Gravestone of the Day: Joseph Barrett

Joseph Barrett, 1763, South Burying Ground, Concord, MA

Here lies buried the Body

of CAPT: JOSEPH BARRETT

Son of Deacon Humphry and

Mrs: Mary Barrett, who died

the 4th Day of April, Anno

Dom: one Thousand Seven

Hundred and Sixty three,

in the Eighty fifith Year of 

his Age.

Did the Park workshop charge by the letter as the Stevens workshop did? If so, spelling out the year seems like an extravagant waste of space and money.

Gravestone of the Day: Lot Conant

Lot Conant, 1767, South Burying Ground, Concord, MA

Here lies

Interred the Remains

of Mr: Lot Conant, who

departed this Life

September. 20th: 1767.

In the 90th: year of

his age.

The sin of Adam's laid me low,

For sin hath wrought an overthrow;

From dust I came to dust am come,

And now the dust's become my home;

When Christ comes down with saints to rign

Then dust me no more shall detain.

The Park workshop carvers used this verse more than once. I think it's fairly awkward, but someone must have liked it.

Jacob Lakin Stone, 1758

The Old Burying Ground in Groton, MA is home to several beautiful Park workshop gravestones from the 1750s. Of these, the most impressive is the Jacob Lakin stone. Its unusual shape, intricate detail, and elevated position (on top of a tomb mound) make this stone an eye-catcher.