Exploring the Oldest Cemetery in Mystic, CT -- Whitehall

Small cemetery with a large number of deceased born in 1600s, and at least one from the 1500s. Some Captains and Colonels. Some folks born in England. Three big family names: Wheeler, Gallup, and Dean, including James Dean (from 1600s). And fun first names like Wealthy, Prudence, Thankful, Benadam, Nehemiah, and Desire (not Desiree). Also, a surprising number of deceased who lived into their 80s or 90s.

Oldest cemetery in Mystic, Connecticut. Some of the oldest graves in the state. Change your YouTube playback settings to HD or higher for best viewing results. And please SUBSCRIBE and LIKE if you enjoy the content. Thank you!

About the graves of people born in 1600s... many graves only provide Y.O.D. (year of death) and age of the deceased, so a little arithmetic is needed to figure out which ones were born in 1600s. And there were as many as five graves with Y.O.D. in early 1700s but don't provide ages of the deceased, so you can assume some or all of them were born in 1600s. Or not...

CHAPTERS:
00:25 Start of Dean family graves (at least two from 1600s, as many as five)
04:25 Start of Wheeler family graves (four from the 1600s)
08:20 Start of Gallup (Gallop) family graves (at least six from the 1600s)
13:55 Memorial to Robert Parke, Born 1580
15:30 More Graves from 1600s & 1700s
19:45 An Open Underground Crypt
20:00 OUTRO

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