Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square. The cemetery opened in 1635.

Notable burials

• Washington Allston – painter and poet
• Nathaniel Appleton – minister
• Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)
• Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle
• Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School

• Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge
• Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author
• Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman
• Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer
• Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America
• Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans

• Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

• Thomas Shepard – minister
• Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
• Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian
• Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)

Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here including:

• Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672
• Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654
• Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769
• John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724
• Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680
• John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684
• Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737
• Joseph Willard – clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804

Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775. Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.

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