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 Harvard Square.^[2] The cemetery opened in 1635.^[1]

Old Burying Ground
The cemetery in 2018
Details
Established	1635
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°22′30″N 71°07′11″W
Find a Grave	Old Burying Ground

The cemetery in 1889

Notable burials

• Washington Allston – painter and poet^[3][4][5]
• Nathaniel Appleton – minister^[2][5]
• Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay)^[4][5][6]
• Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle^[2][5]
• Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School^[5]
• Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge^[2]
• Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author^[4]
• Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman^[4]
• Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer^[4]
• Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America^[5]
• Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans^[5]
• Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)^[4][5][6]
• Thomas Shepard – minister^[5]
• Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)^[4][5]
• Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian^[2][5]
• Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)^[2][7]

Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here^[8] including:

• Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672^[2][5]
• Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654^[2][5]
• Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769^[2][5]
• John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724^[2][5]
• Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680^[2][5]
• John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684^[2]
• Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737^[2][5]
• Joseph Willard – clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804^[2][5]

Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775.^[9] Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.