Copp’s Hill Burying Ground is established

It is located between today’s Hull Street, Snowhill Street, and Charter Street. The second oldest cemetery in Boston, its graves include those of John and Andrew Eliot, Prince Hall, shipbuilder Edmund Hartt, Cotton, Increase and Samuel Mather, and church sextant Robert Newman. Other notable graves include those the unmarked graves of John White Webster, the murderer of George Parkman, and of a number of African-American residents of the nearby area known as “New Guinea.” The epitaph on the tombstone of Colonial Capt. Daniel Malcom is scarred by the marks of bullets fired by vengeful British soldiers. The cemetery is reorganized and headstones repositioned in rows (although not necessarily above the graves they mark) in the 1830s.