Erasman Drue 1735

Edward Devotion Left Pointing Hand Right Pointing Hand Nathan Estabrook

Headstone, Erasman Drue 1735 HERE LYES BURIED Ye BODY OF Mr. ERASMAN DRUE, WHO DIED JUNE 1735: IN Ye 84th YEAR OF HIS AGE

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Footstone, Erasman Drue 1735 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.

Edward Devotion Left Pointing Hand Right Pointing Hand Nathan Estabrook