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John Coggeshall’s Gravestone in Newport
The Coggeshall Burial Ground in Newport holds several generations of the prominent Coggeshall family, one of nine families who founded the city in 1639. Notable interments include Arthur Sterry Coggeshall (1873–1958), a paleontologist and museologist, and Abraham Redwood (1709–1788), a merchant and slave trader who helped found the Redwood Library & Athenaeum. Below, John Coggeshall’s gravestone,…
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