Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts -- 4th Visit and Boy Did I Get Help

These three happy helpful men were on their lunch break and took me over to what I was looking for. This was their 2nd or 3rd year of doing cemetery repair work at this historic cemetery. My previous posts about my search and what I was looking for may be found at the link below.

They brought me to the white stick and explained they moved No. 414 a few inches from No. 413. Previously, they were almost back-to-back against each other.

My Number 414 had a stick in front of it, and the tombstone faced the opposite side. unlike most of the others.

You can only see the writing if the lighting is good.

Thomas Rand son of Robert & Elizabeth Rand, aged 15 weeks, Died on 18 Sep. 1711.

To Copp's Hill Burying Ground / Cemetery, Boston and the 3rd Time is Not a Charm  (There are maps, more photos, and information about this cemetery.)

When I walked along the path to the right, to get to where I thought my stone was, this is what I saw. If I had come before or after lunch, it probably would have been closed because of their job. When I took this photo I was almost on my stomach. It is a very small.

When I left, I took a parting shot of the three men. The photo below was just eight months before.

My September 2022 photo shows how crooked many of the stones were on this path.

A perfect day to check out the broken stones and those that have been repaired.

The cemetery is on the left and the Old North Church is straight ahead.

The Coffin House (1678), Newbury, Massachusetts

 

The Coffin House
14 High St, Newbury, MA 01951

From the HistoricNewEngland.org website, I read, "The Coffin House story follows one of Newbury’s founding families through 1929. See two early back-to-back kitchens where the extended family cooked meals. Coffin House has wallpaper dating to 1815, one of the only surviving butteries in New England, and a fine collection of local furniture and objects. The house is furnished with items passed down in the family, and much of the interior remains unchanged since the nineteenth century." Tristram and JudithCoffin were the first Generation of Coffins. Read the website to learn about the other generations.

The room below has an enormous long table and chest that came with them from England. At the end of this post, we were given an information sheet about the house and the genealogy of the Coffin line for several generations. I don't know if you'll be able to see it clearly because it's quite light. We were told that all the furniture had been donated by various Coffin descendants and in almost every tour there is a person related to this line. I have quite a few Coffin surnames in my line and met a direct line descendant on the tour.

This chest and table apparently came with the earliest Coffins from England.

I enlarged quite a few photos, for a clear picture.

 I did not walk up these stairs to see the bedrooms.

I first saw The Coffin House when it was having a major renovation on June 14, 2023. While I walked around part of the property I had the pleasure of meeting one of the two men who live here. He told me what they knew about the house. I knew I would return in a few months when windows were up, ladders down, and a new roof on.

See below for another HistoricNewEngland house. This property is a short walk away from the Coffin House and is on the same street.

Swett-Ilsley House, Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, posted January 15, 2024.

https://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2023/07/blog-post.html

Swett-Ilsley House, Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts

The house is surrounded by too many green shrubs.

This was the first house of the HistoricNewEngland.org historic sites I visited this year. And the first visit I made without my husband with me. Another first is this is the first property purchased by the Historic New England in 1911.

Swett-Ilsley House

4 High Road

Newbury, Mass. 01951

Website: https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/swett-ilsley-house/

About 12 of the visitors waited in the above room for the tour to begin. We learned about the history of the house additions and the families. This is one of the very few homes without furniture that HistoricNewEngland has. I visited on July 1, 2023.

From the HistoricNewEngland.org site, 

"The original portion, built in 1670 by Stephen Swett, was one room deep, and later additions more than doubled the size of the house. Over the centuries the building served as a tavern, chocolate shop, chandlery, and tea room, in part due to its location on Newbury’s most traveled road."

Back of the fireplace, see the man looking in. This fireplace was Amazing.

The fireplace is so huge that we could all could fit inside.

So many doors.

Up on the second floor.

At some point, a person decided there should be a bathroom.

A modern skylight. (Not really.)

Leaving the second floor. You have to be very careful going down.

Backyard. I checked out this site almost a month before they gave the tours. Somebody lives in the back rooms, but I was able to walk around and enjoy the peonies on June 14th.