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Cemetery Number
MT075
Town
MIDDLETOWN
Cemetery Name
PAUL WHITMAN LOT
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ISLAND ROAD
State
RI
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10
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on the Whitehall Farm condominium development, formerly Berkeley's Whitehall Farm. Paul Whitman (1749-1817 and his wife Harriet (Reynolds) were tenants at Whitehall under a lease made with Yale College in 1801 (Middletown Land Evidence 4:302-307) Paul Robinson hanged himself there on 19 May 1817 age 68 (Newport Mercury 24 May 1817) Paul Whitman and his first wife Harriet are buried here in unmarked graves. (George Whitman of Quidnesset, RI and His Descendants by Mary Ross Whitman (Chicago 1939) p. 81)
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