Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks

Name: Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks
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paperback – January 1, 2004

by Wells, Charles Chauncey

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ISBN-13: 9780966780819 ISBN-10: 0966780817

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Brand: Chauncey Park Press

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paperback

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January 1, 2004

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0.9 lbs

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Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks by Wells, Charles Chauncey. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780966780819.

This highly readable book details Bostons three important downtown cemeteries: Kings Chapel, Granary, and Central. It discusses the meaning of the gravestone carvings and includes stories about Revolutionary patriots Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock,and Boston Tea party members and war dead. Also poet Phillis Wheatley, John Winthrop, the father of Boston; artist Gilbert Stuart; and prominent early Boston leaders buried here. Sections on early Boston women, Freemasons, and African Americans. Includes lists of gravestones and tomb owners, and epitaphs. Highly illustrated with over 350 photos and illustrations plus detailed maps of each burying ground.