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Walnut Street Cemetery including the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717 |
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Edward Devotion
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Nathan Estabrook
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HERE LYES BURIED Ye
BODY OF Mr. ERASMAN
DRUE, WHO DIED JUNE
1735:
IN Ye 84th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
Footstone:
Mr. ERASMAN
DRUE
Erosamon Drew, whose name is spelled in six different ways in old documents, came from Ireland in his youth. He married Bethiah, daughter of Vincent Druce. The elder Druce, who seems to have been a wealthy man for those times, left his son-in-law considerable property.
A most curious and elaborate deed dated in 1683 conveys a tract of sixty-four acres of woodland for fifty-five pounds to Erosamon Drew from "Vincent Drusse and Elizabeth, his wife," in which an imperfectly scrawled V for his name and E for hers, are their only attempts at penmanship. H. F. W., p. 387.
Text from Harriet Alma Cummings. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery. Brookline: The Riverdale Press, 1920.
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Edward Devotion
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Nathan Estabrook
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