Copps Hill Burying Ground
Colonial cemetery where a smuggler's headstone still bears British bullet scars.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Copp's Hill Burying Ground centers on Captain Daniel Malcolm, a Boston merchant who smuggled sixty casks of wine and tea past British customs into the North End. It follows the 1769 standoff when customs officers came to seize the contraband from his cellar and Malcolm barred the door and rallied several hundred men and boys in the street to hold off British reinforcements, and the request he made before he died later that same year, still in his forties. His epitaph calls him a true son of liberty, an enemy to oppression.
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