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Title: Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Granary burial-ground
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Cemetery Dept YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Granary Burying Ground (Boston, Mass.) Epitaphs
Publisher: Boston, Municipal printing office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. It is said that manyyears after the Revolution, Paddock wrote to a friend in Bostonexpressing his gratitude that his favorite trees had come un-scathed through the Revolution. They also survived, with more or less damage, the great galesof 1815, 1860, and 1869. When the stone foundation was laidfor the iron fence built in front of the cemetery in 1840 at a costof S5,000, and when Tremont street was paved with brick, theirroots suffered seriously and their nourishment was nuu-h dimin-ished ; but they lived through it all with little impairment of theirgrace and beauty.
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I 11 Captain Paddock, their sponsor, was one of the commandersof the train of artillery, and also served many years as sealer ofleather. He stayed a year in Halifax after the Evacuation, thenembarked for England. In 1781 he became an officeholder inthe Isle of Jersey and there died March 25, 1804, aged 76. The trees within the burying-ground itself were largely pro-vided by private subscription, and were planted in the spring of1830. Since that date, there have been various additions madeto the trees and shrubbery, and most of the paths have been laidout, as w^ell as a foolish symmetry attained by rearranging thegravestones. — Gleaner. The Granary was less fitted naturally than Copps Hill for aburial-ground. It continually required draining, as is evidencedby many orders, petitions and votes set forth in the townsrecords, there being many underground springs which made theturf damp and boggy. At the time of the moving of the Gran-ary in 1737, the tombs were filled with water by the

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