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Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
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Last Name
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CRANSTON
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First Name
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JOHN, GOV
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Maiden
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Relation
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[H/O MARY (CLARKE) STANTON]; [S/O JOHN]
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Cemetery Number
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NT003
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Cemetery Name
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COMMON BURIAL GROUND
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Birth Day
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0
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Birth Month
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Birth Year
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1626c
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Death Day
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12
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Death Month
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MAR
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Death Year
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1680
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AGE nth Year
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55
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AGE Years
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-
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AGE Months
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-
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AGE Days
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-
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Military Service
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| Section |
BI |
| Lot |
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| Map |
00444 |
| Stone Material |
slate |
| Condition |
good |
| Shape |
box tomb |
| Carving |
skull with wings |
| Legibility |
good |
| Number of Graves on Stone |
1 |
| Stone Height (inches) |
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| Stone Width (inches) |
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| Exists? |
Yes |
| Last Seen Date |
2007 |
| Carver |
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| Notes |
[His wife Mary Clarke later married Capt John Stanton] [AGB also reports his name on the Cranston Historical Monument, erected after 1878 in the Island Cemetery][prominent Physician, first to be granted title "Doctor of Phisicke and Chirurgery" by RI Gen Assembly 1664. Gov 1678-1680. General in King Phillip's War 1675-76]
[Also on a new monument erected in 2007 for Gov John and his son Gov. Samuel] |
| Transcribed By |
GHR;AGB;JES;BA |
