Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Old Burying Ground
Old Burying Ground
	The cemetery in 2018
Details
Established	1635
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
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

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

^ ^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.

External links

[auto-1] "Cambridge Cemetery". www.cambridgema.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2020-03-10.

[:0-2] ^ ^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.

[3] Poupore, Joshua (November 1, 2007). "Washington Allston, a name to remember". The Harvard Gazette. Harvard University.

[:1-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g An Historic Guide to Cambridge. Cambridge (Mass.). 1907.

[:2-5] ^ ^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.

[:3-6] "Find Tomb Believed Jonathan Belcher's". The Lewiston Daily Sun. 22 July 1937.

[7] 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.

[8] "Old Burying Ground | Cambridge Office of Tourism". www.cambridgeusa.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 2019-11-23.

[9] 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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