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Adams, Samuel b. September 27, 1722 d. October 2, 1803
Declaration of Independence Signer, Massachusetts Governor. The cousin to John Adams, second President of the United States, he was a leading speaker in the cause of American Independence. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a respected landowner and brewer, he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1740. Entering private business, he was never a success at it, and by 1764, he was deeply in debt. As poor a...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Armstrong, Samuel Turrell b. April 29, 1784 d. March 26, 1850
Colonial Governor. He served as Lt. Governor under John Davis from 1833 to 1835 when he became Acting Governor following Davis' death. He served in this position from March 1, 1835 to January 13, 1836. He next became the sixth Mayor of Boston in 1836 and then served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1839. He was also a lead in the preservation of Plymouth Rock. (Bio by: The Guardian)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tomb 192
Attucks, Crispus b. 1723 d. March 5, 1770
Boston Massacre Victim. All that is definitely known about him concerns the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Toward evening that day, a crowd of colonists gathered and began taunting a small group of British soliders. Tension mounted rapidly, and when one of the soldiers was struck the others fired their muskets, killing three of the Americans instantly and mortally wounding two others. Crispus Attucks was the first to fall, thus becoming one the first men to lose his life in the cause of...[Read More] (Bio by: Cinnamonntoast4)
Cause of death: Shot with a musket by the British Soldiers
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Bellingham, Richard b. 1592 d. December 7, 1672
Colonial Governor. He was the son of William and Frances Amcotts Bellingham, and married Elizabeth Backhouse and later Penelope Pelham after the death of his first wife. He had come to Boston in the year 1634 from England becoming a lawyer. He also served as a Member of Parliament for his town in 1628 and 1629. During the wedding of his second wife, it was said she had been betrothed to another, he performed the ceremony himself and was prosecuted for it. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne immortalized...[Read More] (Bio by: The Guardian)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tomb 146
Boston Massacre Victims d. March 5, 1770
Burial site for the Victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. The five men killed in the incident were Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr. At the end of the Seven Years War (known in America as the French and Indian War) between England and France, the British government enacts a series of taxes to pay for the costs of winning the war. These taxes are extremely unpopular in the colonies, and in the British colony of Massachusetts, resistance...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Bowdoin, James b. August 7, 1726 d. November 6, 1790
Massachusetts Governor. He was born James Bowdoin II in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a wealthy merchant. His paternal grandfather, Pierre Baudouin, was a Huguenot refugee from France, who settled in Boston in 1690 by way of Ireland and eastern Massachusetts (present-day Maine). After attending grammar school he enrolled at Harvard College (now Harvard University) in Boston where he was educated in the sciences by John Winthrop, and developed an interest in electricity and astronomy. In...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cabot, George [original burial site] b. December 3, 1752 d. April 18, 1823
US Senator from Massachusetts (1791 to 1796). Great-grandfather of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cushing, Thomas b. March 24, 1725 d. February 28, 1788
Continental Congressman. Served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts from 1774 to 1776. Also served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1788. (Bio by: K)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cushion, Elizabeth b. 1629 d. November 24, 1689
Find A Grave Icon. An image of her broken, sinking tombstone is used in Find A Grave's error messages and can be purchased on a t-shirt and in a set of greeting cards through the Find A Grave store. (Bio by: Eric Thomsen)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Dummer, William b. 1677 d. October 10, 1761
Colonial Governor. He served as Acting Governor and Commander-in-chief for Massachusetts twice, from 1723 to 1728 and from 1729 to 1730. He was also the Lieutenant Governor from 1716 through 1730, serving both positions simultaneously. He married Catherine Dudley in 1714 but never had any children. Upon his death, he left his 300 acres and mansion for "a free grammar school", which became the first academy in New England, the "Governor Dummer Academy", opening in 1763. The name of this...[Read More] (Bio by: The Guardian)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tomb 167
Endecott, John b. 1588 d. March 15, 1665
Colonial Governor. His grave marker was destroyed and exact place of the grave is unknown, only that he is buried in the Granary Burying Ground Cemetery in Boston, Suffolk Co., Ma. He was Gov. in 1629, 1644, 1649, 1651-1654, 1655-1665. In 1658 he was president of The United Colonies of New England. (Bio by: James)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Faneuil, Peter b. June 20, 1700 d. March 3, 1743
Colonial Merchant. He was the son and nephew of wealthy French Huguenots who fled France in the late 1600s and settled in Massachusetts. Little is known of his childhood and his well-to-do father died when he was 18 years old. He first came into prominence when he helped his brother-in-law escape to France after killing an opponent in Boston's first duel. He assisted his uncles in a thriving shipping business with several countries, including Spain and England. One of their prime commodities...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Goose (Foster), Elizabeth 'Mother' b. 1665 d. 1758
Believed by some to be "Mother Goose." It is unclear whether or not her body is buried under this stone or elsewhere in the cemetery. She married Isaac Goose in 1693 and died in 1758.
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Gore, Christopher b. September 21, 1758 d. March 1, 1827
US Senator, Massachusetts Governor. Served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1816. Also served as a Delegate to the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention in 1788, Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1788 to 1789, and 1808, United State District Attorney for Massachusetts from 1789 to 1796, Member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1806 to 1807, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1809 to 1810. (Bio by: K)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Hancock, John b. January 12, 1737 d. October 8, 1793
American Patriot Leader and Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts. His signature on the document was so bold that when people sign their names, they are said to have written their �John Hancock.� Born in Braintree, Massachusetts, where his father was a minister. When he was seven years old, his father died suddenly, and his uncle, Thomas Hancock, one of the wealthiest merchants in Boston, adopted him and raised him. John graduated from Harvard College in 1754 and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Jackson, Jonathan b. June 4, 1743 d. March 5, 1810
Continental Congressman. Served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts in 1782. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1777, Member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1789, and Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1802 to 1806. (Bio by: K)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Livermore, Edward St. Loe b. April 5, 1762 d. September 15, 1832
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1807 to 1811. Also served as United States District Attorney for New Hampshire from 1794 to 1797, and 1801, and Justice of the New Hampshire State Supreme Court from 1797 to 1799. (Bio by: K)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Murray, Rev. John b. December 10, 1741 d. September 3, 1815
Minister. Considered the founder of American Universalism, Murray grew up in England and Ireland in a strict Calvinist home, converted to Methodism as a teenager, and not many years later discovered James Relly's Universalist teachings. Murray's Universalist beliefs led to his being excommunicated from the Methodist Church. Moving to America in 1770, he traveled the Northeast, preaching Universalism. After several years of itinerant ministry, Murray settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where...[Read More] (Bio by: NM)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Otis, James b. February 5, 1725 d. May 23, 1783
Revolutionary War Patriot. He coined the phrase "Taxation without representation is tyranny." Born in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, he was descended from John Otis, one of the first settlers in Hingham, Massachusetts, who arrived in June 1635. He graduated from Harvard University in 1743, having studied general literature, and began a study of law for the next two years under the tutelage of Jeremiah Gridley, considered one of the best lawyers in America at the time. In 1748, he set up a law...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Paine, Robert Treat b. March 11, 1731 d. May 12, 1814
Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Paine graduated from Harvard University in 1749 at the age of 18, and taught school in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. Discovering he lacked the patience to teach, after one year, he began to sail about the Atlantic, going to Spain, the Azores, and Greenland. Returning home in 1754, he began to study law, and became a lawyer in 1757 in Taunton, Massachusetts. There he married Sally Cobb, who was already...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

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