Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
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The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, is a historic cemetery in
Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...
, United States, located just outside
Harvard Square Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (Boston), Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Brattle Street and John F. Kennedy Street near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, C ...
. The cemetery opened in 1635.


Notable burials

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Washington Allston Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for ...
– painter and poet * Nathaniel Appleton – minister *
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 ...
– colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician ( Governor of Massachusetts Bay) * Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of
William Brattle Major-General William Brattle (April 18, 1706 – October 25, 1776) was an American politician, lawyer, and militia officer who served as the Massachusetts Attorney General from 1736 to 1738. Born into a prominent Massachusetts family, Brattle ...
* Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School *
Samuel McChord Crothers Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857 in Oswego, IllinoisCROTHERS, Samuel McChord< ...
– minister with
The First Parish in Cambridge First Parish in Cambridge is a Unitarian Universalist church, located in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a Welcoming Congregation and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The church is notable for its almost 400 ...
*
Edmund Trowbridge Dana Edmund Trowbridge Dana Jr. (29 August 1818, in Cambridge, Massachusetts – 18 May 1869, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and author.
– jurist and author *
Francis Dana Francis Dana (June 13, 1743 – April 25, 1811) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777–1778 and 1784. A signer of the Articles of Confederat ...
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, lawyer, jurist, and statesman * Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer *
Stephen Daye Stephen Daye (c.1594 – December 22, 1668) emigrated from England to the English colony of Massachusetts Bay and, likely with the help of his son Matthew, became the first printer in colonial America, under indenture to Elizabeth Glover, owner ...
– first printer in colonial America *
Daniel Gookin Danyell "Daniel" Gookin (1612 – 19 March 1687) was a Munster colonist, settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and a writer on the subject of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians. Early life He was born, perhaps in County Cork, ...
– early settler and worker with Native Americans *
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 Br ...
– colonial American jurist (associate justice
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Although the claim is disputed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the SJC claims the distinction of being the oldest continuously fu ...
) * Thomas Shepard – minister *
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 Bo ...
– colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) * Edward WigglesworthColonial
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,
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and
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* Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas) Several
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s of
Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc ...
are buried here including: *
Charles Chauncy Charles Chauncy (baptized 5 November 1592 – 19 February 1672) was an Anglo-American Congregational church, Congregational clergyman, educator, and secondarily, a physician. He was the second President of Harvard University, Harvard. Life ...
– second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672 *
Henry Dunster Henry Dunster (November 26, 1609 (baptized) – February 27, 1658/59) was an Anglo-American Puritan clergyman and the first president of Harvard College. Brackney says Dunster was "an important precursor" of the Baptist denomination in America ...
– first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654 * Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769 *
John Leverett John Leverett (baptized 7 July 1616 – 16 March 1678/79In the Julian calendar, then in use in England, the year began on 25 March. To avoid confusion with dates in the Gregorian calendar, then in use in other parts of Europe, dates between Ja ...
– President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724 *
Urian Oakes Urian Oakes (1631 – July 25, 1681) was an English-born American Congregational minister and educator who served as the fourth president of Harvard College. Early life The son of Edward and Jane Oakes, he was born in England in 1631 or 163 ...
– President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680 * John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684 * Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the
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and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737 *
Joseph Willard Joseph Willard (December 29, 1738 – September 25, 1804) was an American Congregational clergyman and academic. He was president of Harvard from 1781 until 1804. Biography Willard was born December 29, 1738, in Biddeford, York County (at ...
– clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804 Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost 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 the Massachusetts Bay Colony Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Tourist attractions in Cambridge, Massachusetts