Munroes in Lexington, MA - Tombstone Tuesday

HERE LYES Ye

BODY OF MARY

MUNROO WIFE

OF WILLIAM

MUNROO AGED

41 YEARS

DIED AUGUST

1692

Here Lyes ye

Body of

Mr. WILLIAM

MUNROE Aged

about 92 years

Died Jan. 27 1717 

William Munroe was born in Scotland about 1625, and transported to the New World as a prisoner of war about 1650.  He died in Lexington, Massachusetts on 27 January 1717, and had three wives.  He married first about 1665 to Martha George (my 7x Great Grandmother), second in 1672 to Mary Ball (her gravestone is pictured above), and third about 1693 to Elizabeth Johnson, the widow of Edward Wyer.  He had a total of fourteen children, including my 6x Great Grandfather, George Munroe (1672 - 1747).   William Munroe's descendants fought in the Battle of Lexington Green, where many participated and several were killed in the first volleys of the Revolutionary War. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Munroes in Lexington, MA - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 28, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/06/munroes-in-lexington-ma-tombstone.html: accessed [access date]).