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Here lieth in hope of a Joyfull Resurrection the Body of Mary the wife of Captain Francis Page of Bruton Parish in the Dominion of Virginia. Daughter of Edward Diggs of Hampton Parish in the same Dominion Esquire who departed this life the Eighteenth Day of March in the year of our Lord 1690. Aged 32. Thy modest, meek and pious Soul did shine with well Temper'd Nature and Grace Divine One to Excell in beauty few Could Find Yet thy Rarest Features were of the minde Thou was a Faithful and Vertuous wife Thou Greatly Loved peace and hated strife Thou wast a prudent and tender Mother a true loving Sister to Each Brother a Choice Friend a Kind Neighbour to all a Good Christian Ready at God's call thou lived and dy'd upon Christ Relying thou dyd to sin and now lives by Dying thy Faith Doth yield they Piety Doth Give Restoratives to make thee Ever live thrice blest Friend this Epitaph is thy due when saints arise thy Lord will say its true.
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