It is for a native American, and it reads: In memory of James Paul who was brought to Great Britain and educated at the expense of the New England Company and apprenticed to Thos. www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/…It was that of a James Paul, a young Native American buried thousands of miles away from home. The scope of Native American presence in early modern Europe is not well understood. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/…He was bought over by a Thomas Houghton of the New England Company. The company's current website states that "the New England Company can lay claim to being the oldest missionary society still active in Britain."

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2023 17:23 UTC