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| Last Name | WILKINSON |
| First Name | JOSEPH |
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| Cemetery Number | SC014 |
| Cemetery Name | WESTCOTT-WILKINSON LOT |
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| Birth Year | 1682c |
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| Death Year | 1740 |
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| Map | 00003a |
| Stone Material | fieldstone |
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| Notes | We are told by a descendant that Joseph is buried in an unmarked grave next to Dr. John Wilkinson.
[The Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America (1869) about SC014: (p . 67 ) “He died in 1740, aged fifty-eight, and his inventory of personal property enumerates five horses, fifty cattle, a large number of sheep, goats, &c., &c., all amounting to over £1200. He was buried in a field near his first residence in Scituate, where his remains still repose marked by two *rought stones. The time will soon come when the last resting place of this pioneer of Scituate will be entirely forgotten, unless some of his lineal descendants erect to his memory a suitable tombstone.
Posterity of Joseph! Your ancestor is worthy of this honor. I visited this place in 1865, and as I paused at the grave of Joseph my attention was arrested by the surroundings. There stood the house as it stood in days of yore…”] |
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