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north_burial.jpg (72819 bytes)The historic North Burial Ground of Providence Rhode Island has graves of several of the Gaspee Raiders.

Click to enlarge thumbnail for viewing. The 22 acres of the older sections of this magnificent cemetery contain the graves of thousands of Rhode Islanders, famous and humble, who died from 1700 to 1848.  the graveyard is of great interest to students of this early part of Rhode Island's colonial history,

The Old North Burial Ground (ONBG) is difficult to find anything in, and the indexes the overworked staff have to work with are not good. The fact is that from 1700 to 1848 the only official record of where in this huge (and largely now unkempt and overgrown cemetery) persons were buried is the testimony of the gravestones themselves. Important: to find the grave of someone, start by reading the tips we have on finding a grave in the ONBG.  Those tips, titled as "Research at the Old North Burial Ground on Providence, RI", By Leonard Bucklin, Esq. & Corinne H. Smith,  are placed on the Gaspee Archives website as part of our project to identify all the Gaspee Raider.

A list of these graves in that 22 acres shows many families associated with the Gaspee affair. The following family names appear on at least 10 gravestones, bold type indicating 20 or more individuals. (Note Bucklin is one of those with more than 20 individuals.) Yellow highlighted names are family names of possible Gaspee Raiders or conspirators.  These are family names on which the Joseph Bucklin Society is concentrating research activity, as funds permit.

Adams, Aldrich, Allen, Amsbury, Andrews, Angell, Annis, Anthony, Antram, Aplin, Arnold, Atkinson, Bacon, Bailey, Baker, Balch, Ballou, Barker, Barnes, Barney, Bartlett, Batcheller, Bates, Beckwith, Bennett, Benson, Bezeley, Bicknall, Blanding, Bliven, Bogman, Bosworth, Bowen, Bradford, Bragg, Bridgham, Briggs, Britton, Brown, Brownell, Bucklin, Budlong, Bullock, Burgess, Burlingame, Burr, Burroughs, Burt, Butts, Cady, Calder, Campbell, Capron, Capwell, Carpenter, Carr, Chace/Chase, Chafee/Chaffee, Chandler, Chappell, Child, Church, Clapp, Clarke, Clemence, Cleveland, Clifford, Coggeshall, Cogswell, Cole, Comstock, Congdon, Cooke, Cozzens, Crandall, Crawford, Cross, Crowley, Currie/Curry, Curtis, Cushman, Dailey, Daniels, Davis, Dean, Deming, Dexter, Dodge, Dorrance, Dunham, Dunwell, Dyer, Earl/Earle, Easton, Eaton, Eddy, Ely, Emerson, Fairbanks, Fenner, Field, Fish, Fisher, Fiske/Fisk, Foster, Francis, Freeman, Frost, Fuller, Gallup, Gallup, Gano, Gardner, Gartside, Gerald/Jerauld, Gibbs, Gibson, Gilbert, Giles, Gladding, Glover, Goddard, Godfrey, Gorham, Gould, Grafton, Grant, Gray, Green/Greene, Griffin, Grimwood, Guild, Hall, Hammond, Handy, Harding, Harris, Hathaway, Hawkins, Hayward, Hazard/Haszard, Healy, Hedly, Helm, Henley, Henry, Hereshoff, Hill, Holbrook, Holden, Holmes, Holroyd, Hopkins, Horton, Howard, Howell, Howland, Hull, Humphrey, Hunt, Ingalls, Irons, Ives, Jackson, Jenckes/Jencks/ Jenks, Johnson, Jones, Joslin, Keith, Kendall, Kenyon, Kingsley, Kinnicutt,Knowles, Lassell, Leveck, Lewis, Lindol, Lippitt, Lonsdale, Lothrop, Low, Luther, Lyon, Maker, Mann, Manchester, Manton, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mathewson/ Matteson, Mccall, Millard, Miller, Miner, Mitchaem, Mitchell, Monroe/Munroe, Moore, Morris, Mowry, Mumford, Najac, Newell, Nichols, Northup, Olney, Ormsbee, Osborn, Owen, Packard, Page, Paine/Payne, Palmer, Parker, Patten, Paul, Pearce/Peirce/Perce/Pierce, Peck, Peckham, Perry, Peter, Pettis, Phillips, Pidge, Pike, Pitman, Place, Poole, Potter, Power, Pratt, Proctor, Pullen, Randall, Rea, Read/Reed, Remington, Retto, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Richmond, Ripley, Robinson, Rogers, Ross, Round/Rounds, Russell, Sabin, Salisbury, Scott, Seamans/ Simmons, Selden, Sessions, Shalling, Shaw, Sheldon, Sherman, Silloway, Sisson, Smith, Snow, Sprague, Staples, Steere, Stevens, Stewart, Stillwell, Stiness, Stone, Studley, Sweet, Sweeting, Taft, Talbot, Taylor, Temple, Thayer, Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Thorp, Thurber, Thurston, Tiffany, Tillinghast, Totten, Townsend, Tripp, Tyler, Underwood, Vaughn, Veazie, Vinton, Walker, Wall, Walling, Warner, Waterman, Watson, Weaver, Weeden, Wells, West, Westcott, Wheaton, Whelden, Whipple, Whitaker, White, Whitman/Wightman, Whitford, Wilbour/Wilbur, Wilcox, Wilkinson, Williams, Wilson, Winslow, Winsor, Wood, Work, Wright, Yeomans, Yerrington, Young.

North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island Old Section 1700-1848, by John E. Sterling is an attempt to create a record of what the headstones contain and the place of burials for the old section of the North Burial Ground of Providence. Why should such an effort be necessary? Although the cemetery maintains handwritten ledger books of interment records of information on some 73,000 individuals, these books document burials only for the last 150 years.  By 1848 when records of burial locations began, the unrecorded burial locations filled 22 acres of the cemetery (roughly, the 22 acres are bounded by the present avenues of Main Avenue (east), Prospect Avenue (north), Front Avenue (south) and a line that ran just west of Central Avenue (west).  Sterling's well illustrated book represents six years of patient research by John Sterling, one of the most respected figures in gravestone studies research in Rhode Island. An extended introduction traces the history of this venerable cemetery.  With this book researchers have access to the vital information on each gravestone --- and a key to its location ---  and those interested in finding a particular stone (virtually impossible before) have a guide.

North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island Old Section 1700-1848, by John E. Sterling, 8½x11, library binding, 480 pages originally was sold by Sterling personally for $39, but now, a few years later, used booksellers on Amazon.com are selling it for $125!!!.  People have difficulty buying this book.  The present best information we have on how you can buy the book at a more reasonable price  is through the person who sells at the address of Rhode Island Cemetery Books, 12984 W. Milbrook Dr., Huntley, IL 60142

 

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