Hope Howland Chipman, died 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Massachusetts

HERE LYETH

INTERRED Ye BODY OF

MRS. HOPE CHIPMAN Ye

WIFE OF ELDER JOHN

CHIPMAN AGED 54

YEARS WHO CHANGED

THIS LIFE A BETER

Ye 8 OF JANUARY

1683

The back and sides of this tombstone were encased in lead,
which was an old fashioned way of preserving the slate stone from the weather

Hope Howland Chipman is my 9th great grandmother, born 30 August 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She married John Chipman on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, and they removed to Barnstable on Cape Cod.  They had twelve children, and I descend from her fifth daughter, Hannah (1659 - 1696) who married Thomas Huckins.  Hannah Huckins, my 8th great grandmother, is buried next to her mother - I'll post her tombstone in a future blog post.  

You can see my HOWLAND lineage at this link: 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html   

Last week I featured Hope's husband's tombstone.  Elder John Chipman is buried in Sandwich:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/elder-john-chipman-died-1709-sandwich.html   

This tombstone and the Lothrop Hill Cemetery were recently featured in the Summer 2021 issue of The Mayflower Quarterly magazine by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.  

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Hope Howland Chipman, died 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 29, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/hope-howland-chipman-died-1683.html: accessed [access date]).