Hancock Cemetery

Hancock Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Stones in the cemetery
Location	Hancock St. in Quincy Sq., Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°15′1″N 71°0′14″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1640
NRHP reference No.	82004421
Added to NRHP	January 28, 1982

Hancock Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the Hancock Adams Common, across from the United First Parish Church, in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. It is named after Reverend John Hancock Jr. (1702–1744), father of Founding Father John Hancock.

The cemetery was founded c. 1640 (the date of the earliest documented graves), and is the only tangible remainder of the early settlement of the area. It was the burial place of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, Abigail Adams and Louisa Adams (respectively), before they were moved to the crypt in the United First Parish Church. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Gallery

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  Entrance Gate
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  Joseph Adams, Sr. headstone, 2015
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  Henry Adams headstone, 2015
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  John Quincy Adams' original burial site, 2015

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts

External links

• Hancock Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Digitized cemetery markers and graves on Google Maps and Google Earth Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine.