1747 Tombstone 🌞 Stratford, CT USA Olde Colonial Graveyard 2

Just off of Main Street in downtown Stratford, Connecticut you’ll find an olde cemetary dating back 300 years... this guy was born in 1695!

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The inscription reads:

Here lie the Remains of
Mr. JOSEPH PRINCE
4th Son of Samuel Prince Esqr.
by Mercy his 2nd wife of
Sandwich where he was
born April ? 1695 and
Died here Dec.mr 4th 1747
in the 53rd year of his Age

Much beloved and lamented

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A bronze (or could it be lead?) plaque with the Prince coat-of-arms is still attached to the stone. These tiny red Clover Mites were running wild along the surface!

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