James Paine, Newman Cemetery

The James Paine stone.

Making a living by the sea was a dangerous undertaking, and not many men came home. This is one of those men. The epitaph reads:

"Sacred to the Memory of Capt. JAMES PAINE,
who was drowned while serving aboard the Ship
Rising States, (himself Master). My body is not
to be found by this stone, for God has decreed a watery
tomb; But since it is the lot of all men to die
It is my sad fate in the Ocean to lie."

He drowned December 14, 1816, aged 32.