Where their house would have stood, there was his grave." "I never heard anything so melancholy," said Clara.
"The people loved and respected Mr.Johnson so much," continued Grandfather, "that it was the last request of many of them, when they died, that they might be buried as near as possible to this good man's grave.

And so the field became the first burial ground in Boston.

When you pass through Tremont Street, along by King's Chapel, you see a burial-ground, containing many old grave-stones and monuments.

That was Mr.Johnson's field." "How sad is the thought," observed Clara, "that one of the first things which the settlers had to do, when they came to the New World, was to set apart a burial-ground!" "Perhaps," said Laurence, "if they had found no need of burial-grounds here, they would have been glad, after a few years, to go back to England." Grandfather looked at Laurence, to discover whether he knew how profound and true a thing he had said..