Eliot Burying Ground (or ""Eustis Street Burying Ground" or "First Burying Ground in Roxbury") is a historic seventeenth-century

graveyard A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

at Eustis and Washington Streets in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It occupies a roughly triangular lot of . Founded in 1630, the cemetery is the oldest in Roxbury (which was annexed to Boston in 1868). It was added to the

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in 1974. The graveyard is one of several historic properties within th
Eustis Street Architectural Conservation District
of the

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. Many well-known historical figures of colonial Massachusetts are buried at Eliot Burying Ground, including John Eliot, and members of the Dudley family, including Governors

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and

Joseph Dudley Joseph Dudley (September 23, 1647 – April 2, 1720) was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders. He had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England ...

, and Chief Justice Paul Dudley.Roxbury Roxbury Latin students ventured to burial site of school's founder, John Eliot, wickedlocal.com, 7 November 2009
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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Cemeteries in Roxbury, Boston Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Roxbury, Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston

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