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King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic cemetery at King's Chapel on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest cemetery in the city and is a site on the Freedom Trail. King's Chapel Burying Ground was founded in 1630 as the first cemetery in the city of Boston. According to custom, the first interment was that of the land’s original owner, Isaac Johnson. It was Boston's only burial site for 30 years (1630-1660). After being unable to locate land elsewhere, in 1686 the local Anglican congregation was allotted land in the cemetery to build King's Chapel. ==Notable burials== * Charles Apthorp, merchant〔Foote. Annals of King's Chapel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1896.〕 * Mary Chilton, Plymouth Pilgrim, first European woman to step ashore in New England * Captain Roger Clapp, member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, died February 2, 1691, formerly lived at Dorchester〔(The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America, Ebenezer Clapp, David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1876 )〕 (Capt. Clapp's son Desire is also interred close by) * John Cotton (minister), Puritan theologian * John Davenport (minister), Puritan theologian * William Dawes (disputed), American Revolution hero * William Emerson (father of Ralph Waldo Emerson) * Robert Keayne, first captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts * John Lambert, pirate who sailed under John Quelch〔Snow, Edward Rowe. Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast. Boston: Yankee Publishing Co., 1944.〕 * John Oxenbridge, Puritan theologian * Elizabeth Pain, whose headstone is claimed to be the inspiration for Hester Prynne's in ''The Scarlet Letter'' * Dr. Comfort Starr, early Cambridge physician and a founder of Harvard College〔(The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LXIV, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, Published by the Society, Boston, 1910 )〕〔Dr. Starr's daughter Hannah was the wife of John Cutt, the first President of the Province of New Hampshire.〕 *Hezekiah Usher, first bookseller and book publisher in the British Colonies. * John Wilson Puritan theologian * John Winthrop, first Puritan governor of Massachusetts 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「King's Chapel Burying Ground」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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