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Old Burying Point or the Charter Street Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Salem, and the second oldest known cemetery in the country, started in 1637. It is located on Charter St. next to the Witch Trials Memorial and contains many famous individuals such as Jonathan Corwin and John Hawthorne, who were Judges in the Salem Witch Trials, Samuel Bradstreet who was a Governor of Massachusetts and many more interesting historical figures. There are currently 347 entries for this cemetery. See it's location and get directions at Yahoo Maps.
For those looking for the graves of the Witch Trial Victims, you can view the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. The many of the victims were not given gravestones and were buried in unmarked graves near the site of their hanging. 2 of the victims, Rebecca Nurse and George Jacobs are buried on the Rebecca Nurse Homestead. Index of names
Simon Bradstreet
Esquire in the Senate of the Massachusetts Colony from the year 1630 to the year 1673 then Lieutenant Governor to the year 1679 and at last, until the year 1680 Governor of the same colony by the General and deter- mined vote of the people. He was a man endowed with keen judgement whom neither threats nor honors could sway. He weighed the authority of the King and the liberty of the people in even scales. In religion devout and upright in his ways he vanquished the world and relinquished it on the XXVIIth day of March in the year of our Lord MDCXCVII. And in the IXth year of King William Third. And of his life the XCIVth.  Simon Bradstreet
Esquire in the Senate of the Massachusetts Colony from the year 1630 to the year 1673 then Lieutenant Governor to the year 1679 and at last, until the year 1680 Governor of the same colony by the General and deter- mined vote of the people. He was a man endowed with keen judgement whom neither threats nor honors could sway. He weighed the authority of the King and the liberty of the people in even scales. In religion devout and upright in his ways he vanquished the world and relinquished it on the XXVIIth day of March in the year of our Lord MDCXCVII. And in the IXth year of King William Third. And of his life the XCIVth.
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