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Cemetery NumberSK067
TownSOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery NameCAPT THOMAS TRUXTON HARVEY LOT
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LocationWALMSLEY ROAD
StateRI
DirectionE
Pole Number3
Distance20
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Size in Feet35
Size in Feet20
Burials6
Inscriptions6
Fieldstones0
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Exist?YES
Last seen date?2002
Newest1905
Oldest1862
VandalismN
Veteran 
PoleM
CommentThis cemetery is located beside the road on the east side of Walmsley Road (AKA Pettaquamscutt Road) at telephone pole #3, three hundred feet north of Bridgetown Road. It is 35 feet x 20 feet, in good condition, enclosed with a stone wall, and the historical cemetery sign is missing. It contains six marked burials with six inscribed stones, with one missing in 2001. Commodore Thomas Truxton served in the merchant service before the American Revolution, was a privateersman during that war, and served in the young U.S. Navy after 1794, becoming a naval hero in the “Quasi War” with France. Many unrelated little boys, like Thomas Truxton Harvey, were named for this famous man during the early years of the nineteenth century. James N. Arnold recorded this lot Mar. 29, 1880, his #70, “at Bridgetown on land of Capt. Thomas T. Harvey at side of road is a burial yard of his family, fairly protected.” Recorded by John Sterling and James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Conditiongood
Enclosurestone wall
Gateno gate
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 

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