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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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spite the fact thatthey were situated under stables and outhouses, nine were builtand purchased by such leading citizens as David Sears, JohnGore, Uriah Cotting, Edward Blake and others. The records of the selectmen contain numerous grants oftombs, with sundry conditions as to the manner of building andmaintenance. The introduction to the first fifteen grants runs : — April 1:), 1T21. Voted, That whereas the Town of Boston at a Pub-licke Town >(enting on the 2i)t)i Day of aprill, 1719, Ordered that theSouth Burying place/liould be Inlaifjed next the Common or Trainingfield, In jtersuance of which vole or order, The/electmen in the year1720 did iidarge the ./aid Burying Place, At which time/undry of theInhabitants of the/aid Town to the Number of fifteen desired Libertyto Erect new Toombs, on the South Line of the/aid Burying place, wliichthe /electmen Clranted, on Condition they would cary uji and maintain,a brick wall, on /aid Line at the End of their Toombs, which /aid line
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of Toombs begins at the upper or West Corner of the /aid Burying Placenext the Aims House. In a description of Boston written in the Columbian Magazineat Philadelphia, in \1787, among the chief buildings mentionedweie • a workhouse; a bridewell; a public granary. All thesethree, and especially the last, are closely connected with theGranary Burial Ground. In the Provincial days, the question of the grain supply wasof great importance to the town. Grain was frequently scarce,and but few of the inhabitants were so wealthy as not to beaffected thereby. On December 29, 1718, the selectmen reportedthat in provision against such scarcitythey had purchased10,000 weight of bread, at 40 shill p hundred for the fupply ofye Inhabit^*. It was ordered sold during one month in smallquantities to such as desired to purchase. On October 16, 1733,also a contract was made with two of the selectmen, John Jeffriesand David Colson, to erect a granaiy or Meal House in theNorth End on a piece of land belo

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