Phipps Street Burying Ground

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NRHP Reference # 74000907 Year built 1630 Burials Thomas Vincent Welch		Area 7,300 m² Added to NRHP 14 May 1974

Location Phipps Street, Charlestown Boston, Massachusetts Address Phipps St, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA Similar Eliot Burying Ground, Bennington Street Burying G, Central Burying Ground, Charlestown Preservation Society, Mount Hope Cemetery

The Phipps Street Burying Ground is a historic cemetery on Phipps Street in Charlestown, now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

The burial ground was created in 1630, when Charlestown was a separate community from Boston; it is the oldest cemetery within Boston's present limits. The "Charlestown Carver", an anonymous stone cutter active in the 1660s, began an important regional style that was continued by the Lamson family for many generations.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Interments

Since it was the only cemetery in Charlestown (which was annexed to Boston in the 19th century) for many years, it had a wide range of class and situation:

Prince Bradstreet, "an honest man of color".

Benjamin Gorham, Congressman 1820-23, 1827–31, 1833-35.

Nathaniel Gorham, president of the Continental Congress.

John Harvard, for whom Harvard University is named.

Oliver Holden, an American composer and compiler of hymns.

Edward Wigglesworth, a clergyman, teacher and theologian in Colonial America.

Phineas Pratt, a joiner, arrived 1622, aboard Sparrow with Weston's men. Made a solo, treacherous trek to Plymouth to warn Standish of the Indian uprising at Wessagusset (Weymouth).

References

Phipps Street Burying Ground Wikipedia

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