Cyndy : photos : ENFIELD : Have seen many old gravestones but not like this... -- Deacon Joseph Kingsbury, died June 8,1806, aged 8(7?) and 2 months. Mary, wife of Dea. Joseph Kingsbury, died Dec. 1800 in her 75th year.- powered by SmugMug

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Cyndy > Established as the township of Enfield, 1683, this area was part of the Springfield Plantation (now Springfield,Mass.) granted to William Pynchon and others of the Massachusetts General Court. Springfield settled 1636 but no effectual grants were made here until after King Philip's War of 1675-1676.
In 1679 John Pease and his brother Robert, of Salem,Mass., visited the land and spent the winter alone in a hut on the hillside of the present Enfield Street Cemetery. The next spring,1680, they removed their families along with their father, John Pease,Sr, and Elisha Kibbe to the Freshwater Planatation. Within 3 years, 30 more families joined them.
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Cyndy > In 1688, a purchase for £25 sterling was made of the Indian sachem Nottatuck of all the lands from the Asnuntuck (or Freshwater Brook) to the Umquatuck at the foot of the falls, and extending eight miles east. The Springfield (Massachusetts Bay Colony town) Committe governed Enfield until 1693, when the town began to control their own affairs.
Enfield became a part of Connecticut in 1749 by secession from the royal governor of Massachusetts Bay and union with the charter government of Connecticut. the groundwork for such as step had been laid for more than a century earlier by an error of the surveyors Woodward and Saffery, who in 1642 established a boundary between the colonies running southward nearly to the site of Windsor.
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Cyndy > Congregational Church of Enfield, organized 1683

Cyndy > The Congregational Church of Enfield.......

Cyndy > Have seen many old gravestones but not like this...
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Deacon Joseph Kingsbury, died June 8,1806, aged 8(7?) and 2 months.
Mary, wife of Dea. Joseph Kingsbury, died Dec. 1800 in her 75th year.

Cyndy > Laurana Meacilam, formerly consort of Christopher Parsons,
who died July 18,1826. Aged 70

Cyndy > Still readable after 189 years !
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Lemuel Terry who died in 17 hours after he was taken sick which was Aug. 24th, 1814 in the 40th year of his age.

Cyndy > Mrs.Susanna , wife of Mr. Simeon Parsons who departed this life July 31, 1788, in the 28th year of her age.

Cyndy > Gideon Pease...O.B. August 19, 1815, ae 62 years

(anyone know what "O.B." stands for ? )

Have seen many old gravestones but not like this...
--
Deacon Joseph Kingsbury, died June 8,1806, aged 8(7?) and 2 months.
Mary, wife of Dea. Joseph Kingsbury, died Dec. 1800 in her 75th year.

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