North Cemetery, Portsmouth New Hampshire (NH) - Margaret & Nathaniel Kennard

Sacred
to the Memory of
Mrs. Margaret Kennard.
wife of
Cap^t. Nath^l. Kennard,
who departed this life
after a short and
distressing illness
March 2, 1817 Aged 62.
Lo where This silent marble weeps
A friend a wife a mother sleeps.

Sacred
to the memory of
Capt. Nathaniel Kennard.
who departed this life
June 24, 1823,
aged 68

There is a Nathaniel Kennard on the LIST OF PRISONERS TAKEN IN THE BRIGANTINE DOLTON, AND COMMITTED TO MILL PRISON, PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, JUNE, 1777. The initials P. J. next to his name mean with Paul Jones.

Charles Herbert wrote the book "A Relic of the Revolution", which you can read You can read his story here. It is a story of his surviving being held prisoner by the British during the Revolutionary War for 4 months locked in the brig of a ship docked in Plymouth, England. Then one by one his fellow prisoners began to catch smallpox, many died from it. He too caught the deadly disease and spent two months coming very close to death and recovering.

Fellow prisoners buried here are Capt. Eleazer Johnson, Capt. Thomas Clouston.