Work Sessions at the Endicott Cemetery, Danvers, MA

  A work session was conducted Sep 17-19 2020 at the Endicott cemetery in Danvers, Massachusetts following a proposal made by Michael Carroll of Rediscovering History, a Connecticut organization specializing in the restoration of ancient cemeteries. 21 people attended, either to work or to observe the proceedings.

Summary of work done

  Many grave stones (hereafter re-ferred to as “stones”) were cleaned. Several that were broken were epoxied back together including 2 big ones.

One large stone was re-erected and epoxied into its vertical position. Sev-eral new stones were unearthed. Work was started to restore them. Work was started but not completed on restoring the large table of Samuel Endicott. This proved to be more complex than anticipated. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) detected what appear to be a number of other unmarked graves

but did not discover any evidence of anyone being buried where legend says two British soldiers had been buried.

Surprisingly a large intact original stone was unearthed at the foot of the large Fidelia Endicott stone. Why a duplicate of this stone was made instead of just resurrecting this original is unknown.

Susan Endicott Mitchell at one time owned the cemetery. Susan and Eve Endicott, a lawyer and JEFA member attended the event in order to deter-mine who legally owns the cemetery. Four shopping carts of trash were removed from the approach to and from within the cemetery. Removal of graffiti on the cemetery wall was started but not completed.

 The following 21 people attended the session on one or more days. Names and Roles:

Endicotts

1.   Bill Endicott, President of JEFA and overall coordinator of the session. 

2.  Jack Endicott Lawrence. JEFA member who helped coordinate the session.

3.   Eve Endicott, JEFA member whose idea it was originally to restore the cemetery. 

4.   Susan Endicott Mitchell. The cemetery was originally willed to her by her father Winthrop Endicott. 

5.   Morgan Endicott Mitchell, daughter of Susan

 

Rediscovering History

6.   Michael Carroll, president of Rediscovering History, a volunteer team of passionate individuals specializing in repairing ancient cemeteries for the purpose of learning about American history. 

7.   Lisa Caiazzo, Michael’s fiancée, Rediscovering History. 

8.   Keegen Day, Rediscovering His-tory. Age 19, but astoundingly knowledgeable about New England grave-stones.

9.   Larry Hunter, also of Rediscovering History

 Danvers Historical Society

10.   Dave McKenna, Vice President of DHS, which is the steward of the Endicott cemetery. He also helped co-ordinate the event. 

11.   Laura Cilley, works at DHS. It was her idea and she worked with Michael Carroll on it to get our event listed in “Sails and Trails” a Danvers publication about events occurring in the area, which is how members of the public heard about it.

 Danvers, MA

12.   Richard Trask, Danvers town archivist and JEFA member. He said the left-hand quadrant of the cemetery, as you look at it is standing in the entrance, is where Zerubbabel is supposedly buried. He explained in that age often grave markers were made of wood and they have rotted away long ago.

Regarding the two British soldiers, Richard said there has been a competing legend that the two soldiers were actually buried elsewhere in Danvers, closer to the actual British encampment. But Richard said that the proponent of this theory and began to doubt towards the end of his life. 

Bridgewater State University

13.   Dr. Michael Zimmerman, of Bridgewater State University who handled the extensive GPR project. 

 Members of the public

14.   Christian Clemson, one of the 2 grounds maintenance men at Glen Magna 

15.   Giovanna Limuli 

16.   Annie Harris

17 -18. Donovan and Pamela Louks 

19. Stacy Kilb 

20. Donald R. Friary History For Hire 

21. One other from Gloucester who did not leave contact information

Chronological account of the project

Before the session

• Michael and Lisa assembled the equipment needed for the project. They also brought at 10 x 20 foot canopy to erect over the site in case of rain which was predicted early on. We ended up having perfect weather.

• Dave McKenna cut brush to make entry to the cemetery easier.

• Michael worked with Laura Cilley to place an announcement in Sails and
Trails https://www.trailsandsails.org/, a local website announcing area events. This resulted in several members of the public attending the event, one couple as far away as Rhode Island. Laura Cil-ley also made several signs that Dave McKenna posted at the entrance to the cemetery. Enabling newcomers to find their way.

• Jack Lawrence arranged to have a porta-pottie delivered to the site.

• Bill Endicott tracked down Susan Endicott Mitchell who lives in Maine and invited her to the event. He also arranged a vote of the JEFA trustees for the $1,000 donation to Rediscoering History and engaged in other coordination for the event.

Work Session Schedule

• Friday 3-5 pm. Michael, Lisa, Keegen, and Bill, having just driven up from Connecticut, met Dave McKenna at the cemetery to prep everything for Saturday and Sunday. Susan Endicott Mitchell and her daughter Morgan Endicott Mitchell also arrived.

• Saturday 9am – 5:30 pm main work session. Details below.

• Sunday 8-9 am coffee and dough-nuts at the Glen Magna estate. A note about the Glen Magna visit. We were basically in the garden area. Bill asked where the bench was where the assas-sination attempt on Joseph Chamber-lain, sitting beside wife Mary Endicott, had taken place and Christian Camer-on, the grounds manager, pointed it out. So, Bill set up a reenactment of the event with himself and Eve End-icott representing Joseph and Mary, Dave McKenna as the would-be assas-sin creeping up behind them, and Jack Lawrence representing a bodyguard who chased him away. Lisa filmed the whole thing!

• Saturday 9:15 am – 3:30 pm final work session at the cemetery and then depart for home.

 

New England gravestones

I learned from Keegan Day that sometimes the style of a gravestone –– hereafter referred to simply as a “stone”–– does not comport with the date on the stone. This indicates the stone is a replacement and not an original. Which is often referred to as “back dating.” This is what’s happened in the Endicott cemetery. Replacement stones believed to have been provided in the 1880’s and then again in 1914.

New England stones can be divided into the following categories:

• 1600s – 1780s

Religious imagery

These are characterized by religious imagery, such as sculls with wings on either side at the top of the stone and/ or the words “memento mori” (Latin for “remember you have to die”), an artistic or symbolic reminder that death is inevitable, which became popular in the late 16th century. These stones are often very artistic, with filigrees on the sides, indentations at the top, and lengthy inscriptions, sometimes poetic, on them. These are usually made of slate or brownstone.

There are two major types of this religious imagery.

1.  The first is more stern Puritan imagery, more grim, less hopeful. It would be something like sculls, or wings sculls and cross bones, or Father Time snuffing out a candle.

• 1740s-1750s

2.  The second type is the winged cherub/winged angel type. This is associated with the Great Awaken-ing in the 1740s-1750s. The images became less stern and more hopeful. So, for example, a frightening scull would now become a cherub or a normal face. The scull would still be used in some instances but less frequently now.

• 1790s – 1860s. Phasing out of religious imagery. Gradually, during this period the religious images were phased out with urns and willows and other non-religious imagery at the top replacing them. This was largely due to the beginning of the neoclassical era of design, tombstone borders would change from vines or plants to pillars or abstract symbols.

Eventually from the 1820’s onward stones became simpler with much of the artistry, sadly, lost. Finally, the in-scriptions are usually much more basic, such as having just the person’s name and birth and death dates. These are usually made of marble gradually shifting from materials like slate, sandstone, or schist during the first few decades of the 19th century.

• 1880s – present

More and more during this period, marble was phased out around the turn of the 20th century and replaced by polished granite stones.

If you see a stone with the death date 1723 on it, but it’s made of granite or marble, you know is a replacement stone. It’s what’s known as a “backdated stone” in the trade and not an original.

They often have the initials of the person on them, which can sometimes be indispensable in determining who the person is, should the headstone be missing.

Foot Stones

Most graves have a headstone, which is what we have been talking about until now. But they usually also have a foot stone about 5-6 feet

away from the headstone. Footstones are much shorter, maybe rising only a foot or so off the ground. They often have the initials of the person on them –– which can sometimes be indispens-able in determining who the person is, should the headstone be missing. A footstone from the Endicott cem-etery is shown on the extreme right of the 1926 photo on page 1.

Detail of work conducted

The work session was conducted as 3 major projects, ground penetrating radar, restoration of the Samuel Endi-cott table; cleaning many stones, which included unearthing some new stones and epoxying one big one back in its upright position:

 

Ground Penetrating Radar

Dr. Michael Zimmerman led this with the assistance of Larry Hunter of Rediscovering History. Overall, his work is helping with measuring and mapping the cemetery. What he is discovering adds to the map and measurements of the cemetery that Dave McKenna had provided. During the work session these measurements were confirmed and adjusted based on what was observed that day. Michael worked all day Saturday and processed about a quarter of the cemetery. He will return later to complete the rest. Ground-penetrat-ing radar uses an antenna to send a radar pulse that reflects off of a buried object. The velocity of waves changes depending on the material through which they travel, allowing researchers to determine how deep the anomaly might be. The process involves moving what looks like a lawn mower back and forth across the cemetery at precisely 25-centimeter increments. The machine picks up images under the ground. At the lab, the images are turned in to a 3-dimentional picture.

In order for the machine to work properly, grass and weeds in the area first had to be clipped away and, in some cases, where there were divots in the ground, boards had to be laid overthem, so the machine had a solid base to traverse. Michael said that he got many “hits” in the quadrant of the cemetery that he processed, which is the lower left-hand quadrant of the cemetery as you are standing in the entrance. This indicated to him that there are probably many graves there for which there are no markers showing.

British soldiers

There is an old legend contained in William Crowninshield Endicott’s book Memoir of Samuel Endicott that two British officers were buried in the upper left-hand corner of the Endicott cemetery between two pine trees. Although this wasn’t the quadrant that Michael was working on, I didn’t want to go back home without finding out whether those British soldiers were actually there or not. So, I asked if he could make some passes with the radar where the soldiers were supposedly buried. He didn't detect any evidence of the British Soliders remains. How-ever, the next day, Dave McKenna and Michael Carroll prodded the area with their long metal probes and hit some-thing solid under the ground. The area still needs to be explored further. Until then we don't know what's there.

 

Repair of Samuel Endicott Marble Table Stone

Michael Carroll headed up this project, which involved a huge amount of work. Michael believes the fin-ished product will be a big “wow” moment when you see it. Another ‘wow moment’ is resurrecting the large John Endicott stone. The stone will be surrounded by a chain attached to 4 black pillars. The pillars currently have no chain. It’s one of the first things that hits you as you step into the cemetery.

Samuel Endicott (1763-1828) was the son of John and Martha (Putnam) Endicott. He was a 6th generation de-scendant of Governor John Endecott. He was a prominent member of the community which is why he rated a table instead of an ordinary grave marker. In 1924 Samuel’s great-grandson, William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. (son of the Secretary of War in the first Grover Cleveland administration) wrote a fascinating biography about Samuel, “Memoir of Samuel Endicott,” found at https://archive.org/stream/ memoirofsamuelen00endi/memoirof-samuelen00endi_djvu.txt

 

It contains intriguing tidbits such as this:

“At age sixteen, in 1779, Samuel En-dicott went to sea and for a time was made a prisoner in England, at Dart-moor Prison.” This occurred during the American Revolution.

William states that the early part of Samuel’s life he was as a ship captain from which he retired in 1805. He then followed mercantile pursuits as a ship owner and merchant. He was frequent-ly one of the selectmen of the town of Salem, where he lived. He also rep-resented Salem in the Massachusetts legislature. In May 1794, he married Elisabeth Putnam, the daughter of William Putnam of Sterling, Mass. He and his brothers, John and Moses, owned "Orchard Farm" the homestead of Governor John Endecott, where the cemetery and the Endicott Pear Tree are now. The account even describes the burial of Samuel Endicott and the table placed at his grave.

Anyone interested in the Endicott cemetery in general needs to read W.C. Jr’s book since it’s almost like a tour guide to the cemetery telling a lot not only about Samuel, but about other Endicotts buried there. The problem in restoring this table was that it was laying on the ground in a dozen pieces, one of which weighs several hundred pounds. The whole table once sat on pedestals that have disappeared. They were fastened to a solid stone base which is still there. The restoration process began with removing all the small pieces from the ground and placing them on a big table constructed with long boards suspend-ed between 2 sawhorses. Then the dirt on the edges of the pieces had to be removed so that the epoxy (which is specifically made for this purpose in Germany) can get a good bond. Eve Endicott did a lot of this scrubbing and cleaning.

Michael then epoxied all of these pieces together on Saturday and let it dry overnight. On Sunday, he and several others lifted the big piece weighing several hundred pounds onto a heavy plastic board. They then brought the pieces from Saturday, now all together in one unit, over there and Michael epoxied that unit onto the big piece. So, now the whole things is back together (with a few small missing sections). Later, probably in the spring, he will return and fill in any cracks with special filler than can be tinted to closely resemble the color of the original.

Now, we need to obtain two things: a quarter inch metal sheet upon which the assembled marble table will rest to support it (Michael’s already ordered it) and 4 posts upon which this whole thing will rest. In the spring we will assemble it all. There was once a fence around the table and we’ll have to decide what to do about that

 

Cleaning and repairing

Lisa headed up this project. She trained Bill Endicott, Susan Endicott Mitchell, Morgan Endicott Mitchell, and others how to do the cleaning. Keegan Day, who of course already knew how to do it, all did some.

The cleaning process involves the following stages:

1.     Spritz water onto the stone and scrub with a brush to remove dirt as best you can.

2.   Spritz the chemical D2 onto the stone and scrub in a circular motion. This will work up a lather and suddenly the stone will start to reappear under-neath it in its original color.

3.   Spritz water on the stone going in rows from left to right and back again, working your way down the stone. The stone will become brighter and brighter.

4.   If the stone is made of anything except marble, it will clean up pretty quickly. But if it is marble, you may have to repeat the process several times and scrub harder!

5.   Once the stone is sitting in the sun, it will continue to brighten up over the next few days.

- Lisa said the protective value of the D2 will mean you won’t have to clean the stone again for 100 years.

Almost all headstones and foot-stones in the cemetery underwent this cleaning process.

Finding new stones

While our crew was cleaning, Mi-chael Carroll was probing the ground looking for pieces of stone that may have belonged to damaged stones.

What Michael found

1.   Unearthed the stone for Mary P. Gardner who died in 1827 at age 2 that was buried and not visible.

2.   Unearthed the stone for John Endicott who died on March 11, 1816. The stone in 5 pieces, with some others missing, and they also were buried and not visible. This John Endicott was 6’ 2” but left too late to participate in the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, encountering the troops returning from it. He made up for it

by taking part in later battles of the Revolution. John Endicott (died 1816), Ingersoll Endicott, a Civil War veteran, and John Endicott who died in 1931, a WWI veteran, would all be entitled to have American flag veteran markers on their graves.

3.   Unearthed a large intact, completely unbroken stone in memory of Fidelia Endicott, the wife of John Endicott, born March 23, 1788 and died September 11, 1854. This was an incredible find because it was buried at the foot of the existing large stone commemorating Fidelia. Stone was buried perpendicular to the existing stone and seemed to have been deliberately placed this way. Why would anyone go to all the trouble of creating a replacement stone when the stone already existed? Why was the original stone buried at all? We just don’t know yet.

The stone was cleaned off. It was amazingly well preserved with very few flaws. It was placed it back-to-back with the existing stone.

4.   Found a cremation urn for a Lois Endicott who died in 1964 buried close to the stone for another John Endicott, 
the one who died in 1931. Lois now becomes the most recent burial at the Endicott cemetery. The urn was buried in the ground on top of what

appears to be a grave that is unmarked, although a large piece of stone lay next to that spot with just the word PRIN-CESS carved in it.

 

Our hypothesis

We later discovered via the internet that John Endicott was married to a Muriel Endicott, born in 1898 (death date as yet unknown) and Lois was their daughter, dying of a heart attack in Philadelphia. We also found that Lois was unmarried and lived with her mother for at least 29 years and that Muriel was alive at the time of Lois’s death. So perhaps Lois placed the Lo-is’s urn in a grave beside John Endicott and that PRINCESS refers to Lois. But it’s also possible that what appears to be an unmarked grave next to John Endicott is actually the grave of Muriel with the cremation urn of her daughter buried on top of it. We just don’t know yet how this all fits together.

 

Investigated large sandstone base

In the top right of the cemetery, close to the Lois situation, there is a large, heavy sandstone base that looks as though it once had something on top of it. Michael, Keegan, and Jack Lawrence raised it off the ground, but found nothing underneath it. We think now that it was the base for a whole other marble table because Michael found some marble pieces on the ground that he thinks were once part of the table.

Some interesting people buried in the cemetery

We’re learning more and more about the individuals buried in the Endicott cemetery.

Three sample stories that I know about already:

1.  Elizabeth Jacobs Endecott (died 1809 at age 90). William C. Endicott, Jr.’s book about Samuel Endicott con-tains this passage about Eliabeth:

She was a woman of high principle of unusual firmness and energy if charac-ter, of intelligent mind, and of a tall and commanding presence…She knew men and women who had known Governor Endecott…On the day of the battle of Bunker Hill when Colonel Timothy Pickering had halted his company for a few minutes near the South Meet-ing House, South Danvers, such was her impatience at any delay that she walked up to him and said: ‘Why on earth don’t you march; don’t you hear the guns at Charlestown?”

William also states that before the Revolution, Elizabeth complained about hearing the shrieks of British soldiers being flogged and he intimates that it was she who gave permission to bury two British soldiers in the Endicott cemetery.

Lastly, William states that Elizabeth bought a young, limping African slave named Phyllis. And according to legend, Phyllis is actually buried in the Endicott cemetery. The whereabouts is unknown. Another source claims Eliza-beth ordered Phyllis to scrub the 1665 portrait of John Endicott with sand and soap to get the dirt off of it. Recently the portrait was restored with JEFA and Massachusetts government funds and now is displayed in the Massachu-setts State House in Boston.

2.  Charles Moses Endicott was captain of the ship Friendship (owned by Joseph Peabody, then the owner of Glen Magna) and it was attacked by pirates as it lay in the harbor at Kuala Batoo on the coast of Sumatra, where he was buying pepper in 1831. The pirates killed half of Charles’s crew

of 17, but he and some of them got away. After 9 hours of rowing in a thunderstorm, they came upon two American ships, one of which –– irony of ironies–– was the Governor Endicott of Salem. With these ships, Charles returned to the harbor, shelled it with cannon fire, dispersed the pirates, recaptured his ship, returned it safely to Salem, and became a national hero. He wrote a 76-page story about the incident called “Sumatran Pirates and the Friendship (1831): A True Tale of Piracy and Pepper” that was published in 1856.

This and other pirate attacks in the area led to the U.S. Navy launching The First Sumatran Expedition that killed or wounded about 450 pirates and supporters and destroyed 5 forts, while losing 2 killed and 11 wounded. That stopped pirate transgressions against Americans for 6 years.

In 1838 the problem arose again when other Sumatran pirates captured another American ship. They massa-cred the crew which provoked another punitive expedition. This second ex-pedition killed even more of the enemy and caused even greater destruction of their habitat and there were no more problems with Sumatran pirates after that.

Charles Moses Endicott’s son, Ingersoll Bowditch Endicott (1835-1909), was named after Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), a noted Boston physician and abolitionist. In 1858, Charles sent a moving letter to Inger-soll along with some pears from the Endicott pear tree that Governor John Endecott had planted in the 1630s

and which still exists not far from the cemetery.

 

Perhaps inspired by that, Ingersoll volunteered for service in the Union Army just 5 days after the Confeder-ates attacked Fort Sumpter. His term of enlistment was for only 3 months and he went home after that. But then 2 years later he got drafted, and then he really “saw the elephant” to use the phrase of the day, meaning seeing the extremes of war. He was captured and was temporarily listed as a deserter, which often happened when a unit just didn’t know where a soldier was.

After the war, it was said that Ingersoll “lived a quiet life,” which is pretty understandable after everything he went through!

Return Dates

Michael Carroll proposes returning to do more work at the he cemetery.

If during the winter, as sometimes happens, there is a warm spell, it’s conceivable that a session could take place then. But more likely we are talking about having a session in March 2022, after the ground thaws.

Cost to JEFA

“We’ve never technically charged anyone, but we will accept donations,” is the way Michael puts it. “To me it’s an honor and privilege to get to work there.” Besides the labor and gas to drive to and from the cemetery from Connecticut where he lives, his biggest cost item is the epoxy used in repairing stones. Before the work session started the JEFA trustees voted to give Rediscovery History a $1,000 donation, which paid for the equipment they needed to purchase for the job, plus food and lodging during the event.

Appendix I – Inventory of persons buried in the cemetery

The following is a list of the persons believed to be buried in the Endicott cemetery. It is actually a combination of several lists along with a notation (a simple V). The V indicates markers I

personally witnessed at the site during the work session.

The list uses ** because it is actually a combination of two lists. The first is the David McKenna list, “Numbered List,” because it has the actual grave numbers. The second is “JEFA List” be-cause it’s a list I had found online earlier. I wrote an article about the cemetery in the 2020 Fall-Winter edition of the John Endecott Family Association Newsletter on the JEFA website https://www.endecottendicott.com/

newsletter

The two lists are not entirely the same, although I think the numbered list is the more reliable. Nevertheless, there were a few items from the JEFA List which have already been useful in adding to or clarifying information in the numbered List. I thought it best at this juncture to include both.

Inscriptions

** = names that are also on Newsletter List. The others are on the Numbered List but not on the Newsletter list.

1.   **Joseph Endicott son of Samuel & Margaret Endicott Died Dec. 19 1806 Aged 75. Sarah Endicott relict of Jo-seph Endicott. Died Dec. 1, 1809. Aged

72. Mary Endicott daughter of Joseph & Sarah Endicott Died June 12, 1811, age 36. 

2.    **In memory of Samuel Endicott Died in Salem May 1, 1828 Aged 65. He was of the 6th generation from his ancestor of that name who settled Salem in 1628.

Also in memory of Elizabeth his wife who died at Salem Nov. 9, 1841 Age

76. V

3.    ** In memory of William Endicott who died July 3, 1892. Aged 69 years. V

4.    Maria C. Gardner Born Jan. 20, 1797. Died July 1, 1880 daughter of John & Mary Putnam Endicott. V

5.    **In memory of Fidelia wife of John Endicott Born March 23 1788 Died

Sept 11, 1854.

Aged 66 yrs. 5 mos. 19 days.  V.

(This is a duplicate for the original that Michel found buried its foot)

6.   In memory of Mary P. Gardner only daughter of John & Maria Gardner Obt. Dec. 26, 1827. Aged 2 years. V

7.   Sacred to the memory of Sarah Endicott. An infant daughter of Cap't John & Mrs. Fidelia Endicott Died Sept 8, 1813 Aged 1 mo.

8.   Sacred to the memory of Miss Martha

P. Endicott daughter of Cap't. John & Mrs. Mary Endicott. Died Nov. 23, 1815 Aged 13 years. V

9.   In memory of John Endicott. Died Nov.

29, 1834. Aged 70 years. V

10.     **In memory of Mrs Mary Endicott, wife of Cap't John Endicott. Died Feb. 26 1811 Aged 40. V

11.     In memory of Wm Endicott 3rd son of Capt. John Endicott. Died April 1, 1803 Aged 11 years.

12.     **In memor of Miss Nancy Endicott. Daughter of Mr Samuel & Mary

Endicott, who departed this life April 17th 1786 Age 24. V

13.     In memory of Mrs. Mary Endicott, wife of Mr. Samuel Endicott, who de-parted this life Feb. 27th 1774 Age 49.

14.     **In memory of Mr Samuel Endicott, who departed this life December the 10th 1773 Age 56. V

15.     Rebeccah Endicott wife of Daniel Hardy Daughter of John Endicott & Martha Putnam his wife Born May 22, 1780. Died Sept. 25, 1850. V

16.    **Daniel Hardy Born May 1, 1784.

Died July 16, 1844. V

17.     **In memory of George W. E. Hardy son of Daniel & Rebeccah Hardy Obt. Sept. 8, 1813 Age 2 years. V

18.    In memory of Maurice C. Oby, who died June 2, 1861 Age 37 years. V

19.     **Rebeccah Endicott, wife of James

W. Dexter, formerly wife of Maurice C. Oby. Died April 23, 1877. Age 62 years.

20.    Timothy Endicott Died Sept. 20

1865. Aged 80 years. V

21.    Harriet Martyn wife of Timothy Endicott. Died April 17, 1871. Age 83 years. V. (This is laying on the ground in 3 pieces, with other pieces missing.)

22.     Nancy Endicott. Died April 20, 1843. Age 74. relict of Moses Endicott, who Died at Havana March 5, 1807 Age 40. And two of their children Louis

R. Died Oct. 8, 1796 Age 1 year. Sally.

Died Aug. 18 1801. Age 3 years.

23.     Charles Moses Endicott. Died Dec. 14 1863. Age 70 years.

24.     Sarah Rolland Endicott wife of Charles Moses Endicott. Died Aug. 30, 1859. Age 66. V.

25.     In memory of Samuel Endicott elder son of Samuel Endicott Esq. & Elizabeth Putnam his wife. Born March 13; 1795. Died May 15, 1828: His body lies in the Putnam Lot Old Cemetery. Sterling Mass,            V

26.     **Elizabeth, Wife of Mr: John Endicott~ Died Aug 9, 1809. Age 90 yrs 9 mos. V.

27.    ** Mr. John Endicott: Died May