Benjamin Wadsworth (1707-1771) - Find a Grave Memorial

Benjamin Wadsworth

Birth

4 Dec 1707

Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Death

17 Oct 1771 (aged 63)

Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Burial

Milton Cemetery

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Benjamin Wadsworth, son of John & Elizabeth (Vose) Wardsworth was born in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts 4 December 1707. He married in Milton on 11 December 1735, Esther Tucker. Deacon Benjamin Wadsworth died in Milton 17 October 1771 at the age of 63 years.

Source: Vital Records of Milton, Massachusetts
New England Historic Genealogical Society - Research Library
Call # F74.M66 M37 - 1900

Inscription

Here lies buried the body of
DEACON BENJAMIN WADSWORTH
who departed this life
Oct. 17th, 1771
in ye 64 year of his age,
having served in ye office of deacon in ye Church at Milton, 28 years; he lived respected and died lamenter.

"How rich ye stores of grace lay hid behind
The wait of modesty, no humand mind
Can search, no friend declare, nor fame reveal--
Nor has this mournful pillar power to tell.
Yet there's a hastening hour, it comes, it comes
To rouse ye sleeping dead, to burst ye tombs
And set ye saints in view. All eyes behold,
While ye vast records of ye skies unrolled
Rehearse his deeds ye spread his worth abroad,
Ye Judge approves and Heaven & earth applaud"

Source:
Watts: "A History of Milton, Mass. 1647 to 1887"
Page 497