GC, going as far back as this one goes, is there much data available (say in parish records) of who someone like Hammond was, anything much concrete besides the burial stone itself? This stone (and Katherine Ayars (1684)) is going into some very old burials, as Colonial-era graves go. I know you've often mentioned the carver's name, when you were able to obtain it: was that something that was better kept much later on (as burial dates went)?

BTW: do you believe that 'Febr' is a Gallic-style contraction of 'Fever', like 'Redb' and 'Reeve', respectively? Damn, I didn't read the age closely: Nathaniel was only 13 weeks old when he died. So childbed sickness for a tiny tot, sadly, which wasn't unusual in the days long before antibiotics. The body would've been so early in post-natal development, I doubt anything would remain of it by now, more than three centuries after his death.

-2Paw.