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Boyd, John Parker b. December 21, 1764 d. October 4, 1830
US Army General. He entered the Army as an Ensign in 1786 and served for three years. Boyd then became a mercenary, commanded a privately raised regiment that was hired by various princes and potentates in India and Pakistan, and eventually rose to command of a 10,000 man division in Madras. In 1806 the British conquest of India and Pakistan ended the regional conflicts in which Boyd had participated, so he sold his unit's equipment and returned to the United States, settling in Boston with a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Crocker, Hannah b. June 25, 1752 d. July 11, 1829
Social Reformer. An early women's rights advocate, she was the author of "Observations on the Real Rights of Women," "The School of Reform," and an account of the life of Madam Knight (Sarah Kemble Knight), the schoolmistress of Benjamin Franklin. She was the great-granddaughter of Increase Mather, the granddaughter of Cotton Mather, the daughter of Reverend Samuel Mather, and the wife of Joseph Crocker. (Bio by: Jan Franco)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Mather family tomb
Hall, Prince b. 1748 d. December 7, 1807
Masonic Grand Master. The best scholarship for Hall's birth is based on records found in Barbados. He may have been the son of an English leather worker and a free black woman, and was therefore a freeman, but this is unconfirmed. It is alternately speculated that he was the slave of one William Hall of Boston who freed a man named Prince Hall in 1765, but that particular Prince Hall cannot be conclusively linked to any one individual, as several men named Prince Hall were living in Boston at...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Beneath a simple marker behind an obelisk found in the southwesterly corner of the Burying Ground
Malcolm, Daniel b. 1725 d. October 23, 1769
American Revolutionary. A "True Son of Liberty" Patriot Malcolm openly defied British rule and its revenue act. Buried as noted on his marker "...in a stone grave 10 feet deep...", his tombstone and that of his wife beside what were his earthly remains are chipped by British musketballs, including one solid hit in the left eye of the skulls on each of these markers. Legend has it that British soldiers would read his epitaph, spit on his grave and then fire at his marker for luck in battle.
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Mather, Cotton b. February 12, 1663 d. February 13, 1728
Theologian.
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Mather, Increase b. June 21, 1639 d. August 23, 1723
Puritan Leader / Diplomat / Educator / Father of Cotton Matther. He was a Clergyman, College President, Pastor of North Church, Boston, and the first president of Harvard College. He was the son of Richard and Katherine Mather. He and four of his five brothers would follow in their fathers footsteps and become ministers. He graduated from Harvard College in 1656 and later would become their first president. In 1674, he delivered a sermon, entitled "The Day of Trouble is Near", this would be...[Read More] (Bio by: Denise)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Newman, Robert b. March 20, 1752 d. May 26, 1804
A sexton at the Old North Church, Mr. Newman hung the two lanterns in its belfry to warn Patriots that the British were about to descend upon Lexington by sea.
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Along the westerly fence overlooking the wall at Snowhill Street
Parker, Isaac b. 1768 d. 1830
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1797 to 1799. Also served as a State Court Judge. (Bio by: K)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Wheatley, Phillis b. 1753 d. December 5, 1784
Author. Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book. She was born in Senegambia (now Senegal) in west Africa. As a child Phillis was taken into captivity and shipped to Boston where she was sold into slavery at the age of eight to John and Susanna Wheatley who named her Phillis after the ship she sailed on. After begining to work for the Wheatleys as Susanna's personal maid, Phillis started to show signs of being intellectually gifted. The Wheatley's daughter, Mary, began...[Read More] (Bio by: Curtis Jackson)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Worthylake, George d. November 3, 1718
American Folk Figure. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, he was the first person to be a lighthouse keeper in the United States, and the first to die in the line of duty. Worthylake worked as the lighthouse keeper of the Boston Light on Little Brewster Island for the General Court of Massachusetts. On November 3, 1718, while returning from a trip to pick up his pay, the canoe that he was in capsized and he drowned, along with his wife and daughter. He was the inspiration for the poem, "...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

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