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Designated CP
  
October 9, 1960

Phone
  
+1 617-523-1749

Founded
  
1630

Added to NRHP
  
2 May 1974

King's Chapel Burying Ground

Location
  
Tremont and School Streets, Boston, MA

Part of
  
King's Chapel (#74002045)

Address
  
58 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–4:30PMTuesday10AM–4:30PMWednesday10AM–4:30PMThursday10AM–4:30PMFriday10AM–4:30PMSaturday10AM–4:30PMSunday1:30PM–12AMMonday10AM–4:30PM

Burials
  
John Winthrop, Mary Chilton, William Dawes, John Cotton

Similar
  
Granary Burying Ground, Park Street Church, Old North Church, Old State House, Ghosts & Gravesto

King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic cemetery at King's Chapel on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest cemetery in the city and is a site on the Freedom Trail.

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King's Chapel Burying Ground was founded in 1630 as the first cemetery in the city of Boston. According to custom, the first interment was that of the land's original owner, Isaac Johnson. It was Boston's only burial site for 30 years (1630–1660). After being unable to locate land elsewhere, in 1686 the local Anglican congregation was allotted land in the cemetery to build King's Chapel.

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Notable burials

  • Charles Apthorp, merchant
  • Mary Chilton, Plymouth Pilgrim, first European woman to step ashore in New England
  • Captain Roger Clapp, member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, died February 2, 1691, formerly lived at Dorchester (Capt. Clapp's son Desire is also interred close by)
  • John Cotton (minister), Puritan theologian
  • John Davenport (minister), Puritan theologian
  • William Dawes (disputed), American Revolution hero
  • William Emerson (father of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • Robert Keayne, first captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
  • John Lambert, pirate who sailed under John Quelch
  • John Oxenbridge, Puritan theologian
  • Elizabeth Pain, whose headstone is claimed to be the inspiration for Hester Prynne's in The Scarlet Letter
  • Dr. Comfort Starr, early Cambridge physician and a founder of Harvard College
  • Hezekiah Usher, first bookseller and book publisher in the British Colonies.
  • John Wilson Puritan theologian
  • John Winthrop, first Puritan governor of Massachusetts

    • References

    King's Chapel Burying Ground Wikipedia
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