SILENT GROUNDS COLLECTIVE · A NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVEVisit SGC
SGC Digital ArchivesA Connecticut Non Profit Archive

New Haven · Inscription transcriptions

Tombstone inscriptions: corrections and additions, 1914 · scan page 8

Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Corrections to Dexter’s 1882 inscription list and additions from an 1851 transcription. Preserve the original entry numbers and compare both editions. This is the supplement, not the complete original list.

Searchable source text

352  INSCRIPTIONS    ON    TOMBSTONES    IN    NEW    HAVEN.
CORRECTIONS.
23.    Roger  Ailing  died  Apr.,  1759.
28.    Should  be  in  heavy  type,  as  from  the  Crypt.
82.    Elisha,  son  of  David  Austin,  died  Aug.  6,  1771,  aged  17  months;
Ebenezer  Elisha  died  Apr.  5,  1773,  aged  14  months.
86.    Son  of  Elias  and  Eunice,  of  Durham,  baptized  Feb.,  175 1/2.
142.  Daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah  (Beach)  Nichols,  of  Stratford,
b.  May  26,  1716.     He  next  married,  Jan.  20,  1765,  Abigail.
149.  Samuel  Bishop,  Sr.,  was  deacon  ist  Church,  1717-48;  Samuel,  Jr.,
deacon  ist  Church,  1756-71.
154.    Daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Todd)  Heaton,  b.  June  14,  1712.
161.   The  father  d.  1779.
163.  The  stone  commemorated  a  first  v^^ife.  A  second  wife,  also  Mary,
b.  Dec.  15,  1704,  was  dau.  of  D.  Goodrich,  etc.
172.    He  died  Oct.  12,  1718;    deacon  from  about  1685.
182.    In  her  8th,  not  38th  year.
190.   Died  1739.
194.  Amelia  d.  Dec.  31;  dau.  of  Phebe,  dau.  of  Dr.  Zophar  Piatt,  of
Huntington,  L.  I.
199.    Dau.  of  John  Ailing  (No.  16).
206.    Olive  Brown  was  sister,  not  daughter,  of  197.
231.    Married  in  Boston,  Dec.  14,  1714,  wid.  of  David  Cutler.
257.  Son  of  David.
258.  Dau.  of  Dugald  and  Sarah  Mackenzie,  of  Fairfield.
281.    He  d.  1676.
294.    Should  be  in  plain  type.    Son  of  William  and  Elizabeth   (Brent).
342.  Dau.  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Easton)  Miles  (No.  568)  ;  b.
March  19,  1707;  wid.  of  907.
362.   Add  to  stone  :
Lamented.  She  died  of  the  small  pox  at  Cheshire,  February  y®  19th
A.  D.  1782  &  in  the  36th  year  of  her  Ager
370.   Dau.  of  744  and  745 ;   b.  Dec.  26,  1695.
S73.   Grandson  of  Nos.  72,  ys ;   d-  1774-
383.  Died  Oct.  21,  1796.  The  mother  was  daughter  of  Joseph  and
Patience  (Sperry)  Mix.
398.    Mary  L.  Hillhouse  d.  1822.
412.    Died  1689.
427.    Son  of  No.  425.
437.  Died  Dec.  29.
438.  Son  of  John  and  Experience,  who  was  a  sister  of  Rev.  James  Pier-
pont  (No.  691).
456.  Dau.  of  Samuel  and  Meletiah  (Bradford).
457.  Dau.  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth  (Glover)  Dickerman,  and  widow
of  Michael  Todd.  His  3d  wf.  was  widow  of  Wm.  Stevens,  of  Marble-
head,  Mass.
465.    Died  1794.
om
Author

Cite this page

Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P007-0008. Tombstone inscriptions: corrections and additions, 1914, printed page not verified, PDF page 8. Dexter, F. B. [from old catalog]; digitized copy contributed by The Library of Congress https://archive.org/details/inscriptionsonto00dexter/page/n8/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

Historic U.S. publication before 1931; public-domain assessment based on publication date. Internet Archive does not necessarily provide an explicit license. Preserve publication and digitizing credits.