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Person Details
Last Name
MCSPARRAN
First Name
JAMES
Maiden
Relation
Cemetery Number
NK036
Cemetery Name
PLATFORM CEMETERY
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
Death Day
0
Death Month
Death Year
1757
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
Stone Material
granite
Condition
Shape
monument
Carving
Legibility
Number of Graves on Stone
0
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
1991
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
"Erected to the grateful memory of James McSparran, D.D. by authority of the Dioces of Rhode Island in 1868. Missionary of the Venerable Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts and Rector of the church then here from 1721 to his death in 1757. He was buried beneath this stone. Here also lie the remains of the Reverend Samuel Fayerweather, his successor, from 1760 to 1781. St. Paul's Church, Narragansett was built here in 1707 and removed to Wickford in 1800.
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