Index

Burial and Death in Colonial North America

ISBN: 978-1-78973-046-3, eISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

Publication date: 9 September 2020

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Lacy, R.S. (2020), "Index", Burial and Death in Colonial North America, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-043-220201009

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INDEX

Act of Tolerance
, 54

American Resting Place, The (Yalom)
, 8–9

Anglican
, 27

Anglican/English churchyard model
, 88–89

‘King’s Chapel’
, 46–47

Anglican Book of Common Pray (1662)
, 137

Apotropaic marks
, 68

Archaeologists
, 1–2

Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravestones’, The (Baugher and Veit)
, 16–17

Avalon Peninsula
, 136

Baltimore City
, 87–88

‘Brick Chapel’
, 87–88

Bristol and London Company
, 43

British burial traditions
, 19–20

protestant reformation effects on
, 37–43

British colonial period
, 32–33

British gravestone in North America
, 59–60

British in seventeenth century Newfoundland
, 108–112

British Isles
, 4–5, 26–27, 32–33

British North America

17th century burial landscapes in
, 77–78

in early seventeenth century
, 43–50

frequency analysis for comparison between regions
, 100

frequency analysis of seventeenth century settlements
, 100

results of analysis
, 99–105

settlement organization in 17th century
, 80–95

seventeenth to eighteenth century British settlements
, 84–85

statistical analysis of burial ground organization
, 95–99

British settlers
, 26–27

British-founded settlements
, 26–27

‘Britishness’ in colonial settlements
, 19–21

Burial Act (1880)
, 44–45

Burial grounds
, 3–4, 8–9, 11–14, 24, 53, 79–80

statistical analysis of burial ground organization
, 95–99

Burial(s)
, 1–2

burial/burying ground
, 26

cemeteries
, 8–9, 24–26

churchyard/graveyard
, 24

interments
, 3

landscapes
, 7–11, 22–24

rites in Britain preceding protestant reformation
, 31–37

site at Ferryland
, 6–7

space organization
, 42–43

terminology
, 22–27

Cadaver tombs
, 35–36

Carved gravestones
, 59–60

Carvers
, 14–15

Carvings
, 14–15

Catholic epitaphs
, 41–42

Catholicism
, 132

Catholics
, 129–130

Cemeteries
, 19–20, 25–26

garden
, 25–26

Chantry chapels
, 33–34

Chapel Field cemetery
, 58–59

‘Chapell’
, 92–93

Christian symbols
, 71

Churchyard
, 24–25, 54

Cláirseach
, 70

‘Coffin-less burial’
, 58–59

Coffins
, 51–52, 55–56

styles and accessibility
, 57–58

Colonial

burial grounds
, 32–33

gravestone carvers
, 14–15

Colonialism
, 3–4

‘Colony of Avalon’
, 87

British and Irish in seventeenth century Newfoundland
, 108–112

evidence of deaths at Ferryland
, 112–114

Guilford, Connecticut
, 122–127

seventeenth century burials at Ferryland
, 114–122

Commemoration
, 33–34

Common Burying Ground
, 91–92

Communal coffin
, 55–56

‘Communion tables’
, 39–40

Conception Bay South
, 136–137

Connecticut
, 88–90, 102–103

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
, 46–47, 91

Copper pins
, 55

‘Counterreformation ideology’
, 16–17

Cremation
, 36–37

Cupids
, 43, 93–95

Daisy wheel. See Hexfoil

Death
, 1–2, 33–34

evidence at Ferryland
, 112–114

head
, 66–67

‘Dig a Grave both Wide and Deep’ report
, 13–14

Diggers
, 44–45

‘Dissolution of the Monasteries’
, 38

Doctrine of calvinism
, 38–39

East Coast

17th-century burial practices and landscapes on
, 51

gravestones in seventeenth-century Atlantic world
, 59–65

seventeenth-century gravestone iconography
, 65–76

below surface
, 54–59

Ebola
, 130–131

Embalming
, 31–32, 36–37

English churchyard model
, 98

Enthusiasts
, 44–45

European model of ‘grave recycling’
, 131

Excavations
, 56–59

at Ferryland
, 107–108, 121

at Foxtrap
, 136–137

Family plots
, 86–87

Ferryland
, 5–6, 43, 60–61, 109–111

death evidence at
, 112–114

excavations at
, 107–108, 121

gravestones
, 62–63, 65

pool
, 117

seventeenth century burials at
, 114–122

to St. John’s and cupids
, 110

Folk traditions
, 95

Foxtrap, excavations at
, 136–137

Google Earth Pro
, 21–22, 97–99

Granary Burying Ground
, 91

Grave(s)
, 116, 135–136

burial ground
, 92–93

European model of grave recycling
, 131

markers
, 14–18

shafts
, 116

Gravestone(s)
, 14–15, 40, 75–76

in seventeenth-century Atlantic world
, 59–65

of William Paddy
, 64

Gravestones of Early New England and the Men who Made Them’ (Forbes)
, 14

Graveyard
, 24–26

theory
, 19–20

Great Awakening
, 16–17

Great Migration (1630s)
, 90–91

Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
, 116, 119–120

Ground-truthing
, 58–59

Guilford, Connecticut
, 122–127

Guilford Green
, 124–126

Hexafoil. See Hexfoil

Hexagonal coffins
, 57–58

Hexfoil
, 68–74

Iceberg
, 6–7

Iconoclasm
, 40–41

Iconography
, 65–76

Inscribed gravestones
, 59–60

Irish

settlers
, 26–27

in seventeenth century Newfoundland
, 108–112

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
, 91

Jamestown
, 43, 81–86

gravestones
, 65

ledger
, 63–64

John Coney stone
, 73–74

John Guy’s Cupids Plantation
, 93–94

JR102C individual
, 56–57

King’s Chapel Burying Ground
, 45–46

Landscape
, 1–2, 7–8

archaeology theory
, 53

Lydia Broun stone
, 73–74

‘Marking grave’
, 8–9

Massachusetts Bay Company
, 43–45, 90–93, 102

‘Meeting House Yard’
, 88–89

Memento mori motifs
, 66–67

Menunkatucket
, 123

Microsoft Excel
, 21–22

Monastic communities
, 38

Monumental brasses
, 41–42

Monuments
, 35

Morbid space
, 7–8

Muggletonians
, 44–45

Nails
, 57–58

New England gravestone art
, 14

Newfoundland Company
, 5, 20, 43, 51–52, 60–61

Parish coffin
, 55–56

‘Percy’ individual
, 56–57

‘Pilgrims’
, 44–45

Plymouth Colony
, 90–91

Plymouth plantation
, 44–45

Poole Plantation
, 113–114

Popham Colony
, 92–93

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)
, 61–62

Pre-Reformation monuments and gravestones
, 35

Preiconography gravestones
, 64–65

Protective marks in mortuary context
, 68–76

Protestant
, 27

Protestant reformation
, 129

on British burial tradition
, 37–43

British North America in early seventeenth century
, 43–50

burial rites in Britain preceding protestant reformation
, 31–37

effects
, 31–32

Protestantism
, 19–20, 49, 78–79

Purgatory concept
, 33–34, 38–39

Puritanism
, 16–17, 45–48

Puritans
, 15–16, 27, 38–39, 42, 44–45, 129–130

gravestones
, 63–64

Quaker(s)
, 15–16, 26, 44–45

gravestones
, 63–64

Reform Act (1832)
, 54

Rhode Island
, 90

Romano–British gravestones
, 69

Rooms Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador
, 70

Round-end graves
, 58–59

Rural cemetery
, 25–26

Rural garden cemetery
, 25–26

Seekers
, 44–45

Settlement

organization in 17th century
, 80–95

planning
, 47–48

Seventeenth century

burials at Ferryland
, 114–122

settlers
, 133

Shrouds
, 55

‘Six-feet-under’ phrase
, 58–59

Six-sided cross
, 69

Sleeping chamber (koimeterion)
, 25–26

Statistical analysis
, 10, 77–78

of burial ground organization
, 95–99

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
, 21–22

Thomas Smith stone
, 73–74

‘Thunder mark’
, 69–70

Trenches
, 116–121

Vandalism theory
, 62–63

Virginia Company
, 20–21, 43–44

‘Virginia’
, 43, 81–86

Whorl or pinwheel design
, 68

Winged skull. See Death—head

Witch hex. See Hexfoil

Wound shroud
, 55

Yorktown
, 81–87