1667. The reason(s) for the seven-year gap between the establishment of the burying ground and the oldest memorial are unknown. The oldest stone is that of the Neal Children, carved by the 'Charlestown Carver' dating to 1666. Near the Tremont Street entrance are interred the American casualties in the Boston Massacre which occurred 5 March 1770. The grave markers were moved during the 1800s to be in straight lines, to conform to nineteenth century ideas of order, as well as to allow for more modern groundskeeping (i.e., the lawn mower). Notable burials Samuel Adams (1722–1803), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), African-American victim of the Boston Massacre, in a common grave with the other four victims and Christopher Seider (sometimes Snider), a boy killed 11 days before James Bowdoin (1726–1790), prominent merchant, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts Rev Mather Byles (1706–1788), prominent minister and loyalist in Tomb No. 2; other members of his family buried here are daughters Mrs. Elizabeth [Byles] Brown; Miss Mary Byles; Miss Catherine Byles John Endecott (c. 1588–1665), First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (his grave stone has been destroyed and for many years it was thought – erroneously – that he was buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground. But recent evidence has proven conclusively that he was buried in tomb 189 of the Granary Burying Ground) Peter Faneuil (1700–1743), benefactor of Faneuil Hall Members of Benjamin Franklin's family, but not Franklin himself, who is buried in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary Goose (1665–1758), an unlikely claim familiar to locals as being the original Mother Goose (some Mother Goose stories long predate the 17th century, the name Mother Goose was already familiar in France in 1650, and the first public appearance of Mother Goose stories in the New World was in 1786). Jeremiah Gridley (1702–1767), lawyer, defender of writs of assistance in 1761 John Hancock (1737–1793), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence John Hull, Judith Quincy Hull, Daniel Quincy; Hull-Quincy Tomb (Tomb 185) James Otis Jr. (1725–1783), lawyer, Revolutionary War Patriot Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), signer of the Declaration of Independence Ebenezer Pemberton (1746–1835), American educator John Phillips (1770–1823), first mayor of the city of Boston Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney (reburied at Milton Cemetery in 1886) Edward Rawson (1615–1693), first secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1650–1686) Paul Revere (1735–1818), silversmith, Revolutionary War Patriot Christopher