Tombstone Tuesday ~ Mr. John Patterson, 1793, Londonderry, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, New Hampshire

Memento Mori

ERECTED

In Memory of

Mr. John Patterson

who departed this life

Augt. the 29th 1793

Aged 42 years 7 months

and 8 days

Affliction sore long time I bore

Physicians were in vain

Till God did please and death did seize

to ease me of my pain.

Death thou hast concor'd [sic] me

I by thy Darts am slane [sic]

Christ hath concor'd  [sic] thee

and I shall live again. 

John Patterson, son of Peter Patterson and Grisey Wilson, was born 21 January 1751 in Londonderry, New Hampshire and died 29 August 1793.   His parents were Scots Irish immigrants from Northern Ireland.  Peter was born in Priestland, Antrim, Ireland and his wife was born in Dufermline, Fife, Scotland.   John served in the American Revolutionary War.  There is no record of his final illness. 

I love that more than 200 years later the scribed lines are still visible on this stone, which aided the stone carver with his careful lettering! 

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