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Phillips, John b. November 26, 1770 d. May 23, 1823
Boston Mayor. He was the first Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: GPS 42 21.435N 071 03.682W
Phillips, Wendell [original burial site] b. November 29, 1811 d. February 2, 1884
Abolitionist, Lawyer, and Orator. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was a successful lawyer, politician, and philanthropist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1831 and from Harvard Law School in 1833. He was admitted to the Massachusetts state bar in 1834 and opened a law practice in Boston. In 1835, he was a witness to the attempted lynching of pro-abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison as Garrison tried to speak at the Boston Female Society meeting and a year later, he...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Rawson, Edward b. April 16, 1615 d. August 27, 1693
Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1636, was graduated from Harvard College in 1653 and represented Newbury in the General Court of which he was clerk. For many years he was Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was chosen steward or agent for the receiving and disposing of such goods and commodities as should be sent to the United Colonies from England with the purpose of Christianizing the Indians. He is believed to have been one...[Read More] (Bio by: Lewis Clark)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Revere, Paul b. January 1, 1735 d. May 10, 1818
Revolutionary War Patriot, Silversmith, and Industrialist. He is best remembered for alerting the Colonial militia of the approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on the night of April 18, 1775, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, "Paul Revere's Ride." He was born in Boston, Massachusetts; his father was of French Huguenot descent and a silversmith by trade. At the age of 13, he left school and became an apprentice to his...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Sewall, Samuel b. 1652 d. 1730
Printer, Merchant, Legislator, Judge, Chief Justice. He arrived in the colonies as a child, his education was towards becoming a minister, having earned several degrees in theology from Harvard College Cambridge. However, his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous Boston family, changed those plans and he would instead become a wealthy and highly respected merchant and later enter politics. Although considered a man of great decency who would later pen one of the first anti-slavery tract in...[Read More] (Bio by: Mark Alexander Oliver)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Sewall, Samuel b. December 11, 1757 d. June 8, 1814
US Congressman. He attended the common schools of Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1776. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and set up a practice in Marblehead, Massachusetts. After making the decision to enter politics, he was first elected to Massachusetts' house of representatives in 1784 and 1788 to 1796. He was elected to the 4th US Congress, as a Federalist, when Benjamin Goodhue resigned and served until his own resignation in 1800. He gave strong support to...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Family Tomb
Snider, Christopher b. 1757 d. February 22, 1770
First martyr to the cause of the American Revolution, twelve-year-old Christopher Snider died two weeks before the Boston Massacre, and is buried in a common grave with the five men who died in the Boston Massacre. Very little is known about Christopher's early life, as his story was initially lost to history and to the events of the American Revolution. At the end of the Seven Years War (known in America as the French and Indian War) between England and France, the British government enacted...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Sumner, Increase b. November 27, 1746 d. June 7, 1799
Governor of Massachusetts (1797-1799). He previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts State Senate. He was Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782-1797), and was a member of the Massachusetts Convention which approved the United States Constitution. He died in office at the beginning of his third term as Governor. (Bio by: Joseph Craven)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

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