Mary
Joseph
Elizabeth
Sarah
Note: The Bridgewater Historical Commission sent a letter dated September 6, 1994 in response to a letter from the Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and stated that, yes, the town would like the headstone returned. The letter states that the gravestone will be returned to it's proper location. That has not happened, yet.
Sources: History of Bridgewater by Nahum Mitchell, (pub. 1840, 1897, 1970, 1975), One World Tree - Ancestry.com and Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater Massachusetts by Williams Latham (pub. 1882).
Mary
Joseph
Elizabeth
Sarah
Note: The Bridgewater Historical Commission sent a letter dated September 6, 1994 in response to a letter from the Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and stated that, yes, the town would like the headstone returned. The letter states that the gravestone will be returned to it's proper location. That has not happened, yet.
Sources: History of Bridgewater by Nahum Mitchell, (pub. 1840, 1897, 1970, 1975), One World Tree - Ancestry.com and Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater Massachusetts by Williams Latham (pub. 1882).
Inscription
Here lies the body of Mr. John Packard, who decd March ye 16th, 1741, in ye 85th year of his age.
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