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The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square. The cemetery opened in 1635.




Notable burials


Washington Allston – painter and poet
Nathaniel Appleton – minister
Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)
Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle
Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School
Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge
Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author
Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman
Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer
Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America
Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans
Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
Thomas Shepard – minister
Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian
Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)
Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here including:

Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672
Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654
Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769
John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724
Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680
John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684
Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737
Joseph Willard – 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.




References






External links



Old Burying Ground at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Burying Ground

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• Francis Dana
• Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Old Burying Ground
• Old Burial Ground
• Washington Allston
• Francis Dana
• John Rogers (Harvard)
• Henry Dunster
• John Leverett the Younger
• List of cemeteries in Massachusetts
• Daniel Gookin