This appears to be the transcription of a cenotaph meant to memorialize Benjamin. He is presumably buried in North Carolina. A similar cenotaph is found in this cemetery for Samuel Annable, who died within nine days of Benjamin, also in North Carolina. Approximate birth date calculated from the transcription.
Headstone transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Allyn", page 1.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Samuel Annable, 1774-1814
Headstone transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Allyn", page 1.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Samuel Annable, 1774-1814
This appears to be the transcription of a cenotaph meant to memorialize Benjamin. He is presumably buried in North Carolina. A similar cenotaph is found in this cemetery for Samuel Annable, who died within nine days of Benjamin, also in North Carolina. Approximate birth date calculated from the transcription.
Headstone transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Allyn", page 1.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Samuel Annable, 1774-1814
Headstone transcription from:
"Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894."
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Allyn", page 1.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Samuel Annable, 1774-1814
Inscription
From the transcription:
"Benjamin Allyn son of Lucy and Benjamin died in North Carolina Aug^st 14th. 1814 in his 33rd year."
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