. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. ahost of the old Bostonians, Governors Bellingham, Dummer,Hancock, Adams, Bowdoin, Gushing, Sullivan, Eustis, andSumner lie beneath the sod in this cemetery. The celebratedsurgeon. Dr. John Jeffries, Uriah Cotting, Eev. Messrs. Eckley,Belknap, Stillman, Lathrop, and Baldwin, and Judge Sewalland John Hull, are alSo entombed here. The Bellingham family becoming extinct, his tomb wasgiven to the family of Governor James Sullivan. It lies onthe west side of the enclosure. Tlie Faneuil inscription waschiselled Funal by some awkward hand, who thus c
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. ahost of the old Bostonians, Governors Bellingham, Dummer,Hancock, Adams, Bowdoin, Gushing, Sullivan, Eustis, andSumner lie beneath the sod in this cemetery. The celebratedsurgeon. Dr. John Jeffries, Uriah Cotting, Eev. Messrs. Eckley,Belknap, Stillman, Lathrop, and Baldwin, and Judge Sewalland John Hull, are alSo entombed here. The Bellingham family becoming extinct, his tomb wasgiven to the family of Governor James Sullivan. It lies onthe west side of the enclosure. Tlie Faneuil inscription waschiselled Funal by some awkward hand, who thus clipped theold Huguenot patronymic of its due proportions. GovernorHancocks tomb is on the Park Street side. His remains, afterlying eight days in state, were brought to their last resting-place by an immense concourse of people. The venerable A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 297 Samuel Adams followed the bier until fatigue compellod himto retire. It was one of the greatest funeral pageants liustcjnhad seen. The ranks of the procession were swelled hy the. GRANARY BIRVING-GROUND. militia of town and country. The Judges of the SupremeCourt on this occasion made their last appearance in tluir bigwigs and bhick silk gowns. They were followed by the barris-ters in black gowns and club wigs. General Warrens remains were placed in tlie tomb of thojMinots, next to that of Hancock, and immediately in rear ofthe residence of Dr. J. C. Warren, after they were exhumed atBunker Hill. The cemetery acquires an even greater interest from beingthe place where the victims of the Boston ISIassacre were funeral Avas conducted with great pomp ; but althoughtheir martyrdom has been heralded as the foundation-stone ofAmerican Liberty, the remains of the slaughtered r>ost(.nians13* 298 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. have received no fitting testimonial from their spot was long indicated by a larch-tree, but this, falling todecay, has been recently replaced by the care of Mr. Appollonio.
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