Gravestone Record

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Person Details
Gravestone photograph
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name CHANNING
First Name JOHN
Maiden
Relation H/O MARY (CHALONER)
Cemetery Number NT003
Cemetery Name COMMON BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day 0
Birth Month
Birth Year 1715c
Death Day 20
Death Month FEB
Death Year 1771
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years 56
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service
Gravestone Details
Section BF
Lot
Map 00324
Stone Material slate
Condition poor
Shape box tomb
Carving no carving
Legibility poor
Number of Graves on Stone 1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2007
Carver JOHN BULL
Notes/Misc Details
Notes "Merchant" [death year broken] In the papers of the American Slave Trade there is a bill from John Bull to William Channing for his father's gravestone (John Channing, d. 1771). Bull charged 300 pounds, 280 for the stone and an additional 20 pounds 15s. 6d. For "cutting 277 letters" at 1s. 6d. Per letter.
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