General Notes

"In Hoc Sepulcro Depositae Sunt Reliquiae
Viri Vere Reverendi D: Jacobi Fitch: Natus
Fuit Apud Bocking in Comitatu Essexlae in
Anglia, Anno Domino 1622 Decembr 24 Qui Post-
Quam Linguis Literatis Optime Instructus
Fuisset In Novangliam Venit Aetat. 16 Et
Deinde Vitam Degit Harteordlae Per Sepen-
nium Sub Institutione Virorum Ceeeberi-
morum D: Hooker Et D: Stone Postea Mtnere
Passorali Functus Est Apud Saybrook Per
Annos 14 Illinc Cum Ecckesiae Maiori Parte
Norvicum Migravit Et Ibi Ceteros Vitae
Annos Transegit In Opere Evangelico In Sen-
Ectute Vero Prae Corporis Infirmitate Ne-
Cessario Cessabat Ab Opere Publico : Tan-
Demque Recessit Liberis Apud Lebanon Ubi
Semianno Fere Exacto Obdormivit In Iesu
Tomb stone:
Anno 1702 Novebr 18 Etat 80 Vir, Ingenii Acu-
Mine, Pondere Judicii, Prudentia Charitate,
Sanctis Laboribus, Et Omnimoda Vitae Sanc-
titate Peritiaquoque Et Vi Concionandi
Nulli Secundus." Translation
"In this grave are deposited the remains of that truley reverend
man, Mr. James Fitch. He was born in Bocking, in the County of
Essex, in England, the 24th day of December, in the year of our
Lord 1622; who after he had been most excellently taught the learned
languages came into New England at the age of sixteen, and then
spent seven years under the instructions of those very famous men,
Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone. Afterwards he discharged the pastoral
office fourteen years at Saybrook. Thence he removed with the
major part of his Church to Norwich, where he spent the other years
of his life in the work of the gospel. In his old age indeed he was
obliged to cease from his public labors by reason of bodily indisposi-
tion and at length retired to his children at Lebanon, where after
spending nearly half a year, he slept in Jesus in the year 1702, on the
18th day of November, in the 80th year of his age."
"He was a man as to the smartness of his genius, the solidity of
his judgement, his charity, holy labors, and every kind of purity of
life, and also as to his skill and energy of preaching, inferior to none."