Treasure Hunting in Rhode Island - Roberts Corner, Waterman Tavern Rochambeau's Army Encampment

I'm trying to find waterman tavern uh which is uh his historic house I'm on my way to try to find an encampment of Russian army been looking already for an hour for this place and the directions addresses given were false the waterman's tavern was built in 1747 by john waterman and he was licensed to operate tavern Russian bus army stopped by during its march from providence to Yorktown in 1781 had to interview some locals and i believe i have found the place, wow that is it and the main army camped right near the tavern and the officers were quartered right in tavern itself there is two very old historical cemeteries very close by so i am here ladies and gentlemen waterman tavern the place where Rochambeau's army on its way to white plains new york camped between june 18 and june uh 22nd of 1781 and they play they were right here in the tavern uh somebody lives there so i don't really want to show it too much but they were right here at the camp in that tavern uh for between those four days it's a very interesting interesting place uh this whole area is very interesting it's it's a residential area right now if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share it i wonder if some of these soldiers perhaps died during this day very old cemetery as you can see is marked by a RI historical cemetery town of coventry. let's take a closer look what we can find some dates in memory of samuel boring game who died june 26 1844 this is certainly historical i just wonder if there are any older graves here you certainly are unmarked unmarked graves i wonder if there is any fallen soldiers from a revolutionary era interesting to know what looks like all the graves the inscriptions are no longer readable there are definitely definitely graves here from earlier times 1700s for sure right across there is another cemetery also very very old let's take a closer look i don't know if we'll be able to read any inscriptions these seem to be very very old yeah this is unreadable yeah 1874 1756 difficult to read this one looks like it broke off but we definitely had this particular grave in 1700 hundreds there is four more gravestones that survived let's take a closer look 1879. yeah looks like they are similar it looks like a family we seem a little older this um is definitely readable it's a little bit earlier 1816. if you enjoy this program please like it subscribe it and share it