Since the grass grew quickly, the Boston selectmen, always looking to turn a profit, rented the Granary Burying Ground as pasture to gravedigger James Williams d. On the evening of July 3, , young Harvard graduate Benjamin Woodbridge ca.
A challenge was given and they adjourned to Boston Common for a duel. Woodbridge was stabbed by Phillips and died the next day. James Otis , lawyer, politician, and writer, graduated from Harvard in As he wished, Otis died in Andover, Massachusetts, in , after being struck by lightening during a thunderstorm. David Townshed d. He became the surgeon general of the Sixth Continental army in the American Revolution, serving from He and his wife, Elizabeth d.
Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College. He was also an early and ardent abolitionist and a benefactor of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was buried in Tomb 33, but his granddaughter moved his remains to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Tomb 21 is the burial place of two colonial schoolmasters, John Tileston and Rufus Webb Tileston was the headmaster of the North Writing School for 57 years. Webb was the master of the South Writing School for many years.
Esther Martin Lovering ca. Samuel Black d. Captain William Claghorn ca. His epitaph reads:. From Boston was the flashpoint for events leading up to the American Revolution.
On February 22, , a crowd gathered around the house and shop of a Tory sympathizer and customs agent, Ebenezer Richardson. When they started pelting the house with snowballs and debris, Richardson shot his gun into the crowd, hitting year-old Christopher Snyder or Christian Seider in the stomach. Snyder died that night and was buried at Granary after a large funeral procession orchestrated by Samuel Adams. The funeral march to Granary Burying Ground was said to have been witnessed by 10, to 12, people.
Samuel Adams , patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Massachusetts governor, graduated from Harvard in His father was Deacon Samuel Adams, a Boston brewer and merchant. Adams inherited the family business but was a poor businessman, spending all his resources on his real interest, politics.
He held many town positions, established the Committee of Correspondence in , and represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress.
In he was a Massachusetts representative to Congress, served as lieutenant governor from , and became governor when John Hancock died in His is buried with his first wife, Elizabeth Checkley, in her family tomb Tomb Tomb 74 contains the remains of Capt.
Edward Blake d. Edward Blake Jr. Tomb 73 belongs to Joshua Blanchard , master mason and bricklayer. Paine was born a few blocks away on School Street and graduated from Harvard College in In the 17th century, religious persecution led to the immigration of large numbers of French Protestants known as Huguenots to Massachusetts. Gravestones of the Cazneau, Johonnat, Revere, and Sigourney families can be found throughout Granary. The Jolly Bachelor, as he called one of his ships, built Fancuil Hall for Boston and was known for his charitable deeds.
Sarah Savage Wells d. Having outlived two husbands Mrs. The first wife of merchant Ezekiel Lewis, Jane Clark ca. Wheatley was named after the slave ship, Phillis, that brought her to Boston.
She was taught to read and write by her owners and she became an internationally recognized poet. The man who bought her at a Boston slave auction, John Wheatley d. James Bowdoin Baudouin , Tomb 6, was from another prominent Huguenot family and served as governor from Bowdoin College in Maine is named for him and he was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Bowdoin coat of arms marks his tomb. John Hancock , Tomb 16, merchant, patriot, president of the Massachusetts Provisional Congress , president of the First and Second Continental Congresses , Massachusetts governor , , and member of the Constitutional Convention When he died, a state funeral procession wound through Boston to his tomb. The obelisk was added in by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The modest gravestone of his African American servant, Frank d.
Jeremiah Gridley is buried in the Gooch Tomb. An attorney, he served as Massachusetts attorney general in and argued for the Crown in support of the Writs of Assistance, dying soon after. He graduated from Harvard College and for more than 40 years was the beloved minister of Hollis Street Church. He was summarily dismissed once the Revolution began because he was a Tory.
William Molineaux , Tomb 19, was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and a rabid patriot. If he was too rash it was owing to his natural temper, as when he was in business. He pursued it with the same impetuous zeal. His loss is not much regretted by the more prudent and judicious part of the community.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in , son of Josiah Franklin , tallow chandler, and his second wife, Abiah Folger From this instance reader, be encouraged to diligence in thy calling and distrust not providence.
He was a pious and prudent man; she a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, in filial regard to their memory, places this stone. By the s the inscription was so worn that in the City of Boston replaced the memorial with the current obelisk made of Quincy granite.
Although Benjamin Franklin was recognized by his parents and teachers as being of extraordinary intelligence, he only had two years of formal schooling. The work was hot, dirty, and backbreaking and young Franklin desired to take up another profession.
At the age of 12 he was apprenticed to his older brother, James, a printer, who later published a local newspaper, the New England Courant. This trade was much more in line with his love of books and ideas and his first article was published anonymously in Benjamin Franklin left Boston in after a serious quarrel with his brother.
Many gravestones in the Granary Burial Ground are the only historical record of an ancient Bostonian, especially a woman or child. Infants often did not survive the first year of life in the harsh conditions of colonial Boston and numerous women died in childbirth.
Mary Hayfield Cobham ca. Hannah Adams Holbrook Dyer ca. After his death in , his wife Margaret continued to publish the paper until she left Boston with the British troops in March Samuel Adams, John Hancock and Paul Revere are among the famed patriots who are buried here, along with the family of Benjamin Franklin, several Massachusetts Governors and the victims of the Boston Massacre.
One of the many mysterious events that seem to occur often is when visitors take pictures. After leaving, they view their photos only to discover floating orbs and shadowy faces that were not visible to them while they were on the property.
Investigators have also said they picked up voice phenomena on EVP devices as well as disruptions in electronic fields using EMF detectors. With its centuries of history and victims of war and bloodshed, it is not surprising that this old burying ground is haunted. He lived during the time of the revolution and was said to have had an argument with a British tax collector in a local pub. When the tax collector hit Otis over the head with a bottle, the lawyer became mentally incapacitated and was so dismayed over his condition that he wrote a letter expressing his wish that God take him away to eternity by a flash of lightning.
If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :- Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. Almost year-old headstones are a dime a dozen in Boston. Before Bostonians thought to bury their dead in rural cemeteries, they placed them in their neighborhood burying grounds.
As a result, several historic cemeteries remain smack dab in the middle of bustling downtown. They boast marble, granite, and slate slabs, some with rhyming epitaphs and others depicting skulls with wings.
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