By the side of Dr. Le Baron is buried his wife Mary, who after his death married a Wait. Near by is the grave of their son, Dr. Lazarus Le Baron, who also figures in Mrs. Austin’s writings; and in the rear of these graves is seen the tombstone of Nathaniel Goodwin, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Jane (Goodwin) Austin, who married Lydia, daughter of Lazarus Le Baron.
Various other people mentioned in Mrs. Austin’s novels are buried in this ground. Among them is Ansel Ring, who, as we are told in “Dr. Le Baron and His Daughters,” was cursed by the old witch, Mother Crewe. He lies with the sixty seamen who perished on board the “General Arnold.” A marble shaft on the extreme southwesterly edge of the hill marks the place of their interment. The inscription on the northeasterly side is:—
In memory of Seventy two Seamen who perished in Plymouth harbour on the 26, and 27, days of December 1778, on board the private armed Brig, Gen. Arnold, of twenty guns, James Magee of Boston, Commander, sixty of whom were buried on this spot.
On the northwesterly side:—
Capt. James Magee died in Roxbury, February 4, 1801; aged 51 years.
On the southwesterly side:—
Oh! falsely flattering were yon billows smooth
When forth, elated, sailed in evil hour,
That vessel whose disastrous fate, when told,