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Cemetery Number	NT027
Town	NEWPORT
Cemetery Name	GOV. CALEB CARR GROUND
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Location	MILL ST. [REMOVED TO JAMESTOWN]
State	RI
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Last seen date?	1900
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Comment	Was located on Mill Street west of the Coddington School. Removed to Jamestown in 1900. Now registered as JM001 & NT027 to indicate it original location and the present location. Mentioned in G.H. Richardson's "Scrapbook," Book 974, p. 24, print of ms at NHS. Richardson says the bodies were removed to Jamestown by a descendant (Mrs. John Foster Carr) Sept. 8, 1900 and reburied at a site on the west side of East South Road. See transit permit dated 10 September 1900 inthe Jamestown Town Clerk's office.
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