Removed for safe keeping from the Cove Hill Cemetery (also known as the Old Lanesville
Cemetery) and deposited at the Cape Ann Museum in the 1960s

Inscribed:
HERE LYES INTER'd
THE BODY OF Mr.
JOHN LANE OF
GLOCESTER AGED 86
YEARS DEC'JAN , 24
1 7 3 7/8

John Lane and his wife Dorcas were among the first settlers in what is now the Lanesville neighborhood of Gloucester. They arrived here shortly after 1700, the recipients of a land grant which allowed them to build a house near Flatrock Cove.