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Jabez Wight grave. Cooperstown, NY

0613-M26. Gravestone at Christ Church, Cooperstown, NY. "in Memory of Mr. Jabez Wight, who unfortunately drowned while bathing in the Lake, July 14th, 1794, in the 29th year of his age." This is mentioned in the Chronicles of Cooperstown, by James Fenimore Cooper, Chapter 3.

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0613-M26. Gravestone at Christ Church, Cooperstown, NY. "in Memory of Mr. Jabez Wight, who unfortunately drowned while bathing in the Lake, July 14th, 1794, in the 29th year of his age." This is mentioned in the Chronicles of Cooperstown, by James Fenimore Cooper, Chapter 3.