This woman's given is somewhat unclear. The first letter resembles both the way the calligrapher of the manuscript wrote a capital "A" and a non-flourished capital "H". Given that the last letter in the given names is an "h", I went with "Hannah". The person who wrote the margin note in the manuscript seems to think that her surname was "Annable".
Approximate birth date calculated from the headstone transcription. Transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
This woman's given is somewhat unclear. The first letter resembles both the way the calligrapher of the manuscript wrote a capital "A" and a non-flourished capital "H". Given that the last letter in the given names is an "h", I went with "Hannah". The person who wrote the margin note in the manuscript seems to think that her surname was "Annable".
Approximate birth date calculated from the headstone transcription. Transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Inscription
From the transcription:
"Here lyes y^e body of Hannah[?] Bacon wife to Nath^ll Bacon, who dec^d. May ye 9th. 1728 in ye 31^st year of her age."
Margin note: "Annable"
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