Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — MILES STANDISH’S GRAVE. [ARTICLE]

MILES STANDISH’S GRAVE.

It Is Said to Ho Located In a Duxbury Churchyard. Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, is authority for the statement that Standisb was buried in Duxbury, which accords with Standish’s will, in which he asked to be buried near his daughter and daughter-in-law “if he died in Duxburrow.” Traditions of half a dozen families of the town, handed down from sire to son, locate the grave in the old churchyard between Hall’s and Bayley’s Corners, and this graveyard, in one corner of which stood the first church in Duxbury, is the only one mentioned in the early records. These traditions were to the effect, furthermore, that two triangular stones marked the spot where Standish was buried. In 1889 stones answering their description were brought to light, and in April, 1891, duly authorized persons opened the supposed graves of the Standish family and examined the remains found therein. Two of the skeletons were those of young women, two were boys, and one was that of a man, corresponding with the generally accepted physique of Standish, indicating very unusual strength and evidently that of a person well along in years. From all the facts known the speaker, who was one of those present at the exhumation, deduced the inference that these were the graves of Standish, his two daughters—i. e.,' his daughter and daughter-in-law—-and two sons named Charles and John, who died young. " ' The remains, said Mr. Hinginn, were carefully placed in new caskets and reburied in the old graveyard.— Boston Globe.