Historic cemetery in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.
The cemetery in 1889 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]
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:
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.