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Cemetery NumberWY048
TownWESTERLY
Cemetery NameCAPT JEDDO THOMPSON GROUND
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LocationFRANKLIN ST.
StateRI
DirectionSW
Pole Number4735
Distance1200
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Size in Feet50
Size in Feet50
Inscriptions7
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Exist?YES
Last seen date?2013
Newest1847
Oldest1738
Vandalism 
Veteran1
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CommentLocated 1200 feet southwest of Franklin Street behind the Stop and Shop. It is 350 feet south of the end of Charles Ave. Rev. Frederic Denison recorded this lot in 1867-8: "This is located about one hundred rods west from the post-road, nearly midway between the post-road annd the road leading from the quaries to Mr. Burrell Thompson's wharf, on the land of Isaac L. Edwards, in the edge of a pasture, on the slope of a hill, and is inclosed by a wall. It contains upward of forty graves, most of them with only rough, uninscribed headstones."
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Enclosurestone wall
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