Gravestone of the Day: Ruth Owen

Ruth Owen, 1750, Providence, RI

In Memory of

Ruth Daugtr. of

Ioseph & Mary [Marcy? Margy?]

Owen died April ye 20st

1750 Aged 3 years

& 2 Months &

19 Deys

I wonder who cut this stone. Some of the letter forms are quite sophisticated — look at the lower-case g and the capital A — but the spelling and spacing are amateurish. The portrait/cherub is lovely, but the stone shape is rough. This stone is in the African-American section of the North Burial Ground in Providence, but I am not completely sure that it belongs to an African-American child.