In the 74th year of her age.
Daughter of Rev. Joseph Noyes.
Inscription
Mrs. / ABIGAIL DARLING / died July 19 1797 / in the 74th year of her age / Religion was her early choice / She ever adorned it by / Faith, humility and charity / a careful obferver of providence / She made Gods will her own / and was ftudious to fpread / and tranfmit a favor of religion / She died / Looking for the blefsed hope and / glorious appearance of Jefus Christ / Her children / rife up and call her Blefsed
Copied from “Inscriptions on Tombstones in New Haven Erected Prior to 1800,” by Franklin B. Dexter, published in Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society 3 (New Haven: 1882).