It is sometimes called the Friends' Burial Ground, and has more colonial governors buried in it than any other cemetery in the state.

The Coddington Cemetery at 34 Farewell Street is a very old colonial cemetery with 93 known interments, and has the largest number of interred colonial governors of any cemetery in the state, including William Coddington, Nicholas Easton, William Coddington, Jr., Henry Bull, John Easton, and John Wanton, all Quakers.

The first known interment in this cemetery was that of Mary Moseley Coddington, the wife of Governor William Coddington, who died in 1647, and the last interment was that of James Easton who died in 1796.

The cemetery has been designated as Rhode Island Historic Cemetery, Newport #9, and is located on Farewell Street between Baptist and Coddington Streets in Newport.

Within the cemetery is a monument honoring Governor William Coddington, erected on the 200th anniversary of the founding of Newport.