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Walnut Street Cemetery including the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717 |
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Joshua Woodward
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Mary Allford
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In Memy of
Mr. Robert Abell
of Rehoboth
who died Jan. ye 5th
1776 in ye 24th Year
of his
Age
Marker: S. A. R. 1775.
"More than one Revolutionary hero who died in Brookline barracks found his last resting-place in Brookline Cemetery. Lieutenant Robert Abell was one; and he and two soldiers of a Connecticut company were probably the men who assisted in the siege of Boston and were quartered in the Benjamin Davis house, much to the discomfort of the excellent housekeeper, who used to tell in after years of their cutting up their rations of pork on her front stairs. The soldiers were subsequently removed to the barracks on Parker's Hill." H. F. W., pp. 49 and 221.
Text from Harriet Alma Cummings. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery. Brookline: The Riverdale Press, 1920.
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