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Date: 1991
Place: USA, New York, Shelter Island
Editor's Comments:
This is the monument that rests in the Quaker cemetery in the Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York. Laurence and Cassandra Southwick are buried somewhere nearby. The upper and lower slabs are covered with inscriptions. The upper slab is of marble and the inscription denotes that buried beneath it is the body of Nathaniel Sylvester, 'First Resident Proprietor of the Manor of Shelter Island, Under Grant of Charles II, 1666.' It also contains the family coat of arms. The monument is approached by three stone steps. These contain the following curious inscriptions:
The Puritan in his Pride, overcome by
the faith of the Quaker, gave Concord and
Lexington and Bunker Hill to history.
The blood and the spirit of Victor and
Vanquished alike are the glory of Massachusetts.
Daniel Gould bound to the gun carriage and
lashed.
Edward Wharton, the much scourged.
Christopher Holder, the mutilated.
Humphrey Norton, the branded.
John Rous, the maimed.
Giles Sylvester, the champion.
Ralph Goldsmith, the shipmaster, and
Samuel Shattuck of the King's missive: these
stones are testimony.
Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, despoiled
imprisioned, starved, whipped, banished.
Who fled here to die.
Mary Dyre, Marmaduke Stevenson, William
Robinson and William Leddra, who were
executed on Boston Common.
Of the suffering for conscious sake of
friends of Nathaniel Sylvester, most of whom
sought shelter here, including
George Fox, founder of the Society of
Quakers, and his followers.
Associated Persons and Marriages:
BURNELL, Cassandra (Id# 468) BurP, MEDIUM
BURNELL, Cassandra (Id# 468) Religion, MEDIUM
SOUTHWICK, Lawrence (Id# 469) BurP, MEDIUM
SOUTHWICK, Lawrence (Id# 469) Religion, MEDIUM