Peter Gilman is buried at what becomes Copp’s Hill Burying Ground.

His epitaph reads, “Stop here my friend, and in a mirroir see, / What you though e’er so healthy soon must be / Beauty with all her rosebuds paints each face ;/ Approaching death will soon strip you of each grace.” The British train their cannon on Bunker Hill from Copp’s Hill in 1775.