TWO HEADLESS CHIEFS - 1622, at Old North Cemetery in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

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  • @T5-635
    @T5-635 2 роки тому +20

    Those words Sacred to the memory are beautiful. So respectful.

  • @LadySwann
    @LadySwann 2 роки тому +13

    I'm the 13th great grand daughter to Miles Standish love hearing and learning more history he is part of Thank you

  • @fiercenet
    @fiercenet 2 роки тому +17

    that cemetery is full of dark memories... hopefully the good spirits have ousted the bad.

  • @loveliberty1352
    @loveliberty1352 2 роки тому +21

    We missed this cemetery over the summer, but visited the Men of Kent Cemetery in Scituate MA to see my 12th Great Grandfather's grave. He was buried in 1641. Love these old cemeteries!

  • @JamesBond-uz2dm
    @JamesBond-uz2dm 2 роки тому +62

    Later that day in 1876, the second telephone call in history was made. It was Bell's wife. She said : ' Al pick up my dry cleaning on your way home from work. "

  • @carollderkacy5164
    @carollderkacy5164 2 роки тому +11

    Jonas Humphrey died in Dorchester, Ma. Familiar with the area. I enjoyed the tour today. It’s about 105 in Az today. Staying inside with the ac.

  • @lorrainescott3473
    @lorrainescott3473 2 роки тому +21

    What a beautiful cemetery and all the history in it. I never knew about the headless chiefs before now. You teach us so much about our country's beginnings. I've learned a lot that we were never taught in school. Keep on doing what you do, Ron. You rock!

  • @justcurious3514
    @justcurious3514 2 роки тому +12

    The stone at 12:31 is my favorite because of the wording, the font and the way they wrote 2y 1m 2d - but especially for the little poem. You can feel how sad the mother must have been from those few words. Poor Mrs. Rachel. It is a gorgeous stone despite the age ❤️

  • @judyclark5736
    @judyclark5736 2 роки тому +6

    Wow!! Almost 600 years!

  • @pamelaanderson1124
    @pamelaanderson1124 2 роки тому +10

    WOW Ron a great walk about today!
    Barnabas Collins that ages some of us watching today!! Please know Ron I always tell you thank you for replacement of our American Flag on the graves who served.

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady 2 роки тому +23

    Ron, Your telling of these parts of history is so well told! Blows me away to see stones from the 1600’s! Just hard to fathom how long ago that was! Wow!

  • @jeepgirl6814
    @jeepgirl6814 2 роки тому +13

    The baby was Barnabus Cowing, Son of Mr. Howard Cowing & Mrs Rachel
    aged 2 years, 1 month, 2 days. Inscription: "Lie still sweet babe and be at rest, for God has done as he thinks best"

  • @nancyrubino62
    @nancyrubino62 2 роки тому +16

    I didn't want this episode to end! Being from New England, I love the history. Thank you Ron!

  • @lauriecullen7761
    @lauriecullen7761 2 роки тому +3

    I pass it every day and have never stopped. I will be now!!

  • @karenaubrey5737
    @karenaubrey5737 2 роки тому +9

    Baby Barnabus: Be still sweet babe and be at rest.
    For God has done what he thinks best.

  • @larauch13
    @larauch13 2 роки тому +4

    Very beautiful cemetery. A nice place for a dirt nap. Fascinating history. Thank you.

  • @susanwait4522
    @susanwait4522 2 роки тому +7

    You truly are a gifted storyteller. You bring history to life with each episode! Thank you!

  • @wendyhenschel.
    @wendyhenschel. 2 роки тому +4

    I am glad to see you are enjoying our old cemeteries here in Massachusetts!! We have so many with stones in the 1600s. I have always loved walking thru the old ones like this and just reading the stones. It was a favorite past time of mine from since i was a kid. And yes the oldest ones in the cities are terraced like this one in Weymouth.
    Btw Dorchester is also a Boston burb like Weymouth. So no that go did not go back to England. He was in Dorchester, Ma..
    We have so many stories here and you could spend years here in the state going thru the stories.

  • @Corgis175
    @Corgis175 2 роки тому +8

    Great story and discovery. One could spend a month here in the fall when its cooler just walking and seeing all the 1600 and 1700 tombstones.

  • @denisewatson5295
    @denisewatson5295 2 роки тому +4

    I really enjoyed this tour of the cemetery. RIP 🙏 ⚰ 🕊 ☮ 😌 ☹️ to everyone 🙏 😢 💔

  • @frankharrington4881
    @frankharrington4881 2 роки тому +5

    One of my favorite states Massachusetts! So much history and listening to you talk about it couldn't ask for anything better!!!,,,, Take care God bless and be safe! Patricia Gambino Harrington

  • @dailmalins4762
    @dailmalins4762 2 роки тому +10

    Noteable is the number of those who died past the age of 80 interesting, when the expected life of man was so much shorter.

    • @DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL
      @DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL 2 місяці тому

      Infant death really skues median age of death lower. That was the main cause of lower life expectancy statistics.

  • @ppoe1952
    @ppoe1952 2 роки тому +4

    we have to remember, Plymouth Rock wasnt the beginning. Jamestown, (1607) and St Augustine (1565) are much older than New England

  • @lilliancruz1756
    @lilliancruz1756 2 роки тому +2

    I live in Weymouth and posted pics of this cemetery on the Facebook page. Love visiting this place.

  • @susan5301
    @susan5301 2 роки тому +6

    I so enjoy hearing your stories! The best storyteller! Thanks Ron! 😀

  • @d.g.n9392
    @d.g.n9392 2 роки тому +7

    Thank you Ron, it’s always a pleasure to listen to your channel, the history and stories.

  • @justcurious3514
    @justcurious3514 2 роки тому +4

    I always think every cemetery is my favorite lol :-) I love this one because the stones are so smooth and so clear. Thank you for all the work you do to share these videos.

  • @summerrain7956
    @summerrain7956 2 роки тому +2

    orange is definitely your color👌Thank you for all you do for us😊

  • @tammymullins5240
    @tammymullins5240 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks!

  • @tmouse6561
    @tmouse6561 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks Ron! I'd heard this story years ago but had forgot about it, thanks for the history lesson!

  • @jimsteele5807
    @jimsteele5807 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you Ron.

  • @melanyblake1470
    @melanyblake1470 2 роки тому +2

    I love history. Which are stories of people long ago.
    Thank you. My dad was a storyteller about our family, his childhood, and his war years WWII & S. Korea.
    Now I'm somewhat the storyteller of the family.

  • @KimberlyLew
    @KimberlyLew 2 роки тому +6

    Bless you Mr. Blanchard & Rest In Peace to all souls there. Peaceful cemetery.

  • @vickiejackson7037
    @vickiejackson7037 2 роки тому +6

    For the age of this cemetery it is very well kept I enjoyed this , as a lot of people from the past are here and there graves are kept up the best I have seen for this age. to the people keeping it up blessings to them. And you Ron thank you.

  • @paulrickson9796
    @paulrickson9796 2 роки тому +3

    It's a looong line drive ovah tha Monstah, tha pahhking lot and into tha Chahhles Rivahh! Hahaha! Another solid winner, Ron. Barnabas Collins! Dark Shadows, indeed! My wife and I thoroughly enjoy that show and we have the deluxe coffin-shaped box set that every hardcore Shadows fan should own! I just got an American Pit Bull about a year ago....had to come up with an name.....what would fit?? Sweet dog....until you push his buttons, that is. Those fangs....dual personality...I named him Barnabas with the wife's enthusiastic approval! In another vein (!--lol!): Standish and the rest were serious people. Praying and pious, but they knew the concept of "the good shepherd". And after all of that death and hunger and disease, it is easy to believe they were willing to do some pretty harsh things to dissuade the Natives from further attacks. How about a good ol' English "Head on a Pike"? I am thinking the heads on poles must have been a real shock and fear-inducing thing to them. I have never heard of Natives anywhere in what would become the US doing this, in fact.

  • @gvtv8076
    @gvtv8076 2 роки тому +4

    On the Jonas grave, Dorchester is a neighborhood in Boston Great video Thank you

  • @shirleyashanti3031
    @shirleyashanti3031 2 роки тому +4

    Great episode. So much history in that old cemetery. Beautiful grounds. To think most of it dug without modern machinery.

  • @BrandonSmith84
    @BrandonSmith84 2 роки тому +6

    My 11th Great Grandparents Nicholas Phillips (1611-1669) and Elizabeth Jewson (1612-1649) are buried there along with my 10th Great Grandparents John Shaw (1630-1704) and Alice Phillips (1631-1704)

  • @jaynellewellyn7628
    @jaynellewellyn7628 2 роки тому +4

    You tell the story like a born raconteur, Ron!🙃Great video, enjoyed it, and such old gravestones.

  • @racheallange2056
    @racheallange2056 2 роки тому +6

    Been watching your vids for a while now..Love them all ! I love old cemeteries.

  • @aliciabrewer9444
    @aliciabrewer9444 2 роки тому +10

    I love hearing about stories of how it was, way back when, and what all went on back then. It’s very interesting and fascinating to learn how our ancestors lived and survived…
    Ron you find and visit the coolest cemeteries. I’m glad you did this story and shared it with us. As always, stay safe out there Ron.🙂💟

  • @Eaglefly-er7do
    @Eaglefly-er7do 2 роки тому +5

    Thanks for the wonderful history lesson Ron. What a beautiful historical cemetery that you walked us through. 👍 Another great job you did.

  • @lauriegonzalez3935
    @lauriegonzalez3935 2 роки тому +6

    So much history! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing!❤️

  • @sharonnichols9625
    @sharonnichols9625 2 роки тому +3

    Great story from the early times to the invention the telephone such a beautiful place 😍

  • @myrnab2022
    @myrnab2022 2 роки тому +4

    "Watson, come here. I need you."

  • @LaurenFerrell885
    @LaurenFerrell885 2 роки тому +4

    I was thinking the same thing with dark shadows

  • @ot8210
    @ot8210 2 роки тому +3

    Wow Mr. Ron, simply fascinating stories. And the dates on the headstones is something I could spend days looking and reading. Just wonderful.

  • @rolfsinkgraven
    @rolfsinkgraven 2 роки тому +4

    A very beautiful cemetery, and 2 great stories, heard about Bell of course but did not know his assistant was buried there, the story off those 2 heads is fascinating.

  • @allisonmcdonald5488
    @allisonmcdonald5488 2 роки тому +3

    Another great history lesson, thanks Ron 😊

  • @virginiakeim
    @virginiakeim 2 роки тому +4

    Amazing story! And all of the old, old graves! I would love to be able to walk through that cemetary. Thanks for sharing this Ron!

  • @judyclark5736
    @judyclark5736 2 роки тому +3

    Oh I love history!!

  • @doreenarcher8543
    @doreenarcher8543 2 роки тому +6

    I need to visit this cemetery. Ron you go to the best places.✨✨✨✨

  • @brendacanter9768
    @brendacanter9768 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks Lisa❤️ Love the really old stuff. Loved the stories.

  • @johno30197
    @johno30197 2 роки тому +18

    It's fascinating to think how these two men scott and bell managed to figured it out and bring to life the age of the telephone.........what happened to them men was evil personified..thank's mate great walk and story...

  • @andrewduckworth4720
    @andrewduckworth4720 2 роки тому +3

    Good value Ron great story and two for the price of one you can't go wrong 🙂

  • @jeanniearnett3948
    @jeanniearnett3948 2 роки тому +3

    Oh wow...I went to Weymouth high school!

  • @carmenconcepcion447
    @carmenconcepcion447 2 роки тому +4

    Wow! Not that's what i call way back .t h e stones are incredible. Thinking about heading to this cemetery. not to far from my neck of the woods. Amazing it's like a time capsule for real.

  • @lisablake5328
    @lisablake5328 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you Ron never knew about both those stories you told lots of work went into them thanks for everything you do.

  • @denahoward10
    @denahoward10 2 роки тому +1

    Hey Ron when you said dark shadows that is what I watched with my grandmother. I was terrified watching that! Love this walk. Stay safe. 🫶🏼

  • @Industrialist2015ofUk
    @Industrialist2015ofUk 2 роки тому +11

    I wanna go back to the U.S. after seeing your journeys 😄 Keep it up!

  • @marlenepearson3936
    @marlenepearson3936 2 роки тому +5

    Wow Ron! You are really taking us back in time and into History! I can never say enough how much I appreciate the hard work you do on these! You and your family be well and be blessed! 🙏 💕

  • @nadiabrook7871
    @nadiabrook7871 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for the FASCINATING history lesson, Ron!! I LOVE learning new things!! XXXX 💖👍

  • @freethagoy
    @freethagoy 2 роки тому +6

    I do similar vids! Love old cemeteries too, probably mostly cause I lived near one growing up n would hangout there all through my childhood. Gonna get a better camera n film more at my local cemeteries.

  • @cathysummers7558
    @cathysummers7558 2 роки тому +4

    Great stories. I love hearing about these stories. Have a Great evening Sir and The gang!❤️🇺🇸

  • @arthurquinn9989
    @arthurquinn9989 2 роки тому +2

    I grew up in Quincy and Scituate, I now live in Weymouth Ma., and Alton NH., not to far from this cemetery I’ll have to check it out someday.. Thank You Ron.

  • @dawntaylor239
    @dawntaylor239 2 роки тому +10

    Love ❤️ your stories you do such a brilliant job

  • @PeppieP
    @PeppieP 2 роки тому +2

    You know it really must be something to say that you can trace your ancestor back to the first white settlers in America - all the struggles they went through and to stand today to say they were your ancestors. Native Americans got a raw deal from the very day white settlers arrived. Thank you for telling the Native Americans story and the show of respect you gave them. Great episode Ron x

  • @alandickerson3379
    @alandickerson3379 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for the story and taking a walk through this very old cemetery. I even learned some things!

  • @susansmith4721
    @susansmith4721 2 роки тому +9

    Jonas Humphrey’s tombstone : Born in England; came to Dorchester, Massachusetts
    Died in Dorchester, I would assume Massachusetts.
    Love hearing all the stories you tell! Cemeteries are fascinating!

    • @denisemarie9735
      @denisemarie9735 2 роки тому

      Dorchester is a part of Boston, Massachusetts

  • @renebates8090
    @renebates8090 2 роки тому +13

    RIP my Indian brothers 🙏 💔

  • @wilmahubbard9123
    @wilmahubbard9123 2 роки тому +3

    my late husband was a relative of pocahontes. she married a man from england.... my husband had papers telling what famous man she married i wish i could remember

  • @Deus-Too
    @Deus-Too 2 роки тому +4

    That big family gravestone for Thomas Watson, The assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, lists his death in 1934, the much smaller stone to the right of it lists Thomas B Watson dying in 1903.... his son 🤔

  • @paulgrimm
    @paulgrimm 2 роки тому +2

    I bet the ghost have interesting conversations.I’d love to listen in with a Spirit Box .What a lovely place.They chief invented the HAVE A NICE DAY smily face

  • @sandyhawks1226
    @sandyhawks1226 2 роки тому

    Just love how you tell our stories from the past. I know you hear that all the time. But I sincerely mean it. This one here shows how way back we go.

  • @celineleeuwe1206
    @celineleeuwe1206 2 роки тому +4

    Are we weird that we like this 😀 since I was very young I felt attrackted to graveyards. Just recently I was in a bus and it broke down so we'd to walk. I was accompagnied by somebody I didn't know but he knew the area. So we past a graveyard. My inside was urging me to go there :) but I was tired and I didn't know the area but I mentioned it to the man. So he said that it was a very old graveyard and it was about to be cleared. I was in shock it felt so disrespectful . Thanks Ron I'm not American but I really enjoy all the story's . I do genealogy and wonder so often how the people past, specially the younger ones. But btw what happened with the heads ?

  • @lindatanner8726
    @lindatanner8726 2 роки тому +2

    Very cool old cemetery.

  • @debbiebutler3310
    @debbiebutler3310 2 роки тому +3

    Great video today as always Ron!!💝

  • @janehodge7787
    @janehodge7787 2 роки тому +3

    Dorchester is a section of Boston

  • @DorisVoerster
    @DorisVoerster 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome cemetery! I love New England history. And I always enjoy history lessons from Ron!! 💜💜

  • @kermie1975
    @kermie1975 Рік тому

    Thank you for replacing the fallen flags. Our Scouts place those flags on Veterans' graves each Memorial Day. LOVED your video. Glad you liked our beautiful cemetery.

  • @chrisgraphs1015
    @chrisgraphs1015 2 роки тому

    WOW what a amazing story. I could get lost at that Cemetery so many old graves. Just think of all the history at that place. Thanks Ron for another great old Cemetery walk.

  • @sharonott7513
    @sharonott7513 2 роки тому +1

    That was very interesting, Ron. I grew up in Weymouth and the local history was great.

  • @maryali336
    @maryali336 2 роки тому +2

    Very interesting story thanks for taking us along

  • @lanacampbell-moore6686
    @lanacampbell-moore6686 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks Ron💙

  • @jefferypayne6911
    @jefferypayne6911 2 роки тому +1

    Dorchester is a Neighborhood In Boston originally settled in 1630 and annexed by Boston in 1870

  • @anniegi64
    @anniegi64 2 роки тому

    Thank you for your tours and history
    as well as your respect for your subjects and the cemeteries they rest in.

  • @TroyCanDance
    @TroyCanDance 2 роки тому +2

    Totally can’t beat old But East Coast cemeteries.

  • @CaroleLeamer735
    @CaroleLeamer735 Рік тому

    What a beautiful cemetery. It's just brimming with history... some good and some bad. Thank you for sharing this ❤

  • @peterepoet2535
    @peterepoet2535 2 роки тому +4

    Good information Sir.

  • @geargrinder6248
    @geargrinder6248 2 роки тому +2

    Would've loved to meet you, I've lived a 5 min walk from that cemetery my entire life. Never would've thought you'd come to my town. Hope you found it welcoming.

  • @marymahaffey4618
    @marymahaffey4618 2 роки тому +3

    Very interesting story Ron....thanks for sharing...... have a good day 😊 safe travels 🥾🥾🚗....rip to all 😇🙏

  • @jerrysamuelson1247
    @jerrysamuelson1247 10 місяців тому

    I really appreciate you Ron picking up our flag off of the ground and standing it back up. I do the same when my wife and I walk cemeteries. Glad to know that others do the same. Love your videos.

  • @wendywarrior2264
    @wendywarrior2264 2 роки тому +3

    I bet that cemetery is hard to mow!!

  • @tessawhite7962
    @tessawhite7962 Рік тому

    I love the way you put the flags back where they belong. My grandfather is a veteran (he served in WW2) so this means a lot to me on a personal level. The flags are always taken off my grandfather’s grave and it makes me beyond angry! There is a special place in Heaven for people like you, Ron. 😊😊

  • @tammymullins5240
    @tammymullins5240 2 роки тому +4

    You looking good in orange 🧡

  • @JohnShields-xx1yk
    @JohnShields-xx1yk 5 місяців тому

    I grew up in North Weymouth, great area, the ocean was my happy place, diving off the foreriver bridge next to my house, also the Hingham bridge. I've always thought about the Indian people who lived here before us, always in the back of my mind, even today. Thank you for the video.

  • @gregoryclayton8287
    @gregoryclayton8287 2 роки тому +16

    A big hello to a heck of a nice guy in RC! replacing those American flags and laying down those yellow roses on the graves, and always does such a fantastic job telling the stories. Wow! those headstones do go back, Way, way back!!! and in great condition. There must be something in the atmosphere that preserve's the headstones? It seems that the white people has always had it in for the poor Indian's, yes, REST IN PEACE- to all in the Old North Cemetery in Weymouth. Thank you, RC, and to the FOTF family, Signed, Greg the egg. Inclosing, I have a suggestion, I having a little trouble getting into the suggestions site? I thought may-be if by the comments I could leave this? PLUS this is a lot closer to home, well heres goes, this took place in Chicago in 1985, 7 youths were killed in a car crash on their way to a Bruce Springsteen concert in a 1975 Cadillac which was loaned by the father of one of the victims. a 21 year old Bette Cipolle of Joliet,IL. the other names of the youths that died that day and their ages are, Daniel Dow 21 of Shorewood,IL.-his sister, Kimberly Dow 16, also of Shorewood, IL.-Dean Labarbera 15 of Joliet, IL.- Kritin Behrens 15 of Joliet,IL.-Jennifer Fredrickson 16 of Shorewood, IL,- Rosann Sula 20 of Joliet, IL. NOW, you will find three of the youths in the WOODLAWN CEMERTERY in Joliet,IL. off the street of JEFFERSON STREET in which is one of the main drags in Joliet. The three youths are, Daniiel Dow and his younger sister Kimberly Dow. Then the other youth would be, Jennifer Fredrickson, the three are all close together. That is a lot!!!!!!!..

  • @Wise-Lady-La-Aura
    @Wise-Lady-La-Aura 2 роки тому +1

    It feels as if my own father is walking with me and telling me wise things that have happened. You are a great story teller and a valuable, honorable man. We have an old cemetery down the road by an old church in the middle of nowhere. I know there are many stories to tell there. I bought 8 double spaces there for the eventual use by our family. The decapitations that resulted in the two headless chiefs was a terrible tragedy for those tribes. It demoralized them, and no doubt shocked them to see their beloved leaders' heads on a stake. May we never see our loved ones heads on a stake. Thanks for the history lessons, my friend. Long may you live! Blessings!

  • @Sdsacanita196
    @Sdsacanita196 3 місяці тому

    That was a brilliant walk round with you Ron, so interesting, thank you.. Rip to the 2 warriors

  • @sammiceli7645
    @sammiceli7645 3 місяці тому

    I drive by that cemetery often, now I have to stop in for a visit.
    Thanks, for the commentary.