| Cemetery Number | NT022 |
| Town | NEWPORT |
| Cemetery Name | SABBATARIAN CHURCH CEMETERY |
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| Location | [THIS CEMETERY WAS FOUND TO BE IN MIDDLETOWN] |
| State | RI |
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| Comment | The now-extinct Sabbatarian Church in Newport flourished between Dec. 23, 1671 and 1836, with its greatest period of membership and prosperity before the Revolution. See Arnold, 7:623-634 and 11: 297-307 for records. Church building now belongs to the Newport Historical Society. Only 1 burial, that of Elder William Bliss, is supposed to be from the cemetery; the stone now leans against a wall at NHS. 8 other members, including a pastor and a deacon, are buried at the Common Burial Ground, one is at the Island Cemetery. Unclear whether the church actually had its own cemetery.
In 2006 there are 3 stones here.
Samuel Hubbard and his wife, Tase Cooper, formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America in 1671. They were buried in Middletown Historical Cemetery #59 at Berkley's Whitehall Farm. Ezra Stiles recorded his gravestone in 1763. This burial ground was taken up and some of the stones placed into the stone wall. Those that survive are now in the basement of the Middletown Historical Society.
Some members of the Sabbatarian Church fled Newport during the British occupation during the Revolutionary War and took refuge in Hopkinton, site of a Sabbatarian Church. Mary Tanner "of Newport" is buried in their burial ground which is now in the First Hopkinton Cemetery (HP022). Her stone reads "…who to escape the storms and dangers of an unnatural and cruel civil war, took refuge in a rural retreat…" |
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