A Very Grave Matter - Mary March, Sarah Sargent

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Here lies interred
the Body of
M^rs. Mary March
Relict of
Doct.^r Clement March
who Departed this Life
April 7^th, 1759
Ætatis 80. Here lies Interred the Body of
M^rs. Sarah Sargent
who Departed this Life
Auguƒt 21^st, 1771,
Ætat. 74
In Honor of a final Reƒpect
& Affection to her Memory
this Stone is here Placed
by her Children
The M?? of the ??? is Bleƒsed.

In 1758, Clement March was appointed to a committee to oversee the building of a State House in Portsmouth. 10

"(Clement March) graduated at Harvard University, and studied medicine with Dr. A.R. Cutter, of Portsmouth. He married Miss Lucy Dudley Wainwright, a ward of the Hon. George Jaffrey, and niece of his wife— by whom he had six sons."