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Pierce Burying Ground

Memorials	:	0
Location	:	Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Website	:	rihistoriccemeteries.org/newsearchcemeterydetail.aspx?ceme_no=PO060
Coordinate	:	41.5834170, -71.3202440
Description	:	PO060 This cemetery is located on Prudence Island, but registered like others as a Portsmouth historical cemetery. In his "Paragraphs on Early Prudence Island" (1964), pg. 46, Charles C. Maytum says that Charles Edwin Allen, the Prudence Island historian, visited this lot in the early 1900s. He found 14 unmarked fieldstones. It was located about 500 yards from the south end of the island and about 200 yards from the east shore. The cemetery existed as late as 1932 but was destroyed during construction of the Navy base in 1942. An intensive search in 1962 failed to find it. The... Read More	PO060 This cemetery is located on Prudence Island, but registered like others as a Portsmouth historical cemetery. In his "Paragraphs on Early Prudence Island" (1964), pg. 46, Charles C. Maytum says that Charles Edwin Allen, the Prudence Island historian, visited this lot in the early 1900s. He found 14 unmarked fieldstones. It was located about 500 yards from the south end of the island and about 200 yards from the east shore. The cemetery existed as late as 1932 but was destroyed during construction of the Navy base in 1942. An intensive search in 1962 failed to find it. The map location is approximate.

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Pierce Burying Ground is located at Prudence Island Portsmouth, Newport County ,Rhode Island , 02871USA.
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Latitude: 41.5834170
Longitude: -71.3202440

1. Indian Cemetery
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6107280, -71.3203940

2. Thomas Cornell Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5668970, -71.2896210

4. Town Farm Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5710500, -71.2846700

5. Coggeshall Lot
Middletown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5572880, -71.2960800

6. Thurston-Lawton Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5661170, -71.2825330

7. John Coggeshall Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5556190, -71.2931090

8. Thomas Coggeshall Farm Lot
Middletown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5506390, -71.2988890

9. Nichols - Hassard Ground
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5544472, -71.2904358

10. Lawton Orchard Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5603890, -71.2822780

12. Gibbs Cemetery
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5565000, -71.2852040

13. Place-Boyd Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5778060, -71.2699720

14. Prudence Island Cemetery
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6223000, -71.3110600

15. James Coggeshall Lot
Middletown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5505280, -71.2908060

16. Edward Almy Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5602500, -71.2772600

17. Priory Cemetery
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6003080, -71.2721980

18. Sisson-Carr Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5563060, -71.2810000

19. Paine Cemetery
Jamestown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5592170, -71.3635900

20. Oliver Durfee Lot
Middletown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5474000, -71.2953740

21. Brightman Stone
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5553830, -71.2803360

22. Corey Lot
Portsmouth, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5955000, -71.2668060

24. Deacon William Taggart Lot
Middletown, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5457700, -71.2926100