Tombstone Tuesday ~ Hannah (Raymond) Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old North Beverly Cemetery (Conant Street Cemetery) in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Here Lies

The Body of

Mrs. HANNAH DODGE

Relict of

Deacon JOSHUA DODGE

who departed this Life

May 31st 1783

Aged 84 years

This tombstone has been defaced by someone who sprayed or painted blue paint on the winged soul effigy on Hannah Dodge's carved stone.  I photographed this during a tour of the Old North Beverly Cemetery with members of the Beverly Historical Society and they said an attempt would be made to clean this tombstone.

Hannah Raymond was the daughter of George Raymond and Jerusha Woodbury of Beverly, Massachusetts.  She was born 24 February 1699/1700 in Beverly, and died there on 31 May 1783.  She married Deacon Joshua Dodge in Beverly on 14 June 1716.  He was the son of Joshua Dodge and Joanna Larkin, born 23 September 1694 in Beverly, and died there 20 December 1771.  They had twelve children, all listed in the town clerks record in Beverly (see below).

The family of Joshua and Hannah Dodge.
Births                         Children
Dea. Joshua Dodge died Dec. 20 1771 aged 76.  Hannah his widow died May 31, 1783 aged 83. dau. Geo. & Jerusha Rayment
March 24, 1717- 18 Joanna (??? pub. Mar 4, 1738 Nath'l Balch)                           June 30, 1717
1720 Abigail    d. Mrch 1720                               Oct 11, 1719
August 24, 1721    Joshua                                   Aug. 27, 1721
December 8, 1723   Jerusha  m. William Green Nov. 9, 1742 Rev. Chipman Dec. 8, 1723
April 10, 1726 George                                         May 1, 1726
October 30, 1728   Hannah                                  Nov 24, 1728
January 26, 1730/31 Mary                                   Jan 21, 1731
July 2, 1733  Abigail                                            July 8, 1733
August 27, 1735  Sarah                                        Aug. 31, 1735
January 7, 1743  Mary & Samuel Andrews of Danvers m. Mary Dodge March 3, 1763 by Rev. J. Chipman    Jan. 8, 1743/4
November 2, 1737   Larkin                                  Nov. 6, 1737
February 10, 1739 Israel                                      Feb. 10, 1740
                               Mary                                     Jan. 8, 1744

Mary wf of Mr. Joshua Dodge died in 1766. Lieut. Joshua Dodge & Mrs. Agnes Thorndike m. Aug 12, 1766 Their ch. Elizabeth chd. at 2nd ch. May 17, 1767

Source: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHBY-4ZT : 29 September 2016),  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 760,604.  
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~  Hannah (Raymond) Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 29, 2016,  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-hannah-raymond-dodge.html: accessed [access date]).