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Title: Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Cemetery Dept
Subjects: Cemeteries
Publisher: Boston : Municipal Print. Office
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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paper currency issued in Massachusetts. Edward Martyn, another of the committee, sleeps at the rightof the Hull-street entrance. His tombstone bears an elaboratecoat-of-arms. He commanded the Ancient and Honorable Ar-tillery Company in 1715, and once owned most of the land fromHanover street to the sea. Beside the Ellis tomb and monument in the north-east cornerof the yard for over forty years grew a willow tree of interest-ing origin. It was brought as a slip from the willow thatshades the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena by Capt. JosephLeonard in 1844, and here transplanted by Roland Ellis. Itwas destroyed by the great gale of 1888. In the centre of the yard stands the tombstone of one of theforemost of the Quakers, William Mumford, who died in No-vember, 1718, at the age of 77. He was a stonecutter andbuilder, and on July 10, 1694, bought a lot in Brattle square,whereon he erected the first Quaker meeting-house, which wasas well the first brick church built in the town. In January,
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COPPS HILL BURIAL-GROUND. (CENTRAL PART.) 17 1708, he purchased another lot on Congress street, and therebuilt a second meeting-house, to which the Quakers repairedafter selling the earlier edifice Part of this lot constituted theQuaker burying-ground, until the remains contained thereinwere removed to Lynn in 1825. On the northern slope of the yard is the monument erected in1848 to Major Samuel Shaw by his grandson, Robert G. Shaw.The story of the soldiers life is briefly told by the inscription,which runs : (MAJOR SAMUEL SHAW,) third son of Francis & Sarah, served as an Officer in the Revolutionary War, from its commencement to its close. On the 22d of Feb. 1784, he sailed from New York in the Ship Empress of China, for Canton, as Supercargo & part owner; this being the first vessel that sailed from the U. States for that place he was appointed by Washington Consul to China, which office he held until his death in 1794 Near the front gate sleeps a fellow-soldier, Major Thoma

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