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North Cemetery

Established in 1753 on land purchased from John Hart, this is the second oldest burying ground in the city and was used through 1926. The cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places for the many historically significant people who played roles in the founding of New Hampshire and the American Revolution interred among its 1800 graves. Resting here are two Founding Fathers: John Langdon and William Whipple; veterans of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and Civil Wars; Dr. Joshua Brackett, president of the NH Medical Society; and Dr. Hall Jackson; Abraham Isaac, the first Jewish resident; the first Roman Catholic parishioner; and African American residents including Prince Whipple and Pomp Spring, both enslaved and freed.

See the City Historical Marker

North Cemetery seawall

The City received a $20,000 NH Moose Plate grant to repair the seawall behind the historic North Cemetery. The grant is being applied to preservation work and rebuilding the collapsed stone retaining wall facing North Mill Pond in North Cemetery. Work is scheduled to start June 11, 2024 and will be completed by June 14.

 

 

 

On November 17. 2023 the City re-interred 1800s remains from unmarked graves that had been accidentally disturbed during work on the cemetery wall. Go to more information on the Service of Remembrance pictured below.

North Cemetery Service of Remembrance

Buried here are:

Aaron Adams d. 1804

Benning Adams d. 1854

Elizabeth Adams d. 1814

Nathaniel Adams d. 1768, detail photo

Sarah Adams d. 1854

Amy Akerman d. 1846

Barnet Akerman d. 18??

Benjamin Akerman d. 1783

Elizabeth Akerman d. 1803

Henry Akerman d. 1806

Phebe Akerman, heelstone

Samuel Akerman d. 1847

Sally Akerman d. 1805

Sarah Akerman d. 1833

Mary Allen d. 18??, photo 2

Sarah Allen d. 1856

Abigail Austin d. 1801

Mary Ayers d. 1863

Phineas Ayers d. 1821

Elizabeth Langdon Barrell d. 1823, daughter of Gov. John Langdon.

Abigail Bartlett d. 1823

Margaret Hall Bartlett d. 1853

William Bartlett d. 1834

Lucy Ann Barry/Berry d. 1843

Abigail Bass d. 18??

Sarah Bass d. 1817

Sarah Bass d. 1819

Cazneau Bayley d. 1808, out of the ordinary carving of an angel. detail photo

John Bazin d. 1819

John Beahan d. 1809, a native of Ireland.

Dorothy Bell d. 1819

Mary Bell d. 1826

Rebecca Bell d. 182?

Robert Bell d. 1873

Nancy Berry d. 1832

Joseph Bigelow d. 1783

Mary Ann Bigelow d. 1806

Hannah Billings d. 1781

Capt. Richard Billings d. 1808, a sea captain, Clerk of the Market of Portsmouth, and once a clerk to John Hancock.

Capt. Abner Blaisdell d. 1832

George F. Blunt, sr. d. 1830

George Blunt, jr. d. 1831

Mary Blunt d. 1831

Abigail Bowles d. 1826

Charles Bowles d. 1831

Frances Bowles d. 1840

John Bowles Esq. d. 1837

John Wallis Bowles d. 1834

George Boyd, photo 2 d. 1787, a successful shipbuilder who's home and shipyard were once located across the street on the North Mill Pond. Wanting to avoid the Revolution, he sailed to England. He returned in 1787, bringing this gravestone with him, and needing to make use of it only two days before arriving back home.

George Boyd Jr. d. 1790

Henry Cruger Boyd d. 1784

Madam Jane Boyd, heelstone, d. 1800

Phebe Boyd d. 1777

Supply Boyd, heelstone, d. 1786

Dr. Joshua Brackett, photo 2, photo 3, d. 1802

Margaret Brackett d. 1813, wife of Dr. Joshua Brackett who was once president of the NH Medical Society and one of the most esteemed physicians in Portsmouth..

Jeremiah Bragdon

Jeremiah Bragdon Sr. d. 1833

Jeremiah Bragdon d. 1834

John William Bragdon d. 18??

Joseph Brewster d. 1766

William Brewster d. 18??

Ann Maria Briard d. 1846

George Briard d. 1829

Oliver Briard, Esq. d. 1844

Capt. Samuel Briard d. 1806

Sarah Briard d. aft. 1806

Sarah Briard d. 1855

John Briggs d. 1830

William Briggs d. 1811

Amos Brown d. 1849

Daniel Walter Brown d. 1817

George M. Brown d. 1824

John Brown

Lieu. Walter Brown d. 1816

Lucy Buckminster d. 1801, wife of Rev. Joseph Buckminster, minister of the North Church.

Mary Buckminster d. 180?

Franklin B. Burgin d. 1828

Joseph Y. Burgin, Esq. d. 1820

Charlotte Burleigh d. 1832

Elizabeth Burleigh d. 1802

Mary Campbell d. 1867

Mary E. Cannaran d. 1840

Salome Cate d. 1845

Ann Hale Chadbourn d. 1806

Mary Chadbourn d. 1826

Thomas Chadbourn d. 1825

Catherine Chamberlain d. 1804

Richard Champney, Esq. d. 1810, he participated in the raid of Fort William and Mary in Dec. 1774, the first land skirmish of the Revolutionary War.

Drusilla Chase d. 1830

Mary Chase d. 1819

Stephen Chase Esq. d. 1805

William Chase d. 1834

Eliza Clark d. 1828

Enoch Moody Clark d. 1815

Ichabod W. Clark d. 1825, photo 2

Jonathan Clark d. 1797

Mary Greenleaf Clark d. 1800

Samuel Clark d. 1807

Sarah Ann Clark d. 1856

Sarah Clark d. 17??

Thomas K. Clark Co. C, 26 Massachusetts Regiment, Civil War.

Supply Clap Esq. d. 1811, Capt. Hezekiah Russell's (2d) co. of volunteers, 2d Hampshire Co. regiment (Revolutionary War).

Alice Jane Clements d. 18??

? Coffin d. 1849

Caroline Coffin d. 1811

Charles A. Coffin d. 1830

Francis Coffin d. 1828

Horatio Coffin d. 1859

Mary E. Coffin d. 1827

Mehitable Coffin d. 1829

John Creel d. 1829

Richard Creel d. 1839

Sarah Creel d. 1831

Ann (Creel) Croxton d. 1838

Anna Holyoke Cutts d. 1805

Hannah Brown d. 1810

Anna Holyoke Cutts II d. 1830

Anna Holyoke Cutts d. 1788

Edward Holyoke Cutts d. 1805

Mary Cutts d. 1797

Samuel Cutts, photo 2, d. 1790

Sidney Cutts, photo 2, d. 1792, daughter of Samuel Cutts, who had a very notable role in the capture of Fort William and Mary. He was Paul Revere's contact in Portsmouth when he arrived to warn of the oncoming British.

Daniel Cutter d. 1832

Hannah Cutter d. 1832, wife of Dr. Ammi R. Cutter who was in charge of the Medical Dept. of the Northern Army during the Revolutionary War.

Capt. Samuel Dalling d. 1788

Elizabeth Dame d. 1818

William Dame d. 1807

Francis M. Day d. 1828

Ann Eliza Dennett d. 1837

Dolly Dennett d. 1849

Sarah Dennett d. 1823

Albert Dennie d. 1795

John Ditson d. 1811, of Lexington Mass.

Ephraim Dockum d. 1841

Mary Dockum d. 1817

Sarah Ann Dockum d. 1833

Betsy Dore d. 1851

William H. Dore d. 1800

?? Downing, Naval veteran of the Civil War.

Ann Downing, photo 2, d. 1903

Havilah Downing, photo 2, d. 1874

Jerome Drew d. 1816

Samuel Drown d. 1797

Mary Frances Dunn d. 1834

Oscar Dunn d. 1838

Mary Ann Durgin d. 1821

Eliza Dyer d. 1864

Ezekiel Dyer d. 1832

Elizabeth Edward d. 1778

Catherine Elwyn d. 1822

Charles Henry Elwyn d. 1848

Elizabeth Langdon Elwyn d. 1830

Thomas Elwyn, Esq. d. 1816

Thomas Octavius Elwyn d. 1831

William Octavius Elwyn d. 1828

Almira Emery d. 1824

Daniel Emery d. 1835

Mary Emery, photo 2, d. 1862

Sarah Emery d. 1826

Shem Emery, photo 2, d. 1862

Ann Fernald d. 1825

Ann L. Fernald d. 1834

Elizabeth Fernald Jr. d. 1821

Elizabeth Melcher Fernald d. 1809

Harriet Fernald d. 1881

Jane Fernald d. 1831

John Fernald d. 1792

Mary Fernald d. 1812

Samuel Fernald Esq. d. 1830

Elizabeth Fitch, photo 2, d. 1765

Ezekiel Fitzgerald, photo 2, d. 1829

Margaret Fitzgerald d. 1866

Jonathan Folsom d. 1825

Mary Folsom d. 1784, beautiful portrait carving.

Mary Folsom d. 1820

Nathaniel Folsom (heelstone, headstone is missing.) Proprietor of the Privateer ship "General Sullivan" and a participant in the raid of Fort William and Mary in 1775.

Maj. David C. Foster d. 1823

John Foster d. 1781, beautiful winged cherub carving.

Robert Nichols Foster d. 1820

Thomas Freeman d. 1827

Emeline Frost d. 1823

Sarah Frost d. 1837

John Frothingham d. 1825

Margery Frothingham d. 1817

Sarah W. Frothingham d. 1823

Mary Furber d. 1842

Samuel Furber d. 1828

Capt. Theodore Furber d. 1809

William Furber d. 1842

George Gains Esq. d. 1809

Irena Garrand d. 1875

Lydia Gibbs d. 1808

Oliver Gibbs d. 1829

William Gibbs Esq. d. 1836

Josiah Giles d. 1813

Sarah Jane Giles d. 1855

Jonathan Goddard, photo 2, d. 1807

Elizabeth Gooch d. 1875

Anna Moses Goodrich d. 1842

Irena Goodrich, photo 2, d. 1845

James D. Goodrich, photo 2, d. 1842

Margaret Goold d. 1818

Joseph Gove d. 1833

William Graves d. 1820

John Greenleaf Gray d. 1803

Charles P. Green d. 1836

Nehemiah Green d. 18??

Nehemiah Green sr. d. 1827

John Greenleaf d. 1804, keeper of the Bell Tavern.

Charles Greenough d. 1845

Charles Henry Greenough d. 1845

Corporal Robert F. Greenough d. 1862, Co. H 29th Massachusetts, died at the Battle of Antietem, Civil War.

Sarah Griffith d. 1780

Jane Seavy Grimshaw d. 1866

John Hale Esq. d. 1790

Mary Hale d. 1811

Samuel Hale, Esq., A.A.S. d. 1807, Harvard graduate, Major in the Louisberg Expedition, instructor at the local Latin Grammar School for almost 40 years, Judge of Common Pleas for Rockingham Co.

Ann Haley d. 1823

John Haley d. 1822

William Haley d. 1813

Ammi R. Hall d. 1823, Sailor, ship “G. Pickering,” commanded by Capt. Jonathan Haraden; list of officers and crew sworn to Nov. 10, 1780; ship taken by the British while on a cruise to the West Indies."

Eliza D. Hall d. 1869

Elizabeth Hall d. 1822

Mary W. Hall d. 1866

Elizabeth Halliburton d. 1820

Anna Halliburton, photo 2, d. 1802

Elizabeth Halsy d. 1882

Ann Ham d. 1825

Benjamin Ham d. 1825

Charles Ham d. 1820

Elizabeth Ham d. 1849

Elizabeth Ham d. 1882

Elizabeth W. Ham d. 1824

Henry Ham d. 1802

James Ham d. 1811

Mary Ham d. 1838

Mary Ham d. 1842

Oliver Ham d. 1836

Rebecca Ham d. 18??

Col. Samuel Ham, photo 2, d. 1825

Sarah Ham d. 1835

Timothy Ham d. 1824

Nancy Handy d. 1819, wife of Capt. Samuel C. Handy a Privateer in command of the schooner "Fox", who captured many prizes including the "Mars" and the "Minerva". 287 ships were taken by him in a little over one year from 1812-1813. Before sailing, he drew up a will leaving all his prize money and the charge of his affairs to his wife.

Elizabeth Harrold d. 1803

Sukey Harrold d. 1822

Abigail Hart d. 1831

Benjamin Hart d. 1832

Charlotte Hart d. 1837

Elisha C. Hart d. 1800

Elizabeth Hart, photo 2, d. 1761

Elizabeth Hart d. 1805

Elizabeth M. Hart d. 1855

Elizabeth P. Hart d. 1882

Esther M. Hart d. 1805

George Hart, Esq. d. 1807

Col. John Hart, photo 2, d. 1777, sold the land to the town for this burying ground for 150 pounds, Commander of the NH Regiment at Louisberg.

Marcy Collings Hart, Heelstone, d. 1790

Sarah Hart, photo 2, Heelstone, d. 1757

Richard Hart, Esq. d. 1820

William Hart d. 1811

William Hart, photo 2, photo 3, d. 1812, maker of mathematical instruments used in oceanic navigation.

Alex Henderson d. 1783

James Henderson, photo 2, d. 1818

Andrew J. Hill d. 1844

George Hill d. 1820

James Hill d. 1811

Jane Hill d. 1773

Mary L. Hill d. 1823

Sarah Hill d. 1834

Anna Hartwell Hoar d. 1805, from Littleton, MS. and buried with her infant daughter.

Corporal Harlan P. Hodgdon, 10th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry (where he was made a Corporal from a Private), the 28 Co., 2 Battalion Veteran Res. Corps., and the 15 Veteran Res. Corps in the Civil War.

Abigail Holbrook d. 1831

Martha Holbrook d. 1846

Samuel Holbrook d. 1836, served aboard the Ranger under John Paul Jones (founder of the American Navy).

Theodora Horney d. 1808, once lived on State St with her husband Capt. Gilbert.

Seth Huntress, Co. B, 4th NH infantry, Civil War.

Abraham Isaac d. 1803, originally from Prussia and were the first Jewish residents of Portsmouth. He once had a home and shop on State Street across from the Rockingham Hotel.

Elizabeth Jackman, photo 2, photo 3, d. 1805

Clement Jackson, photo 2, photo 3, photo 4, d. 1782, local physician to whom many other later doctors apprenticed.

Hall Jackson Esq. MD, photo 2, photo 3, d. 1797, esteemed physician, noted for his care of the wounded during the Battle of Bunker Hill, started the first practice of innoculations in the area, introducted the use of Digitalis in America to cure edema.

Joseph Jackson AM, photo 2, d. 1790, son of Rev. Joseph Jackson of Brookline, MA, died while training to be a doctor at 23.

Mary Jackson d. 1805

Nathaniel Jackson d. 18??

Samuel Jackson d. 1774

Theodore Jackson d. 1784

Capt. Christopher Jeffares d. 1825

Lydia Johnson d. 1837

Harriet Deverson Jones d. 1829

Mary H. Jones, photo 2, d. 1807

Benjamin Joy d. 1836

Margaret Kennard d. 1817

Capt. Nathaniel Kennard d. 1823

Abigail Ladd, d. 1808, wife of Capt. Eliphalet Ladd, and privateer who owned many ships including the "Exeter", "Cleopatra" and "Columbia"

Lydia Ladd d. 1811

Mary L. Ladd d. 1836

Aaron Lakeman d. 1803

Elizabeth Sherburne Langdon d. 1813, wife of Gov. John Langdon.

Governor John Langdon, top photo, d. 1819, son of a farmer, representative to the general court at the start of the Revolutionary War and with Gen. John Sullivan and 400 others, initiated the first land skirmish of the war when thy captured Fort William and Mary at Newcastle and removed the powder and military stores for use at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Delegate to the Continental congress, agent of the Continental navy with a number of ships-of-war built under his direction including the Raleigh, the Ranger, and the America. Speaker of the assembly of New Hampshire, he made a stirring address that so roused the people's patriotism that a brigade was raised under General Stark which defeated the Hessians at Bennington in which he participated as a Colonel. He was captain of a volunteer company in the army of General Gates that captured General Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was Continental agent of New Hampshire and president of the state convention. He was governor of New Hampshire; U.S. senator, and president pro tempore of the senate He announced the electoral votes for the first president of the United States, and had the honor of first informing General Washington of his election. In 1801 he was offered the position of secretary of the navy by President Jefferson, but he declined, as he did the nomination for Vice-President of the United States.

Elizabeth Lapish d. 1805

George S. Lawry d. 1832

Sarah Lawry d. 1830

John E. Leblanc d. 1811

James Stoodley Lewis, photo 2, detail of portrait, d. 1783, heelstone

Jeremiah Libby, Esq. d. 1824

Major Edward Jennings Long, photo 2, commanded Long's Command of Artillery, New Hampshire Militia, War of 1812., Grand Master of St. John's Masonic Lodge.

Elisabeth Low d. 1808

Joseph Stevens Low d. 1806

Mary Pearne Low d. 1806

Augustus Lowe d. 1815

Joseph Lowe d. 1823

Madam Elizabeth Lowell d. 1805, wife of Rev. John Lowell who was the first minister of the First Religious Society Church of Newburyport. She was also married to Rev. Joseph Whipple of Hampton.

Ann Elizabeth Lynn d. 1863

Ann Eline Lynn d. 1878

John Mann d. 1829

Sarah Ann Mann d. 1836

Samuel Mansfield d. 1816

Emily Manson d. 1821

Theodore Manson d. 1822

Catherine March d. 1837

John March d. 1813

Margaret March d. 1810

Mary H. March

Nathaniel J. March d. 1827

Sarah March d. 1834

Sarah March d. 1845

John H. Marden, photo 2, Company G, 10th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire, Civil War

Margaret T. Marden d. 1848

George Thomas Martin d. 1834

Sarah Martin d. 1820

Elizabeth McHard d. 17??

Andrew McIntire

Clarissa McIntire, heelstone, d. 1791

Katarine McIntire, heelstone

Nathaniel Melcher d. 1808

Woodbury Melcher d. 1805

Abraham Meloon d. 1852

Paulina Meloon d. 1848

Clementine Mendum d. 1820

Capt. John Mendum, photo 2, d. 1806

John Mendum d. 1850

Samuel Mendum d. 1844

Susannah Mendum d. 1820

Mehitable Merriam d. 1848

Walter Merriam d. 1809

Benjamin Merrill, photo 2, d. 1816

Esther Meserve d. 1799

John Moffat, Esq., d. 18??, builder of the Moffat-Ladd House, now museum located on Market St. He was a merchant and invested in merchant ships. His daughter married Gen. William Whipple who later lived in the home.

Elizabeth R. P. Monroe d. 1837

Henry Monroe d. 1849

Mary Ann Moore d. 1821, photo 2

William Archibald Moore d. 1829

Sarah Morse d. 1878

Elizabeth Moses d. 1835

John Moses d. 1816

Sarah Moses d. 183?

William Moses d. 1805

Sgt. Charles W. Moulton, Co. K, 3rd NH Infantry, Civil War.

George Ham Moulton d. 184?

Sarah Emery Moulton d. 1826

Esther Mullinaux d. 1858, daughter of Prince Whipple, a former slave and Revolutionary War veteran.

Sarah Ann Neal d. 1806

Sarah Neil d. 1821, wife of Thomas Neil, a merchant, and daughter of Capt. Hector McNeil

William Neil jr. d. 1820, drowned at sea.

John Nelson d. 1818, a member of the NH Mechanic Association.

Anna Norton

John Odiorne d. 1825

Jotham Odiorne d. 1751, he once technically owned New Hampshire when he and a group of others purchased the title to the state from John Tufton Mason.

Susannah Oliver, photo 2, d. 1868

George Osborne d. 18??

Charles Edward Osgood d. 1833

Thomas Packer, photo 2, d. 1793

Abbigail Palfrey d. 1819

?? S. Palmer d. 1834

Mary C. Palmer d. 1830

Mary S. Palmer d. 1839

Sarah E. Palmer d. 1833

Eliza A. Parke d. 1866

Jane Parke d. 1824

Joanna Chauncy Parry d. 1800, daughter of Hon. Charles Chauncy, Esq., & granddaughter of Rev. Dr. Chauncy of Boston.

Louisa Ann Parry d. 1863

Richmond Parry d. 1828

Samuel Parry d. 1861

Jonathan Payson, Esq. d. 1826

Ann Pearne d. 1788

Mary Odiorne Pearse d. 1817

Peter P. Pearse d. 1812

Oliver Pearse d. 1848, drowned at Cape May.

Sarah H. Peabody Pearse d. 1818

Stephen Pearse d. 1861

Madam Abigail Peavy, heelstone, d. 1800, mother of George Boyd sr.

Domenick Peduzzi d. 1840, a native of Village di Imaglini, Italy.

Margaret Peduzzi d. 1839

Jane Peduzzi

Edward J. Peirce d. 1818

Andrew Jackson Penhallow, photo 2, d. 1890

Caroline A. Mason Penhallow, photo 2,

Eliza Penhallow, photo 2,

Harriet Penhallow, photo 2, d. 1861

Hon. Hunking Penhallow, photo 2, d. 1826, NH State Senator, once saved Portsmouth's early town records from fire.

Mary Ann Josepha Penhallow, photo 2,

Joseph Pepper d. 1849

Elizabeth Perkins d. 1822

Jeremy Perkins d. 1836

Nancy Perkins d. 1854

Sarah Perkins d. 184?

U.N. Perry, US Navy, Civil War.

Abigail Sheafe Pickering d. 1805, heelstone

Hon. John Pickering d. 1805, heelstone, he was a delegate at the NH Constitution Convention, a Federalist Judge who was impeached by the Senate and removed from office. His views at the time conflicted with the new Jeffersonian government.

Mary Jane Place d. 1836

Nancy Jones Place d. 1814

Sarah Place d. 1793

William Plummer, photo 2, d. 1798

Horace Morse Putnam d. 1832

Harriot Putnam d. 1832, wife of Rev. Israel Putnam who was pastor of the North Church (the steeple of which defines the Portsmouth skyline).

Julia Ann Putnam d. 1833

Sarah Reed d. 1821

Capt. Edmund Roberts d. 1787

Eveline Roberts d. 1844

George W. Robinson d. 1820

Emily Olevia Ross d. 1853

Nehemiah Rowell d. 1779

Ann Emily Jane Rugg d. 1832

Ivah N. Rugg d. 1878

Olive Ann Rugg d. 1875

Frances Rundlet

Eleazer Russell, Esq. , was a Naval Officer for England before the Revolution and for New Hampshire afterwards. He was also Collector of Impost for NH, Joint Sherriff of the Province of NH, and a representative of Portsmouth to the Assembly.

Martha Russell d. 1798

Elizabeth Salter d. 1805

Elizabeth J. Truesdell Salter d. 1836

Capt. Richard Salter, Esq. d. 1812

Charlotte H. Saunders d. 1823

Charles H. Saunders d. 1828, died of "dropsy on the brain".

Capt. Richard Saunders d. 1827

Elizabeth Scratt d. 1810

Harriet A. Scriggins d. 1846

Lydia Scriggins d. 1842

Capt. William Seavey d. 1845

Pamella Randall Sellers d. 1840, wife of Capt. James Sellers, commander of the ship "Cato" and Revolutionary War veteran who died in Bristol, England.

Elizabeth S. Senter d. 1835

Thankful Shapley d. 1806

William Shattuck d. 1827

Abigail Sheafe d. 1843

Charles Sheafe d. 1816

Francis Sheafe d. 1816

Hannah Seavey Sheafe, heelstone, d. 1773, photo 2

Horatio Sheafe d. 1798

Jacob Sheafe, Esq., heelstone, d. 1791, born at Newcastle, he was a local merchant who owned shares in several ships including the Hero, Amphitrite, and the Portsmouth. He was appointed Commissary of the NH forces at the capture of Louisburgh and a representative of Portsmouth for 7 years. He was also a friend and neighbor to Daniel Webster.

James Sheafe, Stone 2 d. 1845

John Hale Sheafe d. 1840

Mary Sheafe, heelstone, d. 1784

Mary Sheafe d. 1785, heelstone

Mary Sheafe d. 1817

Mary C. Sheafe d. 1797

Nathaniel Sheafe d. 1802

Oliver Sheafe, Stone 2 d. 1825

Sarah Sheafe d. 1798

Samuel Sheafe d. 1857

Sarah Sheafe d. 1799

Thomas Sheafe d. 1861 , Stone 2, merchant and owner of Sheafe's Wharf, now located in Prescott Park. It were his ships that brought the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1798 into port, killing one person for every sixty, including three of his own children.

Thomas Sheafe Jr. d. 1798

Rachel Tombs Shores d. 1818

John Shute Jr. d. 1854

Mary Shute d. 1837

Martha Simonds d. 1808

Elder Daniel A. Smith d. 1827

? Somerby d. 18??

Charles T. Somerby d. 1818

Angelia Louisa Southerin d. 1833

John E. Southerin d. 1829

William Johnson Southerin d. 1829

Alfred P. Spalding d. 1844, lost at sea.

Edward Jenner Spalding d. 1812

Elizabeth Coues Spalding, photo 2, d. 1838

Elizabeth P. Spalding d. 1878

Dr. Lyman Spaulding, photo 2, d. 1821, helped establish Dartmouth Medical School, president and professor of anatomy of the College of physicians and surgeons of the western district of the state of New York, was active in introducing into the United States the practice of vaccination as a preventive of the small-pox. photo 2

Daniel T.H. Spinney d. 1836

Izette S. Spinney d. 1893

Mary Waterhouse Spinney d. 1816

Mary W. Spinney, beautiful rising/setting sun motif.

Phebe Spinney d. 1828

Thomas Spinney d. 1818, a captain who advertised water excursions for ladies and gentlemen up and down the Piscataqua River.

Mary Traill Sprague d. 1824

Candace Spring, photo 2, d. 1807, wife of Pomp.

Pomp Spring d. 1807, born a slave, he later became a successful businessman and leader of the local African-American community.

Mary Stafford d. 1863

Elizabeth W.T. Staples d. 1797

James Staples d. 1850

John Staples d. 1839

Margaret Staples d. 1823

Sarah Frances Stevens d. 1819

Daniel S. Stickney d. 1837

Mary Ann Stickney d. 1837

Mehitable Stickney, photo 2, d. 1857

Samuel Stickney, photo 2, d. 1859

Edward Stiles d. 1805

Jane Stiles d. 1805

Jane Mary Ann Stiles d. 1826

Joseph Stiles d. 1827

Sarah Jane Stiles d. 1855

William Stinson d. 1842

Elizabeth Stoodley d. 1757, daughter of James Stoodly. Her's is a beautiful portrait gravestone, one of only two in this cemetery.

James Stoodly Esq., photo 2, heelstone, d. 1779, once owner of Stoodley's Tavern, which was the main gathering place for local revolutionaries where they were warned by a visit from Paul Revere in December of 1774 to warn that the British were coming. The Tavern was also the local stage coach stop, Masonic hall and sometimes the site of slave auctions. James Stoodley himself was also an officer in the First NH Militia Regiment and after Paul Revere's visit was given an order to gather men to take over nearby Fort William and Mary (now Fort Constitution) in New Castle. 400 men responded and easily took the fort from its 5 watchmen in the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Storey d. 1815

Sophia Ruth Streeter d. 1816

Catherine Stringer d. 1868

Joseph W. Stringer d. 1862

John E. Southerin d. 1829

Edward J. Teague

Frank Teague

George N. Teague d. 1842

Martha E. Teague d. 1844

Mary A. Teague

Eliza Tetherly d. 1820

George Tetherly d. 1820

George Tetherly d. 1872

George Tetherly, Jr. d. 1843

John Henry Tetherly d. 1834

John P. Tetherly d. 1820

Oliver Tetherly d. 1863

John B. Thompson d. 1810

Margaret Thompson, photo 2, d. 180?, wife of Capt. Thomas Thompson

Mary Thompson d. 1813

Thomas Thompson, Captain of the Continental Naval Frigate "Raleigh" which was built under his supervision. This ship and 12 others built at the time were the beginnings of the American Navy and it is now featured on the NH state seal. He was also the first president of the Portsmouth Marine Society and neighbor to Gov. John Langdon. Back of stone

Jacob Tilton d. 1776, keeper of the Bell Tavern. His son Johnny tried to fly with the chickens out the loft window as a child and the landing caused brain damage. In his diminished capacity he was deemed an "idiot", lived at the Alms House, and favored wearing a hat adorned with chicken feathers.

Andrew Tombs, Esq., a British officer who died while serving the crown.

Mary Traill d. 1791

Capt. Henry Treadick d. 1816

Anna Treadwell d. 1866

Robert Odiorne Treadwell d. 1806

Olive M. Trickey d. 1866, wife of a sea captain.

Martha Tucker d. 1840

Mehitable Tucker d. 1816

Olive Ann Tucker d. 1821

William Tucker d. 1849

Eunice Tuttel Tullock d. 1827, wife of a sea captain.

Elizabeth Page Turell, I d. 1816, I, II, and III daughters of Charles Turell who was publisher of the Portsmouth Oracle newspaper.

Elizabeth Page Turell, II d. 1821

Elizabeth Page Turell, III d. 1828

Priscilla Hazard Tuttell d. 1806

William Vaughan, jr. d. 1816

Margaret Veazey d. 17??

Abigail Walden, photo 2, d. 1824

Anna Treadwell Walden d. 1806, photo 2

Elizabeth Walden d. 1843

Sophia Walden, photo 2, d. 1842

Sylvester Walden d. 1816

John S. Walker d. 1852

Lavina Walker d. 1821

Nancy Walker d. 1798, one of three children who died within four days of each other.

Samuel Walker d. 1798, one of three children who died within four days of each other.

Temperance Walker d. 1798 , one of three children who died within four days of each other.

Agnes Warner d. 1809

Mary Ann Warner d. 1797

Benjamin Warren d. 1832

Elizabeth Warren d. 1811

Elizabeth Warren d. 1874

Anna Maria Foster Wetherbee d. 1854

Elizabeth Wentworth d. 1769

Mary Wentworth d. 1843

Mary Codman Wheelright d. 1833

Robert C. Whidden d. 1815

Catherine Whipple d. 1823, wife of William Whipple and buried with the family of Gov. John Langdon.

Hannah Whipple d. 1811

Joseph Whipple Esq. d. 1816, Collector of Customs in Portsmouth and brother to General William Whipple. He was instructed to retrieve a runaway slave named Ona that was owned by George Washington, but chose to let her alone rather than stir up problems with local anti-slavery supporters. She lived in the area the rest of her life and is buried in Greenland.

Mary Whipple d. 1783

Prince Whipple, photo 2, d. 1796, he was kidnapped by a slave trading captain who was supposed to bring them to America for his education, sold as a slave to General William Whipple, fought in the Revolutionary War along side him and was one of twenty slaves from Portsmouth who petitioned the state legislature for freedom in 1779.

General William Whipple, photo 2, photo 3 d. 1785, Signer of the Declaration of Independance, a friend to George Washington, Brigadier General of the NH Militia during the Revolutionary War.

Hon. Richard Wibird, photo 2, d. 1765, appointed one of his Majesty's Council and collector of customs for the port of Portsmouth in 1730, and counsellor in 1739, and in 1756, received the appointment of Judge of the Probate he once technically owned New Hampshire when he and a group of others purchased the title to the state from John Tufton Mason.

Thomas Wibird, photo 2, d. 1745

Levi Woodbury Wiggin d. 1850

Samuel P. Wiggin d. 1853

Eunice Woodward d. 180?, wife of a sea captain.

George Wortman d. 1848, at New Orleans.

Elizabeth Wyatt d. 1811

Edward Yard d. 1806, of Grenada.

Comfort Marshall Yeaton d. 1788, wife of Capt. Hopely Yeaton who received the first commission issued by Pres. Washington to an officer afloat. He was master of a ship employed as a Revenue Cutter, the service which later became the US Coast Guard. He also served as Lieutenant in the Continental Navy aboard frigates "Raleigh”

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