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Cemetery NumberNT008
TownNEWPORT
Cemetery NameFRIENDS BURIAL GROUND
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LocationTILDEN & FEKE STREETS
StateRI
Direction 
Pole Number5X
Distance15
Map Number 
Page Number 
Plat Number 
Deed Book 
Deed Page 
Size in Feet150
Size in Feet200
Burials500
Inscriptions363
Fieldstones 
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date? 
Newest2008
Oldest1728
VandalismN
Veteran12
PoleP
CommentA refreshing open space in a very built-up neighborhood, the cemetery is surrounded by a chainlink fence. The sign is so badly rusted that it ca hardly be read; it is propped up against the fence. Clearly many of the stones have disappeared as there are wide grassy patches. Presumably many of the people noted in Quaker records are actually buried here---but we may never know because the stones have gone or were, in the early Quaker way, never inscribed. Some of the names in the database come from Alden Beaman's transcription (AGB), some from the continuing efforts of Len Panaggio (LP). In 2006 Barb Austin and Letty Champion photographed all of the stones in this cemetery. These photographs were then used to correct the transcript in the database and to add over 100 stones not transcribed previously. GPS coordinates 41 deg. 29' 36.74"N x 71 deg. 18' 49.42"W
Conditiongood
Enclosuremetal fence
Gategate missing
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 
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