Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Historic cemetery in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.
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The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground,[1] is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square.[2] The cemetery opened in 1635.[1]
| Old Burying Ground | |
|---|---|
The cemetery in 2018 | |
 Interactive map of Old Burying Ground | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1635 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 42°22′30″N 71°07′11″W |
| Find a Grave | Old Burying Ground |
Notable burials
- Washington Allston – painter and poet[3][4][5]
- Nathaniel Appleton – minister[2][5]
- Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)[4][5][6]
- Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle[2][5]
- Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School[5]
- Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge[2]
- Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author[4]
- Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman[4]
- Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer[4]
- Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America[5]
- Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans[5]
- Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)[4][5][6]
- Thomas Shepard – minister[5]
- Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)[4][5]
- Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian[2][5]
- Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)[2][7]
Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here[8] including:
- Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672[2][5]
- Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654[2][5]
- Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769[2][5]
- John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724[2][5]
- Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680[2][5]
- John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684[2]
- Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737[2][5]
- Joseph Willard – clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804[2][5]
Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775.[9] Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.
