Gravestone Record

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Person Details
Gravestone photograph
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name READ
First Name JOHN
Maiden
Relation H/O SARAH
Cemetery Number EP003
Cemetery Name NEWMAN CEMETERY
Birth Day 0
Birth Month
Birth Year 1598
Death Day 0
Death Month
Death Year 1685
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service
Gravestone Details
Section A
Lot
Map 00008
Stone Material marble
Condition fair
Shape square top
Carving no carving
Legibility fair
Number of Graves on Stone 1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2009
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes "John Read, Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1598 Died in 1685 He and others with their Pastor Rev. Samuel Newman, came from Weymouth Mass. And began the Settlement of this Town in 1643." IBP found a fieldstone for him " I R AG 87 D S 1685 "
Transcribed By TRIM;JES;JWN