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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
Left Stone:
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[Here] Lies
the Remains of
Mrs Eunice
wife of
William Vans Eƒq.r
who died Aug 25th
1790
Aged 60
Years
Right Stone:
Here Lyes the
Remains of
John Nutting
Eƒq.r who died
May 20th AD 1790 in the 97th Year
of his Age. The ƒweet remembrence of the juƒt,
Shall floweriƒh when they ƒleep in duƒt.") Left Stone:
[Here] Lies the Remains of Mrs Eunice wife of William Vans Eƒq.r who died Aug 25th 1790 Aged 60 Years Right Stone: Here Lyes the Remains of John Nutting Eƒq.r who died May 20th AD 1790 in the 97th Year of his Age. The ƒweet remembrence of the juƒt, Shall floweriƒh when they ƒleep in duƒt.
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