loss of forty ships, which, with other reverses, is said to have hastened his end. One Samuel Winslow, sexton of the First Baptist Church, boldly appropriated the tomb, ejecting the occupants, and inscribed his own name above that of the rightful owner. In the adjoining tomb sleeps Dr. John Clark, brother to the merchant, a very worthy physician according to the Latin eulogy upon his finely carved tombstone. The seven succeeding generations of the family each produced a physician of the same name. Among the most illustrious by birth of the burying-ground's tenants were the Mountforts, long a prominent North End family. Tomb No. 17, on the Hull street side, built in 1711, bears the name of John Mountfort; and No. 59, erected in 1724, that of Jonathan Mountfort, together with the family coat of arms. The two were sons of Edmund Mountfort, who fled from London in 1656 on account of political offences. He married a granddaughter of Nicholas Upshall, and died in 1723, being buried in the Granary. The Mountforts traced their descent to an ancient Norman family, scions of which came over with the Conquest. Turstain de Mountfort, 1030, is mentioned in Dugdale's "History of Warwickshire." Jonathan Mountfort was a wealthy physician and apothecary, his shop being long known as "Mountfort's Corner," and was of a decidedly eccentric temperament. He was one of the seceders from the New North Church in 1719, and helped build the "New Brick" or "Weathercock" Church, of which he was chosen treasurer. John Mountfort was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1696, and owner of Mountfort's wharf. His descendants long resided on Prince street. Another tomb emblazoned with family arms is that of the family of Joshua Gee, one of the most famous of the old shipwrights, who, as we have noted, purchased the small private lot in the centre of the ground. The inscription on his tomb reads simply: "The Arms and Tomb belonging to the family of Gee." The noted Gee shipyard was located on the southwest side of Prince street, while the family mansion stood on the corner of Salem and Prince streets, known as "Gee's Corner." The adjoining lands were also in possession of the Gees. Judge Sewall frequently mentions dining with the Gees. A plain white stone in the northwest corner, bearing the simple inscription, "Edmund Hartt's Tomb, 1806," records the memory of the yet more famous builder of the "Constitution" and the "Boston." In the western part of the yard is the Mariner's Tomb, "Dedicated to the Seamen of All Nations, by Phineas Stowe, Pastor of the First Baptist Bethel Church, Boston, 1851." It contains the remains of Emily, wife of Dr. Stowe, who died on the day the monument over the tomb was completed, and also those of four sailors. The cost of erection was met by contributions from seamen and their friends, the crew of the United States sloop-of-war Albany giving $52. A tragic history is told by the large triple stone near the toolhouse, which preserves in intricate lettering the memory of George Worthylake, aged 45; his wife Ann, 40, and their daughter, Ruth, 13. Worthylake, who had been brought up on George's Island, was the first keeper of Boston Light. On November 3, 1718, the family set sail for Noddle's Island, but the craft capsizing, they "took in heaven by the way," according to the old historian. Franklin, then a printer's apprentice to his brother, at the latter's urging, took this incident as the theme for a street ballad, called the "Lighthouse Tragedy." Although "wretched stuff," according to the author, and severely criticised by his father, it had a considerable sale. Unfortunately no copy is now extant. In the northern part of the ground, in a plain brick vault, lie the remains of Chief Justice Parker. Near the northwest angle is the much more pretentious monument to Charles Jarvis, a noted local politician, who died in 1807, aged 59, “a Statesman, Patriot, and an honest Man, whose dignified Deportment, sublime Eloquence, unbounded Philanthropy, and other Virtues endeared his memory to his Fellow Citizens." few feet away is the vault once owned by Governor Christopher Gore. A Perhaps the most ornate monument in the ground is that erected by Isaac Dupee, and bearing a beautifully carved coatof-arms, together with the following tribute in verse: MY NAME FROM THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS ETERNITY WILL NOT ERASE; IMPRESSED ON HIS HEART, IT REMAINS AS SURE AS THE EARNEST IS GIVEN, This inscription owes its oddity to the fact that the four couplets are taken from different parts of the Bible and put together in good sense rhyme. The quotations are respectively from— I Cor. xv, 49; I John lv, 8; Matthew v, 9; Ephesians i, 9, 10. A simply inscribed stone records the death in 1778, at the age of 66, of Dr. Andrew Eliot, the well-beloved pastor of the New North Church. A beautiful coat-of-arms, said not to belong to the family, is carved on the obverse side. Dr. Eliot's house is still standing at the corner of Hanover and Tileston streets. Timothy Thornton, who died Sept. 19, 1726, aged 79, was one of the committee which negotiated the Sewall purchase. He was also prominent in town affairs, being several times town commissioner and selectman, as well as in the General Court and serving on the committee appointed to issue bills of credit to pay the debts incurred in the French and Indian wars-the first paper currency issued in Massachusetts. Edward Martyn, another of the committee, sleeps at the right of the Hull-street entrance. His tombstone bears an elaborate coat-of-arms. He commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1715, and once owned most of the land from Hanover street to the sea. Beside the Ellis tomb and monument in the northeast corner of the ground for over forty years grew a willow tree of interesting origin. It was brought as a slip from the willow that shades the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena by Capt. Joseph Leonard in 1844, and here transplanted by Roland Ellis. was destroyed by the great gale of 1888. It In the centre of the yard stands the tombstone of one of the foremost of the Quakers, William Mumford, who died in November, 1718, at the age of 77. He was a stonecutter and builder, and on July 10, 1694, bought a lot in Brattle Square, whereon he erected the first Quaker meeting-house, which was as well the first brick church built in the town. In January, 1708, he purchased another lot on Congress street, and there built a second meeting-house, to which the Quakers repaired after selling the earlier edifice. Part of this lot constituted the Quaker burying-ground, until the remains contained therein. were removed to Lynn in 1825. On the northern slope of the ground is the monument erected in 1848 to Major Samuel Shaw, by his grandson, Robert G. Shaw. The story of the soldier's life is briefly told by the inscription, which runs: Near the front gate sleeps a fellow-soldier, Major Thomas Seward, who "gallantly fought in our late Revolutionary War and through its various Scenes behaved with Patriotic Fortitude and died in the Calms of Domestic Felicity as becomes a Universal Christian, November 27th, 1800, AE 60." The following commanders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company are interred in the ground: Capt. Thomas Lake, Capt. Ralph Hart, Col. John Carnes, Capt. Caleb Lyman, and Capt. Edward Martyn. On the western slope of the hill is the stone recording the name of Deacon Shemm Drowne, Hawthorne's famous carver in wood, who wrought the grasshopper on the Faneuil Hall, vane. He died in 1774 at the ripe age of 90. Nearby rests Captain John Pulling, died January 25, 1787, at the age of 51, after whom was named the headland in Chelsea fronting on the water. Another noteworthy stone is that erected in memory of Prince Hall, first Grand Master of the colored Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts. A rather pathetic inscription is that on a stone near the Snowhill-street path, reading: In memory of BETSY, Wife of David Darling, died March 23d, 1809 E 43 She was the mother of 17 children, and around BROTHER SEXTONS, please leave a clear birth for me near by this Stone. The request was not heeded, as Mr. Darling, who was sexton of the North Church and also grave-digger in the yard, was buried in another part of the ground. Mention should not be neglected of a tiny stone in the northern part of the yard, reading: SARAH RULE aged 9 years This little lass is the one who daubed with ink the papers of Cotton Mather, moving the worthy divine to great wrath. These are a few of the more notable stones that claim the attention of the rambler in Copp's Hill. Almost equally noteworthy are the old epitaphs, many of them, as is usual in old burying-grounds, quaint and curious, some incoherent and ungrammatical. Doubtless the oddest and most puzzling is that over the grave of Mrs. Ammey Hunt, who died in 1769. We have no clue to the neighborhood gossip hinted at in these peculiar lines: A sister of Sarah Lucas lieth here, And now her Soul hath took its Flight, Even more amusing is the tradition connected with the following conventional stanza on the stone of Mrs. Mary Huntley: Stop here my friends & cast an eye, As you are now, so once was I; As I am now, so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me. A young wag is said to have added in chalk: To follow you I'm not content Miss Mary Boucher, died Sept. 2, 1767, aged 18: On thefe dry bones and say Thefe limbs were Active once like thine But thine must be as they. Some of the other more interesting epitaphs follow: Henry D. Emerson, d. Aug. 16, 1840, aged 4: Peter Gilman, April 12, 1807, aged 42: "Stop my friends, and in a mirroir fee What you, though e'er so healthy, soon must be, Mrs. Betsey Pitman, 1784, aged 27: 66 'Ha/te: ha/te he lies in wait, He's at the door. Elijah Swift, May 9, 1803, aged 73: "A wits a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Miss Polly Tidmarch Barker, died Sept. 24, 1798, aged 17: Sleep on, dear Youth, God faw it beft To waft you to eternal Reft. Mrs. Eliza Fuller, Sept. 16, 1806, aged 22: "An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave, |