Find A Grave - Boston

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
Gage, Phineas b. July 9, 1823 d. May 21, 1860
[Skull Only] Folk Figure. He became a legend in medicine for improbably surviving a catastrophic head injury. His is one of the earliest documented cases of severe brain trauma and its effect on personality. Gage was a 25 year-old construction foreman for Vermont's Rutland and Burlington Railroad. One of his main duties was rock-blasting, which involved drilling deep holes into boulders, filling them with gunpowder and sand, then compacting the mixture with a long metal rod called a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Warren Anatomical Museum, 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
Gorham, Benjamin b. 1775 d. 1855
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1820 to 1823, 1827 to 1831, and 1833 to 1835. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Gorham, Nathanial b. May 27, 1738 d. June 11, 1796
Signer of US Constitution. He was a self-made real estate magnate whose extensive contributions at the US Constitutional Convention helped shape much of America's guiding principles. Born in Massachusetts, he received little formal education before being sent as an apprentice, at the age of fifteen, to a Connecticut businessman. In 1759 he returned to his hometown of Charlestown, Massachusetts where he established a successful business and became a public notary. In 1771 he was elected to the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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
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
Harvard, Rev. John b. November, 1607 d. September 14, 1638
Educator. Benefactor of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard students erected this monument in 1838, as his original stone had been lost. (Bio by: Eric Thomsen)
Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Higginson, Stephen b. November 28, 1743 d. September 22, 1828
Continental Congressman. Served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts in 1783. (Bio by: K)
Central Burying 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
Leverett, John b. 1616 d. March 16, 1679
Colonial Governor. Born in Boston, England he immigrated to Massachusetts with his father in 1633. Returning to England a year later to serve during the English Civil War for Oliver Cromwell where he apparently made an impact in the Lord Protector's service. Returning to Massachusetts in 1648 where he served as Deputy Governor under Richard Bellingham during 1671 through the year of 1673. When upon the death of Bellingham, he took the position of Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, until his...[Read More] (Bio by: The Guardian)
Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tomb 30
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
Lloyd, James b. 1769 d. April 5, 1831
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1808 to 1813, and 1822 to 1826. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1800, and Member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1804. (Bio by: K)
Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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
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
Murray, Joseph E. b. January 1, 1919 d. November 26, 2012
Nobel Prize Laureate Medical Pioneer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990. He is considered the pioneer of the surgical technique of transplant. Graduated in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and later Professor Emeritus at the same University, specialized in Surgery at Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, he is know for having performed in 1954 the world's first successful kidney transplant between identical twins. Thanks to his research on the...[Read More] (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli)
Christ Church Cemetery, 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

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