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Last Name
VERNON
First Name
WILLIAM
Maiden
Relation
H/O JUDITH
Cemetery Number
NT003
Cemetery Name
COMMON BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1720c
Death Day
22
Death Month
DEC
Death Year
1806
AGE Year
87
AGE Month
0
AGE Day
0
War
REVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section
BH
Lot
Map
00387
Stone Material
marble
Condition
good
Shape
monument
Carving
no carving
Legibility
good
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
106
Stone Width (inches)
24
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2007
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
[Beaman notes following information from inscription: "The Continental Congress appointed him one of the Navy Board established in Boston in 1777 of which body he was the presiding member until its dissolution. In 1747 he was involved with a charter for the Redwood Library. 1791 President Redwood Library. In 1741 an incorporator of the Newport Artillery Company. A long list of other accomplishments." [Major slave trader, merchant and patriot. Placed his house at the disposal of Rochambeau when the French troops were quartered at Newport in the Rev War.][SAR: burial list]
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