1 
 
 HISTORIC BURIAL-PLACES 
 
 OF 
 
 BOSTON AND VICINITY, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN M. MERRTAM. 
 
HISTORIC BURIAL-PLACES 
 
 OF 
 
 BOSTON AND VICINITY, 
 
 JOHN M. MERRIAM. 
 
 From Procekdings ok thk American Antiquarian Society, at the 
 Annual Meeting, October 21, 1891. 
 
 WovcciStcv, IHa.si.o., HI. ^. §i. 
 
 PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON, 
 311 M A I N S T K E E T . 
 
 1 S !• 2 . 
 

HISTORIC BURIAL-PLACES OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. 
 
 Every student of American History will tind in e:irly 
 Boston a favorite subject. In her history are the begin- 
 nings of all the great social, political and religious progress- 
 ive movements toward the present America. However great 
 the pride of the native Bostonian, others not so fortunate 
 must excuse and conmiend it. If Chief Justice Sewall, in 
 his dream of the Saviour's visit to Boston (I. Diary, p. 115) 
 could have looked forward a century and more, he might 
 well have expressed even greater admiration for the "Wis- 
 dom of Christ in coming hither and spending some part of 
 his short life here." 
 
 Among the many ol))ects so strongly stam})ed as historic 
 by association with the men and events of early Boston, 
 none to-day possesses keener interest to members of the 
 American Antiquarian Society than the old graveyards. 
 It was with great gratitication, therefore, that a party of 
 gentlemen^ many of whom are members of this Society, 
 was permitted last May, by the invitation of Hon. George 
 F. Hoar, to visit the more imi)ortantof these ancient l>urial- 
 places, and later, in July, by the courtesy of Mr. Charles 
 Francis Adams, to visit the old burving-ground and other 
 historic places in Quincy. 
 
 The oldest place of l)urial in Boston is the King's Chapel 
 Yard on Tremont street. Long before this place was asso- 
 ciated with King's Chapel, it was a graveyard. Tradition, 
 coming from Judge Sewall, through Rev. Thomas Prince, 
 has it that Isaac Johnson, one of the twelve signers of the 
 agreement "to pass the seas (under God's protection) to 
 
 1 Those ijentlemen were: George F. Hoar, George E. Ellis, Edward E. 
 Hale, AiuVrew P. Peabodv, Nathaniel Paine, Stephen Salisbury, Samuel A. 
 Green, Elijah H. Stoddard. Edward L. Davis, Edward II. Hall, James K. 
 Huunewell, Charles C. Smith, Edmund M. Barton, Thomas L. Nelson, Charles 
 A. Chase, Samuel S. Green, .J. Evarts (ireene, William W. Rice, G. Stanley 
 Hall, Roekwood Hoar, Edward W. Doherty, and John M. Merriam. At 
 Quincy there were in addition Charles Frauds Adams and Daniel 31. Wilson. 
 
inhabit and continue in New England," signed at Cam- 
 bridge, August 26, 1629, by Winthrop and his followers, 
 one of the first Assistants, and probably the second white 
 settler on the Boston peninsula, was buried at the southwest 
 corner of his lot, in September, 1630. His lot was the 
 square now enclosed by Washington, School, Treniont and 
 Court streets. According to this old tradition it was 
 around Johnson's grave that the settlers buried their dead, 
 and the place remained for many years the only burial- 
 ground.^ 
 
 Tlie earliest interment that is recorded on stone is that of 
 Governor John Winthrop in 1649.^ This old Winthrop 
 
 ''■ This tradition is givea in Prince's Annals, Part II., Section 2, p. 2, as follows : 
 " And the late chief Justice Samuel Sewall, Esq; informed me; Tliat this Mr. 
 Johnson was the principal Cause of settling the town of Boston, and so of its 
 becoming the Metropolis and had I'emoved hither; had chose for his Lot the 
 great square lying between Gornhill on the S. E, Tree-moxint- Street on the 
 N. W, Queen- Street on the N. E, and School- Street on the S. W; and on his 
 Death-Bed desiring to be buried at the upper End of his Lot, in Faith of his 
 rising in it, He was accordingly Buried there; which gave occasion for the 
 first Burying Place of this Town to be laid out round about his Grave."— A 
 Chronological History of New England in the form of Annals, by Thomas 
 Prince, M. A. Boston, N. E., 1736. 
 
 •^ The funeral of Governor "Winthrop has been so beautifully portrayed by 
 his worthy descendant, the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, tliat his associates 
 in this society will gladly pardon me if I pause a moment to repeat his de- 
 scription:—" That 13th of April, 1649, must have witnessed a memorable gath- 
 ering on the spot which these windows of ours now look out upon. It re- 
 quires no stretch of imagination to depict the scene when the old father of the 
 town and colony, who had brought over the Charter of Massachusetts, as 
 the first full Governor, nineteen years before, and who liad held the office of 
 Governor, with the exception of four or five years, during the whole period, 
 was borne at last, as Governor, to his grave. Dudley, then deputy Governor, 
 rOndicott, Bellingham, and Bradstreet must certainly have been there. John 
 Cotton, John Wilson, Thomas Shepard, and the revered John Eliot, among 
 the clergy, could not fail to have been present; and the latter may have been 
 attended by a group of the Indians, to whom he was the apostle, and whom 
 Winthrop had uniformly befriended during his life. There is an old family 
 record of one of the Pequod Sagamores coming to Boston at the time, and 
 exclaiming, ' He is alive, he is alive' on seeing the Governor's portrait in tJie 
 parlor. Increase Nowell, the old secretary, and John Clark were doubtless 
 there, with Winthrop the younger, from Connecticut. Possibly Bradford or 
 some of the I'ilgrims may liave come from Plymouth, and may have given 
 Morton his account of the * great solemnity and honor ' of the occasion. 
 The artillery otlicers, probably what is now known as the Ancient and Honoi'- 
 
tomb is within a rod or two of Tremont street, and the 
 building of the Massachusetts Historical Society.^ Margaret, 
 the devoted wife of Governor Winthro[), was undoubtedly 
 buried in the same place in 1647. The Winthrop tomb has 
 an especial interest for Connecticut as well as Massachusetts, 
 for here, too, is buried her first Governor, John Winthrop, 
 Jr.- A third Governor, Fitz-John Winthrop, was buried 
 here in 1707.3 
 
 able Artillery Company, whose charter had been signed by Winthrop in 1638, 
 are recorded as havint? been present, and as havinj^ taken the responsibility 
 of using a barrel and a half of the colony powder, without leave, for funeral 
 salutes; for which the colony indemnified them at the next meeting of the 
 General Court There were no religious services or ser- 
 mons at funerals at that period of our colonial history No re- 
 ligious exercises were needed, however, to make the occasion a solemn one. 
 Hutchinson, who had access to all the contemporary records, speaks of 'the 
 general grief through the colony'; and it is easy to picture to ourselves the 
 authorities and the people of the town and the neighborhood assembling at 
 the •Governor's house, and following the corpse, borni; by loving hands, for 
 there were no hearses in those days, to the tomb or grave, which it is uow 
 proposed in some quarters to desecrate and do away." (XVII. Proceedings 
 Mass. Hist. Soc., 129.) 
 1 The horizontal stone slab is inscribed as follows : 
 JOHN WINTHROP, 
 Governor of Massachusetts, 
 died 164J). 
 Major General 
 WAIT STILL WINTHROP 
 died Sept. 711.^ 1717 Aged Hi Years. 
 
 ANN WINTHROP SEARS 
 
 the AVife of David Sears, 
 
 died Octr. 2'' 1789 Aged 33 Years. 
 
 - Sewall records his death and burial as follows: "April ") (IGTti) Wednes- 
 day. Governor Winthrop dyes. Interred old Burying place Monday follow- 
 ing." (I. Diary, p. 12.) 
 
 •' There are two references to the funeral in Sewall's Diary. The first is in 
 the list of funerals at which Sewall was a bearer. It is as follows: '*6!) Deer. 
 4, 1707 The Honble. F. J. Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut. Scarf, Ring, 
 Gloves, Escutcheon. Gov. W. Tomb." (II. Diary, p, 11.) In the body of the 
 Diary is a fuller account. " Dee. 4. Mr. C. Mather preaches a very good 
 funeral sermon. Govr. Winthrop is buried from the Council Chamber, Foot 
 Companies in Arms, and Two Troops. Armor carried, a Led Horse, liear- 
 ers. Govr., Mr. Russell; Mr. Cooke, Major Drown; Col. Hutchinson, Sewall; 
 Mr. Secratary, Mr. Sergeant. Father, Sou and Grandson ly together in one 
 Tomb in the old burying place. Was a vast concourse of people." (II. Diary, 
 p. 204.) 
 
Ao^ain, in 1717, "the reo^iment attended in arms" at this 
 same tomb at the funeral of Chief Justice and Major-Gen- 
 eral Wait Still Winthrop, "excellent for Parentage, Piety, 
 Prudence, Philosophy, Love to New England Ways and 
 people very Eminent."^ 
 
 Probably there is no tomb in New England that contains 
 the dust of four men who had so much to do with the plant- 
 ing of States as did Governor John Winthrop, his son 
 John, and his grandsons Fitz-John and Wait Still. 
 
 Near this tomb which recalls so much of the early politi- 
 cal history of New England, is another which brings before 
 us with equal vividness the history of the Puritan Church.- 
 
 John Cotton came to New England in 1G33, having with 
 difficulty escaped the High Commission, and having been 
 censured by Archbishop Laud because he would not kneel 
 at the sacrament. His own meeting-house has now wholly 
 disappeared, having stood on the site of Brazer's building 
 on State street, and his tomb is included within the limits 
 of a burial-place generally known as the King's Chapel 
 Yard. These early ministers, with the exception of 
 
 i'"The streets were crowded with people; was laid in Gov. Winthrop 
 tomb iu Old Burying Place." (III. Sewall's Diary, p. MG.) 
 
 ■- The inscription is as follows : 
 
 Here Lyes 
 
 lutombed the Bodyes 
 
 of the Famous, Reverend 
 
 and Learned Paftors of the Firft 
 
 Church of CHRIST in BOSTON: 
 
 viz. 
 
 W. JOHN COTTON, Aged 67 Years; Dec'i. Deem'". 
 
 the 23>'^ 1652. 
 
 M--. JOHN DAVENPORT, Aged 72 Years; Dcc'i. 
 March the 15"S 1670. 
 
 M'-. JOHN OXONBRIDGE, Aged 66 Years; Dec'. 
 Decmi"- the 28"', 1674. 
 
 M'-. THOMAS BRIDGE, Aged 58 Years; Dec'. 
 September the 26"s 1715. 
 
Thomas Bridge,^ were all buried before King's Chapel was 
 thought of, and their tomb alone should serve most emphati- 
 cally to disconnect the history of that church with the his- 
 tory of the adjoining graveyard. 
 
 I have been unable thus far to learn the burial-place of 
 John Wilson, the first pastor of the first church, although 
 there is a Wilson tomb in the King's Chapel Yard referred 
 to l)y Sewall (II. Diary, p. 411), in which a son of Thomas 
 Fitch was buried. He died in 1667, possibly before the 
 ministers' tomb was built. Sewall, in his letter to his son 
 written 1720 to give him an account of the Sewall family, 
 states that "in the year 1667 my father brought me" (to 
 Caml)ridge) "to be admitted, by which means I heard Mr. 
 Richard Mather of Dorchester, preach Mr. Wilson's funeral 
 sermon, 'your fathers, where are they?'" (I. Diary, xiii.) 
 
 Governor John Leverett is intombed in the King's 
 Chapel Yard. Sewall refers to his death and burial, but 
 only by a brief entry in his almanac, as follows : " 1678-9 
 March 16, 1. Governour Leverett dieth. 25, 3 Is buried." 
 (I. Diary, p. 48.) He states, however. Vol. III., p. 50, that 
 Mrs. Cooke, Leverett's daughter Elizabeth, was interred 
 July 23, 1715, "In Govr. Leverett's Tomb in Old burying 
 place." 
 
 It is recorded on the l)ronze tablet^ at this, gate of the 
 King's Chapel Yard that Governor John Endecott was 
 
 1 Thomas Bridge was a friend of Judge Sewall, who records on the d:iy of 
 his death, 1715, " Tr. 20 Between 11 and 12 Mr. Bridge expires; with him 
 much primitive Christianity is gone, the Old Church, the Town, the Prov- 
 ince have a great loss." The bearers at the funeral were all ministers and 
 represented the Old North, the Roxbury, the Brattle street, the Old South 
 and the New North Churches; Dr. Increase Mather. Dr. Cotton Mather; Mr. 
 Walter, Mr. Coleman; Mr. J. Sewall, Mr. Jno. Webb. (III. Sewall's Diary, 
 5!), 60.) 
 
 - In order more permanently to mark the burial-places of the early leaders, 
 bronze tablets have been placed on the gates of the old graveyards of Boston. 
 These tablets were suggested by Hon. Robt. C. Winthrop and the inscriptions 
 were written by Dr. Samuel A. Green. Those on the gates at King's Chapel 
 arc inscribed as follows: — 
 
buried within its limits.^ The funeral of Lady Andros 
 occurred Friday, February 10, 1687-8. Judge Sewall 
 
 KING'S CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND 
 1630. 
 
 Here were buried 
 
 GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Jobn Wintlirop 1G49, John Endecott 10G5, 
 
 John Leverett 1679, William Shirley 1771 ; 
 
 LIEUT. GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 William Phillips 1827, Thomas Lindall Winthrop 1841 : 
 
 GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 John Winthrop 1676, Fitz-John Winthrop 1707; 
 
 JUDGES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Wait Still Winthrop 1717, Adam Winthrop 1743, 
 
 Oliver Wendell 1818, Thomas Dawes 1825 ; 
 
 MINISTERS OF BOSTON 
 
 John Cotton 1652, John Davenport 1670. 
 
 John Oxenbridge 1674, Thomas Bridge 1715. 
 
 KING'S CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND. 
 1630 
 
 Here were buried 
 
 Jacob Sheafe 1658, John Winslow 1674, 
 
 Mary Chilton 1679, 
 
 A passenger in the Mayflower 
 
 and wife of John Winslow, 
 
 Major Thomas Savage 1682, . 
 
 Lady Andros 1688, 
 
 Captain Roger Clap 1690, Thomas Brattle 1713, 
 
 Professor John Winthrop 1776, 
 
 James Lloyd 1831, Charles Bulfinch 1844. 
 
 1 Without attempting from my present investigation to throw doubt upon 
 the accuracy of the statement on the above tablet that Governor John 
 Endecott is buried in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, I must refer to evi- 
 dence which unexplained would show that he was buried in the Gi'anary 
 Burial Ground. There is the following extract from the Records of the Select- 
 men of Boston to be found in Document 47, 1879. of the City of Boston, p. 4 : 
 '• P. 185. 1721 March 5. Upon a petition of Mr. John Edwards of Boston, 
 shewing, that whereas there is a tomb in the South Burying place belonging 
 to the Late Governour Endicot, which has been unimproved for many years, 
 and there being no family in said town nearer related to the said Governour 
 Endicot's family tlian his, desires he may have liberty granted him to make 
 use of it for his family. (Jranted that the said John Edwards has liberty 
 to improve the said Tomb until a person of better right to it appears to claim 
 it." There is no stone in either ground to mark the tomb, and I have found 
 no reference to either Endicott or Edwards,[that would identify it. 
 
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 attended it " having been invited by the dark of the South 
 Company." ^ 
 
 The monument of Thomas Dawes is prominent in this 
 burial-ground. Major Dawes was the architect of the lirst 
 Brattle-street church. He was an earnest patriot, his 
 name being often associated with the leaders of the Ivevo- 
 lution.- 
 
 The tomb of Oliver Wendell is number one and is in the 
 extreme corner on Tremont street, and next to the building 
 of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In this tomb are 
 the remains of the maternal ancestors for two generations 
 of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many of his family connec- 
 tions. (Document 96, 1879, City of Boston, p. 56.) 
 
 Near- the King's Chapel Yard and on the opposite side of 
 Tremont street is a larger burying-ground, called at tirst 
 the South Burying-ground, and later, the Granary.'' This 
 
 1 She was buried ill the tomb of Benjamin Church. There is the following 
 reference to Iier burial in Bridgmau, p. 3is : a shib on the liottoin of the Church 
 tomb states •' here lies the bones of Lady Anno Aiidros." (Bridgmau's King's 
 Chapel Inscriptions, p. 318.) 
 
 '^ His epitaph is as follows : 
 
 THOMAS DAWES A. A. S. 
 
 Born Aug*. 5, 1731, Died Jany. 2, 1809, ^t. 78. 
 
 Of his taste for the Grecian simplicity 
 
 In ARCHITECTURE there are many monuments 
 
 Which he raised when that art was new to its. 
 
 The records of Massachusetts shew 
 
 That he was one of her active LEGISLATORS 
 
 From the year 177G, until he was 70 years old; 
 
 When he retired, with faculties unimpaired. 
 
 To the tiscul concerns of this Metropolis, 
 
 To its literary and other Institutions, 
 
 He was a zealous friend. He was an ELECTOR 
 
 At the three tirst elections of President 
 
 of the U. S. and discharged various trusts 
 
 To his own honor and the public weal. 
 
 8 'i'he tablets on the gates are as follows :— 
 
 GR.\NARY BURIAL GROUND 
 1660 
 
 Within this ground are buried 
 John Hancock, Samuel Adams 
 
10 
 
 name was taken from the old public granary which stood 
 on the site now occupied by the Park-street Church. This 
 building was used as a large storehouse for grain, at which 
 the poorer people could purchase at a slight advance of 
 cost, and would seem to be an old precedent for the muni- 
 cipal coal-yard, of which much is heard to-day. 
 
 The earliest date associated with this old graveyard is 
 1660. If Governor Endicoit was buried there, his must 
 have l^een among the early interments, as he died in 1665. 
 Dr. Samuel A. Green thinks that at first the Granary and 
 King's Chapel grounds were united and became distinct only 
 as Tremont street assumed more importance than a country 
 lane.' A distinct name, however, seems very early to have 
 
 and Robert Treat Paiue, 
 Si.i;iiers of the Declaration of Independence; 
 
 GOVEKNORS 
 Richard Bellingham, WilHam Dumnier, 
 
 James Bowdoin. Increase Sumner, 
 
 James Sullivan and Christopher Gore; 
 
 Lieut. Governor Thomas Gushing; 
 
 Chief Justice Samuel Sewall; 
 
 Ministers John Baily, Samuel Willard, 
 
 Jeremy Belknap and John Lathrop. 
 
 GRANARY BURIAL GROUND 
 
 1660 
 
 Within this ground are buried 
 The victims of the Boston Massacre, 
 March 5, 1770. 
 
 Joslah Franklin and wife, 
 
 (Parents of Benjamin Franklin) 
 
 Peter Faneuil, Paul Revere; 
 
 and 
 
 John Phillips, 
 
 First Mayor of Boston. 
 
 1 See Public Document of City of Boston, 1879. No. 96, p. 47. 
 
 " I cannot tell wliat has become of the fee of the land, but 1 have an opinion, 
 based upon something 1 have seen, that these two graveyards were originally 
 one. King's Chapel Graveyard, the oldest in the city, was probably a tract iii 
 the outskirts of the village, "and undoubtedly interments were made in a part of 
 it which we now call the Granary Burial-ground. Afterwards, when Tremont 
 street was laid out, they found a part of the tract of land that had not been used 
 for burial, and straightened the street and carried it through, making two sepa- 
 rate burial-grounds. I have no doubt lli;it at one time in the early history of 
 Boston, the two graveyards were spoken of as tlic same, but the street having 
 been laid out, they have practically become two distinct grounds." 
 
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 been applied to the King's Chapel Yard. In 1675, Judge 
 Sewall writes that Governor AVinthrop was buried in 
 the "Old Burying place." Again, in 1685, he records that 
 Father Gamaliel Wait and Father John Odiin were buried 
 in the "First Burying place," and in the March following 
 that "Father Porter was laid in the Old Cemetery." 
 These adjectives may have served to distinguish the King's 
 Chapel Yard from the North or Copp's Hill Burying-i)lace, 
 but there seems to be ground to hold that they refer, also, 
 to the South Yard or Granary, which contained Sewall's 
 own tomb, and to which he does not as a rule apply any 
 word of description, although in January, 1701, he records 
 the burial of "Mrs Thair, in the new burying-place close 
 to the alms house ground." (II. Diary, 29.) When the 
 Granary and Copp's Hill yards were first used in 1660, an 
 order was passed by the selectmen, November 5th, direct- 
 ing that "the old l>urial place shall be wholly deserted for 
 some convenient season and the new places appointed for 
 burial only made use of." This order has been supposed to 
 refer only to the Copp's Hill ground, and the word "places" 
 has been quoted as "place." The original record, however, 
 shows that the word used was "places." It probably re- 
 ferred to both Copp's Hill and the Granary. It would seem 
 to be, therefore, strong evidence that even in November, 
 1660, the ground now known as the Granary and the "old 
 burial ground " were distinct. 
 
 The earliest tombs were arranged without much order. 
 They are scattered throughout the yard, usually marked 
 with a large horizontal slab. There are rows of tombs on 
 the four sides, in all two hundred and three. 
 
 One of the oldest tombs is that of Governor Richard 
 Bellingham, who died in 1672. Governor Bellingham's 
 family seems wholly to have disappeared in a few^ years, 
 and in 1810, w^e find Gov. James Sullivan interested in re- 
 pairing and enlarging this tomb. (City Doc. 47, 1879, p. 
 11.) Here Governor Bellingham was carried on his death 
 
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 in 1672. There are two slabs over this tomb. The first is 
 almost level with the ground, the second is supported 
 above it.^ 
 
 Another tomb of the same period as that of Governor 
 Bellingham is the Hull or Sewall tomb. In this were 
 placed the remains of Capt. John Hull, the old treasurer 
 and mint master of Boston, his wife, and their daughter 
 
 The inscriptions are as follows : — 
 
 HERE LIES 
 
 RICHARD BELLINGHAM, ESQUIRE. 
 
 LATE GOVERNOR IN THE 
 
 COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 7 DAY OF DECEMBER, 1672, 
 
 THE EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR 
 
 OF HIS AGE. 
 
 VIRTUE'S FAST FRIEND WITHIN THIS TOMB DOTH LYE 
 A FOE TO BRIBES, BUT RICH IN CHARITY. 
 
 The Bellingham familj- being extinct. 
 
 The Selectmen of Boston in the year 1782 
 
 assigned this Tomb to 
 
 James Sullivan, Esq. 
 
 The remains of Governor Bellinuham 
 
 are here preserved. 
 
 And the above inscription is restored 
 
 from the ancient Monument. 
 
 The family tomb of 
 
 JAMES SULLIVAN, ESQ., 
 
 Late Governor and Commander-in-Chief 
 
 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 on the W^ day of Dec. A. D. 1808,— aged 04 years. 
 
 His remains are here deposited 
 
 During a life of remarkable Industry, activity and 
 usefulness, amidst public and private contemporaneous 
 
 avocations, uncommonl)' various, 
 lie was distinguished for zeal, intelligence and fidelity. 
 
 Public-spirited, benevolent and social, 
 lie was eminently beloved as a man, eminently esteemed 
 as a citizen, and eminently respected as a magistrate. 
 
 Huic versatile iugeniura Sic 
 
 pariter ad omnia fuit, ut, ad id ununi dicoi-es 
 
 quod cum que ageret. 
 
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 Hannah, her husband Judge Sewall and tlieir children, and 
 many descendants. There are many references to this 
 tomb in Sewall's diary, 
 
 December 25, 1696, Sewall visits the tomb, at the funeral 
 of his daughter Sarah, and makes an entry in his diary 
 descrii)tive of the tomb and also characteristic of the w riter. 
 He writes, " 'Twas wholly dry and I went at noon to see in 
 what order things w-ere set ; and then I was entertained 
 with a view of, and converse with, the Coffins of my dear 
 Father Hull, Mother Hull, Cousin Quinsey, and my six 
 children : for the little posthumous was now took up and 
 set upon that that stands on John's ; so are three, one upon 
 another twice, on the bench at the end. My Mother ly's 
 on a lower bench, at the end, with head to her husband's 
 head ; and I ordered little Sarah to be set on her grand- 
 mother's feet. 'Twas an awfull yet pleasing Treat ; Having 
 said, The Lord knows who shall be brought hither next, I 
 came away."' (I. Diary, p. 443.) 
 
 The body of Rev. Samuel Willard, Sewall's pastor at the 
 Old South Church, and Vice-President of Harvard College, 
 was placed temporarily in the Hull-Sewall tomb, September 
 15, 1707, and was removed to the "new tomb built by the 
 South Congregation," July 31, 1712. 
 
 Samuel Sewall of Burlington, Mass., in a letter to 
 Thomas Bridgman, Septeml)er 21, 1853, states that forty 
 persons in all were buried in this toml) before the Kevolu- 
 tion. The more prominent of these persons, in addition to 
 
 1 The sl;ib is inscribed ; 
 
 Hon' Judge Sewall's 
 
 Tomb. 
 
 Now the proper tij of his 
 
 Heirs. 
 
 Philip R. Ridgway 
 
 ISIO. 
 
 RALPir HUNTINGTON. 
 
 lSl-2 
 
 No lb!5 
 
 Ralph Pluntiugton. 
 
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 the names already given, were Rev. Joshua Moodey, tirst 
 pastor of the Church at Portsmouth, Rev. William Cooper 
 of the Brattle-street Church, who married Judge Sewall's 
 daughter Judith, and Dr. Joseph Sewall, pastor of the 
 Old South Church. 
 
 The tomb of Lieutenant-Governor Dummer is near the 
 centre of the rear of the ground. It is marked by a 
 monument inscribed as follows : — 
 
 This TOMB 
 
 of the Dummer 
 
 and Powell Family's 
 
 was repaired by 
 
 William Powell, 
 
 Ocf 1786. 
 
 The next tomb in order of date, that I care to mention, 
 
 is that of Peter Faneuil, the richest Bostonian of his day, 
 
 and the donor of Faneuil Hall. This tomb is near the 
 
 southwest corner of the yard. The tirst public oration 
 
 in Faneuil Hall, his gift to Boston, was in eulogy of the 
 
 donor, who had but recently died.^ 
 
 The Granary Yard contains the bodies of many of the 
 leaders of the Revolution, the more prominent being John 
 Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine and Paul 
 Revere. 
 
 The Hancock tomb is on the south side. On a small 
 slate stone are the words : — 
 
 No. 16. 
 Tomb or 
 Hancock. 
 
 i Tlie inscriptiou is below: At the foot of the sliib Is the iirst inscription, 
 vvliich can now be faintly traced. 
 
 Peter Faneuil. 
 
 March 3, 1743, 
 
 Jones. Davenport. 
 
 Fette. 
 
 P. Funal. 
 
 1743 
 
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 This Hancock tomb at tiist stood in the name of Mr. 
 John Hill, l)ut to the list of the Selectmen's office at the end 
 of the volume of records from 1715 to 1729 is added in dif- 
 ferent ink "Now Thomas Hancock." 
 
 Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Governor Hancock, died 
 1764. The body of Governor Hancock was placed in his 
 uncle's tomb. The funeral was attended by troops and 
 crowds of people, and even the venerable Samuel Adams 
 followed the l)ody to the grave, so long as his strength 
 would permit. 
 
 Samuel Adams is buried in the Checkley tomb, which is 
 partly under the sidewalk on Tremont street, and about 
 midway between the gateway and the Tremont House. 
 The small stone is so near the sidewalk that the inscription 
 can easily be read through the fence. At the top is the 
 Checkley Coat of Arms and below the inscription. Adams 
 married for his first wife Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of 
 Rev. Samuel Checkley, and in this way became connected 
 with this old family. The tomb is number sixty-eight. It 
 is the first of thirteen tombs confirmed to the builders, their 
 heirs and assigns, by the selectmen of Boston, March 23, 
 1736-7 and was then recorded in the name of Mr. Richard 
 Checkley. 1 
 
 Near the centre of the yard rests the body of Paul 
 Revere.^ 
 
 About sixty feet from the north side of the yard and 
 twenty from the sidewalk were buried the bodies of the men 
 
 N" 68 Richard Checkley 1737 
 Hocce nieiim Corpus, de Funore Viq, Sepulcliri 
 Salvjitor Jesus, Sarciet ille ineu.-i 
 Christus erit pestes, Mors Frij^ida Tiiq Sepulchrum 
 Exitium certum, Mox erit ille Tuum 
 A modest stoue marks the place, inscribed as follows : — 
 
 PAUL REVERE, 
 
 Born 
 
 IN Boston, 
 
 January 1734, 
 
 DiEU May, 1818. 
 
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 killed in the "Boston Massacre." No stone marks the 
 place, although it is said that for a long time a larch-tree 
 served as a graceful monument. 
 
 The Franklin monument opposite the entrance is the 
 most prominent monument in the Granary Yard. The in- 
 scriptions tell their own story. ^ 
 
 In connection with the Franklin monument is an interest- 
 ing headstone discovered last spring, when the surfece of 
 the Granary Burial-ground was spaded and levelled. This 
 stone was in memory of Josiah Franklin's first wife, two of 
 their children, and one child of Josiah and Abiah.^ 
 
 1 JOSIAH FRANKLIN, and ABIAH HIS WIFE 
 
 Lie Here Interred 
 They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years. And 
 
 WITHOUT an estate, 
 OR ANY GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, BY CONSTANT LABOR AND HONEST INDUSTRY, 
 
 maintained A LARGE 
 FAMILY COMFORTABLY, AND BROUGHT UP THIRTEEN CHILDREN AND SEVEN 
 
 GRANDCHILDREN RES 
 PECTABLY. From this instance, reader, 1!E ENCOURAGED TO DILIGENCE 
 
 IN THY CALLING. AND DIS 
 
 TRUST NOT Providence. He was a pious and prudent man; she a dis- 
 creet AND VIRTUOUS woman. 
 
 THEIR YOUNGEST SON. 
 
 IN FILIAL REGARD TO THEIR MEMORY, PLACES THIS STONE. 
 
 J. F. Born 1655, Died 1744, M. 89. 
 A. F. 1667, 1752, — 85. 
 
 The original inscription having been nearly obliterated 
 
 A number of citizens erected this monument, 
 
 as a mark of respect 
 
 for the 
 
 ILLUSTRIOUS author, 
 MDCCCXXVII. 
 
 2 'I'lie' copy given below was made by Dr. Samuel A. Green, and is to be 
 found in remarks on "The New England Courant, | and its | Young Pub- 
 lisher Benjamin Franklin, | 1721-1726." | made by Dr. Green at the meeting 
 of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 11, 1891. The line through 
 the inscription represents a break in the stone. 
 
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 The burial-grouiul next visited wu.s the Copp's Hill 
 Ground at the North End.^ Copp's Hill and the Granary 
 were first used as burying-grounds about the same time, in 
 1659 and 1(560, respectively. The earliest reference to this 
 burying-ground in Sewall's diary is in 1685/(5, February 3d, 
 when Mr Henry Phillips was buried "in the New burial 
 place." This is the name commonly used by Sewall, 
 although he also refers to it as the "North Burial place." 
 (I. Sewall's Diary, p. 484.) The present enclosure is made 
 of four parcels purchased by the town at different times for 
 
 ANN Y WIFE OF JOSIAH FRANCKLI 
 AGED abo' 34 YEARS DIED JULY 
 
 Y 9 ' lO.s'.i 
 
 JOSEPH SON OF JOSIAH & ANN 
 FRANCKLINj AGED 15 D^ DIED JULY 
 
 Y 14 16811 
 
 JOSEPH SON OF JOSIAH .^ ANN 
 
 FRANCKLIN, AGED .J D^ DIED FEB." 
 
 I 
 Y' i[i ?] 1(J.S8 
 
 EBENEZER [S]ON OF JOSIAH e<: ABIAH 
 FRANCKLIN [AGED 16 M" ^ DIED 
 
 FEBC"] Y 5. 170| 
 
 I Tbi! tablet ill the gate is inscribed as follows:— 
 
 COPP'S HILL HUKIAL GROUND 
 l(i5!t. 
 
 Here were biirietl 
 
 MINISTERS 
 
 Increase Mtither 1723, Cotton Mather 172S, 
 
 Sanuu'l Mather lT.s5, Andrew Eliot ITTvS 
 
 and 
 
 Thomas Lake, David Copp, Nicholas Upshall, 
 
 John Phillips, Anthony Ilayward, John Clarke, 
 
 and others of the early inhabitants 
 
 of Boston. 
 
 On this jiroiind were planted 
 
 the British Batteries 
 
 which destroyed the Villaj^e of Charlestown 
 
 during the Battle of Bunker Hill 
 
 Juue IT, 1775. 
 
 2 
 
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 the purpose of a burial-ground. The ohlest portion is the 
 northeast corner. The oldest authentic inscription bears the 
 date 1661. It is found on a stone recently unearthed and 
 is as follows : — 
 
 David son to David 
 
 Copp and Obedience his 
 
 wife aged 2 weeks 
 
 Dyed Dec 22 
 
 1661. 
 
 The tonil) which has by far the greatest interest is the 
 Mather tomb near the easternmost corner of the yard.^ 
 
 The reference in Sewall to the death of Dr. Increase 
 Mather is found in Volume Til., p. 326, and the date of his 
 death is given as Friday, August 23. The funeral took 
 place the following Thursday, August 29. "Thursday, 
 Aug. 29th, is buried. Bearers Lt. Govr. Dummer, Samuel 
 Sewall ; Mr. President Leverett, Mr. Peter Thacher of 
 Milton; Mr. Wads worth, Mr. Col man. Was carried 
 round the North Meeting House and so up by Capt. 
 Hutchinson's and along by his own House and up Hull 
 Street, intfl the Tomb in the North burying place and laid 
 by his first wife. Were a vast number of followers and 
 spectators." (Sewall's Diary, HI. 326.) There is an apparent 
 conflict l)etween the date of his death as gi\en by Sewall 
 and the date on the slab. I have seen no reason to doubt 
 the date given by Sewall, which is confirmed by the Boston 
 Neivs- Letter. 
 
 1 TL(!ro is ii phiiu liorizoutal stone slab, ou which is inscribed : — 
 
 Mather 
 
 Tomb 
 
 The Reverend Doctors 
 
 Increase. Cotton 
 
 & Samuel Mather 
 
 were interred in this Vault, 
 
 'Tis the Tomb of our Father's 
 
 Mather Croekers 
 
 I died Augt 27th 1723 M 84 
 
 C died Feby 13"i 1727 M 65 
 
 S died June 27"! 1785 M 79. 
 
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 TIio death and burial of Dr. Cotton Mather are also re- 
 corded by Sewall. The following extracts are taken from 
 his diary for 1727-8: "Febr. 13 Tuesday Dr. Cotton 
 Mather dies. Monday Febr. 19 Dr. Cotton Mather is in- 
 tombed : Bearers, the Revd. Mr, Colman, .Mr. Thacher ; 
 Mr. Sewall, Prince; Mr. Webb, Cooper. The Church went 
 before the Corps. First the Revd. Mr. Gee in mourning 
 alone, then 3 deacons, then Capt. Hutchinson, Adam 
 Winthrop Esqr Col. Hutchinson - Went up Hull Street. 
 I went in a coach. All the council bad gloves; I had a 
 pair. It seems when the mourners returned to the House, 
 Mr. Walter said. My Bror. had better beai-ers : Mr. Prince 
 answered They bore the better part. Mr. Walter prayed 
 excellently." It would seem from this extract that the date 
 of Cotton Mather's death as given on the stone slab is mis- 
 leading, and that the date on the gate represents the true 
 date, after the necessary change from Old to New Style has 
 been made. 
 
 In this same tomb, Rev. Mather Byles was probably buried. 
 
 The tomi) was opened in 1884, on the death of Rebecca 
 Eaton Parker. Edward McDonald, the superintendent, 
 states that the remains of the Mathers are on the right side 
 of the tomb. It is a large tomb, and undoubtedly contains 
 a score and more of bodies. 
 
 The Hutchinson tomb should be mentioned in any ac- 
 count of Copp's Hill burial-ground, however brief. This 
 tomb is marked I)y a slal) on which are the Hutchinson 
 Arms, and the name Thomas Lewis. This torab seems to 
 have been appropriated, and the original name chiselled oH'. 
 It is doubtful if the remains of any of the tirst occupants 
 are there to-day. It is pr()i)able that the bodies of Thomas 
 Hutchinson, and Elisha Hutchinson, father and grandfather 
 respectively of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, were placed 
 in this tomb and also the bodies of the wife and son of the 
 Governor, who, after his retirement to England, writes to 
 have them removed to Milton. 
 
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 There are several stones that are said to l)ear the marks 
 of English liullets, having been used as targets by the un- 
 welcome Eedcoats. The stone of Capt. Daniel Malcoin 
 would seem to be the stone most likely to receive such at- 
 tention from the British soldiers, as the stone records that 
 he was 
 
 a true sou of Liberty 
 
 a Friend to the Publick 
 
 an Enemy to oppression 
 
 and one of the foremost 
 
 in opposing the Revenue Acts 
 
 on America. 
 Copp's Hill derives additional historic interest from the 
 fact, as stated on the gate, that there the batteries were 
 placed which were fired upon Charlestown, June 17, 1775. 
 The surface of Copp's Hill probably is the largest area 
 within the limits of the old Boston that can suggest to-day 
 its appearance at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 
 The Phipps-street Burial-ground in Charlestown is older 
 than Copp's Hill and the Granary. When all of the mem- 
 bers of the party had gathered near the Harvard Monument 
 which crowns the hill, Mr. James F. Hunnew^ell kindly 
 made a statement regarding the burial-ground in substance 
 as folloW'S : "The early settlers generally brought with 
 them the English custom of burying their dead near their 
 places of worship. The Phipps-street Burial-ground is an 
 excei)tion to that custom. It is an early example — proba- 
 bly the first in New England — of a rural cemetery. The 
 meeting-hoiise was in the market-place, and no time before 
 the Revolution did the town extend above Thompson 
 Square. There were only scattered buildings in this part 
 of the town. It was a retired place in the country, very 
 secluded, and not far from the waters of a bay, across which 
 a person could look to Cambridge and Harvard College. 
 
 "The earliest burials in town were ver^^ near the market- 
 place. Very early in the history of the town, probably in 
 
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 1640, this burial-place was laid out. There is one interest- 
 ing feature about the arrangement of the graves. The 
 early families are all represented and the location and 
 direction of their graves correspond with the relative posi- 
 tions of their houses. For example, here are graves of 
 Russells, Carys, Frothinghams, Samsons, Phippses ar- 
 ranged roughly to correspond with the arrangement of their 
 houses. 
 
 "The earliest stone bears the date of 1642, and marks the 
 grave of Maud Russell. Another early stone is that of 
 John Fownell, 1654. There are eight stones in all dated 
 earlier than 1670, and one hundred and fifty-eight earlier 
 than 1701. Not many persons of wide reputation are 
 buried here, but there are very many good respectable 
 people. 
 
 "The Harvard monument was placed here by the College 
 in 1828. John Harvard died 1688 and it is doubtful 
 where he was buried. There is a tradition that there was 
 a Harvard stone in this burial-ground which stood until the 
 Revolution." This story is told by Edward Everett in his 
 oration at the dedication of the monument erected by the 
 college, as follows : "There is a tradition that till the Rev- 
 olutionary war, a gravestone was standing within this en- 
 closure over the spot where his ashes repose. With other 
 similar memorials it was destroyed at that period ; and 
 nothing bat the same tradition remains to guide us to the 
 hallowed spot. Upon it we have erected a plain and simple 
 but we trust permanent memorial." 
 
 It would seem that the inference from all that can l)e 
 learned on the subject is that the remains of Harvard are 
 near the top of this hill. The names of the most prominent 
 people are found here. In 1828, Edward Everett was liv- 
 ing in Charlestown and must have been acquainted with 
 persons who could remember how things looked at the Rev- 
 olution. 
 
 The celebrated stone of Elizal^eth Phillips is found in 
 
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 this y'li'^- She was the midwife whose presence at the 
 birth of three thousand children in the course of a busy 
 professional life extendi ng over fifty years is recorded on 
 her gravestone.^ 
 
 Some mischievous person has changed this most worthy 
 record from H, ()()() to lo(),0()0 by prefixing the figure 1 and 
 adding an 0. 
 
 The Mather tomb in the Copp's Hill Burial-ground asso- 
 ciates that place with the Old Burial-ground of Dorchester, 
 for in this latter place is buried Richard Mather, the third 
 minister of Dorchester, of whom this Society possesses an 
 original picture. He was the father of Increase and the 
 elder Sanniel, and the first of his name in Massachusetts. 
 Uichard Mather died in 1069.^ Sevvall states that he heard 
 
 ' Tlie inscription is as follows : — 
 
 Here Lyes Interred y Body of 
 M'^ Elizabeth Phillips, Wife 
 to M' Eleazek Phillips ; Who 
 was Born in Westminster', in Great 
 Brittain, & Coraraiflioned by John 
 Lord Bishop of London, in y Year 
 1718, to y Office of a Midwife; vt came 
 to this Country in y Year 1719 & by 
 ye Blessing of God has Brought into 
 this world above 730006' Children. 
 Died May 6''^ 1761, Aged 76 Years. 
 
 - The inscription in memory of Richard Mather is as follows :■ 
 DOM. Sackr 
 
 RiCHARDUS IIIC DORMIT MaTIIKRUS 
 
 (SED NEC TOTUS NEC MORA DIUTURNA) 
 
 LARTATUS GENUI8SE PARES 
 
 inckrtum est ijtrum doctioran melior 
 anima & gloria nun queunt humani 
 
 Divinely rich & learnd Richard Mather 
 
 thcr 
 
 vSons like him PRoriiKTS great reioicd this fa 
 
 down 
 
 Short time his sleeping dust heres couerd 
 
 NOT his ascended SPIRIT OR RENOWN 
 
 IT D M IN Aug. 16 An" in Dorc. N A 34 an 
 Oirr. Apr 22 1669 Aet Suae 73. 
 
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 him preach, presumahly at Cambridge, the funeral .scnnoii 
 of John Wilson, in KKw. At the entrance to this burial- 
 place is another of the bronze ta])lets for which Boston is 
 indebted to Dr. Green.' 
 
 The monument of Governor Stoughton is tlie object of 
 greatest interest in the Dorchester Burial-ground. Scwall 
 refers to the death and funeral of Governor St(Highton, July 
 13 and 15, 1701, but evidently he did not attend the 
 funeral. Later, however, Feby. 1, 1703/4, he visits Dor- 
 chester, and writes, "Before Lecture, I rid into the Bury- 
 ing place and read Mr. Stoughton's Epitaph, which is very 
 great." (IL Diary, p. iJ4.) 
 
 The epita[)h to which he refers was re[)aircd by Harvard 
 College in lb2>), and can be distinctly read to-day. ~ 
 
 1 The inscription is as follows : — 
 
 DORCHESTER BURIAL GROUND 
 
 Here were bnried 
 
 Governors 
 
 William Stoughton 1701, William Taiier 1T3J; 
 
 MlXISTKRS 
 
 Richard Mather 1609, .Josiah Flint 1G80, 
 
 John Danforth 1730, Jonathan liowinan 1775, 
 
 Moses Everett 1S13, Thaddcus Mason Harris 1S42; 
 
 Major Gen. Humphrey Athcrton 1661, 
 
 William Pole, Schoolmaster, 1074. 
 
 John Foster, First Printer of Boston, lOSl, 
 
 Tsaae Royall 1739, James Blake, Annalist. n.'iO. 
 
 and Ebenezer Clapp 1881. 
 
 Gulielmus Stoughtonus, Armiger, 
 
 Provinciae Mas.sachusettensis in Nova Anglia Lcgatus 
 
 deinde Gubernator; 
 
 Nec-non Curiae in eadem Provincia Superioris 
 
 lusticiarius Capitalis, 
 
 Hie Jacet 
 Vir Conjugij Nescius, 
 Religione Sanctus, 
 
 Virtute Clarus, 
 
 Doctrina Celebris, 
 
 Ingenio Acutus 
 
 Sanguine et animo pariter lUustris, 
 
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 "The monument over Stoughton's grave in the Dorches- 
 ter Burial-ground having fallen, the Corporation of the 
 College, in 1828, caused it to be repaired, and the tablet 
 which was 'cracked in two' cemented. The elegant epi- 
 taph on it, adapted, it is said, by Mather, corresponds 
 nearly word for word with the one l)y Aimonius Proust de 
 Charabourg, Professor of law in the University of Orleans, 
 which is inscribed on the tomb of Blaise Pascal, who died 
 in 1662." (Sibley's Harvard Graduates, vol. I., p. 207.) 
 
 This epitaph was the tribute of the President of Harvard 
 College to the Chief Judge who sat on the trials of the Salem 
 witches, and who, as tradition states, felt no repentance for 
 the deeds of that court, saying he had no confession to 
 make as he had acted according to the best light God had 
 given him. (I. Sewall's Diary, p. 446.) 
 
 The tomb of Humphrey Atherton is marked with a large 
 
 Aeqnitatis Amator, 
 
 Legum Propugnator, 
 
 Collegij Stoiightoniani Fundator, 
 
 Literarura & Literatorum Fautor Celeberrimns 
 
 Impietatis & Vitij Hostis Acerrimus, 
 
 Hunc Rhetores amant Facuiidurn, 
 
 Hunc Scriptores norunt Elegantem 
 
 Hunc Philosophi quaeruut Sapientem 
 
 Hunc Doctores laudant Theologum, 
 
 Hunc Pii venerantur Austerum, 
 
 Hunc Omnes Mirantur; Omnibus Ignotuin 
 
 Omnibus licet Notum 
 
 Quid Plura, Viator! Quem perdidimus 
 
 Stoughtonum I 
 
 Heu ! 
 
 Satis dixi, Urgent Lachryraae, 
 
 Sileo, 
 
 Vixit Annos Septuaginta ; 
 
 Septimo Die Julij, Anno Salutis 1701 
 
 Cecidit. 
 
 Heu ! Heu ! Qualis Luctus ! 
 
25 
 
 horizontal slab, at the top of which is a sword and Ixdow an 
 inscription.^ 
 
 It is unfortunate that Major-General Huniphre}- Atherton, 
 whose virtues are recorded in this ci)ilaph, is said to have 
 met his death as he was riding home from a review of his 
 troops in Boston, as his horse came into collision with a 
 stray cow. The manner of his death undoubtedly gave rise 
 to stories not wholly creditable, as we find that "Thomas 
 Maule, Shopkeeper of Salem," was called into Court in 
 1()95 to answer for his printing and publishing a pamphlet 
 "stuffed with notorious Lyes and Scandals." The book 
 was ordered to be burned and the writer acknowledged that 
 what was written concerning the circumstances of Major- 
 General Atherton's death was a mistake. (I. Sewall's 
 Diary, p. 416.) 
 
 The epitaph over the tomb of William Pole, school- 
 master, is one of the most remarkable in this burial-ground. 
 It is as follows : — 
 
 Y . EPITAPH . OF . William . Pole . whkmi . he . tiemselk 
 
 MADE . WHILE . HE . WAS . YET . LIVING . IN . REMEMBRANCE . OV 
 
 HIS . OWN . DEATH . & . LEFT . IT . TO . BE . INGRAVEN . ON . HIS 
 
 t ty 
 
 TOMB . Y . SO . BEING . DEAD . HE . MIGHT . WARN . POSTERI 
 
 reader 
 
 c 
 
 OR . AKESKMBLANCE . OF . A . DEAD . MAN . BESPEAKING . Y 
 
 HO . PASSENGER . TIS . WORTH . THY . PAINS . TOO . STAY 
 
 e 
 X- . TAKB . A . DEAD . MANS . LESSON . BY . Y . WAY 
 
 I . WAS . WHAT . NOW . THOU . ART . & . THOU . SHALT . BE 
 
 1 [Sword.] 
 
 He A RE . LYES . OUR . CaPTAINE . AND .MaIOR.OF . SUFFOLK . WAS . WITH ALL 
 
 A . GODLY . MAGISTRATE . WAS . HE . AND . MAIOR . GENERALL 
 
 Two . TROVPS . OF . HORS . WITH . HIME . HERE . CAME . SUCir . WORTH . HIS . 
 
 LOVE . DID . CRAVE 
 Ten . COMPANIES . OF . FOOT . ALSO . MOVRNING . MARCHT . TO . HIS . GRAVE 
 Let . ALL . THAT . READ . BE . SURE . TO . KEEP . THE . FAITH . AS . HE . HAS . DON 
 
 AViTH . Christ . he . lives . now . crowned . his . name . was . Hamphrev . 
 Atiieriox 
 
 His . DYED . TlIU . h> . or . SKl'TliMUKU . ItHU 
 
2(> 
 
 WHAT . I . AM . NOW . W HAT . ODDS . TWIXT . ME . & . THEE 
 
 NOW . GO . THY . WAY . BUT . STAY . TAKE . ONE . WORD . MORE 
 
 (lore 
 e 
 THY . STAF . FOR . OUGHT . THOU . KNOWEST . STANDS . NEXT . Y 
 e e 
 
 DEATH . IS . Y . DORE . YEA . DOR . OF . HEAVEN . OR . HELL 
 
 ]5E . WARNED . BE . ARMED . BELIEUE . REPENT . FARIEWELL 
 
 The Old Roxbury Burial-ground at the corner of Wash- 
 ington and Eustis streets is the last of the more important 
 ))urial-places of Boston.' 
 
 The Dudley tomb is covered by a perfectly plain slab 
 inscribed with the one word Dudley. Yet this tomb 
 approaches most nearly in historic interest the Winthrop 
 tomb in the King's Chapel Yard. 
 
 Here are the remains of W'inthrop's Deputy, Thomas 
 Dudley, who was also four times called to serve as Gov- 
 ernor. His son, Joseph Dudley, for many years Governor, 
 is buried in the same tomb.^ 
 
 1 At the i^ate is the inscriptiou : — 
 
 ROXBURY BURIAL GROUND 
 
 Here were buried 
 
 Governors 
 
 Thomas Dudley 1653. Joseph Dudley 1720: 
 
 <.'}iief Justice Paul Dudley 1752, Col. William Dudley 1743 
 
 Ministers 
 
 Johu Eliot, the apostle to the ludians, 1690, 
 
 Thomas Walter 1725, Nehemiah Walter 1850, 
 
 Oliver Peabody 1752, Amos Adams 1775, 
 
 Eliphalet Porter 1833, 
 
 and 
 
 Benjamiu Tompsou, Schoolmaster aud Physician, 1714. 
 
 " We have the followiug accouut of his fuueral : — 
 
 •'Aprils (1720) Govr. Dudley is buried iu his father Govr. Dudley's Tomb 
 at Roxbury. Boston aud Roxbury Regiments were under Arms, and 2 or 3 
 Troops: Bearers, His Excellency Governor Shute, Samuel Sewall; Col. 
 Towusend, Col. Applctou; Mr. President Leverett, Col. Samuel Brown. 
 Scarvs, Rings, Gloves, Scutcheons. Counsidors and Ministers had scarvs, 
 and Cousulary Men. Col. Otis, Thaxter, Quincy, Dows, Norden, Judge 
 Lynde, Col. Pain were there out of Town .... were very many people, 
 spectators out of windows, on Fences and Trees like Pigeons. The Bells in 
 Boston were rung for the Funeral ; vvhicli was finished when the sun was 
 near an hour high." (III. Sewall's Diary, p. 249.) 
 
27 
 
 Paul Dudley, .the son of Josej)!!, rests with his fatlier 
 and grandfather. He was a talented and al)h' lawyer and 
 Judge, and served from 1745 to his death in \li')-2 as 
 Chief Justice, and was the founder of the Dudh'i.in U'l-t- 
 ures at Harvard. 
 
 The Parish tomb' is near the Dudley tonjh and is most 
 noted as containing the ashes of John Eliot.'- 
 
 Here lie the remains of 
 JOHN ELIOT. 
 
 Tlio 
 
 Apostle TO THE Indians. 
 
 Ordained over the First Ciiurcli Nov. 5, 1G32 
 
 Died May 20, 1690. Aged. LXXXVl. 
 
 Also, of 
 
 THOMAS WALTER 
 
 Ordained Oct. 19, 1718, Died Jan. 10, 1725, 
 
 Aged XXIX. 
 
 NEHIMIAH WALTER 
 
 Ordained Oct. 17, 1()88. Died Sept. 1750. 
 
 Aged LXXXVII. 
 
 OLIVER PEABODY 
 
 Ordained Nov. 7, 1750. Died May 29. 1752 
 
 Aged XXXII. 
 
 AMOS ADAMS 
 
 Ortiained Sei)t. 12, 1753. Died Oct. 5, 1775 
 
 Aged LIV. 
 
 ELIPHALET PORTER 
 
 Ordiiined Oct. 2, 1782. Died Dec. 7, 1833. 
 .Vged LXXV. 
 2 Sewall lias the following passages relating to the death and funeral of 
 Eliot: " Wednesday, May 21, 1()90. Mr. Eliot dies about one in the morning: I 
 visited him as I came from New Yorl< : This puts our election into mourning." 
 "Friday. May 23. After having sat in Council awhile went to Mr. Eliot's 
 funeral": Governour [Simon Bradstreet] and Dept. Governour [Thomas Dan- 
 fortli] &c. there. Bearers, Mr. Allin, Morton, Willard, Fiske, riol)art. 
 Nehem, Thatcher. Mr. Torrey and Danforth not there. Mr. Duiner of York 
 there: He eomes to ask help; Tis doleful news we have to celebrate Mr. 
 Eliot's funeral witli. Casteen is said lo head about 70 French, and Indians are 
 above Two Hnn.lred. C'apt. Willard came away the very day before the 
 attack." 
 
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 Another stone which attracted general attention was that 
 which niai'ks the burial-place of "ye herse" ^ of Mr. Benj. 
 Tompson, learned schoolmaster and physician, and re- 
 nowned poet of New England.^ 
 
 This completes the account of the more prominent graves 
 visited under the circumstances stated. The account is 
 necessaril}^ brief and dry, and cannot express the satisfac- 
 tion and gratification of all members of the party, and their 
 keen appreciation of the kind thoughtfulness of their leader 
 and host. 
 
 Later, in July as has alread}^ been stated, the same party 
 visited Quincy as guests of Mr. Charles Francis Adams. 
 
 The Old Braintrey Burial-ground, or the Hancock ceme- 
 tery of Braintrey, as it was known before there was a town 
 of Quincy, deserves a high place in a list of the historic 
 graveyards of New England. Representatives of many of 
 the leading colonial families were buried there, families 
 which have since become still more eminent by the lives of 
 many honorable and famous descendants. 
 
 As in several other burial-grounds already described so 
 here there is a "Ministers' Tomb." In it were placed the 
 bodies of the following ministers of the First Church : — 
 
 Rev. Moses Fiske, 3d minister; Rev. Joseph Marsh, 
 
 1 The use of the word "herse" on gravestones was at that time not un- 
 common, aud other instances will be found in Braintree. The firiijinal mean- 
 ing was the coffin or vessel containing a body, but now it is applied only to 
 the vehicle for the dead. 
 
 2 Tlie inscription on this stone is : — 
 
 SUB SPE IMMORTALI, Y^ 
 
 TERSE OF M"^ BENJ HOA'PS"" 
 
 LEARNED SCHOOLMASTER 
 
 & PHYSICIAN .<: Ye 
 
 RENOU>KD POET OP N. ENGi. : 
 
 OBIIT APRILIS 13= ANS'O DOM 
 
 1743 & AETATI8 SUAE 72. 
 
 MORTUUS SED IMMORTALIS, 
 
 IE THAT WOULD TRY 
 
 WHAT IS TRUE H PPINK^s INDEED 
 
 MUST DIE. 
 
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 4th minister; Rev, Jolin Hancock, 5th minister; Rev. 
 Anthony Wibird, 7th minister; Rev. Peter Whitney, 8th 
 minister.^ 
 
 i On the t'aco of the horizontal slab is the inscription : — 
 
 M'. Fiskc, ofi Minister in this Town dec Aug 10, 1708 
 
 in the 36"» year of his ministry ^t 6."). 
 
 Braintrey ! thy Prophet's ii;oue this tomb inters 
 
 The reverend Moses Fisk his sacred herse, 
 
 Adore Heav'ns Praise-ful art that forni'd the man 
 
 Who souls not to himself but Christ oft wan 
 
 SaiI'd thro tlie Straits with Peter's family. 
 
 Renowned and Gaius's Hospitality 
 
 Paules patience, James his prudence, Johns sweet love. 
 
 Is landed, enter'd clear'd, crown'd above, 
 
 Obiit August the X MDCCVIII Aetatis 
 suae LXVI 
 Mr^ Ann Marsh died May 27, 1773 Age 95. 
 Rebuilt by the Ladies of Quincy, 1812. 
 
 Mr Fisk's wives were here entombed 
 
 viz Sarah dee Dec 2, 1092 Mt 39 
 
 2"<i Anna formerly wife of Dan' Quincy 
 
 and mother of Hon John Quincy 
 
 dec July 21, 1708 iEt [4?] 5 
 
 On the sides are the inscriptions: — 
 
 Here rest the remains of 
 
 Rev. Joseph Marsh, 4"' Minister of the 
 
 1st Cong. Church in this Town, dec'i March 8, 1725-G, 
 
 in the 1:1*' year of his age, and the 17"' of his ministry; 
 
 Rev John Hancock, SHi Minister of the 
 
 1^' Cong. Church in this Town, and father of 
 
 John Hancock the Patriot, dec^ May 7, 1744. 
 
 in the 42'' year of his age, and the IS"' of his ministry ; 
 
 Rev Anthony Wihikd, 7"' Minister of the 
 
 Is' Cong Church in tliis Town, 
 
 deed June 4"' 1800 in tlie 46'i> year 
 
 of his Ministry, aged 72 years. 
 
 Here rest the remains of 
 
 XoKiu.N (iriNcv Esq. dec' S<>p. 29, ISOl, JOt 84 y^ 11 mo 2 d\ 
 
 Rev Peter Whitney, S"' Minister of the 1-' Cong. Church 
 
 in this Town, dec'' March .>, 1848, in the 74"> year of his age 
 
 and the 44"' of his ministry, 
 
 and .M'-^ Jane, his wife, dec"' Nov. 11, 1832, in the 57"' year of her m'. 
 
 Ahby Warken, daughter of Rev W. P. Lunt 
 
 deed Sept 12. 1841, /Kt 15 mos. 4 d^ 
 
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 The stone that bears the earliest date is over the tirst 
 minister, Rev. William Tompson.^ 
 
 The earliest interment, however, of which there is rec- 
 ord is that of Mrs. Joanna Hoar, mother of John Hoar, 
 ancestor of the illustrious Massachusetts family bearing this 
 name. The tomb in which she was buried is known as the 
 tomb of her son Dr. Leonard Hoar, President of Harvard 
 CoUeo-e.^ 
 
 1 It is insc-ribed: — 
 
 HERE LYES BURIED Y 
 BODY OF Y REQERED 
 MK WILLIAM TOMPSON 
 Y FIRST PASTOR OF 
 BRAINTRY CHURCH WHO 
 DECEASED DECEIVBk Y 10 
 1666 ^TATIS SUE 68 
 
 Re wan a learned, solid, sound divine, 
 
 Whose name and fame in boath lEngland did shine. 
 
 ■^ Tbu inscriptiou which was restored some years ago by the Hoiionil)le 
 George F. Hoar, is as follows : — 
 
 Three precious friends under this tombstone lie, 
 
 Patterns to aged, youth, and infancy, 
 
 A great mother, her learned son, with child. 
 
 The first and least went free, he was exiled 
 
 In love to Christ, this country, and dear friends 
 
 He left his own, cross'd seas, and for amends 
 
 Was here extoll'd, envy'd,all in a breath. 
 
 His noble consort leaves is drawn to death. 
 
 Stranger changes may befall us ere we die. 
 
 Blest they who well arrive eternity. 
 
 God, grant some names, O though New England's friend. 
 
 Don't sooner fade than thine, if times don't mknd. 
 
 Epitaph wrote for the Tomb of 
 
 Leonard Hoar. Doctour of 
 
 Phisicke who departed this life 
 
 In boston the 28 November 
 
 Was interred here thk 6 December 
 
 AND WAS aged 45 YEARS. 
 
 Anno Dom. 1675. 
 
 The great mother referred to in this epitaph is Mis. Joanna Hoar, who died 
 1661. 
 
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 One of her daughterts, Murgery, maiTied Rev. Henry 
 Flint, both of whom are })uried near by under a stone with 
 the following inscription: — 
 
 Here lyes interred y*" Body of y*" Rev' M'" Henry Flynt 
 
 who came to New England in y*^' Year 1()35, was 
 
 Ordained y^ first Teacher of y'' Church of Braintri/ 
 
 1639, and" Died April 27, 1668. Fie had y« 
 
 Character of a Gentleman Remarkable for his 
 
 Piety Learning Wifdom & Fidelity in his Office. 
 
 By him on his right hand lyes y'" Body of Margery 
 
 his beloved contort who Died March 1686/7. her 
 
 maiden name was Hoau. She was a Gentlewoeman 
 
 of Piety, Prudence & i)eculiarly accomplished 
 
 for inftructing young Gentlewoemen, many being 
 
 fent to her from other Towns, efpecially from Boston. 
 
 They descended from antient and good family s in England 
 
 The ancestral line of President John Adams can be 
 traced, step by step, on the tombstones in this cemetery. 
 
 First, there is Henry Adams the emigrant, in whose 
 memory is the following inscription, written by ejohn 
 Adams : — 
 
 In memory of 
 Henry Ada m s 
 who took his flight from the Dragon 
 persecution in Devonshire, in England, 
 and alighted with eight sons, near 
 INIount WoUaston. One of the sons 
 returned to England : and after taking 
 time to explore the countr}^ four 
 removed to Medfield and the neighbour 
 ing towns. Two to Chelmsford. One on 
 ly, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand 
 remained here, who was an Original 
 Proprietor in the Township of Braintvee 
 
 incorporated in the year 1639. 
 This Stone and several others have been 
 placed in this yard, by a great-great grandson 
 from a veneration of the piety, humility, 
 simplicity, prudence, patience, temperance, 
 
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 frugality, industry, and perseverance of 
 his Ancestors, in hopes of recommending 
 an imitation of their virtues to their 
 Posterity. 
 
 This inscription is on a marble slal) set into a flat granite 
 slab. At the foot is the original stone in which there is a 
 recess in which probably a metal plate bearing an inscrip- 
 tion was placed. 
 
 The inscription accompanying the above in memory of 
 Joseph Adams, senior, is as follows : — 
 
 Dedicated 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 Joseph Adams, senior 
 
 who died December 6, 1694, 
 
 and of Abigail his wife 
 
 whose first name was 
 
 Baxter, who died Aug. 27, 
 
 1692 : by a iireat s^randson 
 
 in f817'" 
 
 The third step in the line of descent is represented in the 
 inscription : — 
 
 In memory of 
 
 Joseph Adams, son of 
 
 Joseph senior and grandson of 
 
 Henry and of Hannah his wife, 
 
 whose maiden name was 
 
 Bass, a daughter of 
 
 Thomas Bass & Ruth Alden, 
 
 1 The older stones inarkiug the graves of Joseph and Abigail (JJaxter) Adams 
 are inscribed :— 
 
 lERE LYE'Ja BURIED 
 
 Y BODY OF 
 
 JOSEPH ADAMS SENIOR 
 
 AGED «8 YEARS 
 
 DIED DECEMBER Y « 
 
 1 !) -i 
 
 EERE LYE'H BURIED 
 
 Y BODY OF 
 
 ABIGAIL ADAMS WIFE 
 
 TO JOSEPH ADAMS SENl 
 
 AGED 58 YEARS 
 
 DIED AUGUST Y 27 
 
 16 9 2 
 
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 parents of John Adams, 
 
 and grand parents 
 
 of the lawyer 
 
 John Adams. 
 
 Erected December 1823. 
 
 Another stone, similar to the three already (lescribed, 
 marks the burial-place of John Adams, son of Joseph, Jr., 
 and father of the "Lawyer" and President, inscribed as 
 below : — 
 
 Sacked 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 M^ eToiiN Adams 
 
 who died 
 
 May 25, A D 17()1 
 
 Aged 70. 
 
 The name Quincy is seen on many stones in this old 
 bury ing-gro und . 
 
 The grave of Edmund Quincy is marked, 
 Edmund Quincy 
 
 A. D.'1698. 
 Aged 70 Years. 
 
 Judge Sewall visited Edmund Quincy, who was an uncle 
 of Hannah, his wife, several times in his last illness. His 
 death is recorded by Sewall in 1697-8 "Seventh day, Jan^ 
 8. between ten and 11m. Parmiter comes in, and tells us 
 that Unckle Quinsey died between 7 and 8 last night. A 
 true New England man, and one of our best friends is gone. 
 Fourth day Jan-^ 12 1697-8 went to the funeral of my 
 dear Unckle, Went in the coach, our horse failing us, . . 
 Had my wife. Cousin Quinsey, and Madam Dudley, l^ear- 
 ers were Col. Paige, Lt. Col. Hutchinson, Mr. Addington, 
 Mr. E'" Hutchinson, Major Townsend, Capt. Duiuer, 
 Major Hunt, and Ens. Peniman ; had scarves. Ens. 
 Peniman was the only conmiision officer of Braintry that 
 could come abroad. ^linisters there, Mr. Torrey, Mr. 
 Willard, Mr. Fisk, Thacher, Dauforth, Baxter ; I saw from 
 Boston Capt. Hill, Mr. Eliot, Mr. Tay, Beiiet ; Mr. Palmer 
 3 
 
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 waited on his father and mother Hutchinson." (I. Diary, 
 4fi6-7.) 
 
 The wife of Edmund Quincy was Joanna Hoar, daughter 
 of Mrs. Joanna Hoar and sister of Mrs. Margery Flint and 
 President Leonard Hoar.' 
 
 One other inscription should he given in this connection. 
 It is in honor of Josiah Quincy, Jun., and was written by 
 John Quincy Adams. ^ 
 
 1 The stone marking her grave is inscribed :— 
 
 lERE LYE13 BURIED 
 
 y BODY OF MRS 
 
 JOANNA QUINSEY 
 
 Y WIFE OF MR 
 
 EDMUND QUINSEY 
 
 AGED 55 YEARS 
 
 DYED Y 16ti> OF 
 
 MAY 1680. 
 
 2 Sacred 
 To the memory 
 
 of 
 
 JOSIAH QUINCY JuN^ 
 
 late of Boftou, Barrister at Law, 
 
 Youngest Son of Josiah Quincy, late of this town, Esquire. 
 
 r>rilliaut Talents, uncommon Eloquence, and indefatigable application 
 
 Raised him to the highest eminence in his profefsion. 
 
 His early enlightened, inflexible attachment to 
 
 The caufe of his Country, 
 
 Is attested by Monuments more durable than this. 
 
 and transmitted to pofterity 
 
 By the well known productions of his Genius. 
 
 He was born the 23'* February, 1744, 
 
 And died the 26"! April 1775. 
 
 His mortal remains are here deposited. 
 
 With those of Abigail his wife, 
 
 Daughter of William Phillips, of Boston, Esquire, 
 
 Born on the 14th of April 1745, 
 
 Died on the 25tb of March 1798. 
 
 Stranger, 
 In contemplating this Monument 
 as the frail tribute of filial gratitude and affection. 
 Glows thy bold breast with patriotic flame? 
 Let his example point the paths of fame ; 
 Or seeks thy heart, averse from public strife, 
 The milder grace of domestic life? 
 Her kindred virtues let thy soul revere, 
 And o'er the best of mothers drop a tear. 
 
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 The Adiims line is continued in the o-ranite church which 
 stands near the cemetery. Under the vestibule of this 
 church in vaulted chambers are the bodies of John Adams, 
 his wife Abigail, John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine 
 Adams. Memorial tablets have been phiced on either side 
 of the pulpit in the body of the church.' The burial- 
 
 LHiERTATEM AMICITIAM PLDEM RETINEBIS 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Beneath these Walls 
 
 Are deposited the Mortal Remains of 
 
 JOHN ADAMS. 
 
 Son of John and Snsanna [Boylston] Adams, 
 
 Second President of the United States. 
 
 Born f5 October 1735. 
 
 On the fonrth of July 1776 
 
 He pledged his Life, Fortune and Sacred Honour 
 
 To the Independenck Of His Country. 
 
 On the third of Septemlier 1783 
 
 He allixed his Seal to the definitive Treaty with Great Britain 
 
 Which acknowledged that Independence. 
 
 And consummated the Redemption of his Pledge. 
 
 On the fourth of July 1826 
 
 He was summoned 
 
 To the Independence of Immortality, 
 
 And to the Judgment Of His God. 
 
 This House will bear witness to his Piety : 
 
 This Town, his Birth-Flace. to his Munificence: 
 
 History to his Patriotism : 
 Posterity to the Depth and Compass of his Mind. 
 
 At his Side 
 
 Sleeps till the Trump shall Sound 
 
 ABIGAIL, 
 
 His beloved and only Wife, 
 
 Daughter of William and Elizabeth [Quincy] Smith. 
 
 In every Relation of Life a Pattern 
 
 Of Filial, Conjugal, Maternal and Social Virtue. 
 
 Born November 2^ 1744, 
 
 Deceased 28 October 1818. 
 
 Aged 74. 
 
 Married 25 October 1764. 
 During an Union of more than Half a Cenlury 
 
chamber is entered from the basement of the church and is 
 guarded by a granite door which is opened with difficulty. 
 On either side of the entrance are the liodies of John Adams 
 to the left, and Abigail Adams on the right. The original 
 
 They snivived, in Harmony of Sentiment, Principle and Affection 
 
 The Tempests of Civil Commotion ; 
 
 Meeting undannted, and surmounting 
 
 The Terrors and Trials of that Revolution 
 
 Which secured the Freedom of their Country ; 
 
 Improved the Condition of their Times : 
 
 And brightened the Prospects of Futurity 
 
 To the Race of Man upon Earth. 
 
 PILGRIM. 
 From Lives thus spent thy earthly Duties learn ; 
 From Fancy's dreams to active Virtue turn : 
 Let Freedom, Friendship, Faith, thy Soul engage, 
 And serve like them thy Country and thy Age. 
 
 ALTERI SECULO 
 
 A - O 
 
 Near this Place 
 
 Reposes all that could die of 
 
 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 
 
 Son of John and Abigail [Smith] Adams, 
 
 Sixth President of the United States, 
 
 Born 11 July. 17G7. 
 
 Amidst the Storms of civil Commotion 
 
 He nursed the Vigor 
 
 Which nerves a Statesman and a Patriot, 
 
 And the Faith 
 
 Which inspires a Christian. 
 
 For more than half a Century, 
 
 Whenever his Country called for his Labors, 
 
 In either Hemisphere or in any Capacity, 
 
 He never spared them in her Cause. 
 
 On the twenty fourth of December, 1814, 
 
 He signed the second Treaty with Great Britiiin, 
 
 Which restored Peace within her Borders, 
 
 On the twenty third of February, 1848, 
 
 He closed sixteen years of eloquent Defence 
 
 Of the Lessons of his Youth, 
 
 By dying at his Post 
 In her great national Council. 
 
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 chamber was only for two bodies, l)ut it was enlarged to- 
 wards the right for the bodies of John Quincy Adams and 
 his wife. Each body is in a massive granite sarco{)hagus, 
 securely sealed by heavy granite slabs. Each sarcophagus 
 is marked in plain capital letters with the full name. 
 
 John Louisa 
 
 John Adams. Abigail Adams. Quincy Catherine 
 
 Adams. Adams. 
 From this historic and sacred church the party proceeded 
 past the site of the oldest church in Braintree, in the mid- 
 dle of the highway, to the Episcopal Church, where records 
 were shown under date of 1728 in the hand of Rev. 
 Ebenezer Miller, who was appointed Missionary for Brain- 
 tree, N. E., in 1727. The records of baptism of slaves, 
 and prayer-books mutilated by the tearing out of the pray- 
 ers for the King, were historic relics dearly prized. In the 
 
 A Son worthy of his Father 
 
 A Citizen, shedding glory on his Country, 
 
 A Scholar, ambitious to advance Mankind, 
 
 This Christian sought to walk humbly 
 
 In the Sight of his God. 
 
 Beside him lies 
 
 His Partner for fifty Years 
 
 LOUISA CATHERINE 
 
 Daiigliter of Joshua and Catherine [Nuth] Johnson. 
 
 Born, 12 February, 1775, 
 
 Married, 26 July 1797, 
 
 Deceased, 15 May, 1852. 
 
 Aged 77. 
 
 Living through many Vicissitudes, and 
 
 Under high Kesponsibilities, 
 
 As a Daughter, Wife and Motiier, 
 
 She proved equal to all. 
 
 Dying, she left to her Family and her Sex 
 
 The blessed Kemembrance 
 
 Of a 'Woman that feareth the Lord.' 
 
 " Herein is tliat saying true, one sowetii and another reapeth. I sent you to 
 
 re:ip tiiat whereon 
 Ye beslowfd no labor, other men labored and ye are entered into tlieir labors." 
 
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 Episcopal cemetery is the tomb of Ebenezev Miller, who 
 died in 17H3, and the orave of Ralph Shirley, an infant 
 son of Governor Shirley, who was born Jan., 1734, and 
 died while his parents were in Quincy, Aug., 1737. 
 
 The old Adams houses where, it is stated, John Adams 
 and John Quincy Adams were born, are together, a short 
 distance from the centre of the city. These houses are still 
 carefully preserved and are occupied. 
 
 The old Quincy house is an inviting residence, after the 
 colonial style. The house was built in 1705, or 1707, by 
 Edmund Quincy, 3d, who married Dorothy Flynt. Here 
 was the home of Tutor Flynt, the well-known tutor of 
 Harvard College. The tutor's chamber is still pointed out. 
 Indeed, the house and grounds are so little changed that 
 Judge Sewall, could he visit them, would know perfectly 
 how to turn into Cousin Quincy's, and how to find "the 
 chamber next to the Brooke," in which he lodged, March 
 28, 1712. 
 
 The pleasures of a visit to the old Quincy house were an 
 introduction to those of seeing the Adams homestead, the 
 home of John Adams in his old age, of his son and grand- 
 son, tilled with the family portraits and with the library of 
 John Quincy Adams close by. A description of these 
 pleasures and many others of the day is not properly within 
 the scope of my subject, and reference to them is given 
 merely to complete an outline of the day spent at Quincy. 
 
 The last inscription in honor of the Adams line is the 
 following, over the grave of Hon. Charles Francis Adams 
 in the Mount Wollaston Cemetery; — 
 
 This . stone 
 
 marks . the . grave . of 
 
 CHARLPJS . FRANCIS . ADAMS 
 
 SON . OF . JOHN . QUINCY 
 
 AND . LOUISA . CATHERINE (JOHNSON) 
 
 ADAMS 
 
 Born . 18 . August . 1807 
 
 Trained . from . his . youth . in . politics . and . letters 
 
 His . manhood . strengthened . by . the . convictions 
 
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 WHICH . HAD . INSPIKED . HIS . FATHERS 
 
 IlE . WAS . AMONG . THE . FIRST . TO . SERVE 
 
 And . AMONG . THE . MOST . STEADFAST . TO . SUPPORT 
 
 That . new . revolution 
 Which . restored . the . principles . of . liberty 
 
 To . PURLIC . LAW 
 
 AND . SECURED . TO . HIS . COUNTRY 
 
 The . FREEDOM . OF . ITS . SOIL 
 
 During . seven . troubled . and . anxious . years 
 
 Minister . of . the . United . States . in . England 
 
 afterwards . arbitrator . A r . the . tribunal . OF . Gf.neva 
 
 He . failed . in . no . task . which . his . Government . imposed 
 
 Yet . won . the . respect . and . confidence 
 
 of . TWO . GREAT . NATIONS 
 
 Dying . 21 . November . 188G 
 
 He . LEFT . THE . EXAMPLE 
 
 OF . HIGH . POWERS . NOBLY . USED 
 
 AND . THE . REMEBRANCE 
 
 OF . A . SPOTLESS . NAME. 
 
 By . HIS . SIDE 
 
 sleeps . his . wife 
 
 Abigail . Brown 
 
 Daughter . of . Peter . Chardon 
 
 and . Anne (Gorham) Brooks 
 
 Born . April . 25 . 1808 
 Married . September . 3 . 1829 
 
 Died . June . G . 1889 
 
 His . COMPANION . AND . support 
 
 in . private . life . and . public . station 
 
 Loved . and . honored 
 
 Trusted . and . true 
 
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