Old Burying Ground (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

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.