Find A Grave - Burying Point Cemetery

Bishop, Bridget [cenotaph] d. June 10, 1692
Victim of the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Bradstreet, Simon b. March 18, 1603 d. March 27, 1697
Colonial Governor. Bradstreet received bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge's Emmanuel College. He married Anne Dudley, who was the daughter of Puritan leader Thomas Dudley and later became the first published poet in North America. Dudley and Bradstreet relocated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and Dudley was soon chosen to serve as governor. Bradstreet was involved in numerous business pursuits, most notably land speculation, and founded several new towns. He also filled...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burroughs, George [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged for
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Carrier, Martha [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
Salem Witch Trial Victim. Convicted of practicing witchcraft and hanged during the Salem Witch Trials. Twenty benches stand in a Memorial for the victims, one for each who were actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison). She was born between 1643 & 1650 to Andrew & Faith (Ingalls) Allen of Andover MA. She married Thomas Carrier, aka Morgan, a recently arrived bondservant, 7 May 1664, when she was 7 months pregnant with her eldest child. She unsuccessfully nursed her father &...[Read More] (Bio by: Linda Mac)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Corey, Giles [cenotaph] d. September 19, 1692
Accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Giles Corey was never convicted of witchcraft. He was being pressed by the court because he refused to plead to the charge (at that time, if he refused to plead, he had, in essence, not submitted to or recognized the authority or jurisdiction of the court). He was being pressed to force him to plead guilty or not guilty. He refused and died after about 3 days of pressing. Corey's only statement during this time was to demand...[Read More]
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Corey, Martha [cenotaph] d. September 22, 1692
Wife of Giles Corey. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Easty, Mary [cenotaph] d. September 22, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Foster, Ann b. 1617 d. December 3, 1692
Convicted in Salem Witch Trials. A careful reading of the trial transcripts reveals that Ann resisted confessing to the 'crimes' she was accused of having committed, despite being "put to the question" (i.e., tortured) multiple times over a period of days. However, her resolve broke when her daughter Mary Lacey, similarly accused of witchcraft, accused her own mother of the crime in order to save herself. The transcripts reveal the anguish of a mother attempting to shield her (undeserving)...[Read More] (Bio by: Michael Smith)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Good, Sarah [cenotaph] d. July 19, 1692
Hanged for being a witch. The actual location of her body is unknown. It was likely cast off in a ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the witchcraft charge.
Cause of death: Hanging
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Cenotaph on a bench outside of cemetery
Hathorne, John d. May 10, 1717
He was a magistrate who, along with Jonathan Corwin, presided over the pre-trial examinations in Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) prior to the actual Salem witch trials. (The judge during the trials was William Stoughton, Lieutenant-Governor of the colony.) Great-great-grandfather of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: By path in middle of cemetery
Higginson III., John b. October 20, 1675 d. April 26, 1718
Minister who came to Naumkeag in or around 1629, and according to legend, changed the Indian name of the place to either Shalom or Salaam (depending on which historian you believe). This was then eventually Anglicized to "Salem" meaning the "City of Peace". (There is no known derivation of Salem being once called "Jerusalem" and then shortened.).
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Howe, Elizabeth [cenotaph] d. July 19, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged for
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Jacobs, George [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
George Jacobs was born about 1617, probably in England, and was farming near Salem, MA, by the 1640s. He and his wife attended church infrequently, and he was known for his "salty tongue" and quick temper. He was in court in 1677 for striking a man while in a rage. George was accused by his own granddaughter of practicing witchcraft, and arrested on May 10, 1692. He went on trial August 5, and after failing to properly recite the Lord's Prayer (George was illiterate), he was found guilty. On...[Read More]
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Martin, Susannah [cenotaph] b. September 30, 1621 d. July 19, 1692
Victim of the Salem Witch Trials. The youngest of four daughters of Richard North and Joan Bartram, her baptism is reported as September 30, 1621 at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. Her mother died when she was a child and her father married Ursula Scott. In 1639, Richard North immigrated to New England and settled his family at Salisbury, Massachusetts. Susannah married the widower George Martin in 1646 at Salisbury. George and Susannah Martin moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1654. George...[Read More] (Bio by: JR)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
McIntire, Samuel d. February 6, 1811
Prominent architect from Salem. There is a "McIntire District" and tour showing his great works, especially on Chestnut Street, "The Most Beautiful Street (architecturally) in America." Aged 34 years.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
More, Richard d. 1692
Mayflower Pilgrim. He came over on the Mayflower at the age of 9 (or 11) as an indentured servant, rose through the ranks and became a sea-captain who lived in Salem. Died at age 84.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nurse, Rebecca [cenotaph] b. February 21, 1622 d. July 16, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. In most cases, the bodies of those hanged or pressed were cast off into a shallow ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the charge of witchcraft. However, the family of Rebecca Nurse, according to legend, got to her body, removed it from the ditch in Salem and buried it in secret on the family farm in Salem Village (now Danvers, MA). Where, exactly, is lost to history. Several years after her execution, it was agreed...[Read More]
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Parker, Alice [memorial] d. September 22, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Parker, Mary [cenotaph] d. September 22, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Proctor, John [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
Hanged for being a witch. Daniel Day Lewis played him in the movie "The Crucible." The actual location of his body is unknown. It was likely cast off in a ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the witchcraft charge.
Cause of death: Hanging
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Cenotaph on a bench outside of cemetery

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