Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . ised to the memory of the ministers ofthe First Parish. Back of these is the Judson lot,where the sculptors chisel has perpetuated theremembrance of Rev. Adoniram Judson, the cele-brated missionary to Burmah, whose body was com-mitted to the keeping of Old Ocean. On the westerlyside of the hill is a monument erected by Stephen,Gale, of Portland, Me,: — To the memory of seventy-two seamen, who perished in Plym-outh Harbor, on the 26th and 27th days of December, 1778, onboard the private armed brig. General Arnold, of twentyguns, Jam
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . ised to the memory of the ministers ofthe First Parish. Back of these is the Judson lot,where the sculptors chisel has perpetuated theremembrance of Rev. Adoniram Judson, the cele-brated missionary to Burmah, whose body was com-mitted to the keeping of Old Ocean. On the westerlyside of the hill is a monument erected by Stephen,Gale, of Portland, Me,: — To the memory of seventy-two seamen, who perished in Plym-outh Harbor, on the 26th and 27th days of December, 1778, onboard the private armed brig. General Arnold, of twentyguns, James Magee, of Boston, Commander; sixty of whomwere buried in this spot. About midway on the easterly slope, a little to thenorth of the main path up the hill, on the stone to achild aged one month : — He glanced into our world to seeA sample of our miserle. On a stone a little farther north, to the memory offour c/iilJi-en, aged respectively thirty-six, twenty-one,seventeen and two years: — Stop, traveller, and shed a tearUpon the fate of children
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