The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, is a historic cemetery in

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, United States, located just outside in

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. The cemetery opened in 1635.

Notable burials

Jonathan Belcher Jonathan Belcher (8 January 1681/8231 August 1757) was a merchant, politician, and slave trader from colonial Massachusetts who served as both governor of Massachusetts Bay and governor of New Hampshire from 1730 to 1741 and governor of New J ...

– colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician ( Governor of Massachusetts Bay) *

Jonathan Remington Jonathan Remington (1677–1745), was an Associate Justice of Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature appointed by Gov. Jonathan Belcher. Judge Remington married Lucy Remington Bradstreet (1680–1743), a granddaughter of Gov. Simon Bra ...

– colonial American jurist (associate justice

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) *

Edmund Trowbridge Edmund Trowbridge (1709 – April 2, 1793) was an American judge and lawyer. He is best known for being an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the B ...

– colonial American jurist (associate justice

) *

Daniel Gookin Major-General Danyell “Daniel” Gookin (1612 – 19 March 1687) was a Munster colonist, settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and a writer on the subject of American Indians. Early life He was born, perhaps in County Cork, Ireland, in the ...

– early settler and worker with Native Americans * Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas) Several early

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s of

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are buried here including: *

John Leverett the Younger John Leverett (August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724) was an early Anglo-American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College. Early life John Leverett was the son of Hudson Leverett, an attorney, and Sarah (Payton) Leverett, (a ...

– President of Harvard College 1708–24 * John Rogers – President of Harvard College 1682–84 Cato Stedman and

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black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775. Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.

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* * * {{GNIS, 1971612, Old Burying Ground 1635 establishments in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Tourist attractions in Cambridge, Massachusetts