This is the 3rd oldest tombstone in the state of Connecticut
A flat freestone tablet in the old graveyard at Wethersfield, the head of which was adorned with an elaborate coat of arms of the Chester family.
Missing church records and no surviving gravestones prior to 1670 means that historians cannot confirm when the earliest burial in the Ancient Burying Ground occurred.
One such stone is a memorial stone crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance of Leonard Chester who died in 1648. His stone is one of the only stones that remain from the seventeenth century. Although he died in 1648 his tombstone was crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance.
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Other children of Leonard Chester and his wife Mary were: Mary, Eunice who married Capt. Richard Sprague, Stephen, Mercy, and Prudence
A flat freestone tablet in the old graveyard at Wethersfield, the head of which was adorned with an elaborate coat of arms of the Chester family.
Missing church records and no surviving gravestones prior to 1670 means that historians cannot confirm when the earliest burial in the Ancient Burying Ground occurred.
One such stone is a memorial stone crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance of Leonard Chester who died in 1648. His stone is one of the only stones that remain from the seventeenth century. Although he died in 1648 his tombstone was crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance.
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Other children of Leonard Chester and his wife Mary were: Mary, Eunice who married Capt. Richard Sprague, Stephen, Mercy, and Prudence
This is the 3rd oldest tombstone in the state of Connecticut
A flat freestone tablet in the old graveyard at Wethersfield, the head of which was adorned with an elaborate coat of arms of the Chester family.
Missing church records and no surviving gravestones prior to 1670 means that historians cannot confirm when the earliest burial in the Ancient Burying Ground occurred.
One such stone is a memorial stone crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance of Leonard Chester who died in 1648. His stone is one of the only stones that remain from the seventeenth century. Although he died in 1648 his tombstone was crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance.
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Other children of Leonard Chester and his wife Mary were: Mary, Eunice who married Capt. Richard Sprague, Stephen, Mercy, and Prudence
A flat freestone tablet in the old graveyard at Wethersfield, the head of which was adorned with an elaborate coat of arms of the Chester family.
Missing church records and no surviving gravestones prior to 1670 means that historians cannot confirm when the earliest burial in the Ancient Burying Ground occurred.
One such stone is a memorial stone crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance of Leonard Chester who died in 1648. His stone is one of the only stones that remain from the seventeenth century. Although he died in 1648 his tombstone was crafted in the 1670s or 1680s in remembrance.
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Other children of Leonard Chester and his wife Mary were: Mary, Eunice who married Capt. Richard Sprague, Stephen, Mercy, and Prudence
Inscription
Here lyes the body of Leonard Chester, Armiger, late of the Town of Blaby and Severall other Lordships in Leistersheire deceased in Wethersfield Anno Domini 1648, etatis 39.
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