Miles Merwin, 1623-1697, And One Branch of His Descendants
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2.75 To John Loveland for tolling the bell .50 To Olive Norton for making shroud . 3Ti , $4.87i A shroud was always used for the dead, made of a soft white cloth manufactured for that pur- pose, and called "shrouding." No one was ever "laid out," to use the old-fashioned expression, in clothing worn by them in life. The use of a hearse for the coffin and covered carriages for the family was unknown at that time. Coffins were placed upon a long wagon, and covered with a pall. Lieutenant Miles Me...rwin died December 12, 1786, sixty-seven years old. His wife, Mary Talcott, died January 18, 1793. Their graves are close by those of his father and mother, in the old cemetery in Durham. The inscription on his grave-stone is : "In memory of Lieut. Miles Merwin, who having served his generation ac- cording to the will of God through a 6i useful life, finished his course on earth Dec. 12, 1786, in the 66th year of his age/' "The sweet remembrance of the just, Like a green root, revives and bears.
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