Copps hill

Is this the resting place of my ancestors? I need to check my grandmothers grave in Stoneham to be sure, But I found out that both a John Grant and a Sarah Grant are, or were, buried at Copp's Hill in Boston's North end.

Copps hill is were the British trained for the battle of Bunker Hill (which actually took place on Breed's Hill)

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eye's"

"Copps Hill Burying Ground was the second burying ground established in Boston, in 1660. It is near the Old North Church, and is about three acres in dimension. It was originally called the North Burying Place. The oldest part of the cemetery is on the northeast side of the Hull Street entrance.

There are many quaint epitaphs, some of which are illegible from age. Several famous people are buried at Copps Hill. Edmund Hartt, builder of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution, is buried here. The Reverend Doctors Increase and Cotton Mather (Salem Witch Trial fame), are buried here in the Mather Tomb. There was also a small section that was reserved for African-American slaves and free Black persons near Snowhill Street [sadly, most markers are missing today, having been plundered for construction materials in the 1860's].

During the Revolution, British soldiers occupied Copps Hill as a military station. They found sport in firing bullets at the gravestones, the marks of which can still be seen on some of them. Their favorite target was said to be the stone of Daniel Malcom, a merchant, which bares the inscription, a true Son of Liberty, a friend to the publick, an enemy to oppression, and one of the foremost in opposing the Revenue Acts on America. He died in 1769.

When Copps Hill was cut down, the burying ground was left untouched, and a high stone wall was built to support the embankment. The British batteries of 1775, which fired on Bunker Hill, were on the western slope of the hill between Hull and Snowhill Streets.

anyways, The problem comes up when you consider that most of the people buried there are from the revolution era and that first generation of Grants didn't arrive in the country until the late 18 hundreds.

This also brought up the question of my Religion. The Irish who emigrated here before the Potato Famine were prodesent As would be the Grants buried at Copp's hill.

So ho did I become Catholic?

There is more, Becouse the cmputer dosen't seem to want to coporate. ut I m s
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