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DOROTHY WIDOW OF THOMAS BURGESS DYED FEB Ye 27 1687 AGE NOT FOUND AT THE TIME THIS STONE WAS ERECTED IN 1917. FROM BROKEN ORIGINAL BY HER DESCENDANTS

Partial inscription from original slate gravestone

DOROTHY BURGESS AGED ABOUT (missing) DYED FEBRUARY Ye 27 1687

The original inscription is from a talk given in 1908 by Mrs Jerome Holoway, president of the Sandwich Historical Society. A copy of her talk is available in the CCCC Library.

1.   Robert Paine Carlson, Writer Role: compiler. 17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones, Url: http:/www.capecodgravestones.com/index.html.
2.   Turner, Hollis. The history of Peru, in the county of Oxford and state of Maine, from 1789 to 1911: residents and genealogies of their families, also a part of Franklin plan. (Augusta, Me.: Maine Farmer Pub. Co., 1911)
   page 70.
3. ↑ Robert Paine Carlson, Writer Role: compiler. 17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones, Url: http:/www.capecodgravestones.com/index.html
   "Inscription from memorial plaque DOROTHY WIDOW OF THOMAS BURGESS DYED FEB Ye 27 1687 AGE NOT FOUND AT THE TIME THIS STONE WAS ERECTED IN 1917. FROM BROKEN ORIGINAL BY HER DESCENDANTS".