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Person Details
 
Last NameCRANSTON
First NameJOHN, GOV
Maiden 
Relation[H/O MARY (CLARKE) STANTON]; [S/O JOHN]
Cemetery NumberNT003
Cemetery NameCOMMON BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1626c
Death Day12
Death MonthMAR
Death Year1680
War 
Gravestone Details
SectionBI
Lot 
Map00444
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapebox tomb
Carvingskull with wings
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2007
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notes[His wife Mary Clarke later married Capt John Stanton] [AGB also reports his name on the Cranston Historical Monument, erected after 1878 in the Island Cemetery][prominent Physician, first to be granted title "Doctor of Phisicke and Chirurgery" by RI Gen Assembly 1664. Gov 1678-1680. General in King Phillip's War 1675-76] [Also on a new monument erected in 2007 for Gov John and his son Gov. Samuel]
Transcribed ByGHR;AGB;JES;BA