t Hampton, and standing
in the northeast angle of the Cross, is to the memory of Captain Willis
Wilson, who departed this life the 19th day of November, 1701. The
latest date upon the stones at Pembroke is 1719. "The lapse of years,
and the ruthless hand of time," have levelled those graves in "ye old
parish church of Kigquotan;" but enough is left to the "tomb searcher,"
even in the inscriptions following, as he reads them by the slanting
rays of the setting sun, and hears the low winds dirging in the pines,
and the moaning and sighing of the distant waves, to lead him to say
with Blair:

"The time draws on
When not a single spot of burial earth,
Whether on land, or in the spacious sea,
But must give back its long-committed dust
Inviolate; and faithfully _shall these_
Make up the full account."

The following coats-of-arms and inscriptions, are taken from four black
marble tablets, six feet high and three wide, lying in a field about one
mile from Hampton.

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"Here lies ye body of JOHN NEVILLE, Esq., Vice Admiral of His
Majesty's fleet, and Commander in chiefe of the Squadron
cruising in ye West Indies, who dyed on board ye Cambridge, ye
17 day of August, 1697, in ye ninth yeare of the Reign of King
William ye third, aged 57 years."

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"In hope of a Blessed Resurrection, here lies the body of
THOMAS CURLE, gent.: who was born November 24, 1640, in the
parish of St. Michaels, in Lewis, in the county of Sussex, in
England, and dyed May 30, 1700.--When a few years are come then
I shall goe the way whence I shall not return.--Job 16. 22."

A third inscription is as follows:

"This stone was given by his Excellency FRANCIS NICHOLSON,
Esq., Lieutenant and Govenour Generall of Virginia. In memory
of PETER HAYMAN, Esqr., grandson to Sir Peter Hayman of
Summerfield, in ye county of Kent, he was Collector of ye
Customs in the Lower District of James River, and went
voluntary on board ye King's shipp Shoreham, in pursuit of a
pyrate, who greatly infested this coast. After he had behaved
himselfe seven hours with undaunted courage, was killed with a
small shott ye 29 day of Aprill, 1700, in ye engagement he
stood next ye Gouvenour upon ye quarter deck, and was here
honorably interred by his order."

And the last, which speaks for itself--

"He