is an Qx-xci fai--si/ii/h: — ,,/j^fc». Ir-^- 1 Vv^OTX?Rcl fSB > ^0 ? ^v 1 ? GRAVE OF WILLIAM BRADFORD. Here lyes ye body of ye honourable Major William Bradford,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
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