Identifier: historicguidetoc02mass (find matches)
Title: An historic guide to Cambridge
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Winthrop chapter, Cambridge
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ds; also, Roger Harlakenden, the friend and pro-tector of Shepard, Elijah Corlett, the famous schoolmaster, Stephen Dayeand Samuel Green, the earliest printers—and only this spring has a stone withinscription been erected to Gregory Stone, deacon of the church and rep-resentative of Cambridge in 1638. Among the earliest stones are those of Anne Errington, or Harrington (AnnErinton on the stone), the oldest now standing, who died on Christmas Day,1653, and of Major Daniel Gookin, who departed this life in 1687. The freestone slab resting on five fluted pillars, that stands in the fore-ground of our view of the old burying ground is the Vassall tomb, and underit lie Colonel John Vassal, who died in 1747, his first wife, and others of thefamily. Many more of the name are buried in the tomb under Christ Church.There is no inscription on this slab, simply the vase andthe sun (vas and sol), the heraldic bearings of thefamily. A little beyond it is a gray stone altar tomb, surrounded by an
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HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE 137 iron railing, dedicated to the memory of Thomas Lee, a Native of GreatBritain, but for many years a citizen of America. The long inscriptionpraises him greatly for his habits of mercantile attention, and industry.After having acquired, with the strictest integrity and honor, an amplefortune, he retired fromi the busy scenes of life, and employed his time, andapplied his income to useful and rational purposes. He died on May 26,1797, in the seventieth year of bis age. Nothing is said about his wife, buttradition has pointed out this tomb as that of Lady Lee, about whom thepoet Henry W. Longfellow wrote in his Churchyard in Cambridge: At her feet and at her headLies a slave to attend the dead,But their dust is as white as hers. Jonathan Belcher, born in January, 1681, graduated at Harvard College in1699, was governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 1730 to 1741,and governor of New Jersey from 1747 till his death, which took place atElizabethtown,

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