The pair of cemeteries was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single listing in 1974.

[1] The Common Burial Ground was established in 1665 on land given to city of Newport by John Clarke.

The recovered stones were reset in the Common Burying Ground in 2016 by the Newport Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission.

[3] In 2017, two more burial stones found in Pennsylvania, those of Violet and Duchess Quamino, were returned and restored.

[4] Duchess Quamino, a free Black woman formerly enslaved to William Ellery Channing, had been an active member of Newport's African community.