Historic cemetery in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.
The cemetery in 1889
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.
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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:
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
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"Cambridge Cemetery" . www.cambridgema.gov .
Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2020-03-10 .
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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 .
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An Historic Guide to Cambridge . Cambridge (Mass.). 1907.
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Epitaphs from the Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge . Cambridge: John Owen, Metcalf and Company – via
Google Books .
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"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 .
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"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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