Comment by Bit Devine on March 25, 2013 at 4:00pm

I spend a lot of my time in graveyards...photographing headstones and pondering on the stories left untold by those interred...grand photos these!

Comment by Séamus Ó Dubsláine on March 25, 2013 at 4:05pm

APPENDIX. 

The following copies and extracts from recorded instruments are official, and bear the attestations of the proper officers, which have, however, been omitted in the printed text. 

TEAGUE CREHORE, 

Petition, 

January 29, 1684. 

[From Suffolk (County) Probate Rf. **********] 

TO THE HONORABLE COUNTY COURT THE HONORED GOVERNOR AND MAGISTRATE SITTING AT BOSTON.

The petition of Teague Crehore humbly showeth that the last winter in the beginning thereof providentially there was an Indian which sometime lived at Dorchester - his name is Joseph. Being at work making baskets and having a little shelter not very far from my house, the said Indian was struck with a very great lameness and was not able to help himself at all neither with fire nor food and he having no relation to Ponkapoag Indians nether they nor any other Indians took any notice of him therefore I thought I was called to take some care of him and not to let him perish in that helpless condition that he at that time was in and I and my children carried in wood and food to him for his relief there until we were worried out; it being some distance from my house, there being much snow and very cold therefore we carried him home to my dwelling house and there kept him upon my own charge in both places twenty-five weeks which was a great charge and a great deal of trouble to me and my family I am but a poor man and have a great charge of children and therefore unable to bear such a burden upon my own account I made application to Mr. Eliot and I thank him he allowed me twenty shillings but told me he could do no more. Thereof I your poor petitioner humbly request this Honored Court to consider of what is herein presented to your Honors consideration and afford me some relief and in so doing you will further oblige your petitioner as in duty I am bound forever to pray. 

The mark of: TEAGUE CREHORE 

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