King’s Chapel Burying Ground is established.

(OS-2/18) Originally the Town Burying Ground or Old Burying Ground, it is located at today’s 40 Tremont Street. The first cemetery in the original town of Boston, it is located on the site of Isaac Johnson’s garden, and he is soon buried on the site. Other graves include those of Mary Chilton (the only passenger from the original trip by the Mayflower to move to Boston), Rev. John Cotton, William Dawes, Govs. John Endicott, John Winthrop, his son and grandson (both governors of Connecticut), William Shirley, and, Elizabeth Pain, purported to be the model for Hester Prynne, the heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.