Able and Submite Clarke share a grave marker at the Dorchester Old North Burying Ground.
no. 23762
The Abel and Submite Clarke stone is dated 1644 and 1648.
ABEL HIS OFFERING ACCEPTED IS.
HIS BODY TO THE GRAVE, HIS SOULE TO BLIS.
ON OCTOBERS TWENTYE AND NO MORE.
IN THE YEARE SIXTEEN HUNDRED 44.
SUBMITE SUBMITTED TO HER HEAVENLY KING.
BEING A FLOWER OF THAT AETERNAL SPRING
NEARE 3 YEARS OLD SHE DYED IN HEAVEN TO WAITE
THE YEARE WAS SIXTEEN HUNDRED 48.
Inscription is given in Epitaphs From the Old Burying Ground in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Boston Highlands, 1869. Harlow Elliott Woodward was a main contributor to this work.
Inscription also appears in The Sexton’s Monitor, and Dorchester Cemetery Memorial by Daniel Davenport. Roxbury, 1826.