Died of Smallpox. The eminent diarist and judge, Samuel Sewall, Sr., was a pallbearer, as we learned through Sewall's late-in-life letter to his son of same name. A handwritten transcript of this letter was found in the back-pages, upside down, in a notebook owned by Sewall Jr. called "Arithmetick and Copy-book." The letter is now digitized. A link for the page in this letter of which Joseph Tappin is referenced may be viewed at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/digitized/fa0242/s171-3-24#206∼Age 25
Died of Smallpox. The eminent diarist and judge, Samuel Sewall, Sr., was a pallbearer, as we learned through Sewall's late-in-life letter to his son of same name. A handwritten transcript of this letter was found in the back-pages, upside down, in a notebook owned by Sewall Jr. called "Arithmetick and Copy-book." The letter is now digitized. A link for the page in this letter of which Joseph Tappin is referenced may be viewed at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/digitized/fa0242/s171-3-24#206∼Age 25
Inscription
Tympanum:
FUGIT HORA
MEMENTO MORI
Bottom left panel:
JOSEPH
TAPPING
AGED 23
YEARS
DEC'D DEC'R
ye 20
1678
Middle Panel:
TEMPUS ERAT
Right Panel:
VIVE
MEMOR LOETHI
FUGIT HORA
Y
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