Sign on the Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury, Massachusetts:
Roxbury Burial Ground
Here were buried
GOVERNORS
Thomas Dudley 1653, Joseph Dudley 1720; Chief Justice Paul Dudley 1752, Col. William Dudley 1743;
MINISTERS
John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, 1690, Thomas Walter 1725, Nehemiah Walter 1750, Oliver Peabody 1752, Amos Adams 1775, Eliphalet Porter 1833,
and
Benjamin Tompson, Schoolmaster and Physician, 1714