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Last NameHOWLAND
First NameYETMERCY
Maiden[HOWLAND]
Relation[W/O ISAAC PALMER]; W/O NATHANIEL HOWLAND;[D/O JOSIAH HOWLAND]
Cemetery NumberBR004
Cemetery NameEAST BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1714c
Death Day8
Death MonthAUG
Death Year1737
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map0198
Stone Materialslate
Conditionfair
Shapefancy top
Carvingcoat of arms
Legibilityfair
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2009
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
NotesThis gravestone is a copy of the original which was taken out of the burial ground and is on display at the Jabez Howland house at 33 Sandwich Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The house was built by Jacob Mitchell in 1667, and purchased by Jabez Howland, son of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, two of the original Pilgrims. John and Elizabeth Howland lived in Jabez Howland's home after their own house burned. John Howland died in 1674 and Elizabeth lived there until the house was sold in 1680 and Jabez Howland moved to Rhode Island. Elizabeth moved to the home of her daughter, Lydia Browne, in Swansea, where she died in 1687. The Jabez Howland House was owned as a private residence until 1915. Extensive renovations took place in the 1940s. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Transcribed ByJAM;JES;JWN