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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 -- Massachusetts Boston History Copp's Hill Burial Ground (Boston, Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Boston : Municipal Print. Office
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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collector of customs, wasamong the finest in town. In the French wars he suffered theloss of forty ships, which, with other reverses, is said to havehastened his end. His stone suffered the same fate as that over the Hutchinsontomb. One Samuel Winslow, sexton of the First BaptistChurch, boldly appropriated the tomb, ejecting the occupants,and inscribed his own name above that of the rightful owner. In the adjoining tomb sleeps Dr. John Clark, brother to themerchant, a very worthy physician according to the Latineulogy upon his finely caiwed tombstone. The seven succeed-ing generations of the family each produced a physician of thesame name. Among the most illustrious by birth of the cemeterys ten-ants were the Mountforts, long a prominent North End family.Tomb No. 17, on the Hull street side, built in 1711, bears thename of John Mountfort; and No. 59, erected in 1724, that ofJonathan Mountfort, together with the family coat of arms.The two were sons of Edmund Mountfort, who fled from
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15 London in 1656 on account of political offences. He marrieda granddaughter of Nicholas Upshall, and died in 1723, beingburied in the Granary. The Mountforts traced their descent toan ancient Norman family, scions of which came over with theConquest. Turstain de Mountfort, 1030, is mentioned inDugdales History of Warwickshire. Jonathan Mountfort was a wealthy physician and apothecary,his shop being long known as Mountforts Corner, and wasof a decidedly eccentric temperament. He was one of theseceders from the New North Church in 1719, and helped buildthe New Brick or Weathercock Church, of which he waschosen treasurer. John Mountfort was a member of the Ancient and HonorableArtillery Company in 1696, and owner of Mountforts wharf.His descendants long resided on Prince street. Another tomb emblazoned with family arms is that of thefamily of Joshua Gee, one of the most famous of the old ship-wrights, who, as we have noted, purchased the small private lotin the centre of the cemeterj^

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