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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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t south of the Tremout Building. Over thespot formerly grew a rich and beautiful larch-tree. In some lines on the Massacre in Fleets Post, publishedMarch 12, 1770, a local versifier sang: Dear to your country shall your fame extend,While to tlie world the lettered stone shall tellHow Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Maverick fell. Sad to say, no stone fulfils tliis mission ; if ever there was one,it fell a victim to British spite or to the mistaken zeal of someattendant afllicted with an iconoclastic passion for repairs. The five here buried are: Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray,James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr. The storyof the historic fracas between the rope-makers and Prestonssoldiers is too well known to need recounting. The first fourwere buried on March 8. A huge procession, four abreast,and bearing emblematic banners, followed the hearses to theGranary, while in the rear came practically all the carriages inBoston. During the funeral the bells were tolled in the town and
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PAUL REVERE TOMB, GRANARY BURIAL-GROUND. 23 the suburbs. On March 14, Patrick Carr, who had meanwhiledied, was buried in the same grave. When the City tomb was being dug at the time the iron fencewas erected in June, 1840, the bones of the five were discovered,as attested by a bullet-hole through one of the skulls, that ofSamuel Gray. One of the sextons of Kings Chapel, MartinSmith by name, replaced the bones in the earth close by the larch-tree. The Granary also has the honor of having been the temporaryresting-place of the remains of Gen. Joseph Warren. In thespring of 1776, his corpse was deposited in the Minot tomb, onthe southwestern side of the yard. In 1824, Dr. J. C. Warrenopened the tomb and identified the patriots relics by the bulletwound in the skull and the decay of one of the teeth. Theremains were encased in a mahogany box and deposited in atomb under St. Pauls Church. In August, 1855, they weredeposited in a stone urn and transferred to Forest Hills wherethey still rem

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