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Mr. Elijah Adams Sexton of the New South Church was appointed to the care of the Old Burying Place & the Burying Ground near the Granary.
Jan 18. 1775
Mr. George Roulston admitted to the care of the Old & Common Burying Ground in the room of Mr. Carter deceased.
Ap 16 1783
Mr. Nazro to acquaint Mr. Curtis, that he must lay before the Select- men next Wednesday, a list of the Persons who own Tombs. in the Chappel Burying Grounds the Common & North Burial Grounds -
Mar 3d 1784
Upon the application of Mr. Henry Prentice for himself & Mr. Enoch Brown, he is informed that the Selectmen have no objection to their opening the Tomb antiently belonging to one Pool in the Church Burying Ground so called -
July 30 1788.
Mr. Scollay a Committee to get the small Piece of Fence on School Street at the Chapel Burying Ground to be painted -
Sep 30 1789
Liberty is granted to Mr. Samuel Salsbury, to build a Tomb in the Chapel Burying Ground -
October 14 1789
Mr. Sever & Mr. Scollay a Committee to view the burying Ground near the Stone Chapel, and Report whither a spot can be had, for accommodating Capt. Ford with a Tomb -
NOTE. - The portico of King's Chapel was completed in 1789, and the expense of con- struction was partly raised from holding an oratorio in the chapel, at which Gen. George Washington attended, "attired in a black velvet suit and gave five guineas."
NOUS KING'S CHAPEL BURYING GROUND 1833.
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Mar. 31 1790.
Mr. Scollay & Colo. Crafts, on the application of Mr. Honnywell for buliding three Tombs at the Chapel Buryal Ground, are appointed a Committee to view the Ground and permit or not permit as they shall Judge best.
April 7 1790
Mr. Ludden Sexton of the old Brick Meeting appointed to the care of the Chapel burying Ground.
April 21 1790
The Committee on Mr Hunnewells Petition for liberty to erect three Tombs at the Chapel Burial Ground - Report, that liberty be accord- ingly granted, -and said Report is accepted by the Selectmen -
See March 31 - given
Ap 28t 1790
On the application of Mr. Treasurer Hodgsdon Mr Hunnewell is per- mitted to build a Tomb on the Spot prayed for.
Mr Hunnewell having applied for his Father, has liberty to build a tomb At the Chapel Burying Ground.
March 20 1793.
Voted. that Mr Scollay be directed to put the Gates to the Chapel Burying Ground in good order, and if necessary have new Gate Posts-
1829
At a meeting of the Proprietors of Tombs. in the Chapel Burying Ground., bounding on Tremont Street, holden Augst 12 1829
Voted -
That a Committee be appointed to ascertain what the expence would be of a brick wall of similar dimensions with the present, using or selling the bricks. now on the ground, with such new bricks as may be necessary & the amount of such cost shall be assessed equally on each Tomb, provided the City will erect a good and sufficient wall the pro- prietors reserving all their present rights to them, their heirs & assigns it being understood the owners of each Tomb will be answer- able for their proportion of such expence and no more.
Messe Samuel Aspinwall & T. W. Phillips were appointed a Con- mittee to ascertain what the expence would be, of such a wall and should it not exceed twelve dollars to each Tomb to make the above offer to the City. Said Committee ascertained the wall might be rebuilt at an expence of Eleven dollars & 50 cents for each Tomb.
Attest :
T. W. Phillips - Sec. y.
Ordered -
That the Mayor with such of this Board as are of the Committee on Public Buildings are authorized to build a Wall of Granite in front of the Burying Ground near the King's Chapel so called, and that a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars be appropriated to this purpose, provided a sum sufficient to defray the residue of the expence of such wall can be obtained by assessment on the Proprietors of the Tombs or otherwise --
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Thomas Dennie
20
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Benjamin P. Homer
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Paul D. Richards
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L. M. Sargent
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Elizath & Lydia Gale 11.50
T. W. Phillips 11.50
Salisbury
10
for Red. Mr Holmes
James Andrews - 12
Sam1 H. Hewes
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Jonathan Phillips 100
for Paine & Newman heirs
Thomas Howe 11.50
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John Welch
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Wm H. Boardman heirs
William Wild
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John S. Tyler
Calvin W Clark
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George Brindley
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Turner Phillips
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Chauncey Place Church
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Jonathan Hunewell-
Thomas L. Winthrop
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eleven dollars each
Pliny Cutler
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$484
The wall was built by Daniel Copeland Aug 1830.
and cost 935
Iron Gate 50
$985
This agreement made this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. By and between Daniel Copeland Jun'. Mason and the City of Boston, Witnesseth; That said Copeland promises and agrees for a sum hereafter mentioned to furnish all the labour, and materials that shall be required in taking down and rebuilding a Fence in front of the Chapel burial ground on Tremont Street. Vizt. Said Copeland is to take down the old brick wall to the surface of the ground and carefully preserve the Inscription Stones, Repair the old foundation and build thereon a fine hammered Granite Stone Wall of the following description. The length, height and style of architecture to conform to a plan drawn by Mr I: Rogers and signed by the parties.
The base course. is to be eighteen inches thick making the whole thickness of the wall, height as pr plan. The posts the same thick- ness, and the caping of the wall twenty inches thick, all these stones are to be of the blue Quincy Granite and of a uniform colour. The four intermediate courses between the cap & base are to be of the white Concord or Chelmsford stone, these four courses are to be backed up with bricks making the wall above the base. sixteen inches thick, the inside four inches is to be laid with hard burned face bricks & jointed, leaving a recess over each Tomb for the old inscription stones fix in said, in a faithful manner with Iron clamps, All of said Stone Wall, and the posts that will be seen from the Street are to be as well hammered as the front of the Tremont Theatre and the whole pointed with a raised joint., except the cap which is to be laid in and pointed with Roman Cement. The whole work is to be done in a substantial manner and under the direction of the Committee and to their accept- ance: Said work is to be commenced forth with and finished as soon as practicable. In consideration for all such work and materials said City of Boston promises and agrees (by its Committee) to cause to be paid to said Copeland the sum of Nine hundred and thirty five dollars in full compensation for all labor and materials to be furnished by him in the execution of said work.
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In testimony. whereof, the said City of Boston by the Mayor for that purpose. authorized by a Vote of the Mayor and Aldermen on the 14th day of June current, and the said Copeland have hereunto set their hands the day and year before written -
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of.
H. G. Otis
S. F. McCleary
Daniel Copeland Junr
The Chapel ground contains a tomb called the Charnel-house which belongs to the City which has not been used for a great number of years. It would be for the interest of the City to have this old tomb repaired and fitted up for the deposit of Children which is much wanted. The expence is estimated at about $100-
For the Committee HENRY FARNAM
City Hall. In Board of Aldermen
May 27th 1833
That the same Committee be authorized to repair the Charnel house (so called) in the Chapel Burying Ground, and fit the same for the ·deposit of the bodies of Children --
NOTE .- In 1833 the Wardens and Vestry of Kings Chapel were given permission to enlarge the vestry of the chapel on the east line.
To HON. MAYOR & ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.
It being desirable to enlarge the Vestry room of Kings Chapel, per- mission to extend it to the easterly wall of the burying ground is respectfully requested by
FRANCIS J. OLIVER Į Wardens of WM. MINOT Kings Chapel.
BOSTON 4 Augt 1833.
The Committee report that permission be and hereby is granted to the petitioners to extend or enlarge the Vestry of "King's Chapel " in the manner they propose, but under the direction and agreeable to the plan of the superintendent of burying grounds, as to preserving a free passage, sufficiently large & commodious to enter the burying ground from School Street.
J. BINNEY B. FISK
CITY OF BOSTON, IN THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, May 4, 1835.
Ordered, that the Committee on burying grounds be authorized to ·expend a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, chargeable to the appro- priation for burying grounds, in the erection of an iron gate on the south side of the King's Chapel burying ground in School Street
A true Copy Attest S. F. MCCLEARY
28₺ Square Feet @ 784 cents $22.25
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EPITAPHS AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS BURIED IN KING'S CHAPEL GROUND.
Gov. JOHN ENDECOTT, died in 1665, and was buried in his tomb in the South (Granary) burying-ground. Although the bronze tablet on the gate of King's Chapel ground has his name inscribed thereon as having been buried in that ground, the record of 1721 gives the South ground as his place of burial, and the fact that the selectmen of the town ordered burials to be discontinued in the old burying-place in 1660, tends to strengthen the record of 1721 that the Governor built his tomb in the South ground between 1660 and 1665, the time of his death.
The record from the Selectmen's book is as follows :
At A Meeting of the Select men, Mar. 5th 1721.
Upon a petition of mr. John Edwards of Boston Sheweth. That whereas there is a Tomb in the South [Granary) Burying place belong- ing to the late Governour Endicot, which has bin unimproved for many years, and there being no family in Said Town nearer Related to the Said Governour Endicot famaly then his, Desires he may haue Liberty granted him to make use of it for his family.
Granted that the Said John Edwards has Liberty to Improue the Said Tomb until a person of Better Right to it appears to Claim it.
JOHN ENDECOTT was a native of Dorchester, in Dorsetshire, England, where he was born in 1588. He came to New England in the ship " Abigail," which sailed from Weymouth, England, with the company of emigrants on board, on the 27th of June, 1628, and arrived at Salem (ancient Naumkeag) on September 8th.
He was one of the six original purchasers, of Massachusetts, named in the patent granted by the Council of Plymouth, March 19, 1628.
He was soon given the command of a military company organ- ized by the settlers, with the rank of Captain.
He was chosen in London to be Governor of the Plantations in New England, and held that office until the arrival of Gover- nor Winthrop, in 1630.
He was an assistant in 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633 and 1637 to 1640 inclusive.
He succeeded Governor Dudley in 1645 as Sergeant Major General, the highest military officer in the Colony, and held the office until 1649.
He was Deputy Governor, 1641 to 1644, 1650 to 1651, 1654 to 1655.
Governor, April 30, 1629, May 29, 1644, May 2, 1649, May 7, 1651, 1658, May 23, 1655, 1664, fifteen years in all.
KING'S CHAPEL BURYING GROUND [FROM SCHOOL STREET] 1903.
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Here Lyeth ye body of MR ADAM WINTHROP Aged 52 Years & 9 Months DEPARTED THIS LIFE Aug ye 3th 1700
ADAM WINTHROP, son of Governor Johu Winthrop of Massa- chusetts. His only son, Adam Winthrop, Representative for Boston, and left a son Adam Winthrop, who was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
HERE LYES INTOMBED THE BODYES OF THE FAMOUS REVEREND AND LEARNED PASTORS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN BOSTON VIZ MR JOHN COTTON AGED 67 YEARS DECD DECEMBR THE 23rd 1652. - MR JOHN DAVENPORT AGED 72 YEARS DECD MARCH THE 15TH 1670
MR JOHN OXENBRIDGE AGED 66 YEARS. DECD DECEMBER THE 28TH 1674
MR THOMAS BRIDGE AGED 58 YEARS
DECD SEPTEMBER THE 26TH 1715
REV. JOHN COTTON, the second or associate pastor of the First Church in Boston, Born in Derby, England, December 4, 1585. At age of fourteen entered at the University of Cambridge, and in 1606 took his degree of A. M. at Trinity College. Remained at Cambridge until 1613, when he was chosen vicar of the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire. Preached there twenty-one years, then came to Massachusetts, and arrived in Boston, in the "Griffin," September 4, 1633, and was admitted a member of the First Church at once.
On October 10 of that year he was ordained its teacher, and May 4, 1634, made freeman.
His house faced on what is now Tremont row, looking down Prison lane, now Court street.
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REV. JOHN DAVENPORT. At the death of Rev. John Wilson, which occurred August 7, 1667, aged seventy-nine years, the vacancy was filled by the choice of Rev. John Davenport, then seventy years old. He died March 11, 1670, and was buried in the Oliver, or tomb of the First Church, in King's Chapel Ground.
REV. JOHN OXENBRIDGE of Boston, born January 30, 1609, in Daventry, England. Entered Lincoln College, Oxford, June 20, 1623; afterwards of Cambridge, where received degree of A. B. in 1631. He taught at Magdalen Hall in 1634. Went to Bermuda and had charge of a church. Returned to England, and in 1669 came to New England. Installed April of that year as colleague with Mr. James Allen, pastor First Church, Boston. Was made freeman 1670, and died December 28, 1674.
THOMAS BRIDGE was born in Hackney, England, in 1656, and was educated at Oxford. He came to Boston March 17, 1704, from West Jersey, and was installed as a colleague pastor with Messrs. Allen and Wadsworth, May 10, 1705.
He was appointed by the Governor and Council to accompany the commissioners in the unsuccessful expedition in 1707 against Port Royal. He received the degree of M. A. in 1712 from Harvard University. Rev. Thomas Bridge, senior pastor of the First Church, died in the fifty-ninth year of his age and the eleventh of his ministry, September 26, 1715.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bridge, relict of Rev. Thomas Bridge, died May 22, 1722.
THOMAS OLIVER. Came with adult children to Boston. Was elder of the First Church. He was buried in the tomb which was afterwards owned by the First Church, and where the early pastors of that church were buried.
CAPT. ROBERT KEAYNE. Born at Windsor, England, in 1595. He was made a member of the Honourable Artillery Company of London, May 6, 1623. He came in the " Defence " from Lon- don to America in 1635, aged forty years. His wife Ann was thirty-eight years old, and his son Benjamin sixteen years old. He was the first commander of the Artillery Company. He died in the house he owned in Boston on March 23, 1655-6.
The exact spot where he was buried is not known, but as King's Chapel Ground was at that time the only burying-ground in Boston, it is believed he was buried within the limits of King's Chapel Ground.
JOHN WINSLOW. Married Mary Chilton in Plymouth, Mass., October 12, 1624. He was the elder brother of Gov. Edward Winslow, and came to Plymouth in the "Fortune " in 1621. He removed to Boston in 1656. Mary Chilton, as tradition comes down to us, was the first to leap from the boat to the rock now known as " Plymouth Rock." They were both buried in this tomb, which has the Winslow coat-of-arms engraved upon the stone.
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Brig. John Winslow. Born in Boston, October 29, 1753 ; died in Boston, November 29, 1819. He saved the communion plate of the Old South Church from the British by burying it, and from the church steeple he witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill. Upon going to the battlefield he was the first person to discover the body of General Warren.
He was appointed Deputy Paymaster-General, and saved the public chest and important papers after the defeat of the army under Montgomery at Quebec, and at the battle of Ticonderoga.
Was in charge of a battery in the campaign against Burgoyne, and, at his surrender, took account of the captured stores. He was subsequently stationed at West Point and White Plains. On March 21, 1799, was made Brigadier-General of the Boston Brigade, and in 1809 Major-General of Militia. In 1788 was lieutenant, and in 1792 and 1798 captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
An infantry company was formed in Boston called the " Winslow Blues."
Original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, its treasurer, and was Treasurer of Suffolk County the last seven years of his life. His remains were placed in the Winslow tomb.
Among other notable descendants of the first John Winslow were Joshua Winslow, paymaster of the British forces in America ; Col. Edward Winslow, Sheriff of Suffolk County and judge; Colonel Pollard, the first commander of the Cadets ; Lord Lyndhurst, Admiral John A. Winslow, and ex-Mayor Nathaniel B. Shurtleff.
HEAR : LYETH THE : BODY : OF : MR WILLIAM : PADDY : AGED 58 : YEARS : DEPARTED THIS : LIFE : AVGUST : HE 1658
On the reverse side of this stone is the following:
HAR . SLEAPS . HAT BLESSED . ONE WHOES . LIEF GOD . HEIP . VS . ALL . TO . LIVE THAT . SO . WHEN . TIEM . SHALL BEE
THAT . WE . THIS . WORLD MIST LEVE WE . EVER . MAY . BE . HAPPY WITH . BLESSED WILLIAM . PADDY .
WILLIAM PADDY, merchant, Boston. Came in the "James " from Southampton, 1635, arrived in Boston June 3. Resided at Plymouth for a time, and was deacon of a church there. He represented Plymouth in the General Court of Deputies for Plymouth Colony in 1639.
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He married (1) Alice Freeman ; she died April 24, 1651. He married (2), in Boston, December 3, 1651, Mary Greenough. Member of the Artillery Company, 1652; selectman, Boston, March 12, 1654-5, and was re-elected every year until his decease.
His gravestone was dug up on the north side of Old State House, near the centre door, June 18, 1830.
HERE LYETH INTER'D THE BODY OF IACOB SHEAFE OF BOSTON WHO FOR SVME TIME LIVED AT CRAMBROCK IN KENT IN OVLD INGLAND HEE DECEASED THE 22 OF MARCH 165S AGED 42 YEARS.
JACOB SHEAFE, born August 4, 1616, at Cranbrook, Kent County, England, and was the son of Edmund Sheafe.
He married, Margarett Webbe, September 7, 1643. He was a member of the Artillery Company, Boston, 1648; constable, 1651 ; selectman, 1657-8 ; clerk of Artillery Company, 1652. He died March 22, 1658-9, and was buried in King's Chapel Ground.
Francis Tomb 1807- This Tomb. received the remains of Hon HEZEKIAH USHER in 1656 and of his son Lt. Gov. JOHN USHER 1726 and of Mrs. ELIZA FRANCIS daughter of said Gov. with their respective Families
HEZEKIAH USHER. - He was of Cambridge, March 14, 1639 ; freeman, 1642 ; about 1645 removed to Boston. He is said to have been the first bookseller in New England ; member of the Artillery Company, 1638; second sergeant, 1657 ; first sergeant, 1663 ; ensign, 1664; selectman, Boston, 1659, and held the office until his death, 1676.
In the winter of 1657-58 he went to England as agent of the Commission of the United Colonies, and bought, with money furnished by the London Corporation, a press, type, etc. The press was set up and was run by Samuel Green, and 1661 the New Testament in the Indian language was finished, printed, and distributed.
He was representative for Billerica from 1671 to 1673, inclu- sive.
He was agent of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians.
He was one of the founders of the Old South Church. His
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KING'S CHAPEL BURYING GROUND [CENTRE OF GROUND TO TREMONT STREET] 1903.
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danghter, Elizabeth, married Colonel Shrimpton ; another daugh- ter, Sarah, married Jonathan Tyng.
He died May 14, 1676, and was buried in his tomb in King's Chapel Burying Ground, which now belongs to the Francis family.
HEZEKIAH USHER. - born in Cambridge, Mass., June, 1639, and was the son of Hezekiah Usher, Sr.
He married Bridget, widow of Leonard Hoar, who had been president of Harvard College, and daughter of Lady Alicia, widow of Lord Lisle, the regicide. He resided some years in Groton, Mass. In 1692 he was accused of witchcraft and confined in the common prison. He finally escaped to the house of a friend.
A member of the Artillery Company, 1665 - he died at Lynn, July 11, 1697. His remains were brought to Boston, and laid in his father's tomb, July 14, 1697.
The following epitaph, written a short time after Governor Leverett's decease, is probably the eleven-line inscription engraved on the horizontal slab over his tomb in King's Chapel Ground, but the face of the stone is so much worn the epitaph cannot be deciphered. The copy of epitaph now given is taken from the genealogy of the Leverett family.
To ye Sacred Memory of N.E's Heroe, Mars his Generall, & Vertues standard-bearer, & Learning's glory, yt faithfully pious, & piously faithful
subject to ye Great Majesty of Heaven & Earth, yt Experienced souldier in ye Church Militant, lately Listed in ye Invincible Triuphant Army of ye Lord of Hosts, ye deservedly Worshipful Jnº Leverett Esqr ye Just Prudent, & Impartiall Governor of ye Mattachusetts Colony, In N-E who sur- rendered
to ye all Conquering Command of Death, March, 16, Anno Dom, 1678 et ÆTATIS SUE 63. 9
The Leverett tomb is numbered 30, and the Governor and the members of his immediate family, Secretary Isaac Addington and many other noted personages were buried in this tomb.
JOHN LEVERETT was born July 7, 1616. He came with his parents, Rev. John Cotton, and others, in the "Griffin." He joined the First Church July 14, 1639.
He was the son of Thomas Leverett, the ruling elder of the First Church, who had been Alderman of Boston, England. He sailed from London, and arrived at Boston, September 4, 1633.
He joined the Artillery Company 1639 ; clerk of the company, 1641 ; junior sergeant, 1642; senior sergeant, 1643 ; lieutenant, 1648; commander, 1652, 1663, and 1670. He was appointed captain under Sergeant-major Gibbons, August 12, 1645, to take the field against the Narragansett Indians ; captain of a troop of horse in 1652 ; and, same year, captain of South Company. In
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1662, granted one thousand acres of land in consideration of his services to the colony and five hundred more in 1671. On May 23, 1666, he was voted " thanks " by the General Court, and one hundred pounds gratuity for his care and pains in completing the batteries of Boston, and mounting the great artillery. In 1663, he was chosen Major-General of the Colony, and held the office ten years.
He was captain of a troop of horse in Cromwell's service in 1656.
Deputy for Boston 1651, 1652, 1653, 1663, 1664, 1665.
Speaker of the House, 1651, 1663, 1664.
In 1665 chosen from the House of Deputies to be an assistant and continued in that office until 1670.
Deputy Governor, 1671, 1672.
Governor, May 7, 1673 to 1678, and died March 16, 1679, while holding that office.
He went to England 1644-45 ; was appointed captain in the regiment of Colonel Rainsburrow, but soon returned to Boston. In August, 1676, King Charles II. conferred the Order of Knight- hood upon him, but he concealed the fact during his lifetime.
He was sent with Edmund Hutchinson on an embassy to Mian- tonomoh, Sachem of the Narragansetts, in 1642.
In 1654, he held a command under General Sedgwick in ex- pelling the French from Penobscot.
Governor Leverett's second wife was a daughter of General Sedgwick, and she died January 2, 1704, aged seventy-four years, and was buried January 8.
Governor Leverett died March 16, 1679, and was buried with great pomp, March 25, in King's Chapel Ground.
HERE LYETH BURIED E Y BODY OF MRS
ELIZABETH DAVENPORT
WIFE TO MR JOHN DAVENPORT AGED 73 YEARS DECD
SEPTEMBER Y 5TH E
1676.
DEACON THOMAS DYAR OF WAYMOTH AGED 64 YEARS DYED IN BOSTON YE 15 OF NOVEMBER 1676.
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BRATTLE TOMB
HERE LYES THE BODY OF MRS ELIZABETH BRATTLE DYED NOVEMRR THE 9th 1682 ANNO ÆTATIS 44
Here Lyes He Body of MAJR THOMAS BRATTLE. Who Dyed April the 5th 1683 Anno Ætatis 60
Here Lyes The Body OF MRS. BETHIAH P-RSON Who Dyed July The 4th 1-90 Anno Ætatis 24
Here Lyes The Body of THOMAS BRATTLE EsQ One Of Her Majesties Justicies For The County OF Suffolk & Treasurer of Harvard College Who Dyed May He 18th 1713 Anno Ætatis 55.
MAJOR THOMAS BRATTLE was of Charlestown, 1656 ; removed to Boston, 1657. He was appointed cornet of the Suffolk Troop, May 30, 1670; lieutenant, October 13, 1675 ; captain, May 5, 1676; member of the Artillery Company, 1675.
On September 8, 1675, by order of the Council, Cornet Thomas Brattle, with a troop of horse under his command, went to Groton. He was with the forces at Narragansett. May 15, 1676, his command killed twenty of the Indians ; May 24, follow- ing, he fought the Indians at the falls of the "Pocatuck River," and June 30, 1676, he was sent on an expedition to Mount Hope ; he was one of the founders of the Old South Church ; representa- tive for Lancaster in 1671 and 1672, and councillor 1678 and 1679 ; member of the Artillery Company in 1675 ; was a member of the commission to King Philip, with Captain William Davis and Cap- - tain William Hudson, at Taunton, in 1671 ; selectman, Boston, 1671 to 1683, inclusive.
HERE LIETH BVRIED The Body OF WILLIAM AVEARY, Aged Abovt 65 Years Died Mearch The 18th. 1686- 7 MARY AUEARY Aged 78 Years € Died May y 218 1707 -
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