Name: Timothy Burbank
Location: Plymouth, MA
Date: 1793
Carver: Nehemiah and Samuel Burbank and Amaziah Harlow Jr.
Timothy was Samuel and Nehemiah's grandfather, and the patriarch of the Burbanks in the region.
Nehemiah did the cherub, Samuel did the twisty rope border, and Amaziah, one of their mentors, did the lettering.
Location: Plymouth, MA
Date: 1793
Carver: Nehemiah and Samuel Burbank and Amaziah Harlow Jr.
Timothy was Samuel and Nehemiah's grandfather, and the patriarch of the Burbanks in the region.
Nehemiah did the cherub, Samuel did the twisty rope border, and Amaziah, one of their mentors, did the lettering.
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In this case the info was from a book by James Blachowicz called "From Slate To Marble: Gravestone Carving Traditions in Eastern Massachusetts 1770-1870". There's a whole chapter on the resident carvers of Plymouth, MA (the Burbanks, Harlow, Lemuel Savery, & William Coye).
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