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Person Details
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name
CRANSTON
First Name
JOHN, GOV
Maiden
Relation
[H/O MARY (CLARKE) STANTON]; [S/O JOHN]
Cemetery Number
NT003
Cemetery Name
COMMON BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1626c
Death Day
12
Death Month
MAR
Death Year
1680
AGE nth Year
55
AGE Years
-
AGE Months
-
AGE Days
-
War
Gravestone Details
Section
BI
Lot
Map
00444
Stone Material
slate
Condition
good
Shape
box tomb
Carving
skull with wings
Legibility
good
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2007
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 By
GHR;AGB;JES;BA