"Here Lyes Buried
ye Body of Doctr
PHILIP SHATTUCK,
who deed June
ye 26th, 1722, in ye 74th
year of his Age.
Blessed are the Dead
that Die in the Lord."
A new marble tablet was later erected, to which the above inscription was transferred, with the following appended: "The above record was transferred from a moss-grown crumbling headstone of slate, to one of more enduring marble, by a descendant of the 5th generation, A. D. 1853." His will was dated January 29, and proved August 30, 1722. He had two sons by the name of Philip living at the same time, one by each wife, and they were distingusihed from each other in his will as "Philip Shattuck of Saybrook," and "Philip Shattuck, the younger," or as "the youngest son of my present beloved wife." Accounts of two living children of the same name in one family sometimes occurs in the early history of this country and in England, but this is the only instance found in this family. Dr. Shattuck married (first) November 9, 1670, Deborah Barstow, daughter of William and Anna Barstow. She died November 24, 1679. He married (second) February n, 1680, Rebecca Chamberlain, who survived him, and died in 1728. She also left a will dated December 13, 1727, which was probated November 19, 1728. Children of first wife: Deborah, Philip, Susannah, Anna; by the second wife: Joseph (died young), Rebecca, Benjamin, Joseph, Nathaniel, Isaac, Amos, Sarah, Theophilus and Philip.