Old First Parish Burying Ground

Old First Parish Burying Ground is a Massachusetts historical marker in Rockport, Essex County, dedicated 1930.

Beach Street, Rockport · location approximate

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Original plot given by the first settler, Richard Tarr, who was buried here in 1732. Here lie most of the early settlers and many of the officers and soldiers of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Historical maps covering this location

1677 · A map of New England (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1740 · 43. Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1763 · A map of the most inhabited part of New England (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1776 · A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1891 · City of Newburyport, Massachusetts. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets…, 1776, covering the location of Old First Parish Burying Ground, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets…, 1776, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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