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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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our of intellectual attainmentsand in the midst of usefulnesshe was called by Divine Providenceto rest with his fathers,he went down to the chambers of death,in the full belief, that the graveis the pathway to future existence.As in life be secured the suffrages of the free.And was blessed with the approbation of the wise,So in death he was honoured by the tears of the patrioticAnd is held in sweet remembranceby a discerningand affectionate people. In private life.He was affectionate and mild ;In public life,He was dignified and firm,Party feuds were allayedby the correctness of his conduct,Calumny was silencedby the weight of his virtues, And rancour softenedby the amenity of his manners. This compendious epitaph leaves little to be said. Sumnerwas graduated from Harvard with distinction in 1767, and,beginning with 1776, served three terms in the General Court, aswell as two in the Senate from 1780. He was a member of theConstitutional Convention of 1779-80, as also later of the con-
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INCREASE SUMNER TOMB, GRANARY BURIAL-GROUND. 27 vention which accepted the federal constitution. In August,1782, he was appointed an associate justice of the SupremeJudicial Court, and in January, 1785, was added to the committeeto revise the State laws. In 1796, though averse to being acandidate, lie was elected governor, and was thrice reelected bygreat majorities. He did not live to enter on his last term. As the inscription on his tomb would indicate, no governorwas more trusted and beloved. His remains were interred withmilitary honors at the public expense, the funeral processionextending from Roxbury to the State House. Perhaps none of the graves in the Granary contain a moreinteresting and notable pexsonage than does the populous Sewalltomb, which already had at the opening of the Revolution atleast forty occupants, chief among them the famous chronicler ofprovincial days. Judge Samuel Sewall. The tomb was built bySewalls father-in-law, John Hull, the master of the mint, wholi

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