num_pages: 288
description: This highly readable book details Boston's three important downtown King's Chapel, Granary, and Central. It discusses the meaning of the gravestone carvings and includes stories about Revolutionary patriots Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock,and Boston Tea party members and war dead. Also poet Phillis Wheatley, John Winthrop, the father of Boston; artist Gilbert Stuart; and prominent early Boston leaders buried here. Sections on early Boston women, Freemasons, and African Americans. Includes lists of gravestones and tomb owners, and epitaphs. Highly illustrated with over 350 photos and illustrations plus detailed maps of each burying ground.
language: English
title: Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks: Boston's Burying Ground Guide to King's Chapel, Granary and Central Cemeteries
titlecomplete: Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks: Boston's Burying Ground Guide to King's Chapel, Granary and Central Cemeteries
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Chauncey Park Press