Gravestone of the Day: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson, 1696, Woburn, MA

HERE LYES Ye BODY OF

LIEUTENANT MATTHEW

JOHNSON AGED 62

YEARS DIED IULY 19

1696

Here's another Matthew from Woburn. Matthew is a fairly unusual name in colonial Massachusetts — not unheard of, but not common like Ebenezer or Mehitabel. I wonder if these Woburn Matthews are related and named in honor of one another.