Coddington Cemetery

Coddington Cemetery

Entrance from Farewell Street
Details
Established 1647
Location Newport, Rhode Island
Country United States
Type Denominational (Quaker)
Owned by Private
Number of graves 93
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The Coddington Cemetery is an early colonial cemetery located in Newport, Rhode Island. It is sometimes called the Friends' Burial Ground, and has more colonial governors buried in it than any other cemetery in the state.

Description

Memorial marker to William Coddington

The Coddington Cemetery, located at 34 Farewell Street in Newport, Rhode Island, is a very old colonial cemetery with 93 known interments, and has the largest number of interred colonial governors of any cemetery in the state.[1] The six governors buried here are William Coddington, Nicholas Easton, William Coddington, Jr., Henry Bull, John Easton, and John Wanton, all Quakers.[1] None of the six governor graves has a governor's medallion like those found at the gravesites of most other colonial governors. The first known interment in this cemetery was that of Mary Moseley Coddington, the wife of Governor William Coddington, who died in 1647, and the last interment was that of James Easton who died in 1796.[1]

The cemetery has been designated as Rhode Island Historic Cemetery, Newport #9, and is located on Farewell Street between Baptist and Coddington Streets in Newport. Within the cemetery is a monument honoring Governor William Coddington, erected on the 200th anniversary of the founding of Newport.[1] The monument reads:

THIS MONUMENT

Erected by the Town of Newport

on the 12th. day of May 1839 being

the second Centeniel [sic] Anniversary

of the settlement of this town:

To the memory of

WILLIAM CODDINGTON ESQ

That illustrious man, who

first purchased this Island

from the Narragansett Sachems

Canonicus and Miantunomo

for and on account of himself and

Seventeen others his associates

in the purchase and Settlement.

He presided many years

as chief Magistrate of the Island

and Colony of Rhode Island

and Died much respected and lamented

on the 1st day of November in [1678]

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Coordinates: 41°29′33″N 71°18′52″W / 41.49250°N 71.31444°W / 41.49250; -71.31444

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