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Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts is the city's third-oldest cemetery. It serves as the final resting place for many notable Revolutionary War-era patriots, including three signers of the Declaration of Independence and many victims of the Boston Massacre.

Notable burials

• Peter Faneuil (1700-1743), benefactor
• Samuel Adams (1722-1803), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Crispus Attucks (1723-1770), Boston Massacre Victim (Crispus Attucks was black)
• John Hancock (1737-1793), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• James Otis (1725-1783), lawyer, Revolutionary War Patriot
• Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Paul Revere (1735-1818), silversmith, Revolutionary War patriot
• Members of Benjamin Franklin's family, but not Franklin himself, who is buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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