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		       YANKEES IN ETERNITY

		       Gravestone Carvers: 

Name			Locale and Style	Dates or Active Period
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Adams, B.		Milton, Mass.			c 1800
Allen, George, Jr.	Rehoboth, RI			c 1740
Ashley, Solomon		Deerfield, Mass.
Bartlett, Gershom	Bolton, Conn.			1760-70
Booth			Bennington, Vt.
Buckland, Peter		East Hartford			1780-1800
Buckland, William	East Hartford			1775-85
Bull, John		Newport, RI			1734-1808
Codner, William
Collins, Benjamin	Columbia and Lebanon, Conn.	d 1760
Collins, Zerubabble	Columbia, Conn.			1777  then to Vermont
Crosby, William		North Haven
Cushman, William	Middleborough, Mass.
Dolph, Charles				  		1776-1815
Drake, Ebenezer		South Windsor 	  		1739-1803
Dwight, John		Shirley, Mass.			1770-1816
Ely, John		E. Springfield, Mass.		1787?
Emmes, Nathaniel	Charlestown, Mass.  		1690-1750
Fisher, Samuel Jr,Sr    Wrentham, Mass.      Both died: 1815,1816
Fuller, Nathaniel	Plympton, Mass.			1740-1750
Gaud, John		Boston. Mass. 1693 + 9-15-1750	1715-48  Milford, CT
Geyer, J. J.
Gilchrist, James	Boston. Mass.  			1689-1722
Gold, Thomas		New Haven
Griswold, George	Windsor, Conn.			1633-1704
Griswold, Matthew 	Windsor, Conn.  Tomb Carver	1650 (Gov. Wyllys, Hfd)
Griswold, Matthew, Jr.  Lyme, Conn.			1653-1715
Hamlin, John		Middletown, Conn.   		1658-1733
Hartshorn, John		Franklin Conn. Area		1650-1738
Hartshorn, Samuel	Franklin			1725-1784
Haskins, Aaron		Bolton				1784
Hayward, Nathan		Bridgewater, Mass.
Hempstead, Joshua	New London, Conn.   1678-1758	1720
Holland, William	Durham				1760
Holmes, John		Woodstock, Conn.		c 1725
Huntington, John
Isham, John		East Haddam
Johnson, John		Durham				1790   Harte
Johnson, Joseph		East Hartford, 1698- c 1780	1750
Johnson, Thomas I.	Middletown, 1690-1761		1730-50
Johnson, Thomas II.	Middletown,			1736-55
Johnson, Thoas  III.	Middletown			1777
Kimball, Chester	New London Area
Lamb, David		Bozrah?    1724-1788
Lamson Family		Charlestown, Mass.		1656 through 1808
Loomis, Jonathan	Coventry
Manning, Frederick	Windham, Conn.  		1758-1806
Manning, Josiah		Windham, 			1725-1806
Manning, Rockwell	Norwich, Conn.   		1765-1806
Miller, David		Durham-Middlefield		1760-70
Mullicken Family	Bradford, Mass.  		1663-1768
Munford, William	Boston, Mass.  			1641-1718	1700
New Family		Wrentham			1692 through 1835
Newell, Hermon		Longmeadow, Mass.   		1774-1833
Park Family		Groton, Mass.			1705 through 1806
Phelps, Nathaniel	Northampton			1780
Pryce, Nathaniel	New London			1661
Ritter, Daniel		East Hartford			1788
Roberts, Joseph		Putnam, Conn.			1753
Savory, Lemuel		
Sikes Family		Plainfield-Windham
Smith, Orson		Durham				1810	
Soule, Ebenezer		Plympton, MA and Hinsdale, NH	1740-1780
Spauldin, Ithmar	Concord, Mass.
Stanclift, James	Middletown-Portland		1680s Brownstone Founder
Stanclift, William	"	"	"    family era 1643-1785
Stevens, George		Boston				1791
Stevens, Henry		Boston				1611-1690
Stevens, James		Newport, R.I.
Sweetland, Isaac	Hartford       Urn and Willow c 1799
Tainter, Benjamin	Newton				1753-1844
Tingley Family		South Attleborough, Mass.	1698 through 1784
Tucker, Ephraim		Boston
Tucker, Joseph		Hartford			1780s
Vinal, Jacob (+ son)    Scituate, Mass.			1720-1750
Walden, John		Windham			      d 1807
Warren, John		Plainfield, Conn.
Welch, Thomas		Charlestown, Mass.		1655-1703	
Wheeler, Obadiah	Lebanon
Worcester, Jonathan	Harvard, Mass.			1740-1754
Worcester, Moses	Harvard, Mass. 			1754-1760s
Young, William		Worcester, Mass.   		1711-1795
Zuricher, Johan		New York City			1737

The Urn and Willow pattern first appeared around Middletown c 1790, in
local brownstone. Soon, however it was almost exclusively executed on 
white marble and other limestone materials.

				SOURCES

		The Association for Gravestone Studies.
	278 Main Street, Greenfield, Mass. 01301  413-772-0836 

Deetz, James	Chapter 4 of "In Small Things Forgotten."  Anchor Books, 1977.

Deetz and Dethlefsen  "Skulls, etc." American Antiquity, Vol 31 No. 4, 1966.

Forbes, Harriet  "Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them,
	   1653-1800."  Ho-Miff. Co. 1927. Reprinted by Da Capo, 1967.

Hosley & Holocombe  "By Their Markers Ye Shall Know Them"  Hartford, 1994.

Ludwig, Alan.   "Graven Images...."  Wesleyan Univ. Press, Middletown  1966.

Miller, Richard E.  "Gone But Not Forgotten"  In-Time Pubs. New Haven, 1991?

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