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Person Details
Last Name
WICKES
First Name
JOHN, ESQ
Maiden
Relation
Cemetery Number
WK028
Cemetery Name
STONE CASTLE LOT
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1609
Death Day
17
Death Month
MAR
Death Year
1676
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
00045
Stone Material
slate
Condition
good
Shape
square top
Carving
no carving
Legibility
good
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
40
Stone Width (inches)
20
Exists?
Last Seen Date
1995
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
b. Staines England, came to New England 1635. An original purchaser of Warwick 1643. "In King Phillips War after the town was burnt, on going out from Thomas Green's stone castle to look for his cattle on 17 March 1676 he was slain by Indians and his head set on a pole." Erected by Benjamin Greene Arnold 1881. His head was originally buried separately from his body, but they were later buried together.
Transcribed By
BENN488;JES