Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . distance from its first position. It is of purple Welshslate, and is in a remarkable state of inscription is as follows : — Here lyeth buried ye body of that precious servant of God,Mr. THOMAS CUSHMAN, who after he had served his gen-eration according to the will of God, and particularly the church 21 of Plymouth for many years in the office of a rulemg elder fellasleep in Jesus Decmr. ye lo, 1691 & in ye 84. year of his age. There is always eager inquiry from the visito
Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . distance from its first position. It is of purple Welshslate, and is in a remarkable state of inscription is as follows : — Here lyeth buried ye body of that precious servant of God,Mr. THOMAS CUSHMAN, who after he had served his gen-eration according to the will of God, and particularly the church 21 of Plymouth for many years in the office of a rulemg elder fellasleep in Jesus Decmr. ye lo, 1691 & in ye 84. year of his age. There is always eager inquiry from the visitors toBurial Hill for the grave of the Nameless Noble-man, the hero of Mrs. Jane G. Austins famous his-torical novel of that title. We find it near the Cush-man monument. The stone has the small figure ofan hourglass at its top. under which appears the
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