But we know he died a most rare boy.”
“In memory of Mrs. Tabitha Plasket, who died June 10, 1807, aged 64 years.”
“Adieu vain world, I have seen enough of thee,
And I am careless what thou say’st of me;
Thy smiles I wish not, nor thy frowns I fear,
I am now at rest, my head lies quiet here.”
“Died, Captain Simeon Sampson, June 22, 1789, aged 53 years.”
Capt. Sampson was an early hero of the revolution, who commanded the Brig Independence, built in Kingston, and the first vessel commissioned by the provincial Congress.
An obelisk over the supposed grave of Governor William Bradford contains among other inscriptions a Hebrew sentence which translated is “Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance.”
“Here lyeth buried the body of that precious servant of God, Mr. Thomas Cushman, who after he had served his generation according to the will of God, particularly the Church of Plymouth for many years in the office of ruling elder, fell asleep in Jesus, December, ye 10, 1691, & in ye 84 year of his age.”