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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Copp's Hill Burying Ground: With Inscriptions and Ye Ancient Epitaphs In early days the well to do of Boston dwelt largely in the North End, a very pleasant and convenient part of the peninsula. Until the time just succeeding the Revolution, the North End retained its social prominence; then the notables and fashionables began to leave it. It was quite natural, therefore, in accordance with the custom of the time, that the town should early provide a burial-ground in this comparatively well settled section. In 1659 there was bought a lot of laud on the summit of Copp's Hill, which formed the nucleus of the present cemetery. Copp's Hill was an eminently suitable spot for the purpose. Although lower than Beacon Hill and Fort Hill, it was scarcely less commanding and seemed, equally a topographical feature. The rectangular plateau on the summit easily lent itself to burial needs. Wood, among the first travellers to record his impressions of Boston, says in his New England Prospect (London, 1634): "On the North side is another Hill, equall in bignesse (to Fort Hill), whereon stands a Winde-mill." This was the first windmill erected in the colony. These old windmills, in the days when corn was legal tender, were useful servants to the community and were a feature of the landscape. Winthrop records a mill built on Windmill Point in 1686, and three others were put up by 1650. After Boston had become a city, the two last surviving windmills still stood on Windmill Point. On July.31, 16-43, the town granted Henry Simons, John Button and others all the land between the Town Cove and the marshes beyond, on condition that they erect "one or more corne mills, and maynteyne the same forever." The "south" and "north" mills were accordingly constructed on the shore of the Mill Pond; and others gradually followed, including later a sawmill and a chocolate mill. During the first century of its existence the burial ground was called the North Cemetery, this name giving way to that of the hill itself. On the hill, in turn, three names were successively bestowed. At first it was generally known as the Mill Hill, and the entire district about the hill was also known as the "Mylne Field" or "Mill-field," being frequently so named in grants and conveyances of land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.