Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . with the scurvy and other diseases which their longvoyage and iinaccommodate condition brought uponthem, so as there die sometime two or three a a hundred persons scarce hfty remaining; theliving scarce able to Ijurv the dead ; the well not. THE EXILES. sufficient to tend the sick, there being, in their timeof greatest distress, Irat six or seven, who spare nopains to help them. They liuried them on thishill, and levelled the gra\es, and in the spring fol-lowing planted corn above them, that the Indiansmight not know the ext
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . with the scurvy and other diseases which their longvoyage and iinaccommodate condition brought uponthem, so as there die sometime two or three a a hundred persons scarce hfty remaining; theliving scarce able to Ijurv the dead ; the well not. THE EXILES. sufficient to tend the sick, there being, in their timeof greatest distress, Irat six or seven, who spare nopains to help them. They liuried them on thishill, and levelled the gra\es, and in the spring fol-lowing planted corn above them, that the Indiansmight not know the extent of tht-ir great loss. Atfour different times the remains have been discov-ered. Ill 1735, in a great rain, the water, rushingdown Middle Street to the harbor, caused a deepgully there, exposing human remains and washingthem into the sea. In 1S55 workmen engaged indigging trenches for the water-works found parts offive skeletons. Ihe graves were in the roadway, 36 about five rods south of the foot of Middle of the skulls was sent to a competent anato-mist in Boston, and was pronounced to be of theCaucasian race. The remains were carefully gath-ered and placed in a metallic box, properly in-scribed, and interred on Burial Hill, subsequentlybeing deposited in the chamber of the canopy overt
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