Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground,[1] is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside in Harvard Square.[2]
 The cemetery in 2018 | |
  Location in Greater Boston | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1635 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 42.375°N 71.1198°W |
The cemetery in 1889
The cemetery opened in 1635.[1]
Notable burials
- Jonathan Belcher - colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)
- Jonathan Remington - colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
- Edmund Trowbridge - colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
- Daniel Gookin - early settler and worker with Native Americans
- Cicely - enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)[3]
Several early Presidents of Harvard College are buried here[4] including:
- John Leverett the Younger - President of Harvard College 1708-1724
- John Rogers, President of Harvard College 1682–1684
References
- "Cambridge Cemetery". www.cambridgema.gov.
- "Amid the Old Burying Ground". October 28, 2015.
- Maskiell, Nicole S (2 December 2020). "Cicely was young, Black and enslaved – her death during an epidemic in 1714 has lessons that resonate in today's pandemic". The Conversation. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- "Old Burying Ground | Cambridge Office of Tourism". www.cambridgeusa.org.
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