Handwritten transcription of tombstone inscriptions.

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Typescript transcription of tombstone inscriptions.

Excerpt from Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts We now present a complete list of all epitaphs in all old public grave-yards commenced before 1800, with plans and with some account of the old grave yards of the three towns of West Bridgewater, Bridge water and East Bridgewater, including all monuments in those yards, down to the present time, and also, most of the epitaphs in private and small-pox yards. The labor has been much greater than was anticipated. Several persons have been employed to copy inscriptions, and to locate and number monuments on the plans. Mr. Joshua E. Crane, Jr., has done most of this work in Bridgewater, and Walter M. Swift and Henry Har 'low have done the most of it in West Bridgewater and East Bridge water. We are much indebted to Mitchell's History of Bridgewater for the notes within parenthesis added to Epitaphs; to Walter L. Keith, for the use of his plate of the Keith coat of arms; and to Bradford Kingman, Esq., for original sketches drawn by him especially for this work, of the Edson Keith Tombs at page 18, and also for views of the houses of Rev. James Keith, opposite page 2 38. Eight of these plans are drawn from actual survey of the premises, giving courses and distances and two of them, the Powder-house and Jerusalem yards, are drawn from measurment of the outside line, giv ing their distances, and general coures. We have used our utmost endeavors to make this work accurate and reliable, for in that lies the value of a work of this kind but that is next to impossible, for errors will creep in, and the next best thing we can do is to be honest, and publish a full list of errors, with cor rections, that have come to our knowledge, after a long, close and careful examination and comparison of inscriptions, copies, proof sheets and printed text. In all of these burial places, the graves generally head west and foot east, or nearly so. In all indexes, when age is given, it is set down and called forty-nine years old, when it is stated that the person died in. The fiftieth year of his age, or in his fiftieth year, ' or words to that effect and in that way the age is reckoned and stated in all periods of life. Williams latham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.