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The Central Burying Ground is a cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on the Boston Common in 1756. It is located on Boylston Street between Tremont Street and Charles Street. Famous burials there include the artist Gilbert Stuart, painter of the famed portraits of George Washington and Martha Washington, and the composer William Billings, who wrote the famous colonial hymn "Chester." Also buried there are Samuel Sprague and his son, Charles Sprague, one of America's earliest poets. Samuel Sprague was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the American Revolutionary War. When the Tremont Street Subway was under construction in the 1890s, burials were discovered in the area abutting the cemetery. These were reinterred in a mass grave within the bounds of the burying ground. ==Notable burials== * "British soldiers who died of disease during the occupation of the city (), and those who died of wounds received at Bunker Hill"〔King's hand-book of Boston. 1889; p.240〕 * Caleb Davis (1738-1797)〔Ogden Codman, comp. (Gravestone inscriptions and records of tomb burials in the Central burying ground ), Boston Common: and inscriptions in the South burying ground, Boston. The Essex Institute, 1917〕 * William Billings (1746–1800), composer〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=City of Boston )〕 * John Baptiste Julien (d.1805), proprietor of Julien's Restorator〔 * Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828)〔Bacon. Book of Boston: fifty years' recollections of the New England metropolis. 1916.〕 * Charles Sprague (1791–1875) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Central Burying Ground, Boston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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