St. Paul’s Churchyard

Graves to find

1. Joseph Atkins 1680–1773 Merchant who gave the church its land; tomb left of St. Anna’s Chapel.
2. Bishop Edward Bass 1726–1803 Rector for more than fifty years and the first Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts.
3. Samuel Cutler 1752–1832 Merchant who escaped from a British prison in the Revolution.
4. Samuel Allyne Otis 1770–1814 Merchant and banker of the Otis family.
5. Flora Marston 1769–1788 The only known burial here of a person of African descent; near the Summer Street wall.
6. Capt. Wyatt St. Barbe 1737–1819 Sailed Thomas Jefferson to England in 1784.
7. Dr. John Brickett 1774–1848 Physician to the conjoined twins Chang and Eng.
8. Dudley Atkins Tyng 1760–1829 Lawyer and customs collector; far corner at High and Market Streets.
9. Anthony Gwyn 1710–1776 Welsh-born merchant and a founder of the church; his carved stone is a cast of the original.
10. Alice Hooper Fowle Cutler 1746–1826 Daughter of Robert “King” Hooper, painted by Copley.
11. Patrick Tracy 1711–1789 The town’s leading merchant; tomb in the middle of the yard.
12. Tristram Dalton 1738–1817 One of Massachusetts’s first two U.S. senators; read the Declaration of Independence here in 1776.
13. Alpheus Crosby 1810–1874 Professor of Greek and abolitionist.
14. Rev. Jonathan Loring Woart 1807–1838 Priest lost with his wife in the steamship Pulaski explosion.
15. Rev. James Morss 1779–1842 Rector for 39 years; the marble obelisk.