The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square. The cemetery opened in 1635.
Notable burials Washington Allston – painter and poet Nathaniel Appleton – minister Jonathan Belcher – colonial American merchant, businessman, and politician (Governor of Massachusetts Bay) Rev. William Brattle – cleric, father of William Brattle Elijah Corlet – educator, schoolmaster of the Cambridge Grammar School
Samuel McChord Crothers – minister with The First Parish in Cambridge Edmund Trowbridge Dana – jurist and author Francis Dana – Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman Richard Henry Dana Sr. – poet, critic, and lawyer Stephen Daye – first printer in colonial America Daniel Gookin – early settler and worker with Native Americans
Jonathan Remington – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
Thomas Shepard – minister Edmund Trowbridge – colonial American jurist (associate justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) Edward Wigglesworth – Colonial clergyman, teacher and theologian Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas)
Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here including: Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672 Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654 Edward Holyoke – President of Harvard from 1737 to 1769 John Leverett – President of Harvard from 1708 to 1724 Urian Oakes – President of Harvard from 1675 to 1680 John Rogers – President of Harvard from 1682 to 1684 Benjamin Wadsworth – clergyman and educator, minister of the First Church in Boston and President of Harvard from 1725 to 1737 Joseph Willard – clergyman and academic, president of Harvard from 1781 to 1804
Cato Stedman and Neptune Frost black soldiers of the Continental Army 1775. Commemorated on a blue sign on the fence of The Old Burying Ground, Sage Street.
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