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Reverend Thomas Jones
The gravestone of Rev. Thomas Jones Rev. Jones was born in Dorchester, MA on April 20, 1721, the son of Ebenezer and Waitstill (Davenport) Jones. He went to Harvard College and graduated in 1741. Rev. Jones was installed as the Minister of the Second Parish of Woburn in 1751. Very shortly after, a dozen people left his church to become members of the Church of England. It is said that while his sermons were not very exciting he was a practical and faithful minister to his pa
Caroline Bigelow
Jan 182 min read


Mrs. Susanna Jayne
Susanna was born in Marblehead, MA to Mark Jr. and Susannah Haskell. She was baptised on June 11, 1732, so her birthday was likely in either late May or early June. Susanna was the third of at least four children born to her parents--none of the children had their births recorded, only their baptisms, so it is entirely possible that she had siblings who died before they could be baptized. On November 27, 1753 she and Peter Jayne were married by the Reverend Simon Bradstreet,
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Jan 102 min read


Lt. Abel Nichols
Abel was born in Middleton, MA on April 4, 1743 to John and Elizabeth Nichols. He was their second child and only son. His other sibling was a sister named Mary who was born two years earlier in 1741. On December 5/6, 1766 he published his intentions to marry Elisabeth Preston. Both of them were residents of Danvers, MA. I can’t find any record of them having children. During the American Revolution Abel served as a Sergeant in Captain Samuel Flint’s Company of Minutemen and
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Jan 31 min read


Mrs. Mary Stone
Mary was born to Captain William and Mrs. Abigail (Kendall) Reed in Lexington, MA on April 8, 1695. Both of her parents were originally from Woburn, MA and among the earliest white settlers in the town, arriving around 1685. They made their home in the northern part of the town on the road to Bedford. The Reed family was very prominent and influential in town affairs. On April 8, 1714 she married John Stone. The Stone family came from Cambridge, and was another of Lexington'
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Dec 29, 20252 min read


Worcester Men Who Gave Their Lives in Quebec
250 years ago Gen. Benedict Arnold led an expedition north from Massachusetts to Quebec in an attampt to capture the town. They left at the end of September 1775 and arrived in Canada in December. The battle, which took place in the middle of a snowstorm on December 31, was a disaster for Arnold's forces; every member either was either killed, taken prisoner, or deserted. Worcester lost three men: Captain Jonas Hubbard, Sergeant Silas Wesson, and Private Timothy Rice.
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Dec 28, 20254 min read


Mrs. Martha Green
Martha was born in around 1746 into a family with the surname of Clark. She married Dr. Peter Green in Hopkinton, MA on July 27, 1769. They had filed their intentions on May 28. Martha died during childbirth on June 8, 1770. Her husband remarried in 1773 and moved to Concord, NH. He named his eldest daughter Martha in his first wife's honor, and she lived to be 68. She rests with her stillborn babe at her side in Harvard Center Cemetery in Harvard, MA. Her gravestone was ca
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Dec 26, 20251 min read


Portrait Gravestones -- Samuel Mason
Samuel Mason 1761-1776 Son of Col. David Mason Lexington, MA
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Dec 6, 20251 min read


Portrait Gravestones -- Rebeckah Muzzy
Rebeckah Muzzy 1724-1771 Wife of Mr. John Muzzy Lexington, MA
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Dec 6, 20251 min read


Portrait Gravestones -- Lt. Ebenezer Fisk
Lieutenant Ebenezer Fisk 1692-1775 Lexington, MA
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Portrait Gravestones -- Job Brooks
Mr. Job Brooks 1698-1788 Concord, MA
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Portrait Gravestones -- Deacon Thomas Barrett
Deacon Thomas Barrett 1707-1779 Concord, MA
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Portrait Gravestones -- Capt. John Clark
Captain John Clark 1700-1773 Waltham, MA
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Dec 6, 20251 min read


Portrait Gravestones -- Ebenezer Bicknell
Ebenezer Bicknell 1727-1771 Weymouth, MA
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Dec 6, 20251 min read


Portrait Gravestones -- Stephen Bicknell
Stephen Bicknell 1755-1771 Weymouth, MA
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Portrait Gravestones -- Nathaniel Curtis
Nathaniel Curtis 1756-1778 Plymouth, MA
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Jonathan Lawrence
Mr. Jonathan Lawrence (1706-1773)
“As time doth fly, our death draws nigh"
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Dec 5, 20251 min read


Katharine Upham
Mistress Katharine Upham (1721-1774)
Brookfield Cemetery
Brookfield, MA
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Dec 4, 20251 min read


Charles Pratt Marston
In Memory of
CHARLES PRATT MARSTON
An Infant Son of
John Marston Esqr. and Mrs. Elizath. Marston
of Boston.
He died Octr. 20th 1775 aged 9 Months.
While British Forces held his native Town.
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Dec 4, 20251 min read
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