Some 150 gravestones of early Boston notables and just folks inside Dorchester’s North Burying Ground on Columbia Road and Stoughton Street will be repaired and buffed up, thanks to a $157,650 grant from the National Park Service and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Dorchester North is the final resting place of some of the old town’s most prominent founding citizens, including two colonial governors, William Stoughton, the chief justice in the Salem witch trials of the 1690sn and William Tailer.
Other burials include John Foster, the first printer in Boston; minister Richard Mather; 40 unknown Revolutionary War soldiers; and three enslaved African Americans.
