
Coles Hill Burial Ground
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
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After rain storms had washed many of the remains out of the hill, it was decided in 1921 that the remains should be excavated and placed into a stone sarcophagus that now sits at the top of the hill overlooking the harbor.
The inscription on the Sarcophagus reads:
Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should learn how many were their graves. Reader, history records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man through countless ages should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our Republic throughout the world.
After rain storms had washed many of the remains out of the hill, it was decided in 1921 that the remains should be excavated and placed into a stone sarcophagus that now sits at the top of the hill overlooking the harbor.
The inscription on the Sarcophagus reads:
Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, leveling the earth above them lest the Indians should learn how many were their graves. Reader, history records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man through countless ages should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our Republic throughout the world.
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- Added: 12 Aug 2008
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