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Burials

Other famous people buried at Christ Church Burial Ground are:

  • Michael Woolston Ash (1789–1858), congressman
  • Samuel John Atlee (1739–1786), delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769–1798), grandson of Benjamin Franklin, printer and publisher of the Aurora newspaper
  • Sarah Franklin Bache (1737–1811), daughter of Benjamin Franklin
  • Commodore William Bainbridge (1774–1833), Naval hero of War of 1812, captain of "Old Ironsides"
  • Francis Biddle (1886–1968), United States Attorney General
  • James Biddle, Commodore in the United States Navy
  • Dr. Thomas Bond (1713–1784), co-founder of Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Major General George Cadwalader (1806–1879), Civil War general
  • John Cadwalader (1805–1879), congressman and judge
  • Matthew Clarkson (1733–1800), mayor of Philadelphia
  • Joseph Clay (1769–1811), United States Congressman
  • Tench Coxe (1755–1824), Continental Congressman
  • John Dunlap (1747–1812), printer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756), cartographer and surveyor
  • Tench Francis, Jr.
  • David Franks (1740–1793), aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the American War of Independence
  • Samuel Hardy (1758–1785), Continental Congressman
  • Michael Hillegas (1729–1804), first Treasurer of the United States
  • Thomas Hopkinson (1709–1751), father of Francis Hopkinson, president of the Philosophical Society, one of the founders of the Library Company
  • John Inskeep (1757–1834), mayor of Philadelphia
  • Major William Jackson (1759–1828), Revolutionary War officer, secretary of the Constitutional Convention
  • Thomas Lawrence, five-time mayor of Philadelphia
  • Charles Mason (1728–1786), astronomer, surveyor, laid out the Mason-Dixon Line in 1763
  • George A. McCall (1802–1868), United States Army brigadier general and prisoner of war during the American Civil War
  • William M. Meredith (1799–1873), Secretary of the Treasury
  • Dr. Philip Syng Physick (1768–1837), known as the "Father of Modern Surgery"
  • Elizabeth and Samuel Powel
  • Henry C. Pratt (1761-1838) prominent Philadelphia businessman and builder of Lemon Hill House.
  • Matthew Pratt (1734-1805) American "Colonial Era" portrait painter.
  • Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence and also founder of Dickinson College, known as "The Father of American Psychiatry"
  • Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736–1801), poet
  • Philip Syng (1703–1789), silversmith and inventor with Benjamin Franklin
  • Henry Tazewell (1753–1799), U.S. Senator
  • Commodore Thomas Truxtun, commander of the Constellation
  • William Tuckey (1708–1781), composer

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Famous quotes containing the word burials:

    “Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)