Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts

This double tombstone was photographed at the Old North Beverly (Conant Street) Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Most of the burials here were parishioners of the Second Congregational Church (Second Parish).  

Here lyes Buried                     Here lyes Buried

the Body of Mr.                     the Body of Mrs

NATHANIEL RAYMOND        REBECKAH RAYMOND

Who Departed this                Wife to NATHANIEL

Life Janry ye 8 1749               RAYMOND  Who

Aged 78 Years                         Departed this life

& 10 Months                          Decr ye 2d 1760

                                                  Aged 80 Years

                                                  & 11 Months

Nathaniel Raymond was the son of John Rayment and Judith Glover, born on 15 March 1670/ 71 in Beverly, and died 8 January 1749/50 in Beverly.  He married Rebecca, daughter of Lot Conant and Elizabeth Walton, granddaughter of founding father Roger Conant.  Rebecca was born 31 January 1671 in Beverly and died 5 December 1760 in Beverly.  They had eight children.   One of their daughters, Mary Raymond (born 1710) married my 5^th great grand uncle, William Preston (1705 – 1766) and resided in Chester, New Hampshire.  Another son, George Raymond (1707 – 1807) married Abigail Kettle (1710 – 1786), my 6^th great aunt born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-nathaniel-and-hannah.html: accessed [access date]).