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Cemetery NumberPO041
TownPORTSMOUTH
Cemetery NamePRUDENCE ISLAND CEMETERY
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LocationHOMESTEAD AVE.
StateRI
DirectionW
Pole Number 
Distance170
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Deed Book 
Deed Page 
Size in Feet100
Size in Feet160
Inscriptions40
Fieldstones70
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?1992
Newest1973
Oldest1748
VandalismYES
Veteran6
Pole 
CommentThis cemetery is 170 feet west of Homestead Ave. opposite Alice Ave, near the center of the island, half a mile from the eastern shore. DAR members transcribed this lot, then in very poor condition, in 1941. They found 44 stones either obliterated or broken. John C. Thresher recorded this data ca. 1992. Charles C. Maytum in his "Paragraphs on Early Prudence Island," 1964, refers to this as "The Old Cemetery" sited on land first leased to the Allin family in the 1660s. He tells a romantic story of two stones (those of Caleb Allin and Caleb Hill) being split by a cannonball from the British ship 'Juno' in Sept. 1777. He records the Dennis monument with two more names than were legible when it was transcribed in 1992. These are entered with a transcriber code CCM.
Conditionpoor
Enclosurestone wall
Gateno gate
Growthcleared
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 
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