Bernard Capen, 1563-1638 no. 675 Barnard and Joan’s gravestone in the North Burying Ground is said to have the oldest date of any known gravestone in New England. The stone is preserved at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Barnard lived from...
Miriam Wood, d. 1706 no. 23768 A few feet from thence were laid, long since, the remains of another school mistress, over whose grave the storms of more than a century and a half have beaten. The quaint inscription on her monumental stone is as follows; Here Lyes ye...
Benjamin Stone, 1817-1862 no. 23187 Stone was the commander of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment’s Company K, which he had personally assembled as a unit made up mostly of Dorchester residents and other men from nearby towns, who quickly elected him their captain as...
William Pole or Poole, schoolmaster, d. February 25, 1674, 81 y. no. 23767 “William Pole came to Dorchester in 1630. After remaining in Dorchester several years, he removed to Taunton, but returned again to Dorchester in 1672. He was town clerk of Dorchester, and...
William Stoughton, 1631-1701, aged 70. Harvard class of 1650. no. 23196 William Stoughton was born in 1631, the second son of Israel Stoughton and Elizabeth Knight Stoughton. Stoughton graduated from Harvard College in 1650 with a degree in theology. He intended to...
