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Hancock Cemetery

Historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States

Summary

Historic cemetery in Massachusetts, United States

Field	Value
name	Hancock Cemetery
image	Hancock Cemetery.jpg
caption	Stones in the cemetery
location	Hancock St. in Quincy Sq., Quincy, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapin	Massachusetts#USA
built	1640
added	January 28, 1982
area	2 acre
refnum	82004421

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

File:Hancock Cemetery entrance, Quincy Massachusetts.jpg|Entrance Gate File:Hancock Cemetery 1 - Quincy, MA.jpg|Joseph Adams, Sr. headstone, 2015 File:Hancock Cemetery 2 - Quincy, MA.jpg|Henry Adams headstone, 2015 File:Hancock Cemetery 3 - Quincy, MA.jpg|John Quincy Adams' original burial site, 2015

References

{{NRISref. 2009a
(2002). "Quincy's Historic Hancock Cemetery". Quincy Historical Society.
"NRHP nomination for Hancock Cemetery". [[Commonwealth of Massachusetts]].

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