Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . vri » ^^^ winged cherub, the sculpture being better defined thanis usual in such old work. The inscription reads : — Here lyes ye body of Mr. FRANCIS LE BARRAN phytician who departed this life Augst ye iSth 1704, in ye 36 year of his age. 22 Dr. Le was the surgeon of a French shipwhich was wrecked in Buzzards Bay in 1694. Withthe officers and crew he was taken prisoner and sentto Boston. On their way a stop was made at Plym-outh, where the doctor had occasion to perform asurgical
Handbook of old Burial Hill, Plymouth, MassachusettsIts history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs . vri » ^^^ winged cherub, the sculpture being better defined thanis usual in such old work. The inscription reads : — Here lyes ye body of Mr. FRANCIS LE BARRAN phytician who departed this life Augst ye iSth 1704, in ye 36 year of his age. 22 Dr. Le was the surgeon of a French shipwhich was wrecked in Buzzards Bay in 1694. Withthe officers and crew he was taken prisoner and sentto Boston. On their way a stop was made at Plym-outh, where the doctor had occasion to perform asurgical operation. This led to a request, made bythe citizens to the lieutenant-governor, and granted,that he be allowed to remain in the town. From himthe numerous Le Barons in America are descended. By the side of Dr. Le Baron is buried his wifeMary, who after his death married a Wait. Near byis the grave of their son. Dr. Lazarus Le Baron, who. ^%\^^ also figures in Mrs. Austins writings; and in therear of these graves is seen the tombstone of Nathan-iel Goodwin, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Jane(Goodwin) Austin, who married Lydia, daughter ofLazarus Le Baron. Various other people mentioned in Mrs. Austinsnovels are buried in this ground. Among them isAnsel Ring, who, as we are told in Dr. Le Baronand His Daughters, was cursed by the old witch,Mother Crewe. He lies with the sixty seamen whoperished on board the General Arnold. A marbleshaft on the extreme southwesterly edge of the hillmarks the place of their interment. The inscriptionon the northeasterly side is : — In memory of Seventy two Seamen who perished in Plym-outh harbour on the 26, and 27, days of December 1778, onl)oard the private armed Brig, Gen. Arnold, of twenty guns,James Magee of Boston, Commander, sixty of whom wereburied on this spot. On the northwesterly side : — Capt. James Magee died in Roxbury, February 4, 1801 ;aged 51 years. On the southwesterl
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