Thomas Mulford 1706

headstone & footstone headstone tympanum

HERE LYES Ye BODY
OF THOMAS
MULFORD AGED
ABOUT 66 YEARS
DIED JUNE Ye 8 1706

footstone
THOMAS
MULFORD

The gravestone displays a winged skull carved in the style of William Mumford or Nathaniel Emmes of Boston. The left photo shows the headstone with the footstone in the background. This gravestone and the nearby gravestone of Jonathan Sparrow (1706/7) are the two oldest gravestones on the Lower Cape from Orleans to Provincetown.

LOCATION - No. 14 on EHS 1976 Cove survey map
MATERIAL - slate
HEADSTONE - 15" W, 16" H, 2" D
FOOTSTONE - 10" W, 11" H, 2" D
CONDITION - lichen growth
COMMENTS - Headstone back and edges encased in resin bonded fiberglass applied in 1977. Footstone cleaned and reset July 2000. Headstone and footstone cleaned October 2004. Fiberglass backing removed October 2008. Headstone cleaned with D/2 and reset October 2008. Footstone cleaned November 2008.


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