A Very Grave Matter: Gravestones and Burying Grounds of New England Ancestors Genealogy First Settlers of New Hampshire Maine Massachusetts NH ME MA : Popular Photos : <div align="center"> This stone is Erected in the Memory of A Son of the <a href="http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/943936/1/43275157/Medium">Rev. Thomas</a> & Deborah Cary Born Febr ??th 1788 and died the 25th ??? the ??? ??? Here lies the Body of Margaret Greaves Cary Daughter of the <a href="http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/943936/1/43275157/Medium">Rev. Thomas Cary</a> and Deborah his Wife died Augst 10th 1785 Aged 9 Months & 15 Days.</div>

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gravematter > This stone is
Erected in the Memory of
A Son of the Rev. Thomas
& Deborah Cary
Born Febr ??th 1788
and died the 25th ???
the ??? ???

Here lies the Body of
Margaret Greaves Cary
Daughter of the
Rev. Thomas Cary
and Deborah his Wife
died Augst 10th 1785
Aged 9 Months & 15 Days.

gravematter > Sacred
To the Memory of the
Rev. Levi Frisbie
Who was for thirty years
Pastor of the first Church &
Congregation in Ipswich
Ingenius, Learned, El????
He ably incubated the seed of
Christianity. Humble, Pious, and
Benevolent. He successfully ????
??? amiableness in his Life
His gentleness of Disposition
And purity of Morals Inspired Esteem
Reverence and Affection
In the hight of usefulness
And matured in Virtue
?????????????????

gravematter > In memory of
The Hon. Nathaniel Saltonstall
who died May 21, 1707 Æt. 68
He was son of Richard and
grandson of
Sir Richard Saltonstall
one of the original Patentees
of Mass. Bay.
of Richard Saltonstall Esqr
who died April 22, 1714 Æt. 42
And of their descendants here
interred the last of whom was
The Hon. Richard Saltonstall
Judge of the Superior Court
of Judicature who died
Oct. 20, 1736, Æt. 53

gravematter > Corpl
John S. Follert
Co. E
24 Mass Inf.

gravematter > In memory of
Capt. Gee Colby
who departed this life
April 21, A.D. 1822;
aged 61 years
When this you see grieve not for me
for Twas God's appointed time.

In Memory of
Mrs. Hannah Colby
wife of
Capt. Gee Colby
who departed this life
Nov.r 21 A.D. 1820
Aged 59 years.
?????

gravematter > Simon Bradstreet
Esquire in the Senate of the Massachusetts
Colony from the year 1630 to the year 1673
then Lieutenant Governor to the year 1679
and at last, until the year 1680 Governor
of the same colony by the General and deter-
mined vote of the people. He was a man endowed
with keen judgement whom neither threats nor
honors could sway. He weighed the authority
of the King and the liberty of the people
in even scales. In religion devout and upright
in his ways he vanquished the world and
relinquished it on the XXVIIth day of March
in the year of our Lord MDCXCVII. And in the
IXth year of King William Third. And of his
life the XCIVth.

gravematter >
Left:
Family Stone.
Mr.
ROBERT ADAMS
who came from Devonshire,
England about the year 1629 &
died Oct. 16, 1682, Æt. 82.

Capt. Abraham Adams
his son died April 3, 1763, Æt. 87.

Samuel Adams
his son died May 8, 1791, Æt. 74.

Mary Adams
his wife died Nov 17, 1812, Æt. 90.

Joseph Adams
their son died Oct. 6, 1815, Æt. 67.

Mary Adam (Æt. 21
their daugh died Oct. 27, 1771

Maria, daugh of Capt. Stephen
Adams died Oct. 11, 1793
Æt. 3.
_______

Right:
JOSIAH ADAMS,
Died
Jan. 4, 1852;
Aged 95 yrs.

A soldier of the revolution.

S. A. BROWN, HAV'L.

gravematter > Here lie ye Remains of Nathan Hale Eƒq.
who died May 9, 1767 Aged 76 Years.
He was a Phyƒician of much Experience & Conƒiderable
Emin???? & highly eƒteemed in his Profeƒƒion which he
carefully attended diƒtributing his Services without
Diƒtinction to Rich & Poor. He was for many Years
a juƒtice of the Peace which office he faithfully executed
with integrity & without Partiality . He was a Gentleman
of agreable Manners & a thorough Friend But above all
he was a Chriƒtian of exemplary Piety; he was devout
without Oƒtentation & religously carefull to confirm
his Principles by a Life becoming the Doctrines; he
profeƒƒed ind??? ye Phyƒician, ye Magiƒtrate????, ye Gentleman
and the Chriƒt were united in his Charecter(?) in
Such a Manner as made his Life ?????
greatly uƒefull & his Death ???????

gravematter > [In Memory of] Mrs [Jane Clarke]
[Widow of]
Mr Thomas Clarke
of Boƒton & Daughter of
John Greenleaf
Who Departed this Life
June 3d 1773 in the
50th Year of her Age

In Memory of
Miƒs Sarah Clarke
Eldeƒt Daughter of
Mr Thomas Clarke &
Mrs Jane Clarke his wife
who Departed this Life
Sept 27th 1773
In the 25th Year
of her Age.

This stone is
Erected in the Memory of
A Son of the Rev. Thomas
& Deborah Cary
Born Febr ??th 1788
and died the 25th ???
the ??? ???

Here lies the Body of
Margaret Greaves Cary
Daughter of the
Rev. Thomas Cary
and Deborah his Wife
died Augst 10th 1785
Aged 9 Months & 15 Days.