Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
| Old Burying Ground | |
|---|---|
 The cemetery in 2018 | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1635 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 42°22′30″N 71°07′11″W / 42.3750137°N 71.1198088°W |
| Find a Grave | Old Burying Ground |
The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground,[1] is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square.[2] The cemetery opened in 1635.[1]
Notable burials[edit]
- Washington Allston – painter and poet[3][4][5]
- Nathaniel Appleton – minister[2][5]
- Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)[4][5][6]
- Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle[2][5]
- Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School[5]
- Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge[2]
- Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author[4]
- Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman[4]
- Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer[4]
- Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America[5]
- Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans[5]
- Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)[4][5][6]
- Thomas Shepard – minister[5]
- Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)[4][5]
- Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian[2][5]
- Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)[2][7]
Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here[8] including:
- Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672[2][5]
- Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654[2][5]
- Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769[2][5]
- John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724[2][5]
- Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680[2][5]
- John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684[2]
- Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737[2][5]
- Joseph Willard – clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804[2][5]
Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775.[9] Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Cambridge Cemetery". www.cambridgema.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Neal, Jeff (October 28, 2015). "Amid the Old Burying Ground". The Harvard Gazette. Harvard University. Archived from the original on October 27, 2023.
- ^ Poupore, Joshua (November 1, 2007). "Washington Allston, a name to remember". The Harvard Gazette. Harvard University.
- ^ a b c d e f g An Historic Guide to Cambridge. Cambridge (Mass.). 1907.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Harris, William Thaddeus (1845). Epitaphs from the Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge. Cambridge: John Owen, Metcalf and Company – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Find Tomb Believed Jonathan Belcher's". The Lewiston Daily Sun. 22 July 1937.
- ^ Maskiell, Nicole S (2 December 2020). "Cicely was young, Black and enslaved – her death during an epidemic in 1714 has lessons that resonate in today's pandemic". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Old Burying Ground | Cambridge Office of Tourism". www.cambridgeusa.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Sparling, Georgia (Jun 5, 2018). "Historian seeks to honor forgotten black soldiers". Lesley University. Lesley University. Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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