The listed coordinates are for the Trinity Church cemetery, where
there are several Revolutionary War gravesites. One notable person
buried there is Admiral de Ternay, who was in command of the French
Navy and transported the army of Lieutenant General Rochambeau,
commander of the French expeditionary forces in America during the
Revolution. This is about .25mi from the cache start location.
The coordinates you calculate for each stage will get you to the
proper cemetery. Some hunting may be required at each site. Please
be sure to read through the entire listing before setting out. This
cache requires some driving between sites (less than 10 miles from
the first stage to the last). Please be respectful of the sites
being visited. One of the sites is near a school, so please take
that in to account when hunting. As a cover story, use the old
standby, "I'm doing some genealogy research."
To start, you will need to do a little research. The following
stanza is taken from a poem that was written about an historic
landmark in Newport. You need to determine who wrote the poem, when
it was written, and when poet died.
"Gone are the living, but the dead remain,
And not neglected; for a hand unseen,
Scattering its bounty, like a summer rain,
Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green."
Stage 1 is located at:
41° 29.zx0' N
Where 18xz is the year the poet died (reverse the tens and ones
digits)
71° 00.034' + ab.cd0' W
Where abcd is the four-digit year the poem was written (or the
publish date-2)
Once there, you will need to find an informational marker. On
the marker are the year that the land was purchased, and a list of
names. Find the year of death for the second name in the first
column (the person's gravemarker is visible from a sidewalk).
Stage 2 is located at:
41° 13.009' + ab.cd' N
Where abcd is the year the land was purchased
71° 00.399' + wx.yz' W
Where wxyz is the year the person died
At these coordinates, you will find the grave of one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. Once there, you need
information from the two headstones to either side of the person's
grave.
Stage 3 is located at:
41° 30.103' + 00.ab' N
Where ab is the year of his life in which Edmund died (headstone
directly on the left)
71° wx.yz0' - 00.019' W
Where wxyz is the year Abigail died (black headstone directly on
the right). You may need to move the grass a bit to see the year on
the bottom right corner of the stone.
At these coordinates is a small cemetery. You need some
information from the readable headstone placed for a man and
wife.
Stage 4 is located at:
41° 31.504' + a.bcd' N
Where abcd is the year Phebe died
71° 11.333' + x.y' W
Where xy is the age at which Samuel died
There is no need to actually enter the cemetery at this stage.
The cache is not in the stone wall. There is parking just south of
the final coordinates. The area can be a muggle rich environment,
so please use stealth mode to retrieve the cache. The container is
a German Army butter dish - about 4" in diameter, and 1" tall (see
the photo). There is a small logbook and a few very small goodies
to start. There is not a lot of room, so if you do plan on trading,
make sure the item is very small. I am starting an appropriate
Travel Bug here as well. Please secure the lid tightly, and be sure
to re-hide the container well.