This monument, erected on the Old Town Green across Walnut Street from the church, commemorates the founding of Brookline. The monument shows familiar names among the signers of the petition - Sewall, Gardner, White, Winchester, Aspinwall, Devotion, Boylstone. So who were these residents of the new town of Brookline - the Founders, who are buried in the Old Burying Ground?

Let's begin with Boylston...