Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground . beginning of the eighteenth century, enlargement hadbecome necessary, but, as was usual with the town cemeteries,was effected only with difficulty and when it could no longer bepostponed by overcrowding the existing space. The town hadvoted for enlargement some time before it was accomplished,appointing a committee which seems rather to have neglectedits duty. It was discharged and another appointed, consistingof Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, Timothy Thornton, and EdwardMartyn, by whom the necessary land was promptly purch
Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground . beginning of the eighteenth century, enlargement hadbecome necessary, but, as was usual with the town cemeteries,was effected only with difficulty and when it could no longer bepostponed by overcrowding the existing space. The town hadvoted for enlargement some time before it was accomplished,appointing a committee which seems rather to have neglectedits duty. It was discharged and another appointed, consistingof Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, Timothy Thornton, and EdwardMartyn, by whom the necessary land was promptly purchased,January 7, 1708. It was sold to the town by Judge SamuelSewall and his wife Hannah, and formed a correspondingsection to the old ground on the south-west, fronting on Hullstreet. It was part of the pasture which Mrs. Sewall hadinherited from her father, John Hull, master of the mint. Thedeed is dated December 17, 1711, (Suffolk Deeds, lib. 26, ). The tract thus added was nearly squaie in shape and onthree sides was bounded by streets. It was included in the old. Nortli Burying-Ground. The principal path on the east hill,cust of the tool house and parallel to Charter street, followsapproximately the boundary separating the Sewall purchasefrom the original burial-ground. The tract long known as the New North Burying-Ground,and now called simply the Small Ground, was added by pur-chase in 1809. The deed is recorded as follows under date ofDecember 18, 1809: For $10,000, Benjamin Weld, and hiswife Nabby, sold to the Town of Boston a parcel of land,bounded south-west on Hull street 148 feet; north-west on theburial-ground, 148 feet and 6 inches; north-east on land ofGoodwin and others, 153 feet; south-east on land of JonathanMerry, 123 feet; being land conveyed to Weld by Merry,October 21, 1809, recorded lib. 230, fol. 191. This lot also is nearly square and somewhat less than one-half the size of the old yard. It comprised part of JonathanMerrys pasture, Merry selling it
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