This tombstone was photographed at the Point of Graves in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Benjamin Son
Of Mr. Joseph
& Mrs Keturah
Allcock, Aged
5 Months & 23 Ds
Decd. Febry 28, 1720
Joseph, son of John Alcock and Joanna Amerdith, born 1691 in
Kittery, Maine and died February 1745 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married Keturah Allcock, daughter of Benjamin Rawlins
and Eunice Unknown.
Two children:
1. Joseph born 26 February 1716 in Portsmouth m. Jane Ring
2. Benjamin born September 1719, died 28 February 1720/21
There are two embroidered pictures attributed to Keturah
Rawlins in American museums. The first
is a linen panel of an embroidered shepherdess in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York City. See this
link: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/39.108.1/ The second is also at the MET museum, and is
a hunting scene https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13742 Both embroidered scenes are circa 1740 made
in Boston, Massachusetts.
This very elaborately carved gravestone for an infant, and the elegant schoolgirl embroideries lead me to believe that the Allcock and Rawlins families were very wealthy.
Sue Straw has a website dedicated to the children buried at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth. Here is a link to her sketch on Benjamin Allcock:
http://ancestorspeak.org/benjamin-allcock/
This very elaborately carved gravestone for an infant, and the elegant schoolgirl embroideries lead me to believe that the Allcock and Rawlins families were very wealthy.
Sue Straw has a website dedicated to the children buried at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth. Here is a link to her sketch on Benjamin Allcock:
http://ancestorspeak.org/benjamin-allcock/
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