Graves of Greatest Historical Intrest

This burial ground includes the tombs and gravestones of many people tied to Salem’s colonial and early American history, including Jonathan Ward of Harvard College, Nathaniel Silsbee, Mary Corry, first wife of Giles Corry of the witchcraft times, Mary Cromwell, Doraty Cromwell, Benjamin Lynde, chief justice of the province before whom the soldiers of the Boston Massacre were tried, John and Anstiss Crowninshield, Clifford Crowninshield, Bartholomew Gardner, Hilliard Veren, William Brown, Habakuk Bowditch, father of Nathaniel Bowditch, Deliverance Parkman, Samuel Mcintire, carver and architect, Simon Bradstreet, colonial governor, John Higginson, Col. John Hathorne, witchcraft judge, Capt. Richaro More, Mayflower pilgrim, Capt. John Turner, who built the House of the Seven Gables, Timothy Lindall, George Heuseer, landscape gardener, Dr. John Swinerton, whose name was used by Hawthorne, Nathana El Mather, brother of Cotton Mather, Richard Derby, Mason Gray, Simon Forrester, William Orne, and Allen, among Salem merchants, along with the Higginson stones, Gardner stones, the Wainwright tomb, the Robert Peele lot, and the house of “Dr. Grimshawe,” home of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife.

Salem, Massachusetts · United States