Boston illustrated; . ridewell, house of correction, almshouse, and public granary. The last-named building, which stood at first near the head of Park Street, and after-wards on the present site of the Park Street meeting-house, gave to the bury-ing-ground the name by which it is so commonly designated. This is, withoutexception, the most interesting of the old Boston graveyards. Within this lit-tle enclosure lie the remains of some of the most eminent men in the history ofMassachusetts and the country. The list includes no less than nine Governorsof the Colony and State ; two of the signers


Boston illustrated; . ridewell, house of correction, almshouse, and public granary. The last-named building, which stood at first near the head of Park Street, and after-wards on the present site of the Park Street meeting-house, gave to the bury-ing-ground the name by which it is so commonly designated. This is, withoutexception, the most interesting of the old Boston graveyards. Within this lit-tle enclosure lie the remains of some of the most eminent men in the history ofMassachusetts and the country. The list includes no less than nine Governorsof the Colony and State ; two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ;Paul Revere, the patriotic mechanic ; Peter Faneuil, the donor of the market-house and hall that bear his name ; Judge Samuel Sewall ; six famous doctorsof divinity; the first mayor of Boston; and a great many others of whom everystudent of American history has read. Upon the front of one of -the tombs, onthe side next to Park Street Church, was once a small marble slab with the in-. The Sumner Statue. BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 37 scription, Xo. 10. Tomb of Haxcock ; but nothing now marks the resting-place of the famous first si<;^ner of the Declaration of Indej^endence, and thefirst Governor o f Massachusetts un-der the Constitu-tion. In anotherpart of the yard isthe grave o f thegreat Revolution-ary patriot and Gov-ernor of the Com-monwealth, SamuelAdams. Near theTremont House cor-ner of the burying-ground are thegraves of the vic-tims of the BostonMassacre of most conspicu-ous monument i sthat erected in 1827over the gravewhere repose the parents of Benjamin Entrance to the Granary Burying-ground. Franklin; it contains the epitaph composed by the great man, who, in filialregard to their memory, placed this stone. Even the briefest reference tothe notable persons who lie buried here would extend this sketch undul3\ Tliestranger \x\\\ find the list with sufficient fullness displayed upon the bronze tab-lets fixed, by order of the city


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