Identifier: handbookofoldbur00inperk (find matches)
Title: Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Perkins, Frank Herman, b. 1854 Burbank, A. S. (Alfred Stevens)
Subjects: Epitaphs Cemeteries
Publisher: Plymouth, Mass. : A.S. Burbank, Pilgrim Bookstore
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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•^\ r f/*£&&$> ^jJ^- Mrs. Alice Hallett Nichols or Boston, in 1664. He lived forsome years in Boston, and also in Harwich, of which town he wasone of the original proprietors. He died in Plymouth, havinglived in the reigns of six British sovereigns and the Comth.This stone is erected to his memory by his descendants A.D. 1891, It is with reverent step that the latter-day Pilgrimapproaches the Cushman monument, an enduringmemorial to a precious servant of God. This is18 a granite column, twenty-five feet high, and it is byfar the most conspicuous monument on the hill.There is a bronze tablet on each of its four sides, thaton the northerly side reading as follows : — -d
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CUSHMAN MONUMENT.19 ROBERT CUSHMAX, Fellow-exile with the Pilgrims in Holland, Afterwards their chief agent in England, Arrived here-IX-November,-MDCXXI, With Thomas Cushman his son: Preached -IX- December, His memorable sermon on The Danger of self-love And the sweetness of true friendship : Returned to England -XIII- December, To vindicate the enterprise of Christian emigration; And there remained in the service of the Colony Till -MDCXXV, When, having prepared to make Plymouth His permanent home. West side : — He died, lamented by the forefathersas their ancient friend, — who wasas their right hand with their friendsthe adventurers, and for divers yearshad done and agitated all their businesswith them to their great advantage. And you, my loving friends, the adventurers to this plantation, as your care has been first to settle religion here before either profit or popularity, so, I pray you, go on. I rejoice that you thus honor God with your riches, and I trust you shall be rep

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