Colonial Graves

Headstones from colonial cemeteries | Based in Salem, MA

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How did you make your halloween costume, it looks so cool!!!!!!

It’s just a black flight suit from an army surplus store that I stitched EL wire to. The mask is papier mache and EL wire. I just put two different EL wire designs on top of each other and used some cheap RF receivers from ebay to switch between them.

I uploaded some videos to youtube from when I was making the mask that shows the process a little better.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNRkkXHGBnL9E5M1ZbeFKuQ

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In Memory of Benjamin Bartlett A.B. who died Jan. 20th 1795 in the 30th year of his age.

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In Memory of Mrs. Anna Bartlett, Relict of Capt. William Bartlett, who departed this life Sept. 24th 1791 In the 78th year of her age

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HERE LYES YE BODY OF YE REVEREND Mr. JOHN HALE A PIOUS & FAITHFULL MINISTER OF YE GOSPEL & PASTOR OF YE FIRST GATHER'D CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HIS TOWN OF BEVERLY WHO REST'D FROM HIS LABOURS ON YE 15 DAY OF MAY ANNO DOMINI 1700 IN YE 64 YEAR OF HIS AGE

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JOHN HALE HIS WIFE REBECCA AGED 45 YEARS DIED APRIL 30 1683 AND HIS WIFE SARAH AGED 41 YEARS DIED MAY 20 1697 AND HIS DAUGHTER REBECCA HALE AGED 15 YEARS DIED MAY 7 1681

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HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF ROBERT HALE ESQR. PHYSICIN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUARY YE 12th 1718/9 IN YE 51st YEAR OF HIS AGE

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I made a gif of my Halloween costume

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Mrs. ELIZABETH  GILMAN 1762

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BENJAMIN  IVES 1763

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My Halloween costume is (almost) complete, and I am happy with it. When you live in Salem, Massachusetts, your costume better be great.

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This is a quasi-colonial headstone, but this is a special headstone.

This is the headstone of George Jacobs Sr., who was a victim of the Salem Witch Trials. He was hanged on August 19th, 1692. He is the only victim of the witch trials whose body was identified and whose resting place is definitively known.

The below is an excerpt from The Salem News, which briefly tells the story of his remains:

Trask said the most famous person interred in the crypt was not even buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery.

That person was George Jacobs Sr., a Danversport resident who was hanged in August 1692 as part of the Salem witchcraft trials. In those days, those victims were not given proper burials, Trask said, so Jacobs' body was secretly taken back to Danvers to be buried.

In 1957, work on a housing development in Danversport unearthed Jacobs' remains, Trask said, and the body spent 10 years in the crypt, Trask said. Jacobs' remains were later buried in a small, family graveyard on the grounds of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers.

He was finally buried in 1992, and the rumor is that it only happened because the state wanted to avoid the bad publicity of having the bones of a witch trial victim remain unburied on the 300th anniversary of the trials.

He is buried in the family graveyard of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, MA. Rebecca Nurse was also a victim of the witch trials.

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In Memory of Charlotte Lovett, daughr of Capt. John & Mrs. Hannah Lovett born Octr. 26th 1795 died Octr. 22d 1796

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HERE LYES Ye BODY OF ELIZABETH PATCH WHO DIED JANRY 15th 1715 AD 85 YeAs

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In Memory of Mrs. REBECCA LOVETT Relict of Mr. JOSIAH LOVETT who departed this Life Febr. 13th 1787 Aged 80 years

In Memory of Mr. JOSIAH LOVETT who departed this Life June 22d 1771 in the 70th year of his age