| Cemetery Number | NT025 |
| Town | NEWPORT |
| Cemetery Name | G. E. MORAVIAN CHURCH LOT |
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| Graves List | Display Graves List |
| Location | CHURCH & HIGH STS. |
| State | RI |
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| Last seen date? | 1869 |
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| Comment | This branch of the Moravian or United Brethren sect was founded in Newport
in 1749, records begin Nov. of 1758. A house of worship was built in
1767-1768 on the site of the present Kay Chapel (built in 1869). Henry
Turner notes that Mary Malling (1712-1772) gave the lot from which her
remains were removed; Arnold cites the deed from Mary Mallens to Society of
United Brethren in Bk. 16, Land Evidence, p.53 (Arnold, 7:610). Arnold's
transcription of the church records (ibid.) gives names of 84 members who
died between late Nov. 1758 and Mar. 1833. It is not known whether all of
these were originally buried in the Moravian lot, but certainly some were.
Tuckerman mentions this former cemetery in his article "The Graves
of Newport" in Harpers' Magazine, Aug. 1869: "Thus, in the Schoolhouse
Yard, on Church Street, two or three upright grave-stones hidden amidst
bushes and weeds mark the site of the Moravian church, since converted into
an Episcopal chapel--the sect having died out in the place" (p. 373). The
"Newport Mercury" for Nov. 11, 1882 has an article "THE MORAVIAN CHURCH-The
Disposition of the Remains from the Old Burying Ground." On information
received from John H. Greene, the writer states that at the time th
property was sold, the remains were removed by James A. Greene and Samuel
Engs to the Common Burial Ground. In the family lot of John and Samuel I.
Greene a white marble monument commemorated Richard, Thomas, and Mary
Hayward, as well as Mary Malling; it says that the remains were moved in
July 1867.
Of the 84 names we have records of 24 stones in our database, all but
1 in the Common Burial Ground. The other is in the Willow section of the
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