Transcribed and submitted by Lynn Tooley
Town of Temple
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Has a gate over the entrance with the following:
"Honor of Wives and Mothers of 1776."
Webster, Rev. Samuel (son of Rev. Samuel Webster of Salisbury), d. Aug. 4, 1777 in 31 st. yr.---- Flag. Miles, Rev. Noah (Son of Noah of Westminster, Mass), d. Nov. 11, 1831, age 80. Blood, Francis, d. Oct. 16, 1814. Cragin, Dea. John, d. May 16, 1797, age 69, Flag. Cragin, Benjamin, Esq., d. April 19, 1816, Flag. Cragin, Capt. John, d. June 21, 1853, age 83. Howard, Lt. (Dea.) Samuel, d. Feb. 11, 1815, age 76. Maynard, Caleb, d. April 1, 1823, age 76. Foster, Joshua 1st., b. July 17, 1732, d. Aug. 1776. Edwards, Ebenezer, Esq., d. March 21, 1825, age 70. Patten, John, d. Oct. 25, 1807, age 63. Burnap, Samuel, d. Jan. 2, 1832, age 84. Colburn, Elias, d. Aug. 11, 1831, age 82. Child, Moses, Hero of 1776, d. Feb. 8, 1795, 62nd yr. Spaulding, Jonathan, d. June 15, 1814, age 45, Flag. Searle, Joseph, d. March 8, 1828, in 73rd yr. Searle, William, d. April 22, 1813, age 62. Bancroft, Dea. Caleb, d. March 11, 1816, age 84. Tenney, Benjamin, d. Sept. 2, 1790, in 44th yr. Felt, Aaron, d. July 29, 1801, in 59th yr. Felt, Capt. David, d. Oct. 7, 1852, age 79. Felt, Peter, d. Jan. 2, 1817, age 71. Heald, Oliver, d. Jan. 21, 1790, in 56th yr. Heald, Major Ephraim, d. Sept. 12, 1815, in 81st yr. Spafford, Eldad, d. Jan. 6, 1806, in 62nd yr. Shattuck, Nathaniel, d. Jan. 30, 1828, age 28., Flag. Ball, Dea. John, d. Aug. 28, 1815, in 62nd yr.