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Abercrombie, James b. 1732 d. June 23, 1775
British Revolutionary War Army Officer. A veteran of the Seven Years War, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army when the Revolutionary War broke out. During the British occupation of Boston, Massachusetts in 1775, and in the later siege there, he was served as Adjutant General to British Army commander General Thomas Gage. When General Gage decided to attack Colonial positions on Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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
Billings, William b. October 7, 1746 d. September 29, 1800
Religious Choral Composer. He is considered by many to be the foremost representative of early American music and created a unique style with his hymns and anthems. He was blind in one eye with a withered arm and one leg shorter than the other. When he was only 14, his father died and he was forced to discontinue his formal schooling and he became a tanner by trade. He was self-trained in music, having never received any formal musical education. Nearly all of his works were written for a four-...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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
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
Bulfinch, Charles [original burial site] b. August 8, 1763 d. April 4, 1844
Architect. He was the first native-born professional architect in the United States. Important commissions include the Connecticut State House in Hartford (1793 to 1796), the Massachusetts State House in Boston (1795 to 1797), Saint Stephen's Church in Boston (1802 to 1804), and the Maine State House in Augusta (1829 to 1832). In 1818, he was appointed by President James Monroe as official architect of the United States Capitol, a position he held until 1829. Bulfinch was first buried in King's...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Kings Chapel Burying 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
Chilton, Mary b. 1607 d. May 16, 1679
First Pilgrim to touch Plimouth Rock. Passenger on Mayflower. Baptized : St. Peters Parish, Sandwich, England May 30, 1607. Married John Winslow.
Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire Memorial d. November 28, 1942
One of the nation's most notorious tragedies, a major fire struck the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, 17 Piedmont Street, in Boston on the evening of November 28, 1942 On the night of the fire, the club had approximately 1,000 occupants, many of whom were people preparing to go overseas on military duty. A lighted match used by an employee in changing a light bulb or an electrical short have been considered the most likely causes for this fire, which ultimately claimed 492 lives, including actor Buck...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)
Cocoanut Grove Fire Memorial, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Cotton, John b. December 4, 1585 d. December 23, 1652
Religious Figure. He was a Puritan minister at St. Botolph's Church in Lincolnshire, England, before leaving for America in 1633. His daughter Maria later wedded to Increase Mather and borne son, Cotton Mather. John Cotton became a minister at the First Church of Boston in Massachusetts, forming the basis for Congregationalism. He figured prominently in the Antinomian Controversy and the trial of Anne Hutchinson and the Cambridge Synod, which led to the adoption of the Half-way Covenant. (Bio by: K)
Kings Chapel 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
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
Dawes Jr., William [memorial] b. April 5, 1745 d. February 25, 1799
Revolutionary War Figure. He grew up in Boston and became a tanner while he was active in the Boston Militia. On the night of April 18, 1775 it was his task, along with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott, to warn the colonists that the British were going to launch an offensive on the countryside. On the way to Concord the three ran into a British road block. Splitting up and fleeing, Revere was captured and later released, Dawes was thrown from his horse and had to walk back to Lexington. Prescott...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Kings Chapel Burying 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

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