Notable Burials
- John Phillips (1770–1823), first mayor of the city of Boston
- Samuel Adams (1722–1803), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), African-American victim of the Boston Massacre, in a common grave with the other 4 victims and Christopher Seider, a boy killed 11 days before
- Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), benefactor of Faneuil Hall
- Members of Benjamin Franklin's family, but not Franklin himself, who is buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Mary Goose (1665–1758), unlikely claim familiar to locals as being the original Mother Goose, (some Mother Goose stories long predate the 17th century, the name Mother Goose was already familiar in France in 1650, and the first public appearance of Mother Goose stories in the New World was in 1786.)
- Jeremiah Gridley (1702–1767), lawyer, defender of writs of assistance in 1761
- John Hancock (1737–1793), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- James Otis (1725–1783), lawyer, Revolutionary War Patriot
- Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Paul Revere (1735–1818), silversmith, Revolutionary War Patriot
- Increase Sumner (1746–1799), Fifth Governor of Massachusetts
- Nathan Webb, (1705–1772), pastored the first new Congregational Church in Massachusetts started during the Great Awakening period for over 41 years
- Benjamin Woodbridge (1708–1728), victim of the first duel fought in Boston
- Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) Salem Witch trials judge
- John Smibert (1688–1751) Scottish-American artist
- John Endecott (c. 1588 – March 15, 1665), First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (His grave stone has been destroyed and for many years it was thought – erroneously – that he was buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground. But recent evidence has proven conclusively that he was buried in tomb 189 of the Granary Burying Ground)
- Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753 – December 5, 1784), American slave and first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book
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