Bio by: Fr. Timothy Ferguson
Inscription
Here Lyes the Body
of GRACE CHILD
The Wife of
BENJAMIN CHILD
Died Dec. ye 10th
1 7 2 3
In the 63rd year
of Her Age.
Based on her recorded baptism at Roxbury and the manner in which her age at death is stated, on the date Grace died she was 62 years old, and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 63. This indicated she was b. AFTER Dec. 10, 1660. She was bapt. of record at Roxbury Feb. 17, 1660/1 by the Reverend John Eliot, the "blessed apostle" to the New England native tribes and founder of the Roxbury Latin School.
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