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Person Details
Last Name
[MATTESON]
First Name
[HENRY]
Maiden
Relation
Cemetery Number
WG076
Cemetery Name
CAPT HENERY MATTESON LOT
Birth Day
Birth Month
Birth Year
Death Day
Death Month
Death Year
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
Stone Material
fieldstone
Condition
fair
Shape
crude fieldstone
Carving
no carving
Legibility
fair
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2012
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
The progenitor of the Matteson family in America Henry Matteson is thought to be buried in this burial ground, possibly under this fieldstone. We have used every technique we have learned in 25 years of recording and photographing gravestones to read this fieldstone. We were told by one of his descendants that this is his gravestone and that they can read the initials "M D" and the date "1693" on this stone. We can not see that on their photo and made several photos using a mirror to light the stone and can still read nothing. To complicate the location of this grave the Matteson Historical Congress of America placed a memorial stone in East Greenwich historical cemetery #7, Vaughn Lot. Henry Matteson and his wife Hannah bought land in East Greenwich after King Phillips War (1675-1676) that contains this burial ground. There is no marked gravestone for him in the East Greenwich burial ground. It will be left to future researchers to discover where he is actually buried.
Transcribed By
JWN