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Name: Richard Lord
Location: New London, CT
Date: 1662
One of the oldest gravestones I've seen personally.
Lord was a captain in the first cavalry of the colony of Connecticut.
Before that he had been selectman of the town of Hartford, among other government duties.
About 6 months before his death he was one of the draftees of the state charter.
His epitaph reads:
THE BRIGHT STARRE OF OUR CAVALLRIE LIES HERE
UNTO THE STATE A COUNSELLOUR FULL DEARE,
AND TO YE TRUTH A FRIEND OF SWEETE CONTENT,
TO HARTFORD TOWNE A SILVER ORNAMENT.
WHO CAN DENY TO POORE HE WAS RELEIFE,
AND IN COMPOSING PAROXYSMES WAS CHIEFE,
TO MARCHANTES AS A PATTERNE HE MIGHT STAND,
ADVENTRING DANGERS NEW BY SEA AND LAND.
Location: New London, CT
Date: 1662
One of the oldest gravestones I've seen personally.
Lord was a captain in the first cavalry of the colony of Connecticut.
Before that he had been selectman of the town of Hartford, among other government duties.
About 6 months before his death he was one of the draftees of the state charter.
His epitaph reads:
THE BRIGHT STARRE OF OUR CAVALLRIE LIES HERE
UNTO THE STATE A COUNSELLOUR FULL DEARE,
AND TO YE TRUTH A FRIEND OF SWEETE CONTENT,
TO HARTFORD TOWNE A SILVER ORNAMENT.
WHO CAN DENY TO POORE HE WAS RELEIFE,
AND IN COMPOSING PAROXYSMES WAS CHIEFE,
TO MARCHANTES AS A PATTERNE HE MIGHT STAND,
ADVENTRING DANGERS NEW BY SEA AND LAND.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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File Size 359.2 kB
It fascinates me to see a New Word burial better than 350 years of past vintage. I've been following a YouTube series known as 'Creepy Places Of New England' which has often featured burial sites (ranging from poorly-kept and often derelict cemeteries, to burial grounds going back a century-and-a-half or more that are still in use) in their videos, but it's been an extreme rarity (so far that I've seen) to see grave markers bearing death dates much older than the 1800s, and I have no memory of seeing any as far back as the early 18th Century or any burials dating from the 17th Century, but here you have quite a few!
Thank you for sharing these pictures here on FurAffinity; it really impresses a body as to how long a physical memorial like the ones you've photographed can stay in one piece. Looking at gravesod that hasn't been disturbed in three and a half centuries is something very awesome.
-2Paw.
Thank you for sharing these pictures here on FurAffinity; it really impresses a body as to how long a physical memorial like the ones you've photographed can stay in one piece. Looking at gravesod that hasn't been disturbed in three and a half centuries is something very awesome.
-2Paw.
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