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In a site titled "Kittery and Kittery Point Family Cemeteries," Dana Rae Pelletier posted the information that the last resting place of Timothy Gerrish and his wife, Sarah Eliot, is the "Gerrish-Goodwin Plot located on Gerrish Island, between Goodwin Road and the sea, one hundred yards beyond the Goodwin family residence, built in 1882." Kittery and Kittery Point are in York County, Maine.
The epitaph on the gravestone is
GERRISH
Sacred to the memory of the Honourable Timothy GERRISH Esqre late of His Majesty's Council for ye province of Massachusetts-Bay in the New-England; one of His Majesty's Magistrates of the Common Pleas for ye County of York; a sincere friend of ye church; a citizen of discretion and of publick spirit; who departed this life upon ye 19th day of Novr 1755, aged 71 yrs.
Mrs. Sarah ELIOT GERRISH, relict of ye above and daughter of the late Honble Robert ELIOT, of New Castle, Esqre. Who deceased upon ye 27th of October 1770, aged 83 years. Within this enclosure rest also the remains of many of their descendants.
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Timothy was born on 21 April 1684 in Dover. Sarah was born 1 Oct. 1687. They married on 14 Nov. 1706.
Source: Everett S. Stackpole's *Old Kittery and Her Families* (published in 1903 and reprinted in 1981 by the New England History Press)
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