Framingham in Middlesex County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)

Old Burying Ground Cemetery

Est. 1698

Photographed by Marc Posner, May 17, 2023

1. Old Burying Ground Cemetery Marker

Inscription.
Within these walls are the final resting places of eighty-nine Veterans of the Revolutionary War. Among these are the following Framingham Minutemen and Miltiamen who marched to Concord on April 19, 1775:

Joseph Bennett · Matthias Bent · Thomas Bent · Andrew Brown · Lawson Buckminster · Thomas Buckminster · Benjamin Clark · Charles Dougherty · Elisha Drury · Nathan Drury · Henry Eames · John Eames · Nathaniel Eames · Nathaniel Ames Jr. · John Eaton · Noah Eaton SR. · Noah Eaton · Silas Eaton · John Fiske · Moses Fisk · Samuel Frost · Ebenezer Hemenway · Jonathan Hill · Daniel Jones · John Jones · Frederick Manson · John Mayhew · Asa Morse · David Morse · James Morse · Thomas Nixon Jr. · David Patterson · Abner Pratt · David Rice Jr. · Gibson Rider · Peter Salem · Abner Stone · Jonathan Temple · Joseph Temple · John Trowbridge · Joshua Trowbridge

Gift of
Framingham Chapter
Daughters of the
American Revolution
November 12, 2000

Erected 2000 by Framingham Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical date for this entry is April 19, 1775.

Location. 42° 17.839′ N,

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71° 25.748′ W. Memorial is in Framingham, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County. It is on Main Street east of Curve Steet, on the left when traveling east. Located at the entrance to Church Hill Cemetery. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Framingham MA 01702, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Boston.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in New England.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Gen. Henry Knox Trail (approx. 0.4 miles away); Thomas Eames (approx. ¾ mile away); Site of Eames Massacre (approx. ¾ mile away); Our Soldiers' Lot (approx. 0.9 miles away); Pike Haven Homestead (approx. 1.3 miles away); Garden in the Woods (approx. 3 miles away); Ashland Town Hall (approx. 3.1 miles away); Knox Trail (approx. 3.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map

Photographed by Marc Posner, May 17, 2023

2. Old Burying Ground Cemetery Marker

of all markers in Framingham.

Old Burying Ground Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Marc Posner, May 17, 2023

3. Old Burying Ground Cemetery

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