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New Haven tombstone inscriptions erected before 1800 · scan page 59

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INSCRIPTIONS    ON    TOMBSTONES    IX    NKW    IIAVKX.
523
S52
[lVes(  ll'a/l.]
MARY
WIFE  OF
Mr  JOHN
GILBRT  DIED
APRIL  14  1712
AGED  36
YEARS
1783  Aged  66  Years
Her  first  husband
was  M'  John  Ali.ing
;{i><»      [Cciitei   Church  tablets ^^
SACKET  GILBERT
died  Dec.  27,  17S7,  .E  33
3.5:1
^West  ICa//.]
lOHN
SON  OF
M>  lOHN
GILBERT  DIED
IVLY  8  1713  AGED
20  YEARS
354     \A'ear  of  Cnitcr  Church.']
80
M  G
355
{West  Wall.']
In  Memory  of  M'*
Abiah  Wife  of
Matthew  Gilbar''
who  Died  May  15''
357  {Wist  Wall.]
Elizabeth  wife  of  M''
Stephen  Gilbert  Dec'd
Sept'ry*^  I7»''  1738  1  Aged
31  Years  &  Abel  Son
S  of  Stephen  and  Elize-
beth  Gilbert  Dec'd  Ocf
ye  20"'  1738  Aged  13  years
alfo  Stephen  Gilbert  Son
of  &c.  Dec'd  Sept'r  y  12
1738  Aged  6  Years
35§
[West  Wall.]
THOMAS
GILBERT
DIED  DECEM'
23  :  1711  AGED
39  YEARS
*^'  Dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Yale)  Ives;  b.  March  17,  1675-6;  m.  Jan.  21,
1691-2;  he  next  m.,  Nov.  27,  1712,  Abigail,  b.  Jan.  1674,  wid.  of  Ebenezer
Atwater,  and  dau.  of  James  Heaton  (No.  3S8).
^^^  Son  of  John  and  Mary  (No.  352);  b.  Oct.  9,  1692.
.•!54  Probably  the  gravestone  of  Matthew  Gilbert,  one  of  the  original  seven  pil-
lars of  the  N.  H.  Church,  Dep.  Gov.  (1661-63)  of  the  Colony;  his  will  is  dated
Jan.  14,  1679-80,  and  inventory  (after  his  death)  July  6,  1680.  The  resem-
blance of  the  "M"  in  the  inscription  to  a  reversed  "\V"  has  led  to  a  conjec-
ture that  the  regicide  William  GofFe  lies  buried  here.
355  Bv  birth  Hitchcock;  bapt.  July  S,  1716;  first  husb..  No.  18;  ne.\t  m..
Julv  18,  1781,  M.  Gilbert.
35"  Son  of  Matthew  and  Ruth;  bapt.  Aug.  10,  1755;  lived  in  Hamden;  m.,
Dec.  19,  17S1,  Wid,  Sybil  Heaton,  by  birih  Ptinderson,  who  survived  him.
No  gravestone  is  found,  but  the  above  inscription  implies  that  one  was  in
the  crypt,  when  the  Center  Church  was  bu  It.
35^  Dau.  of  John  Sherman;  b.  Jan.  25,  1707-8;  m.  June  26,  1729;  Abel,  b.
Aug.  27,  1737;   Stephen,  b.  Nov.  7,  1732.
358  Son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Gregson),  and  grandson  of  No.  354;  b.  Aug.  14,
1673;  m.,  March  31,  1698.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Ailing)  Peck,
b.  Sept.  II,  1673;  sh,e  survived  him.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P009-0059. New Haven tombstone inscriptions erected before 1800, printed page not verified, PDF page 59. [Dexter, Franklin Bowditch], 1842- [from old catalog] ed; digitized copy contributed by The Library of Congress https://archive.org/details/inscriptionsonto00dext/page/n59/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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