Welcome to Granary Burying Ground

Welcome to Granary Burying Ground, one of the oldest historic sites in Boston! Famous, infamous, and unknown Bostonians are buried here. Men, women, children, Puritans, Anglicans, Catholics, English, French, Africans, patriots, Tories, printers, goldsmiths, merchants, and scavengers were all laid ...

Granary Burying Ground

1660

Within this ground are buried

John Hancock, Samuel Adams

and Robert Treat Paine,

signers of the Declaration of Independence;

Governors

Richard Bellingham, William Dummer,

James Bowdoin, Increase Sumner,

James Sullivan and Christopher Gore;

Lieut. Governor Thomas Cushing;

Chief Justice Samuel Sewall;

Ministers John Baily, Samuel Willard,

Jeremy Belknap and John Lathrop.

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