Long did my native powers,
The dangerous ocean brave,
Protected by my God
At home I make my grave.
The trumpeting angel image was popular about 1800. Susanna Hinckley (1790), daughter of Samuel, has a very similar stone carved by the Lamsons of Boston. It has been reported that Samuel's stone was carved by Nathaniel Holmes of Barnstable who copied Susanna's Lamson stone.
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