THE CHARLEMONT BUTTONWOOD 



IN MEMORY OF CAPT. MOSES 



RICE, WHO \\AS KILLED 



BY THE INDIANS IN THIS 



PLACE, JUNE YE IITH, 



1755, IN YE 6 1 ST YEAR OF 



HIS AGE, AND LIES AT THE RIGHT HAND. 



IN MEMORY OF MR. PHINEAS 

 ARMS, WHO WAS KILLED BY THE INDIANS 

 IN THIS PLACE, JUNE YE IITH, 1755, 

 IN YE 24th YEAR OF HIS 

 AGE, AND LIES AT THE LEFT HAND 



SACRED TO THE 



MEMORY OF DEAN AARON 



RICE AND FREEDOM HIS WIFE, 



WHO, HAVING SUSTAINED THE 



HARDSHIPS OF AN INFANT FRONTIER 



IN TIME OF WAR, HAVING 



REARED A FAMILY OF ELEVEN CHILDREN, 



NINE OF WHOM HE INTERRED IN THIS 



GROUND, AND LIVED TOGETHER IN 



HAPPY WEDLOCK 54 YEARS, 



DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE FIRST, 



DEC. 2, 1808, AGED 84 



YEARS & THE OTHER, SEPT. I5, 1809, 



AGED 79. AND THEY WERE BOTH 



RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD, WALKING IN 



ALL THE COMMANDMENTS AND ORDINANCES 



OF THE LORD BLAMELESS. 



These graves were exhumed some years 

 ago, and the bullet which killed Phineas 

 Arms was found lodged in his skull. It may 

 be seen at the historical rooms in Deerfield. 

 In the midst of the crumbling slabs of slate 

 stands a large granite monument of more 



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