Joshua Doane 1716

headstone tympanum

HERE LYES INTERRED ye BODY
OF CAP'T JOSHUA DOANE
SON OF JOHN DOANE ESQ'R
& HANNAH HIS WIFE AGED
ABOUT 20 YEARS & 8 MO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'r
ye 29th 1716

The carved image is one of the earliest dated winged heads on Cape Cod. Crossed bones with a winged head are rare. See Mary Doane (1716) for a very similar gravestone. These gravestones are carved in the style of the Lamsons or Nathaniel Emmes of Boston.


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