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Person Details
Last Name
MUMFORD
First Name
ABIGAIL
Maiden
Relation
W/O THOMAS
Cemetery Number
NG008
Cemetery Name
THOMAS MUMFORD BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1670c
Death Day
20
Death Month
MAY
Death Year
1707
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
00002
Stone Material
schist
Condition
poor
Shape
fancy top
Carving
winged cherub/other
Legibility
poor
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
19
Stone Width (inches)
20
Exists?
Last Seen Date
1991
Carver
JOHN HARTSHORN
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
[General Ass'y Records: murdered by a negro slave belonging to Mr. Mumford of Kingston. The body of the slave was found on the shore of Little Compton in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. It was thought that he threw himself into the sea rather than be taken alive. It was ordered that his head, legs and arms be cut off from his body and hung in some public place near the town, and his body be burnt to ashes "that it may, please God, be something of a terror to others from perpetrating of the like barbarity for the future."] Stone carved by John Hartshorn of Norwich, Ct and lettered by Joshua Hempstead of New London, Ct.
Transcribed By
JES