Historic Burial-Places of Boston and Vicinity.

The article discusses the historical value of graveyards and cemeteries of Boston, Massachusetts. The King's Chapel Yard cemetery contains the graves of U.S. settler Isaac Johnson, minister John Cotton and former Massachusetts governors John Winthrop and John Endecott. The Granary burying ground contains the graves of former Massachusetts governors Richard Bellingham, John Hancock and Thomas Cushing, political philosopher Samuel Adams and silversmith Paul Revere. The Copp's Hill Ground cemetery contains the graves of minister Increase Mather and Cotton Mather and was the location of British batteries during the U.S. Revolutionary War. Information on funerals taking place in the cemeteries and descriptions of tombs are provided.