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Palentine Cemetery

Also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Block Island #5

New Shoreham, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA

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Get directions Dickens Lane
New Shoreham, Rhode Island, USA

Coordinates: 41.15520, -71.60267
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This is a mass burial of Palentine passengers shipwrecked on Block Island. The shipwreck of the Princess Augusta at Block Island in 1738. The ship is known from some near-contemporary accounts and from depositions taken from the surviving crew after the wreck, which were discovered in 1925 and reprinted in 1939. The Augusta, a 220-ton British ship, sailed from Rotterdam in August 1738 under Captain George Long and a crew of fourteen, transporting 240 immigrants to English colonies in America. The passengers were German Palatines, natives of the Palatinate region, and as such the ship was described as the "Palatine (ship)" in contemporary documents, which accounts for the later confusion over its name. The ship was heading for Philadelphia; from there the passengers may have intended to reach a German-owned settlement on the James River in Virginia, which attracted some 3,000 of their countrymen.

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