| Author | Bridgman, Thomas, b. 1795. comp.
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| Title | Memorials of the dead in Boston; containing an exact transcript from inscriptions, epitaphs and records on the monuments and tombstones in Copp's Hill burying ground, in the city of Boston. Illustrated by copious historical and biographical notices of the early settlers of the metropolis of New England. By Thomas Bridgman.
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| Published | Boston, Munroe and Francis, 1852.
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| Description | xxiii, [1], 252, [4], 15 p. front., illus. 20 cm.
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| General Note | Also appeared under title: Epitaphs from Copp's Hill burial ground, Boston. With notes. By Thomas Bridgman ... Boston And Cambridge, 1851.
The preface to "The graveyards of Boston. First volume, Copp's Hill epitaphs. Prepared for publication by William H. Whitmore," Albany, 1878, gives the following information: "Mr. Bridgman's transcript was not exact and was very far from exhaustive ... Out of the 2000 inscriptions here copied, about 800 are not to be found in Mr. Bridgman's book."
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| Subjects | Copp's Hill Burial Ground (Boston, Mass.)
Epitaphs -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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| LC Card Number | 10-3090 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 5 ZF B852
mq46977: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 33416] |
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