Central Burying Ground
Central Burying Ground, Boston Common, 2008
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Established	1756  ( 1756 )
Location	Boylston Street, Boston Common , Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.

The Central Burying Ground is a cemetery in Boston , Massachusetts , United States. It was established on Boston Common in 1756. It is located on Boylston Street between Tremont Street and Charles Street .

Famous burials there include the artist Gilbert Stuart , painter of the famed portraits of George Washington and Martha Washington , and the composer William Billings , who wrote the famous colonial hymn "Chester." Also buried there are Samuel Sprague and his son, Charles Sprague , one of America's earliest poets. Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the American Revolutionary War .

When the Tremont Street subway was under construction in the 1890s, burials were discovered in the area abutting the cemetery. These were reinterred in a mass grave within the bounds of the burying ground.

Notable burials [ edit ]

• "British soldiers who died of disease during the occupation of the city [1775?1776], and those who died of wounds received at Bunker Hill " ^[1]
• Caleb Davis (1738?1797) ^[2]
• William Billings (1746?1800), composer ^[3]
• John Baptiste Julien (d.1805), proprietor of Julien's Restorator ^[1]
• Gilbert Stuart (1755?1828) ^[4]
• Charles Sprague (1791?1875)

See also [ edit ]

• Funerary art in Puritan New England
• List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts

Image gallery [ edit ]

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  Marker of Chow Manderien, died 1798 (photo from 2008)
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  Marker of William Raymond (2004 photo)
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  Detail of 1814 map of Boston, showing Central Burying Ground
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  "Here were interred the remains of persons found under the Boylston St. Mall during the digging of the subway , 1895" (photo from 2008)
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  View of Boylston St., 2008
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References [ edit ]

Further reading [ edit ]

• Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. "Central Burying-Ground." A topographical and historical description of Boston , Part 1, 2nd ed. Boston: Printed by request of the City Council, 1871.

External links [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Central Burying Ground (Boston, Massachusetts) .

• Official website ? City of Boston
• Central Burying Ground, Boston at Find a Grave
• Google news archive . Articles about the Central Burying Ground

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