{"1": {"fulltext": "iililiiiiliiiiili;\u00c2\u00bbl", "height": "3119", "width": "2034", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nBook\\nCOPYRIG!ST DEPOSIT", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "OLD LANDMARKS\\nAND HISTORIC PERSONAGES\\nOF BOSTON", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Bg tijc Snmr Suttjor.\\nViiifornt xvith this Volume:\\nHISTORIC MANSIONS AND HIGH-\\nWAYS AROUND BOSTON.\\nIllustrated. Price, #2.50.\\nA BOOK OF NEW-ENGLAND LEGENDS\\nAND FOLK-LORE.\\nEll yroBf anti ^ortrn.\\nIllustrated. Price, ;jt2.oo.\\nLITTLE, BROWN, CO., Publishers.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "OLD LANDMARKS\\nAND\\nHISTORIC PERSONAGES\\nBOSTON\\nBy SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE\\nI love everything that s old old friends, old times, old manners, old books,\\nold wines. Goldsmith\\nNEW AND REVISED EDITION\\nIllugtrateb\\nBOSTON\\nLITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY\\n1900", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "81485\\nOCT 15 1900\\nCe^jf gW try\\nSiC ^NO COPY.\\nOftOt: OIVSION,\\nOCT 29 IKOU\\nF75\\nf\\nJ\\nIj\\nEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,\\nP.Y JAMES R. OSGOOD CO.,\\nin tlie Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wasliingtou,\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nBt Samuel Adams Drake.\\n.Tt iiN Wilson and Son, CAMBRrDGE, U.S.A.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "BETWEEN OURSELVES.\\nBoast, Harry, that you are a true-born child, and that you are a true\\nBostonian. Colonel Jackson to General Knox in 1777.\\nMORE perhaps than the natives of any American city\\nBostoniaus have the feeling of inhabitiveness\\nand adhesiveness abiionnally developed. In whatever\\npart of the world you may meet with him you can tell a\\nBostonian a mile off. But aside from the peculiar charm\\nsurrounding one s birthplace, common to all men, tlie\\nBostonian knows that his own is pre-eminently the liis-\\ntoric city of America, and he feels tliat no small part\\nof its world-wide renown has descended to him as his\\npeculiar inheritance.\\nThat is all very well. But it is one thing to be proud\\nof our history and to boast of it on all occasions, and\\nquite another to remain indifferent to the threatened\\nspoliation of wliat we lay claim to as our inalienable\\ninheritance, our birthriglit. I mean tlie really historic\\nbuildings of Boston and what they stand for. Tliis book\\nis my appeal to the historical conscience. It is only at\\nthe price of perpetual vigilance that a few of these old\\nedifices, known throughout the whole world, remain on\\ntheir foundations at this hour.\\nBoston would be a l)arren place indeed without its\\nFaneuil Hall, its Old State House, Old South and Old", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "VI BETWEEN OURSELVES.\\nNorth. It is to be hoped that we shall not soon repeat\\nthe inexcusable folly of the Hancock House.\\nThe frequent and capricious changing of street names\\nis another rock of danger, besides being a source of end-\\nless confusion and annoyance to historians and property-\\nowners alike. Mr. Lowell said truly that we change\\nour names as often as we can, to the great detriment of\\nall historical association.\\nBoston to-day is liardly more like the Boston of fifty\\nyears ago than a new growth resembles that which has\\nreplaced the original forest, after fire has swept over it.\\nIt then had a good deal of the Indian-summer at-\\nmosphere of the past. What it will be like fifty years\\nhence no man can say. In a hundred, of tlie old city\\nperhaps not one stone will I emain upon anotlier. In\\ntruth, such surprising physical transformation as has\\nbeen brought about, even within the last thirty years,\\nby the Great Fire, the levelling of Fort Hill, the filling\\nup of the Back Bay, the extension of Washington Street,\\nand the improvements incident to the building of the\\ngreat railway stations and Subway, strongly emphasizes\\nthe fact tliat in the very nature of things, nothing is,\\nnothing can be permanent save the written record. Like\\nevery great city Boston is forever out-growing its old\\ngarments, and must be patched and pieced accordingly.\\nBut it is in the lieart of the old city that we remark\\nthe greatest havoc. Scores of old buildings, rich in his-\\ntorical association, have given place to modern structures.\\nOf a dozen ancient cluirches, not one now remains on its\\noriginal site. Tlie last remnants too of their congrega-\\ntions have silently emigrated to that newer region, where\\nboys were wont to sail their boats in summer, and fisher-\\nmen to catch smelts in winter. Moreover, a new genera-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "BETWEEN OURSELVES. Vll\\ntion has come upon the stage to whom the old conditions\\nare unknown and hard to realize.\\nTo re-establish these conditions by present landmarks,\\nso that it may continue to be a faithful guide to what\\nis best worth seeing, as well as what is most worth\\nremembering, in older Boston, a careful and thorough re-\\nvision of Old Landmarks has been made and many new\\nfeatures introduced. No pains have been spared to make\\nit a work of permanent value and interest. And as it\\nwas originally undertaken as a labor of love, so now,\\nin its revised form, the book again is sent forth, in the\\nspirit of the motto with which this Preface begins, with\\na hearty greeting to all true Bostoniaus and to all others,\\nwherever born, who shall derive from the story of a great\\nPast hope and inspiration for a still greater Future.\\nAugust, 1900.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "conte:n^ts.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nMyles Standisli. \u00e2\u0080\u0094William Blackstone. Shawmiit. Settlement by\\nWiiithrop s Company. Trimountain. Boston. Physical Features.\\nArea. Settlement liy Indians. Cliaracter of first Buildiiij^.s.\\nFirst Location of the Settlers. Geographical Divisions. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Wood and\\nWater. Dress. Manners and Customs. Slavery. Curious old\\nLaws. Government of the Town. Allotment of Lands. Intoler-\\nance of the Times. The Pulpit a Means of Intelligence. Accounts\\nIjy various Writers. Town Records. General Growth and Progress.\\nPopulation. Wai-ds. Paving the Streets. Lighting the Streets.\\nSupply of Water. Enlargement of Boston. Communication with\\nMainland. Ferries. Bridges. Coaches, Public and Private.\\nRailways\\nCHAPTER I.\\nking s chapel and the neighborhood.\\nHistory of the Chapel. Establishment of the Church of England.\\nChapel Burial-Gromid. Boston Athemeum. Academy of Arts and\\nSciences. Historical Society. The Museum. The Old Corner.\\nRoyal Custom House. Washington. H. G. Otis. Daniel Webster.\\nTremont Street. Howard Street. Pemberton Hill. Endicott.\\nCaptain Southack. Theodore Lyman, Senior. John Cotton. Sir\\nHenry Vane. Samuel Sewall. Gai diner Greene. Earl Percy.\\nBellingham. Faneuil. Phillips. Davenport. O.xenbridge.\\nBeacon Street. School Street. Latin School. Franklin Statue.\\nCity Hall. Otis. Warren. Mascarene. Cromwell s Head.\\nThe Old Corner Bookstoi-e. Anne Hutchinson. The French Church.\\n--Catholic Church. Second Universalist. Province Street. Chap-\\nman Place. James Lovell. Tlie Wendells 28", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK.\\nHanover Street. General Warren. The Orange-Tree. Concert Hall.\\nBrattle Street. Samuel Gore. John Sniibert. Nathaniel Smi-\\nlit^rt. Colonel Trumbull. The Adelphi. Scollay s Buildings and\\nSquare. Queen Street Writing School. Master James Carter.\\nCornhill. Brattle Street Parsonage. Old Prison. Captain Kidd.\\nCourt Houses. Franklin Avenue. Kneelaud. Franklin.\\nEdes and Gill. Green and Russell. Fir.st Book and Nevv.^paper\\nprinted in Boston. Rufus Choate. Governor Leverett. John A.\\nAndrew. Henry Dunster. Town Pump. Old Brick. General\\nKnox. Count Rumford. John Winslow 08\\nCHAPTER III.\\nFROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER.\\nCa]itain Keayne. Coggan, first Shopkeeper. Old Cornhill. Old\\nState House. First Church. Stocks and Whipjiiug-Post. John\\nWilson. Wilson s Lane. United States Bank. Royal Exchange\\nTavern. William Sheafte. Royal Custom House. E.xchange Cof-\\nfee House. Columliian Centinel. Benjamin Russell. Louis\\nPhiliiipe. Louis Napoleon. Congress Street. Governors Dummer\\nand Belcher. First United States Custom House. Post-Otfice.\\nBunch of Grapes. General Lincoln. General Dearborn. First\\nCirculating Library. British Coffee House. Merchants Row.\\nFirst Inn. Lord Ley. Miantonimoh. Kilby Street. Oliver s\\nDock. Liberty Scpiare. The Stam^j Office. Broad Street. C om-\\nmodore Downes. Broad Street Riot. India Street and Wharf.\\nAdmiral Vernon. Crown Coffee House. Butler s Row. The\\nCustom House. Retrospective View of State Street. Long Wharf.\\nThe Barricado. T Wharf. Embarkation for Bunker Hiil 88\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nBRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK.\\nOld Cornhill. Paul Revere. Amos and Abliott Lawrence. Boyls-\\nf(in s Alley. Barracks of the 29th. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Blue Anchor. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Brattle Street\\nChurch. General Gage. Howe, Clinton, and Burgojaie. John\\nAdams. Headquarters of Stage-Coaches. Dock Square. Tlie\\nConduit. Town Dock described. Quincy Market. Origin of Mar-\\nkets in Boston. The Triangular Warehouse. Roebuck Passage.\\nClinton Street. The Old Market Museum. Old Cocked Hat.\\nFaneuil Hall. D Estaing. Lafayette. Jackson. Prince dc Join-\\nville. -Jerome Bonajiarte. Lord Ashburton. The Poitraits.\\nCorn Court. Hancock House. Talleyrand. State Cu.stom House.\\nThe Con.script ion Riot IIS", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. XI\\nCHAPTER V.\\nFROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY.\\nThe North End. Bo.ston Stone. Painters Anns. Louis P}iilippe.-\\nUnion, Elm, and Portland Streets. Benjamin Franklin s Residence.\\nThe Blue Ball. Lyman Beecher s Church. Benjamin Hallowell.\\nGreen Dragon. Pope Day. St. Andrew s Lodge. Mill Pond.\\nCauseway. Mill Creek. North Street. Sir D. Ochterlony. East-\\nern Stage House. Cros.s Street. The Old Stone House. New Brick\\nChurch. The Red Lyon. Nicholas Up.sliall. Edward Randolph.\\nNorth Square. Sir H. Frankland. Major Shaw. Pitcairn. Olil\\nNorth Churcli. Cottoi\\\\ Samuel, and Increase Mather. Governor\\nHutchinson. General Boyd. Fleet Street. King s Head Tavern.\\nBethel Church. Father Taylor. Hancock s Wharf. Swinging\\nSigns. First Universalist Church. First Methodist. New North.\\nShip Tavern. Noah s Ark. Salutation Tavern. The Boston\\nCaucus. The North Battery. Trucks and Truckmen 143\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nA VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS.\\nEarly Ship-Building. Boston Shipyards. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Massachusetts Frigate.\\nNew England Naval Flag. First Seventy-Four. Hartt s Naval\\nYard. The Constitution. Her Launch, History, and E.xjiloits.\\nAnecdotes of Hull, Bainltridge, and Decatur. Old Ironsides Rehuilt.\\nJosiah Barker. Nicholson. Prehle. Stewart. Other Distin-\\nguished Officers. Escape from tlie British Fleet. Anecdote of Dr.\\nBentley. Action with the Guerriere. The Java. Cyane and Le-\\nvant. Relics of Old Ironsides. Affair of the Figure-Head. Cap-\\ntain Dewey. The Frigate Boston. Capture of Le Bercean. The\\nArgus 178\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nCOPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY.\\nCopp s Hill. British Works. Ancient Arch. Wiu. Gray. Old\\nFerry. Reminiscences of Bunker Hill. The Cemetery. Curious\\nStones, Epitaphs, etc. Old Funeral Customs. Cliarter Street.\\nSir William Phips. John Foster Williams. John Hull. Colonial\\nMint. Christ Church. Revere s Night Ride. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Chimes. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The\\nVaults, Legends of. Major Pitcairn. Love Lane. North Latin\\nSchool. Prince Street. Salem Church. North End Heroes.\\nCaptain Manly. Massachusetts Spy. First Baptist Church. Sec-\\nond Baptist Church. Draft Riot, 1863 198", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Xll CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER Vlll.\\nTHE OLD SOUTH AND r KOVJNCE HOUSE.\\nMar]l:)i)r(iui;li Street. Governor Wiiithroi). Old Soutli. Warren s\\nOrations. Tea-Party Meeting. British Occu])ation. Phillis\\nWlieatley. Si)ring Lane. Heart and Crown. Boston Evening\\nPost. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Province House. Samuel Sliute. William Burnet. Wil-\\nliam Shirley. Tlidiiias Pownall. Francis Bernard. General Gage.\\nLexington Exju dition. Sir William Howe. Council of War.\\nCourt Dress and Manners. Governor Strong. Blue Bell and In-\\ndian Queen. Lieutenant-Governor Gushing. Jusiah Quiucy, Jr.\\nMayor Quincy 225\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nFRO.M THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HIEL.\\nBirthplace of Franklin. James Boutineau. Bowdoin Block.\\nHawley Street. Devonsliire and Franklin Streets. Josei)h Barrell.\\nThe Tontine. Boston Library. Cathedral of the Holy Cross.\\nBishop Cheverus. Federal Street Theatre. Some Account of Early\\nTheatricals in Boston. Kean, Finn, Macready, etc. John How-\\nard Payne. Federal Street C^hurch. The Federal Convention.\\nMadam Scott. Ilohert Treat Paine. Thomas Paine. Congress\\nStreet. Quaker Church and Burying-Ground. Sketch of the So-\\nciety of Friends ui Boston. Merchants Hall. Governor Shirley s\\nFuneral. Fire of 1760. Pearl Street. The Ropewalks. The\\nGrays. Conflicts between the Rope-Makers and the Regulars.\\nPearl Street House. Spurzheim. Washington Allston. -Tlieophi-\\nlus Parsons. T. H. Perkins. Governor Oliver. Quincy Mansion.\\nGovernor Gore. Liverpool W harf. Tea Party and Incidents of.\\nThe Sconce. Governor Andros Deposed. Sun Tavern. Foi t\\nHill 251\\nCHAPTER X.\\nA TOUR ROUND THE CO.MMON.\\nLong Acre. Tremont House. Mr. Clay. President Jackson.\\nCharies Dickens. Little House-Lot. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Tremont Theatre. The Ca-\\ndets. Adino Paddock. Paddock s Mall. Granary Burying-\\nGround. The Granary. Almshouse. Workhouse. Bridewell.\\nPark Street Church. Manufactory House. Linen-Spinning In-\\ntroduced. Elislia Brown. Massachusetts Bank. Incident of the\\nLexington Expedition. The Common. Its Origin. The Great\\nMall. Fences. Winter Street. Governor Bernard. John Mc-\\nLean. Samuel Adams. \u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Paul s. Masonic Temple. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Margaret\\nFuller. Washington XJardens. The Haymarket. West Street.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. xiii\\nThe Gun-House. Colonnade Row. Massachusetts Medical College.\\nHaymarket Theatre. Boylston Street. John Quincy Adams.\\nGeneral Moreau. Charles Francis Adams 2iy[)\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nA TOUR ROUND THE COMMON CONTINUED.\\nCommon Burying-Ground. Joshua Bates. Public Garden. Rope-\\nwalks. Topography of the Common. British Troops on. Descrip-\\ntion of their Camps. The Light Horse. Powder House. Old\\nElm. Witchcraft and Quaker Executions. The Duel in 1728.\\nMill-Dam. Mexican Volunteers. Beacon Street. Prescott.\\nCojJey. John Phillips. Wendell PhilliiJs. Robert C. Winthroii.\\nHancock Mansion. Governor Hancock. General Clinton.\\nState House. Public Statiies, etc. The Beacon. The Monument.\\nLafayette s Residence. George Ticknor. Malbone. Samuel\\nDexter. Incidents of Lafayette s Visit in 1824. Josiah Quincy,\\nJr. Historical Resume. Rejieal of the Stamp Act 323\\nCHAPTER Xir.\\nVALLEY ACRE, THE BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON.\\nGovernor Bowdoin. General Burgoyne. Boston Society in 1782.\\nDavid Hinckley s Stone Houses. James Lloyd. Lafayette. Dan-\\niel Davis. Admiral Davis. Historic Genealogical Society. Valley\\nAcre. Uriah Cotting. Governor Eustis. Anecdote of Governor\\nBrooks. Millerite Tabernacle. Howard Athenoeum. Bowling\\nGreen. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Old Boston Physicians. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Cliarles Bulfinch. New Fields.\\nPeter Chardon. Mrs. Pelham. Peter Pelliam. Tliomas Melvill.\\nDr. William Jenks. Captain Gooch. West Church. Leverett\\nStreet Jail. Poor Debtors. Alm.shouse. Massachusetts General\\nHospital. Medical College. National and Eagle Theatres 361\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nFROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE.\\nChurch Green. New Soutli Church. Dr. Kirkland. American Head-\\nquarters. General Heath. Anecdote of General Gates. Jerome\\nBonaparte. Sir William Pepperell. Nathaniel Bowditch. George\\nBancroft. Trinity Church. Seven Star Inn and Lane. Peter\\nFaneuil. Governor Sullivan. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Small- Pox Parties. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Duke of Kent.\\nSir Edmund Andros. Lamb Tavern. White Horse Tavern.\\nColonel Daniel Messinger. Lion Tavern. Handel and Haytbi So-\\nciety. Lion Theatre. Curious Statement about Rats 380", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "XIV CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nLIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.\\nLilierty Tree. Its History. Hanover Square. Liberty Hall.\\nHanging in Eliigy. Auclimuty s Lane. The Old Suttblk Bench and\\nBar. Boylston Market. Charles Matthews. James E. Murdoch.\\nPeggy Moore s. Washington Bank. Beach Street Museum.\\nEssex Street. Rainsford s Lane. Harrison Avenue. Admiral Sir\\nIsaac Cothn. General John Coffin. Anecdote of Admiral Coffin.\\nSir Thomas Aston Coffin. Henry Bass. Old Distill-Houses.\\nManul actnre of Rum. Gilbert Stuart, Anecdotes of. First Cllass\\nWorks. Disappearance of Trees. Early planting of Trees. Sir\\nRoger Hale Sheatfe. South Cove. Hollis Street. Colonel John\\nranc. General Ebenezer Stevens. Mather Byles, Anecdotes of.\\nHollis Street Church. Fire of 1787 39(3\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nTHE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS.\\nThe Neck described. Measures to protect the Road. Paving the\\nNeck. Henry T. Tuckernian. Old Houses vs. Modern. Massa-\\nchusetts Mint. Tlie Gallows. Anecdote of Warren. E.xecutions.\\nEarly Fortifications. The British Works and Armament. Amer-\\nican Works. Geoi ge Tavern. Washington s Staff. His Personal\\nTraits. Washington House. Washington Hotel. Anecdotes of\\nGeorge Tavern. Scarcity of Powder. Continental Flags. Entry\\nof Washington s Army. Entry of Rochambeau s Army. Paul\\nJones 418\\nINDEX 439", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPage\\nBoston in 1830, from City Point, Windmill Point in Foreground F n ml i apiece\\nDaniel Webster s Residence, Somerset Street 46\\nConcert Hall, Court and Hanover Streets, from a Water-color TO\\nSouthwest View of the Old State House, in 1791 88\\nState Street in 1825, looking West 112\\nNorth Square, with Paul Revere s Birthplace, in 1872 158\\nDaring Feat of Isaac Harris the Old South in Flames 232\\nWashington Street, Day after the Great Fire: Guarding tiie Ruins 248\\nThe Great Mall, Haymarket, and Theatre 312\\nBoston Common as a Cow Pasture, with the Great Kim 328\\nResidence of Hon. John Phillips, First Mayor of Boston, Beacon Street 336\\nHancock House, Beacon Street 342\\nLamb Tavern, Newbury (now Washington) Street 392\\nPassenger Train and Station, Boston and Worcester Railroad, with\\nTrinity Church in the Distance 410\\nWinter Scene on Boston Neck, Fifty Years Ago 418\\nBoston in 1775, from Roxbury, near Shirley House 432", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.\\nPage\\nAmerica in Distress 359\\nAncient Hduse, Dock Square 133\\nAncient Ship 178\\nAncient Windmill 199\\nBeacon, The 34!)\\nBlue Ball, The, Sign of Josias Franklin 146\\nBoston Stone 143\\nBoston Theatre, and Franklin Street 257\\nBrattle Street Church 123\\nBrazen Head, The, Old Cornhill 117\\nBritish Lines, Boston Neck, in 1775 425\\nBunch of Grapes, The 105\\nCavalier 11\\nChrist Church 213\\nColonial Currency, One Penny 237\\nColonial Currenc} Two Pence 237\\nColonial Currency, Three Pence 238\\nColonial Stamp, Half-Penn} 239\\nColonial Stamp, Two Pence 240\\nColonial Stamp, Three Pence 240\\nColonial Stamp, Four Pence 240\\nColony Seal 242\\nConstitution s Figure-IIead, War of 1812 182\\nConstitution on the Ways 192\\nDay after the Great Fire 27\\nEndicott Cutting out the Cross 48\\nExchange Coffee-House 98", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. XVll\\nFaneuil Hall before its Enlargement 134\\nFaiieuil Hall witli Quincy Market 136\\nFaneuil Hall Lottery-Ticltet 343\\nFaueuil, Peter, Autograph 387\\nFaust s Statue, Newbury Street 391\\nFirst Baptist Church, 1853 151\\nFranklin s Birthplace 252\\nFrankland Mansion l 4\\nGage, General, Autograph 243\\nGlasgow Frigate 208\\nGranary Burying-Grounel 2!\u00c2\u00bb7\\nHancock House 339\\nHollis Street Church 415\\nIndian Wigwam 8\\nJulien House 270\\nKing s Chapel in 1872 29\\nLafayette s Lodgings 353\\nLiberty Tree 397\\nLinen Spinning-Wheel 302\\nMassachusetts Cent of 1787 422\\nMassachusetts General Hospital 377\\nINIatherTomb 204\\nMonument (Beacon Hill) 350\\nNational Theatre 379\\nNow Brick Church 1\\nNew England Flag\\nNew North Church 1\\nNew South Church 380\\nOld Brick Church 84\\nOld Corner Bookstore\\nOld Court-House\\nOld Elm, The 330\\nOld Federal Street Church 203\\nOld King s Chapel 31\\nOld Loom 322", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "XVlll ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.\\nOld Printing-Press 79\\nOld South Church 227\\nOld State House 89\\nOld JVinity Church 386\\nPark Street Church 301\\nParliamentary Stamp, Half-Penny 81\\nParliamentary Stamp, One Shilling 81\\nPillory, The 93\\nTine-Tree Shilling, 1652 211\\nProvince House 235\\nRepeal Obelisk 358\\nRevere s Picture of Boston in 1768 119\\nSaint Paul s Church 310\\nSears Estate (Beacon Street) 335\\nShip of the Time of the Pilgrims 180\\nShirley Arms 36\\nShirley, Governor, Portrait 28\\nSign of Cromwell s Head 67\\nSign of the Three Doves 147\\nSix-Penny Piece 212\\nSpeaker s Desk and Winslow s Chair 347\\nSt. Botolph s Church 6\\nStocks, The 92\\nTea-Chest 282\\nThree-Penny Piece 212\\nTremont Theatre 292\\nTriangular Warehouse 131\\nTrimountain 3\\nTrinity Church in 1872 387\\nTro| hy of Indian Weapons 1\\nUnited States Hank 95\\nWarren, William, Portrait 41\\nWashington s Lodgings 12\\nWest Church 74\\nWindow of Brattle Street Churcii, with Cannon-Bail 124\\nWinthrop Fording the River 25\\nWoolen Spinning-Wheel 302", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "INTPtODUCTION.\\nMyles Stiiiidisli. William Blackstone. Shawinut. Settlement by Win-\\nthrop s Company. Trimountain. Boston. Phy.sical Features. Area.\\nSettlement by Indians. Character of first Buildings. First Location\\nof the Settlers. Geographical Divisions. Wood and Water. Dress.\\nManners and Customs. Slavery. Curious old Laws. Government of\\ntlie Town. Allotment of Lands. Intolerance of the Times. The\\nPulpit a Means of Intelligence. Accounts by various Writers. To\\\\vu\\nRecords. General Growth and Progress. Population. Wards.\\nPaving the Streets. Lighting tlie Streets. Su]\u00c2\u00bbply of Water. En-\\nlargement of Boston. Communication with Mainland. Ferries.\\nBridges. Coaches, public and private. Railways.\\nAJST okl Boston divine say.s, It would be no unprofitable\\nthing for you to pass over the several streets and call to\\nmind who lived here so many years ago. We learn from the\\npoet Gay how to [)re[)are for our rand)les through the town\\nHow to walk clean liy day, and safe by night\\nHow jostling crowds with prudetice to decline,\\nWlien to assert the wall and when resign.\\nTo see or not to see is the lu oblcni presented to him who\\nwalks the streets of town or village. What to one is a heap\\nof ruins or a blank wall may to another become the abode of\\nthe greatest of our ancestors or the key to a remote period. A\\nmound of earth becomes a battlement a graveyard, a collection\\nof scattered pages whereon we read the history of the times.\\nFacts are proverbially dry, and we shall trouble the reader\\nas little as possible with musty records or tedious chronology;\\n1 A", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nbut before we set out to explore and reconstruct, a brief glance\\nat the material progress of Boston seems desirable.\\nFor a hundred years Boston must bo considered as little\\nmore than a sea-shore village, straggling u}) its thicket-grown\\nhillsides. The Indian camp-fire, the axe of Blackstone, the\\nmattock and spade of Winthrop s band, each liave their story\\nand their lesson. We shall pass each period in rapid review.\\nWhether INIyles Standisli, l)r(iad in the slioulders, deep-\\nehested, witli muscles and sinews of iron, was the first white\\nman who stood on the beach of the peninsula is a matter merely\\nof conjecture. Certain it is that in 1621 this redoulitable\\nPuritan soldier, with ten companions, sailed from Plymouth and\\nlanded somewhere in what is now Ik)ston Bay. Tliey crossed\\nthe bay, which is very large, and hath at least fifty islands in\\nit and, after exploring the shores, decided that better har-\\nbors for shijiping there cannot be than here. They landi l,\\nhobnobbed with Olibatinewat, lord of the sod, feasted upon\\nloljsters and boiled codfish, and departed, leaving no visiljle\\ntraces for us to inirsue. Tliis expedition was undertaken to\\nsecure the friendship of the Massachusetts Indians, a\\nresult fidly accomplished by Standish.\\nThe Indians told the Englishmen that two large rivers flowed\\ninto the bay, of which, however, they saw but one. This cir-\\ncumstance, indefinite as it is, justifies the opinion that Stan-\\ndish s party landed at Shawmut, the Indian name for our penin-\\nsula. If they had landed at Charlestown and ascended the\\nheights there, as is supposed by some writers, they could hardly\\nhave escaped seeing both the My.stic and Charles, Avhile at\\nShawmut they woiUd probably have sv.an only the latter river.\\nIn William Blackstone, Episcopalian, Ave have the first white\\nsettler of tlie peninsula. The date of his settlement has been\\nsui)posed to have been about lG2r), although there is nothing\\nconclusive on this point known to tlie writer. Here he was,\\nhowever, in 1628, when we find him taxed by the Plymouth\\nColony twelve shillings, on account of the expenses incurred\\nl y the colony in the capture of Thomas Morton at Mount\\nWoUaston.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "INTUOUUCTION.\\nThe place Avhere Blackstnni located his dwelling has given\\nrise to inueh controversy, but can be tixed with some degree\\nof certainty. Like a sen-\\nsible man, Blackstone chose\\nthe snnny southwest slope\\nof I eacon Hill fur his res-\\nidence. The records show\\nthat in April, lG-3.3, it is\\nagreed that William I Slack-\\nstone shall have fifty acres\\nset out for him near his\\nhouse in Boston to enjoy\\nforevi r. In the folhnving\\nyear Blackstone sold the\\ntown all of his allotment\\nexcept six acres, on part if tkim..i ntmn.\\nwhicli his house then stood the sale also including all iiis right\\nin and to the peninsula, a right thus, in some i oim, icctog-\\nnized ])y Winthrop and his associates. Tiie jnice paid for the\\nwhole peninsula of Boston was 30, assessed, upon the inhabi-\\ntants of the town, some })aying six shillings, and some more,\\naccording to their circumstances and condition.\\nThe CharlestoAvn records locate IHackstone as dwelHiig on\\nthe other side of Charles Biver, alone, to a place by tlie Indians\\ncalled Hhawmut,* where he only had a cottage at a [ilace not\\nI ar olf tlu! place called Blackstone s Point this is also con-\\nhrmed by Johnson, in his Wonder Working Providence\\n[irinted in 1G54. After tlie [jurchase by tlie town of Black-\\nstone s forty-four acres, they laid out the training tield, whicli\\nwas ever since used for that purpose and the feeding of cattle.\\nThis was the origin of Boston Common. Two landmarks ex-\\nisted to lix the site of Blackstone s house, namely, the orchard\\nplanted by him, the first in New England, and his sjiring.\\nThe orchard is represented on the early maps is mentioned in\\n1765 as still bearing fruit and is named in the deeds of sub~\\nPerhaps an abbreviation of Musliauwoniuk, as given in Grinilal Ravi^son s\\nConfessions of Faith, printed in 1699. Probably meaning unclaimed land.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "4 LANDMAUKS OF BOSTON.\\nsequent possessors. The spring, whicli must have rh termined\\nto some extent tlio location of tlie house, was prol)ahly near tlie\\njunction of I5eacon Street wiili harles, altliough otlicrs existetl\\nin tlie neighhorhood. Tlie six acres which Mr. Ijlackstone re-\\nserved have heen traced through IJichard IV pys, an original pos-\\nsessor l)y a sulticiently clear connection, su])plied Avliere lodkeii\\nhy depdsitions, to the Mount Vernon i)roprietois. oj lcy, the\\ncelelirated }\u00c2\u00bbainter, was once an owner of Blackstone s six acres,\\nwhif li were bounded hy the Common on the south and tlie\\nriver on the west.\\nWarkslone was as singuLir a clKiracter as can Ite found in\\nthe annals of JJoston. He is sui)posed to liave come over witli\\nEobert Gorges in 1623. ut wliat induced him to witlulraw\\nto such a distance from the settlements remains a mystery. By\\na coincidence, his namesake, 8ir AVilliam Blackstone, the great\\ncommentator of the laws of England, wrote at a later period the\\nfollowing lines\\nAs by .some tyrant s stern coniiuand,\\nA wretch forsakes liis native land,\\n111 liircitin climes condenined to roam,\\nAn endless exile from liis home.\\nThe nature of Blackstom/s claim to the peninsida is doubt-\\nful, though we have seen it recognized by AVinthrop s com-\\npany. Mather grumblingly alludes to it thus in his Magnalia\\nTht re were also some godly Episcopalians; among whom has\\nIm cii iT ckoned Mr. BlaiOvstone wlio, by happening to sleep\\nliist in an old liovel upon a point of land tlii re, laid claim to\\nall the ground uliereupoii there now stands tlie JMetropolis of\\nthe. wliole iMiglisli America, until the inha])itants gave liini\\nsatisfietion. This eon(;edes only a s(piatter s title to Black-\\nstone, lie seems to have had a. kind heart, capable of feeling\\ni or tlie sulferings of liis fellow-men, for, hearing of the vicissi-\\ntniles of Winthrop s infant settlement at Charlestown liy disease\\nand death, he invited them over to Shawmut in 1(1.30. AVater,\\ntht! great desidei atuni of a settlement, was very scarce at*\\nCharlestown, and Ulackstone came and acipiainted the Cov-\\nernur of an excellent spring there, Avithal inviting hiui and", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 5\\nsoliciting him tliither. If seclusion was Blackstone s ohject,\\nit gave way to his interest in the welfare of his fellow-colonists.\\nUpon Blackstone s advice the (Jharlestown settlers acted,\\nand many removed to Shawmut by the enil of August, 1G30.\\nIn the lirst boat-load that went over was Anne Pollard, who\\nlived to be nearly, if not quite, one hundred and live yeais\\nold. She herself related, when more than one hundred years\\nof age, that she came over in one of tlie hrst ships that\\narrived in Charlestown that in a day or two niiw her arrival,\\non accoimt of tlie water there being liad, a nunilier of tlic young\\npeople, including herself, took the ship s boat to cross over to\\nBoston that as the boat drew up towards tlu^ shore, she (being\\nthen a rom^jing girl) declared she would l)e the lirst to land,\\nand accordingly, before any one, jumptnl from the bow of tlie\\nboat on to the beach. According to this statement, wliich is\\nbased iipon good authority, Anne Bollard was the lirst white\\nfemale that trod upon the soil of Boston, lluilson s Point, now\\nthe head of Charlestown Itridge, but formerly tlie site of tlu^\\nold ferry, was probably the place where Anuv. first left the\\nimpress of her foot. Iler portrait, at the age of one hundred\\nand three years, is in the possession of the Massacliusctfs His-\\ntorical Society, and her deposition, at the age of ciglity nine\\nyears, was used to substantiate the location of IMackstone s\\nhouse. In it she says that Mr. Blackstone, after his remo\\\\ al\\nfrom Boston, fretpiently resorted to her husban rs house, and\\nthat slur never heard any controversy about the land, lietweeii\\nher husband, Pepys, or Blackstone, but that it was always\\nrejjuted to belong to the latter.\\nBlackstone, in 1G34, removed to Behoboth, not liking, we\\nmay conclude, the close proximity of his Puritan neighbors, of\\nwhom he is reported to have said, that he left England because\\nof his dislike to the Lords Bishojis, but now he would not be\\nunder the Lords Brethren.\\nIn ICnO Blackstone was married to Mary Stevenson of\\nBoston, widow, by Governor Endicott. He die(l iu 1 GTH, a short\\ntime before the breaking out of King Philip s AVar, during Avliich\\nhis plantation was ravaged by the Indians, and his dwelling", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "6\\nLANDMAltKS OF BOSTON.\\ndestroyed, with his papers and Ixiolcs, a circumstanco that has\\nprevented, perliaps, the veil hcing hfted that slirouds his early\\nhistory. It is said no trace of his grave exists; hut he left\\nhis name to a nohle liver, and the city which he founded per-\\npetuates it hy a piddic S(iuaie and street.\\nThe settlers at liarlestown called Shawmut Trimonntain, not,\\nsays 8haw, on account of the three ])rinci])al hills, suhse-\\nHUcntly ojip s, Tx-acon, and Fort, hut from the three peaks of\\nIleacon Hill, which was then coiisideicd (piite a high mountain,\\nand is so spoken of hy AVood, one of the early wiiters al)out\\nBoston; the reader will know that lieacon and its two outlying\\nspurs of Cotton (Pemherton) and j\\\\It. A ernon aie meant.\\nOn the 7fh of Se})tend)er, 10:1(1 (dhl style), at a court\\nheld in harlestown, it was orilered that rrimountain he called\\nISoston. Many of the set-\\ntlers had already taken U])\\ntheir residence there, and\\nthither the frame of the\\ngovei uor s house was car-\\nried, and people hegaii to\\nhuild tlieii houses against\\nwinter. linging to tlie\\nold associations of iheir\\nnative land, thi^ settlei s\\nnamed their new home for\\nold r ost(inin Lincolnshire,\\nFaigland, whence a num-\\nlier of meudters of the com-\\npany had emigrate(l. Die\\nname itself owes its origin\\nto J xitolph, a )iious old\\nSaxon of the se\\\\enth cen-\\ntury, afterwards canonized\\nST. liOTOLiMi s, iJUMToN, i^NuLAND. as tlic tut(tlar saiut of mar-\\niners, and shows an ingenuity of c(U ruption for which England\\nis famed. h ecipiiical couitesies have heen exchanged hetween\\nI aiglisli r.nstoii and hei namesake. The ioruHir pieseiited her", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 7\\ncharter in a frame of the wood of okl Saint Botolpli s church,\\nwhich hangs in our City Hall, wliile Edward Everett, in the\\nname of the descendants and admirers of John Cotton, gave\\n2,000 for the restoration of a chapel in St. Botolpli s, and the\\nerection therein of a monument to the memory of that much\\nvenerated divine, who had been vicar of St. Botolpli s and\\nafterwards minister of the First Church of Christ in Boston,\\nNew England.\\nBoston had three striking topographical features. First, its\\npeninsular character, united by a narrow isthmus to the main\\nland next, its three hills, of which the most westerly (Beacon)\\nwas the highest, all washed at their base by the sea and lastly,\\ncorresponding to her hills, were three coves, of which the most\\neasterly, enclosed by the headlands of Copp s and Fort Hill,\\nbecame the Town Cove and Dock. Of the other coves, the one\\nlying to the south of the Town Cove was embraced between\\nthe point of land near the foot of South Street, formerly known\\nas Windmill Point, and the head of the bridge to South Boston\\nthis bight of water was the South Cove. A third inlet on the\\nnorthwest of the peninsula, lying between the two points of\\nland from Avhicli now extend bridges to Charlestown and East\\nCambridge, became subsequently the Mill Pond, by the build-\\ning of a causeway on substantially the present line of Causeway\\nStreet. Only the most salient features are here given other\\ninteresting peculiarities will be alluded to in their places.\\nAt high tides the sea swept across the narrow neck, and\\nthere is every reason to believe also covered the low ground now\\ntraversed by Blackstone Street. This would make, for the time\\nbeing, two islands of Boston. The early names given to the\\nstreets on the water front described the sea-margin, as Fore\\n(North) Beach, and Back (now Salem) Streets.\\nIn process of time these distinctive characteristics have aU\\nchanged. Boston can no longer l)e called a peninsula one of\\nits summits, Fort Hill, has to-day no existence, while the others\\nhave been so shorn of their proportions and altitude as to pre-\\nsent a very different view from any quarter of approach as for\\nthe three coves, they have been converted into terra Jirma.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTlie area of original Boston lias l)cen variously estimated.\\nBy Shaw, at 700 acres Dr. Morse, the geographer, placed it in\\n1800 at 700 acres, admitting that some accounts tix it as high\\nas 1,000 acres, while Dr. Shurtleii says less than 1,000 acres.\\nThere is good autliority, however, for computing tlie original\\npeninsula at not more than G25 acres of lirni ground. To\\nthis has been added, by the lilling of the Mill Pond, .00 acres\\nthe South Cove, 75 acres (up to 1837) and liy tlie tilling of tlie\\nTown Cove or Dock, ami the building of m-w streets (Ui the\\nwater front, enough had been reclaimed by 1852 to amount to\\nGOO acres, nearly the original area. Since that time the\\nBack Bay improvement, which covers G80 acres, and Atlantic\\nAvenue, wliich follows the oM Hanii ado liin have added as\\nmuch more to the ancient territory, so that we may safely\\nconsider her original limits trel)led, without reference to what\\nhas been ac(iuired by annexation.\\nAt the lime of the English settlement hostilities existed be-\\ntween the Massa(llusett^ ind tin ist( in Indi ms the natives,\\n_ mIio seldom neg-\\n^li= 1( cted to provide\\nfor retr(^at in case\\nof defeat, chose\\n1 dlier to locate\\ntheir A illages fai\\nllier inland, at\\nMvstie and else-\\nW lielV.\\nThere is evi-\\ndi nee, liowe\\\\ ei\\ntil it Shawmiit was\\neither iidiabitcil by\\nthe Indians at a veiy early jieiiod, or used as a i)lace of sepul-\\nture by them. ])r. Mather related that three bundled skull-\\nbones had been dug u]) on Cotton (Peiiiberton) Hill mIkmi Ih^\\nwas a youth, and tradition long ascribed to this locality a, sort\\nof G(\u00c2\u00bblgotha. I o suppoii this view there was found in Ajuil\\n1733, says the Xew faiglaiid dournal, a number of skulls and\\nINDIAN WKIUAM", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 9\\nlarger human bones by workmen digging in a garden near Dr.\\nCooper s liouse on Cotton Hill. These remains were considered,\\nat the time, to be those of the natives. Bost(m lias been\\nthoroughly excavated without linding any further material to\\nconfirm this belief.\\nThe chai acter of the lirst buildings was extremely rude.\\nThey were of wood, with thatched roofs, and chimneys l)uilt\\nof pieces of wood placed crosswise, the intei stices and outside\\ncovered vriih clay. Such was the economy of the times, that\\n(Jovernor Winthrop reproved his deputy, in 1632, that he\\ndid not well to l)estow so much cost about wainscotting and\\nadorning his house in the beginning of a jilantation, lioth in\\nregard of the public charges, and i nr \\\\ample. The answer\\nAvas, that it was for the warmth i his house, and the chaige\\nwas little, being Itut clapl)oai ls nailed to the walls in tlie I oiiii\\nof wainscot.*\\nIt is comparatively recent that Boston liegan to be a city of\\nbrick and stone. A few solidly built structures were scattered\\nhere and there over a wide area but the mass were of wood, in\\nsjnte of some attemi)ts made by the town to induce a safer and\\nmore duralde style of architecture. A lady, entering Boston in\\n1795, remarks: The ranges of wooden buildings all situateil\\nwith one end towards the street, and Ihe nuniei ous (liaises wv\\nmet, drawn l)y one horse, the driver being jilace(l on a low scat\\nin front, appealed to me veiy singular. Anotlier writer ob-\\nserves of the town in 1805 The houses were most of them\\nwood, seldom erdivened by ]Kunt, and closely resembling the old-\\nfashioned, dark looking editici s still U be seen in Newport, 11. I.\\nAt this time there was but one brick house in the whole of\\nTremont Street, and it was not until 1793 that the lirst Idock\\nof brick buildings was erected in what is now Franklin Street.\\nIn 1803 the inflammable character of the town was thus\\ndescribed by Winthrop Sargent:\\nA pyre of sliapelc^ss stnictiircs crowds the spot,\\nWhere taste, and all Imt clieainiess is forgot.\\nOne little spark the funeral jiile may fire,\\nAnd Boston, Ijlazintj, see itself expire.\\nWinthn ii s Journal, p. 88.\\n1", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "10 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nWintlirop s company located chicily witliin tlie space com-\\nprised hetween what arc now Milk, Bromfield, Tremont, and\\nITaiiover Streets and the water. Pemberton Hill was also a\\nfavorite locality, as we shall have occasion to note. The North\\nJ^id, T)y removals and accessions, soon became also settled\\nthat portion (if the town lying north of Union Street being\\nthus designated, while all south of that boundary was called\\nthe South End. A third geographical division, emljracing the\\ndistrict lying to the west and north of Beacon Hill, and west\\nand south of tlie Mill r )nd, ^vas known as New Boston, and\\nalso as West Boston, and iinally as the West End. These\\nnames have been retained, but the boundaries of all but the\\nNorth End have been considered movable, and would l)c diffi-\\ncult to follow.\\nThe first settlers found Boston thinly wooded, whatever its\\noriginal condition may have been. The timber lay mainly\\nalong the Neck, with clumps of trees here and there. The great\\nelm on the Common was doubtless one of native growth, and\\nbefore the Revolution of 177G there was another almost equally\\nlarge near the corner of what is now West and Tremont Streets.\\nTraditions exist of the Indians having planted on the ^lenin-\\nsula, clearing away the wood, as is their custom, by burning.\\nThere are old houses now standing at the Nortli End, the tim-\\nbers of which, some of them a foot square, are said to have been\\ncut near Copp s Hill.\\nWater was abundant and good. Besides the spring or\\nsprings near Blackstone s house, mention is made in the early\\nrecords of the great spring in what is now Spring Lane.\\nThe latter was filled up, but people now li^ng have seen it\\nl)ul)l)liiig out of the ground after heavy spring rains. Opinions\\nare divided as to which spring Blackstone had reference, when\\nhe invited the thirsty Charlestown company to Shawmut, but\\nthe fact of so many people having located by the site of the\\ngreat spring, and Isaac Johnson in tiie immediate vicinity,\\nis convincing. Other springs existed, or were found in course\\nof time on the Neck and elsewher(\\\\\\nThe settlement of Boston ojjcns in the reigu of Charles the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\n11\\nFirst, and the dress, as well as the manners and customs of the\\npeople liear the impress of that time, with the distinction, that\\nthe religious sentiments of the settlers entered largely into hoth\\n(][uestions. The sliort cloak, douhlet, and silk stockings were\\nworn by people of condition, hut the colors were subdued and\\nsober, and the rapier, which King Charles s gallants were so\\nready to draw, Wiis not much worn abroad, except on .state\\noc(;asions. Some, like Winthrop, wore the stilf, plait( d rutf,\\ncontaining a furlong of linen, and making the modern beluildcr\\nsympathize witli the pillory the unfor-\\ntunate head is placed in, while others\\nwore the broad falling collar in which\\nwe always see the great Protector. High-\\ncrowned felt hats were worn out of doors,\\nwhile the velvet skull-cap was the favor-\\nite headdress witliin.\\nMyles Standish, whom we singh; out\\nas a type of the Puritan soldier of those\\ndays, is described by Longfellow as clad\\nin doublet and hose, with boots of Cor-\\ndovan leather glancing complacently\\nat his arms on the wall, cutlass and\\ncorslet of steel, and his trusty sword of\\nDamascus, with its curved point and\\nArabic inscripti(Mi. The manner of wearing the hair l)ecame\\nvery early an apple of discord. Those of the straitest sect, antl\\nit may be of the straightest hair, cut their locks in the short\\nfashion of the roundheads while others, to whom nature had,\\nperhaps, been more lavish in this respect, wore their hair long.\\nThe wearing of veils by ladies when abroad was the subject\\nof a crusade by Kev. John Cotton, though championed by\\nEndicott.\\nIn 1750 cocked-hats, wigs, and red cloaks were usually\\nworn by gentlemen. Except among military men, boots were\\nrarely seen. In Avinter, round coats were worn, made stiff with\\nbucki am, and coming down to the knees in front. Boys wore\\nAvigs and cocked-hats until about 1700. Powder was worn by\\ngentlemen until after 1800.\\nLAVALIEH.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "12 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTlie toilets of ladies were elahovate, especially the hair, whieh\\nwas arraii^eil c)n cra})e cushions so as to stand u]) high. Hmue-\\ntimes ladies were dressed the day before a party, aud slejit in\\neasy-chairs to keep their hair in conditidu. Hoops were indis-\\npen.sable in full dress until after 1790. The usual dinner hour\\nwas two o clock. l)rinking 2)unch in the forenoon, in public\\nhduses, Avas the common }iractice. Wine was little used, con-\\nvivial parties drinking punch or toddy.\\nThe bearing of the t \u00c2\u00bbwnspeople in i)ublic was grave and\\naustere. How could it be otherwise under the operation of\\nsuch ordinances as the following. No strangers were permitted\\nto live within the town without giving bonds to save the town\\nhannless from all damage and charge for entertaining them.\\nFor galloiiing througli the streets, except up(\u00c2\u00bbn days (\u00c2\u00bbf njili-\\ntary exercise or any extraordinaiy case re(juire, was two\\n.shillings tine. Football was prohiliiteil in the streets. No\\nperson shall take any tobacco publicly, under ])enalty of one\\nshilling. For entertaining foreigners, or receiving in-\\nmates, servants, or journeymen connng for helj) in jihysic or\\nsurgery, without leave of the selectmen, Avas twenty shillings\\ntine a week. The selectmen had authority, nmler the colony,\\nto order parents to bind their children as apprentices, or ])ut\\nthem out to service, and, if they lefused, the town took the\\nchildren from the charge of the jiarents.\\nSobriety was strictly inculcated, though the sale of liquors was\\nlicensed. It is on record that, Septemlier IT), 1G41, there was a\\ntraining of twelve hundred men at lioston for two days, but no\\none was drunk, and no one swore. (Jtlicers were appointed,\\nwitli long wands, to correct the inattentive or shunbering at\\nchurch. To be absent from meeting was unlawful, while to\\nspeak ill of the minister was to incur severe punishment. An\\ninstance is mentioned of a man Ix ing fined for kissing his wife\\nin his own grounds and do not the following instructions to\\nthe watch smack strongly of Dogberry s famous charge The\\nnumber being eight, they are to walk two by two together;\\na youth joined with an older and more .sober person. If\\nafter ten o clock they see lights, to inquire if there be warrant-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 13\\nable cause and if tlioy licar any noise or disoriler, wisely to\\ndemand the reason if they are dancing and singing vainly, to\\nadmonish them to cease if they do not discontinue, after\\nmoderate admonition, then the constaldc to take their names\\nand acquaint the authorities therewith. If they find young\\nmen and maidens, not of known hdelity, walking after ten\\no clock, modestly to demand the caiise and if they appear\\nill-minded, to watch them narrowly, command them to go to\\ntheir lodgings, and if they refuse, then to secure them till\\nmorning.\\nNegro slavery appears in Boston as early as 1G38, when at\\nleast three slaves were held by Maverick on Noddle s Island.\\nIn this year the ship Desire l)rought negroes here from the\\nWest Indies. In 1680, according to Judge Sewall, there were\\nnot above two hundred African slaves in the colony. An effort\\nis on record in 1702 to put a sto[) to holding blacks as slaves,\\nand to encourage the use of white servants, the representa-\\ntives of the town being instructed to this purpose. Slavery\\nseems, however, to have stc^adily in(;reased in the colony, the\\ntrallic proving profitable, until at length it was as common to\\nsee negroes offered for sale in the public prints, as it ever was\\nin the Southern colonies. In 1767 the town again moved,\\nthrough its representatives for the abolition of slavery, to no\\neffect. A Tory writer asserts that there were at this time\\ntwo thousand slaves in Boston. During the troubles of 1768\\nthe British officers were (charged with inciting the slaves to\\ninsurrection, and blacks were held in servitude until after the\\nIievolution.\\nBut this was not all. It is but little known that Avhite\\nslavery was tolerated in the colony, and that tlie miserable\\ndependents of feudal power were sold into servitude in England\\nand transported to this country. Prisoners of war were thus\\ndisposed of under the great Cromwell, some of the captives of\\nDunbar having l)een shipped over seas to America. A ship-\\nload of Scotch prisoners was consigned 1651 to Thomas Kem-\\nble of Charlestown, the same who was afterwards a resident\\nof Boston. Tliey were generally sold for a specific term of ser-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "14 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nvice, iind useil o])i( ily as I ani) lalxn-crs. ]\\\\Iaiiy were sei)t to\\nNorth Carolina, and indeed but lew ol the eolonies were with-\\nout them.\\nAmong the early customs was that of tlie watchmen crying\\nthe time of niglit and giving an accuunt of the weather as they\\nwent their rounds, a i)ractice which prevailed iVir a hundred\\nyears. The British sentinels later gave the cry of ^Vll s well\\nas they paced their beats. The ringing of tlie nine-o clock bell\\nAvas first ordered in 1649. The wat(diman s rattle was intro-\\nduced about the time Boston became a city.\\nThe government of the town was vested in nine selectmen,\\nand is first i ound on the records, November, 1G43 but not nntil\\nNovember 29, 1G45, is the oliicial statement ri corded that J dim\\nWinthrop and nine others were chosen selectmen. This con-\\ntinued to be the form of government until the city was incor-\\nporated, Feburary 23, 1822. The first city government was\\norganized on the first of INIay following, and John Phillips was\\nthe first, Josiah Quincy the second, and Harrison Gray Otis\\nthe third mayor. Ste})S were taken as early as 1 708 to })etition\\nthe General Court to have the town incorporated into a city or\\nborough, and again in 1784, l)ut without success.\\nIn 1632 the Colonial legislature declared it to be the fittest\\nplace for |)ublic meetings of any place in the Bay, since Avhicli\\ntime it has remained the capital of Massachusetts. lioston at\\nfirst included within its government the islands of the harbor,\\nMuddy Ttiver (Brookline), Winnisimet (Chelsea), INIount AVol-\\nlaston (Braintree), Randolph, and Quincy. She is now striving\\nto recover i)ortions of her ancient territory.\\nFor a long time the allotment of lands was the i)nncipal\\nbusiness of the town officers. In the limits of the peninsula\\nthe rule was, two acres to plant on, and for every able youth\\none acre within the neck and Noddle s Island (lilast Boston).\\nIn 1635 it was agreed, no new allotments should be granted\\nunto any new-comer, Init such as may be likely to be received\\nmembers of the congregation. The town regulated the price\\nof cattle, commodities, victuals, and the wages of laborers, and\\nnone other were to be given or taken.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 15\\nThe spirit of intolerance which the fathers of Boston exhih-\\nited towards the Quakers, Anabaptists, Episcopalians, and\\nother sects illustrates their view of religious liberty. Well\\ndid Dryden say\\nOf all the tyrannies on human kind,\\nThe worst is that which persecutes the mind\\nLet us but weigh at what offence we strike,\\nT is but because we cannot tliink alike\\nIn punishing of this we overthrow\\nThe laws of nations, and of nature too.\\nIt was an offence to harbor a Quaker to attend a (Quaker\\nmeeting was a hue of ten shillings, to itreach, 5. Wlien tlie\\nBaptists first attempted to enter tlieir meeting-house in Still-\\nman Street, tliey found the doors nailed up, and when they\\nproceeded to worship in the open air, they were arrested and\\nimprisoned. No one could be found to sell land for an E})isco-\\npal church, nor couhl a place be had to hold services in until\\nAndros obtained the Old South by forcible entry. The crimi-\\nnal law decreed banishment to such as broached or maintained\\ndamnable heresies, by which was meant such as did not\\nagree with the views of the congregation.\\nThe excessive .sev(!rity of the following deserves notice.\\nAny one denying the Scripture to be the word of Clod should\\npay not exceeding 50, and be severely whii)ped, not exceed-\\ning forty strokes, unless he publicly recants, in which case he\\nshall not pay above 10, or be whipped in case he pay not the\\nfine. The repetition of this offence was to be punished by\\nbanishment or deatli, as the court might determine. T is\\ndeath for any child of sound understanding to curse or strike\\nhis parents, unless in his own defence.\\nThere is a grim humor in the folio-wing decisions. In 1G40\\none Edward Palmer, for asking an excessive price for a pair of\\nstocks, which he was hired to frame, had the privilege of sit-\\nting an hour in them himself. Captain Stone is sentenced\\nto pay 100, and prohibited coming within the patent with-\\nout the governor s leave, upon pain of death, for calling i\\\\Ir.\\nLudlow (a magistrate) a Jus f ass. We infer the punisliment\\nmust have been inflicted more for the joke than the offence.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "16 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nC atheriue, wife oi William uniisli, was iuuinl suspiciuiis n{ iu-\\ncoiitinency, and seriously admuiiished to take heed. Sei ^ciaiit\\nPerkins ordered to carry forty turfs to the fort for Ijeing drunk.\\nAccording to Neal, the principal festival days were that of\\nthe annual election of magistrates at Loston, and onnnence-\\nment at Cambridge. Business was then laid aside, an l the\\npeople were as cheerful among their friends and neighbors as\\nthe English are at Christmas. He adds that\\nThey have a greater veneration for the evening of Saturday tliau\\nfor that of the Lord s Day itself so that all liusiness is laiil aside\\nby sunset or si.x: o clock on Saturday night. The Sabbath itself is\\nkept with great strictness; nobody beiiiL;- to Ije seen in the streets\\nin time of Divine service, except the constables, who are apiiointed\\nto search all public houses but in the evening they allow them-\\nselves great liberty and IVeedom.\\nThis custom has prevailed up to a comparatively late ]ieriod.\\nIn those days the puljiit took the lead in matters temporal\\nas well as of theology. I ulilic (piestions were discussed in\\nthe pulpit, and news from a distance, oi moment to the col-\\nony, was disseminated through it; the hrst newsjiaiJcr was not\\nattempted in Boston untU lODO, and then only a single\\nnumber was published. Tlic whole held was open to the\\npreacdier, who might either conliiK himself to doctrinal [xunts\\nor preacli a crusade against the savages. The attire of the\\nladies, the fashion of the hair, the drinking of healths, after-\\nwards abolished by law, were all within the jurisdiction of\\nthe teacher of the people the constituted authorities nnght\\nmake the laws, but the minister expounded them. The olhcial\\nproclamations were then, as now, ailixed to the meeting-house\\ndoor, wdnch thus stood to the community as a vehicle of jjublic\\nintelligence.\\nMany intelligent travellers, both English and French, have\\nrecorded their impressions of lioston. Wood, who is accounted\\nthe earliest of these writers, says\\nThis harbor is made 1)y a great company of islands, whose high\\nclifl s shoulder out the Ixiisterous seas yet may easily deceive any\\nunskilful pilot, presenting many lair openings and broad sound\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 17\\nwliicli iifl oiil too shallow water for ships, though navigable for boats\\nand pinnaces. It is a safe and pleasant harbor within, having l)ut\\none common and safe entrance, and that not very broad, there\\nscarce being room for three ships to come in board and board at a\\ntime but being once in, there is room for the anchorage of live\\nhuncbed ships.\\nBoston is two miles N. E. of Roxbury. His situation is very\\npleasant, being a peninsula hemmed in on the south side by the\\nbay of Roxbury, and on the north side with Charles Rivei-, the\\nmarshes on the back side being not half a (juarter of a mile over\\nso that a little fencing will secure their cattle from the wolves it\\nbeing a neck, and bare of wooil, they are not troubled with these\\ngreat annoyances, wolves, rattlesnakes, and mos([uitoes. This neck\\nof land is not above four miles in compass, in form almost square,\\nhaving on the south side a great broad hill, whereon is planted a fort\\nwhich can command any ship as slie sails into the harbor.* On the\\nnorth side is another hill e(|ual in bigness, whereon stands a wind-\\nmill. t To the northwest is ;i high mountain, with three little rising\\nhills on the top of it, wherefore it is called the Tramount.if This town,\\nalthough it be neither the greatest nor the richest, yet is the most\\nnoted and fie([U( nted, being the centre of the plantations where the\\nniontldy courts are ke[)t.\\nJohn Jo.sselyu arrived at Boston July, 1GG3. He says\\nIt is in longitude ;il5 degrees, and 42 degrees 30 minutes of\\nnorth latitude. Tlie liuildings are handsome, joining one to the\\nother as in Jiondoii, with many lai ge streets, most of them paved\\nwith peblde in the high strei t, toward the Common, there are fair\\nbuildings, some of stone the town is not divided iido i)arislies, yet\\nthey have threi; fair meeting-houses.\\nEdward Johnson says\\nThe form of this town is like a heart, naturally situated for forti-\\nHcations, having two hills on the frontier part thereof next the sea,\\nthe one well fortified on the superficies thereof, with store of great\\nartillery well mounted. The other hath a very strong battery Ijuilt\\nof whole timber, and filled with earth betwixt these two strong\\narms lies a cove or bay, on which the chief part of this town is\\nbuilt, overtopped with a third hill all these, like overtopping\\ntowers, keep a constant watch to see the approach of foreign\\ndangers, l)eing furnished with a l)eacon and loud babbling guns to\\nFort Hill. t Copp s Hill. J Beacon Hill.\\nII", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "18 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\ngive notice to all the sisier towns. The chief edifice of this city-like\\ntown is crowded on the sea-hanks, and wharfed out with great labor\\nand cost the buildings beautiful and huge, some fairly set forth\\nwith brick, tile, stone, and slate, and orderly placed with seemly\\nstreets, wlmse continual enlargement presageth some sumptuous city.\\nM. I Aljbe Eoljin, who accompanied the army of Count Eo-\\ncluxmbeau, publislied a small work in 1781, in wliicli a good\\ndescription of Boston is given. Hays M. I Abbe\\nThe high, regular buildings, intermingled with steeples, appeared\\nto us more like a long-establislR d town of the Continent than a\\nrecent colony. A tine mole, or Jiier, projects into the harbor about\\ntwo thousand feet, and sliops and warehous(!s line its whole length.\\nIt communicates at right angles with the principal street of the\\ntown, which is long and wide, curving round towards the water\\non this street are many fine houses of two and three stories. The\\nappearance of the l.iuildings seems strange to European eyes being\\nbuilt entii ely of wood, they have not the dull and heavy appear-\\nance which 1 )elongs to those of our continental cities they are regu-\\nlar and well-lighted, with frames well joined, and the outside cov-\\nered with slight, thinly planed 1 loards, overlapping each other some-\\nwhat like the tiles upon our loofs. The exterior is painted generally\\nof a grayish color, which gives an agreeable aspect to the view.\\nM. I Aljbe states that coJlisli was the princij)al article of\\ncommerce with the Bostonians thai tlioy preferred Maderia,\\nMalaga, or Oi)orto to French wines, but tlieir ordinary beverage\\nwas rum, distilled from molasses. -Some credit attaches to this\\nstatement, wlien we rememl)er that Boston had half a dozen\\nstill-houses in 1722, and a score wdien the Abbe was writing.\\nPiety, continues the acute Frenchman, is not the only\\nmotive Avhich brings a crowd of ladies into their chtirch.\\nThey show themselves there clothed in silk, and sometimes\\ndecked witli superb featliers. Their hair is raised ui)on sup-\\nports, in imitation of those worn by the French ladies some\\nyears since. They have less grace, less freedom, than the\\nFrench ladies, but more dignity.\\nTlifir slioon of velvet, and their muilis\\nIn kirk they are not content of stuilis,\\nThe sermon when they sit to heir,\\nBut carries cuslieons like vain fulls\\nAnd all for newfaneleness of ceir.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 19\\nThe Abbe, alluding to the strict observance of the Sabbath,\\nnaively says: A countryiuan of mine, lii(li;in;4 at tlie same\\ninn Avith me, took it into his head one Sunday to phiy a httle\\nupon liis fiute but the neighborhood became so incensed tliat\\nour landlord was obliged to acquaint him of their uneasiness.\\nAnother French writer remarked of Newport, Avhich he thought\\nBoston resembled, This is the only place I ever visited when;\\nthey build old houses. M. Ic Compte Segur and the Mar-\\nquis Chastellux have written about Boston, but there is little\\nto add to what is already given.\\nThe tirst volume of the Town Itecords begins Scpteral)er,\\n1634, and the hrst entries are said to be in tlie liandwriting of\\nGovernor Winthrop. An unknown number ol leaves have ]n vn\\ntorn out or destroyed, and, as the first business of the town\\nwas the allotment of land to the inliabitants, the loss is ir-\\nreparable, and has proved such to those who have had occasion\\nto trace the titles of property. Tlie need for prompt action, to\\npreserve the invaluable town records from destruction, liaviiig\\nbecome imperative, they have now lieen printed under tlie\\ndirection of the city authorities. Several later volumes of the\\nrecords are missing, and for many years, wliile William Cooper\\nwas Town Clerk, no record exists of the I)iiths or deaths. A\\nmanuscri[ t volume called tlu; IJook of Possessions, is in tlie\\nCity Clerk s office, compiled, it is thougiit, as early as Ki. U, by\\norder of the General Court. There are two hundred and forty-\\nlive names in this Doomsday Book, as it has been termed,\\nbut all of them were not original setthsrs.\\nThe general gi owth and progress of the New ngland\\nmetropolis has becai steady and remarkable. The early settlers\\nhaving built wholly of wood, were not long exempt from de-\\nstructive fires. In 1G54 occurred what was known as the\\ngreat fire, but its locality is not given. This was succeeded\\nby another in 167G, at the North End, which consumed forty-\\nfive dwellings, the North Church, and several warehouses,\\nwitliin the space enclosed by Richmond, Hanover, and Clark\\nStreets. After this fire a fire-engine was imported from Eng-\\nland, but another great fire in 1678, near the Town Dock,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "20 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntl\u00c2\u00ab\\\\ ^troyed eighty dwclliiig-litiuses and seventy wardiouses, en-\\ntaHiii-u lu.s.s ufj;-!()(),()()0.\\nWitli extraordinary energy these k)sses were repaired, and\\ntlie tiiwnspeopk athnonished l)y their disasters, built their\\nhiHises witli more regard to safety, many building of stone\\nand liriek, while more eiiieient means were obtaiiied for con-\\ntrolling tlie devouring element. The tdwii was divided into\\ni dur (piarters, patroled l)y a watch detaileil from the fodt-com-\\njianics. Six hand-engines, four barrels of powder, and two\\ncrooks were assigned each (piarter. This appears to have been\\nthe. lieginning of a lire di iiartment.\\nflic lirst lire-engine made in Boston was built by David\\nWheeler, a blacksmith in Newbury, now Wasliington Street.\\nIt was tried at a, lire August 2\\\\, 17G5, and found to perform\\nextremely well.\\nThe data from wln(di to estimate the po])ulation of the town\\nin the lirst decade of its settlement is very meagie. In IGai)\\nthe Bay mustered a thousand soldiers in Boston, but they\\nwere of course drawn from all the towns. For the lirst seventy\\nyears after its settlement Boston did not probaldy contain over\\nseven tliousand people. In 1717 it Avas reckoned at only\\ntwelve thousand. A hundreil years after tlie settlement it con-\\ntainid tifteeii thousand, with seventeen hundreil dwellings in\\n17ri2 there were seventeen thou.sand live hnndri d, a decrease\\nof five hundred in the previous ten years, aci ounted for by\\nthe wars with the Indians and I rench, in which Boston sus-\\ntained severe lo.s.ses. in 17()r) the numlier of people had\\nfallen below sixteen thousand, with si.xteen hundred and\\nsevi!nty-six houses. During the siege in 177r)-7 i the town\\nwas nearly depopulatiMl, but few reiiiaiiiing who could get\\naway. .\\\\ii enumeration made in July, 177 lielbic the last\\npermission was given to leave the town, showed only six thou-\\nsand live hundred and seventy-three inhaliitauts, the troops\\nwith their women and children nundjering thirteen thonsand\\nsix liundred. At the peace of 1783 there were only about\\ntwelve thousand inliaiiitants. By the lirst census of 1791 the\\nnumlier of jieoplo was a little over eighteen tliousand, with\\ntwo thousand three hundred and seventy-six hou.ses.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 21\\nFrom this period the increase has been steady and rapid.\\nIn 1800 there were twenty-five thousand; 1820, forty-three\\nthousand; 1840, eiglity-five thousand; 18G0, one hundred and\\nseventy -seven thousand, and in 1890, the latest census, four\\nhundred and forty -six tliousand.\\nThe division of tlie town into eight wards is mentioned as\\nearly as the great fire of 1G78 79. In 1715 these wards were\\nnamed jSTorth, Fleet, Bridge, Creek, King s, Change, Pond, and\\nSouth. In 173.5 tlie number of wards was increased to twelve,\\ncorresponding with tluj number of companies in the Boston\\nregiment, one of which was attached to eacli M-ard for service\\nat fires. Besides the military there Avas also a civil division,\\nan overseer of the poor, a fireward, a constable, and a scavenger,\\nbelonging to eacli ward. In 1792 the numl)er of military\\nwards was nine, the regiment having been reduced to that inim-\\nber of companies the civil division c^ontinued to ])e twelve.\\nThe hrst four of tliese wards, and tlie greater part of the fifth,\\nwere in the North End the seventh was at the West End\\nwhile the rest, with a ])art of the fifth, were in the South End,\\nas it was then bounded. The present number is twenty-five,\\nthrice tiie original number.\\nThe paving of the public thoroughfares seems to have begun\\nat a very early period. Josselyn, describing Boston in 1GG3,\\nsays most of the streets are paved witli pebble, meaning the\\nsmooth round stones from the beacli. It was not the practice\\nat first to pave the whole width of a street, but only a strip in\\nthe middle the Neck was so paved. In the same manner tlie\\nsidewalks were paved with cobble-stones, Itricks, or Hags, of\\nonly width enough for a single passenger in some instances,\\nwhere Hag-stones M ere used, the remaining space was filled witli\\ncobble-stones. It is probable that the first paving was done in\\na fragmentary way before 1700, but in 1703-04 the town voted\\n\u00c2\u00a3100 for this purpose, as the selectmen shall judge most\\nneedful, having particular regard to the highway nigh old Mrs.\\nStoddard s house. An order for paving 42 rods of Orange\\nStreet was made in 171.5. From this time siuns were regu-\\nlarly voted,and the foundation laid for the most cleaidy city in\\nAmerica.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "22 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAs to sidewalks, a lady who came tt) Boston in 1795 froiu\\nNew York, and was much struck with the (juaint ajipearance\\nof the town, writes\\nThere were no brick sidewalks, except in a part of the Main\\nStreet (Washuigton) near the Old South, then called Cornhill.\\nThe streets were paved with pebbles and, except when (lri\\\\ en on\\none side by carts and carriages, every one walked in the middle\\nI if the street, where the pavement was the smoothest.\\nIt is not believed tliat there was a sidewalk in Boston until\\nafter the RevohitiDU. At this time State Street was without\\nany, the pavement reaching across the street from house tit\\nlldUSC.\\nIt is jimbable that those inhabitants whose lousiness or\\npleasure took them IVdin lidme alter dark must for a long time\\nhave lighliMl their own way tlirough the devious lanes and by-\\nways of the town. We can imagine tlie feelings of a \\\\kuv of\\nfond lovers who, taking an evening stroll, are bid liy the cap-\\ntain of the Avatch to Stand while he throws the rays of a\\ndark lantern upon the faces of the shrinking swain and his mis-\\ntress. Yet, although street-lamps were said to have been used\\nas early as 1774, until 1792 there seems to have been no action\\non tlie town s part towards lighting the streets, when wi I ead\\nthat the gentlemen selectmen propose to light the town,\\nearly in January of that year, and to continue the same until\\nthe sum subscril)ed is expended. Those gentlemen that pro-\\n])osed to furnish lamps were reipiested to have them tixed\\nby a certain day, so that the lamj)lighter may have time to\\nprepare them for lighting. To the puldic s]iirit of the citizens,\\nthen, is due the first shedding of light upon the gloomy ways\\nof the town. Gas was not used to illuminate the streets until\\n1834-, though the works at Copp s Hill were erected in 1828.\\nIn I)eceniber of that year gas was first used in the city.\\nThe sjirings which supplied the older inhabitants gave\\nj)lace to wells, and these in their turn gave way to the de-\\nmand for an abundant su] ply of ])nre Avater for the whole town.\\nQuiucy Memoir.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 23\\nWells had to be sunk a depth varying from fifteen feet on tlie\\nlow ground to one hundred and twenty feet on tlie elevated\\nportions, and the water was usually lirackish an l more or less\\nimpregnated with salt. Water was therefore intrnducod from\\nJamaica Pond, in West lioxbury, by a company in(;orporated in\\n1795. The pipes used were logs, of whi(;li about forty miles\\nwere laid. The trenches were only three to three and a half\\nfeet in depth, which did not prevent freezing in severe weather,\\nwhile the smallness of the pipe, four-inch mains, rendered\\nthe supply limiteil.\\nUnder the administration of Mayor (^Miincy the subject of\\na new supply of water was agitated. In 1(S25 a great fire\\noccurred in Kilby Street, destrt^ying lifty stores, and the want\\nof water as a means for tlie sidxluing of fires became evident.\\nTwenty years were spcait in controversy before action was\\ntaken, but in August, 11^40, ground was broken at Lake Cochit-\\nuate by John Quincy Adams and Josiali Quincy, Jr. In )cto-\\nber, 1848, the work was complettnl, ])ut tlie growtli of l oston\\nhas rendered this source insuificient in less than forty years,\\nand the waters of Nashua River are to be made tributary.\\nBoston has enlarged her territory by annexation of South\\nBoston, in 1804; Washington Village, in 1855; Koxbury, in\\n1868; Dorchester, in 1870; Charlestown, Ih igliton, and W.\\nRoxbury, in 1874. Hast Boston, though forming a i)art of Bos-\\nton since 1637, had neither streets nor local regulations until the\\nincorporation of the East Boston Company pul)lic officers first\\nset foot upon the island in 1833. Then; was Hum but one\\nhouse in tlie whole of that now populous ward, comprising six\\nhundred an l sixty acres. South r ostoii, when annexed, had\\nonly ten families on an area of five humlreil and seventy acres,\\nand but nineteen voters. There being at this time no bridge,\\nthe inhabitants were obliged to come to Boston via the Neck.\\nThe building of a bridge was the condition of annexation.\\nSouth Boston was taken from the territory of Dorchester.\\nRoxbury, itself a city, brought a large accession to Boston, to\\nwhich it had long been joined in fact. Dorchester, settled a\\nfew months earlier than Boston, has become a ward of the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "24 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nmetropolis. Tliese two towns brouglit an increase to the popu-\\nlation of about forty thousand, and a territory of nearly seven\\nthousand acres.\\nCommunication between Boston and the surrounding towns\\nwas at first wholly by the Neck. The people of Chelsea thus\\nhad a circuit of at least a dozen miles, and a day s journey\\nbefore them, to go to t(.iwn and return. There was a ferry es-\\ntablished at (Jharlestown and Winnisimmet (Chelsea) as early\\nas 1635, live years after the settlement of Boston. We find\\nby the records that Thomas Marshall was chosen by generall\\nconsent for y keeping of a Ferry from y* IVIylne Point vnto\\nCharlestown and Wynneseemitt, for a single jt son sixpence, and\\nfor two, sixpence; and for every one aT\u00c2\u00bbove y* number of two,\\ntwo pence apiece. Sliips boats were first used, then scows,\\nand this contiiiued to be the only means of transit until 17SG.\\nFour years ])revious to this the Marijuis Chastellux states that\\nhe was one hour making the voyage from AVinnisimmet in a\\nscow filled with cattle, sheep, etc. .Seven tacks were reijuired\\nto bring them safely to land.\\nA bridge to Cambridge was agitated as long ago as 1739.\\nThe obstruction to the passage of ferry-boats by itte was a\\nserious inconvenience. Charles Rivau Bridge, from the Old\\nFerry landing to Charlestown, A\\\\ as the. first constructed. ITie\\nfirst pier was laid on the 14th June, 178r\u00c2\u00bb, and the lu idge\\nthrown open for travel in little more tiiaii a year. This was\\nconsidered at the time the greatest enier[)ris(^ ever undeiiaken\\nin America, and its successful coui])li tion Avas cekd rated by a\\npublic procession, ciuisisting of botli lirauchi s of the Legislature,\\nthe proprietors and artisans of the lu idgt^ military ami civic so-\\ncieties. Salutes were fired from the astle, Coj)p s and Breed s\\nHill. This was only eleven years after the battle tif Bunker\\nHill. Thomas Bussell was hrst jn-esident of the corporation.\\nWest Boston Bridge, to Cambridge, was opened in November,\\n1793. Dover Street, or Boston Soutli Bridgi was next opened\\nin the summer of 1805. Cragie s, or, as it usml to be called.\\nCanal Bridge, from the Middlesex anal, Avas next comiileted\\nin August, 1S09, iVoui what was tlicu known as I .arfon s IViint,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\n25\\non the Boston side, to Lechmere s Point in Cambridge. By a\\nbridge thrown across from Lechmere s Point to Charlestown,\\nthe long detour around Charlestown Neck Avas avoided. The\\nWestern Avenue, or Mill Dam, as it was long called, was\\nopened with great ceremony July, 1821. The South Boston\\nBridge, from what Was respectively Windmill and Wheeler s\\nPoint, at the foot of Federal Street, to South Boston, was com-\\npleted in 1828, and shortened the journey into Boston, l)y\\nway of the Neck, about a mile. Warren Bridge met with\\ngreat opposition from the proprietors of liai lcs River Bridge,\\nbut was opened as a public liighway\\nDecember, 1828. This completes\\nthe list of the older avenues of tra-\\nvel to the mainland l)ut we have\\nTiiiw a magnificent U on structure\\nto South Boston, recently erected,\\nwhile the numerous railway l^ridges\\nspanning the river enable the city\\nto stretch its Ih-iareus-like arms in\\nevery direction for traffic.\\nCoaches are first mentioned as\\nbeing in use in Boston in 1G68-G9.\\nCaptain Anthony Howard appears\\nto have owned one in 1687, for he\\nwas fined tw(^nty shillings that year\\nfor setting a coach-hous(i two feet\\ninto y^ streete at y N. End of y^ Towne. In 1798 there\\nwere 98 chaises and 47 coaches, chariots, phaetons, c. in all\\nBoston. In October, 1631, Governor Winthrop went on foot\\nto Lynn au l Salem, and until there were roads it is obvious\\nthere was little use for wheeled vehicles, even for such as\\ncould afiord them. In 1750 there were only a few carriages,\\nand these, chariots and coaches. Four-wheeled chaises were\\nin use in families of distinction. The first public coach or\\nhack used in Boston was set up in 1712 by Jonathan Wardell,\\nat the sign of the Orange Tree, head of Hanover Street. One\\nWINTHEOP FORDING THE BIVEK.\\nTown Records.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "26 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nwas also set np by Adiiio Paddock, in 1762, who called it the\\nJUirling Coach, from its London prototype. Paddock was\\na coachmaker by trade we shall have occasion to notice him\\nin these pages. The next public vehicle was a small post-\\nchaise, drawn liy a pair of gray horses, and stood at the head\\nof State Street, al)Out 1790. Gentlemen and ladies who at-\\ntended balls and parties in those times had to walk, unless\\nthey could get a cast in a friend s carriage.\\nCoaches for public conveyance were first established in 17G3,\\nwhen one was put on the route between Boston and Ports-\\nmouth, N. H. Bartholemew Stavers was the undertaker,\\nand his head-( quarters were at the sign of the Lighthouse, at the\\nNorth End. The Portsmouth Flying Stage Coach, as he\\nstyled his carriage, carried six inside passengers, each jiaying\\nthirteen sliiUings and sixpence sterling, to Portsmouth. The\\nstage and horses were kept at Charlestowii, to save the troul)le\\nof ferriage, and set out every Friday morning, jjutting up at\\nthe inns along the road. Returning, the stage left Portsmouth\\nevery Tuesday morning. Stavers gave notice that as this\\nwas a convenient and genteel way of travelling, and greatly\\ncheaper than hiring carriages or horses, he hoped ladies and\\ngentlemen would encourage the same. A stage was put on\\nthe route to Marblehead in 1769, by Edward Wade. His car-\\nriage was a post-chaise, suited for ladies and gentlemen, and he\\nhimself might be spoken with at the widow Trefry s in Fish\\n(North) Street.\\nRailways Avere early under discussion by the peojile of\\nBoston, but no decisive steps were taken until 1825. The lirst\\nroad chartereil in the State was the Experiment Railroad at\\n(ihiincy. Next came the Lowell, incorporated in 1830, fol-\\nlowed by the Worcester, Providence, and others. The Lowell\\nwas the first opened for pul)lic traA el, in June, 1835, closely\\nfollowed by the Wt)rcester in July of the sanie year the Prov-\\ni lence was also opened in 1835, with a single track. The\\nMaine was opened from Wilmington to Andover in 1836 to\\nSouth Berwick, 1843. Tlie Eastern comes next, in 1838, in\\nDrake, j). 004.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\n27\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which year it was opened to Salem. George Peabody was the\\nfirst president. The Old Colony hegan operating in November,\\n1845, the Fitchburg in 1845, and the Hartford and Erie in\\n1849, under the name of the Norfolk County Road. It is a\\ncurious fact, that both of the great railway stations in Boston\\nstand on ground reclaimed from the sea.\\nWe have taken the reader through the settlement, j)hysical\\nfeatures, and successive phases of the growth of the Old Town,\\nand now tliat we are about to commence our rambles together,\\nwe warn him to be prepared for changes that will make it dif-\\nficult and often impossible to fix localities accurately. For\\nfifty years our men of progress have been pulling down the old\\nand building up the new city. The Great Fire of 1872 left\\nfew of its original features, except in the North End, and in\\nand about Dock Square, which, notwithstanding the sweeping\\nchanges incident to tlie extension of Washington Street north-\\nward, retains much the same appearance that it did forty years\\nago.\\nDAY AFTER THE GUEAT FIRE, COURT-HODSE STEPS.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE I.\\nKINGS CHAPEL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.\\nHistory of the Cliapel. Establishment of the Church of England. Chapel\\nBurial-Ground. Boston Athenajum. Academy of Arts and Sciences.\\nHistorical Society. The Museum. The Old Corner. Royal Custom\\nHouse. Washington. H. U. Otis. Daniel Webster. Ti emont Street.\\nHoward Street. Pemberton Hill. En licott. Captain Southack.\\nTlieodore Lyman, Senior. John Cotton. Sir Henry Vane. Samuel\\nSewall. Gardiner Greene. Earl Percy. Bellingham. Faneuil.\\nPliillij)S. Davenport. Oxenbridge. Beacon Street. School Street.\\nLatin School. Franklin Statue. City Hall. Otis. Warren. Mas-\\ncarene. Cromwell s Head. The Old Corner Bookstore. Anne Hutchin-\\nson. The French Church. Catholic Church. Second Universalist.\\nProvince Street. Chapman Place. James Lnvell. Wendell.\\nWE clioo.se Kin,f; s Cliapol for our jxiint of di pavtui o, as\\nw(^ll from its centi al position as from the fact tliat\\nits viciiiai,fe is prolialily the ohh st grouud Ijiiilt upon iu Bos-\\nton, Bhickstone s lot ah me exceptecL\\nTlie exterior of King s Cha})el\\ndoes not present any remarkable\\narehitectural features. It has a-n\\nair of solidity and nias.sivene.ss\\nthat seems to lie.speak the inten-\\ntion of its hnil(h rs tliat it should\\nremain where it was jiLumhI.\\nI liis jiurpose is likely to l\u00c2\u00bbe s t\\nat nauglit hy the propo.sed re-\\nmoval of tlie liapel nortliward-\\nly, to widen School Street. So\\nimprohalile an idea never entered\\nthe lieails of the founders; hut\\nwe make notliing nowadays of\\ntaking ii]) hloeks uf briek or stone bodily, and moving them\\nwliither we list.\\n;ovFi!Niiii siiiiti.nv.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "KINGS CHAPEL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.\\n29\\nKing s Chapel is the fifth in the order of I xi.stou churches.\\nThe architect was Peter Harrison, of Newjiort, 11. I., and the })lan\\nembraced a steeple, which Mr. Hari isou thought essential to his\\ngeneral design, and would have a beautiful eti ect. For want\\nking s chapel as it appears in 1S72.\\nof funils, liowevcr, the stci-ple was never built. (Jovernor\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baShirley laid tht\\\\ (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0(iriier-siiuie on the llth of .\\\\ugnst, 1749, and\\nafter giving tlu; workmen JO (nld teiKu) fu (h ink his heahh,\\nwent into the old church, wliich was sf-ill standing, where, a\\nservice a| pr()priate to the occasion was held l)y liev. Mr. (Janer,\\nthe rector.\\nMr. Harrison had been retpiestcd to ]iresent drawings Avith\\nbotli a double and single tier of windows. Two rows were\\nadopted, the lower ones giving that prince of punsters, INIather\\nByles, an opportunity of saying that he had heard of the\\ncanons of the church, Imt had never seen the port-holes before.\\nThe stone for the chapel came from raintree, and was taken", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "30 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nfmm the surface of the ground, no (juurries lieiii_i; tlien openecL\\nThe rough appearance of the stone i,s due to the limited knowl-\\nedge of the art of dressing it which then ])revailed.\\nGreenwood s little work on King s (Jha})el gives tlie follow-\\ning facts. Jt was hrst erected of wood in tlie year 1G88, en-\\nlarged in 1710, and, being found in the year 1741 in a state of\\nconsiderable decay, it was proposed to rebuild it of stone. A\\nsul)scri}\u00c2\u00bbtion for this 2)urpose was set on foot, and Peter Faneuil\\n(of Faneuil Hall memory) was chosen treasurer of the building-\\nfund. The building was to be of stone, a.nd was to cost\\nl (old tenor). It was not to Ije commenced until\\n\u00c2\u00a310,000 were subscri])ed.\\nAmong the lirst sul;)scribers were (iovernor AVilliam Shirley,\\nSir harles Henry Frankland, and Peter Faneuil. The (iov-\\nernor gave \u00c2\u00a3100; Sir H. Frankland, \u00c2\u00a350; Faneuil, \u00c2\u00a3200\\nsterling. Faneuil died in 1742, and the matter was for some\\ntime laid asi le, but was revived by Mr. C aner in 1747. A\\nnew^ sul)scri})tion was draw^n up. (Jovernor Shirley increased\\nhis gift to \u00c2\u00a3200, and Sir H. Frankland to \u00c2\u00a3150 sterling.\\nFor the subscrii)tion of Peter Faneuil the society was oliliged\\nto sue his brother ]^enjaniin, who was also his executor, and\\nrecovered it after a vexatious suit at law.\\nThe new chapel was built so as to enclose the old church, in\\nwhich services continued to l)c held, in spite of its ruinous con-\\ndition, until March, 1753, when the society Avas obliged to\\nremove to Trinity. The congregation having applicil for the\\nuse of the Old South on Christmas day, a verbal answer was\\nreturned granting the request on condition that the house\\nshould not be decorated with spruce, etc.\\nEfforts to obtain money to com})lete th(^ chajiel were made\\nin every dire(;tion. Among others, Captain Thomas Coi-am,\\nfounder of the Foundling Hospital in London, wlio had re-\\nsided in this country, was applied to by a gentleman then in\\nLondon but no sooner had he mentioned the object of his visit\\nthan he was ol)liged to listen to a burst of i)assionate reproaches\\nibr some alleged slight the vestry of King s Chai)el had formerly\\n]iut u[)0u lum. The old gentleman fnially told his visitor, with", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the neighborhood.\\n81\\nOLD KINGS CHAPEL.\\nan oath, that if tlie twelve Apostles were to apply to him in\\nbehalf of the church, he ^vo\\\\lld persist in refusing to do it.\\nThe portico was not completed until 1789. In that year\\nGeneral Washington was in Boston, and attended an oratcirio\\nin the chapel, whicli hatl for its object the comi)letion of the\\nportico. The general was\\ndressed in a lilack velvet suit,\\nand gave five guineas to wartls\\nthis purpose.\\nThe old building, which\\ngave place to the present one,\\nhad an apology for a tower,\\non the top of whicli was a\\ncrown, and above this a cock\\nfor a vane. A gallery was\\nadded after the enlargement\\nin 1710, and the pulpit was\\non the north side. Opposite\\nwas a pew for the governors, and near it another for officers\\nof the British army and navy. In the Avest gallery was the\\nfirst organ ever used in Boston, given to the society l)y Thomas\\nBrattle. A bell w^as pur(;hased in 1689, and a clock was do-\\nnated in 1711 by the gentlemen of tin; British Society. The\\nwalls and pillars Avere hung with the escutcheons of the King,\\nSir Edmund Andros, Governors Dudley, Shute, Burnet, Bel-\\ncher, and Shirley, and formed a most striking contrast with the\\nbare walls of the Puritan churches of the town. In the jiulpit,\\naccording to the custom of tlie times, was an hour-glass to mark\\nthe length of the sermons, while the east end was adorned with\\nan altar-piece, the Ten Commandments, Lord s Prayer, etc. The\\nemblems of heraldry have disapi)eared. It was the usage of the\\nchurch to place the royal governors at the head of the vestry.\\nAs you enter the chapel, at your left hand is the monument\\nof William Vassall, erected by Florentine Vassall, of Jamaica, in\\n1766. To the right is a beautiful monumental tablet dedicated\\nto the memory of the young men of the chapel who fell in the\\nlate civil war.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "32 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nOn the south side are mural tablets to William Sullivan, John\\nLowell, Thomas Newton, an original luunder, and Frances\\nShirley, wife of the (idveruor. AVithin the cliancel are busts\\nof tJreenwood and Freeman, rectors, and of their successor T)r.\\nPealiody. The burial-grijuml side contains tablets to Cdiarles\\nApthorp and Samuel Appletdu. Over tlie vestry are the names\\nof Charles Pelham Curtis, long the treasurer, and oi AVilliam\\nPrice, a patron of the church. These are about the only mnnu^\\nmental marl)les to be seen in our city churches, though others\\nhave mural talilets. The ^^;lssal monument, a beautiful specimen\\nof the art in the last century, is liy Tyler, a London scul[ tor.\\nThese add interest to the church, and reflect in a modest way\\nthe glories of old St. Paul s and of Westminster Abbey.\\nTlie lirst, lieil was cnicked, wliilc tolling for eveniiiL; service,\\nJVlay S, IS I I. lie wits seized upon tlie accident with avidity,\\nand coiimieiiioralcd it in the I oHciwing elliision (Paul Eevere re-\\ncast the bell, and some churchman answereil the innuendo)\\nThe Cliapel cliurcli, TIk rlimvli still lives,\\nLeft in the lurch, I lie iniest s\\\\irvives,\\nMust surely fall Willi laiiid the same.\\nFor church and peojile lievere refuunds,\\nAnd liell and steeple The liell resounds,\\nAre crazy all. And all is well ai^ ain.\\nThe present organ of King s Chapel was procured from Eng-\\nland in 1756, and ]iaid for l y private subscription. It cost\\nr)0(\u00c2\u00bb sterling, and was said to have l een selecte(l by tlie im-\\nmortal Handel liimself, tliou^li ilie givat vtmsfro was then\\nblind. )ver this organ a ci own ami a cou[ile of gilt niili es\\nare placetl which have a histoiy i,[ their own.\\nTn the yeai 177 when I .oston was in a state of siege, tiie\\nBritish military and naval oflicers woishippe(| in KiiiL^ s liapel,\\nas they had in fact done during the jirevious years thi town\\nwas in occupation of the J ritish soldiers. The Imrial of three\\nsoldiers of the Sixty-fifth b eginient are the last-reconU (l inter-\\nments in the Chapel cemetery previous to the evacuation of the\\ntown in March. Thc^ re( tor, Dr. aner, went to Halifa.K with\\ntlie king s troops, taking with him the church registers, jilate,\\nand vestments. The service, which had in ymvi been presented", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and I lIK NEKillBOItHOOD. 33\\nhy the Iviug, auiouuttMl in twn thuu.saii l t^iglit liuiulred ounces\\nof silver. It was never recovered.\\nWhen the society of Kin,n s (Jhapel were ready to rebuihl, in\\n1748, they desired an (udari^viiieiit of the ground for their site\\na few fiH t northwardly, also a piece oi ground at the east side,\\non part of which then st(Jod the Latin Srhool. ^Vfter a good\\ndeal of negotiation between the town and the chureh ciiiiiinittee,\\nthe cluuch erected a new school-house on the opposite side of\\nthe street on land belonging to Colonel Saltonstall, where the\\nLatin Schudl remained up to a cniiijiaratively recent time. The\\nremoval tlie olil school iiouse was viewed with no favorable\\neye by the townspeople, and Joseph (Jreen, a Harvard graduate\\nof 17l!(), anil a mitt d wit, expressed the popidar feeling thus:-\\nA fig for your leiiniiiiL; I tell you the town,\\nTo nialve the chiu cli larger, imisl, pull tlu^ siliool down.\\nUnluipiiily spoken exclaims Muster Hireli\\nThen Ie;irning, it seems, stops the growth of the ehiuxh.\\nAfter the departure of tlie royal troops, the po|inlar yV//\\nagainst (everything savoring of their lute, allegiance to the\\nthrone tound I Xjtression in the removal of the royal end)Iems\\nfrom [lublic buihlings, changing tlie names of streets and every-\\nthing that bore any allusion to the, obnoxious idea of kingly\\nauthority. King s Chapel was then^fore jiewly baptized Stone\\nChapel, a, name that has in turn been discarded for the old,\\nhigh-souiiiling title of yore. In thi reign of (^ueen Anne the\\nchurch was called (^^lueens happell.\\nThe establishnujnt of tlie hurch of England in Doston was\\nattended witli great opposition. The Puritans, who had Hed\\nfrom the persecutions of that church in tlie old country, had\\nno idea of admitting it among them in the new. In 1G4(j a\\npetition praying for the privilege of Episcopal worship, addressed\\nto the General Court at Boston, caused the petitioners to be\\nfined for seditious expressions, and the seizure of their papers.\\nCharles II., after his accession, wrote to the colony requiring,\\namong other things, that the laws should be reviewed so as\\nto permit the Episcopal form of worsliip, the use of the Book\\nof Common Prayer, et(^ The chief jieople and ehlers of the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "34 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ncolony luuki d upmi tlic eifoiis ol the prolligatc Cluules 11. in\\nbelialt of ivliguius lilx ity as thi-y Avoiild upou the quotiug of\\nScripture by his Sutaiiiu Majesty, and paid little heed to the\\nmandate of the merry monarch of whom his favorite liochester\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wrote,\\nHere lies our sovereii; Lord the King,\\nWliose word no man relied on\\nWho never said a foolish thing,\\nAnd ne\\\\er diil a wise one.\\nTlic Kui,!.; when over liis linttlc, ciiiiiiiiandeil IJocliester to\\nwriii/ him a siiiral)lc epitaph, soiiictliiii,L; a[i[irnpriate and\\nwitty. The I .arl, sei/inn liis pen, wrote as above, and ibr his\\nkeen eirusinii roiiiaincd some time in disgrace.\\nJn KiSCi, ill the rci^ii uf, lames II., the first Kpisenpal servdces\\nwere held in (lie )ld I uwn llnnse, whirli then st I mi the\\nsite of the (.)ld Stab Ibmsc. b ov. b obort b ab-blf was the\\nlirst Epise.dpal elei;i;ymaii, and caiiir over in the lln.sc, frii^ate in\\n]\\\\lay, KiSC). The tuwn, hnwexci-, eunlinucd tn ri liiso the nse\\nof any of tlie ineetin,L;diiiiises, and the sncicty were unable to\\nbuy land on ottdii (now rmilicrton) Hill to build on. Ivlward\\nIvandeiljili the iii st ollircr of cust-onis that lloston had, a man\\nspecially hat.e(l for his sur.cvssful elfoi ts to have the kin.L; I cvoke\\nthe colonial cliartcr maybe considered as chiclly instmmcntal\\nin settin.L; up the episcopalians in l osto]i. liandolph was also\\nat this lime (Uk.i of his Majesty s council for New lMi,L;land.\\nSir Edmund Andros, wlio aii ived in lloston in l)eccndier,\\nIGiSG, after havin,g several conferences with tlie miinsters on\\nthe subject of using- one id the meetingdiouses tVir Episcopal\\nservices, sent liandolph, on Wednesday, the 22d of March,\\n1G87, to demand the keys of the South Meetingdiouse, now\\nOld South. )n !ood Friday, whi( h was the ibllowing Friday,\\nthe sexton o}iened the iloors ])y command ui Andros to open\\nand ring the bell for those of the hurch of Fnglaud.\\nBut time, which makes all things even, gave the )ld Semth\\nSociety a signal revenge for wdiat they considered little less than\\nsacrilege. King s Chapel, abandoueil ]iy its rector and con-\\ngregation when the town was evacuateil, remained closed until\\nthe autumn of 1777, when it was occupied by the Uld South", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the neighborhood. 35\\nSociety, wlmse lunisi hail Ihtii (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0(inverted iiit(j a liiitish ridiug-\\nsclioul. Tliis S(\u00c2\u00bbrk ty used the hajiel alxiut tive years.\\nKing s Cha])el stands as a iiKuninit iit to mark the, resting-\\nplace of Isaac Jolmson, tlie second Wliite inhaliitant nl liostdn.\\nThe liicaHty oi the grave is uid nii\\\\vn, and is likely to remain\\nso, owing to the niaiiy cliangvs, hotli past and pros[)( ctivc, in\\nthe old huriai-ground. -lojinson, undci whose dii cction the\\nsettlement of licjston mainly proceeded in its incipient steps,\\nselected for himself the S(piai e enclosed liy Treniont, Court,\\nWasiiington, and School Streets. So says ti adition on the\\nauthority of Chief -Justice Sewall. -lohnson die(l in Septcndier,\\n1(). )0, and was l)uried at his own re(piest at the soutliwest\\nt ud of his lot. This soHtary grave was the nucleus aidiiiid\\nwhich gathere(l the remains of the lirst settlers, and constituted\\nthe lirst [ilact; of sepulture in the town. The old cliurcli of\\nl()iS(S was enH tcnl on the hurying-ground, it is conjectured liy\\nauthority of Andros the town would not hav(^ permitted the\\nuse of the puhlit; liurying-ground foi tins purpose.\\nJohnson s history has a touch of romance, lie marrie(l\\nLady Arahella, daughter of the Ivirl of Lincoln. She left her\\nnative land and a life nf ease to fillow her husliand to the\\nwilds of America. She die(l very soon after her arrival, in\\nSalem, and was prol)al)ly hurieil there; hut the location of her\\ngrave, like that of her liushand, who so soon followed her, is\\nuidvuown. J(jlinson s death was said to have ])eeu hasteneil hy\\nthe loss of his amiable and heautiful wife. It was to the\\nmemory of the Lady Arahella, that Mrs. Sigouruey wrote,\\nYet still sill hath a iiiomiiiKjut\\nTo strike the jicnsive eye,\\nThe tender iiieiiuii ies cii the lanil\\nWherein her ashes lie.\\nIt is a popular l)elief that tlie Chapid Lurying-Grouiid, or\\nOld Iiurying-na(X as it was lirst called, contains the mortal\\nremains only of such as were of the Episcopal faith hut this\\nis very far from heing the ease. The dust of Governor Win-\\nthrop, of John Cotton, Davenport, Oxenhridge, and ridge,\\npastors of the First Church, and of other l\\\\iritans of the stern-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "36\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nest tvi c, lif uiulcr llic sIkmIuw (if a dctrsird Kiiisc ]ial editice,\\nBcsiilfs thivsc, the iviuaiiis (it iovcriKir Sliiil(-y and dt Lady\\nAiidi d.s r( |\u00c2\u00bbisi licic. JIcic Ilia} lie\\nseen (III till t( mil ist( UK S the arms and\\ncscutclicdiis (it tli(^ deceased, earry-\\niiii; us hack to the days oi lierahhy.\\nUnder tlie hajiel are vaults fur the\\n1,\\nY reeejitidn of the dead.\\nAs we look throuu\\nSHIRLDY AllMH\\nthe ii on ;j;ate\\ninto tlie enclosure, the curious ar-\\nran,i;eiiient of the gravestones strikes\\nus. Jn the centre the headstones form\\na sort of hollow scjnare, as if to re]iel\\nfurther aggression njioii the territory of the dead, whik at\\nthe sides and walls tlie same })lan is ol)served. This peculiar\\narrangement was the rhi d ceuvre of a former 8u})eriutcn(leiit\\nof llurials many stones were removed from their original posi-\\ntions, and now give eU ect to the iiroverli, to lie like a tomlt-\\nstoiie. What wonld the future or even jiresent seeker after\\nthe grave of an ancestdr do in such a case of perplexity\\nl)(iubtful, in a certain sense, of the legend Here lies, lie would\\nrestrain his emotion, fearing that the tear of all ectitui might\\nfall on the aslies of a stranger.\\nKing s hapel Ilurying-dround is hy no means exemjit from\\ntlie ghostly legends that usually attach to cemeteiies. (_)ne is\\nrecoideil of a negro-woman, whose collin the careless carpenter\\nha\\\\iiig made too short, severed the head fidiii the hody, and,\\nclapping it Ix^tween the feet, nailed down the lid to conceal his\\nliluiKh r. Another is related of a person who was asserted to\\nhave lieen Imiied alive. A hue-and-cry was raised, the corpse\\nwas exhumed in the presence of a moh which had gathered,\\nand it- nei^dcd the assurance of the doctors who exaiiiined the\\nremains to set the atl air at rest. The mob,- disaii])ointed of its\\nexpected sensation, proposed to bury the old woman Avho liad\\nraised the uproar, Imt did not execute the threat. Interments\\nceased here in 17 JG.\\nI)(. ;i]iii s witli tlic Dead.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIGHBOKHOOD. o7\\nNext northerly from tlie burying-ground once stood an old\\nwooden building covered with rough cast. It was the resi-\\ndence of some of the rectors of King s Chapel, and of Dr.\\nCaner, the last one. This building was occupied by the IJoston\\nAthenaeum in 1810, and was taken down over sixty years\\nago, to give place to the stone biulding occupied later as a\\nSavings Bank and by the Historical Society. The Athe-\\nna um, n iw so conspicuous among literary institutions, owes its\\norigin to the Anthology Club, an association of gentlemen for\\nliterary purposes. They conducted a periodical called the\\nMonthly Anthology, and in it published proposals in 1806 for\\nsubscriptions for a pulJic reading-room. Success following\\nthis effort, it was determined to add a library, and trustees\\nwere ai)[)ointed for the management. Tlie rooms were first\\nopened in Joy s Buildings, on the west corner of Congress and\\nWater Streets; then in Scollay s Building in Tremont Street;\\nand later, in the location first mentioned.\\nThe Boston Athenaium became incorporated in Fcliruary,\\n1807, and occupied three rooms in the old rough-cast l)uilding.\\nThe first was the news or reading room the second, the library\\nof the Athena;um and American Academy the third, the\\nprivate library of John (^)uincy Adams, until it was removed to\\na building erected for it at Quincy.\\nMr. Shaw, in his history published in 1817, gives the follow-\\ning particulars with regard to the lil)rary at that time The\\nlibrary of the Athemieum contains upwards of ten thousand\\nvolumes. The collection in history and biograjjliy is vcsry\\ncomplete, and in American History unrivalled under this\\nhead may be noticed three thousand pamphlets. Twenty-one\\nforeign and about twelve American periodicals are received.\\nIn 1822 the Athenscum was removed to Pearl Street, near the\\ncorner of High, to a building partly ])urch;ised and partly pre-\\nsented by James Perkins. At this time the Iil)rary possessed\\nseventeen thousand live luuidred volumes and ten thousand\\ntracts. It now contains over one hundred and eighty thousand\\nvolumes.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "88 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nThe Atlienreum was removed in 1849 to Beacon Street,\\nwliere its spacious jiicture gallery, containing many valuable\\nworks of art belonging to the institution, long continued one\\nof its most attractive features, as it was for many years about\\nthe only place in Boston where public exhibitions of paintings\\nwere held. The growing needs of the library, however, com-\\npelled the removal of the l)est pictures to the Art Museum.\\nStuart s fine head of AV\\\\ashington, now to be seen there, belongs\\nto the Atheiueum. The price paid for it was fifteen hundred\\ndollars. This institution has received munificent contribu-\\ntions among others may be named twenty-iive thousand\\ndollars nobly donated at once by John Bromfield. Thomas H.\\nPerkins was a generous benefactor, and many other eminent\\nBiistonians have aided it handsomely.\\nTiie corner-stone of the elegant freestone building on Beacon\\nStreet was laid in April, 1847. The design was by Edward\\nCabot, l)ut some interior alterations were made under the\\ndirection of Billings. The site was the estate of Edward B.\\nThillips, but the proprietors had purchased the ground on\\nwhi(;h the Museum stands in Tremont Street, with the inten-\\ntion of building tliere. This ground was sold. The original\\nmeml)ers of the Anthology Club, founders of the Athenaeum,\\nwere John Sylvester, -lohn Gardner, William Emerson, Arthur\\nM, Walter, William S. Shaw, Samuel C. Thacher, Joseph S.\\nB)Uckminster, dosepli Tuckcrman, William Tudor, Jr., Peter\\nThacher, Thomas Cray, William AVells, Edmund T. Dana,\\nJohn C. Warren, ami -lames Jackson.\\nThe Athemxjum is managed ])y trnstees elected by its share-\\nholders ov proprietors. Among those trustees we find the\\nnamcis of John Hancock, Daniel Webster, Ciiarles Sumner,\\nW. Holmes, Erancis Parkman, and W. H. Prescott. Tlie\\nlibrary is rich in works of art, and in fdes of early news-\\npapers. Jt also has the Bemis collection of works on inter-\\nnational law, including stat( ]iapers also one of the best sets\\nof Hnileil Stutes documents in the country besides a large\\npart of Washington s private library, acfjuired l)y purchase,\\nwith many other works relating to that great man.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIGIIBOrJIOOD. o*J\\nThe Academy of Arts and Sciences is tlic oldest institution\\nwitli literary objects in Boston, and the second in America. It\\nwas instituted in 1771), and received a charter the next year,\\nin which the design of the Academy is stated to be, the \\\\m)-\\nnotion of the knowledge of the antiquities of America and of\\ntli(! natural history of the country. The nun:l)er of mend)ers\\nis limited to two hundred.\\nGovernor Bowdoin was the first president, followed l)y .lohn\\nAdams, Edward A. Holyoke, J. Q. Adams, Nathaniel l owditch,\\nJohn Pickering, and other distinguished persons. Count Ifuni-\\nford left a legacy within the control of the Academy to ad-\\nvance the cause of science. The society occupied a room in\\nthe AtheuKum building until recently.\\nThe Historical Society originated as early as 1791. On\\ntlie 24th of January, Hon. Judge Tudor, Rev. Drs. Belknap,\\nThacher, and Eliot, Judge Winthrop of Cambridge, Eev. Dr.\\nFreeman, Judge Minot, Hon. W. Baylies of Dighton, Judge\\nSullivan, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, and Thomas\\nWallcutt, met and organized. The meetings were first held in\\nJudge Minot s office in Spring Lane, but tlu\u00c2\u00bb use of a corner\\nroom in the attic of Eaneuil Hall was soon obtained, a place\\nas retired and recondite as ex[)lorers into the recesses of aiiticp\\nuity would think of visiting. In 1791 the society occupied\\nthe Manufactory House in Hamilton I lace. In 1793 the\\n.society was offered a I oom in the Tontine Crescent, on the\\nsouth side of Franklin Slicct, over the arch, tlic entrance into\\nArch Str(H t. Cliarles Buliinch, William Scollay, and Charles\\nVauglian, wlio reclaimed Franklin Street from a (piagmire, made\\nthis oifer, and here the society remained until 18.3.3, when it\\nremoved to its late quarters in Tremont Street, from which it\\nhas lately moved to new quarters on tlie Back Bay. The\\nsituation in Franklin Street presented the singular [)hase of a\\nbuilding without land, as it rested iq)on an arclied passage-\\nway.\\nGovernor Gore was president in 180G. In 1838 the society s\\ncollections amounted to six thousand volumes and manuscripts.\\nThe society posses.ses many relics of historic interest. It has", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "40 LANDMARKS OF JUJSTUN.\\nportraits of Governors Endicott, Winslow, Powiiall, Duiumer,\\nJJclclicr, AViutlirop, Hiitcliinsou, StronLjj, (lore, etc. That of\\nWinslow is siipjiosed to he a VaiKlvkc The swords of (iover-\\nn(ir Carver, Myles Standish, oloncl Inirch, (4overnor IJrooks,\\nSir William l\\\\ p])erell, and tliose of Captain Linzee and (jolo-\\nnel Prescott, worn at Jjunkcr s Hill, arc tlu ])roiM-ity of tlic\\nsociety. Not the least curidus aiiKUii; tlicsc iclics is a silk ila^\\nprescntcil hy Jdvcnini IJaiicuck U a cdldnMl cuinpany calliMl\\nthe liucks of Anit i ica, licariii;4 ilic di \\\\ici df a piiic-trt c and\\na hnck, al)ovr whicli arc llic iintials .I. 11. and (1.\\nThere is also a ^nn nscd at the raptiuv of Covcrnor Andros liy\\nthe llostonians in l(iS the samp liowl ol Ivin.n Thilip, and\\nthe lork of the ,L;nn with wlnrli he was killcil.\\nTh(^ liln ary of the soi;icty lias a value not to lie estimated in\\ndollars a,nd rents. It was tlie foiindation of materials toi llie\\nhistoiy of New EnL^land, many ot wliieh lia\\\\ e heeii jmhlislied\\nin the .society s valuahle collections.\\nAnion,n- other valuahle donations In tlie society may lie men-\\ntionci! tlie papers and doiaiments of Icneral William lleatli of\\nKevolulhiuary fame, besides the nia,nnili enl library of fliomas\\nl)uw.se of arnhrid.ne, containing about live thousand volumes,\\nmany being of the greatest histoiical inb rest.\\nJ he Museum liuiMing, which covers twenty thousand feet\\nof lancf and cost a (piarter of a luillion, is one of the attractive\\nobjects of the street and of tlie I ity. I^ or many years its rows\\nof exterior lights have lieen a lam|i in the path of tlie pedes-\\ntrian and a, lure hi its votaries. )n its boards have sbiod in\\ntimes past, the elder I .ooth and Mrs. M orge I -aiTelt. I .ooth,\\nof whom a capital likeness in ci ayon, liy b owse, bangs in the\\nmain hall, deserves to be (dassed with Kean. Kemble. and tlie\\ngiants of the stage. His unfortunate iniirJniiif foi- convix iai in-\\ndulgence has given rise to many anecddtes. )n one occasion,\\nwlnle playing at the Howard, i oiii l ord, the manager, stipu-\\nlated that llooth slionld snbmit to locked in bis loiuii by a\\ncertain hour, in oi dei- that the actor might not lie in a comlilion\\nto disap|ioint the audience, as was sometimes tlie case. I lie\\nchagrin of the manager may be imaginetl at- linding the tragedian", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "KIN(;,S CIIAPKL AND THE NEIGHBOKHOOI).\\n41\\nintoxicated when lie came to fetch liiiu to the theatre. Booth\\nhad bribed a waiter to bring liquor to his door, where suc-\\ncessive glasses were emptied liy means of a straw through\\nthe key-lioU As Richard 111. iiooth was incom[)arable. He\\noften became greatly excited in the coml)at scene, and on one\\noccasion it is stated that he attacked W. H. Smith, the veteran\\nactor, since deceased, in dead earnest, ilriving him from the\\nstage, and [niisuing him into the\\nstreet.\\nWilliam Warren, tlie come(lian,\\nmade his fii st api)earanc(; at tlit^\\nMuseum in IS 17. Adelaide. Phil-\\nlips was a iliinseusc at this house\\nin the same year.\\nThe present .MuscMim covers the\\nsite of tlie Cohunbiau Museum,\\nwliich was ilestroyed by fire in\\nJanuary, 1S()7. TIh! Columbian\\nMuseum oiiginated in the exhil)i-\\ntion of wax-works at the Ameri-\\ncan Coffee House in State Street,\\nop|)osite Kill)y, as early as 1791.\\nMr. I xiwen, the pro] rietor, removed to what was called the\\nliead iif the Mall, at tiu^ corner of Ihdiulield s T^ane (now\\nStreet) in I7 .tr). This building was buint in January, 1803;\\nbut Mr. 15owen was enabled to reopen his Museum in Milk\\nStreet, at th(^ corner of Oliver, in May of tliat year. In LSOG,\\na brick building five stuiacs Iiigh was erected by Doyle in rear\\nof, and reached by a passage from, Tremont Street.\\nThe destructive element soon swept away tliis edifice. It\\ntook tire alxmt midnight, and was consume(l with all its con-\\ntents not an article was saved. The event was signalized by\\na painful disaster. A large, crowd of spectators had collected\\nin the burying-ground adjoining, when the Avails fell, killing\\nnine or ten boys, from twelve to fift( en years old. 1 )r. William\\nEustis, afterwards lovernor of Massachusetts, resided then in\\nSudbury Street, and with other pliysicians lent his aid on the\\nWILLIAM WARFiKN.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "42\\nLandmarks of bostox.\\noccasion. The unilisinaycil jiroprietors liad a noAv two-story\\nl)uil(lin,ii; civctcil l)y Juut 1807, whicli cdiitiiiued until 1825,\\nwhen the collection was sold to the New England Museum.\\nThe New England Museum Ibrmeil iVom the New York\\nJNluseum, which was opened in 1812, in I xiylston Hall; ii Dm\\nMix s New Haven iMuscum, added in 1S21 and from the\\nnhnnhian was dpened by ]\\\\Ir. E. A. (Ireenwnod, July 4,\\n]S],S. It was situated on ourt Street, and extendeil IVtuii\\n(Jornhill to Ih attle Street, occupying the upper stories. In\\n1839 Moses Kimball Ix came the proprietor, and these several\\nestablishments, merged in tlu New England, constituted the\\njiresent JNluseum, lirst located on the jiresent site of Horticul-\\ntural Hall in 18-11, and in 1840 where it now stands.\\nAt the corner of Court and Tremont Streets was the resi-\\ndence of John Wendell, an old lioston merchant of the time\\nof (iovernor Shirley. He married a daughter of Jmlge Edmund\\n(^)uincy, and was the nephew of Hon. Jacob Wendell, a leading\\nl ostonian in the troublous IJevolutionary times.\\nThe IJoyal Custom House was located in Wendell s house in\\n17; at which time (ieorge radock, Es(|., a near neighbor of\\nWendell s, was collector.\\nThe old building long standing here, shown in the engrav-\\ning, is the one in which Washington lodged during his visit\\n_ --__ in 1789, as was set forth\\non the small tablet ]ilace(l\\nin th oui t Street front.\\nAt the time AVashingtini\\noccupied it. it was kept liy\\nJose|iIi I ngersoll as a lioard-\\ningdiouse. idle coming of\\nWashington to the town hi.\\nhad debvereil in 1 77 was\\nmarreil by an acl of oflicial\\n]iunc1 ilio on the ]iart of iov-\\nernor I lancuck, \\\\vhi(dicaused\\nthe greatest nioi tiljcation\\nalike to the pi ople and the\\niljust lions visitor\\nWAsMINirinN s l.iilKaNUd.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the neighborhood. 43\\nOn tlio arrival of tlie general on the Neck, he was met by\\nthe suite of tlu^ governor, Init not l)y the gov(n-nor, whose views\\nof State sovereignty would not admit of his acknowledging a\\nsuperior personage within his official jurisdiction. The day\\nwas C(dd and raw, aiid Washington, chagrined at the absence\\nof the governor, was about to turn his horse s head to th^iart,\\nwhen he was prevailed upon by the authorities of the town to\\nenter it.\\nA long delay had occurred at the Neck, and many peoph?\\ncaught what was called the Washington cold. The general\\nwore his old continental uniform, and rode on horseluick witli\\nhis head uncoverecl, but did not salute the throngs that lined\\nhis way. On arriving at the Old State House, Washington\\nwould not asc(Mid to the balcony prepar(; l for him at the west\\nend, until assured that the governor was not there and after\\ntlie passage of the procession Ijefore him, rc tired to his lodgings.\\nTo add to the coldness of his reception, a cold dinner awaited\\nhim but his landlord procured and placed before his guest a\\nfish of great excellence, and thus saved his credit at tlie last\\nmoment.\\nWashington liimself declared the circumstance had been so\\ndisagreeable and mortifying that, notwithstanding all the marks\\nof respect and affection he had received from the inhal)itants\\nof Boston, he would have avoided tlie place had he anticipatetl\\nit.*\\nGovernor Hancock, perceiving that he had made a jhtxro,\\nhastened to repair it. (Jeneral Washington had declined his\\ninvitation to dinner, so tlie governor caused himself to be car-\\nlied next day to the general s lodgings, where he presented\\nhimself swatliecl in llaiincls as a victim ol gout. The general\\nreceived the governor s excuses Avitli due civility, whatever may\\nhave been his private convictions, and so the atfair tei ininated.\\nMadam Hancock, indeed, related afterwards that the gover-\\nnor was really laid u]i with gout, ami tbat- AVashington shed\\ntears when he saw the servants bringing the helpless man into\\nhis presence. Governor Brooks, and Hon. Jonathan Jackson,\\nlluudreil Boston Onitois.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "44 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nthen Marshal of the District, dined witli the general on the\\nday of his arrival, but did not liold this view, and the affair\\nwas freely discussed at talilc Hancock seems to have yiehled\\nto the popular pressure wliich condemned his conduct. He\\nwas said to liave been jealous of Washington s elevation to the\\nPresitlency. The general returned the governor s visit, was\\natl able among friends, but stood on his dignity Avhen strangers\\nwere jireseut.\\nHarrison CJray Otis was one of the first who occupied this\\nold corner \\\\\\\\)V a law office. In his day it was considered (piite\\non one side, thougli only a lew paees distant from the ourt\\nHouse. INIr. Otis came upon the stage a little before the ojuui-\\ning of the Revolutionary conllict. He remembered seeing Earl\\nPercy s reinforcements nnistering for their forced march to\\nLexington! A pupil of Master Lovell at the Latin 8chool,\\nin 177;^, he was removed to )arnstal)le during the siege of\\nIJoston, wliere he (puetly jiui sned his studies, graduating at\\nHarvard at eighteen. He was an able lawyer, and until the\\nadvent of i\\\\Ir. Wel)ster, alxiut which time he reliiupiished\\npractice, was the ackuowli dged leader of the ]5ost(Ui bar.\\nJudge Story thought him the greatest popular orator of his day.\\nHis personal ajipearauce was elegant and attractive his voice,\\nstrong and melodious, often sounded in Faneuil Hall.\\nMr. Otis was prcmiinently identilied with })Viblic alfairs. Tn\\npolitics he was a Federalist, and a, leader of that l)arty in Con-\\ngress irom 1797 to 1801. Hi^ was also an intluential member\\nof the celeljrated Hartfoi d (Jouveiition. In 1817, after tilling\\na numlier of 8tate ottices, ]\\\\Ir. )tis went into the United States\\nSenate; and l)ecame mayor of his native city in 1829. He\\nwas the grandson of Harrison CJray, treasurer of the colony and\\na L oyalist, and nephew of James Otis, the ]iati iot. (lifted in\\nf)ratory, with a winning manner iiiul p ilishe l address, Harrison\\nGray Otis ranks higli among lloston s public men. One of the\\npublic scIukJs is named for him.\\nIn the building we are recalling was once the law ollice of\\nthe great exixninder oi (lie onstitution, Daniel Webster, who\\nfirst came to Boston in lS()l,:inil sliidiej law with Christo-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "king s (jhapel and the neighborhood. 45\\nplier (jlore, afterwards Governor of Massa(;liu.sett.s. He kept\\nschool a sliort time for his brother I^zekiel, in Short Street,\\nsince Kingston. Edward Everett, who lived with his mother\\nin Newhiiry Street, was then about ten years old, and went at\\nthis time to AV^ebster s school.\\nIt is related of Mr. We])ster, tliat wlien a young man, abnut\\nto bi gin the study of Liw, he Avas advised not to enter the\\nlegal })rofessi()n, as it was already crowded. His reply Avas,\\nThere is room enough at the to}\u00c2\u00bb. Mr. Wel)st(!r removed to\\nI ortsmouth, N. 11., returning to \\\\\\\\usUn\\\\ in ISKJ, and in l^liO\\nhe was a mend)er of tla^ Massachusetts (Jonstituticmal (inven-\\ntion. His orations at the laying of the corner-stone of riiiid er\\nHill i\\\\Ionument, dune 17, LS^f), wdien Lafayette was present,\\nand also on its completion, -Iun(^ 17, 184. an^ familiar to every\\nscliool-1)oy. An unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency in\\n183(!, he entered the cabinet of General Harrison in 1840, as\\nSecretary of State, negotiating the long-disputed ([uestion of\\nboundary with Great Britain by the Ashburton ticaty. His\\ngreat re[)ly to Hayue of South Carolina, in the Senate, in\\nwhich he defended New England against the onslaughts of the\\nSouthern Senator, made him the idol of tlu! people of Boston.\\nThis speetdi, Avhicli opiuis with the grajjhic simile of a ship at\\nsea in thick weather, her [losition uid nowii and her crew iilled\\nwith anxiety, was, it is said, delivered Avithout preparation,\\namid the gloomy foi ebodings of the New England nu H in\\nAVashington. His wife, even, who heard the fiery harangue of\\nHayne, feared for the result; but the Northern Lion reas-\\nsured her with the remark that he would grind the Southei n\\nSenator liner than the snulf in her box.\\nNotwithstanding the sledge-hammer force of A\\\\^ebster s elo-\\n(pience he was often at a loss for a Avord, but when it came to\\nhim it Avas exactly the right one. His clearness of expression\\nis Avell illustrated by the folloAviug anecdote of David Crockett,\\nAvho, having heard Mr. Webster speak, accosted him afterwards\\nAvith the inquiry, Is this Mr. AVebsterr Yes, sir.\\nWell, sir, continued Crockett, I had heard that you Avere\\na very great man, but I don t think so. I heard your speech\\nand understood every word you said.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "4G LANDMARKS UF BOSTON.\\nMr. AN^ listor s ]iositatii.\u00c2\u00bbM fur ;i suital)le expresf^ion is \\\\vel!\\n(Ifscrihcil liy tlu fullowiiij^ iinfc(l(iti At a incctiii;.; in Faiiciiil\\nHull lie was arguing in liivnr ol the ^laysvillc Ruail hill,\\nwith liis usual })()\\\\vt r, and rcniarkcd, 1 am in I avur, Mr.\\nliainiian, i all mads, (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.\\\\(,M |)t, except Here, he stuck, at\\nlimit I m a wm-il, until Jhii i isun (iray (Jtis, wliu sat near hiiu\\nnil tlie platt iirin, said in a Idw Vdice, Say except the mad ti*\\niiiin. Mr. W elister adnpled the siiggestimi, and iise(l it as it\\nhe had merely ]iaused [o make his remark mure eli ective.\\nIn lleiKdi and liar, it is relate(l that, while AVehster was\\nSecretary ut State, the Fi-eiich Minister asked him whether the\\nTTiiited States wmild recdgni/.e the new gdvernmeiit nf France.\\nThe Secretary assumed a verysdleiiin tone and attitude, saying,\\nliy not? The lTiiite(l States has recogni/AMl the Jioiirhons,\\nthe French Kepuhlic, the IMrectory, the Council of Five Hun-\\ndred, the First Consul, the Fmperor, Louis XVlll., Charles X,,\\nLouis l liilip|ie, the Fnmigh iMiough cried the\\nMinister, perfectly satislied l y such a formidaljle citation of\\nconsistent pi ecedeiits.\\nMr. AVehsler lived in Somerset Street, and also at the corner\\nof High and Summer Streets, during the diil erent ])eriods of\\nhis residence in Boston. The site of the house in Somerset\\nStreet is now covered by the niauniioth new Court House.\\nIt was occupied sucei ssively hy Uriah Cotting, ])aniel AVeh-\\nster, Ahholt Lawrence, and Lev. L jihraim Peahody of King s\\nhapel. A\\\\ elister s I esideiice in High Street is markeil hy a\\nsplendid hlock of stores, aptly styled Wel ster Liiildings.\\nHere he resided at the time of Lafayette s visit in ISiT), and\\nreceived the distinguished Frenchman on the evening of the\\n1 7th of rlune.\\n-Mr. Webster was a genuine lover of nature and of Held\\nsports, and was a good shot. He delighted in his farm at\\nMarshlield, and in his well ted cattle. ray s F legy was his\\nla\\\\orite poi in, and he was accustomed to repeat it with great\\nleeling and emphasis. Of his two sons, Fdward died in\\nMexico, a Major of the IMassaehusetts Volunteers; Ldetcher,\\nolonel of tlu^ Twelfth ]\\\\Lissachusetts Volunteers in the AVar of\\nthe Leliellion, was killed near Lull Ivun in 1SG2.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NElGHBOiaiOOD. 47\\nAVith two such di.stiiiL;uisli(jd lights of the [\u00c2\u00bbroh ssi(iii as\\nOtis ami Wehster heturu tlicin, it is no wonder the okl cdi iier\\nretains its magnetism for the disciples of tSir William Jjlack-\\nstone.\\nHaving now [)assed dnwn one side of ancient Treamount\\nstreet, we will repair U the corner of Howard Street, and\\ngo up the other side, lollowing tlie practice of tin; lathers\\nof the town, who inimhered the streets (;onsecutively down\\non one siile and up the other. This is still the custom in\\nLondon, and was doulitless ini[Hirte(l with many other old-\\ncountry usages.\\nOld Treamount Street liegan in ITOS, at the extreme cor-\\nner of ourt Street and Tremont Jiow, as they now are, and\\nextended around the hasc of what was lirst called Cotttui Hill\\n(so called as late as 17.!.)), iVum tiie residence dl Key. -Iulm\\nCotton; suhseipiently Pendiertdu Hill, linni lames i l iuheitoii,\\na later resident at the ndrth end cf what is miw remliertun\\nS([uare. It was at hrst iiieivly i ailed a liigliway, like the other\\nprincipal avenues, received vei y early the name of street, and\\nwas at the imrtherly part called Sudhuiy Lane, I TOl It ter-\\nminated at Ueacon Street. I endierton Hill, a spur of Jieacon,\\nnow marks a level of ahout eighty feet helow the summit of\\nthe original hill, it having heen cut down in I8. r).\\n)n the 1)row^ of the hill, later the residence of (Jardiiier\\n(Ji eene, was the mansion of (ioveiimr Endicott, that uiicom\\npromising Puritan who, in KiL K, sent the ol)noxious Kpiscopa\\nlians home to England, and afterwards cut out the cross from\\nthe King s standard because it savored of popery. Join;\\nEndicott Avas sent to America hy the Alassachusetts Company,\\nin England, of wdiich Matliew Crackick was governor, as their\\nagent, and was governor of the colony wliich settled at Salem\\nm 1G28. He was the successor of Winthrop, as governor, in\\n104:4:, and again in l()4l), and icjuoved to I ostou in the f(n mer\\nyear. Endicott tilled a nund)er of important olhces was ap-\\npointed Sergeant Major-Oeni ral in 1045, and in 1652 estah-\\nlished a mint, Avhich, though without legal authority, continued\\nto supjjly a currency for more than tliii-ty years. Governor", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "48\\nlani\u00c2\u00bbmai.:ks of ijoston.\\nl .Nl l( I I 1 1 1 I IN III I III\\nKiidiciitt iipjiii.sed the iTiisadr ni \\\\lr\\\\. Jdliii iittiiii a.L;aiii.st tlii^\\nwearing ul veils l y ladies, and iiad a warm peisdual disciissiiui\\nwilli that, eiii .aeiit diviiie. His\\nI jHirlrail- is iiKH-e like a canlinal of\\nliielii licirs (iiiie tliaii a l*iiritaii\\nMildi His head is covered liy a\\nlose-littillg vel\\\\ et skulkcap, IVom\\n\\\\\\\\liie|i the curling iroii-gi ay hair\\nlJ^\u00c2\u00a3^K^ 1^ esea|Miig down his shoulders a\\nt Wii ^i^ *~ffl^ hioad linen cnljar, I astened at the\\nWi^MMm^\\\\^ throat with cord and tassel, falls\\nupon his hrcast, while his small\\nr^ white right hand is grasping a,\\nluntlet I ichly endu oideivd. l ai-\\ndicott s Ir.rehead is niassix e, his\\n111 se large and prominent hut a\\ngray mustache -which decorates his up|icr lip eltectually con-\\nceals the eX[iression of his mouth, while a long imperial of the\\nFrench fashion hides a portion of the (diin. His whole (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(uin-\\ntenancc, howc\\\\ er, indicates strength, resolution, and courage.\\nThe mutilation of the Hag Mas not an act of hravado at a safe\\ndistance from punishment, hut of conscience and his jiortrait\\nsliows us that, having once formed a, con\\\\iction, he would pur-\\nsue it regardless of conseipiences.\\nCaptain yjirian Southack had a coml ortahle estate ol two\\nacres, in 170:^, lying on the noiilierly and easterly slope of the\\nhill. llowai d Street, which was lirst named Southack s ourt\\nfor him, suhse(pu ntly HoAvai d Street, lioni John Howard (he\\nphilanthropist, ran through his lands. a|itaiii Southack sei Vcd\\nunder the fiiiHUis oloiiel lien jamin liundi in an expedition\\nagainst the French and Indians in 17l 4, in whiidi he com-\\nmanded a small ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2essel, called the Frovince Snow, of fourteen\\nguns. When Admiral Sir H. Walker ai rived in lioston in\\n1711, Avith a fleet and tive thousand men destined to act against\\nthe French in Canada, he took up his residence -with Southack\\nin Fremont Street. The cuptain was to lead the van of the\\nexpedition.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIGHBOfiHOOD. 49\\nill 1717 tliu pinittj .sliiii Wliidali, cnmiiKiiided by the iioto-\\nriitus Saiiiut l Bcllaniy, was wrcckrd dii tlie, rocks of that part\\nof Easthaiii, now AVcllllcct. The council despatched Captain\\nSouthack to tlir scene nf the disaster. His j)0\\\\vers are inili-\\ncated liy the following orij^inal ddcunicnt\\nBy virtue nl piiwcr to nie, given by his Excellency Sanil. Sliute,\\nEsq., (Jovt., and the Aiiniiral, hearing date A])ril liotli, 1717, to\\nseize what goods, merchandise, or eti ects have or may he found or\\ntaken from the Pirate ship wreck at C ajie odd, aiul those taken\\nup hy Joseph Done, Esq., in carting and l riiiging in to me the sub-\\nscriber for his Majesty s service at Mr. Wni. Brown s at Easthani.\\nCyi kian Southack.\\nEastham, May i), 1717.\\nBellamy s shi[i was purposely run on shore hy the captain of\\na small vess(d he had captured the day ludore. Tlie captain\\nwas to have received his vessel IVoni the pirate in return for\\npiloting him into Cape od harhor, hut, ilistrusting the good\\nfaith of his captor, run Ins own vess(d so near the rocks that\\nthe large ship (d the j)irafe was. wrecked in atteni|)ting to follow\\nher. A storm aro.si and the rest of the pirate licet, thrown\\ninto confusion, shared the fate of tlieir coinmandia Captain\\niSoutliack buried one hundred and two bodies. A few that\\ncscapetl the wri ck were brought to Jioston and executetl. For\\na long time as kite as 17U4 co[\u00c2\u00bb[)er (;oins of William and\\nINlary, and pieces of silver, called cob money, were picked up\\nnear the scene of tlie wreck. The violence of the sea moved\\nthe sands upon the outer liar, so that the irou caboose of tlie\\nvessel was visible at low ebb.*\\nTheodore Lyman, senior, father of the mayor of that name,\\nowned and occupied a mansion on the corner of Howard and\\nTreniont Streets in l/SI iV beautiful green lawu extended\\nin front of his residence. These cliariniiig oases in the midst\\nof the desert of brick walls have long ceased to exist except in\\nthe public squares. This lot was also intended to have been\\nused by the Brattle Street Church Society when they rebuilt\\nin 1772 73 but Governor Hancock, by the present of a bell,\\nIMassacluisetts Historical Collections.\\n3 D", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "50 LAN DM AUKS OF BOSTON.\\ninduced tlicin to ivLuild on tlic old site. Tliis location was\\nulso occupied l)y Holland s CoH cc House, afterwards the Pern-\\nItertiin Hnuse, desti nyeil l\u00c2\u00bby lire in isr)4.\\ni assing tlie t state of Jolm Jekyll, Es(]., cine of the earliest\\ncollectors ot the port of J^iston, 17( 7, and a ureat friend of his\\nneii^hhors the Faiieiiils, we cdiiie in that of llev. dnhn otton,\\nthe spiritual father of IJoston. -luhn ntton, as state([ in our\\nintroductory chapter, was vicar of St. l!otol} h s liurch in Bos-\\nton, Kn^laiid, liitt iiielined to the I ui itan form of worsliip.\\nited to appear liefnre the nuturious ^\\\\rchl)isho|) Laud for\\nomitting to kneel at the sacrament, he lied to America, and\\narrived in l oston in IG. three years after the settlement.\\nHere he l)ecanie a colleague ol the Jicv. John Wilson in the.\\njiastorate of the First hureh. He was a man of great learning,\\nwell accpiainted with Latin, (!reek, and Helirew, and jiuMished\\nmany sermons and controversial works. He died from the\\neifects of exposure in crossing the and)ridge ferry, and has\\na memorial elected to his luemoiy in Ids old church of 81.\\nLotolpli s, fjigland, through the lilierality of Edward Everett\\nand other Lostonians.\\nThe house of Mr. Cotton stood a little south of the entrance\\nto l end)ertun fSc^uare, near the sti eet, as nearly as it can be\\nlocated. It was then considered the oldest in Boston, and tlie\\nback part, which remained unaltered, had the small diamond\\npanes of glass set in lead. His ample estate extended back\\nover the hill as far as L)r. Kirk s Church in Ashburton Place,\\nand embraced all the central jiortion of what is now Pemberton\\n.S piare.\\nThis house had a still more distinguished tenant in Henry\\n\\\\iu\\\\r the younger, who resided in it during his stay of two\\nyears in Boston, making some additions to the ])uilding for his\\nown greater comfort. Sir Harry, whose event i ul history is\\nfamiliar, was received with great I esjject by AVinthroi) and\\nthe people of the town, on liis arrival in 1035. His father,\\nSir Henry, was Secretary of State and Treasurer of the House-\\nhold un(h r James I. and harles 1. Alienated from the\\nChurch of England, young Harry Yaue refused to take the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "king s CHAl EL AND THE NEK illUUlJlK M jit. 51\\noath of alk giance, ami liccamo a ]iupu])licaii ami a I uiitaii.\\nHe was only twcuty-iniir w lii ii e-lioseii Ltovciiior of Massachu-\\nsetts Colony. During his ailuiinistration the religious contro-\\nversy lietwecn tlie congregation and the new sect of Faniilists,\\nof wliii h .\\\\nni llutchinsdn was llic ackimw Icdgi d cxjioncnt,\\nbroke out. Sir Jlarry, ojijtosiMl liy W int linip, was defeated at\\na second clcrtidn of governor, Imt was iiiiuu diately chost U a\\nreprrscnlativc I idui the town to tlic (iciinal oint. Ji eturning\\nto England, in 10. 57, he was elected to Parliament ami knighted\\nin 1(J4(). lie is said to have preseiitcil tlic hill of attainder\\nagainst the Earl of Stiallord. Disliking romwell s dissolution\\nof the Long Parliament, ane withdrew tVoni [luMic aifairs\\nuntil KiP.), wlien he Ijecame member of the ouiicil of State,\\nwith almost exclusive control of naval ami ibi-eign affairs of\\nthe Commonwealth. At the restoration of hailes II. ]n was\\ntlu owu into the Tower, and executed on Tower Hill, Lon-\\ndon, -hine 14, 1GG2. His bearing at the place of execution\\nAvas manly and dignilied, and he has been des(ril)ed by Forster\\nas one of the greatest and jturest men that ever walked the\\nearth\\nVane, young in years, but in sage counsel oM,\\nThan whom a better senator ne er lieM\\nThe helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, reiielled\\nThe fieree Epirot and th Afrie tmld,\\nWhether to settle peace, or to untold\\nThe drift of hollow states hard to be s])elled\\nThen to a l vi.se how war niay, best upheld,\\nMove Ijy her two main nerves, iron and gold,\\nIn all her e(iuij)age besides, to know\\nBoth si iritiuil jiower and civil, what eaili means,\\nWhat severs each, thou hast learneil what few have ilone,\\nThe bounds of either sword to thee we owe\\nTherefore on thy firm hand Keligion lean.s\\nIn peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.\\nJudge Samuel Sewall, Chief Ju.stice of the colony, in whose\\nfamily the estates of Cotton and Bellingham became united,\\nliveil here in 1G89. He was repeatedly ai)plied to to sell ;i\\npiece of his land to the Episcopalians to Iniild a church upon,\\nbut refused. He married a daughter of John Hull, the cele-\\nbrated mint-master, with whom he got, at different times, a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "52 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nsiiii^ |ini tiiiii of Master Hull s cstati Ho was one of the judges\\nduring the witclirrai t trials (if Ki jL*, ])ut afterwards expressed\\ncontriti()n for his share in that wretched Ijusincss. Stoughton,\\non the ciintiary, ui one occasion, indignant at the governor s\\nreprieve of some of the victims, left the conrt exclaiming, We\\nwi re in a way to have cleared the land of these. Who is it\\no1)structs the course of justice I know not. The Lord he mer-\\nciful to the country\\nJudge tSewall was a considerahle prnjirietor, owning a large\\nestate on Leacon Hill, known in his time as (Scwall s Elm\\nI asturc. Through this were laid out anciently Coventry,\\nBewail, and ]5ishop-\u00c2\u00bbStoke Street, the latter named from his\\nEnglish l)irthpLu-e. The judge left a diary, now in posses-\\nsion of the Historical Society, containing much contemporary\\nhistoiy. He attended the (,)ld South, and related t(j Ifev.\\nDr. Prince the story of Johnson s settlement and hiuial in\\nBoston.\\nPatrick Jeffrey, who married Madam Haley, sister of the\\ncelehrated John Wilkes of the North Briton, became a suljse-\\n(jucnt pnsscssiir of the Cotton estate. Somerset Street, named\\nIrom -loliu BoAvers of Somerset, Mass., crosses the Jeffrey or\\nCotton estate, and the former conveyed to the town, in BSOl,\\nso much of that street as jjassed through his property.\\nAnother proprietor of the Cotton estate was Cardiner Greene,\\nAvell reiucmlicii d as one of the wealthiest citizens of Boston.\\nl!y jiurcliase (if his neighbors, ]\\\\tr. Creene became possessed of\\nthe larger }M rti(in of IVmberton Hill, which he greatly beauti-\\nlicd and improved. Tlic hill was terraced, and ^Mr. (ireene s\\nmaiisidn which, tlniugh sulistantial, had no special marks of\\nelegance was readied by long llights of ste])s. ]\\\\Ir. (Jreeiie\\nis .said to have owned the only greenhouse then existing in\\nBoston, and his grounds, adorned by nature and art, made alto-\\ngether the finest })rivate residence in the town.\\nIMr. Greene s third wife was a sister of Lord Lyndhurst, son\\nof tlie celebrated painter, Copley, and a Bostonian, who be-\\ncame a i)eer of the I calm and Lord Chancellor of Great Brit-\\nain. He was called the Nestor of the House of Lords,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "king s CHArEL AND THE NEKIIir.ORHOOD. 53\\nand was noted for lii.s dry caustic humor. Once, wlieii Lord\\nBrougliani, speaking of the salary attached to a certain appoint-\\nment, said it was all moonshine, Lyndhurst, in his waggish way\\nremarked, Maybe so, my Lord Harry; hut I have a con-\\nfounded strong notion that, moonshine though it he, you would\\nlike to see the hrst rpiarter of it.\\nGardiner Greene s residenc(Mvas occu[)i(Ml in ITTT) Itya nnhlc\\ntenant, Percy, afterwards Earl of Noilliunihiilauil, gallant,\\nchivalrous, and brave,\\nAVho, wlien a younger son,\\nFought for King George at Lexington,\\nA major of dragoons.\\nPercy it was who saved the royal troops from destruction at\\nLexington, on the ever memorable 10th of April, ITTT).\\nseems to have changed his quarters quite ol teii, for, alioiit, ilie\\ntime of tlu! affair at Lexington, he was ordennl l)y (Jeneral\\n(Jage to take possession of the Hancock house on Px acon\\nStreet. lie also resided some time with Mrs. SheaH c, widow\\nof the collector, in Essex Street. We shall call on him at his\\nseveral habitations.\\nPichard P ellingham, Esq., Governor of Massachusetts in\\n163.1, in Kif 1, and again in Ifi.lf and from IGGG, after the\\ndeath of Endicott, until his own decea.se in KiT J, was tlie next\\nneighbor of Cotton. Anne Ilibbins, who married A\\\\ illiain Ilib-\\nbins, an early settler of Postou, for many years in the service\\nof the (Jolony, was a relative of Governor Pellingham. I his\\nunfortunate woman, denounced f )r witchcraft, was execut( (l in\\n1656, when an accu.sation was (piivaleut to condemnation,.\\nand forfeited her life to the supt rstitious bigotry of tlu* jieriod.\\nGovernor Pellingham served the colony as governor and dep-\\nuty for twenty-tliree years; was ordered by Gliarles II. to\\nEngland with other obnoxious persons, but prud(Mitly declined\\ngoing, by advice of the (Jeneral (Jourt. Jiellingliam, whose\\nintellect was said to have been inq)aired, was an unrelenting\\npersecutor of the Quakers. His house* stood on tlie spot aft(*r-\\nwards occupied by the rc^sidence of Lieutenaut-(i(ivern(ir Pliil-\\nlips, oppo.site the north end of tlie Chapel Purying-( Jrouud,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "54 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\naud about midway from the entrance to Peml)erton Square to\\nBeacon Street.\\nTlie Uellingham estate was also tlie property (if Peter\\nFaneiiil, wlui received it from Andrew, liis uncle, in 1737.\\nThe house, a fine old stone mansion, st 1 on the hillside some\\ndistance hack from the street. penin,n into the cellar was\\na curious cylindri(;al brick vault, resembling in sliape a wine-\\ncask, and used as a wine-cellar l)y the more modern occnpants.\\nIt was about hfteen feet in diameter by twenty live feet loni;-\\nand as it ibrmed no i)art of the orii.;inal cellar, which was\\nam})ly suHicient for ordinary jiurposes, was considered to have\\nbeen a lace of concealment fnv suHi^ ^led ^dods.\\nThe following description of the Faiieuil house is from\\nMiss Quincy s jNIenioir The deep court-yard, oinamented by\\nflowers and shrul)S, was divide(l into an upper and lower plat-\\nfirm by a. high glacis, surmounted liy a richly wionght iron\\nrailing decorated with gilt balls. The editice was of lirick,\\njiainted white and over the entrance door was a semicircular\\nbalcony. The terraces which rose from the jiaved c iurt liehind\\nthe house were su]iported by ma.ssy walls of hewn granite, and\\nwere ascended by llights of steps of the same matei ial. A\\ngrasshopper yet glittereil on a sumnierdiouse whicli com-\\nmanded a view only .second to that from Tieacon Hill.\\nSuch was the mansion at the time of its occujiancy by Gov-\\nernor I hillips. Andrew Faiieuil erected on this estate the first\\nhothouse in New England. The deed to him describes the\\nmansion as a stone house.\\nThe Faneuils were French Huguenots fnun La Pochelle,\\never memorable I mm its siege and galkint defence, and came to\\nAmerica after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The name\\nwas always pronounced Funel by all old Ilostonians, includ-\\ning Edward Everett, ami is so cut on the tombstone in the\\nCiranary. Peter Faneuil is best known as the muiiiticent donor\\nof h^anenil Hall to the town of oston. lie was born at New\\nUochelle, near New York, in 1700; was the wealthiest Bos-\\ntonian fif bis day, and after having lived only forty-two\\nyear.s, died suddenly of dropsy in 1742. Like many of his", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the neighborhood 55\\ncontemporaries, lie was a slaveholder, and there is a sort of\\npoetic justice in the fact that the first steps for the emancipa-\\ntion of slaves in Boston were taken in Faneuil Hall.\\nPeter Faneuil lived in a style worthy his position as a prince\\namong merchants. Ho owned a chariot and coach, with\\nEnglish horses, for state occasions, and a two and four wheeled\\nchaise for ordinary purposes. He had five negroes, and four-\\nteen hundred ounces of plate, among which is enumerated\\na large handsome chamber-pot. His cellar was bursting\\nwith good wine, arrack, beer, Cheshire and Gloucester cheeses,\\nwhat wonder his decease was sudden and he died owner\\nof eight ])uildings in Cornhill and King Street, with many\\nvessels and parts of vessels.\\nTo retrogratle a little, next north of Peter Fancuil s on(;e\\ndwelt Eev. John Davenport, who came over to Boston in\\n1637. He was one of the founders of New Haven, Connecti-\\ncut. When the Regicides, as Charles I. s judges Goffe and\\nWhalley were styled, were forced to live in cnucealment,\\nDavenport took them into his own house. Peturning to Bos-\\nton he became, in 1668, pastor of the First Church, but died\\nin 1670, after holding his charge but a short time, and lies in\\nthe Old Burial-Place, oi)posite where he once lived. The\\nestate of Pev. John Davenport remained for nearly a century\\nthe property of the First Church, and was occu[)i(Ml by Fox-\\ncroft, (Jlarke, and others.\\nLieutenant-Governor William Phillips, ])y Inrth a Bostonian,\\nbecame the proprietor of the Faneuil mansion and estates in\\n1791, which was confiscated in 1783 by the Commonwealth.\\nGovernor Phillips also acquired the Davenport estate in 1805,\\nMiiich gave him a magnificent homestead, well worthy one of\\nthe solid men of Boston. He was in office from 1812 to 1823.\\nMr. Phillips made a most lilieral use of the fortune he inlierited,\\nwas a great Ijenefactor of the Massachusetts General Hos-\\npital during his life, and made valuable l)e(iuests to Phillips\\nAcademy, Andover Theological Seminary, and other institu-\\ntions.\\nPev. John Oxenliridge, another pastor of the First Church,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "5G LANDMAKKS OF ]!()STON.\\nlivc(l on the site of the I avilion in Kill. A i urnicr occu-\\njKint was Colonel Samuel Shrim}\u00c2\u00bbtoii, wIkj at one time owned\\nNoddle s Island (East Boston), and gave his name to what is\\nnow Exchange Street, once Shrimpton s Lane. liev. John\\n(Jxenbridge was educated at Oxl ord and also at Candiridgc,\\nwas a popular preacher and a thiciit writer. ])ying in 1(17 1,\\nhe was interred, like his prfdcccssor Davcnjiort, in Uh Md\\nBurying-Place oppnsite. (icorge (Jradock, ollectnr oi I xistnn,\\nlived here in \\\\7 2S.\\nAVc have now reacln i] the curncr jicacdu Stivcl, whirli\\nwas tirst styled the lane leading to the Ahnshouse, a rather\\nhumlile designation lor tlic nio.st aristocratii street oi Bnston.\\nThe All)ion corner was once oc(npie(l Iiy James I eiin, inling\\nelder of the Eirst (Jhuirh, and a citi/eii of note. It liecanie\\nlater the estate of Sanniel i Jiot, I atlier of Mayor f liot, noieil\\nfor liis reforms in the Eire l)ei)artment. P.oth tlie Alhion site\\nand that of the block of houses west of it were oceuj)ied liy J\\\\lr.\\nEliot s mansiondiouse and gardens. He was a true gentleman of\\nthe old school, wedded to the cnstoms of a jiast generation. In\\nthe coldest weather he appeared in his customary cocl^ed liat,\\nsmall clothes, and rntlled slnrt Itosoni, witliout cloak or overcoat.\\nAll the estates, from the Albion to the I avilion, inclnsive, are\\nnow covered by Houghton S: Dniton s l)oj\u00c2\u00bbartment Store.\\nErom tlie array of honorable names presented, Tivmont l\u00c2\u00ab ow\\nwas once entitli d to be called tJie b otteii b ow of lioston. k n-\\ndicott. Vane, Bellingham, govei nors of tlie Colony I liillips,\\nlieutenant-governor of the State and the eminent divines ot-\\nton, Jtavenport, and Oxenbridge, all found a resi(l(^nce here.\\nAVe continue our peianilmlat ions through School Street,\\nwhich, receiving its name liom the old Latin Sclio il, was\\ncalleil Latin School Street. Its limits were the same as now,\\nand it was first called the lane leaJing to entry Hill. It- was\\nlaid out in 1()4().\\nBelow the old King s haju l sb)od the l.,atin School, -whose\\nsituation and removal \\\\i the i|iposite side of the street has\\nalready be(ni described. It- originatc(l in l(i;!|, and I liilemoii\\nI ormont was intreated to become schoolmaster for the teachin!/", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and thf, neighhoiuiood. 57\\niiiul iionrtcrin;^ (if cliildmi wiili vs. This was tlio heginning of\\nthat cilucatioiial system in which l osti)ii takes so just a pride.\\nThe grounds extended down the streist nearly to tlie Franklin\\nstatue. The huilding itself was of one stoiy, large enough to\\nacconnnodate a hundred scholars. Fraid lin went to th( Latin\\nSchool one year, entering in 1714, at the age of eight years;\\nhis still ue is, Ihei efoiv, heeoiiiiugly placed Ileal his (lima viitlcr.\\n.lollll Hancock also attended llie school, eiileriug in 174 his\\nmuch a(hiiired and stiikiiig autograph was doulttiess ac(iuired\\non its hard lienc-hes. I Robert Treat Paine, the, elder, Lieuteiiant-\\n(xovernor uslnug, dailies liowdoiu, ottoii Mather, Samuel\\nAdams, Sir Wilhani l e]ipt ivll, and a host of names famous in\\nour history, prepartul here foi future high stations.\\nThe early masters were men of erudition and high consider-\\nation in the town. Iv.ekiel lieever ranks at the head of the\\nold pedagogues, lie was one of the founders of New Haven,\\nand a teacher for .seventy years at New Haven, li)s\\\\\\\\i(di, harles-\\ntown, and liostdii.\\nJohn Lovi ll preside(l over the school, as usher and ]irincipal,\\nfrom 1717 until 177 when the siege ]iut an eiiil to if- for a\\ntiniti. He decamped wit li the l\u00c2\u00aboyalists in 177 I le delivered\\nthe lirst pnlilic address in l aiieiiil Hall on the de;it,li of its\\nfounder. Lovell s house adjoined tlie new school, and after the\\nevacuation (ieiieral lage s coach and phaeton, with harness\\nentire, were found then^\\nOf the school on tlu; opposite side of the street, which, till\\n1844, stood on the site of the Parker House, many distinguished\\nBostoiiiaus have lieeii pupils, among whom Harrison (Iray ()tis.\\nRev. Dr. Jeiiks, P. Winthro]), Charles Sumner, and the\\nsculptor (li eenough are consjiicuous.\\nThe Centre AVriting Sidiool was built in 17i)(), on the north\\nside of School Street. It. was a two-sfory wooden huilding, and\\nwas pulled down in iSli as it then ohstructed the front of the\\nnew Court Hous(\\\\ This was the school of IVIaster James Car-\\nter. The pupils were accommodated hy an enlargement of the\\nLatin School.\\nThe statue in liroii/.e of P.eiij amin Franklin, in the grounds\\n3*", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "58 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nof the City Hall, is by Richard S. Greenough, and was cast by\\nthe Ames Manufacturing Company at Chicopee, Mass. It is\\neight feet high, and stands lui a ixMh stal of granite, ca})ped\\nwith a block of veixl antique marble. Four bas-reliefs represent\\ndifferent periods of Franklin s career. It was publicly inaugu-\\nrated 8eptendier 17, ISfiTi.\\nWhen Franklin woi kcMl in tlie printing-office of Mr. Watts,\\nLittle AVild Street, London, he was called by his fellow-work-\\nmen the Water American, because he refused to drink any-\\nthing else, while they drank their five pints of beer ajnece daily.\\nWhen he went to Fngland afterwards, as ag(^nt for Massachu-\\nsetts, he Avent into this office, and going u}) to a i)articular\\npress (now in this country), said to the two workmen, C-ome,\\nmy friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since\\nI worked like you at this press, a journeyman printer.\\nFranklin s celebrated toast at Versailles will not lose by repe-\\ntition. At the conclusion of the war he, with the English\\nAmbassador, was dining with the French Minister Vergennes\\na toast from each Avas called for. The Lritish minister began\\nwith, (leorge III., who, like tlie sun in its meridian, spreads\\na lustre throughout and enlightens the world. The French\\nambassador followed with, Louis XVI., who, like the moon,\\nsheds its mild and benignant rays on and illumines the\\nworlil. (^ur American Franklin then gave, George Wash-\\nington, connnander of the American armies, who, like Joshua\\nof old, commanded tiie sun and moon to stand still, and they\\nobeyed him.\\nThe City Hall stands on ground sold to the town by Thomas\\nScotto in KifT), The foundation of the i)resent building was\\nlaid in 1802 with appropriate ceremonies. It is built of Con-\\ncord granite, and was designed by Messrs. liryaiit and (iilnian.\\nThe fh sti fowii House was erected between IT); r at the\\nhead t f State Street, of wood, Avhere the Old State House now\\nstands. A legacy had been left by Cajitain Robert Keayne,\\nin 1(5.50, for this purjiose, wliich was supplemented l)y sub-\\nscriptions tVom Governoi s Fndicott, Rellingliam, and otliers.\\nThis l)\\\\iildiiig was consumed in the fire of 1711 anotlier, liuilt", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIOIIBORIIOOD.\\n59\\nof Ijrick in 1712, was hiirnt in 1747, Avith tlio early hooks,\\nrecords, and valuable papers. In 1748 the Town House was\\nrehuilt. Faneuil Hall was also used as a Town House for\\nnearly eighty ye^ars, and the first city government was organized\\nthere. In 1830 the city government removed to the Old State\\nTHE OLD COURT 11(11\\nHouse, which was, on September 17, dedicated as the City\\nHall. In 1840 the old County (Jourt IIous(!, on the ])resent\\nsite, was remodelled for a City Hall, and continued to he so\\nused until the erection of the present building and its dedica-\\ntion in 18G5.\\nOur view of the Old Court House is taken from School Street,\\nand shoAvs how the building and surroundings ajipeared in\\n1812. In the left foreground is Barristers Hall, and to the\\nright the wall and enclosure of Dr. Samuel (Jlarke s house is\\nseen.\\nThe County Court House, referred to as occupying this site,\\nwas built in 1810, of granite. The main building was octago-\\nnal, with wings at ea(;h side. It was one hundred and forty\\nfeet long, and Avas occujiied by the offices of Pixjliate, Tiegistry\\nof Deeds, and the County ouiis. Tliis building was called\\nJohnson Hall, in honor of Isaac Johnson, tradition having", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "60 LANDMAltKS f\u00c2\u00bbF P.OSTON.\\na.senlu (l to this spot tlic location nf liis liouso, a name wliicli\\nilocs not sucm to liavc Ix-cn .generally a(lo} te(l.\\niVcxt the county pvo]i( ,rty, in 17 GO, once lived one of the\\ngreatest of the ante-lievolntionary patriots, James Otis, wliose\\nelectric eloquence was like the ethereal Hash that quenched its\\nlire. Otis came to Boston when he was tAventy-hve, in 1750,\\nand in 17()1 made the laiiious speech against the Writs of\\nAssistance. Home severe strictures which he made upon the\\nolHcers of customs resulted in an attack on him at the Uritish\\nolfee House in King Street, hy Jnhii IJoliinson, a couniiis-\\nsioner of customs, and others. )tis was s(nM rely injured, and\\nreceived a deep cut on the liead, which ultimately contrihuted\\nto cause his in.sanity. As an instance of the magnanimity of\\ntis, he refused the damages awarded him hy the coiut, ujion\\nreceiving an apulogy from his assailant. In 17G9 Otis was\\ncausing the greatest concern to his friends for the increasing\\nsymptoms he gave of coming mental aherration. J ihn Adams\\n\u00c2\u00abays of him 1 fear, I tremhle, 1 mourn for the man and his\\ncountry many others mourn over him with tears in their\\neyes. Otis withdrew to the country in 1770, and, after a\\nliriel lucid period, iluiing which he resumeil practice in llos-\\nt(in, he was killed at Andover in May, 1783, hy a stroke of\\nlightning, at the age of fifty-eight.\\nUpon the ground where the Nile.s Building now is, was\\nthe house of Jean Paul Mascarene, a French Huguenot of\\nLangiU doc. He went to England and entered the army, com-\\ning in 1711 to Nova Scotia, of which he hecame Lieutenant-\\nGovernor, and ultimately rose to the rank of Major-Geiieral.\\nHe (lied in Boston in 17 iO. The ho\\\\Lse was of two stories,\\nof l ri(-k, and i)ainted white. The INIascarene family were loyal-\\nists, and retired to Nova Scotia when the devolution hegan.\\nDr. John ^Varren, the youngest hrother of Jose])!! Warren,\\nkilled at l unker Hill, next occupied the premises. The old\\nhouse and gardens aiv still icniemhered hy many. Dr. AVarren\\nserved in the American army as hospital .surgeon, and was long\\nthe most eminent surgeon in New England. On the day of\\nT.imker Hill, the anxiety of the di\u00c2\u00bbct(ir for his hrother le(l him", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "king s CIIAl EL AND THE NEIGIlBOrtlTOOD. (il\\nto attriupt til pass a guard, wlin yaVL him a iKi^ oiR t wuuiul, the\\n}nark of wliicli lie camcd to liis grave. I)r. AVarreu was the\\niathi i- (if I)i Joliii C. Warren, searccly kss eminent in liis ])ro-\\nli ssicin tlian his i atlier. The ulil (hictor died in 1815, and was\\nburied fnim King s liapcl, I)r. James dackscm di livcring tht;\\neulogy. JJdth Joseph and Jdhn \\\\Varrcn wcii Imni in tiic old\\nwooden house on Warren Street, in wliat was formerly liox-\\nliury. The original mansion, heing ruinous, was relniilt on\\ntlie site of the old in 1840, ])artly of the old materials, hy l)\\\\:\\nrlohn \\\\Varren. Many a pilgrimage is paid to the liirtliplaee\\nof th(! liero wlio placed liimsc^lf, against tin; adviei; of friends,\\nin the post of honor and of danger.\\nTlie Cromwell s Head, a famous tavern, was on the spot\\nwhere the huilding nund)ered I J now stands, whiidi is to-day,\\nas of yore, devoted to the replenishing of th(; inner man. It\\nwas ke])t by Antliony IJrackett in 17G0, by liis widow from\\n17G4 to 1768; and later l)y Josliua I5raekett. Its repute was\\ngood, for wc find tlit; jMar([uis Cliastelhix alighting theri; in\\n1782, before paying his resju ets to M. de Vaudreuil, com-\\nmander of the French tleet that was to convey away Itocham-\\nbeau s army.\\nThe sign of this hostelry was tlie effigy of tlie Lord Protector\\nCromwell, and it is said hung so low that all wdio passed were\\ncompelled to make an involuntary reverence. The royal officers\\nwould not allow it to remain; it was too suggt^stive of the\\noverthrow of kingly authority but l rackett, in whosi^ eyes\\nthis circumstance gave it additional value, replace(l it nWrv tlie\\nevacuation. Mine host Urackett s carte is surinountcd by a\\nfac-siviUt of the sign, from a plate by Paul lleverc, and sIkjws\\nthat besides Ijoard, lodging and eating, one miglit liave wine,\\npunch, jiorter, and li(puir, with due care for his beast, for\\ncertain jjounds, shillings, and pence. Brackett s, no doulit,\\ncommanded the patronage of his neighbors we have been\\nnoting. Pare Ben Jonson s lines miglit have been a truniitet-\\ncall to his votaries,\\nWine is the word tliat glads the lieart of man,\\nAnd mine s the house of wine. Hack says my bush,\\nBe merry and drink slierry, that s my posie.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "62\\nt,andmai;ks of bostox.\\nIlul mine liu.st oi rDiiiwcH s Head liad in IT^G a more tli.s-\\ntiiiguislied guest, I lir in iliat yi ar Liculciiaiit-( dlnuel Wasliing-\\ntdii visited lldstou aec(iiii|iaiiic(| liy aplaiii Icdrge Meircr ol\\nX irgiiiia- and aptaiii Sti wart. Jlc caiiic In ivl i i a, (jucstinn t,[\\ncuiiniiaiid in (Jciieral Sliirlcy who had siiccei di d lliaddock in\\ntlie military (Uiirnl of tlii coluiiics. This was after the disas-\\ntniiis caiiiiiaign that ended in llradduelv s defeat. AVashingtuii s\\nnext visit was witli the cdinniissiun nt the untinental (ingi ess\\nas (inimanih r-in-rliiel\\nThe. ciirner I amiliarly kmiwn as the )ld (/nrijer |l(Mik-\\ntSture, where liave gatlierecl the disciples ut lihedvdetter and\\nTIIK (11,1) ((iHNIsU liollKSToUK.\\nreddine for so many years, is ]ir(ilialily tlie oldest hiick 1\u00c2\u00bbuild-\\ning standing in IJoston. It heai-s tlie date df 1712, and its\\nerectiiiii is sup])nse(l to have oeeiinvd soon after the great lii e\\nof 1711. It is one of the few old landmarks remaining, hut\\naside from its literary associations tlie corner has only a single\\nliistorical incident worth noting.\\nAnne Ilutehinson, who fills a chapter in the history of\\nBoston commemorative of the ecclesiastical tyranny of its", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIGHBOTtHOOD. 63\\nfounders, lived here abuut 1034. She was the leader of the\\nsect of Antiiiomians, and daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury of\\nLondon, an ancestor i if Governor Thonras Hutchinson, and\\nrector of several London parishes. Her mother was great\\naunt of Jolin Dryden the poet. .She was a woman of cnn-\\nsummate ability and adilress, for we learn that licv. dohii\\nCotton was ensnared l\u00c2\u00bby her, while AVinthrop wavcivd. Tlie\\nlatter, however, became her bitter enemy, and pursued her with\\ngreat vindictiveness. For a time she had all Loston by the\\nears, and even public business halted.\\nIslebius, a German, appears to have founded tlit; sect of\\nAntinomians about 1000. It held the Lnv of Moses to be\\nunprofitable, and that there is no sin in children. Mistris\\nHutchison, as Governor Winthrop calls her, alter a two days\\ntrial was banished in 10. 3 S, and went to Khode Island, the\\nhaven of religious refugees. Going afterwards to New York,\\nshe fell a victim to an Indian foray. Her followers in Boston,\\na numerous faction, were disarmed. AVinthrop says slie was\\na woman of haughty and iierce carriage, a iiiiiilile wit and\\nactive spii it, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man,\\nthough in understanding and judgment inferior to many\\nwomen.\\nAt the conclusion of Mrs. Hutchinson s trial she was\\naddressed by Governor Winthrop as folhnvs\\nMrs. Hutchinson! the sentence of the court you hear is,\\nthat you are banished from out of our juris(H(;tion, as being a\\nwoman not fit for our society, and arc to be imjirisone^l til\\nthe court shall send you away.\\nMrs. H. I desire to know wherefore I am banished.\\nWinthrop. Say no more the court know wherefore, and\\nis satisfied.\\nJust before you came to the Universalist Church, ascending\\nSchool Street towards Tremont, was the little church of the\\nFrench Huguenots of Boston. This was the church of the Fan-\\neuils, Baudoins, Boutineaus, Sigourneys, and Johonnots their\\nnames are not quite extinct among us, although the orthography\\nmay be changed in some instances. The church was built of", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "64 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nbrick, about 1704, Avas vciy .small, ami lor a loiii; time its\\ncavction was ojjposcd by the town. Ilcfdre building, the\\nKifucli occupied (iiie (if the sclidol-liimscs. (^)ueen Aniie\\nl resented a large I ulio I .ihle to this cliuviii, wliich afterwanls\\nfell into the possession of JNlatlier liylcs and ^Vndrew Faneuil\\ngave in his will tliiee pieces of plale for communion and\\nbaptism, besides liis warehouse in King Street. Pierre J)aille\\nwas the hrst minister, deceased in ITIT), and was succee(l( (l by\\nLc Mercier. A singulai incident led to the discovery of l aill( s\\ngravestone. While laborers were excavating a. cellar on the\\nEmmons estate on Pleasant iStreet tliey suddenly uncovered\\nthe stone which bore the following inscription\\nHere lyes y liody cil y\\nRevereiiil Mr. Peter\\nDaille iniiiister of y\u00c2\u00bb\\nFrench eliiircli iii\\nBoston (lied the\\n21 of May 1715\\nIn tlie 7 year\\nOf his a-e.\\nAfter the dissolution of the society, the house of the French\\nChurch fell into the hands of the Eleventh (Congregational So-\\nciety, which arose during the excitement caused liy the coming\\nof Whitelield. Mr. Crosswell was the pastoi dying in 1785,\\nwlien till house passed to the Iioniaii atholics. ]\\\\b\\\\ss was\\niirst celebrated in the church in November, 1788. It was\\nremoved in 1802.\\nTlie Second Universalist Church stood next below the corner\\nestate, now 6ccui)ied by the Five Cents Savings Bank, opposite\\nto the Niles ]!uilding. It was erected in 1817, after preliminary\\naction in the preceding year by a meeting held at the (Ireeii\\nDragon Tavern. It was much enlarged and improved in 1837,\\nand entirely i (uiiod( lled in 1851. Kev. Hosea Ballon was the\\ntirst jiastor. Kev. E. H. Cliapin preached here from 1840 to\\n1848, when he removed to New York, and Rev. A. A. Miner\\nuntil the removal to Columbus Avenue.\\nProvince Street received its name in 183.3, from its vicinity\\nto the Province House. Before that time it was Governor s Al-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the neighborhood. 65\\nley. Chapiiiaii I lacc. was ookc .s Court, finni Elislia Cooke, a\\nifsiiU iit of colonial tiiiics, who was a.qent with Increase Mather\\nill England to obtain a new charter for the colony. The house\\nof Elisha (yooke becomes distinguished as the residence of Gov-\\nernor lUirnct until the Province House could be made ready.\\nThe house was a two-story brick, with dormer windows, and\\nfaced the east. In front was a small court-yard.\\nLoring, in the Hundred IJoston Orators, says: The res-\\nidence; of James Lovell during tlie IJevolution was on the\\nestate whert^ Cha]\u00c2\u00bbman Hall is now located, and liis i amily wit-\\nnessed, on the house-toji, the burning of Charh stown during\\nI lie battle of lUmker Hill. W liih; Mr. Lovell was impris-\\noned in the Boston jail, in Quiien Street, in conseipience of\\n(leneral Howe having discovered a prohibited corres[)ondence,\\nproving his adliereiici; to the K evolutionary cause, his d(fVoted\\nvvift^ was daily accustoiiietl to convey his food to the prison\\ndoor. Chajiman Hall was in hajuiian Place, and is now suc-\\nceeded l)y the Parker House.\\n-lames was a son of that Master Lovell of wlioni mention\\nhas been made. He had been uslierof that school, and master of\\nwhat is now the Eliot School. He, was among the prominent\\nKevolutionary patriots, ami had lirst been imprisoned and linally\\ncarried in Halifax on the evacuation. ^Uler being exchanged\\nin 177(), Master Lovell became a nu-mber of the Continental\\nC ongress was receiver of taxes in I7S4, and after being Col-\\nlector of the port, was for a. long lime Naval Officer. His son\\nmarried Helen, one of Mr. Slicalle s handsome daughters.\\nBesides having rei)laced the Latin School, the Parker House\\nalso occupies the ground whei e there long remained au old brick\\nmansion, erected early in the last century by Jacob Wendell.\\nHe was a wealthy merchant, and colonel of the I\u00c2\u00bboston Regi-\\nment in 174r) afterwards a councillor, and a director in the\\nfirst banking institution in the province. His son Oliver, also\\na leading Bostonian, was the grandfather of Oliver AVendell\\nHolmes, the only autocrat who has ever flourished in\\nBoston. Wendell s garden reached to Tremont Street.\\nOliver Wendell was, like his father, a leading merchant of\\nE", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "66 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\n]!iistoii. Ilf was a sclcctiiiaii iluriiiL; the nic^r, and joined in\\nthe cnii^ratulatiiry address id Wasliin^duu wlien it was termi-\\nnated by tlie evacuation. The following original document\\nshows us that Wendell was trusted hj the commander-in-chief:\\nThe United States of America to tlie Subscribers Dr.\\nTo one month s services by Land and Sea, from March, 2r)th 1776,\\nto April 25th, Strictly watching the comnnnucation from the Town\\nof ]]oston to the British fleet Laying in Nantasket Road in Order\\nto ajuirt heiid and seize any British Spies who might have Concealed\\nthemsehes in the Town in order to Carry Intelligence to our Enemies\\not the Proceedings of the American Troops then in the Town of\\nIxistou, by Order of Major Generall (Jreeiic.\\nThirty Days Each man at 12/ p Day is los.\\nBen J Wheeler\\nBenj* Barnard\\nAndrew Symmes Jr\\nJoshua 15ent1jEY\\nJohn Champney\\nThomas Tileston\\nKcc the within Contents in fidl\\nThe folloAvimj is indorsed on the back\\nOliver Wendell\\nPay unto Oliver Wendal l^sipiire one huiiilred einlit jmunds\\nLawful money for the use of the signuiip of tlie witiiiii account, he\\nbeing em](loyed by Major (leueral (heeJie by my order tn engage a\\nnumbei if ]iers(iiis foi the within ser\\\\ice in Rlarcli 177( when the\\niMiemy evacuated Boston.\\n(_ii\\\\en under my luuid at\\nCamp fredericksliurg Novem 12 1778\\nDon I\\\\Iajnr Washington\\nOenl. Ciates\\nTo Eliene/.er Hancock Esij Paymaster Cent\\nEastern Dejiartnient\\nSir, Pay the above sum n[ (me hundred and eight jiouuds Law-\\nful money to Oliver Wendell i ]si| in consequence of the above order\\nIbr which this with his receipt shall be your sufficient Warrant By\\nthe (Jenerals connnand HuRATiu Gates\\nJohn Ai insti-oni;- Jr\\nAid de Camp Head (,\u00c2\u00bbnarters 2.^)th November 1778\\nJoseph (Ireen, beyond compaiison the keenest Avit of his", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "king s chapel and the NEIGIIBOKIIOOr). 67\\ntiuif, lived in 8cli(i(il Street. He Avas a iiiercliant, Dr. Bylcs\\ntonus liiiu a distiller, and aeciiiuulated a liaudsoiue property.\\nHe was the general satirist, epic, and epitaph writer of his day,\\nand wielded a treneliant pen, of whieli none stood more in awe\\nthan Governor Belcher. His epitaph on the countryman whose\\nforte was raking hay, in wliich lie excelled all but his employer,\\nis as follows\\nlie could rake hay none could rake faster,\\nExceiit that raking dog his master.\\nGreen, who was well advanced in lifewhcn the Kevoliitionary\\nstruggle begun, removed to England, when; he engaged in busi-\\nness, residing in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, London.\\nHe died in London in 1780. There is a portrait of dosepli\\n(Jreen, l\u00c2\u00bby Copley, in the pos.session of the heirs of Rev.\\nW. T. Snow. Green often ran a tilt with Mather Byles,\\nunhorsing his clerical opponent with his goose-(piill lance.\\nHis residence was between the house of Dr. Warren and the\\nCromweU s Head.\\nFROM A PLATE BY PAUL KEVERE.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "08 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFROM THE ORANGE-TRKE T(\u00c2\u00bb J ilE (tLl) BRICK.\\nHaiiowr Stirct. Gcuri-al WaiTfii. Tlic Oraiip;e-Tivt oiicert Hall.\\nBrattle St ivrt. Saiiiui l (!(irc. .loliu SiiiilnTt. Natliuiiiel Sniihert.\\nColonel rruiuljuii. Tlie Adeli lii. Seollay s Buildings and Square,\\n^yueeii Street Writing School. -Waster .lames t ai ter. -C ornliill.\\nBrattle Street Parsonage. Old Prison, ai)tain Kiild. Court\\nHouses. F^rankliu A\\\\enue. Kueelanil. Franklin. Edes and (Jill.\\nCiveu and Kussell. First ISook and Ne\\\\vs])ai)er printed in Boston.\\nPtufus Choate. (l(ivernor Leveivtt. John A. Andrew. Henry Dun-\\nster. Town Pump. Old Brick. General Kno.x. Count Ruiuford.\\nJohn Winslow.\\nC^T.\\\\NI)lN(i at tlir lic;i(l nf llaiKivcr Street, avc are sensil)le\\n^3 tliat iiiijiroveiiic iit has pldii^la d a In oad furrow tliroti,!j;h\\ntliL Nditli Eiiil. Away liclnrc ti.s .sirciclu s a lirciad avciim\\nwlicro Diicc voliiclcs passcil cadi otlicr wiili (liiliciiliy. As tlic\\ndill street was, tlieiv were places where, it was no ,er,.,it iM,t\\nti\u00c2\u00bb Juiiip aciiiss. This was the eld highway IVmii Wiiiiiisiiii-\\nluet Kerry t(.i I reaiiiiniiit Street, lirst calhnl )raiiL;c-Tr(. c Lane,\\ntViiiii the ta\\\\ crii at its head. llaiKivcr Street extended at Hrst\\nonly IVdiii (\\\\iiirt U Klackstoiie Streets. AVhy tins name, a per-\\n]ietiial reminder (if a detested House, sliould liave Iteen re-\\ntaiinil, when (^liieeii retireil liel ore Couri, and KiuL,^ succumlied\\nto State, we eaiiiiot otherwise answer than hy siipposin.u the\\nchanges dnrino the Kevoliition spasmodic, rather than syste-\\nmatic ejl orls of repnhlieanism.\\nAs we look down this street, a little way on our lett stands\\nthe American llonse. ()n the efoiind it covers lived that early\\nmartyr to American freedom, Ueueral .Jose[)]i AVarreii, who in\\nI7 alter his uiarriaoe, took up his residence and tlic practice\\nof medicine on this sjiot. He went, to Urattle Street Church,\\nneaf hy. in 177 t, while the llostoii J ort Hill was in ojier-\\nation, there was a ;j,ood (h al of suil ering in coiiseipicnce of the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORxYNGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. G9\\nclosing of the port, and at tliis time Colonel Putnam, better\\nknown as Old Put, came to IJoston with a drove of sheep\\nfor the inhabitants, and was Warren s guest.\\nIt was Warren who caused the alarm to be given of the\\nBritish expedition to Concord, ])y scuiding Paul lievere on liis\\nfamous night ride, and gave tinudy warning to Hancock and\\nAdams. There are many stories of the manner of Warren s death\\nat Bunker Hill, some of them liighly colored. He was killed\\nafter the retreat began, a little way in the rear of the famous\\nredoid)t. (Jcneral Howe, wIkj knew Warren well, said his\\ndeath was C([ual to the loss of five hundred men. Colonel\\nJohn Trumbull, who, wdien in England in 1786, painted his\\npicture of the Battle of Bunker Hill, gives the following rela-\\ntion of the fall of Warren by Colonel Small, who was on the\\nfield, and is represented l^y Trumbull endeavoring to save the\\nlifii of Warren\\nAt the moment when tlie troops siiccoeded in carrying the\\nrcdoTibt, and the Americans wcic in lull retreat, (leneral Howe,\\nwho had Ijeeu wounded l)y a s])ent l)all, was leaning on my arm.\\nHe called su ldeidy to me, Do you see that elegant young man\\nwho has just fallen? I looked to the spot to wliich he ])()inted.\\nGood God! he exclaimed, T believe it is my friend Waiivn\\nli ave me then instantly, run, kee] oil the froops, siive liini\\nif possible! I flew to the sjiot. My deiir blend, said to him,\\nI hope you are not badly huit. He looked up, scenici] to recob\\nlect, smiled, and died. A nuisket-l all had passed tliroui^h the\\nupper part of his head.\\nThe body lay on the field until the next day, when it was\\niccogiuzxMl by Dr. Jefiries and John Winslow at lioston, and\\ninterred on the spot where he fell, (leneral Howe s solicitude\\ndoes not seem to have extended to Warren s remains, wdiicb,\\nhowever, received a sohlier s burial. After the evacuation the\\nl)ody was disinterred and deposited in King s Chapel, and sub-\\nsequently in St. Paul s, Tremont Street. Tlie ball wluch killed\\nWarren is now in possession of tlie (ienealogical Society.\\nIt is a common ounce musket-ball, and d ies not l(X)k at all\\nflattened. It must ever ai)pear unaccountalile why Ceneral\\nWard, at Cambridge, did not attempt to recover the body of", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "70 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nthe President of tlie Provincial Congress. The usages of war\\nmust have been w^ell known to liim, and Howe was not the man\\nto refuse the request.\\nThus died in the imminent deadly breach the young hero\\nat the early age of tliirty-four. President of the Committee of\\n.Safety, of the Provincial Congress, and Major-General, he\\ndeclined tlic connnand at Bunker Hill, taking the place of a\\ncommon soldier. Deeply hurt by the reflections cast u])()ii the\\ncourage (if his countrymen, he is said to have exclaimed, I\\nhope I shall die up to my knees in blood. To the remon-\\nstrances of his friend, Elbridge Gerry, who l)egged him not to\\ngo to Ihinker HiU, AVarren replied, Dulce et Jecorum est jiro\\njxttrUt morir\\nAdjoining the American House on the west are Codmaii s\\nPuildiiigs, covering the ground where stood the famous Earl s\\nCofi ec House in bygone days. It was established in ISOG, and\\nwas the headipiarters of the New York, Alliany, and other mail\\ncoaches.\\nGo call .a coacli, and let a coacli lie called.\\nOn the north corner of Hanover Street Avas the Orange-Tree\\nTavern, which designated the northerly end of Treamount Street\\nin 1732, and beginning of Hanover Street in 1708. It contii\\nui d a tavern until 1785, when it was advertised to be sold.\\nTlie name was from the sign of an orange-tree, and the inn was\\nnoted fir the best well of water in the town, never dry nor\\nknown to freeze. Here was the flrst hackney-coach stand we\\nhavt an account of, set up l)y Jonathan Wardwell, keeper of\\ntlie Oninge-Tree, in 1712. He Avas succeeded ]iy Mrs. Ward-\\nAvcll, Avho kepit the liouse in 1724.\\nConceit Hall, of Avhicli a considerable moiety is noAV in the\\nstivcj,, was on the soutlierly corner, and Avas also a tavern, kejit,\\nin 17U2, by James Vila. Ilie site was first known as Houchin s\\noilier, from a tanner of that name Avho occupied it. Tlie\\nliiiilding was of bi ick, though it underwent various alterations\\nuntil torn doAvn in 18G9, to make Avay for the Avidening of\\nHanover Street. Concert Hall Avas OAvned Ity the family of\\nUeblois until li)79. Before the Revolution it Avas a resort of the\\n11^7", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "os^ :m ^_^^\\nvv; r-^i r-\\nP\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-I\\nl5^ V\\nX w^\\\\ r\\n(^r?!\\n4 VtMS. ^i \\\\f.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORANGE-TKEE TO THE OLD BRICK. 71\\nFriends of Lil)ovty, and as early as 1755, after the installation\\nof Jeremy Gridley as Grand Master of the jVIasons in North\\nAmerica, it was used by the Grand Lodge for occasions of\\nmeeting or festivity, and continued to be so used until the\\npresent century. Here have met Gridley, the Warrens, Revere,\\nTomlinson, Oxnard, Welil), and others. Here Captain Preston\\nwas dallying on the evening of the fatal 5th of March, 1770,\\nwlien he was summoned in hot haste to begin the first act of\\nthe great conflict of the American IJ(!volution. The American\\nprisoners captured at Bunker Hill are said to have becin tried\\nby a military court in Concert Hall. In 17GS the olmoxious\\nCommissioners of Customs ventured to return from the Castle,\\nwhile the town was under the control of the newly arrived\\nBritisli troops, and had an olhce here, with a sentinel at the\\ndoor. And here came Samuel Adams and James Otis to re-\\nmonstrate with them.\\nAcc(jrding to the News Letti-r, concerts were held in the old\\nhall as early as January, 1755, when a concert of imisick\\nwas advertised to take placid there, tickets at f nir shillings each.\\nGovernor Hancock gave, in 177S, a gi aiid ball in oiicert Hall\\nto the ofHcers of D Estaing s fleet, at \\\\vhi(;h three Iiundred per-\\nsons were present. The Society of the incinnali also held\\nmeetings in this hall, and the Massachnsetts iMechanic Char-\\nitable Association had their first meetings therein. Pebu l\\nBrigham was for about forty years mine host of oncert Hall.\\nA littleeast of CoiK crt Hall on Ilanovei- Street lived William\\nCooper, Town Clerk of lioston I oi ne.nly half a ceiituiT. His\\nterm embraced tlie b ex olulion.ii v iicrind. during which he was\\nan ardent friend of tli(^ ^Vhig cause. He w;is a brother of the\\npatriotic pastor of Old Brattle Street Chnich.\\nBrattle Stivet was opened ill ISI .I, fniiii mirt St,reet b. the\\nChurch. Before this it was a naiiow way, known hrst as Hil-\\nlier s Lane, and sometimes as Belknap s, .iml as (lay Alley.\\nLooking towards the site of tlu; old cliiircli we notice, on the\\nnorth side of the street, a continuous row of granite buildings,\\nuniform in their general a[i[ieaiance. Tliis was the first block\\nof stone buildiii rs erected in Boston.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "72 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAt the head of Brattle Street lived Siuuuel Gore, elder brother\\nof Christopher, afterwards governor ()f tlie C()miU(m wealth.\\nGore was a painter, and was one of those stout-hearted mechanics\\nwho furnished the nuiscle of the Ivevolutiou wliile Adams and\\nOtis supplied the brain. Gne of the Tea Party of 1773, Gore\\nwas one of those who seized tlie two brass guns, Hancock and\\nAdams, from tlie gun-house in J remont Street, and conveyed\\nthem to the American lines under the very eyes of the Ihitisli.\\nThese two guns are now in Bunker Hill Monument.\\nThe celebrated Scutch })ainter, John Smil)eit, owned and\\noccupied the premises between Brattle Street and orrdiill in\\n1743, having acquired ]iart through his marriage with jNlary\\nWilliams of Boston, and }iart by |)urchase. Tlie biographers\\nhave but little to say about this pioneer oi the tine arts in\\nAmerica. He was before West or Copley, and is sai l to have\\ninfluenced the works of the latter, as well as those of Allston\\nand Trumbull.\\nSmibert must have had a large ami lucrative custom, for he was\\npossessed of i)roperty in J oston and Koxbury, which he liought\\nfrom time to time, and at his decease lelt in liis studio thirty-\\nfive portraits, valued l)y the appraisers at (K) ^^s. Hd. Tliirteen\\nlandskips were estimated at tlie iiioilerate sum of 2 13.s\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0while four historical pieces, ami pictures in tliat taste, were\\nconsidered wortli X IG. Two coiivei sation jiictiires, whatever\\nthey may have been, wc^-e tliouglil wortli L*:; (ix. Si/. His\\nnegro girl, l^hillis, went for J,i\\\\ ]:\\\\s. f. He ki pt liis horses\\nand chaise, in which he used to take his wife, j\\\\lary Smiliert, to\\nLynde Street Church to hear good Dr. Hoo])er.\\nSmibert came over to Ammica in ]7l*S with tlie Dean, atter-\\nwards Bishop Berkeley, settling in J iston in 173(1. Tlie largest\\nknown work of Smibini s in this country is liis picture of\\nBerkeley and family, in which the portrait of the artist is intro-\\nduced. This painting is now in the p issession of Yale ollege.\\nHis portrait of -lonathan ivlwanls is said to lie tlie only one\\nextant of that learned and eminent divine.\\nNathaniel Smibert, son of John, took u]\u00c2\u00bb the jn ofession of\\nhis father. He went to the Latin ScIkjoI, under jNbister Lovell,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "FllOM THE OUANGE-TKEE TO THE OLD BRICK. to\\nin liis early youtli, but soon turiu d to his fatlier .s brusli and\\neasel, with tlie promise of making a finished artist, but died at\\nthe early age of twenty-one, dee})ly regretted by all who knew\\nhim.\\nColonel John Trunilnill, aide-de-camp to Washington during\\nthe siege, retired in disgust from the s(!rviee in 1777, on account\\nof the date of an appointment bt the rank of colonel, Ijy dates,\\nbeing rejected by Congress. lie then resumed his study of\\nl)ainting in Boston, amidst the works of Copley, and in the\\nroom which had bi-en built l)y Smibert, and in wliicli I eniained\\nmany of his works. Governoi JIancock sat for liis ])ortrait to\\nTruml\u00c2\u00bbull while the latter was in llosbui. Hancock was ])resi-\\ndent of the Congress which ignorc(l Pnunbull s raid C, and had\\nalso spoken rather slightly of his family being well cared for by\\nthe govennnent, on seeing tlie latter at the heathiuartei s of\\nWashington. Trunil)ull was stung by the ungenerous remark,\\nand when, after having served as a volunteer in the expedition\\nto b liodi^ lslan l in 177S, he fell ill on his return, he at lirstre-\\nlled the advances of C.overnor Hancock, who, by onsideratc\\nattentions, repaired his original olfence. rruiid)ull was a histor-\\nical painter. The rrnnd)ull (lallery at Vale contains lifty-seven\\npictures by him. An engraved likeness of Covernor Yale, lor\\nwhom tJie college was named, is one of the lirst you see on\\nentering the gallery. The following is his epita[)h in the\\nchurchyard at Wrexham:\\nBom in America, in Europe lircd,\\nIn Afriea travel d, and in Asia wed,\\nWliere long he lived and thrived at, London dead.\\nMuch Good, some 111 he did so hope all s even.\\nAnd that his soul through Mercy s gone; to heaven.\\nTrundjuU exhibited, in 1818, in Faneuil Hall, his picture of\\nthe Declaration, which ,b)lin Uandolph irreverently called the\\nshin-piece. The venerable John Adams went to see it, and,\\npointing to the door next the chair of Hancock, said, There,\\nthat is the door out of which Washington rushed when I first\\nalluded to him as the man best qualified for Commander-in-\\nChief of the American Army.\\nMiss Quiiiey s Memoir.\\n4", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "74 LANDMAUKS OF BOSTON.\\nColonel Ti unibuU s historical iiaintin^ s in the rotunda of the\\nCa[)itol at Washington have gained him a world-wide reputa-\\ntion his Sortie from (libraltar is now in the Museum of\\nFine Arts. He was a fellow-student with Stuart, under West.\\nThe paint-room of the Smiberts and of Trumbull continued\\nto be occupied by various artists of lesser note until 1785. At\\nthis time Mrs. Shealle orcu})ied the abode of the Smiberts as a\\nb(iarding-house. This lady lias ac(piired celebrity through her\\nchildren. In those days jjainters sometimes styled tliemselves\\nlimners. )ne of iMrs. Shcall c s boarders varied the monotony\\nof portrait iminting l)y doing hair- work in the neatest manner.\\nI art of the Smil)ert estate went to make the present IJrattle\\nStreet.\\nThis locality, after having served the New England Museum,\\nwas, in course of time, appropri;ited l)y the Adelphi I heatre.\\nJohn Brougham was, in 1(S47, associated with Mr. J land as\\nmanager, Avitli INIrs. Jirougliani and Mr. Whiting in tlui corps\\nlriiiniili iii The Adel|ihi was a side-sjilitting atl air, defying\\nthe conventionalities of the niodcin stage. An open bar stood\\nin the rear of the auditorium, to which the audience were in-\\nvitiMl to repair ujton the i alling of the curtain.\\n)ne of tlie greatest cliangcs iJiat has occurred in IJoston is\\niJie ii ansformation of the over-crowded tlioroughfares around\\nwdiat was knowii as Scollay s llnildings into the spacious,\\npleasant area we now call ScoHay S(piare. All of the original\\nis gone except tlii^ distin( tive appellation, and wliat has existed\\nin some foiiu for two centuries has vanished\\nLike tlic l)ascl( ss f;i,lii-ic of a vision.\\nTlie S (.]]a,ys were Si otrli. from tlie Orkneys. John Scollay\\nis meiitioiKMJ, ill l(i .\u00c2\u00bb:i, as lessee of Winnisimmet Ferry. An-\\nother John Scollay, of the K evolutionary ])eriod, was a man of\\nconsiderable noic in ISost-on. lii was one of the first Fire-\\nWards of the town, and a selectman duiing the siege. His son,\\nWilliam, is the one for wlioni tin- buildings ami s(piai e were\\nnanie(l. V]\\\\i name, howe\\\\ei and his ]iro[)rietorship only date\\nback ti) aliout 1800. illiam Scollay was a conunander of\\nthe !adets, an apothecary at No. (i Old (Joruhill, and resided", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. 1 5\\non the site of the Museum in Treinoiit Street. He was promi-\\nnently identified with Charles Bulfinch and others in the im-\\nprovement of Franklin Street.\\nA long row of wooden buildings at one time extended from\\nthe head of Cornhill to nearly opposite the head of Hanover\\nStreet. Both ends of tliis wedg(s-sha}\u00c2\u00bbed range of houses, witli\\nthe point towards Hanover Street, were cut off at various tiuirs,\\nleaving only tlie brick structure of Scollay, since removed.\\nScoUay s Building was supposed to have been erected by Patrick\\nJeffrey, who came into possession in 1795. Neither ag(! nor\\nincident I ender the building an object of special interest.\\nOpposite to where (Jornhill now opens into Court Street was\\nerected, in 1 083 84, the second school-hinise in th(! town. The\\nfirst being styled the Latin Scliool, tliis was termed the Free\\nWriting School. It is clearly mentioned in 1097, and continued\\nto be used until 1793, when it lu canie private proiierty, the;\\nschool then known as tlie (uitre Beading and Writing\\nSchool being removed to Scliool Stnu t. The first master\\nhere was Samuel ole.\\nThe preamble to the first law estaldishing schools reads\\nthus\\nIt being one cliief project of Satan to keep men from tlie knowl-\\nedge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping tliem in unknown\\ntongues to the end, tlierefore, tliat It-arning may Jiot be buried in\\ntlie graves of our forefathers, in church and Conimonwealtii, it is\\nenacted, etc.\\nThe school-hotise is brought into notice in 1744, by a some-\\nwhat curious alfaii It apjx ars that aptain W. Montague,\\nafterwanls a Britisli Admii ah came ashore from his ship, tht;\\nfrigate Eltham, then lying in Nantaskct Roads, and, ac(;om-\\npanied by a party from his vessel, indulgeil in a regular sailor s\\nlark on shore. In the coursi^ of their randdes the party com-\\nmitted some depredations on tin; sehool-house, for which war-\\nrants were issued against some of the oifeuders.\\nJames Carter was the most famous of the masters of this old\\nschool. He was a pedagogue of an extinct type, and after a\\nlong term of service, continuing almost to the time of his death,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "7G LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAvas buried DecemluT 2, 1707. His house adjoined the school-\\nhouse on tlie west. Turell s Museum once occupied tlie old\\nscliool-house, part of wliich was removed upim the completion\\nof Cornhill, to atl ord a i ree ])assage into Tremont Street.\\nGreen and liussell, one of the old printing houses of Boston,\\ntransacted business in an old building that stodd on thi site of\\nScollay s, in 17r)i dosepli L usselh one nf tlie iiartners, carried\\noil tlie business of an auctioneer, in wliirh he was very success-\\nful, and became the owner of the pi upeity. William Vassall,\\na royalist refugee, in 1770, was the lu-xt proprietor, followed\\nby deilVey. The olonial ustom-house stood very near this\\nlocality in 17. )7, but we have l)een unable to discover its exact\\nsite.\\nCornhill owes its name, no doubt, originally, to its London\\n]\u00c2\u00bbrototype. It is the second street Avhich has borne th(! name\\nin liostou, and was iirst called Market Street, as it opr-ned a\\nnew route to Fanenil Hall INIarhet. The stores erected in this\\nstreet were the first raised oir granite pillars in Boston. TTri;di\\notling built the street in 1817. To his genius Boston owes a\\ndclit not yet suitably recogni/.i (l. Mr. ottiii,L; s remains lie\\nlieiieath aii humble tomb in (iraiiary Binying ground, Imt W(\\nmay apjiropriately apply to him llie epitajih of Sir lirisfo^ijicr\\nWren\\nUi .Milcr, if lliou sci kfst his iiioiniincnt, looli miiuumI.\\n)|)posite to us, on i}\\\\v premises of the Adams I Apress Com-\\n])any, was tlie old Parsonage House ot I .rattlc Sipiare liiucli,\\ngiven to it by INlrs. Lydia, Hancock in 1 7i She was the wife\\nof Thomas Hancock (uncle of Ilic jiatriot), and resided in the\\nold house, as also did her father, olonel Daniel Henchman,\\ngrandson of the old Indian li.nlitcr. licnclimaii was a book-\\nseller and bookbiiiilci and Tlioinas Hancock served his time\\nwith him. olonel ileiicliman estalilisheil the iirst paperniill\\nin the colony, at, Milloii. Since tlieir day it was the residence\\nof the ]iast()rs of the chuivh, last, that, of 1 )r. Lolhrop.\\nThis house has lieeii iioiimI as one of the dwelling-jilaci s of\\nJames Otis.\\nThe (Jill Prison stood on the .s]Mjt where now the massive", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORANGE-TIiEE TO THE OLD BRICK. 77\\ngranite Court House is placed. From it the street was very\\nearly naineil Prison Lane, changed to Queen Street in 1708,\\nand to Court in 1784. Wliat the (Jld Prison was like is left to\\nconjecture, but we will let an old master of the imaginative art\\ndescril)e it The rust on the j)ond(a ous iron-work of its oaken\\ndoor looked more anticpu; than anything else in the New\\nWorld. Like all thai pertains to crime, it seemed never to\\nhave known a youthful era. l he fancy of Hawthorne in\\nIdeating a blooming rosed)Ush on the grass-plot lieside the\\n|iris( n dipor is striking. Here were coidiued the victims of the\\nterrible witchcraft delusion.\\nWho is lie t one thai for l:ick of lainl\\nShall ll.^ht 111 HI llio WMti i\\nThis licavy iaken ddur sbiod between the Udtiiriniis pirate, Wil-\\nliam Kidd, and liberly. lie arriveil in liosbm in dune, Hi\\nwith his sloop, anil was exannned liefore tlie Jvirl of Uellouiont\\nand the Council of the provinct^ (_)n the Gth of -lune, Kidd\\nwas seized and commitb d to prisiui with several ol his crew,\\nand his vessel taken pussessiou if. AVhen arresbMJ, jvidd\\nattempted to draw his sword and defend himself. I5y (irder ol\\nthe king, he was sent to England in a frigate, and arri\\\\ed in\\nLondon iVpvil 11, 1700. lie was examined belbic the Admi-\\nralty, and afterwards liei iiic, the Housi; of Lurds, wliere great\\netibrts were made to im[ilicate the Karl of l ellomont and other\\nof the lords in Kidd s transactions. The ])irate, nftei a, long\\ncnnlinement, was linally hung at ILxeeiitinn Dock. lie died\\nhard. The mpe liroke the iii st time he was tied ii|i, and he\\ni ell to the gnmnd a secdiid trial proveil mure successi id.\\nIt has been claimed that Kiild was not a pirab\\\\ lie was an\\nodicer in the llritish navy prinr to l()i)b niarrieil in this coun-\\ntry, and Jiad commanded a, merchant ship owned liy iJubert\\nLivingstone, a wealthy New York merchant. When, in 1G95,\\nthe coast of New England was infestecl with jiirates, Living-\\nstone propositi to the Karl of rK llomont bi eiiqiloy Kidd to\\ngo in pursuit of them, and otfered bi share the ex[iense of\\nlitting out a vessel. Api\u00c2\u00bblication was made to the home gov-\\nernment for a thirty-gun ship, and a conuiiission foi Kidd for", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "78 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nthis urpose; Ijut, tlie goveriiinont Ix ing tlieii luialjlr to iuriiish\\na vessel, the Earl of Eellomont, Lords Halifax, 8omers, Ivoin-\\nnoy, Oxford, and others contributed, with Livingstone, to lit\\nKidd out in the Adventure Galley. He received a c iinnus-\\nsion from the Court of Admiralty in Decendjer, IG JS, author-\\nizing liim to cruise against the king s enemies.\\nOnce at sea, Kidd turned ]\u00c2\u00bbirate, reversing tlie adage 8et a\\nrogue to catch a rogue, and made several ca})tures hut his ex-\\nploits preceded him, and on his return to New England he was\\narrested. The st arch after the jiirate s liidden treasure has\\ncontinued ever since. A pot oi dollars was dug up in 1790\\non Long Island, supjidscil to have l)een Kidd s. J he liite of\\nthe freebooter has often been lamented in the melancholy\\nditty,\\nMy iiuiiie was Ca]itaiii Kiilil, as I sailed, etc.\\nThe )ld Prison, ugly and uncouth, gave place to a new in\\n17G7, designed by Ciovernor iJernard. This was, two years later,\\ndestroyed liy lire, tlie ])ii.siiiii rs l)ciiig wiili (lilliciihy rescued;\\nsome of them were l)adly Iiui ued. The site was then appro-\\npriated jiy a Court House built of ])rick, about the Jlevohition-\\nary iicriod, tlii ce stories liigh, with a cuiiula and bell. lictore\\nthe erei-t iou of tlie ounly ouit Jbiusc ity Hall), in ISIO,\\nt1iis liuilding was used liy all the eourls ol law licid in the\\ncounty.\\nAt this time the uimiy -biil was in an (iM stimc building\\nsituated bt twccn thf )ld ourt Ibiusc, just dcsciibcd, and the\\nNew. On the gi ound where it stond was luriiieily an oM\\nwooden building called llie l)ebl(ir s Jail, i lie ouiity Jail\\nami Municijial Court linuse were, in [S 2 2, situated in Lev-\\nereti Street.\\nIn IST)! the keys of the )ld I risdii in ourt Street were\\nfound under the ollice of the Leverett Street jail, where they\\nhad lain since 1823. They were three in mnnber were from\\ntwelve to eighteen inclies in length, and oi a most ])rimitive\\nconstruction. The keys weighed from one to three pounds\\neach, and when attached to the jailer s girdle, nmst have been\\nDrake s History of Boston.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK.\\n7 J\\nweighty ai-yuments to liis wards. Tliese keys, when fonnd,\\nwere over a hundred years old. What a tale they could tell\\nIn Sej)tenil)er, 1833, the corner-stone of the present Court\\nHouse was laid, and it was conii)leted in 1836. The building\\nis massive and unattractive. Within its granite walls the fugi-\\ntive slave cases Avere tried, and here also Professor John W.\\nWebster received the death sentence for the murder of Dr.\\nParknian.\\nThe little alley which enters Court Street ojjposite tlic east-\\nerly side of Court Square is not unknown to fame. It is to-\\nday Franklin Avenue, but was very\\nearly called Dorset s Lane, and in\\n1722 was a part of Brattle Street.\\nDaniel Wfibster s first ofHce was on\\nthe northerly corner of this alley.\\nOn this corner where also was the\\nAdvertiser building Samuel Knee-\\nland began the printing liusiness\\nin 1718, in (piite another fashion.\\nThomas, in his History of Printing,\\nsays\\nOLD PRINTINC-PKESS.\\nWilliam Brooker, being appointed\\nPostmaster of Boston, he, on ISIonday,\\nDecember 21, 1719, began the pulilicatinu of another newspaper in\\nthat place. Tliis was the second published in the Briti.sli Colonies,\\nin North America, and was entitled The Boston Gazette. James\\nFranklin was originally I niployed as ]irinter of this ]i;i|)er l)nt in\\ntwo or three months after the ]iul)lication commenced I liiliii Mus-\\ngrave was appointed Postmaster, and became ])roi rietor of it. He\\ntook the printing of it from Franklin, ami gave it to Kneeland.\\nKneeland also puldished here, in 1727, The New England Jour-\\nnal. He occupied the otfice for about forty years.\\nThis is also the location assigned James Franklin, the brother\\nof Benjamin, wdio, as we have mentioned, jjrinted The Boston\\nGazette, on JNlonday, Deiiember 21, 1719. He l)egan, August\\n6, 1721, the publication of The New p:ngland Courant, the\\nthird newspaper in the town. It was, like the other ])a])ers,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "80 LANKIMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nlU iiitiMl (111 ;i liali -slicct (if inolseai), and, liciiiL; df a iihuv pin-\\n^rt ssivc cast than the dtluTs, sixm I cll under tlic l an dl ri^id\\nI liiitaiis lik(, Kev. IncrcaHC Mather. The lirst niiiiil)er of this\\npaiier, made famous l)y lU iijamin Franklin s connection with it,\\nhas Ijeen re})rinted, and the whole contents mi-ht easily he\\nc(iiitaiiie(l in a simple culuuin df mie of our present jnurnals.\\nTwo very primitive wooih uls, (Uie re]iresentiii,i;- a war ship\\nunder full sail, the other a ipostinaii galloping (iver a village,\\nadorn the itages.\\nJieiijamin T)ecanie his luother s apprentice at tlie age of twelve,\\nin 1718. He soon hegan to write clandestinely for the pajier,\\nand thrust his productions I urtively under the ollice door, liut\\nhis essays were approved and j)riiite(l. In 17:i- j, James Trank-\\nliii lieiiig lorl)idden to jJuLlish the ourant, it was issueil under\\nI he iiauie of his younger brother, and hoiv the imiiriut, liostoii,\\npriuted and sold hy lleiijaiiiiii Kraiikiiu, in (jtueen-iStreet, where\\nadvertisements are taken in.\\nrK njaniin Franklin remained hut a .short time with his\\nbrother after this. The old ]iress on which he worked fell into\\nthe possession of iNlajor I ooie, of West Newlniry, ]\\\\Iass., who\\nobtained it of Isaiah Thomas s heirs. It liears no date, and is\\nold enough to be located at any time since printing began,\\nwithout danger of dispute. jMajoi Fooro was conlideiit of the\\nauthenticity of this press, tracing it by Thomas to the ollice of\\n.lames Franklin. Tin liuildiug, interesting liy its association\\nwith the early history of printing in llostoii, bec;ime a book-\\nstore, ornamented with a head of Kianklin, and disapjie treil\\na ;j,reat- many years ago. The amusing re/icoutre of Franklin\\nwith his future wife, ]\\\\liss lluvA, of riiiladelphia, will always\\nexcite ;i smile.\\nThe house was occiiiiied for eighty years as a priiitingdiouse,\\nby Kneeland and others. In ITtilJ it became the oliice of Ivies\\nand (dll, who coiitinueil there until hostilities commenced, in\\nI77(i. Ivies and (!ill printed a. copy of the Stamii Act-, in\\na pain plil(_ -t of twenty-four pages. They also pul)lished The\\nBoston !a-zette and Country dourual, a successor of the (la-\\nzette of franklin, Kneelaiid, etc, which had been discontiinie(l.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORxVNGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK.\\n81\\nIvies and (.iiU, wlieu they printed the Stamp Act, oecupied\\npromises on the south side of Court Street, about on the [)res-\\nent site of the Scollay Buikling. In their back otiice, on the\\nold corner, the council for tlie destruction of the tea was held,\\nof which Samuel Adams was the master spirit. The (Jazette,\\nunder tlie control of Edcs and (till, was\\ntlie paper in which Adams, Otis, Warren,\\n(jtuini Y, and other leaders of popular feel-\\niiijj;, wrote, and lu canie conspicuous for its\\nable political articles. We [)resent two spetd-\\nmens of the renowned British Stamps.\\nOver the [(rinting-office was a long room\\nin whicli were wont to meet the active pa-\\ntriots. Tliey took the name of the Long\\nJioom Club. Samutd Adams was the leaih-r. Hancock, Otis,\\nSanuiel Dexter, William ooper, town clerk, Dr. Coo[)er, War-\\nren, hurch, dusiali (j)uincy, -Ir., Thomas l)a\\\\ves, Samuel IMiil-\\nlips, Ivoyal Tyler, Taul lievere, I hornas Fleet, John Winslow,\\nThomas INIelvill, and some others, were mend)ers. In this\\nroom were maturi d most of the [)kins\\nfor resistance to I5ritish usuri)ation,\\nfrom the Stamp Ad to the formation\\nof the Provincial Congress at Water-\\ntown.\\nAfter the avenues from the town\\nwere closed by General (Jage, Edes\\nmade his escape by night, in a boat,\\nwith a press and a few tyjX S, with\\nwhich he oi)ened an office in Water-\\ntown, and jirinteil for the Provincial\\nCongress of Massachusetts. John (Jill, his ])artner, remained\\nin Boston and was imprisoned for ])rinting treason, sedition,\\nand reltelliou. Green and Kussell, in 1758, became occupants\\nof the corner, and printed the Weekly Advertiser tlierein,\\nwliich may bo considered the progenitor of the present journal\\nof that name.\\nCourt Street was long the headquarters of the newspaper\\n4* F\\nf^^HM^iym^", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "8-J LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\njircss. J)urinL; cxcitiiiL; imlilii-al routrovcrsifs almsc sometimes\\nwa.xt cl warm, hi (lie language of a writer at the iM-ginning of\\ntlie ])rese]it eeJitiiry,\\nI ri ss answiTs ]nvss rftdiiiiiL; sIuiicKt HifS,\\nAmi Court Street rivals l illiiigs,i;a,te in lies.\\nThe lirst liook jiriiited in IJostou was an election sermon\\njucached to (lovernor Jolin Leverett, tlie Council, and Deputies\\nof the Colony, May 3, 1G7G. It was a small qnarto jiainphlet\\nof sixty-three jjages. John Foster was the ])rintcr.\\ni he Ih st regmlar newspajn r was the News Letter, issued\\nA])nl 24, 17U4, hy John Ca]n})bell, I ostmaster of Boston at\\nthat time. Bartholomew (Ireen Avas the ])rinter. Green con-\\ntinued to }irint it until the clo.se of 1707. The huilding in\\nwliich the Kews Letter was printed stood very near the east\\ncorner of Avon Street, on Washington.\\nTudor s Buildings wore so named for Colonel AVilliam Tudor,\\nwlio lived on the site, lie was a member of the old Boston Bar,\\nhaviug studied with JiJiu Adaius. He was colonel and judge-\\nadvocate-general in the Revolutionary aruiy, on the staif of\\nAVashington. Colonel Tudor was also a member of tlie Mas.sa-\\nchusetts House and Senate, Secretary of State 1809-10, and\\none of the founders of the Historical Society. Fisher Ames,\\nJudge Parker, afterwards Chief Justice, anil J(\u00c2\u00bbsia]i (j uincy,\\nstudied law with him. Young s Hotel now occupies the site.\\nIt is related that Colonel Tudor was once jn-esented at the\\ncourt of (Jeorge III. l)y our ambassador, IJufus King. His\\nMajesty catching the name, ejaculated in his disjointed way\\nEh Avhat, Avhat, Tudor, Tudor, one of ns, eh\\nIiufus Choate, who as an advocate left no successor at the\\nlioston l)ar, had an ollice in the gloomy granite block that for-\\nmerly stood below the Court House, on the site of the Sears\\nBuilding. He had also, for a time, an office on Tremont Bow.\\nChoate came to Boston in 1834-, after having studied law in\\n(he ollice of William Wirt at Washington. He was not long\\nin taking the i)lace left vacant l)y ]\\\\lr. Wel)ster.\\nBesides jiatlios, which he could firing to bear Avitli over-\\nwhelming etl cct, Choate jiossessed a line humor. It is said", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "iito.M THE oi:axge-tkee to the old brick. So\\nthat, coming into court one day to liear a decision against him\\nfrom Chief Justice Sliaw, wlio was by no means a handsome\\nman, Clioate addressed his Honor iu tliese words In coming\\ninto the presence of your Honor I exjierieuce tlie same feelings\\nthat the Hindoo does wlien lie hows In-inre his i(h\u00c2\u00bbI, 1 know\\nthat you are ugly, but I feel that you are great.\\n]\\\\lr. Clioate s face possessed great molnlity, and his voice was\\ncai)able of the most varied modulatiim. AVhen pleading a crim-\\ninal cause he held court, jury, and auditory alike iu a spell,\\nand seldom failed to sway the juiy by his eloquence. He had\\nthe magnetism of a natural orator, and could make his audiUu s\\nweep or laugh at will. Mr. Choate held the t)ffices of State\\nrepresentative and senator was elected to Congress from the\\nEssex district; and succeeded Webster in the Senate in 1841.\\nIn 1853 he was attorney-general of Massachusetts and a mem-\\nber of the Constitutional Convention. He retired from prac-\\ntice in 1858, on account of failing health, and died in Halifax\\nin 1859, Avhile eii route to Europe. He was sixty years old\\nwlieu this event occurred.\\n^\\\\niere now stands the stately Sears Huilding was (incc the\\nhabitation of Governor John Leverett, during whose adminis-\\ntration occiu^red King Pliilip s war. Leverett went to England\\niu 164:4, and served under Cromwell,\\nFrom Eilgellill Figlit to Mar.ston Moor.\\nCharles TI. made Leverett a knight, a title which he never\\nassumed. Few nanii s connected with the cohniy arc more\\nliDniiralilc liuiu Ciovernor Leverett s. He (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ommanded the An-\\ncient and IldUin-able Artillery was agent of the colony iu\\nEngland on terms of intimacy with the I rotector, major-gen-\\neral, autl deputy-governor. He died in 1G79. Governor Lev-\\nerett s house was afterwards in State Street, next east of the\\nold Exchange. Before the adoption of the Federal Constitu-\\ntion the post-office was located on this corner. In the building\\nsince taken down was once the law othce of John A. Andrew,\\na man whose memory is warudy cherished by the soldiers of\\nMassachusetts in the Kebellion, wlio gave him the name of the\\nwar governor.\\nBeucli aud Bar.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "84\\nLAND.MAUKS OF BOSTON.\\nOil the luji tlieiust coriuT of Court ami AVasliiiii^toii Streets\\nwas the estate of Henry Duiister, hrst president ol ]larvard\\nC tillege. Here also stood the Town I uni]), yiekling its cooling\\nHuid to our thirsty ancestors, or drenching some njaudlin va-\\ngrant of the kennel. Here is Hawthorne s invocation from the\\nTown l um[) to the passers-hy\\nLike a dramseller on the Mall at muster-day, 1 ciy aloud to all\\nand sundry, in my j)laiuest accents, and at the very tiptop of my\\nvoice: lleie it is, gentlemen! Heie is the good li(piur Walk\\nup, \\\\vall U]i, i.;entlemen, walk up, walk up Here is the sujx-rior\\nstuli lleie is tiie uuadidlerated ale of Father Adam, hettt-r\\nilian Cognac, Hollands, Jamaica, strong beer, or wine of any price\\nhere it is liy the hogshead or single glass, and n jt a cent to pay\\nWalk up, gentlemen, walk up, and helj) yourselves\\n]*ul)lic notices and i roclamations were allixed to tlie Town\\nI ump.\\nA little south of tlie Sears estate is the Uogcrs Ihiilding,\\naround whicdi is a vacant space now known as Cornhill Court\\nand (_ ourt Avenue, once ornhill S((uare.\\nThis is the site of the second location of the First Cliuich\\nof lioston, icmoved from\\nState. Street in KilU. In\\n1808 the society sold this\\nsite to I en] ainin doy, on\\nwdiich he erected a hiiek\\nstructure, and the cliurch\\nwas removed to Ciiauncy\\nStreet. From the chureli\\nthe space around it tonk\\nthe name of liureh S(piare.\\nThe old meetingdiouse was\\nof wood, hut after standing\\nseventy-one years, was de-\\nstroyed by the great fire of\\nOLD lUiicK ciiui:c.i. 1711^ jjj^j -^y.^^ ii^^^^ rebuilt\\nof brick. After the building of the Second Cliurch in Hano-\\nver (Street this house took tlio name of the Old Brick, It", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OEANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BKICK. 85\\nwas of three stories and decorated with a bell-tower and clock.\\nThis clock was, without doubt, tlie first placed in any public\\nposition in the town. The records show that in 1716-17 the\\ntown voted to obtain a town clock to be set up in some conven-\\nient place in Coruhill. Before this the bells were called clocks.\\nThe bell of the Old Brick sounded the alarm on the eveninji; of\\nthe Massacre of March 1770.\\nOn the corner of State Street, nearly oppo.site the Old l rick,\\nwas the bookstore of Daniel Ilencliman, and later that of Whar-\\nton and Bowes. In this shop Henry Knox, afterwards one of\\nthe most famous generals of the lievolutionary army, was an\\napprentice. Here he ac([uired, by reading, the rudiments of the\\nmilitary art. The store was the resort of the British officers,\\nwho were very friendly with the future general. At eightei .n\\nKnox was lieutenant of the grenadier comjiany oi the Uoston\\nEegdment, a company distinguished for its martial appearance\\nand the precision of its (^volutions. lie was one of tlu^ watch\\non board the tea ship before the tea was destroyed, and h-^\\nalso was early at the scene of the Massacre in King Street.\\nIn Knox s account of this ati air he said, aptain I reston\\nseemed much agitated. Knox took him 1)y the coat and told\\nhim, for God s sake to take his men back again, for if they\\nfired, liis life must answ( r for the consequences. Whih^ 1 was\\ntalking with Captain Preston the soldiers of his detachuient\\nhad attacked the people with their bayonets. There was not\\nthe lea.st provocation given to Captain I reston or his party.\\nKnox, after serving his time, published for himself. A Dis-\\nsertation on the Gout, etc., bears his imprint in 1772.\\nAfter Lexington Knox escapc^l with his wite from I5oston\\nMrs. Knox concealing within the lining of her cloak the sword\\nhe subsequently wore through the war. She accouqianiiMl her\\nhusband through all his campaigns. The ISIarfpiis Chastellux,\\nwho visited the headquarters of the American army in 1782,\\nsays We found Mrs. Knox settled in a little firm Avhere she\\nhad passed part of the campaign for she never quits her hus-\\nband. A child of six months and little girl of three years old\\nformed a real family for the general. As for huuself, he is be-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "86 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntween tliirty and forty, very fat, but very active, and of a gay\\nand amiable character. From the very first campaign he was\\nintrusted with the connnand of tlie artillery, and it has turned\\nout it Cduld not have been placed in better hands. It was he\\nwhom i\\\\r. du Cmidray endeavored to supplant, and who had no\\ndifficulty in removing him. It was fortunate fin- M. du Cou-\\ndray, perhaps, that he Avas drowned in the Schuylkill, rather\\ntlian l)e swallowed up in the intrigues he was engage(l in.\\nKnox s corpulency was the subject of an ill-timed pun fmrn\\nl)r. Byles. An intimacy existed before the war, and wluai, on\\nthe lay lioston was evacuated, Knox marched in at the head of\\nhis artilhny, the doctor audilily remarked, I never saw an\\nox fatter in my life. Knox did not relish the joke from the\\nold tory, and told l r. IJyles he was a fool.\\nThe graduate oC ilic little shop in Cornhill was volunteer aid\\nat r.unker Hill, (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0(muiianded tlie artillery during the siege of\\nr.osioii, and ])ecame \u00e2\u0096\u00baSecretary of War. His greatest service,\\nerlia|is, was the bringing of more than fifty cannon, luortars,\\nand ho\\\\vitz(^rs from Ticonderoga, rown Point, etc., to the lines\\nbefove r.oston. Tiiis feat Was accomplish(Ml early in 1770, the\\nonlnaiu-t^ being dragged on sledges in midwinter almost through\\na wildt^rness.\\nKnox was a generous, high-minded man. Ilis portrait, by\\nGilbert Stuart, hangs in Faiieuil Hall. A gunning accident\\nliaving iiijure(l one of his hands, it is concealed in the picture.\\nThe ce]el)rated Benjamin Thompson, a native of Woburn,\\nafterwards a count of the German Kuipire, was, like Knox, an\\napprentice to a shopkeeper in Union Street at the time ni the\\nMassacr(\\\\ He was at the American lines in Cambridge at the\\ntime of Bunker Hill, and accompanied Major, afterwards (iov-\\nernor Brooks until they met the retreating Americans. After\\n(Mideavoriiig unsuccessfully to obtain a commission in the Con-\\ntinental army, he turned legalist. He was sent to England by\\nGeneral Howe after the fdl of r)Ost(m, but retuined to America\\nand raised a regiment of horse, called tlie King s Dragoons.\\nAfter the war he was knighted, and became Sir Benjamin\\nThon)])son. The Elector of Bavaria, whose service he entered", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD F.RICK. 87\\nin 1784, made him a count, with the title of (^mnt livmiford,\\nthat being the ancient name of Concord, X. II., where Thomp-\\nson had formerly resided. Rinnford went afterwards to Paris,\\nand married the widow of the cehd)rated Lavoisier, from whom,\\nhowever, he afterwards sejjarated.\\nTlie Iiiimfor I Professorship) at Harvard t(!stihesto the remem-\\nbrance of this distinguislied man for his native country. He\\nh ft a munificent bequest to the College for the advancement of\\nthe physical and mathematical sciences.\\nJohn Winslow, one of Knox s compatriots, and a captain in\\nCrane s Artillery during the lievolutiimary War, was a hardwai e\\nmendiant with his uncle, Jonathan jNIasou, at No. 12 orn-\\nliill, just south of the present CIoIk newspaper ollice. He\\nleniained in IJoston during the sieg(!, and buried the Oh I South\\ncommunion plate in his unchi s ccHar; his uncle was deacon of\\nthat church. It was Winslow who recognized the body of\\nWarren, the day after the battle of lUinker Hill. He was at\\nTiconderoga, Saratoga, and White Plains, and held a numlter\\nof State odices after the war. Winslow lived in Purcha.so\\nStreet, just north of the Sailors Home.\\nWithin fifty years dwellings were not infreipient in this\\npart of IJoston. Many such are locab^d in Washington Street,\\nCourt Street, and Cornhill. It was a common cust ini for the\\nfamily of the storekeeper to live over the store, as the custom\\nis in some parts of )ld Kngland to this day.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "88 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nFROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER.\\nCaptain Keayne. Coggau, first Shojikeeper. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Old Conihill. Old State\\nHouse. First Church. Stocks and Wliipinng-Post. John Wilson.\\nWilson s Lane. United States Bank. Royal Exchange Tavern.\\nWilliam Sheatfe. Royal Custom House. Exchange Coffee House.\\nColumbian Centinel. Benjamin Russell. Louis Philippe. Louis\\nNajjoleon. Congress Street. Governors Dummer and Belcher. First\\nUnited States Custom House. Post-Oflice. Bunch of Grapes. General\\nLincoln. General Dearborn. First Circulating Library. British Coffee\\nHouse. Merchants Row. First Inn. Lord Ley. Miantonimoh.\\nKilby Street. Oliver s Dock. Liberty Square. The Stamp Office.\\nBroad Street. Commodore Do^vnes. Broad Street Riot. India Street\\nand Wliarf. Admiral Vernon. Crown Coffee House. Butler s Row.\\nThe Custom House. Retrospective View of State Street. Long Wliiirf.\\nThe Barricado. T Wliarf. Endjarkatii )n for Bunker Hill.\\nTHE earliest .settler on the soiitliwesteru corner of State Street\\nwas Captain Kubert Keayne, wln) has left his name to ns\\nin connection with a legacy to hnihl a Town House. He was\\nalso the first commander of tlie Ancient and Honorable Artil-\\nlery, and was by l)usiness a tailor. Captain Keayne fell under\\ntlie censure of court and churcli for sdliiin- his wares at exorln-\\ntant profits, we have l)efor(^ mentioned tliat tlie authorities\\nregulated the prices of goods, products, et(!. His will, of nearly\\ntwo hundred pages, is devoted largely to an effort to relieve\\nliimself of this charge. What M ould AVashington Street say\\nto-day to such a regulation\\nThe opposite or northwest corner of State Strci t- was occu-\\npied by fbjhn Coggan, one of the names in the original Hook\\nof Possessions. He has the distinction of establishing the first\\nshop for the sale of merchandise in r)Oston. Erom this small\\n])eginning dates the traffic of Boston.\\nHaving crossed ancient Cornhill, which name ajtjilicd to that", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SouTira-EST View of the Old State House, ix ITiH.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIEll\\n89\\nj)art of Wasliington Street\\nfrom Dock Square to\\nScliool Street, and in\\nwhich congregated the\\nearly Ijooksollers, we are\\nat tlif^ head of old King\\nStreet. IV tore, us is the\\nearliest iiiarket-]\u00c2\u00bblaee of\\nthe town, on the sj)aee\\nnow 0(;(;iipied hy the )ld\\nState House. King Street\\nwas changed to State in\\n178i, hut it was l re(|Ueiit-\\nly (^allccl (Congress Street\\nhefore the; present name was scftJ(\\nI 1 1 mil SI i\\\\ IT .U.\\n(I (HI.\\nAnd mark, not far from Fancuil s lionorwl sido,\\nWlicri thu Old Staff Iloiis, rises in its jiridc.\\nThe early history of tliis edilice has been given in connec-\\ntion with the City Hall, as its pi ogeiiitor. Besides being used\\nas a Town House and by the (lolouial Courts, it has been occu-\\npied by the ieneral (!ourt of tlie olony and of the State, by\\nthe !oun(;il of tlif Proviui-c, and as a barrack for troops. It\\nwas the hrst Ex(;]iange the mercliants of Boston ever had, and\\nis still used for l)usine.ss purposes. In it met tlie Convention\\nto ratify the C onstitution of tlic United States before adjourn-\\ning to Federal Street Church. In the west end was located\\nthe Post-Office, in its l)eginning, and again in 1838, when a\\nforc(! of fifteen clerks was sullicient f )r tbi; tran.saction of its\\nbusiness. In 1832 it Avas again slightly damaged by fire.\\nUndiT its shadow the Massacre was cnartcd by a dt-tachment\\nof the 2 jth British Regiment, the n^sult of constant collisions\\nbetween the people and the soldiery. At the time of its occu-\\npation by the British troops, admitted l)y Covernor Bernard\\nin 1 768, James Otis moved to have the Superior Court held\\nin Faneuil Hall, not oidy as the stench occasioned by the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "90 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntroops may prove infectious, but as it was derogatory to the\\nhonor of tlie court to administer justice at the mouths of can-\\nnon and the points of bayonets. This referred to the estab-\\nlislmient of the main-guard opposite, with two tiekl-pieces\\npointed toward the (31(1 State House.\\nTlie following was the interior arrangement of the building\\nafter the fire of 1747. Tlie eastern chamber was originally\\noccupied by the Council, afterwards by the Senate. The Eep-\\nresentatives held their sittings in the west chamlx r. The\\nfloor of these Av^as su^tjxn ted l)y })illars, and terminated at each\\nend by doors, and at tlie east end by a flight of steps leading\\ninto State Street. On the n(jrtli side were ofiices for the clerks\\nof tlie supreme and inferior courts. In the daytime the doors\\nwere kei)t open, and the floor served as a walk for tlie inhabi-\\ntants wluj thronged it during the sessions of the courts. After\\nthe removal of the Legislature to the new State House the\\ninternal arrangement was changed to suit later occupants.\\nIn tlie liamlier of Ilepreseiitatives, according to Jolin Adams,\\nIiid( i)endence was Ixirii and the struggle against the en-\\ncroachments of the mother country sustained for fourteen years\\nby the Adamses, Bowdoins, Thachers, Hancocks, Quincys, and\\ntheir illustrious colleagues. According to Hutchinson, in this\\nchaiiil)er originated the niost important measures which led to\\ntlic emancij)ation of the Colonies, with those giants who,\\nslaking life and fortune upon the issue, adopted for their\\nmotto,\\nLet such, such only, tread this sacred floor,\\nWho dare to love their country, and be poor.\\nIt was customary to read the commissions of the royal gov-\\nernors in jji-esence of the court, attended liy military display,\\nin the Court Hous( as it was then called. The news of the\\ndeath of (Jeorge II., and accession of George III., was read\\nfrom the balcony the latter was the last crowned head pro-\\nclaimed in the Colonies.\\nTli(^ ])()puLir indignation against the Stamp Act found vent,\\nin 17GG, in 1)urning stani[)ed clearances in front of the Town\\nHouse. A ouncil of war was held by Gage, Howe, and Clin-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON TIER. 91\\nton, here before Bunker Hill. On tlie 18th July, 1776, the\\nDeclaration of Independence was read from the east balcony\\nl)y William Greeideaf, Sherilf. All the Continental troops in\\nthe vicinity of Boston were paraded in State Street, and at its\\nconclusion fired thirteen volleys commemorative of the thirteen\\nolonies. Here the Constitution of Massachusetts was 2 hinned.\\nIn 1778 Count D P .stain f ma(h a s[)lendid entry into Boston\\nwitli ]\\\\\\\\A lli ct, and was received by (iovernor Hancock in tlie\\nCouncil Chand)er.\\nAfter the Bevolution it became the place of meeting of the\\nLegislature, and has been ever since called the Ohl State House,\\nexcept during tlie intia val when it was the (Jity Hall,\\nand tliis name is its customary appellation. In OctolK-r, 1789,\\nWashington received the homage of the people, from a tempo-\\nrary balcony at the west end. A trium})hal arch was thrown\\nacross the street there, and a long prot^ession passed before him,\\nwhose salutations he occasionally returned. In January, 1798,\\nthe Legislature took poss(!ssion of the new State House.\\nThe building has undergone material alterations, especially in\\nthe roof, which gives it a more modern appearance, and the stee-\\n[)le or tower was once considcralily higher than at present. The\\nsun-dial, which formerly adorni d the eastern gable, has ])een\\nsuperseded l)y a clock the rampant Lion and Unicorn liavo\\nbeen riMiewed at the east end, Theri^ liav(^ been a lottery oflice,\\nengine-house, and even a newspa[)cr published in th(; old\\nbuilding, the lattiu printed in 1805, in the Senate Chamhcr,\\nand called tlie liepertory. After the Grand Lodge of Masons\\nwas burnt out of tlie Exchange Coftee House it occupied quar-\\nters in the (.)ld State House. At the great fire of 1711, l\u00c2\u00bby\\nwiiich it was destroyed, several gentlemen, at imminent risk\\nof their lives, succeeded in saving the (.^hieen s portrait. The\\nbuilding is now in the custody of the Bostonian Society.\\nThe old First Church of Boston was situated on tlie ground\\nnow covered by Brazer s buiUliiig, until its removal to another\\nlocation. Here preached John Wilson and John Cotton, and\\nhere came Wiuthrop and Bcllingham, with their zealous Puri-\\ntan followers. An inscription, cut above the State Street", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "92\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nentrance, records tliese leading facts in the history of this\\nhallowed spot.\\nIn an old two-story wooden liousc which stood upon the site\\nof Brazer s Building were located the first United States Bank,\\nand also the first government Post-Office. The former remained\\nhere until the erection of the Ijuilding on the sit(^ of the Ex-\\nchange the Post-Oflice was reiiiove(l here from (Jornhill.\\n-loiiatliaii Armstrong Avas postmaster, and easil} jicrfovmed, from\\nhis perch on a high stool, all the duties })ertaining to his office.\\nThe figure of a winged Mercury, well executed in wood l\u00c2\u00bby\\nSimeon Skillin, a North End carver, was ]iLiccd over the door\\nof the Post-OfHce in State Street. The tutelar deity was rep-\\nresented in the act of springing from a glohe. In one hand he\\nheld his end)lematic ro l, in the other a letter directed to the\\npresident of the Branch IJaidv.\\nIn front of the old meeting-house stood the whipping-})ost,\\nand ])rolial)ly the stocks, though\\nthis latter engine has Ixsen lo-\\ncated in front of the )ld State\\nHouse. In later yeai s, the\\nstocks and })illory were a mova-\\nlile macliiiie, on wlieels, and liad\\nno fixed position. Both wen^\\nused as a, means of enforcing\\nattendance, or })unishing offences\\nagainst the church, and their\\nlocation at its very ]iortal served, no douht, as a gentle re-\\nminder to the congregation.\\nIt is recorded that in the year ITT). a woman stood for an\\nhour in the pillory near the Town House, amid tlie seolfs and\\njeers of the nudtitude. 1 lie Scarlet Letter is no mytli Jlaw-\\ntliorne had hut to turn to the criminal records of the Colony\\nfor the dramatic incidents he has re]ate(l. Tlie (ieneral Court\\nenacted in 109.5 a law to ])revent marriages of consanguinity,\\ntile declared ])enalty of luvakiug wliicli was that the man or\\nwoman otI en(fing siiouid fn set upon the gallows i or an hour,\\nwitli a rtipe ahout tlie neck, and in the W ay from theuce to the\\nTHE STOCKS.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "FKOM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER.\\ncoiuiU(iii jail be severely wliiinu^d. The (lUendeivs were forever to\\nwear a capital letter 1, cut out ui cldtli of a color diflerent\\nfrom their clothes, on the arm or hack, in o})eii view. If the\\nculiu it removed tlie letter, he (_ir slu^ was to he further whipped.\\nNo douht there were Hester I ryimes thus branded and scourged\\nin State Street.\\nPublic whipping was inflicted as late as 1803, and the writer\\nhas talked with eye-witnesses of it. J5y order of the Supreme\\n-ludicial Court of Massachusetts, two\\nmen were placed in the pillory, in the\\nyear mentioned, in State Stri ct. I ier-\\n])ont, the owner, and Storey, master of\\nthe brig Hannah, having procured a\\nheavy insurance on their cargo, for a\\nvoyage to tlie West Indies, tlie vessel\\nwas sunk in IJoston liarbor, Novendx-r\\n22, 1801, and a large portion of the in-\\nsurance collected. Fraud lieing [iidved,\\nboth as to th(! lading and loss ol the\\nbrig, the Court decreed that I ierpont\\nand Storey be set in the pillory in\\nState Street two several times, one\\nhour eaeli time, and iuipiisoned two\\nyears, and ])ay the costs (tf prosecution.\\nThe sentence was duly executed, the pilloiy being placed near\\nChange iVvenue. Tlie Sherifll usually pertnrniet! the whip-\\nI)iiig by deputy. The whipping-j\u00c2\u00bbost became a perandiulating\\nall air, and at one time was stationeil in West Street. Its ac-\\nknowledged utility ajipears by the Sessions Justice s famous\\ncharge, which lays down the Luv in somewhat startling phrase.\\n(Jentlenien ot tlie niainl jury You are re(piire(l hy your oath\\nto see to it, that the scveial towns in the lounty be jaovidcd acconl-\\nuig to law with,\\nPounds and school masters,\\nWliiiipiiig-posts and ministers.\\nJohn AVilson, iirst pastor of the Tirst hurch, owned land\\nou Coridiill and State Street the lane bearing his name, and\\nTHK PM,LORy.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "04 LANDiMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\niiiiiiiiii;^ llirouyli his Imci, was ilcscivriUy ralk d Ci noked\\nLaiR 1 lis dwclJiiig was t)U lliu situ (if the (iluliu iJaiik, de-\\niiiulislied ill 1^73 lu widen [hi- nai iow way, wliicli is now lost\\nin the cxtcnsidn of Dovonshiro Stri ut northward.\\nWilson s Lan(; was chidly I cniaikablo fur the nundjL r and\\nexcellence of its eating-lioiises. This circumstance, with its\\nold name, calls to mind Tom Hood s lines\\nI \\\\f licaid alMiiit a plrasanl lau l, wliiiX iiiurU ts L;riiw nii lives,\\niViicl I liasttid jiigs nui d yiuy out, Conic eat an.-, if you pluusf.\\nMy ajipetite is ratlier kuuu, l ut how shall 1 get there?\\nStraiglit down the Crooked Lane, and all round the S(iuare.\\nThe ]\\\\Ierchants Ixink succeeded to the location uf the Thiited\\nStates llranch Jiaidv, whiclr was in its day a ImildinL; of consid-\\ncrahle urchitectviral juvtension. The two cohuinis which now\\nsupjxirt the front of the Merchants Bank })erf(irmed u like ser-\\nvice fur its pr( (h c( ss(ir, and Avheii taken down were ihitrd to\\ncorrespond more nearly witli the }ilan of the new Iniilding.\\n(Jliservation will show that the granite is of a different color\\nfrom that used in the rest of the faCj-ade. Tlie United States\\nHank Ijuilding was Ituilt of (Jhelmsf ird granite, in imitation\\nof a (Irecian temi)le. It w;is at iirst proposed tit take the site\\nof the Jld State House, hut the jtroject hapjiily fir the\\nexistence oi tliis old monument was altandoiiiHl. The struc-\\nture was erected in ISl I; Solomon Wiliard was tlie architect;\\niridley flryaiit, master-mason. Tlie eoliiiuns rel eri e(l to were\\nhrought fr iiu helmsford on p uiderous trucks luiilt for tlie pur-\\npose. On account of their great weight tlie piMprietors oi the\\nbridges refused to permit the ]iassage of the tiMiiis, and they\\nwere accordingly lirought over the Neck, flic moving of siieh\\nunwieldy luasses of granite a marvel wlieii it was iirst\\nattem]ite(l was eclijised hy the transpoi ting of the columns\\nIbr the ourt House and Custom House.\\nThe pediment was a favorite resort for pigeons, which liecom-\\ning soiiiewhaf troulilesoine, hy older of (Jardiner (Ireene, the\\npresident, a wooden cat was itlaced on the accustomed jierch of\\nthe leathereil visitors. They were at first a little shy, hut soon\\nceased to have any fear of the sham grimalkin. It was then", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 95\\nremoved to the directors room, and presided for a long time\\nover the deliberations of the board.\\nThe United States Bank was established in 1791, and the\\nI harter expired in 1812, but was revived in 181(j, antl hnally\\nilissolved in 183G. Tlie bank originated in the want of money\\nto carry on the goverinnent. The direttors wi re appointed\\nby the parent liank at _^_^\\nPhiladeli hia,and the div-\\nidends which the bank de-\\nclared were made u\\\\) from\\ntlie bnsiness of all the\\nbranches. Under the char-\\nter of 1816 the capital\\nwas thirty-live millions,\\nof which the government\\nowned seven. The at-\\ntempt to permanently es-\\ntal:)lish a bank under gov-\\ncrnnient control, like the\\nBank of England, pritved\\na fiiilure, as is well known. The removal of the deposits by CJen-\\ncral Jackson affected the Boston branch but little, but it brought\\nto light a defaulting official. The receiving teller, whose name\\nwas John Fuller, finding discovery inevital)le, ])ut forty thousand\\ndollars into his pocket one afternoon and absconded. In 1830\\nCongress revived the charter, but Jackson vetoed it. A l)aidi\\nunder the old title, estal Wished by the State of Pennsylvania,,\\nwent into operation in the latter year, and continued until 1841.\\nThe old United States Bank was erected on the site of the\\nExchange, in 1798, and bore on its front an American eagle,\\nwith its wings outstretched, as if in the act of swooping upon\\nthe bulls and bears of the street. On the expiration of the\\ncharter the State Bank purchased the Ijuilding, and the eagle\\nwas afterwards removed to Faneuil Hall, where it is one of the\\ncuriosities to be seen there. It is made of clay baked in an\\noven at the South End and the fractured edges chipped away\\nby relic-hunters have the ajjpearance of broken pottery or tile.\\nUNITED STATES BANK.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "96 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nFormerly the proml Itird dl Juvc, ami cinlilem of our rcpiildic,\\nwas in the centre of the liall, guardiMl liy an iron railing. The\\niron gates of tlie ohl Ijank nuw guard the entrance to the Cem-\\netery on Wasliington Street, near tlie 8t. James Hotel; a\\nratlier singular transitinn from the shrine of JMaiuuHm tn the\\nabode of death. Thomas liussell was the first I resiilent in\\n1792, and Peter IJoe Dalton, asliier. The next location of\\nthe United States liank was in ongress Street, on the west\\nside, and not far from State Stieet.\\nWIktu s tlie Jolly luist\\nYou told IMC (if T has Ijfcii my (.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iistom ever\\nTo parley with mine host.\\nThe Jioyal Excliaiige Tavern was on the southwest corner of\\nExchange and State Streets, and gave the name of Jioyal Ex-\\nchange Lane to that tlioroughf ire. Shrimpton s Lane was an\\nearlier name. This tavern certaiidy dates l)ark to 1727, and\\nwas then kept by Luke ardy. \\\\i iJie time of the Massacre\\none Stone was the landlord. Jt was a resort for the othcers of\\nthe ]5ritish army before the lievolution. At the lieginning of\\nthe present century it was k(ipt by Israel Hatcli, and was a reg-\\nular stop] ling-place Ibr the I rovidence stages.\\nThe rencontre lietween Ileiuy Lhillips and lienjamin Wood-\\nbridge, wliich ended in a duel on the ommon, hail its begin-\\nning in this house. iMter the iiic of Decciuber, 1717, which\\ndestroyed the Town House, the Jeneral Court was held at\\nVardy s for the few remaining days of the session. I lie Loyal\\nExchange was also a favorite hostelry of the Masons, A ardy\\nbeing of the fraternity. At a Masonic procession on St. dohn s\\nday Joseph Green notices the jolly landloid thus\\nWhere s honest Luke that eook tVom Loudon\\nFor without Luke, the Lodge is Tindone.\\nT was lie who oft disjiellM their sadness,\\nAnd tilled the Brethren s hearts with gladness.\\nLuke in return is mailr a lirother,\\nAs good and true as any other,\\nAnd still, though hroke with age and wine.\\nPreserves the token and the sign.\\nThe Loyal Custom House, at the time of the Massacre, was", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 97\\non the .southeast corner of Exchange and State Streets. Joseph\\nHarrison was Collector, and William Sheatl e Deputy. With the\\nsentinel on duty at this point Ijegan tlie affray in State Street.\\nThe sentinel, abused, beaten, and likely to be overpowered,\\nloaded his j^iece and shouteil for assistance to the post of the\\nmain-guard, Avhich was opjjosite the south door of the Town\\nHouse. Tile deplorable results which followed are fanuliar.\\nJ he ohl Custom Ilcjuse had a balcony, from which shots were\\ntired at tlu; pojadacc during the. Massacre.\\nThis circumstance, elicit(Hl during the investigatit)U into the\\naftair l)y the town authorities, did not tend to improve the re-\\nlations biitween the j)eopIe and the obnoxious oiiicers of the\\ncustoms. The town desired these ollicials to be })r(\\\\sent during\\nthe investigation and use the privilege of (piestioning the wit-\\nnesses. Sheaffe, however, was the only one who attended, lie\\nhad 1)een a long time connected with the ustom Houses; as\\nde[)uty under Sir Henry Frankland, and as his su(-cess(n- when\\nSir Henry was removed for inattention tt) his duties. Sliealle\\nissued the famous AVrits (jf Assistance. lit; Avas the iidlier\\nof the celel)rated Sir Koger Hale Shcalfe, and a ilevoted loyal-\\nist. Sliealle lived in the vii-inity of Scollay S [uare in ourt\\nStreet. He had some pretty daughters, of wdiom Sabine, in his\\nLoyalists, says\\nSusanna, Mr. Slieaffe s oldest daughter, married Captain Poiison-\\nhy Mok swortli, a nephew of Lord Pdiisouliy.\\nThe family account is, that on the day ol the landing of a regi-\\nment of British troo])s in Boston, a halt was made in C^)ueeii (Court)\\nStreet opposite Mr. Sheaffe s house that Susanna, atliacted by the\\nmusic and the redcoats, went upon the balcony that Molesworth\\nsoon saw her, was struck by her great beauty, gazed intently upon\\nher, and at last said to a brother olHcer, who, like himself, was lean-\\nhig against a fence, That girl seals my late.\\nMargaret, another daughter of Mr. Sheaffe, was remarkable\\nfor her beauty so handsome, according to tradition, no one\\ncould take her picture. Previous to her marriage, Lafayette,\\nwho admired her, said to her lover, Were I not a married\\nman, I M try to cut you out.\\n5 G", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "98\\nLAND]\\\\rAUK!-i OF BOSTON.\\nAt tlic time of the Massacre the Custom House was in\\na builtliug used as a dwelling hy Larthdlomew (Jreen and\\nI aujily. King Street was then full of dwellings, the occu} ants\\nusing the lower floor for their hiisiness. This Green, a printer\\nby })r(ii essiun, had, according to Thomas, the })eculiar faculty of\\nrecognizing at sight any vessel belonging to the port of Boston.\\nl*er[)etually on tlie watch, as soon as a vessel could be discovered\\nwith a spy-glass he knew its name, and gave information to the\\nowner. He had some small ollice in the Custom House at one\\ntime.\\nHe who sto(i(l on tlie balcony of the Old State House in\\n1770 might count hvc taverns of re})ut\u00c2\u00bb in King Street. The\\niJuiich of C!ivi])i s was the best iiuni lidmuse, Imt A^ai dy s, the\\nnearest, was ]irobably most fnMpicntcd l)y the barristers and\\notticers of the court.\\n:n fi]\u00c2\u00a5\\\\\\\\(f\\\\ liM ii\\nf-\\nu\\ni\\nfi 1\\n\\\\i\\ns\\nB\\nB\\nr\\nf\\nT\\n1\\n[?i\\n1.-\\nf\\nIL\\nf\\nr\\n1 L\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0,a\\nf;\\nJj\\nf\\nn\\nh lie:\\nfif\\nf^\\nw u I\\nn\\n1? 4\\nEXi ham;e i(iffi:e iiorsi:.\\nFrom our stand-point, at the lower end of tlu Old State\\nHouse, I)i Vonshin Street opens at our right hand. The Pud-\\nding Lane oi yore is suggestive of good living. Accordingly\\nAve lind the well-remend)ered Kx(-hange olfee-] louse was .situ-\\nated in (ingress S(piare, once knowji by the singular title of\\nHafl -S(juare ourt. The name of this house owes its origin to\\nthe fact that the jirincipal lloor Avas intended to be used by the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 99\\nmerchants as an Exchange. It was a mammoth allaii- of seven\\nstories, far in advance of the wants of its day, and was com-\\npleted in 1808, having occupied two years and a half in build-\\ning it cost half a million. An unsuccessful speculation, it was\\nthe means of ruining many of the mechanics who were em-\\nl)loycd in huilding it. Destroyed by hre Xovember 3, 1818, it\\nwas rel)uilt in a less ex})ensive manner, and occu])ied as a tavern\\nuntil 1853, when it was demolished, giving place to the Ijuild-\\nings known as the City Exchangt;.\\nThe front of the Coffee House, on Congress Street, was orna-\\nmented with six marl)le Ionic i)ilasters, and crowned with a\\nCorinthian pediment. It had entrances on the State Street\\nside and from Devonshire Street. The building was of an ir-\\nregular shape, rather like a triangle with the a})ex cut olf, and\\ncontained about two hundred and ten apartments. It was in\\ntlu! very centre of business, and was a stiip[)ing-i)la(;e for stages\\ngoing or returning from town. A inimlH r of JNIasonic Lodges\\noccupied the ujiper stories.\\nCaptain Hull made the Exchangts his (piarters when he was\\nin })ort during the war of 1812. At tlu; rooms of the Excliange\\nwas ke})t a register of marine news, arrivals, departiu-es, (itc.\\nWhen IIiUl arrived in Boston after his fortunate esca[)e from\\nthe British fleet in July, 1812, he wrote with his own hand in\\nthis book the following\\nWliatever merit may he due for the escape of tlie Const it utiou\\nfrom tlie British fleet, belongs to my first ollicer, Charles Morris, Ks(|.\\nIsaac Hull.\\nOn his arrival, after the memoral)le action with the (Juerriere,\\nHull was the recipient of flattering attentions from the merchants,\\nand indeed the whole population vied to do him honor. Hull,\\nwith straightforward manliness, wrote on the joiu nal of the\\nCoftee House a well-deserved tribute to the services of this same\\nLieutenant, afterwards Commodore Morris, who was severely\\nwounded in the fight.\\nDacres, who became Hull s prisoner after this engagement,\\nlodged at the Exchange. Of him it is related, that when he\\nwent up the side of the C(jnstitution, after leaving his own", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "100 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nship, Hull, eager to sodtlie the feelings of his gallant adversary,\\nbtep})e(l lurw;ird, oifered his hand, and said, I)a-eres, my dear\\nfelluAV, 1 am glad to see you The reply of the diseonilited\\nBriton was, J) n it, I suppose you are. The twain hecame\\nafterwards lirni friends.\\nPresident Monroe visited lioston in duly, 1817. He took\\najiartnients at the Exchange Colfee House. On the -Ith a\\nsumptuous dinner was served, at whieh the following guests\\nwere jjresent. It would he hard to find a more distingviished\\ncomi)any. General Swift, Sujierintendent of West Point Acad-\\nemy, i)resided, assiste l hy Commodore Periy and Mr. Mason,\\ni he other guests Avere ex-1 resident John Adams, (Jovernor\\nJhiioks, Lieutenant-Governor Philliiis, General II. Dearhorn,\\nI resideut Kirkland, Chief Justici; Parker, Judges Story, Jack-\\nson, Davis, and Adams, Generals Cohl) and Hum})hreys of the\\nold army, Hon. Messrs. Pickering and Pales, Commodores\\nLainhridge and Hull, and other naval oilicers. The President\\nreturned the visit of the venerahle John Adams, and the two\\nwalked, arm in arm, over the farm at (j uincy, like any two\\n})lain country gentlemen.\\nThe lire which consumed the oU ee House was destructive.\\nThe keeper, Mr. Parnum, lost 25,000. Eleven [)rinting-oiHces,\\nthe Grand Lodge of the State, and several other Masonic Lodges\\nAvere burned out.\\nNext below Ih-azer s Building was once the printing-office\\nof the Columbian Centinel, established in 1784. It was\\nthen the size of a sheet of commercial post writing-paper,\\nand published semi-weekly. Benjamin Pussell was the editor,\\na name well known in the annals of Boston journalism. Pus-\\nsell was an apprentice to Isaiah Thomas of the celebrated\\nWor(;ester Spy. Thomas had the ill luck to be drafted in 1780,\\nand young Pussell volunteered in his place. During his ser-\\nvice he witnessed the execution of Andre, at Tappan, as\\none of the guards. Pussell published the Centinel until 1821.\\nWhen the Due de hartres, afterw^ards Louis I hilippe, Avas\\nin Boston, an exile from his native country, he Avas in the habit\\nof visiting the Centinel office to obtain the ne\\\\vs from abroad,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON TIER. lUi\\nand, it is said, occasionally \\\\vTote articles for the paper. The\\nCentinel was, at this time, distin3j;uished for the accuracy of its\\ninformation in regard to tlie war tlien waging hctwcen repub-\\nlican France and combined Eur(i[)t An atlas Avhich had be-\\nlonged to Louis enabled the editor to describe the topograjjliy\\nof the battle-fields minutely, and thus surpass his contempo-\\nraries. Louis jN^apoleon, late Emperor of the Fi-encli, was, if\\nreport speaks true, at a later day, an haJiituf of the initiuel\\noffice. Thus the representatives of two o]\u00c2\u00bbposing dynasties ]iav(!\\neagerly scanned the columns of the same re[)ublican ninvspaper\\nfor intelligence that was to make or mar their fortunes. The\\nCentinel was the leading Federalist organ of New England, and\\nwas ably conducted.\\nNext is Congress Street, named for the National Legislature.\\nThe founders of Boston called it T everett s Lane, from Elder\\nThomas Leverett, who owned tlie Iract through which it jiasses.\\nIt was subsequently Quaker Lane, fr.uii the old (^)ii:d ei Meet-\\ning-house situated therein, ongress Street, at its junction\\nwith State, was once only eleven feet wide and Exchange, even\\nnow scarcely deserving the name of street, was onc^e as nai row\\nas Wilson s Lane, but was widened tin ough its entiiv length.\\nThe lower part of State, when; it meets Long Wharf, was also\\nwidened, a proceeding so repugnant to one of the pro]U ietors,\\nthat he took his gun and threatened to shoot any one that\\nattempted to remove his building. It was etfected, however,\\nwithout bloodshed.\\nThe Exchange Building stands partly upon ground whicli\\nonce Ijelonged to Elder Thomas Leverett, who emigrated from\\nBoston, England, where he had been an alderman, and a parish-\\nioner of Rev. John Cotton. He was a man of property and\\ndistinction in the province. His more distinguished son, after-\\nwards governor, became the owner of this property, which he\\nparted with in 1656. It became afterwards two estates, each\\nhaving a pi oprietor of consequence.\\nAndrew Belcher, one of the most wealthy merchants of Bos-\\nton, and a contemporary with old y\\\\ndre Fanenil, lived, in 1091,\\nin the westerly part of tin s estate, winch is described as front-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "102 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\ning oil tli(* Bi oad Street near the Excliauye. This was ])efore\\nthey had found a name for tlie street. elclier s lionse was of\\nl\u00c2\u00bbrick. He also owned two ])i-ick wareliouscs, tlic one l)i,ii,-^ er\\nand the otlier h .ss, lying near the Town Dock an estate at tlie\\nsouth corner of Washington and edford Streets, one in Wing s\\nLane, and other vahiahle projunty. He had heen one of the l^ o-\\nvincial ouncil, and was a representative in KiUS and 1701.\\nJoiiailKUi I x leher, afterwards governor of the ]\\\\lassa(hn-\\nsetts, Avas in his tenth year when Andrew, his father, came i roni\\nCharlestowu to live in I xiston. While in Europe, tliii Ixistouian\\nwas ]ireseiited at couit, ami made so favoralile an impression on\\n(leorge I. that the King appointed liim goveiaior in 1730. Tlie\\nyear previous he had gone again to England as agent fir tlie\\ncolony, a position lie liad not obtained very ereditahly, aiuiord-\\niug to llutchinson. (lovernor lielc.her hecame vi-ry unpopular,\\nand was superseded, in 1741, hy Governor Shirley; hut was\\nafterwards appointed governor of Ne\\\\v Jersey. Shaw says\\nGovernor Eelcher s house Avas after the model of Jidien s, Avhich\\nis represented in another })lac(^ lie adds tliat it was standing a\\nfew years Ixdore he Avrote, in 1S17. Mr. IVlcher Avas a \\\\ery\\nopulent nierehant. His resideiKU Avas in Orange Street, now\\nAVashington, in 1732. lie was one of tlie foremost in organiz-\\ning the Ilollis Street hurch, and gave the Society land to huild\\nit niion. During his administration occurreil the great religious\\nrevival, caused by the A isit of Whiteheld, and Eaneuil Hall\\nMarket Avas huilt. Governor Belcher s son, Jonatlian, of IIos-\\ntnii, heeaiiie lieuteiiant-goA cmor of Nova Scotia. He Avas an\\nable jurist, and had been also (diief Justice of that j)rovince.\\niovernor Leverett sold a }iart of his estate, next east of\\nGovenioi I xlcher s, to Jeremiah Dummer, goldsmith, in 1077.\\nTliis Jeremiah, I atlier of two distinguished sons, Avas himself a\\nconspicuous man in the affairs of the town, and in 170S this\\ncormu of Kilby Street is called Justice Dummer s Corner.\\nWilliam J)iimmcr, the elder son, lieutenant-governor of the\\ncolony from 1710 to 1729, was a captain in the Ancient and\\nHonorable Artillery in 1719. He Avas acting chief-magistrate\\nduring a great j)art of his term, the governor, Samuel Shutc,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "FUOM THE OLD STATK tlOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. lOo\\nbeing aljsent from liis post. Tlu! principal events of (Jovemior\\nDmnmer s tenn were tin; estal)li.slinient of a lincni nianulactory\\nin the town, and tlie introductidu of inoculation ibr tlie small-\\npox, during one of its periodical visits, by Dr. JJoylston. This\\nterril)le distismper, which had scourged Boston witii great vio-\\n]enc(! at dilferent times, was arrested by tbis simple ex[)edient,\\nwliich the AVestern world owes to the eilbrts of a woman.\\nJ^ady Mary Wortley Montagu accompanied lier IuisIkukI t( the\\nI orte, where he was amljassador, in 1710. While there she\\nwitnessed the custom among the Turks if ciniraflinci for the\\nsmall-pdx. Slie at (in(;e devoted her extraordinary e[\u00c2\u00bbistolary\\npowers to procin c the; introdu(;tion of tliis great boon into Eng-\\nland, and, by great exertions, bajjpily suc(;eeded. Franlvlin s\\npaper was established while l)ummei was ading-governor.\\nGovernor Dunnuer provided in his will Ibr tlie manumission\\nand care of his three negroes, lie attended IloUis Street\\nChurch, living close at hand at the time.\\nJeremiah Dummer, the younger, Avas born in the old liomc-\\nstead in State Street. He grailuateil at Ibii vanl in 1( !)9, and\\nstudied at the University of Utreclit, wliere he took a degree.\\nA polished scholar and writer, he is known in pultlie life as\\nthe Massachusetts Agent in England, 1710-lM. He publislied\\nan elocpient defence of the New England charters when they\\nwere threatened in the lattc^r year.\\nIn a building adjoining tlie west side of the old Exchange\\nwas the iirst UuiUnl States Custom House; General Ijcnjamin\\nLincoln was the iirst collector, and retained the position until\\n1808. He occupied [)art of the house for a dwelling. A\\ndistinguished Ivevolutionary soldier, General Lincoln fought\\nfrom the lakes to Savannali. He was with Gates at Saratoga\\nas second in command, and witli D Estaing in the assault\\non Savannah. The tbrtune of war made him a prisoner to\\nSir H. Clinton in ]\\\\Iay, 1780, with the garrison of Charles-\\nton. Again, at Yorklown, be had the satisfiction of seeing\\nthe army of Cornwallis lay down their arms. In Sliays Eebel-\\nlion of 87 Lincoln commandetl the State ibrces he was also\\nlieutenant-governor in this year. General Lincoln s portrait.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "104 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nby F. A. Dui ivage, copied IVoiu Sargcnt .s picture in tlie\\nHistorical Society s ColIecti(jii, is in tlie collector s room at\\nthe Custoiu House.\\nThe Merchants Exchange, also the Sub-Treasury and Post-\\nOiiico, was one of tlie most imposing edilices in Slate Street.\\nIt was erected in 1842, and stood here until 1S .)0, when the\\nnew Exchange lUiilding rose in its stead.\\nThe first action in regard to a post-oliice appears to have been\\nan order of the leneral Court, Noveml)er 5, IG. as follows:\\nFor the preventing tlie iiiiscarriage nC letters, it is ordered, tliat\\nnotice bee given, that llicliaid Fairbanks, his house in Boston, is the\\nplace appoiiite l for all letters, which are Itrouglit from bcyoinl seas,\\nor to be sent tliither are to be brought luito liim, and he is to take\\ncare tliat they hee delivered or sent according to tlieir directions\\n]irovided tliat no juau sliall l)e compelled to briiin his letters tliitlier\\nexcept bee please. His house was in Cnniliill.\\nSomewhat later it seems to have lie.come the custom to bring\\nletters to the Exchange, in the Town Hall, to run the hazard of\\nbeing forwarded by visitors but this proved so precarious a\\nmethod that the ouiicil, in ir.77-7S, appointed d din llayward\\nPostmaster for the whole colony, dolin aiiipbell, pnldisher\\nof the News-Letter, was Postmaster about 1704.\\nIn 1711 the Post-Ollice was in Old ornhill, and, when the\\ngr at lire occiu red in (Ictolier of that year was removed to the\\nsouth side of Milk Stiret, o|iposil( Ii ev. Mr. Pemberton s. It\\nwas removed liaek to oiiiliill soon after this. William IJrooker\\nwas I ostmaster in 171! In 17-14 the I*ost-( )llice was in Corn-\\nhill, at the house of James Franklin, IVtstmastcr in 1770 it was\\nstill in Cornhill, between King Stnu t and Dock Sifuare Tut-\\nhill Hubbard was Postmaster in 1771. lietweeii this date and\\n17S8 it occupie(l the corner of ourl and Wasliinglon Streets\\n(Sears Ihiilding), and in the latter year was reniove(l to 11\\nCornhill, Avhero New Cornhill now enters AVashington Stieet-.\\nPost-routes were first established in 1711, U INlaine and\\nPlymouth once a week, and to New York once a fortnight.\\nIn 1829 the Post-Office was located on the eorner of on-\\ngress and Water Streets, and employed eight clerks and", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE IIOUsL; TO BOSTON PIER. 105\\nOF TRK BfNCH OF r.RAPES.\\nin 1838 ill the Old State House, as related. After the Great\\nFire of 1872 the Old South was used for a post-office until the\\ncompletion of the present stately edifice, which riarrowly es-\\ncaped destruction at that time.\\nThe Bunch of Grapes Tavern was on the west corner of Kilhy\\nStreet (formerly Mackerel Laiu;) and State. The New Eng-\\nland Bank replaced the inn, until, in\\nturn, itself displaced hy the stately\\nExchange BuiUliug.\\nAs ancient is this hostelry\\nAs any in the land may be.\\nFrancis Holmes kept it as early as\\n1712; Kebecca, his widow, in 172G;\\nWilliam Collin, 1731-33; Edward\\nLutwych, 1733 Samuel Wethered,\\n1734-50 Henry Laughton (date un-\\ncertain), Rehecca Coffin, 17G0 Josi^ph\\nIngersoll, 17G4-72; Captain John\\nMarston, 1775-78; William Foster, 1782; Colonel ])udley\\nColeman, 1783 James Vila, 1789, in which year he removed\\nto Concert Hall; Thomas L(J)dell and jVFrs. Lolxlell, 1789;\\nand perhaps also some others for short periods.\\nThe Bunch of Grapes was the chosen n^sort of the patriot\\nleaders prior to the Revolution, and as such is associated\\nAvith many important acts of those eventful years. Among\\nothers, Washington, Lafayette, and Stark were entertained\\nthere. One act of far-reaching imjmrt was the initial organi-\\nzation of the Oliio Company in March, 178G, which founded\\nMarietta.\\nRecrossing the street, we find that the Custom PTouse was, in\\n1810, situated on the lower corner of Change Avenue, formerly\\nPierce s, and afterwards Flagg Alley. General Henry Dear-\\nborn, of Revolutionary fame, succeeded the venerable General\\nLincoln as Collector in 1809, the latter having resigned on\\naccount of the Emliargo. It is said that General Lincoln wrote\\nto President Madison, that he had fought for the liberties of\\n5", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "106 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nhis (^oiintry, and spent his In^st years in her service and that\\nlie was nf)t, in his old a j;(% to be made an instrument to violate\\nwhat he had assisted to ae(iuire.\\n(leiieral J)earl;)orn continued tn lie (Collector until appointed\\n])y Madison Senior Major-Ciciieral, ;ind ordered to the Canada\\nIVoiiticr in 1812. His lon_n and ,n lorious career of puhlic service\\nextended from lUmker Hill, in 177ri, to the capture of York, in\\n1813. At the latter jilace, now Toronto, was eaptureil the royal\\nstandard of England, the only one that ever ftdl into our hands.\\nThis trophy is in the naval museum at Annajiolis. liy the in-\\nti igues of his enemies the veteran was displaced iVom his com-\\nmand, hut was refused the court of iiKpiiry he solicite(l. He was\\nminister to Portugal in 1822. General l)earhorn lived in what\\nwas afterwards the Bun Tavern, on r.atterymarch Stri et, more\\nrecently occupied hy a (ilass (Jompany. He married James\\nliowdoin s widow, antl was a man of very imposing presence.\\nII. A. 8. Dearljorn, son of the old warrior, succee led to the\\ncollectorshii). The yoiinger General Dearliorn hehl a numher of\\noffices, and is known as an author of several historical work s.\\nAt the time of the Dorr liehellion in Khode Island he was Ad-\\njut:mt-General of ]\\\\lassa(dnisetts, and was removed for loaning\\nthe State arms t(_) sujipress that all air.\\nAVhen the Custom House was located on the north si(l(^ of\\nState Street, the front was oruameiite(l with two figures carved\\nin wood one representing Ho}ie leaning on the traditional\\nanchor, the other Justice holding the .scales aloft. These me-\\nmorials an* now preserved in the insurance office occujiying the\\nsame site.\\nIn 1810 the Imilding in Custom House Street was completed,\\nand occupied in Decendier of that year, hut was soon found too\\ncontracted lV)r the govenniient husiness. The United States\\nCustom House had, for short periods, locations in Merchants\\nl. ow, on the northeast corner of Corn Court, and in Half-C ourt\\nSipiave, now ojigress S(piare. The tal)let in the Imilding in\\n(hisloiii IIous(! Street is iVoin tlie old ustom House.\\nOn this site was estal)lished, in IKU, the iirst circulating\\nMiss Quincy s Memoir.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 107\\nlilirary in Boston, liy John Mein, the most extensive liookseller\\nof the (lay. His })lace was caHed tlie London Bookstore, and\\nhis stock contained, according to liis advertisement, ten thousand\\nvohimes.\\nThomas says Mein came from (xlasgow, in 1701, witli Kolicrl\\nSandeman. His shop was first on the north cornier of wliat is\\nnow Franklin and Washington Streets, where, in addition to\\nl)ooks, h(^ sold Irisli linens, etc. Thf liriii at tliis time was IMcin\\nand Sandeman.\\nJohn i\\\\lein is also associated witli early printing in Boston,\\nhaving heen connected with John Fleming, in 1707, in thr\\npublication of the Boston Chronicle, th(^ first semi weekly in\\nNew England.\\nThe jiaper fell under the han of popular ccuisure, and was\\nsuspended in 1770, it. having es[)oused the cause of the mother\\ncoimtry. Mein was exhihitc(l iu clfigy on Pope Day, 1709,\\nand in the uni(pie and horrililc iiageant was carried a lantern\\nwith this acrostic\\nMoan is tlic iiiaii, M n is his iiainc,\\nEnough lio s s[)r(\u00c2\u00bba(l his licllisli fame\\nInfernal Furies hurl his soul,\\nNine million times from Pole to Pole.\\nMein was afterwards the sidtject of a personal attack, and\\ntook refuge Avith the soldiery, making a final es(^ lpe from the\\nprofane poetry and lianl lilows of the wrathful liosldiieci s\\nsoon after, to England.\\nAs we are now among the Insurance Ollices, it liecomes ap-\\npropriate to static that the first in th( town was estahlished l)y\\nJoseph Marion, in 1724. His office was called Tlu; Sun Fire\\nOffice in Boston, and was located near the site of the (Jlohe\\nBank, 22 State Street.\\nWhere the heautiful marhh^ building mimbered 60 now\\nstands was the British (Joifce Hous(?, an inn kept by Mr. Bal-\\nlard in 1702. It was of som(( prominence, and divided with\\nits neighl)ors the patronage of the military and civilians. The\\nrepeal of the Stani]) Act was celebrated here, and at the Bunch\\nof Grapes in ]\\\\Iarch, 1707. It was also the scene of the un-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "108 LANDMATiKS OF BOSTON.\\nfortunate collision between James Otis and John Robinson, one\\nof the Customs Commissioners referi-ed to in connection with\\nOtis s residence. Otis went to the Jottee House alone, hy ap-\\npointment, and was immediat(^ly attacked by lioliinson and liis\\nfriends. A young man wlio went to tlie assistance of Otis\\nwas rou,L;]dy handled and put out of the hnusc.\\nThe Imuse seems to have l)een preferred by ]!ritish niiicers;\\nior we iind (inc nf tlicm, Surgeon Bolton, delivering;- a harangue\\nfrom the Ijalcony, ridiculing the orations of Warren and Han-\\ncock, anil almsive of the Whig patriots, wliile the main-guard,\\nparaded in front, fuinishe(l an audience. Under the new regime\\nthis tavern was styled tlie American Coffee House. It became\\na place of public vendue, in 1780, by a firm who sold books in\\nthe chamb(u- and jackasses in the strec.it. The Massaiduisetts\\nBank long occupied its site.\\nMerchants Eow seems to have retained its original designa-\\ntion, Ix ing thus described in 1708. Andrew Faneuil s ware-\\nhouse was on the lower comer in 1732. This was then the\\nlower end of King Street. The Bow followed an irregidar,\\n.serjHaitine course to the wharf on the southerly side of the\\nTown Dock.\\nTn Corn Court is the reputed site of the first public house,\\nkept by Sanuiel Cole in 1634. Tt is now tliought that it\\nwas on Wasbington Street, nearly opposite Water Street. Gov-\\nernor Vane, in 1G3G, invited Miantonimob, the Narragansett\\nchief, to .oston, and the sachem rejiaired thither with a con-\\nsiderable ivtbiue. Tlie attendants of tlie (^hieltain were dini d\\nat Mr. ole s, (l iulitless witli many a grunt of satisfaction, for\\ntheir landlord bore a g 1 name, as we sliall learn, from high\\nauthority. In wliat manner Cole, fed his score of painted Nar-\\nragaiisetts does not transpire. Tt nmst have vexed the spirit\\nof \\\\\\\\\\\\v jolly B.oniface full sore to know how to place his guests\\nat table. Tliey did not know the use of chairs, .so he may have\\n.seate(l them, according to their custom, in a circle on the floor,\\nwith his iron ]iot of meat- in tlie centre, into Avluch each might\\nplunge his hand until satislieil. Howctver, Indians were no\\nuncommon sight in tbi town in those day.s.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "FROM TlIE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON I lEK. 100\\nLord Ley, Earl of Marlljurougli, wlio was killed in a naval\\nengagement with the Dutch in 1G65, visited Eostun in 1G37.\\nHe lodged at Cole s inn, and when urged hy Governor Winthrdp\\nto partake of his hospitality declined, saying that the house\\nwhere he was was so well governed, he could he as })rivate\\nthere as elsewhere. Lord Ley accom^ianied Sir Harry Vane\\nback to England. His lordship s riiply was not, it is said, Rel-\\nished hy the governor, who considered himself slighted and his\\nhospitality and position neglected.\\nKilby Street, which once hcjasted tine eu[)hoiuous name of\\n^lackerel Lane, extended lirst only iVoni State Street to what\\nis Lihei ty Scpiare, the portion ljey(Uid being known as Adams\\nStreet until 1825. Mackerel Lane was very narrow until the\\ngreat lire of 17G0, and crossed tlu; crciek in Lilterty Scjuare by\\na bridge at the foot of Water Street. On the map of 1722\\nwharves line the east side; of Kilhy Street, and until about\\n1800 Oliver s Dock came up to this street. JSroad and India\\nStreets had no existence until 1808 -U J.\\nOliver s Dock was originally marsh, and through Lil)erty\\nScpiare a creek ran uji as far Avtest as Spring Lane. This was\\n(lovernor Winthrop s marsh, and the head of this cove was in\\nthe vicinity of the spring mentioned in tin; Introduction. Shaw\\nstates that\\nTile greater part of Congress Street is made land. An aged gentle-\\nman, who lived near the spot, says that when the foundation of Joy s\\nBuildings (corner of Congress and Wafer) was preparing, the re-\\nmains of the hull of an ohl vessel, oi laige boat, with fragments of\\ncanvass and tarred inpe, were du^; uji which shows the place\\nhad Ijeen once used as a graving-yard, or some similar purpose.\\nFrom a view of the groimd, there is reason to believe that the greater\\npart of Congress Street, tlie whole of Kilhy Street and Liherty\\nS(piare, are built on tiats, once covered l y salt water.\\nIn noticing the great storm and tide in 1723 the writer\\nsays,\\nWc could sail in boats from the southern battery (Rowe s Wharf)\\nto the rise of gTound in King Street.\\nIn very lugh tides the water has tlowed up to the corner of", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "110 LANDMARKS UF IJO.STON.\\nState Street and INlercliants liow. Suuiid logs have been dug\\nn[i at tlic IxittdUi uf this stn et, wliicli, i roiii the aiii)earance uf\\nkniits an l l.iranche.s, were yu|i[HisL d tu have lieen I elled near at\\nhand.\\nOliver s l)iH-k, so named frnm iVter Oliver, is mited as the\\nscene ni an cpisnilc nl the Stamp .Vet riots nf ITOT). A huild-\\nin.n newly rreded nn the iidrthcast eurner of J\\\\illiy Street and\\nLilici ty S([ua,re Avas supposed hy tlie iie(i}ilc to ])v intended\\nlor a stamp olliee, and was torn down and thrown into the\\ndock. Liberty Square derives its name from tliis eircumstanee.\\nIt was so iKUiied at the Civie Feast in honor of the French\\nKevohition Jaiuiary 21, 171). wlien a liherty-})ole sixty feet\\nin length, snrmiamteil hy the horns of the ox that had heeu\\nroaste l on opp s Hill I or the feast, was raised, and a salute of\\niifteen guns Jired. The ]\u00c2\u00bbrocession, after passing through the\\n[)rincipa,l streets, ])ausing at Liberty Stnmp (where Liberty\\nTree had stood), antl at tlie resiik nces of Citizens Ihincoek\\nand Adams, as tliey wi-re tlien styled, then governor and lieu-\\ntenant-governor, halted in State Street, where tallies were laid\\nfrom the (_)ld State House to near Kilby Street. The roasted\\nox was there dispatdied by the crowd amid a scene of con-\\nfusion. In the afternoon an enti ilainnieiit Avas jirovided at\\nFaiieiiil Jlall at which Saiuud Adams jiresided. Liberty\\nand Ivpiality were toasted and sung, liut as the liloody char-\\nacter of the French lievolution became manifest in the execu-\\ntion of Louis XVr., wliich had occurred tlii ee days before, tlie\\nCivic Feast \\\\vas not repeated.\\nI he iirst directory ])ublished in Loston was printed by John\\nNorman, at )liver s J)ock, in 1781). It contained 1,17. 5\\nnames, llie directory of LSUU contains 212, OOO names.\\nllroad Street next invites attention. It was built, in 180S,\\nby that gi cat iiublic beml actor, Uriah Cotting, whose improve-\\nment of Cornhill is already noticed. Until this street was laid\\nout Latterymarch marked, the water-line tc^ its j unction with\\nKilby Street. Ih oad Street was al iirst occnpie(l Ibr business,\\nbut, the subse(pieiit building of India Strec^t rendt^red it una-\\nvaikiljle for this i)urpose, and it became the liead(|uarters of a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "FliOM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. Ill\\nrespectable class of residents these were ousted m their tiiri)\\nliy the Irish, who swarmed to this country in great numbers\\nalter the war of 1812. Among the early residents oi Broad\\nStreet we find Lieutenant, afterwards Commodore John Downes,\\nwho served with distinction in tlu; navy, lie was in the attack\\non Tripnli under Preble, and with iJavid Porter in the Pacific,\\nwlicre, in command of the Essex Junior, to use the lan-\\nguage of a contcni[i(n ary, he played the devil among the\\nwhalers.\\nProad Street was, in June, 1837, the scene of a I iot between\\ntlie firemen and Irish. The afiair grew out of an attempt of\\nl* ngine No. 20 while proceeding to a fire, to pass througli the\\nranks of an Irisli funeral cortege. This was resented, and led\\nto a regular Doiniybrook scrinnuage, resulting in many broken\\nheads, but no loss of life. INIilitary force was ustnl tn jmt\\ndowu tlie riot, whicli assumed serious propurtidus, Imt no\\npowder was l)uni( d. The all ray led to the disbanthiieiit of\\nthe whole fire de]iartment.\\nIndia Street, Hanked by India and Central Wharves, was\\nbuilt, the year after Proad Street, by Mr. Cotting. About mid-\\nway of Central Wharf was fiirmerly an arcbrd jiassage-way,\\nwhich presented the singula] feature of a l)uilding supported Ijy\\nit, but having no land belonging to it, to use a military\\nphrase, it was in the air. Tliere were formerly a number of\\nthese arches, not the least among the curious objects to be\\nseen in Boston, but few are yet existing.\\nTwo other taverns remain to be noticed, of which the first is\\nthe Admiral Vernon. The name was from Edward Yernon, the\\nadmiral, who was known while he lived under the sobi-i j/iet of\\nOld (Irog. In bad Aveather he was in the hal)it of walking the\\ndeck in a rough grogram ck)ak, and thence had obtained the\\nnickname. Whilst in command of the West India Station,\\nand at the height of his popularity on account of his reduction\\nof Porto Bello with six men-of-war, he introduced the use of\\nrum and water by the shi2: s company.* The Admiral Vernon\\nwas on the lower corner of State Street and Merchants Row,\\nNotes aiid Queries.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "112 LANDMAKKS UF HUSTON.\\nand was kept l)y liicluinl Smith aljout 17-13, and in 1775 hy\\nMary Bean.\\nThe first liuuse un L( mi; Wharf was the Crown Coli ee House,\\nnoticed in 1718. It was kej)tl)y Widow Anna Swords in 174U,\\nbeing then owned by Cldvernor liclrlicr, while idvernor AVilliaiu\\nDunnner owned the next estate easterly. IJichard Smith, of\\nthe Admiral Vernon, kept it in 17-49, and liohert Shclctick in\\n1751. It was, like the Admiral Verndn, a watcr-sitU resort,\\nhut is not known to jjossess any associations of marked interest.\\nIt stood where the Iniilding now is, having a westerly front on\\nState Street, hut tiie street lias bctMi widened here. Like tht;\\nother inns, it was usetl as a dwelling by the ro]irietors.\\nPeter Faneuil s warehousi^ was, in 1742-43 (the year of his\\ndeath), below the Admiral Vernon, from which he carried on\\nIds large business with the West In lies and Eui ope. Trter\\nwas not averse to a little sharp practice upon the King s revenue,\\nfor we lind an extract of one of his letters which re(pl(^sts ad-\\nvice, also what i/ood French brand// is wortJi, and, if it l c\\njtossi/tle to cloak it so as to sl/ij) if for nnnr )thel wise, I*eter\\nseems to have jilaced a high estimate upon his commercial houor,\\nand his charities Avere nuiuemus and opendianded.\\nIf you enter the little passage-way just below ]\\\\Ierchants\\nHow, you will tind a range of brick buildings, l)ounded north\\nby Chatham Street and so\\\\ith by the passage-way. This is Sut-\\nler s Iiow, and you may yet see the name cut in stone on the\\nsoutheast corner tif the Idock. Peter Ihitler, an old j)roprietor,\\nhad a warebouse and wharf hei c. Andrew, Peter, and I enjamin\\nPaneuil all had Avarehouses on, or bounding ujion, P.uth r s Pow.\\nThese wert all merchants of high standing, which marks the\\nlocality as (jne of im})ortance to tlie mercantile ckiss.\\nSeventy years ago the sjtace between Patterymarch and State\\nStreets was occupied liy a ship-yard and wharves. AVhere the\\nold Custom House stands, on Custom House Street, large ves-\\nsels have been built and launched.\\nThe massive proportions of the new Custom House, which\\ncontains about the same nmnber of cubic feet of stone as Bunker\\nDealiiiKS with the Dead.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIEK. 113\\nHill Monument, stand on a foundation recovered from the sea.\\nBegun in 1837, it took three years to make a secure foundation.\\nTlie Luikling is cruciform, of the Grecian Doric order, and has\\nthe peculiarity that the roof is covert d with granite tiles, ren-\\ndering it completely lire-proof. Its i)osition is not conspicuous,\\nbut it is one of the noticeable [)ublic edifices in Boston. It was\\ncompleted in 1849, at a cost of over a million. A. B. Young,\\nM. A., was the architect.\\nWe may now take a retrospective view of State Street. It\\nis the Ijusy mart and exchange of the city, sacred to the worsliip\\nof Mammon. Bills, stocks, and bonds are its literature, and\\nin its vaults are lifty millions of dollars. Here Shylock meets\\nAntonio, and daily takes his pound of ilesh. It is our Rialto,\\nour Bourse, our Boyal Exchange. Hut time was when Perez\\nMiirion dwelt where, the Union i aidc s strong ct)ifers are, and\\n-John Coburn took gentlemen boarders just helow the Post-\\n()IH(;e, this, too, within the present century.\\nSiiKie Boston was, State Street has Ijeen a favorite theatre of\\nmibtary disjilays, the train-bands of the hard-visaged I uri-\\ntans, tins solid tramy) of the newly arrived British soldiery in\\n17G8, and of the reinforcements in 1774. Tlirough State Street\\nmarched the 5th and 38th to embark for Bunker Hill, and tlie\\ntread of Eochambeau s gallant Frenchmen has wakened the\\nI choes of the old street. Since those more stirring scenes it\\nhas l)een the custom and delight of the citizen soldiery to\\nmarch up State Street. The bayonets of many a, gallant\\nregiment liavo glittered in tlui sunliglit here, i-re they marched to\\ntlu! i ront in the late civil war. Here, too, Burns, a jioor fugitive\\nwas conducted by tlie whole })olice and military force of the\\ncity to the ship which took him Lack to slavery. But we\\nliave cliangtsd all that.\\nThe lire of 1711 left its mark in State Street, destroying all\\nthe upper part, the Town House, and the Old IVIeeting House.\\nAn atteinpt was made to save the bell of the latter, and several\\nsailors ascended the cupola for that purpose but the flames cut\\noff their retreat, and they perished in the falling ruins. In\\n1747 the Town House was again destroyed. In the great fire of\\nH", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "114 lani)Mai;ks (if I .os J on.\\n17ti J tlie .stU L t was a:j,;iiii scdui^^cd 1 y tlic il(. V( Hiring ek iiient,\\nscarcely a building liciiig Icit in tJic pari liclow Kilby (Street.\\nState ^Street was alsu the scene ul a I atal all ray in August,\\n18UG, between Charles Austin and Thomas (Jliver Selfridge, in\\nwliich the l(-rnier was killed. This ali aii made a great noise,\\nand the day was long i-eiiiembered as lUoudy Monday. -lames\\nSullivan was then Attorney-* leneral, while the defence of Self-\\nridge was conducted by Samuel I)e.\\\\ter and (_ hristoj\u00c2\u00bbher Jore.\\nThe origin of the dilliculty was political feud but, according\\nto jNIr. Sargent, the immediate cause was a dispute between\\nother parties, about stvcji roast pKjs and ic/t bns/ie/s of yrccM\\npeas. Austin was killed between the Old Statt; House and tlie\\ncoi-ner formerly occupied Ity the Tra\\\\eller (Jlhce.\\nLong Wharf and Stah^ Stivet ai e so lirudy united that tiiey\\nmay be c.onsideri d one to all intents and purposes. Ijel ore the\\nwharf was built the lower part of State Stivet tei minated at\\nthe Oovernor s l)ock. Tlie subject of building a wliarf at the\\nbottom of King Street was mooted, as early as 1707, by Oliver\\nNoyes and others. In 17()U- 10 the town voted to accept the\\nju oposals of Noyes and his associates to Iniild a wharf, with a\\nsufficient common sewer, from .Vndi cw Faiieuil s corner to low-\\nwater mark, to be of the width of King Street. As originally\\nprojected, the wharf was to have a publi(t way on one of its\\nsides, thirty feet wide, for the use of the inhabitants and others\\nforever. At about tlie middle a gap, sixteen feet wide, was to\\nbe left for the assage of boats the end was to l)e left free for\\nthe town to plant guns on, if occasion re(|uired. The name of\\nthe wharf was, first, Boston Tier. i\\\\I. FAbbe Robin describes\\nthe pier as a super!) wharf, advancing nearly two thousand feet\\ninto the sea, wide enough along its whole length for stores and\\nshojjs. On the map of 17l 2 there ajijiears almost a continuous\\nrow of buildings on the north side; on Price s iilan of 1743\\nthe end of the Avharf is foiiilied.\\nThe T of Long A\\\\ harf, formerly knoAvn as INIinott s T\\n(i roni Stephen INIinott), is a ])art of the ancient structure known\\nas tlie liarricado, or Old AVharf, which was a line of defence\\nconnecting Scarlett s Wharf, at the foot, of Cojui s Hill, wdtli the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE Tu BOSTON PIElt. 115\\nSdutli Battery at the foot of Fort Hill. It enelosed the Town\\nCove, in which the shipping lay. J he Ijarrieatlo extended in\\nstraight lines from the wharf iv the terminal points, making an\\nangle at the junction with Long Wharf, with the jxiint towards\\nthe town. It was Ijuilt of wood, and had openings on eai h\\nside of Long Wharf for vessels to ])ass through. Ai\u00c2\u00bb})rehensions\\nof invasion from the Dutch or French caused its construction.\\nAtlantic Avenue now follows, substantially, the line of the\\nBarricado. It crossed Long Wharf on the neck of the T, and\\ntwo little islands to the north and south of the wharf furnished\\n]M)ints of ajipui. Central Wharf was laid out over oneof these\\nislands, and large trees and stones, which had heeu used in\\nhuilding the Barricado, wcn^ i ound when excavations were-\\nmaking for tin; wharf The otiier island was removed. The\\nOld Wharf, heing for dfd ence oidy, was only wide enough to\\nwork guns upon. It i ell into gmdual decay, and the last ves-\\ntiges disa]\u00c2\u00bb})(iared long ago. J Wharf, which name has\\nsometimes erroneously been connected with the Tea Party, hiis\\nalways been noted for an excellent old well oi water, from\\nwhich ships were supplied. Minott and Andrew Faneuil\\nowned it in 1718.\\nWhen, in November, 1745, after that extraordinary and\\nsuccessful exjiedition, which resulted in the reduction of Louis-\\nburg, Governor Shirley returned home in the Massachusetts\\nFrigate, a splendid reception awaited him. lie first landed at\\nthe Castle, where he passed the night, coming ujt to Boston\\nin the morning in the (Jastle l)arge. Aljout noon he landed,\\nwith his retinue, at Long Wharf, under salutes from all the\\nshipping in the port and the acclamations of the ])e()ple. Here\\nthey were received by the dignitaries of the province and town,\\nand by Colonel Wendell s regiment of militia, a Chelsea com-\\n{)any, the Troop of Guards, and another Troop of Horse, with\\nthe Cadets under Colonel Benjamin PoUard. The ringing of\\nbells, illuminations, and fireworks prolonged the joyful occasion.\\nGeneral Thomas Gage landed at Long Wharf in May, 1774,\\nand Avas received by the Troop of Guards, a regiment of militia-,\\nand the Cadets, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "116 LANDMAltKS (IF I .USTON.\\nCoffin. Tho reception was in the midst of a drencliing rain,\\nbut was, nevertlieless, attended by a great euiicuurse of people.\\nSix years before this umbrellas or umbrilloes, as they wi re\\ncalled were first used in llosbm, and were, doubtless, put in\\nrequisition tm this occasion. Nearly all the ]!ritish troops that\\nset foot in IJoston landed at this wharf It was also the scene\\nof the (Mubarkatioii of the 5th and 3 Sth for lireed s Hill, who\\nleft so many of their nundicr on its given slope.\\nThe stores on the wharf, deserted l)y most of tlieir owners,\\nwere usi d during the siege for the storage of military and naval\\nstores, of which a consideraljle (quantity was recovereil by\\nuartermaster-( leneral ]\\\\Iitllin, besides General Gage s char-\\niot, which was taken out of the dock broken, when our forces\\nentered the town. After the evacuation, the Jh itish licet re-\\nmained for some time anchored at Nantasket, and was a .source\\nof eontiiiual alarm U the pedple. Gent ral lleiijaniin Lincoln\\norganized a force which embarkc(l i rom Long AV harf and took\\npositit)ns at Long and IVttick s Islands, Hull, Point Alderton,\\nand clsewliere. The l)attery on Long Island sent a shotthmugh\\nthe upjier works of Commodore Lanks s shi]i, when he .signalled\\nthe licet to get uiider Way, blew up the lighthou.se, and vexed\\nthe waters of Jioston harbor no more.\\nAV^heii the news of the Embargo (\u00c2\u00bbf LSI 2 reached the town it\\nca,use(l the greatest consternation. ^\\\\11 the vessels that could\\nget away before the port closed did so. Sunday, April f), was\\nas busy a day as any of the lemaining six. Long Wharf, and\\nevery otlier, was crowdi d with trucks, sailors, and longshore-\\nmen. About lifty sail went to sea Itelbre the Hag of Embargo\\nwas raised on Fort Hill.\\nThe embarkation of the troops which were to force the\\nAmerican works at Lreed s Hill, from this wharf and from the\\nNoith Lattery (llaltciy AVharl), was a .scene to be remembered.\\nThe ships of war furnished the boats, which were in charge of\\nnllingwood, afterwards so fniious as Nelson s lieutenant,\\nthen a midshipman. Erothinghairi graphically describes the\\ndisplay\\nWhen a blue Hag was di.sjilayed as a signal, the ileot, with field-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIEK. 117\\npieces in the leading b arges, moved towards Charlestown. The sun\\nwas shining in meridian splendor and the scarlet uniforms, the\\nglistening armor, the brazen artillery, the regular movement of the\\nboats, tin; Hashes of fire, and the belchings of smoke formed a spec-\\ntacle brilliant and imposing.\\nHark, from the towii a tniiniiet Tlie barges at the wharf\\nAre crowded with tlie living freight, and now they re pusliiiig off.\\nWitli clash and glitter, trump and drum, in all its hriglit array,\\nBehold the splendid sacrifice move slowly o er the bay\\nTiiK r.UAziiN iii-.An.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0118 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHArTER IV.\\nBRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK.\\nOld Comhill. Paul Revere. Amos and Abbott Lawrence. Boylston s Al-\\nley. _- Barracks of the 29tli. Blue Anchor. Brattle Street CHuirch.\\nGeneral Gage. Howe, Clinton, and Burgopie. John Adams. Head-\\nijuarters of Stage-Coaches. Dock Square. The Conduit. Town Dock\\nDescribed. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Quincy Market. Origin of Markets in Boston. The Tri-\\nangular Warehouse. Roebuck Passage. Clinton Street. The Old\\nMarket Museum. Old Cocked Hat. Faneuil Hall. D Estaing.\\nLafayette. Jackson. Prince de Joinville. Jerome Bonaparte. Lord\\nAshburton. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Portraits. Corn Court. Hancock House. Talley-\\nrand. State Custom House. The Couscriirtion Riot.\\nOTTli way lies tlu cugh that })art of Old Cornliill iVoiii State\\nStreet to Dock Square. The Town Pump, which lia.s l)eeii\\nretVn-ed to, stood in the middle of C ornhill, on a line with the\\nnortli side of Court Stivct, i^iviuLi; room for vehicles to jiass on\\neither side. In 1771 we find it made use of as a point of\\ndirection to the shop opposite.\\nAt No. r)0 Coridnll, or next south of Goldthwait s carpet\\nstore, we find Paul Rev(n a man whose iiame occurs fre-\\n(picid,Iy in coiniection with the history of Boston. Descended\\nfrom the sturdy old Huguenots, whose ancient family name was\\nRivoire, Paul Rever( began business as a goldsmith, hut, ere-\\nlong, took up tlie art of engraving on copper, in wliieh he was\\nseli -taiight a fact evident enough in his early attempts.\\n)f his engravings of Dr. Mayhew, and the Rescinders, he\\nmight have said with Reau Brummel, These are my failures.\\nThe Massacre, Cromwell s Head, etc., show a somewhat\\ntruer hand. But\\nCopperplate, with almanacks\\nEngraved upon t, and other knacks,\\ndid not fill the measure of Revere s ingemiity. Hi put in oper-\\nation the first poAvder-mill in the province, visiting Philadelphia\\nwhere was the only mill in the Colonies fiir this jmrpose.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SCiUAUE ANlJ TlIK TOWN DOCK. 119", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "120 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTlie proprietor would only permit the Boston mecliauic to go\\nthrough his mill but this was enough, ami the Provincial Con-\\ngress soon had powder. Revere was of the Tea Party was\\nlieutenant-colonel of a regiment of militia raised after the evacu-\\nation and was in tlie ill-starred Penol)Scot expedition of 1779.\\nAfter the peace of 1783 he established a cannon and bell foundry\\nat the North End, and, later, works at Canton for the manulac-\\ntur(^ of malleable co})per bolts, spikes, etc. A coinpany at the\\nlatter place still bears his iianic Paid Pevere Avas also the lii st\\nPresident of the Mechanic Cliai-italile Association.\\nWhen the engraver was at work upon the caricature (\u00c2\u00bbf the\\nseventeen members of the Legislature who voted, in 17G(S, to\\nrescinil the resolution to issu(^ a circular to the Colonies calling\\na convention to ojipose taxation without representation, entitled\\nA warm place. Hell, Pr. Church, who afterwards ])etrayed\\nthe patriot cause, dropped in, and, seeing what Pevere was do-\\ning, seized a pen and wrote\\nlirave Rescimlers to yoii yawiiiii cell.\\nSeventeen sncli miscreants will startle liell.\\nThere puny villains daniiied for petty sin,\\nOn such (listingnished scoundrels, tjaze and i:vm\\nThe outdone devil will resiyu his sway,\\nHe never curst his millions in a lay.\\nWhen Amos Lawrence first came to P.ostou, in 1807, from\\nhis native town of Croton, he began business in Cornhill, (tn\\nthe corner which makes the turn into Dock Scpiare. AVe are\\nassun^d that the rental of 700 per annum seenie(l, at that\\ntime, to ])resage ruin to the future millionnaire. Mr. Lawrence,\\nwhom we find set down as a shopkee}ier, removed afterwards to\\nthe situation on the opposite side of Cornhill, now occupie l by\\na well-known carpet firm. At tliis time he boanh^l with Mrs.\\nl)ext(!r, in Portland 8treet, as did also his brotlier Abbott, an\\na])]irentice in his store. The nuinificent public and ])iivate\\ncharities of Amos Lawrem .e will long perpetuate his memory.\\nTo Williams College hv gave upwards of .f 40,()()(), and to\\nBunker Hill Monument large sums and personal ell ort.\\nAbbott Lawrence, tln apprentice, became an eminent Pxiston\\nmei chant, besides holding many oifices of i)ul)lic tmst. He", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "bkattle square and the town dock. 121\\nwas the founder of tlie city of Lawrence was in the City\\nCouncil in 1831, a nieniber of Congress two terms, and minister\\nto Enghxnd from 181:9 to 1852. He also founded the Lawrence\\nScientific School at Cambridge, endowing it munilicently.\\nWe have mentioned among the peculiar features of the town\\nthe arches, which in various places tunnel the buildings, and\\nfurnish a short cut from street to street. One of these formerly\\nled from the foot of Coiidiill into Brattle Street, but was ob-\\nliterated in extending A\\\\ ashiiigton Stn^et. It was here long\\nprior to the Revolution. At tlie time of the Boston Massacre,\\nand for two years previous, Brattle Square was a sort oi place\\nd armes for British troops, and in the alley began a collision\\nbetween some grenadiers of the 29th and a few citizens on the\\nevening of the memorable 51)1 of March.\\nAs caily as 1734 John l)ra[)er, who published the Boston\\nNews- Letter in 1732, and was printer to the Governor and\\nCouncil, lived on the east coriKU-, and from him it took the\\nname of Draper s Alley. In 177G Benjamin Edes, tlu! printer,\\ntook the house next to Draper, part of which formed the alle}\\nso that its later occupation by a large printing firm was entirely\\nlegitimate. The passage was known both as Draper s and\\nBoylsion s Alley.\\nOpposite the opening into Brattle Street was Murray s Bar-\\nracks, in which the 29th were quartered. This regiment was\\nthoroughly hated by the Bostonians before the Massacre, and\\nafter this tragedy, in which it was tlie chief actor, there is little\\nquestion that it would have been exterminated in detail but for\\nits removal to the Castle. It is a singular fact that a major of\\ntlie 29th, Pierce Butler, became a citizen of the United States\\nand a Senattn- from South Carolina, becoming, in 1812, an\\nadvocat(i for war against his native country. The officers of\\nthe 29th lodged at Madame Apthorp s. Her house stood in\\ntlie angle now covered by the Quincy House.\\nWhere the City Tavern gave place to the extension north of\\nWashington Street once stood the Blue Anchor Tavern. Still\\nanother Blue Anchor is found in C )rnhill, very near the site of\\nthe Globe newspaper buihling. This old tavern was kept in 1 G91", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "122 LANDMAIIKS OF BOSTON.\\nby George Monck, and as early as 1GG4 liy Eobert Turner.\\nSavage says At the sign of tlie Blue Anchor, Turner fur-\\nnislied lodgings and refreshments to inenibers of the govern-\\nment, to juries, and to the clergy, when summoned into synod\\nby our General Court. The rooms in tlie Blue Anchor were\\ndesignated as the Cross Keyes, Green Dragon, the Anchor\\nand Castle Jhandier, and the Hose and Sun Low Boom.\\nWhat should we think in these days of such a bill as the fol-\\nlowing abstract of an election dinner to the General Court in\\n17()i) ])rcs( nts 204 dinners, 72 bottles of Madeira, 28 of Lis-\\nIton, 10 of claret, 17 of }iort, 18 of porter, 50 double l)owls\\nof puiicli, besides cider. A double Ixiwl of punch held two\\nquarts, enough to satisfy thirsty Jack Falst;lff himself\\nTliG City Tavern, or City Hotel as it was sometimes called,\\nwas one of the most noted stage-houses, whose bustle and\\nactivity of a morning, when the lumbering stage-coaches rat-\\ntled out of the stable yard, and over the cobble-stone pave-\\nmeuts at a brisk trot, enlivened all this locality. It was also\\na favorite hostelry of the novelist llawthorne.\\nWe have before us another striking example of the ever\\nchanging conditions incident to the growth of our city. Ilrre,\\nwhen^. the Old Brattle Street Church had stood for a hundred\\nyeais, the stately Wakefield Building stands to-day.\\nThe lirst Iniilding was erected in 1699, of Avood, and was for\\na time known as the Manifesto Cliurch, in consequence of a\\ndi clai al-iou of principhvs by it, in answer to a ju otest from the\\nulder churches against its more liberal form of AV()rs]iip. The\\nold church was never painted, and the tower and bell w ere on\\ntlic west side, while the entrance was at the south side. Its\\nniiuous condition caused it to be rebuilt of brick, as it lately\\nstood. John S. Copley, the jiainter, made a ]ilan fijr the new\\nbuilding, but it was rejected on account of the expense, and\\nthat of Major Thomas Dawes accepted. Governor Hancock\\ngave a thousand pounds, and a bell, on wliich was inscribed,\\nI to tlic Clnnvli tlif liviii- .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2all.\\nAnd til tlic ur:i\\\\c I siuiiliioii all.\\nWliitmorc s Notes t i .Iiilin I )iiiitiiii s Letters.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN D(3CK.\\n123\\nThis was the chiircli of Cohnan, the Coopers, Thachor, Buck-\\nminster, Edward Everett, Palfrey, and Lotlirop, an array of\\nclerical talent unsurpassed in the Boston pulpit. General Jaj^c\\nquartered the 29th in the church and vicinity, taking up his\\nBRATTI.E STREET ClILlRCll.\\nown (piarters in tlie house opposite. CJage told Mi; Turcll lliat\\nhe had no fears for his men wliile (piartcred within such walls.\\nNeverthc^less, the night hc^forc the evacuation a twenty-four\\npound shot from Cand)ridge struck the tower, and falling to\\nthe ground was picked up hy Mr. Turell, and in lcS24 was\\nimbedded in the masonry, wlua-e it remained until the work\\nof demolition began.\\nAVlieu the society sold the church, they reserved the ancient\\nquoins, pulpit, liell, and cannon-ball. The l)ell given by Gov-\\nernor Hancock bi^-auH^ cracked, and was sold the present one\\nhaving been purchased in London in 1809. The society voted", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "124\\nLANDMAliKS OF BOSTON.\\n^.r v v\u00c2\u00abf\\nWINDOW OF BRATTLE STREET\\nCIIIIHCH, WITH BALL.\\nto make Mr. AVakefieM the custodian of the cannon-ball, to he\\nplaced hy him in the front of his now building on the old site,\\nbut this pm posc was not carried\\ninto elfect. The rustic quoins, of\\n(iiinccticut stiine, have been placed\\ninside the tower of the new church\\non unnnonwealth Avenue. One of\\n_ these, Avliieh had the name of Jdhu\\nI[aiieock iiisevilied upon it, Avas mu-\\ntilated by the Kin.n s soldiers, who\\nii\\\\Ve(l a Speeial spite to Kiii.u Haii-\\ncdck, as tliey styled him. l)r. .bihn\\n(iiceuleaf s name was on another of\\nthe (pioins.\\nDuring the occupation by troops,\\nservices ajjpear to have l)een held\\noccasionally in the church, as the lioston (Jazette, of 8eptem-\\nlier 21, ITTT), states that the L ev. l)r. Morrison received\\na call to preach in the elegant new ehureli in r.rattle Street,\\nvacated by the flight of I)r. Cooper, and on Sunday he deliv-\\nered an excellent iliscourse to a genteel aiidience. The tenor\\nof this discourse was ujton the fatal conse(piences of sedition,\\nand was adajjted to the genteel audience. Oi the pastors,\\nbesides Coo]ier, noted as a zealous coworker with the patriots,\\nthere was Euckniinster, who had taught r)aniel Webster at Ex-\\neter Academy, and was one of the originators of the Anthology\\nClub Everett, whom Lafayette styleil the young American\\nCicc^ o, who left th i)uljiit i or a distinguished career in public\\nlife and others Avho have been jirominent in oui annals.\\nBesides Governors Hancock and IJowdoin and their families,\\nJoseph Warren, Harrison dray Otis, JNfadame Scott, Daniel\\nWebster, John Cofhn Jones, and many other distinguished\\nr i stonians, have sat under the ministration of the pastors of\\nOld 1 .rattle Street.\\nleneral Thomas Gage, wliom some wit proposed to create\\nLord Lexington, r ar m of r.uid ei Hill, on account of his dis-\\nasters her(^, was well ac(piaiiite(l with Washington, having", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "BliATTLE SC.IUAIIK AND THE TOWN DOCK. 125\\nfuiiglit unck-r LnKkluck at Fuvi du Quusuu, wlieru he (Gage)\\nled tlie advance. Wasliingtou, in Jidy, 1775, Lecame his\\nadvei waiy. Another of these intimacie.s existed hetween Gen-\\neral Charles Lee and Burgoyne, who liad served together in\\nPortugal.\\nGage succeeded Hutchinson as governor, in 1774, wlien it\\nwas determined hy the INIinistry to crush the rising spirit of\\nrebellion in the Colonies, lie was at first well received, l)ut\\nthe course of events soon led to a Avide separation l)etween him\\nand the people. After Lexington, Gage proclaimeil martial\\nlaw, offering pardon to all olfenders except Sanuiel Ailams and\\nJohn Hancock. Bunker Hill followed, and the British general\\nsoon found himself shut up in the town. In October he\\nresigned and returned to England, being succeeded by Howe.\\nHowe, Clinton, and Burgoyne, all arrived in Boston in the Cer-\\nberus, May 25, 1775. As they came the harbor they met a\\npacket outward bound, and Burgoyne hailed the master and\\ninquired the news. Learning that Boston was closely l)esieged\\nby the provincials, he demanded, How many regulars are\\nthere in the town Being answered about hve thousand men,\\nhe exclaimed, What ten thousand peasants keep hve thou-\\nsand King s troops shut up well, let us get in and we ll soon\\nfind elbow-room. This name stuck to Burgoyne, and on a\\nsecond visit to Boston, when the fortuni; of Avar had made, him\\na prisoner, he landed at Cliarlestown Ferry, Avhere the bridge\\nnow is, but was extremely annoyed l)y an old woman, who,\\nperched on a neighboring shed, kept crying out, Mala; way\\nthere, elbow-room, elbow-room.\\nIn 17G8 John Adams, the future president, but then a young\\nbarrister, took uj) his residenci; with Mr. BoUan in Brattle\\nScpiare. The house Avas knoAvn as the White House. His son,\\nJohn (juincy Adams, Avas then only a year old. In his diary\\nIVIr. Adams remarks that the toAvn Avas full of troops, anil\\nthrough the Avhole succeeding fall and Avinter a regiment Avas\\nexercised by Major Small directly in front of my house. On\\nthe night of the Massacre Mr. Adams Avas passing the evening\\nat the house of Mr. Henderson Inches at the South End, Avhere", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "126 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\na clul), of \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\vliicli Adams was a ]JK ial)or, used to assemble.\\nTJiinkiiig tin alaiiii was Inr a lire, lie sualcdied his liat and\\nc-luak, and went out i-i.i assist in ]Miltin, it (Hit. llo did not\\nI racli tlif. Tcjwn llnusc until tlie attair was ended, and }ius8ud\\nun, thruiigli tlie little alley Ave have taken in vuv route, to\\nErattlc Street. The lilJth were (hawn uji in front of their\\nharracks, and Adams had to pass alouL; their ranks to reach\\nhis lod;^ini;s, liut not a word was s])oken on either side. At\\nthis time he lodged in Cole Lane, now I ortland Street.\\nMr. Adams was elected to the (leneral Court of Massachusetts\\nin 1770, ihough lalioring under some ohloipiy on account of\\nhis (k fenee of Captain I reston. lie has lieen called the father\\nof our na\\\\ y, as the act jiassed under Washington s administra-\\ntion autliorizing the construction of six frigates, was vitalized\\nLy him, wdiile at a still earlier day, in tlie Continental ongress\\nof 177r), he dn W up a code of ri gulations for a, navy, that has\\nl orme(l tlie hasis for the guvernment of that branch of the\\nservice. Andtassador to England and lloHand, and iinally\\nChief Magistrate, John A(kims, by a coineidence, died on the\\nsame (kiy as Thomas -bdlerson, duly 4, bSL G. INIr. Adams was\\ntermed by Jeli ersun the Colossus of Congress.\\nliefore leaving lirattle ^(juare and its vicinity, it mu.st not\\nbe forgotten that this street, with Elm and Union, formed the\\ngreat head(]uarters of tlie stages before- the day of railways.\\nA\\\\ ilde s and Doolilile s were chief anioiig the taverns for stage\\ntravel, and on a clear nioi ning the air resounded with the\\ncrack ol the whips and halloo of the drivers. The starting of\\nthe stages was always witnessed by a gaping croAvd, and their\\ndiurnal passage ovei the country roads was an event to the\\ndwidlers along the route, scarcely etjualled by the later advent\\nof the iron horse. The Tony Wellers of the liox were great\\nmen in the eyes of the stable-boys and country lasses. One at\\nleast among them has reached the eminence of M. C, while\\nanother ]n esided over the trallic of a great railway.\\nIn exploring Dock Sipiare, we hnd tliat- the old Town Dock,\\nfrom whiidi its name is deriveil, llowe(l up to a jioint (Opposite\\nthe entrance of Elm Sticet, forjuerly Wing s Lane. On the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 127\\nbrink (if the iJuck was a waU^li-lmiise, and in tlic sjiacc\\nfoi iiiccl hy the junction of North (Aunc), Union, and VA .a\\nHtreet.s was the Flat Conduit. This conduit was merely a\\nresei Vinr of water, about twelve feet square, but was deep\\nenough for Moses Hrailfonl to be drowned, while trying to save\\na boy who had fallen into it. It is mentioned as early as IGoG,\\nand was constructed perha]is not long after the lire of l(i5o.\\nAnne Street was originally Conduit Street as far as Cross, and\\nUnion Street is described in 17o2 as leading from the Conduit\\nto the Mill Pond.\\nUefore Faneuil Hall was built as early as 1708 the\\nspace it covers and which surntunds it was occupied as a\\nmarket-place, and at the loot of INIerchants liow the 1 ock\\nwas crossed Ijy a swingdjridge, in two equal parts. That part\\nof the Dock lying west of Merchants liow was liUctl up about\\n1780; it was known as the Market Hock. I he lower secti(\u00c2\u00bbn\\nof the Dock was narrower, and is now covered by North\\nMarket Street. At the time of the imiirovement of this region\\nby Josiali (^hiincy, in 1S2G, the Town Dock came up as far as\\nthe head of Faneuil Hall Market, or, us tins uame is now\\napplied to the market in Faneuil Hall, we will say Quincy\\nMarket, which the po[)ular will has christened it. On the old\\nplans of 1738 the Town Dock was flanketl by Woodmansie s\\nwharf on the south, and by Borland s, Ih idgham s, Hill s, and\\nPitt s wharves on the north. The Mill Creek, connecting the\\nMill Cove with the Town Cove, emptied into the latter on a\\nline with, and a little south of lUackstone Street.\\nlu the primitive onler of things, it is apparent that tlie tiile\\ncovered all the level ground in Dock Scjuare, as indicated on\\nall early plans, and all east of Union Street from Creek Lane\\non the west. Detween the Mill Creek and the Town Dock\\nwas a triangular tongue of land, or rather marsh. All of\\nthe north side of the Dock seems to have been known at one\\ntime as the Pish Market. Shaw says, The chief part of the\\ntown was built on the cove or Ijay which has since been called\\nthe Town Dock. The lirst jiaragraph in the town records\\nestablishes the fact that in 1G31 this was the chief landing-\\nplace.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "128 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nThe- imiirovi iiifut by Mr. (^)uiucy was the [i,rc;itust enterprise\\nuf the kind thut hud been untU rtaken in llu.stun. liy reference\\nto (^uincy s History, we learn that a granite luarket-house,\\ntwo stories high, 535 feet long, eoveriug 27,000 feet of hind,\\nwas erected at a cost of $150,000. Six new streets were\\nojii ned, and a seventli greatly enlarged, including 1(57,000 feet\\nof land, and Hats, dorks, ami wharf rights oljtaineil to tlie\\nextent of 14l!,000 s(juare I eet. All this was acconiplished in\\ntlie centre of a popidous city, not only witliout any tax, debt,\\nor burden npoii its jieruniary resources, but with Lirge perma-\\nnent additions to its real and productive ]iro[ierty. This ini-\\nprovenient also facilitated the o})ening of FuUon and of oiii-\\nniercial Streets, the latter making direct eommunication north\\nand south instead of a long detato- through North Street. S.\\nS. Lewis was the projector of (Jonnnercial Street.\\nCj uincy Market, though not at once iiecuniarily successful,\\nsoon became so. It is a monument to Mr. (^)uin{ y s genius and\\nj)erseverance. Any otlier man woultl have sac -uinlied to the\\nobstacles he had to encounter, but he pressed on to the ai com-\\nplishmeiit of liis purpose. He invcstcMl the sluggish town with\\nnew life, and brought into jiractical use a new watchword,\\nPro(jress. At a very early hour Mr. (j)uincy was in tlie habit\\nof mounting his horse, and I iding through evt-ry (piarter of the\\ntown, remedying evils or jirojei-ting new enterprises.\\nThe interior of the market has always been a scene of attrac-\\ntion to visitors, and a model of its kind. Admiral ile system\\nand order prevails. Here are haunches that woulil have caused\\nthe royal swonl to leaii from its scabbard, as when\\nOur .second Cluirk s (if I aiiR lacute,\\nOil loin of buef (li l dine\\nlie lield lii.s sword pleaseil o er tlie luuiit,\\nRise up, our famed Sirdoiii\\nHere are sausages in festoons I oasting pig that would have\\nmade Charl(^s Lamli s nioutli water vegetables in parterres,\\nand fruits from every clime. Here (Uie may have fish, llesh,\\nlow], or good reel herring. The countenances of those who\\nseek their daily fond liefoi e tlie stalls is a study. The poor", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 129\\nwouuui )iii,nrring over the coveted juint I ar liryduil her ^^leiider\\npurst^ is j(\u00c2\u00bbstle(l by the dame who gives carte blanche to her\\n})urvoyor. What quantities we eat Sydney Siuitli thought\\nhe liad eaten wagondoads more than was good for lam. Tlie\\nopen moutli.s of the gazers U[)on tliis scene of plenty have\\nl)een hkened to so many graves yawning for the slaughtered\\nherds.\\nYet plenty lias not always prevailed in the town. Putnam\\ncame with his drove of sheep to succor the inhabitants in 1774.\\nIn 1775 the Town Dull, aged twenty years, was killed and snld\\nfor the use of tlie generals and ollicers, at eighteen pence sterhng\\nper ])ound. Perhaps (!age, in Prattle 8(juare, with his subordi-\\nnates, llowe, lintdn, and IJurgoyne, sat in gloomy conclave\\nover a tough morsel of the [latriarch, hoping vainly that good\\ndigestion might wait on appetite.\\nFaneuil HalllNlarket was begun in 1824, the corner-stone\\nlaid in ISi}; and was finished in November, 182G. It occupied\\na little iiiori^ than two years in building. North and South\\n]\\\\larket Streets were 1)uilt at the same time, and are resjX ctively\\nsixty-live and one hundred and two feet wide. The ditference\\nin the width of these streets, and in fact the position of the\\nmarket itself, is due to the refusal of the heirs of Nathan Spear\\nto art with their estate on any terms. Py the increased width\\nof South Market Street, the difficulty was overcome, as the city\\nthen took the estate for the street with a clear legal conscience.\\nCodmaii s, Spear s, Ih ay s, and the wharves extending between\\nNorth Market and State Streets towards the present line of\\nCommercial Street, were reclaimed in this grt at imi\u00c2\u00bbrovem(^nt,\\nand converted into solid ground, and Chatham Street was laid\\nout.\\nPenjamin Faneuil, Jr., was in business in Puller s Kow in\\n1767, which, before the improvements, entered Merchants\\nEow between Chatham and State Streets. This Penjamin\\nwas the nejihew of Peter, of nobh? memory, and was one of\\nthe consignees of the tea shi})s whose cargoes were emptied\\ninto the dock in 1773.\\nAs a merchant, dohn Hancock had a store at the head of", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "130 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nwhat is now South Market Street, or, as it was then descriljeJ,\\nStore No. 4, at the east end of Faneuil Hall JNIarket. A\\ngeneral assortment of English and India Goods, also choice\\nNewcastle Coals, and Irish Ihitter, cheap for Cash. Said Han-\\ncock desires those pers(. ns who are still indehted t( the estate\\nof the late Hon. Thomas Hancock, Escp, deceased, to he speedy\\nin paying their respective halances to prevent trouhle.\\nIn Winthrop s Journal, a market is mentioned as set u\\\\) hy\\norder of the court in March, 1G34. Its locality is not men-\\ntioned, but it is believed to have been on the site of the (Jhl\\nState House. In 1734 the town located three markets, and\\nappropriated 300 towards their erection. They were situ-\\nated in North Stpiare, Dock Scpiare, and on the })resent grovmd\\nof Boylston Market. A bell was rung daily at sunrise to give\\nnotice of the opening, and one o clock p. M. was the hour of\\nclosing. On the 4th of June the three markets were 0})ened\\nfor the first time, and the peoi)le and dealers flocked in great\\nnumbers to them.\\nThe market in Dock S(|uare was always tlie most fre-\\nquented. Faneuil Hall, of which we shall presently relate the\\nliistory, did not long i rovide sufficient accommodations. At\\nthe time of Mr. Quincy s improvements there Avas a row of\\nsheds, for the sale of vegetables, on the north side of Faneuil\\nHall, in what is now the street. The neighboring streets were\\noften obstructed with market-wagons, while farmers were com-\\npelled to occupy Union Street with their stands, nearly to Han-\\nover, and Washington, almost to Court Street. In 1819 a\\nnumber of citizens erected what was known as the City Mar-\\nket, in the large building at the foot of Brattle Street, de-\\nmolished for the extension of Washington Street; the upper\\nl)art was occu})ied as a Gallery of Fine Arts. The General\\nCourt refused to incorporate the proprietors, and the city sub-\\nsequently rejected the oll er of the market as a donation.\\nRetracing our stei)s along North Market Street, the first\\nobject of interest is the Triangular Warehouse, which stood on\\nthe border of the town dock, op[)osito the swing-bridge, until\\nBoston Evening I ost, Decemljer 25, 1704.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK.\\n131\\ntak(;u down in 1S2-4 to make room tor the s\\\\vee}iiny clianges\\nthen inaugurated. Its site is now covered by the buildings at\\nthe head of North ]\\\\Iarket Street, with a moiety in ]\\\\[erehants\\nliow and Chnton Street.\\nThis singular old building was built of brick, of two stories,\\non a stone foundation, with a tower at each angle a tower also\\nrose from the centre of the roof Each of these towers termi-\\nnated in a pointed roof of slate, and were capped with a stone\\nball set in lead, except the middle tower, which had a wooden\\noni!. The .strength with which it was constructed, with tlie\\nquaint architecture, led for a time to the supposition tliat it\\nwas intended for a Custom House, or some other similar\\npurpose, l:)ut no\\nproof being\\nfound to support\\nthe belief, the\\nopinion l)ecamo\\ngeneral that it\\nwas crcctetl by\\nLondon mer-\\nchants for a\\nwarehouse, al)out\\n1700.\\nOne side of\\nthe Triangular\\nWarehouse fronted Roebuck Passage, which has become, by\\ntransition, the extension of Merchants JJow. The jiassage,\\nnamed from a tavern called the Roebuck, within its limits,\\nwas a tortuous dehle a hundred feet in length, varying in width\\nfrom thirteen to twenty feet, but was still the main thorough-\\nfare from the market north and south. The tavern itself was\\na building with a projecting upper story, and was a notorious\\nresort of doubtful repute. It was the scene of at least one\\ndeadly affray. Richard Whittington, a descendant of the Lord\\nMayor of London, is said to liave been the builder.\\nClinton Street was one of the new avenues which arose out\\nof the chaos of this rc ion. The Old INIill Creek crossed it at\\nTRIANGULAR WAREHOUSE.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "132 LANDMAliKS OF BOSTON.\\ntlie point where now stands the New England Honse, the last\\nof the Boston cott eo-hduses. J lic Imtcl is l uilt on made land.\\nTjie course of tlie creek was altered at this jmiiit, so as to How\\nthrough the lowei part of hiiioii Street into tlic liarhor, instead\\nof following its old cliaiiiiel into the dock. To eifect tliis })lan,\\nthe city hought (Jovernor luistis s wharf, through which tlie\\ncreek fouml an artilicial outlet. JJlackstone Street has taken\\ntlie place of tlie creek.\\nopposite the north side of Faueuil Hall is a little alley, and\\non the alley, with a front on North Street, was an okl landmark.\\nThis lofty wooden liuilding of five cramiied stories was the (Jld\\niJostou Museum, established iu 1804, hy Philip Woods. After\\na removal to another location in l)ock Sipiare for a short time,\\nthe Museum returned to its old stand. In 1822 the New\\nI aigland ]\\\\Iuseum fell heir to the greater i)art of the collection.\\nThe huilding fronted originally on IMarket Sipiare, and was\\nsometimes ilesignated the Market Museum. The tindiers were\\na foot square the chambers scarcely allowed a tall man to\\nstand erect, whilst the staircase in its almost perpendicular\\nascent was (extremely suggestive of broken bones.\\nAt the corner formed by North Street and Market Square\\nwas another of those ancient structures now extinct among us.\\nIt was known as the )ld Cocked Hat, from its faiicieil\\nresemblance to an article of wear now as obsolete as itself.\\nLender the westei ii gable, fronting )ock Sipiare, was the date\\nof 1080. The liiiildiiig was of wood, covered with plasti r on\\nthe outside, with which were mixed fragments of l)roken glass.\\n\\\\^arioiis ornamental figures were traced upon this rough surface.\\n()n two sides, south and southwest, the wati r once llowt d, and\\nin ligging not far from here some years ago to settle a disj)uted\\nbountlary (piestion, the capstan and ring-bolt of the old wdiarf\\nwere uncovered Avithin the present sidewalk.\\nThe )ld Cocked Hat Avas of two stories, the u]i](er pro-\\njecting, and is su])iiosed to have been built the year following\\nthe destructive fire of August 5, 1G79, which began about\\nmidnight and raged till midday of the 4th. A hundred and\\niilty dwellings and warehouses, with several shijis and their", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 133\\nANCIENT HOUSF IN DOCK SQUAIiE.\\ncargoes, were consumed. Tliis old liouse was at fiisi a dwell-\\ning, and for a time, according to .Snow, tli(^ principal apothe-\\ncary s .sliop of the town was kept there. It was taken (h)\\\\vn\\nin July, 18G0.\\nTlie fame of Faneuil TIall is as wide as the country itself\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ft has been called the radle of Liberty, hecause dedicated\\nby that early apostle of freedom, James Otis, to the cause of\\nliberty, in a siteech delivered in the hall in March, 1703.\\nSomewhat of its early history has appeared in the account of\\nthe town government. Its w.alls liave echoed to the voices of\\nthe great departed in times gone; by, and in every great puldic\\nexigency the people, with one accord, assemble together to take\\ncounsel within its halloweil precincts. Tliough much too small\\nfor popular gatherings of the present day, its long use for this\\npurpose, witli the many glorious associations that cluster around\\nit, still mark it as the centre from which tlie voire of the\\npeople of Boston should jiroceed.\\nThe Old ]\\\\Iark( l-Iiniis( mentioned as existing in Pock S(piare\\nin 1734, was demolished by a uiol) in 17. U)-. 7. Tliere was", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "134\\nlani).mai;ks of jioston.\\ncontention anion,n the pi dplc as to Avlictlicr tlicy would be\\nserved at their liouses in tlie old way, or resort to lixed locali-\\nties, and one set of dispntants tuok tliis summary metliod (if\\nsettling tlie questioii. IVmberton says, tliis mob were dis-\\nguised like elergyiiien.\\nIn 1710, ilie (jiiestion of the ]\\\\larket-house being revived,\\nPeter kaiieuil pV(i[Hised to build one at liis own cost on Ibe\\ntown s land in I lock S(|uare, upon condition tliaf the town\\nshould legally authorize it, enact jirojter regulations, and\\n^L ^K^ J..\\nlll lii^hlfii!!yBli|i\\n-^^S^^i ~i t J\\nI^J i_ija tJJ^^fc-\\n-t^^.\\nFANEUII. HALL IlLf dRE ITS K\\\\LAI!i:EMENT.\\nmaintain it for tlie jmrpose named. Mr. Fanetiil s noble oiler\\nwas courteously received, but such Avas the division of opinion\\non the subject, that it was ax-cepteil l)y a majority oi only seven\\nVotes, out of seven hundred and twent_y-seven })ersons A oting.\\nThe building was complclcil in 8epteml)er, 1742, and thret\\ndays after, at a meeling of citizens, the hall was formally\\nacceplcd and a. vote ol thanks jiassed to the donor. Hon.\\nI homas Ushing, the nio(|erator of the mi-eting, the selectmen,\\nami representatives oj the town, wciv appointecl a connnittee,\\nto wait upon Teter Faiieuil, Es(j., and in the name of the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 135\\ntown, to render liim tlieir most liearty thanks for so bountiful\\na gift. Besides tliis, the town voted that the hall should be\\ncalled Faneuil Hall forever to procure Mr. Faueuil s portrait\\nto be placed therein and later, to purchase the Faneuil arms,\\ncarved and gilt l)y Moses Deshon, to be fixed in the hall.\\nThe first arcliitect of Faneuil Hall was John Smibert the\\npainter Samuel Ruggles was the buildw It was not at first\\nintended l)y Faneuil to build more than one story for the\\nmarket, but with noble generosity he went beyond his original\\nproposal, and Ijuilt another story for a town hall. The original\\nsize of the building was forty liy one hundred feet, just half\\nthe present width the hall would contain one thousand per-\\nsons. At tlic fire of January 13, 17G3, the whole interior was\\ndestroyed, but the town vottnl to ndniild in March, and the\\nState authorized a lottery in aid of i]\\\\o design. The first meet-\\ning after the rebuilding was held on the 14th March, 1703,\\nwhen James Otis delivered the dedicatory address. In 1806\\nthe Hall was enlarged in width to eighty feet, and ])y the\\naddition of a third story.\\nBut little is left of the original building, but a rule lias been\\nlaid down for such as may l)e curious to trace the old outline\\nTake a northeast view of the Hall, there are seven win-\\ndows befon; you in each story, run a p(!rpendicular line, from\\nthe ground, through tlie centre of the middle window to the\\ntop of the l)elt, at the bottom of the third story, carry a\\nstraight line from that point nearly to the top of the second\\nwindow, on the right, in the tliird story. That point is the\\napex of the old pediment. From that point draw the corre-\\nsponding roof-line down to the belt, at the corner and you\\nhave a profile of the ancient structure.\\nA grasshopper, which still decorates the vane, madf l)y that\\ncunning artificer Deacon Shem Drowne, Avas long thought to be\\nthe crest of the Faneuils especially as a similar insect adorned\\nthe vane of the sunnuer-house in Tremont Street. But the arms\\nwere extant not many years ago on some of Peter Faneuil s\\nplate, in the possession of his descendants, and disproved tliis\\ntheory. No better reason has been assigned for the adoption", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "136\\nLANDMARKS OF iWJ.STON.\\nof the grasslioppor than tliat it was an iinitiitidii of tlic vane\\nof the ]ioyal Excliaiine, London.\\n(Juriuusly euougli, tlic lirst jniMic oration (Ichvcivd in Famaiil\\nHall was a funeral eulogy, ]iionoinicc(l on tlic (I atli of I dci\\nFaneuil, Mairh 14. 174:5, l.y Master Lowll of tlic Latin ScIkxL\\nIn the coui-sc of his iiiMivss tlic orator said, May Ijlici ty\\nalways sjn cad its joyful wiii.^s o\\\\it tJiis jilacr. May Loyalty\\nto a kinn under whoiu \\\\\\\\r enjoy tliat Liherty f\\\\cr rciiiaiii our\\ncharacter. Mastci Lo\\\\c!], liiuisclf a tory fn;_;it ivc wln-n I xist.on\\nwas i rccd iimu the llritish lUMMipaf ion, did not dream ol llie I ul-\\nlihnent- ot his wisli divested of its de|iendeiice on a kin^\\nwhen lie utteivd it.\\nFaiieuil Hall was ilhiniinateil, hy a vote of the tuAvn, on the\\nnews of the re]ieal of the Stani]) Act, and the selectlueu were\\nre(|ut\u00c2\u00abted to make ]iro\\\\ision I oi (hiid^in^ tlie kind s health.\\nDurine- the winter of i 77 7 tlie I .iitisli olticers. under the\\nl)atronae,e of (Jeneral Howe, titted the liall into a very neat", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUAEE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 137\\ntheatre, devote J cliieHy to performances ridieiiling tlie patriots.\\nThe Sunday after tlie liattle of Lexington there was a meeting\\nheld in the hall by the citizens to agree with General Gage on\\nregidations under which the people might leave the town. The\\nstrictness with which the Sabhath was then observed testifies\\nto tlie injjioi tance the subject had assumed. Gage communi-\\ncated witli the meeting through Captain Sheritf, his aide-de-\\ncamp, the proposal that the inhabitants might be allowed to\\ndepart after surnnidering their arms. Many of the old jmivin-\\ncial olhcers, mm who had scrvc(l at Louisburg, were ])resent,\\nand viewed Avith deep chagrin the proposition to give up the\\narms tliey luid worn in many honorable campaigns. Gage had\\nthe bad faith afterwards to render his j)romise nugatory by ap-\\n})ointing a Town ]\\\\lajor, to wliom ajiplications were made. This\\nofficer discriminated against those whose attachment to the\\npatriot cause was known.\\nIn Faueuil Hall is the rendezvous of the Ancient and Hon-\\norable Artillery (Jomjjany. Its original designation was the\\nMilitary Company of the Massachusetts it was also styled,\\nat differc^nt pei iods, Tin; Artillery Company and TheCJreat\\nArtillery. The name Ancient and Honoral)le was not ap-\\n]died until 1720; no militaiy organization can disput(^ its title\\nto be the oldest band of eitizen-soldieiy in -Vnierica. The com-\\npany was formed in 1()37, and at once a] plied for an act of in-\\ncorporation, which was not granted, the rigid I uritans fearing\\nto estaldish a piivileged militaiy boily wliicli miglit, on occasion,\\nsubvert tbe government. The rnetoriaii Hand of the IJoinans\\nand the Teiin)lars of Europe were cited to enforce tliis wise\\ndetermination. The company was, nevertheless, permitted to\\nchoose a captain and make use of the comiium arms in their\\nexercise. A chaiter was granteil in KIoS.\\na])tain Keayne, the first commander, has been noticed. The\\ncliarter prohibiteil any other military comjiany irom parading\\non the days appointed by l:iw for the Artillery and this ex-\\nclusive privilege was maintained against the AVinslow lilues,\\nin 1808, when that comjiany assembled in Faneuil Hall on one\\nof the tield-da\\\\-s of the Ancients.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "138 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nIt does not uppeur Avhat tlie uniiorin ol the company if\\nany was adopted was at the l)e,L;iiiiiiii,L;-. Bhie and hufi was\\nsup[)osed to he the dress in 1738. ]Jy 1770 the corps stood\\narrayed in golddaced hats, hlue coats, hull nnder-clothes, and\\nsilk stockings, Avitli wliiic hncn s])atterdaslies. In 1772 an\\n(irtlcr was issued that Avigs and hairsliould he cluhhed. Some\\ni\\\\ w changes were made in 1787, when slioidder-straps, to secure\\ntlie cross ])clts, and a ])h\\\\ck gai ter, worn hdow the knee, were\\nadojited tlic liair to l)c AVorn rit p/cti liapeaudiras and\\nI nckadc, witli lilack plume, eighteen inches long, took the\\nplace of tlie old cocke l hat in 1810, with red facings inr the\\ncoat instead of hull.\\nThe compaiiy was assendjled hy heat of drum, wliicli re-\\nmaiiieil the practice for many years. On days of parade the\\ndrummer passed thi ougli the jtrincipal streets beating the rappel\\nvigorously, i he colors were displayed on these occasions from\\nColon(d 1 tariiel Henchman s l)ookstore, at tlie corner of King\\nStreet and )lil Coridiill, the vacant area winch then existed\\nund(U the Old State House serving the corps lV)r a rendezvous\\nuntil the town provided an armory in Faneuil Hall. In 1743\\nliallierds were used hy sei geaiits, and pikes and lialf-jdkes hy\\nthe captain and lieutcuant.\\nThe roll of the Ancients ]ireseuts a host of names distin-\\nguished in ojoiiial and h i voliitionary liisi,ory. To emum. rate\\nthem woulil he inqiossihle witliiu our limits. The old custoni\\nof Artillery Election, when the old ofiicers retire and the\\nnew are connnissioned hy the governor, is still scrupulously\\nohserved. The- Election Sermon is still preached as in the\\ndays of (Jolniau and Sewall.\\nDuring the reception of (!ount D Estaingin Septeud)er, 1778,\\na su])erh entertainment was given him at Faneuil Hall, at which\\nlive huiidivd guests were present.\\nWhen Lnl ayette was in Txiston, in 1784, the merchants gave\\nliini a dinnei at Kaneuil Hall. At every toast thirteen cannon\\nwere discharged in Market S(piare hy INIaJor Davis s train of\\nArtillery. Tli )iicture of Washington had heen concealed l)y\\nilrapeiy, and when in Ihe course of the haiKpiet it was uu-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 139\\nveiled, the Marquis rose to liis feet, clapped his hands, and\\nseemed deeply moved as ho gazed on the features of his oLl\\ncommander. The audience was not less afi ected than the dis-\\ntinguished guest. The Marcpiis was fond of identifying him-\\nself with the Americans, and in this way won their love and\\nadmiration. Being asked Ijy a lady on one occasion if the Idack\\ncockade was not the color worn liy the Continental officers, he\\nreplied: Yes, madame, but we added the white out of com-\\npliment to the I rencli when they joineil us.\\nThe following anecdote is related l)y iMr. Di^au, in his memoir\\nof Daniel Messinger\\nAn amusing incident occurred once at a dinner given Prince\\nJerome Bonaparte in 1804. It is stated on the autlinrity of Josiali\\nQuincy, that after dinner Colonel Daniel Messinger sang the favorites\\nold song of To-morrow. As the audience joined in the cliorns of\\nTo-morrow, To-morrow, a cloud came over the countenance of the\\nPrince, and taking his next neighhor hy tlie arm lu; exclaimed, To\\nMoreau To Moreau Is it a song in honor of General Moreau\\nHe was cpiickly undeceived, and smiled when he found that no one\\nbut himself was tluukiug of the great rival of his brother.\\nPresident Jackson visited Boston in June, 1833, accompanied\\nby Secretaries Cass and Woodbury, and Mr. Poinsc^tt of South\\nCarolina. The occasion was the opening of tlie new Dry Dock\\nat CharlcstoAvn, and the docking of the frigate Constitution.\\nThe President held a, public recieption in Fancuil Tlall. Com-\\nmodore Hull, Mr. Winthrop, and Mr. Van Buren were present.\\nThe Vice-president was described as a tight, snug, compact,\\nvigorous-looking little body, with a l)right, keen, twinkling\\nlittle eye and winning smile. Both he and IMr. AVuodbury were\\nvery bald. Mr. Cass was not present.\\nThe visit of the Prince d( Joinville to Boston in Novendier,\\n1841, was rendered memorable by a gTand ball given in his\\nhonor at Faneuil Hall. The Prince had come over to New\\nYork iir La Belle Poiile frigate, the same that conveyed the\\nashes of the great Napoleon from St. Helena to France. The\\ntown was all agog for the expected visit of the Prince, and when\\nhe appeared at the ball simply attired in a blue naval unifcn-m,.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "140 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nthe enthusiasm was extreme. Tlie Prince wore no decoration,\\nexcept tlie riljbon of the J^egion of Honor, and devoted himself\\nassiduously to the ladies to whom he was introduced. Tlie old\\nhall was beautifully decorated with Hags and devices specially\\ndesigned for the occasion.\\niVlexander Daring, Lord vVshburton, negotiator with Mr.\\nWebster of the treaty which l)ears his name, was welcomed to\\nBoston in Faneuil Hall, August 27, 184:2, by Mayor Cha])-\\nman. From him Ashlmrton Place takes its name. As one of\\nthe great house of Paring Ihothers, he resided some time in\\nthe United States, lie and AV( ])ster were on terms of close\\nintimacy.\\nThe Earl of Elgin, Avhile governor-general of Canada, visiteil\\nBoston to attend the jubilee upon the opening of the Irand\\nTrunk Pailway. He was accomjianied by a numerous staff,\\nand received the honor of a grand Itall at Faneuil Hall.\\nAmong the officers who acconijianicMl him, noiu attracted more\\nattention than those of a Highland regiment, stalwart, bare-\\nlegged fellows in l)onnet, kilt, and tartan.\\nAmong the attractions to the old radle of Liberty, tlie por-\\ntraits wliich adorn the walls are not the least, and it is to be\\nregretted that some which have hung there and would now be\\nhighly })rized were either destroycMl or sjurited away liy vandal\\nhands. Shortly after the death of Mr. Eaiieuil, (lovernor Sliir-\\nIcy iid ornii d tlie selectmen that he had receiveil his Majesty s\\njiicture through the liands of the Duke of (Iraiton, and soon\\nafter the likeness of George 11. Avas hung in the halL The\\ntown had solicited the portraits of Colonel Barre and Oeneral\\nConway, tlx ir al)le defenders on the iloor of Parliament. The\\nreipiest was complie(l with, and the pictures sent over in 1707,\\nbut they disappeared from the hall when the British evacuated\\nthe town, that of Faneuil with the rest.\\nTIh^ west end of the hall is covered with paintings. Tlie large\\n])icture ])y Ilealey, representing Wei ister replying toHayne, lirst\\nattracts the eye. The jjortraits of -John Hancock, Samuel Adams,\\nand Jose|)]i Warren arecojiies, the originals being ileposited in the\\nMu.seum of Fine Arts. Tlii Adams has been called (Jopley s mas-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 1-il\\nter-piece, and was paiuted fur (lovoruor Hancock, Ijut on the sale\\nof his effects became the pro})erty of 8. A. Wells, and hually uf\\nAdam W. Thaxter, avIio presented it in 18-42 to the city. The\\nfull length of Peter Faneuil is a copy of a smaller painting in\\nthe Historical Society s po.sse.ssion. It is by Colonel Henry Sar-\\ngent, and was presented by Samuel Parkman, as was also the full\\nlengtli of Washington, by Stuart. The portraits of liufus Choate\\nand Abraham Lincoln are by Ames, that of Governor Andrew liy\\nHunt. General Henry Knox is by Gilljert Stuart, ouinio-\\nilore Preble, one uf tlie only two he ever sat for, is prolialily a\\nStuart. The superb clock was the gift of the school children.\\nC \u00c2\u00bbrn Court took its name from the corn market wliich was\\nonce held on the soutU side of the Town Dock. Entering its\\nrecesses, unknown to half the town, we lind the oldest inn in\\nBoston, now called the Hancock Tavern. This lias been\\ncalled tlie site of Samuel Cole s old inn. Altered in .some re-\\ns])ects, the building presents a front of brick, with wooden side-\\nwalls. A dihipidated sign, bearing the weather-stained features\\nuf Governor Hancock, hung here within remembrance.\\nThis was the old Brasier Inn, at whicli Talleyrand sojourned\\nwhen in Boston in 1795. He afterwards became the guest uf\\nMr. William Lee, in Water Street. Mr. Lee s residence, a\\ntwo-story wooden house, stood near the site of the new Post-\\nOffice, and was taken down many years ago. Talleyrand, the\\nfuture prime minister and evil genius of Napoleon, was ban-\\nished from France, and made his way to the United States,\\naccompanied by the lUu; de la Pochefoucauld Liancourt and\\nM. de Beaimietz. At the same time Ilubespierre proscrihi cl\\nhim in France, Pitt also jn oscribed him in England. He went\\nfirst to Phila(^leli)hia, where Congress was sitting, and entered\\nfreely into the political questions then l)eiug agitated. He was\\nintimate with Jefferson, and intrigued with the opposition to\\nprevent the accomplishment of a treaty between England and\\nthe United States. On his return to France, after an absence\\nof little more than a year, he was accused of having worn the\\nwhite (-(Kikade in America. He wrote from the United States\\nto Madame de Genlis I think nu mure of my enemies; I\\noccupy myself in repairing my fortune.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "142 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTalk yrautl vi.sited the .studio of Gilbi i t Stuart. Tlic latter,\\nwho was a great pliysioguoniist, after an attentive examination of\\nthe features of his visitor, ivniarketl to a friend, If that man\\nis not a villain, the Almiglity docs not write a legible hand.\\nTalleyrand was no friend to the United States, as was soon\\nmanifest in the eai)ture of (.)ur vessels by the French cruisers\\nwhen he came into power, which resulted in a (juasi state of\\nwar with the French lie})ul)lic.\\nM. de Talleyrand returned to Euiope in an ^Vmcrican vessel,\\ncommanded liy a man named Vidal, to whom he took a great\\nliking. ]le signalized his arrival in llandnirg by an amour,\\nwhich, in its dei)lorable results, made the language of Stuart\\npro})hetic. His adventure with the young and Iteautiful lianm-\\ness de S a pupil of Madame dc Jeidis, is a matter of\\nhistory. The unfortunate lady, Ijctter known as Cordelia,\\nl)eing deserted by Talleyrand, put an end to her life with a\\nsmall American penknife, the gift of her lover, \\\\\\\\diicli she\\nthrust into her heart. Ujion hrr table was found an open note\\ndirected to M. de Talleyrand. The contents were as follows\\nJ have Inirnt all your letters. They did no honor t(^ my mumory\\nnor lo your heart. Yuu are the author of my death may God for-\\ngive you, as I do v\\n-J Cordelia.\\nThe brick building now orcujiicil as a wine store, on the\\nsouth side of Faneuil Hall, is one of the antiipntics of the\\nneighborhood, having stood for nearly a centui-y unmoved\\namid the mutations that have swept over that locality.\\n)pposite the southeast corner of Kaneuil Hall was L)cate(l\\nthe ustom House under the State governnieid^, James Lord,\\nCollector. Hon. James Lovell was C(dlector in 178 J.\\nDock S(piare ^vas the scene of one of tliti incidents of the\\nConscri]iti(Ui T iots of ISIio. The mob, after a fruitless assault\\nupon the gundiouse in (Viojier Street, jiroceeded in this direction\\nwith intent to supply themselves with arms from the stores of\\nthe dealers in wea])ons. They were so prom})tly met, however,\\nby the ])olice force, which liehaved with signal In avery on thia\\noccasion, that no serious results Idllowed, and, the militar} soon\\nurrivijig on the ground, the riot fell stilbborn.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "FKOiM BOSTON STONE TO THE NOllTll BATTERY. 14:3\\nCHAPTER V.\\nFROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY.\\nThe North End. Boston Stone. Painter s Arms. Louis I liilijipe.\\nUnion, Ehii, and Portland Streets. Benjamin Franklin s Residence.\\nThe Blue Ball. Lyman Beeeher s Church. Benjamin llallowell.\\nGreen Dragon. Pope Day. St. Andrew s Lodge. Mill Pond. Cause-\\nway. Mill Creek. North Street. Sir D. Ocliterlony. Eastern Stage\\nHouse. Cross Street. The Old Stone House. New Brick Cliurch.\\nThe Red Lyon. Nicholas Up.shall. Edward Randolph. North Square.\\nSir H. Frankland. Major Shaw. Piteairn. Old North Church.\\nCotton, Samuel, and Increa.se Mather. Governor Hutchinson. General\\nBoyd. Fleet Street. King s Head Tavern. Bethel Church. Father\\nTaylor. Hancock s Wharf. Swinging Signs. Fir.st Uni versalist Church.\\nFirst Methodist. New North. Ship Tavern. Noah s Ark. Salu-\\ntation Tavern. The Boston Caucus. The North Battery. Trucks and\\nTruckmen.\\nWE now iuvitc tlic rcudcr t(i accdiniiuiiY us iutd (lie Nurtli\\nEud, a sectiou of the town which Lccjame si tih-d after\\nthe more central portion we have l)een traversini;-. It contains\\nmore of its original features tlian any other (|uarter many of\\nits old thoroughfares are hut little altered, and retain their\\nancient names. As for tlie hiiildings, as we plunge lU eper into\\nthis region, we shall lind some of\\nthose old structures that still link\\nns to the olden time. Weather-\\nstained, tottering, and decrepit as\\nthey are, not many years will\\nelapse before the anti(inary will\\nseek in vain for their relics.\\nImbedded in the rear wall of a\\nbuilding which fronts on Hanover\\nStreet, and presents its westerly\\nside to Marshall Street, is the Boston Stone. Of the thou-\\nsands who daily hurry through this narrow way, the greater", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "144 LANDMAKKS OF li()ST()N.\\npart iire unctjusciuus uf its existeuci Tlu stoiic hears tlie\\ndate 1737, and sceius to have got its name from tlie iiuu(jus\\nLondon Stone, which served as a direction for the shops in its\\nneig]d)orhood, as did the Boston Stoiie for its vicinity. It was\\nI)rouglit from England ahmit 17()(), and was used as a }iaint-\\nmill by the painter who tlien occu}(ied a, httle shop in tliese\\npremises. The spherical stone which now surmounts its fellow\\nwas the grinder, and was for a time lost, l)ut was discovered in\\ndigging the foundation for the present edihce. The larger stone\\nis only a fragmeiit of the original, which was sjJit into four\\npieces when placed in its present position. Its capacity is said\\nto have heen nearly two l)arrels.\\nFollowing the custom of the times, the painter place(l in tlie\\nfront of his hovise the coat of arms carved in wood now in tlie\\nHanover Street front, from which his dwelling was known as\\nthe Painter s Arms. Tlnuigh it l ears tlie date of 17 tl, the\\ncoat of arms, re})resenting prolialJy the guild of jiainters, a})-\\npears in (excellent })reservation. In 1835 the old Painter s\\nArms was taken down, and the tal)let transferred to the build-\\ning which replaced it.\\n()l\u00c2\u00bbposite to Boston Stone is an aiiti(piated Init welbpreserved\\nbrick building standing ([uietly aloof from the neighboring and\\nbusy street. This building makes the corner on Creek Lane\\nof a row of three or four venera.l\u00c2\u00bble brick sli uctures extend-\\ning towards I lackstone Street. These were built slioitly after\\nthe peace by -lohn Hancock, and are to this day called Han-\\ncock s Row. Times were depressed, and Hancock s bounty gave\\neniiiloymeiit to many deserving and needy artisans. The row\\nat tirst extended to the creek whose waters have long since\\nceased to How.\\nTlie l\u00c2\u00bbuilding first mentioned Avas tlie office of Ebcnezer\\nHanco(;k, brother of the governor, and deputy paymaster-gen-\\neral of the (continental army. Here, when the toAvn was under\\ntlu^ government of Greene and Heath and Jates, a sentinel\\npaceil before the door, never, we may believe, deseiteil 1)y the\\nneedy ofiicers of the Continental line. I lie lower lloor has\\ngroaned ])eiieatli the weight of the Fnin-li crowns sent us by", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 145\\nhis Most Christian JNIajesty, oiu- excellent ally, brought over\\nby the fleet of D Estaing.\\nHow the poor fellows eyes must have sparkled when they\\nre(-eived tlieir long arrears in King Louis s l)right silver\\ncrowns The order of Gates or Heath was now a talisman to\\nunlock the strong-box of tire paymaster, and for once it wa\u00c2\u00ab\\nnot empty. Two and a half million livres, in silver, were\\nbrought to Boston at one time.\\nWilliam Pierce was a well-known barber at Boston Stone in\\n1789, and he continued to follow his calling until nearly a\\nhundred years old. His shop was a sort of exchange for the\\ngossip current at the North End, ami was frequented by many\\ncelebrated residents of that locality. It was Pierce s boast that\\nhe had shaved Eranklin, and he related that Franklin told him\\nhe was born at the corner of Union and Hanover Streets. He\\nhad also jireserved a tradition that the Hancocks formerly\\nresided in Hatters S([uare. John Norman, also known as an\\nengraver of some repute, had his i)rinting-oftice at Boston Stone\\nin 1784.\\nAt the corner of Marshall and Union Streets lived, in 1798,\\nJames Amblard, a taihir. And^lard, a Frenchman by birth,\\nhad the honor of bcnng the host of the Due de Chartros, after-\\nwards Louis Philippe, during liis residence in Bo.ston, to which\\nalhisidu lias been made. While awaiting funds from Eui ope,\\nLouis found himself obliged to resort to teacliing the French\\nlanguage here, until he and his brothers were relieved by remit-\\ntances fidm theii mother. The Duke returned to London in\\n1800, and ri sided at Twickenham. According to Mr. Nasou,\\nthe future king of France was intimate with the fatlier of Wm.\\nB. Fowle, Esq., the educator, and often played chess with him\\nof an evening, presenting on his departure a set of chessmen\\nstill preserved in the family.\\nUnion Street Avas named from the British Union. Creek\\nLane reminds us of the mill creek to which it led. Cole Lane,\\nor Cold Lane, has taken the name of Portland Street, and at\\nfirst extended only as far as the Mill Pond. Elm Street was\\nWing s Lane. Elm, Hanover, and Salem Streets were all\\n7 J", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "146\\nLANDJIARKS OF BOSTON.\\nwidened under the town governiuent belVno tliis they were\\nthe merest lanes.\\nEnierghig from Union Street into IlanDver, we stand on the\\ncorner which disputes witli Milk Street the honor of l)eiiig the\\nbirth])lace of Benjamin Frard clin. The student who patiently\\ninvestigates the claims of the rival localities will be likely at\\nlast to exclaim with Mercutio,\\nA plague o both tlie houses\\nFranklin s own statement, as given by himself to a person\\nworthy of credit, was that he was 1)orn on this now famous\\ncorner, while other evidence goes to contradict it. That his\\nearly youth was passed here is certain. Here he ])ractised the\\nart of making tallow candles fur his father, and employed his\\nleisure in tlu owing rubbish into the neighboring ]\\\\iill Pond.\\nFrom here he wended his way through Hanover and Court\\nStreets to the Latin School, and, after his father s business\\nbecame distasteful to him, to his brother s printing-office in\\nQueen Street.\\nThe sign of Josias Fraidilin, father of lienjamin, Avas a Blue\\nBall, suspt nded by an\\niron od fi om tlic front\\nof his shop, Avhich stood\\nat the southeast corner\\nof Hanover and Union\\nStreets. Before the streets\\nweri numbered, and wliile\\ntli(. liuildings wei-e scat-\\ntered, it was the universal\\ncustom among tlu inhab-\\nitants to designate their\\niud llie Heait and Crown,\\nBrazen Head in Cornhill,\\nTHE lU.I K BALL.\\nshops by some elllblem. I hus wi\\nThree Nuns and a Coml), and\\nThree Doves in ]\\\\Iarlborough Stnset, Tun and Bacchus\\nand Three Sugar Loaves and Canister in King Street. This\\nlast was thus distinguished from the Two Sugar Loaves\\nin Cornliill", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "FliOM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 147\\nSICN OF TIIREK DOVES.\\nOft the peasant with inqiiiiiiig face,\\nBewildered, trudges on from place to place\\nHe dwells on every sign with stujiid gaze.\\nEnters the narrow alley s doubtful nuize,\\nTries every winding court and street in vain,\\nAnd doubles o er his weary steps again.\\nThe old house was quite small and of two stories, to whi(, h\\na third was added in later tiuies. It Avas\\npartially destroyed by lire in 1858, and\\nin the same year the city took the build-\\ning to widen Union Street. When the\\nwidening of Hanover Street took place,\\nthe old site was partially taken for tliat\\nstreet. In the same way, l)y the plan of\\ncutting off wholly from one side of the\\nstreet, a number of ipiite noted landmarks\\ndisappeared. It was the intention of tlu;\\nowners to have removed the Franklin\\nbuilding to another location, but it was\\nfound impracticable. Two relics of it are, however, preserved.\\nThe Blue Ball came into the possession of General Ebenezer\\nW. Stone of Boston, and from the original timbers was made\\na chair which was presented to the Mechanic Cliaritablc\\nAssociation.\\nThere are two original portraits of Franklin in the Public\\nLibrary, \u00e2\u0080\u0094one by Duplessis, presented by Hon. Fdward\\nBrooks; the otiier by Greuze, presented l)y Gardner Brewer.\\nMidway between Elm anel Union Streets once stood the\\nchurch of Dr. Lyman Beeclier, the eminent divine, fatlier of\\nHenry Ward Beecher. The church was erected in 1S2G, and\\nconsumed by fire on the night of the 31st December, 1829.\\nReport says, a quantity of licjuor was found liy the firemen in\\nthe cellar. It was built of rough granite, had a central tower,\\nand in general appearance was not unlike the old Brattle Street.\\nAfter the destruction of their house, the society united in build-\\ning the church in Bowdoin Street, which was completed in\\nJune, 1831. Dr. Beecher was the first pastor, having been set-\\ntled in March, 1826, but in 1832 he removed to Cincinnati-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "148 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ni lic, .siiriciy was; oi i;4inally formed from memliei-sof Park Street,\\nthe Old South, and Uiiioji Churclies.\\nThe Hanover invreh stood on the sitr of Benjamin Hallow-\\nell s old resilience, which was ransacked by the same nioh that\\npillaged Lieutenant! lovernor Hutchinson s house in ^Vugust,\\n1765. Mr. llallowcll was a comptroller of customs, and as\\nsuch, regarded with sjtecial hatred by the populace. The moh\\ndestroyed (\u00c2\u00bbr carried olf everything of value, including a small\\nsum of silver. Hallowell then removed to an elegant mansion\\nat Jamaica Plain, which was id terwanls conHscated. One of\\nhis sons, P. arew, hecame a, distinguished Ih itish admiral.\\nHon. dolin oliin Jones also livi d on the Hallowell estate,\\najitaiii Henry Prentiss, a, Pevolutionary soldier and one of\\nthe Tea Party, lived also on this spot. He was a distinguished\\nmei chant and shiji-tiwner.\\nThe Jreen 1 )ragon Tavern in Union Sti eet was the greatest\\ncelelirity among all tlie ild Poston hostelries. It stood facing\\ntowards the street, on a little alley running from Union Street\\naround hy th(^ rear, hut hy the increased width of tlie street\\nthe site now ahuts upon it, and is marked l\u00c2\u00bby a. freestone taiih^t\\nset in the wall with a dragon s(;ulpt-ured upon it in lias ivlief\\nThis was the sign of the old tavern, wliich was on the west\\nside of Union, a sh(\u00c2\u00bbrt distance from Hanover Street. In early\\ntimes it was the property of Lieutenaid.-(iovernor Stoughton,\\nand was used as a hospital during the Pevoluti ui. It was a\\ntwo-story brick building with piti li roof From above the en-\\ntrance. ])i oje(^ted an iron rod on which was crouclieil the fabled\\nmonster of an(ii|uity.\\nilliam Stoughton, Lieuti naiit-dovernor from \\\\C)[)2 to his\\ndeath in 1701, was one of the Council of Safety wdiich\\ndeposed Andros. As Jiief Justice of the Court lie has\\nac.ipiired a fearful celebrity in connection with the witchcraft\\ntrials.\\nW(! have seen that Warren, John Adams, TIeverc, and Otis\\nwere neighbors. The former was the hrst (!i an l IMaster of the\\nlirst (iraiid Lodge of ^lasons who held their meetings in the\\nMany lliiiik tlic tablet iiu drrcctly placed.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 149\\nGreen Dragon. The rest of the patriots came here to plan or\\nto confer. How nuicli treason was hatched under tliis roof\\nwill never be known, but much was unquestionably concocted\\nwithin the walls of the masonic lodge. It is upon their reccn-d\\nthat they adjourned on account of the memorable Tea I arty,\\nfor which they furnished no inconsideraljle number.\\nPaul Revere says In the fall of 1774 and winter of 1775\\nI was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed\\nourselves into a committee for the purpose of wat(;hing the\\nmovements of the British soldiers and gaining every intelli-\\ngence of the movements of the tories. We held our meetings\\nat the Green Dragon Tavern. This committee were astt)nished\\nto find all their secrets known to General Gage, although every\\ntime they met, every member swore not to reveal any of their\\ntransactions except to Hancock, Adams, Warren, Otis, Church,\\nand one or two more. The traitor proved to be Dr. Church,\\nwho was afterwards arrested for treasonable correspondence\\nwith tlie enemy.\\nThe early meetings of the Massachusetts Cliaritable Associa-\\ntion, organized in 1795, Avere held here and at Concert Hall.\\nIt was always a favorite resort for the mechanics of the North\\nEnd. When the convention was sitting which was to consider\\nthe adoption of the Federal Constitution, a great mass meeting\\nof Boston mechanics assendjled in the Green Dragon, which\\ngave so emphatic an expression in fiivor of its acceptance that\\nSamuel Adams said, If they M^aut it, they must have it.\\nOne of the old customs long observed in Boston was the\\ncelebration of Pope Day, as November 5th, the anniversary of\\nthe Gunpowder Plot, was called. A bitter animosity existed\\nbetween the North and South Enders, whose line of demarca-\\ntion was the Mill Bridge on Hanover Street. Each section had\\nits procession and its pope, and when the rival parties met, a\\nbattle ensued with fists, sticks, and stones, and one or the other\\nof the popes was captured. The North End pope was never,\\nit is said, taken but once.\\nPope Day was a saturnalia. A stage was erected on wlieels,\\non which was placed a figure of the pope seated in a chair.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "inO LANDMARKS OF liOSTOX.\\nPx liind tliis was a feinalo scarecrow calkul Nancy Dawson, with\\neffigies of Admiral Byng and tlic Devil lianging from a gallows.\\nMuch ill-blood arose from these conflicts, the effects of which\\nremained until the anniversary came round again. Govern(n\\nHancock, consitlering this IVxilisli rivalry })rejudicial to tlie ])a-\\ntriot cause, used every ell ort to sid)due it, but without eifect.\\nHe at last gave a supper at tlu^ Jreen Dragon Tavern, wliich\\ncost him 1,000, to wliicli lie invited all tlie leading men of\\nboth ])artics, and invoked them in an eloquent speech to lay\\naside tlicir animosity for Ihcir country s sake. Tlie appeal was\\nsuccessful, and the rival parties shook hands before tliey sepa-\\nrated. From tliat time Pope Day ceased to agitate the warring\\niactioiis.\\nTile Ircen Dragon, also known as the Freemason s Arms,\\nis specially notc(l in tlie annals of Masonry in Boston. It was\\npmchas(Ml by St. AndicAv s liodge before the Revolution, and\\nremained iu their possession more than a century. The lodge\\nwas organize(l under a charter from tlie Grand Lodge of Scot-\\nland in 1750, and was chiefly composed of n^sidents of the\\nNorth Enil. There were several lodges in tlie P ritish regi-\\nments that landed in Boston in 17G8 and 1774, and St. An-\\ndrew s Lodge united with them in organizing a Grand Lodge.\\nThe first Lodge of Freemasons met in Boston July 30, 1733.\\nIt Avas the iirst in the Colonies, receiving authority from Lord\\nMontague, Grand Master of England. Daniel Welxster styled\\nth(^ (ireeu Dragon the Headipiarters of the llevolution, a name\\nto which it has an undoubted claim. In the (Jreen Dragon the\\nSaiidemanians held their first meetings in America. In later\\ntiiui s it was kept by Daniel Simpson, the veteran musician.\\nOn the corner where once stood the Baptist Church building\\nwas formerly a Ijrewery.\\nThe Mill Pond, or-Cove, mentioned in the Introduction, once\\ncovered all the tract embraced within North and South Margin\\nStreets, being divided from the sea on the northwest by the\\nCauseway, now Causeway Street. The station-house of the\\nBoston and Maine Railroad stood in the midst of this Mill\\nGeneral Suiiiia r s llt iuiiiisccuces.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 151\\nl-lHsr HAI TIST CHURCH IN 1803.\\n1*011.1, until with \\\\]\\\\o T.dwcll, Kastern, and Filclilnivgit took a site\\nlieyoiul the Causeway rescued from tlie sea. The high ground\\nsloping away from Green antl Leverett Streets once marked the\\nboundary of the Cove in that direction, wliilst tlie eastern mar-\\ngin, reaching to Distiil-house\\nSquare, included all of IFaymar-\\nket Square. On the northern\\nshore the water covered Kndicott\\nStreet, reaching to Prince, lielow\\nThacher, and penetrated to tlie\\nrear of l aldwin Place, almost to\\nSaleni Street. When the Second\\nBaptist (Jhureh was situated in\\nBaldwin Place, candidates tor\\nbaptism were immersed in the\\nrear of the church. Before En-\\ndicott Street was laid out, aliout\\n183G, over a part of what was\\nknown as the Old Way, I rince Stntet was the thoroughf\\\\ire\\nto Charlestown. The Mill l*ond thus embraced an area as large\\nas the Common.\\nThe origin of the Causeway was in a footpath of the Indians\\nover a more elevated part of the marsh. One Mr. Crabtree\\nraised and wideiie(l this primitive path into a dam to retain the\\nwaters of the pond.\\nIn 1643 the town granted Henry SiiiKUis and others a tract,\\nincluding the Mill Pond and ilats west of the Causeway, on\\ncondition of their l)uilding one or more corn-mills, and bridging\\nthe j\\\\Iill Cvcx k at Hanover and North Stnn ts. INIills wtMV ac-\\ncordingly erected at the west end of th cri ek calle l the South\\nIVIills, and at either end of the C.auscnvay. The North Mills\\nstood very near the junction of Thacher and Endicott Streets.\\nThese were a grist-mill and a saw-mill a chocolate-mill stood\\nat a little distance beyond in after times.\\nIn 1804 the grant came into possession of the Mill Pond\\nCorporation. The town in 1807 released the original obliga-\\ntion to maintain the mills and bridy.es forever, and the work of", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "152 LANDMAIiKS OF BOSTON.\\nlilliii^f fonimenced, Copp s ami IJeacon Hills I uriii.sliing the ma-\\nterial I or this purpose. The jjrocess of lilliug occupied tAveiity-\\nfive years before it was fully completed, aud during that time\\nthe Mill Pond was the receptacle for all the rubbish fi om the\\nstreets.\\nThe Mill Creek, whose outlet into the Tdwn Dock has Ijeen\\ntraced, was doul)tless in some form an original feature of the\\npeninsula. Tlie want of an early ma}) is keenly felt in any\\neffort to establish the structure of the original surface. Win-\\nthro}) says, the north part of the town was se})arated from the\\nrest by fi narrow stream which was cut through a neck of land\\nby industry. Hanover Street was this neck, and all noith of\\nthe creek was an island known in tiiues past as the Island of\\nBoston. An order of the court in 1031, levying 30 on the\\nseveral })lantations for clearing a ci cck and opening a passage to\\nthe new town, supports the view that a small water-course\\nexisted here which linally l:)ecame a means of communication\\nbtdwccn the Town Dock and Mill ove.\\nThe crtsek, at first furnishing a sui)i)ly of water for the tide\\nmills, became in jtrocess of tune a canal, Avith Avails of stone,\\nwide and deep enough to permit the passage of boats and even\\nsloops from the harbor on the east to the river on the Avest. As\\nsuch, it was an extension of the INIiddlescx anal, incor])orated\\nin 1793, and of Avhich Loammi Baldwin was engineer. The\\nboats entered the canal at Chelmsford on the Merrimack, and\\npassed on to the wharves on the east side of lioston, a distance\\nof thirty miles. lUackstone Street, named from the founder of\\nBoston, is built ujjou the bed of the canal.\\nThe olil Mill Bridge throAvn over Hanover Street Avas rebuilt\\nin 1G8G Avas taken uj) in 1793 ami ivplaced by a stone arch\\nOA er whicli the pavement Avas continued. At North Street\\nAvhere the creek crossed Avas a drawbridge, from viiich this\\nstrec^t was sometimes called Drawbridge Street. The })assage\\nof vessels being discontinued, the creek, Avliich had an aAcrage\\nAvidth of twenty feet, was planked over here.\\nThe North Eml Avas l)ut tliive stivels wide in older times.\\nThese M ere Noith, Hanover, and Salem Stieets. The foruier.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 153\\nbesides a luimber of aliases already given, was known along its\\neourso first as the Fore, or Front Street, and also as Anne, Fish,\\nand 81iip Street. Hanover was Middle Street from the Mill\\nCreek to Bennet Street, beyond which it was North Street.\\nSalem was called Back Street as far as Prince, and at one\\nperiod Green Lane. All these retain their original names in\\npart, except North, which has ever enjoyed a rejmtation not\\ninferior to the Seven Dials of London or Five Points of New\\nYork. Crowded at one time through its entire length with\\nbrothels and low dram-shops, Anne Street took a new name\\nbefore its character was improvcul.\\nAnd on tlie luokcn pavonipnt, hen- and there,\\nDotli many a stiid ing sprat and herring lie\\nA brandy and tohacx^o sliop is near.\\nAnd hens, and dogs, and hogs are feeding by,\\nAnd here a sailor s jacket hangs to dry.\\nAt every hjor are sunburnt matrons seen,\\nMending old nets to cateli the scaly fry\\nNow singing shrill, and scohling eft between\\nScolds answer foul-mouthed scolds bad neighborhood, I ween.\\nLaid out along tlic original water-front, wharves extended\\nfrom Anut^ Street into tlie harl)or. Over these Commercial\\nStreet since extended. In colonial times Anne Street bore a\\nbetter reputation, and many of tlie magnates of the town found\\ntheir residence in it. It was widened in 1859 and greatly\\nimproved, and is now for the most part devoted to business\\npurposes.\\nAt the lower corner of North and Centre Streets, formerly\\ncalled Paddy s Alley, stands an old two-story brick house.\\nThe front wall has apjjarently been rebuilt, but the remainder\\nof the structiu-e bears the genuine stamp of antiquity. This\\nwas the home of Sir David Ochterlony, Bart., sou of a royal-\\nist, and a Bostonian l)y birth.\\nIt was not those alone who served under their country s flag\\ntliat gained celebrity during the Revolutionary War. Among\\nthose who entered the British service were seven young Bosto-\\nnians, who arrayed themselves against their native land, and\\nfinally Ijecame generals or admirals in that service. Their\\n7*", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "ir)4 LANDMARKS OF liOSTOX.\\niiaincs ruv Jciicnil Joliii CuHiii, riidinas Aston dlliii, Eart.,\\nI ()-vr Hal. Slicatl is llart., Admiral Sir Isaac ntliiu n-noral\\nllu.^h McKay Gordon, 15. llallowidl, and Sir David Oclitcrloiiy.\\nThe latter, before whose home we are pausing, was a Latin-\\nSchool hoy, went to India at eighteen, served in tlu! Indian\\nwai s, and was at the great coidlict of Delhi. For his services\\nin India Ochterlouy was made a major-general in ISl 1 and\\nharonct in the year following. The name indicates his Scotch\\noi iuin. I ldike his famous comi)anions. Sir David did not find\\nhiniscll cnniiiidlfd to serve against his countrymen.\\nAt a little distance tVom this corner we tind in Centre Street\\nthe iild hriik stidile of the Eastern Stage-House, the headquar-\\nters for many years of stages hound to Portland and the east-\\nward, it was kept 1)y olonel Ephraim Wildes, and ranked\\nwith Earl s, Doolittle s, and other princi[)al rendezvous of this\\nkind.\\nThe entrance on North Street was hy a large arch, through\\nwhich you passed into a court-yard of large area. Descending\\nfrom the coaeh you entered the main huilding by a flight of\\nsteps, where good cheer and hearty welcome always awaited the\\ntire(l tra\\\\ ellci\\nCross Stieet, in 1708, extended from the jNTill T^ond to the\\nsea,. At- the corner of Anne was the ross TaA ern its name\\nwas, like Middle and Uack, ilesc.riptive. It was an im[tortant\\nthnrou^hlare in firmer times, but is chiefly interesting to the\\naiiti(|uaiian on account of the )ld Sfnue House that stood be-\\ntween I lanover an l North, about midway on the east side. The\\ninterest which attached to it was chieily on account of its age,\\ntli(iuu,ii coiijci ture has assigne(l in it the uses of a, jail and gar-\\nlisuii Imuse under the old cdloiiy. It was built of rough stone,\\nwit:h tJie large brick chimneys on tlu^ outside, and stood f r\\nabout twii Inindred yeaivs. It was very early described as the\\nStmie Iliiuse of Deacon .bill n Philli|)S in the cross street.\\nTradition has ascribed t(i it, the lirst ]ilace of meeting of the\\ntiiwn ovei seers, and I embcrtim vouches ibr thi linding of looji-\\nhiiles in the walls while it- was uiidei re]iair. None of these\\n!arrison houses, so commonly erectcil in the s ;attered villages", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH I .ATTEItV. 155\\nfor defence against the Indian foe, are known to liave been Iniilt\\nin Boston. The Old Stone House was removed in 1864, and\\na part wont to make the foundation of an East Boston church.\\nSavage s Police Kecord gives the following description of the\\nOld Stone House, which he says, at first consisted of two\\nwings of uniform size joining each otlun* and forming a right\\nangle. Each wing was forty feet h ng, twenty feet wide, ami\\ntwo stories liigh, the wings fronting the soutli and west. There\\nwas one door in tlie end nf each wing on tlx^ lirst story, and a\\nsingle cii cular window in the scconil story over the doors there\\nwere also two circular windows in each story of ea(;h wing in\\nfront, hut neither door nor window in either wing in the rear.\\nThe foundation walls were four feet thick or mon^ tlu^ walls\\nabove ground were two feet in tliickiu ss, and l)uilt entirely of\\nsmall quarricnl stones, unlike anything to be seen in this neigh-\\nborhood, and were prol)alily lu ought. as ballast from some part\\nof Europe.\\nPassing the Hid lIan(;ock School, now a polic-e-statioii, and\\nBoard Alley, so narrow a drunken man could not fall to the\\nright or left, we arrive at Richmond Strec^t, formerly IJridge\\nLane, and according to some authorities the old Beer Lane.\\nThe New Brick or Cockerel Ohurch Avas hrst l\u00c2\u00bbuilt on\\nthis spot in 1721, and originally came out of the New North\\nClmrch. The figure of tlie cock was placed ui)on the first vane\\nin derision of Eev. Mr. Thacher, wdu)se Christian nauu^ was\\nPeter. A fierce controvcn-sy at the ordination of i\\\\lr. Thacher\\nas pastor of the New North hurch caused the division Avhich\\nled to the formation of the society of the New Bri(;k. Pr.\\nEliot says, that when the cock was placeil upon the sjiindle,\\na merry fellow stradilled over it and crowed three times to com-\\nplete the ceremony. Tins church W(Uit l)y the name of the\\nRevenge Churcli, until Dr. Lathrop took charge and healed\\nthe breach wdth the parent church.\\nThe New Brick, a name given to distinguish it from the Old\\nBrick in Cornhill, originally fronted u[)oii Hanover Street, l)ut\\nnow stands sidewise upon that street and facing towards Rich-\\nmond. It is one of the very few church buildings occuiiying", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "5(1\\nLANDMARKS (\u00c2\u00bbF BOSTON.\\ntheir original sites. In IS+H it w.as rol)uilt of brown stone, and\\npnlled down in 1871 during the widening of Hanover Htreet-\\nThe historic rooster is seen on I aul Kevere s picture of 17G8.\\nIt is now, after having hreastod tlic storms of a century and a\\nthird, adorning the spire of a Cambridge church.\\nPassing through Richmond to Nortli Street, we find ourselves\\nin a region where even that veteran anticpiary, Jonathan Old-\\nbuck, Wdidd liave felt at Imme\\nWliere wiinliii.u alleys It-ad tlie dmilitful way\\nTlie silent onmt ami Djieiiing S([uare exjJore,\\nAnd Icmi; iit-riilrxiiii; lanes iintn.id liel ore.\\nAt our left hanil the ground i-is(\\\\s iowai ds tlie triangular en-\\nclosure known as North S(piare. In iVoiit of us, on tlie north-\\ncast corner of North anil Kich-\\nnioiid, is a lirick Imilding to which\\ntradition has long attached the im-\\n]Hiitance of standing on the site of\\nthe lirst Colonial Custom House,\\nunder Edward IJandoljjli and his\\nsuccessors, f^idence is wanted to\\nsupport this sfatenieiit, an ini-\\npoiiaiiioiic in the investigation of\\ntill old landmarks; but the tra-\\ndition is liiinly lixed in tlie minds\\nof old residents of the North End,\\nand is generally credited. When\\nthe old liuilding Avas taken down,\\nabout twenty years ago, many a pilgrimage was made to it and\\nthe wish expressed that its walls could speak.\\nRandolph was Collector in 1G81, but tin; Bostoneers, as\\nUutchinson calls them, refused to recognize his office. He had\\nliceii ajipointed Collector, Surveyor, and Searcher in New\\ni lngland. His authority was treated with contempt by (lover-\\nnor l.eveivtt, who sat with his hat on while the King s letter\\nif appointment was l)eing leail bejorc the ouiicil. His jmblic;\\nnotiticatioii of the estalilishmeiit of his otlici posted at the Town\\nHouse was torn down ly an olHcer of the (jourt. In IG81*,\\nNKW BRICK CHURCH.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 157\\nfearing they had gone too far in resistance to the King s com-\\nmands, the Court estabhshed a Custom House, but the loss of\\nthe olonial Charter soon followed.\\nThe removal of the papers belonging to this department at\\nthe evacuation of Boston leaves few materials wherewith to\\nestablisli its history, and these are connected by imperfect links.\\nThe old building was long known as tlie lied Lyon Inn,\\nprominent among the early North End taverns. The tablet in\\nthe front of tlie building bears the initials of tlie Wadsworths,\\nformer ])roprietors. Tlie old lied Lyon gave its name to\\nUjishall s wharf below, wliich l\u00c2\u00bbecaii)e lied Lyon Wliarf The\\nordinary itself was one of the oLk st, ami was kept by JVicholas\\nUpshall i)robably as early as 1654, when lie liad a nimiber of\\nsoldiers billeted upon him, and certainly in KiliG. lie was one\\nof the iirst to feel the rigor of the persecution of tlie (,)uakers.\\nHe was banished, impiisoned, and at length in his old age died\\na martyr to the faith which, amid all his suli erings and hard-\\nships, he seems stoutly to have upheld. He was in Boston as\\nearly as 1G37, and then owner of all the property on the north-\\neast side of liiclimond Street from Hanover Street to the water.\\nHis hrst banishment was for an attempt to bribe the keeper of\\nBoston jail to give food to two starving Quaker women in his\\ncharge, ll^pshall was one of the first members of the Ancient\\nand Honorable Artillery (Company his remains lie in Copp s\\nHill Cemetery, and his friends the Quakers were not forgotten\\nin his will.\\nAs little as North Square is known to the present generation,\\nfew localities can surpass it in the interest whida attaches to the\\nhistoric personages who have dwelt within its confined area.\\nBut our readers shall jiulge as we })roceed.\\nStanding before an entrance still narrow, all old residents\\nof the Niu th End well remember that the original oi)ening was\\nonce even more cramped than now, and scarce permitted the\\npassage of a vehicle. The point made by North Street reached\\nconsiderably beyond the present curbstone some distance into\\nthe street, both sides of which were cut oil when the widening\\ntook place. This headland of brick and mortar, jutting out", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "158 LANDMARKS OF IIOSTOX.\\ninto old Fish Street as u Inilwark to protect the aristocratic\\nresidents of the sijuare, was long known as Mountfort s Cor-\\nner, tV ini the family owning and occnpying it. It was the\\nestaljlished custom of those early times to hx the limits of the\\nstreets from corner to corner. Thus Fisli Street is descrilted in\\n1708 as from Mountjoy s corner, lower end of Cross Street,\\nnortherly to tht; sign of the Swan, hy Scarlett s AVharf\\nOpjiosite to us, reached by a little alley from the street, Avas\\nthe residence of Dr. Snow, the historian of Boston. Where\\nwe stand, a narrow jiassage opens at our left hand, through\\nwhich, l)eyonil the crazy tenements, one might pass out to\\ntlic Second Church. Thro\\\\igh this passage Governor Ilutcliiii-\\nson is said to have passed from his residence to the old church,\\na door having heen constructed in the rear of that edilice ex-\\npressly for his excellency s convenience.\\nFronting the street an l hounding upon tliis alley Avas tlie\\nresidence of Francis Shaw, father of Samuel Shaw, the llevo-\\nlutionary soldier, and grandfather of Eohert G. Shaw, the\\nAvealthy merchant and philanthropist. In this house were the\\n(piarters of the old Major of Marines Pitcairn, and Lieutenant\\nWragg of the same corps. Troops were scattered in detach-\\nments tliroughout the North End, a cordon extending from the\\nworks on Copp s Hill t tlu South Battery. North S(pia-re was\\nthe ren(h /,vous for those neai est tlie liattery, and ]*itcairn\\nappears to have heen intrusted with tlie supervision of his\\n(piarter.\\nYoung Shaw, who hecame a major in the Continental army,\\n.served in the lievolution from the heginning to its close, lirst\\nas a lieut(Miant in Knox s artillery, rising hy successive grades\\nto Ije a captain of artillery in 1780. lie was secretary of the\\nofficers who forme(l the Society of tlie Cincinnati, major and\\naide-de-camp to General Knox, his old commander, at the\\npeace, and was ap])ointed hy him to a post in his bureau when\\nsecr(}tary-at-war. In 1794 Major Shaw received an appointment\\nas consul to hina ii om Wasliington, and sailed fur that country\\nin the lirst American ship tliat ever set sail for those sliores.\\nOn tliis voyage he died, and his epitaph may be seen on the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 159\\nfamily monunieiit in Cupp s Hill. The company uf artillery\\nattached to the Boston regiment gave to the Continental ser-\\nvice upwards of forty young men, UKJst of whom became dis-\\ntinguished olhcers of that arm.\\nA tradition is preserved that Wragg, the lieutenant of ma-\\nrines, one day made some remark at the family board dispar-\\naging the rebels, wliereupon he was challenged l)y young\\nSamuel Shaw. The interposition of Titcairn, it is said, pre-\\nvented a hostile meeting.\\nProceeding up the square, which still preserved its cobble-\\nstone pavement, we first passed a ruinous wooden building\\nsaid to have been once in the family of Commodore Downes,\\nand come to another somewhat fresher specimen of the same\\norder. This was the luil)itation of Paul lievere, and his prob-\\nable birth[)lace. From this house he gave the strikiiig exhi-\\nbition of transparencies on the evening of the anniversary of\\nthe IMassacre. We have found Kevere at his shop in Coridiill,\\nand briefly alluded to his engraving on co[)per, his first efforts\\nhaving been on silver plate. He also engraved the plates,\\nmaile the press, and printed tlie paper money for the Provincial\\nCongress at Watcrtown. The house has not altered in appear-\\nance in fifty years.\\nOn the other side of the square stood tlie old Town Punq),\\nin front of the former Naval Rendezvous. One of the old\\ntown watch-houses was near at hand.\\nAmong the older families resident here were the Holyokes.\\nTlie father of the celebrated President of Harvard was a re-\\nspectable soap-boiler.\\nNowhere in Boston has Father Time wrought such ruth-\\nless changes, as in this once highly respectable quarter, now\\nswarming with Italians in every dirty nook and corner. In\\ntruth, it is hard to believe the evidence of our own senses,\\nthough the fumes of garlic are sufficiently convincing. Past\\nand Present confront each other here with a stare of blank\\namazement, in the huml)le Revere homestead, on one side,\\nand the pretentious Hotel Italy on the other; nor do those\\namong us, who recall something of its vanished prestige, feel", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "IBO LANDMARKS OF P.OSTON.\\nat all at home in a place where our own uiother-tongiie no\\nlon fer serves us.\\nYet this contracted space was once the court end of the\\ntown. It was first called lark s Si(uari from an old resident,\\nand afterwards Frizell s Sipiare. ^Vher(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 miw is a luick block\\nlacing the scpiare Avas Imih- tlic Second hiirch in i xistoii, Ijetter\\nknown as the Old North, i his was the cliureh of the Mathers,\\nSamuel, Increase, oftim, and Samuel the son of Cotton.\\nr uih in lO.^d, it was destroyed liy Ih e in l(i7 and relmilt the\\nnext year. iJoth houses were of wood, and the latter editice\\nwas j)ulled down in the winter of ITTa^TC) for liiel, as were also\\nupwards of a hundred other woinlen huildings. Jeiieral Howe\\nsanctioned the act.\\nDr. Lathrop says: No records of the Old North Church\\nexist for more than a year after the memoralile i Jth of April.\\nAt this time most of the churches in town Avere hroken up, and\\nthe greatest i)art of the inhaliitants went into the country.\\nWhile the pastor and niendiers were dispersed, a number of\\nevil-minded men of the King s party obtained lea\\\\-e of Cxeneral\\nHowe to pidl it down. The society then joined the New\\nBrick, which took the name of the Sec(md (liurch.\\nCotton Mather, tlie son of Increase and grandson of John\\nCotton, is regarded as the most celelirated of the J*oston clergy.\\nA Bostonian by birth, h(( graduated with honor at Harvard,\\nand was a scholar of high attainments. jNlather was a ]irolihc\\nauthor, and his numerous works are \\\\alualile contiibutions to\\nthe early history of New England. He was a liiiii believer in\\nwitchcraft, and his name is identiiied with the peisecution of\\nth(^ unfortunates who fell under the lian of suspicion.\\nSamuel and Increase Mather were sons of K ev. Richard\\nMather, who was settled in 1 torchester in 1 Both were\\nmen of learning and high consideration. Increase reeeived the\\ntirst degree (if D.I), coid erred in America. He went to Eng-\\nland as agent of the colony, and returned in KJDl with thft\\nnew charter. Uidike his son, he did not jmrsue tiie witrhcraft\\ndelusion, which desolated .so many homes and left an indelible\\nblot upon our history.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 161\\nCotton Mather lived on Hanover Street, in a house built by\\nCaptain Turell. It was not far from the Cockerel (Jhurch on\\nthe o^jposite side of the street, and was afterwards occupied by\\nMaster Harris of the North (Jrammar School. Samuel Mather\\nlived on the east side of Moon Street, about midway from Sun\\nCourt to Fleet Street, on the corner of wliat was formerly known\\nas IVIoon Street Court. The house was demolished about 18.32,\\nand a tobacco warehouse erected on the site, which liecame\\nafterwards a Catholic Church. Increase Mather lived on North\\nStreet, near Clark, in a house afterwards used as a seamen s\\nboarding-house.\\nDuring the year 1670, when great scarcity prevailed, Dr.\\nIncrease Mather procured from his friends in Dublin a ship-\\nload of i)rovisions. Boston paid this debt of long standing\\nwith interest, when she sent by II. 15. Forl)es a ship laden with\\nfodd for the starving in In^land.\\nThe following version (if tlic humorous })en photographs of\\nthe Boston clergy of 1771 is from Mrs. Crocker s memoir.\\nThere were two distinct prixhictions, which appear somewhat\\nintermixed in the published versions. The lines given here\\nwere the first to appear, and were attributed to Dr. Benjamin\\nChurch. Tliey were the rage of the town\\nOld Matliei- s race will not ilisgiace\\nTheir noble pedigree,\\nAnd Charles OM Brick l,oth well and sick\\nWill plead for liberty.\\nThere s piiffing Pern, f who does condemn\\nAll Freedom s noble sons,\\nAnd Andrew Sly,+ who oft draws nigh\\nTo Tommy skin and bones.\\nIn Brattle Street we seldom meei\\nWith silver-tongued Sam,||\\nWho smoothly glides lietween both sides\\nAnd so escapes a jam.\\nThere s Penuel Puff,1I is hearty enough,\\nAnd so is Simeon Howard\\nAnd Long Lane Teague will join the league\\nAnd never prove a coward.\\nChauncy. Pemlierton. X Eliot. Hutchinson.\\nII Cooper. H Bowen. Moorhead.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "162 LANr):\\\\iAi;KS of bdston.\\nThere s little Hopper,* it you think proper,\\nIn Lilwrty .s cause so hold,\\nAnd Joiiu Old North, h)r little wortli,\\nWon t .sacrifice for .^old.\\nTliere s puny Jolin:]: IVoni North Hampton,\\nA meek mouth moderate man.\\nAnd colleague stout, who, without douljt,\\nIs linkeil in tory ehtn.\\nAc.i di diii^ U) Mrs. rocker, the rf-sidcucc of Saiiuiel Matliei\\nill North S([uarL wa.s Ixiilt liy (/iiptain Keinble, who in KiTo\\nwa.s coiiilciiuu d to .staiul in tho stocks two hour.s for lewd and\\nluuscL iiily conduct in .sahitino- hi.s wife at the step of the door,\\non the 8al)l)atlL day, wlien he lir.st met her after three years\\nuhsence. His danghttT, Mr.s. Sarah Kniglit, kept in the same\\nliouse a sclioo], said to have been tlie lirst writino-scliool in that\\npart of the town, from ITOl till \\\\h V death in 1708. Dr. Mather\\nafterwards occnpie(l tlie same premises. All three of the Mathers\\nare interred in opp s Hill. ]\\\\h s. Crocker, here referred to, was\\na oran hlati;_;hter of Col-ton JNIather. It Avas she \\\\vhom Frank-\\nlin told that lie was liorii at the IJlue Ball in Union Street.\\nn the corner of (iardeii ourt and Prince Streets, formerly\\nllell Alley, was the residenre, of Sir Charles Henry Frank-\\nland, who was Collector of I .oston in 1741 nnder Governor\\nSliirley. He was said to Jiavc lieen removed from this oflice\\nfor inattention to its duties. Sir Charles led a romantic and\\neventful lif(^ On one of his ollicial visits to Marblehead he\\nmet with the lovely Agnes Snrriage, maid-of-all-work at the inn.\\nThe attachment lie conceived for her ap{)ears to have been\\nreturned, though Sir Charles did not otier her marriage.\\nThe old, old story, fair and young.\\nAnd fond, and not too wise,\\nThat matrons tell, with sliar} fned tongue,\\nTo maids witli downcast eyes.\\nSir Charles had a, line estate at Hopkinton, Mass,, Avhere he\\ndelighteil to pass the time with his beautiful companion. Tie-\\nturning to Ivigland, AgiU S was maih^ to fe(d the scorn of her\\nnolih; lover s family, and the pair went to Portugal. They\\nwen; at Lisbon during tlie great earth(piake of November 1,\\nStillman. f [.atlin.p. Hunt. Bacon.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 163\\n1755, in which Sir Charles, wliile riding out, was overwhehned\\nby the falling ruins. The faithful Agnes succeeded in reaching\\nand rescuing the entombed baronet, and carried him bruised\\nand bleeding to their apartments. For this act of heroism the\\npoor INIarblehead girl became Lady Frankland. 81ic survived\\nher lord, and resided, until the l)reaking out of the lievolution,\\nprincipally on the estate at Hopkinton, wlien she returned to\\nEngland. The following lines were addressed to 8ir H. Frank-\\nland on receiving the present of a box of lemons, by S. M.\\n(su})posed to be Samuel Mather), February 20, 1757\\nYou know from Eastern India caiue\\nThe skill of making puncli, as did tlie name\\nAnd as the name consists of letters five,\\nBy five ingredients it is kept alive.\\nTo purest water sugar must be joined,\\nWith these the grateful acid is combined\\nSome any sours they get contented use,\\nBut men of taste do that from Tagus clioose.\\nWhen now these three are mixed with care,\\nThen added be of spirit a small sliare\\nAnd that you may the drink quite perfect see,\\nAtop the musky nut must grated be.\\nThe Fraidvland estate at Hopkinton came into the Rev. Mr.\\nNason s hands, who wrote a most interesting account of its\\nformer possessor. Sir Charles attended King s Cliapel in\\nBoston. The house in which the baronet resided was built by\\nWilliam Clark, iw whom the square and wharf were named.\\nHe was contemporary with the elder Hutchinson, Faneuil,\\nBelcher, and Hancock, who may be said to have controlled\\nin their day the commerce of Boston. He was also a Cotnicil-\\nlor of the Province, and a man of marked distinction in the\\naffairs of the town. Clark, it is said, met with reverses in\\nthe French wars, losing forty sail of vessels, which so impaired\\nhis fortune and depressed his spirits that he died soon after.\\nHe was one of the original attendants at Christ Church, and\\nis buried in Copp s Hill in a tomb on which is blazoned the\\nfamily arms.\\nThe Clark-Frankland house was a monumnnt of human pride.\\nIn all colonial Boston we have not met with its peer, and it was", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "1G4\\nLA.ND.MAiiKS OF BOSTON.\\nSIR II. frankland s iiorsE.\\nwitlinut (Imiltt l)uilt til tiutvic. tliat n[ Tfutcliiiisnn, Clark s\\nwcaltliy iii iglilior. A lirii-k dwelling ui tlircc stdvics was, in\\nitself, a uiii(Hi( featuiv i ov the jicridd in wliii-li it was cmi-\\nstriictt il its solid lirick walls wciv tra\\\\ crsrd liy lidts at each\\nsfa-v. I lic tiers oT wiiidows at citlier end of the iVont wore\\niiai-i-n\\\\ver than ilie dtliers, and (ipened upiui cLisets iliat Wduld\\nha\\\\-e -laildeneil the eyes (if niodei n luaisekeepers and put niod-\\nei-n arehitcetuiv to tjie hlush. idle entrance doov was low, a\\ncdinnidn i anlt in mir old hnilders Imt what was nnnsual, the\\ndilfereiit Hats or stories were Urn feet in the clear. The dormer\\nwinilows in the roof varied enough in forni to hreak the mo-\\nnotony of the outline.\\nloitering hy the front on Jai den Court upon a hall twelve\\nfeet- wide, you Were uslieivd into a. recejition-room, oi- saloon, at\\nthe right of the hall of entrance. (ui walked on a lloor cu-\\nriously inlaid with alternate s(piares ol ])ine and cedar, much\\nafter the fashion in vogue at the present day. E.xactly in the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NOUTII BATTERY. 165\\nmiddle of the floor was a centre-piece of a yard s(|iiaro, on Avliicli\\nthe mechanic had expended his utmost skill. Tlic ])i( c( s nf\\nvariegated wood were heantifully interwoven around a shield\\nhearing the family device, a bar witli three whiti^ swans.\\nThis was before the day of carj)ets, when Aoovh \\\\ye\\\\v kept\\nbrightly polished, even by the poorer classes.\\nThe walls were wainscoted around and divided by wooden\\npilasters into compartments with j)anels, on each of which was\\npainted armorial bearings, landscapes, or ruins. Similar panels\\nin the wainscot were ornamented with various devices. A\\nheavy moulding of wood, suppnrted by the gilded ca|)itals of\\nthe pilasters, enclo.sed the ceiling. One of tlie pamds of tbis\\nroom l)ore an exact resemblance of tlie l)uilding, frum a copy\\nof which our engraving is taken.\\nThe house was similarly finished with wooden pilasters in\\nevery story. Some of the mantels were extpiisitely carved in\\nimitation of fruit and flowers. I liere lias been pi eserveil a\\n[)icture taken from a compartment built expressly fir it into ilie\\nwall, representing two children riclily attired and of a tender\\nage. Conjecture has been l)u.sy as to the autliorship of this\\nreally fine work of art. Tt is evidently antecedent to o]iley,\\nand may have been from the pencil of Smibert. This relic,\\ntogether with others, was in the possession of Kowland Ellis,\\nof this city.\\nAfter the death of the l)aronet, he gave tlie house to the\\nwidowed Lady Agnes, who reside(l in it I m- a^ tim(^ It ulti-\\nmately came into possession of the Ellis family, during whose\\noccupancy the entrance was somewhat enlarged, and the old\\nwooden fence replaced by one of iron. The native hue of the\\nbrick had been improved upon Avith yellow paint. The con-\\nversion of old Bell Alhiy into an extension of Prince Street\\ncut off a considerable portion of the building, and it was taken\\ndown. Mr. Coo})er, the novelist, visited the Erankland house\\nand examined it miiuitely Ix fore he wrote Liomd Lincoln, in\\nwhich the house is described as the residence of jNIrs. Lechmere\\nand located in Tremorit Street. Mr. Cooper talks about the\\nsalient lions of the tesselateil floor, into wluch a fertile im-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "1G6 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTOxV.\\nagination converted tlie peaceful swans of the Clarks. It\\nshould be observed that the eoat of arms in Co])p s Hill bears\\na leafless branch, and is (itherwise ditierent from tlie escutcheon\\nof the floor.\\nEedford Webster, an old oston apothecary, and fatlier of\\nJohn White Webster, the slayer (if Dr. Parkman, also liv( (l in\\nthe house we have been describing.\\nNext to Sir Charles Frankland, on iarden Court, resided\\nThomas Hutchinson. Under his administi ation, as lieutenant-\\ngovernor anil governor, were enacted the most turlndent scenes\\nthat i rece(led the Ilevolution. I*} birth a IJo.stonian, his love\\nfor office led him at length into a position of antagonism with\\nhis countryman. iJancroft descril)es him as sordid and ava-\\nricious, smuggling goods and usiiig every means to put money\\nin his purse. By his townsmen he was nicknamed .Stingy\\nToinmy. He held at one time the offices of lieutenant-gover-\\nnor, mendier of the Council, connnander of the castle, judge of\\nprobate, ami cliiff justice of the Supreme Court. Dr. Franklin,\\nin 177 2, obtaine l possession iu England of some of Hutchinson s\\nconfldcntial letters, wliicli he forwarded to this country. They\\nshowed tliat Hutchinson had advocated the most repressive\\nmeasures by tlie home government.\\nOn the night of the 2Gth of August, 1705, during the Stamj)\\nAct troubles, the. mob attackeil and sacked tlie governor s ele-\\ngant mansion, d stroying liis lurniture, drinking his wine, and\\nseattering the siiveis fai- and wide with the (fe/ ris. The gover-\\nnor and r;iiiiily escapi d personal violence, l)ut an iri eparable\\ninjury ociinivd in the destruction of the valualile library and\\nmanuscripis, fir Hutcliiiison was a man ol literary tastes and\\ns(-holarly attainments. Hutchinson at lirst took refuge with\\nliis sister at the house of J)r. Sanuiel Mather in Moon Street.\\nI lie mol ]io\\\\ve\\\\-er, demanded his person, and he was coiupelled\\nto reticat l y a liack way to the house of Tliomas Edes, a baker,\\n.uuide l by little Ilannali Matber, as she herself relates. Here\\nhe remained during the ni,!;]it, returning to his brother s house\\nto lireakiast-. The next day he was compelled to open court\\nwithout g(j\\\\vn (jr wig, both having Ijeen destroyed by the mob.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NOUTH BATTERY, 167\\nThe Massacre increased his unjiopnlarity, although lie appeared\\non the scene and censured the unauthorized and iUtal action of\\nCaptain Preston. The destruction of the tea in December,\\n1773, was followed in a few months by the governor s depar-\\nture for England, where he died.\\nThe governor s mansion-house has been minutely described\\nby Lydia Maria Child in the Rebels. The house was of\\nbrick, paintetl a neutral tint, and was ornamented in front with\\nfour Corinthian pilasters. One of the capitals of these is now\\nin the Historical Library. The crown of Britain surmounted\\neach window. The hall of entrance displayed a spacious arch,\\nfrom the roof of which a dimly lighted lamp gave a rich twi-\\nlight view. The finely carved and gilded arch in massy mag-\\nnificence was most tastefidly ornamented with busts and statues.\\nThe light streamed full on the soul-beaming countenance of\\nCicero, and playfidly flickered on the brow of Tulliola. The\\npanelling of the parlor was of the; dark, richly shaded mahog-\\nany of St. Domingo, and ornamented with tli( saim; elaborate\\nskill as the hall just quitted. The l)usts of (leorge III. and\\nhis young (pieen wen; placed in front of a splendid mirror, with\\nbronze lamps on each side covered with beautiful transparencies,\\none representing the destruction of the \u00c2\u00bbS})a-nish Armada, the\\nother giving a fine view of a fieet of I iiic-of battle ships drawn\\nup before the Rock of (Jibraltar. On either side of the room\\nwere arches surmounted with the arms of England. The lilu ary\\nwas hung witJi tapestry, i^epresenting the coronation of Ceorge\\nII., interspersed with the royal arms. The portraits of Anne\\nand the Georges hung in massive frames of antique sjjlendor,\\nand the crowded shelves were surmounted with l)usts of the\\nhouse of Stuart. In the centre of the apartment stood a table\\nof polished oak. The gardens of the old mansion extended\\nback to Hanover and to Fleet Streets. In 1(S34 the building\\nwas taken down, and ceased to be a noted attraction of the\\nNorth End. (lovernor Hutchinson received a pension and was\\nreimbursed for his [lecuniary losses, but died at last, it is said,\\nof a broken heart. On Pope Day Hutchinson s effigy was often\\nexhibited with two faces.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "1G8 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTlie Hutchinson House was built about 1710 by Thomas\\nHutchinson, father of the governor, who was born in it the\\nyear following. The estate was entailed to the male heirs, but\\nwas conliseated and sold for a mere song. The jnemises aft(^r-\\nwards became the property of William Little, at whicdi time\\nMrs. Child visited theni.\\nGeneral John P. Uoyd also lived in the Hutcliinson house.\\nHe had l)een in the si^rvice t)f the native East Indian princes,\\nwith a force raised and ecpiipped by himself. iJeturning to the\\nITnited States, he re-entered the army as colonel of the 4th\\ninfantry, ami connnaiideil at Fort IndepiMidciice when the em-\\nbargX) of 1809 was laid. (General lioytl distinguislied himself\\ngreatly at Tippecanoe, Williamsburg, and Fort George (buing the\\ncampaigns of 1811-13. He was naval officer of lioston in ls; 0.\\nFleet Street, formerly Scarlett s AVharf Lane, is another of\\nthose names by which the liostonians loved to testify thi ir love\\nfor Old London. It is an old street, l)earing this name in 1708.\\nFrom the lower end projected Scarlett s Wharf, now a part of\\nAtlantic Avenue, while from the junction of Fleet and Xoith\\nthe latter anciently t(jok the name of Ship Stre(^t, to its termimis\\nat flattery Wharf, from the ship-yards that linetl its course.\\nThe King s Head, another inn of y ()lden tynie, was at\\nthe northwest corner of FI(M t and North Streets, liy Scarlett s\\nWliarf. It belongs to the tirst- century of tlie settlement was\\nburnt in l(i!)l and reliuilt. dames havenport kept it in 17\\nand his widow in 1758. i he site was long a bake house kept\\nby doseph Austin. This neigld)orhood must bear oil the palm\\nfor iiius, Ijeing, liefore the const iintion of Long Wliaii, the\\nchief commercial centre of Die town.\\nIn North Sipiai e were liai i acks for liritish troops at the time\\nof the battle of Lexington. These troops were mustcre(l in tlie\\ns([uare the night of the ex]M dition, and sentinels, posted at ;dl\\nthe entrances, turned the citizens tVom the s})ot. The jirepara-\\ntions for this aflair were so secretly conducted that Gage hoped\\nhis intentions woulil escape discovery until the lilow was struck.\\niS o changes were made in the disjiosition of the troops, e\\\\ce] t\\nto detach the grenadier (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oiupanies. Lr. Lathroji, the jtastor of", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "FKOM BOSTON STONE TO THE NOltTH BATTERY. 169\\nthe Old Xortli, occupied a wooden building erected on the site\\nof his old church after its demolition, in front of wliich were\\nsome luuulsonie elm-trees destroyed by the gale of 1815.\\nThe Catholic Chapel, which stands on the east side of North\\nSquare, was long the scene of the labors of Father E. T. Tay-\\nlor, the eloquent jM(;thodist preacher. His parishioners were\\nthe sailors tliat found themselves in port for the time being,\\nand hnviiig liiniscH Inlldwcd the sea, Father Tayh r was pecu-\\nliarly liti( (l to preach tii tiic seafaring class. His discourses\\nwere fille(l witli gnqihic ilhistnitions from the language of the\\nocean, and went straight to tlu^ coinj)reh(msion of liis hearers.\\nFrequently he would havi^ his audience wrouglit up to the\\nhighest pitch of excitement by .some grajjhic picture. On one\\noccasion a rough, weather-l)eati!n mariner l)ecame so interested\\nin the preacher s wonderful i)ortrayal of the impending destruc-\\ntion of a gallant vessel, that, forgetful where Iw was, he ex-\\nclaimed, Let go your best bower nothing else will save\\nyou. Father Taylor ([uickly turned the interruption to good\\npurpose. He was chaplain to the frigate sent with supplies to\\nthe famishing Irish, and spoke in Cork and Glasgow. A\\ndaughter married Hon. Thomas Russell, Collector of Boston.\\nFather Taylor lived in the Ijuilding at the corner of Prince\\nStreet, erected on the Frankland estnte.\\nIn 1676, Xovend)er 27, happened the greatest (ire that had\\noccurred in tlu^ tcnvn up to this time. It broke out early in\\nthe morning nc^ar the Tied Lyon, and C(Uisume(l forty-five dwell-\\nings, the Old Nortlr Meeting-House, and several warehouses.\\nThe wind blew with great violenc( carrying flakes of fire across\\nthe river and endangering harlestown. Hu])ltard, in his His-\\ntory of New England, says the fire occurred through the\\ncarelessness of a boy called up to work very early in the morn-\\ning, who falling asleej), as was said, the candle set the house on\\nfii e. A change of wind from southeast to south, with a co-\\npious rain, arrested the flames at last. Increase Mather s dwell-\\ning was burned in this fire, and he then removed to the north\\ncorner of Hanover and North Bennet Streets, afterwards the\\nhome of Ptevs. Andrew Eliot and dolin Eliot.\\n8", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "170 LANDMARKS OP lioSTON.\\nhu k s Wharf, suljs( (|U(_!iitly Hancock s, was the most noted\\nin tlic early history of tlie town, hut was .i;railually rivalled by\\nLon^- Wharf. It now coincides Avith the north side tif Lewis s\\nWharf, although it originally formed no ])art of it. Thomas\\n]Iancock was the principal proprietor in 17G1, owning seven\\neighths, as appears by an original statement of the income for\\nthat year. This wharf formerly oi)ened into Fish, now North\\nStreet, and John Hancock s warehouses were upon it.\\nIn June, 17G8, John Hancock s sloop Liberty arrived from\\nMadeira loaded with wine. As she was l} ing at Hancock s\\nWharf, says Drake s History, Thomas Kirk the tidewaiter came\\non lioard, and was fullowe(l l)y (Ja})tain John ]\\\\Iarshall, who\\ncouiuiaiided Haiicocdc s shi[ the London Pa(d Cet, with live or\\nsix others. These i)ersous conlined Kirk lielow until they had\\nremoved the wine fi om the shij), of which no entry was made\\nat the ustom House. The iiext moining the master of the\\nsloop entered, it is said, a few j)ipes of wine, and made oath it\\nwas all he Ijrought. It was r. solved to seize the vessel, and\\nJoseph Harrison, colleetoi and Leujamiu Ilallowidl, eoiiUjtroller,\\nrei)aireil to the wharf and allixed the liroad arrow. Appre-\\nhensive of the mob wliieli had collectt il on the wharf, the\\nsloop was moored under the guns of the liomney frigate.\\nTlie exasperated people now turned Upon the oflicers, and\\nbeat anil maltreated them s(t that Mr. Harrison was for some\\ntime contined to his lieil, wlnle his son, Kichard Acklom, who\\nwas not resent. in any ollieiai eiipacity, was very roughly used.\\nHallowell and Ir\\\\ing, inspectors, fare(l no better. The mob\\nbroke the windows of Mr. -bihn Williams, inspector-genend,\\nand also those of Mr. llalloweirs house, and linished l)y drag-\\nging the collector s boat U the omnion, where they burnt every\\nfragment of it. The rexcnne ollicers retired after this affair to\\nthe astle, wheiv they remained until the arrival of the troojts\\nin )ct,ober.\\nOn tlie Itli of didy, onnnous day to I .ritish rule, the Jyth\\nI eginieiit: landed at llaiicock s Wharf, and marcheil to the t om-\\nmon and encamped. When the llritish retreated from the\\ntown Miey scuttleil a new siii] of iOO tons then lying at this", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 171\\nwharf, and left behind alxuit 1,000 Inishels of salt and 3,000\\nblankets.\\nOi)posite the head of Hancock s Wharf, which we remind\\nour readers once extended to the present North Street, was\\nthe North End Coffee House kept in 1783 by David Porter, who\\nadvertised that he had taken the Coffee House, where gentle-\\nmen shall be entertained in a genteel manner. This was the\\nfather of David Porter of renown, and gramlfather of the late\\nAdmiral David D. Porter. The elder Porter was himself an\\nold ranger of the main, having commanded the privatc-arnicd\\nvessels Aurora and Delight in the Kevolutionary War. At the,\\npeace he took the Coffee House, located at one of the most im-\\nportant wharves of tlie town, 1)ut soon removed to Baltimore,\\nwhere he engaged in trade. The C(jffee House was occupied in\\n1789 by Robert Wyre, distiller, and was for some time known\\nas the Philadelphia Coffee House. The same house was after-\\nwards the dwelling of Jonathan Amory, and later, of Colonel\\nJohn May. It had, however, a prior importance, having been\\nbuilt and inhabited by Edward Hutchinson, In other of Thomas.\\nDavid Porter, tlie hero of the Essex, was born, it is said, in\\nCliarter Street. He enteretl the navy as midshipman in 17 .)8,\\nand fought his way to a captaincy in 1812. He was in the\\nConstellation when she captured L Insurgente first otiiccr in\\nthat busy little craft the Enterprise l)ef(jre Tripoli of tlu irigate\\nNew York, under Podgers and of the PhiladeliJiin, under Pain-\\nbridge, when he became a ])rison( r for eighteen niontlis. He\\nsailed from New York in the Kssex, thirty-two guns, in July,\\n1812, and soon captured the IJritish sloop Alert of twenty guns,\\ndoing around to the Pacilic; he annihilated the British whale-\\ntishery, and captured the Nocton packet with 1,100, sterling\\non board, without finding a cruiser to molest him. Blockaded\\nby the British ships Phu bi and Cherub in Valparaiso, he at-\\ntempted to get to sea, but losing some of his spars 1)y a sudden\\nsquall, was forced to anchor. Here he maintained a bloody and\\ndetermined resistance until his ship w^is on lire and incapable\\nof fighting, when his flag was hauled down. Porter afterwards\\ncommanded the Mexican navy, and idled the post of minister\\nfrom his native country to Turkey.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "172 LANDMARKS UF UOSTON.\\nReturning through Fleet Street to Hanover, we find that the\\nuse of swinging signs, and carved figures for tlie slio}) fronts or\\nliouses of entertainment is liy no means as unusual as has heen\\nsui)pose l. To he convinced of this, it is oiJy necessary to walk\\nover the district we are describing. Jack is represented in\\nevery conceivahle attitude. We are in no danger of losing our\\nreckoning, for quadrant or sextant are pendent from every cor-\\nnel while a jolly tar with spyglass to his eye forever scans the\\nneighboring shiiiping. Female heads, witli features as weird as\\nthose of the famed lady of the ]lrd Rover, gaze from the en-\\ntrance of some ship artisan, while ligures of Venus, llel e, or\\nMary Ann start forth as il in the act of lea] ing froui the\\npainter s window to the pav(aiient lielow.\\nThe First Universalist Church was at the corner of North\\nBennet and Hanover Streets. It was a, wooden building erected\\nby seceders from the (JM Xorth, with iJev. Sanuu-l lilather for\\ntheir pastor. After the decease of Mather, in 1785, the house\\n])assed by purchase into the hands of the Universalists. The\\nlirst pastor of the society was the Iiev. John INIurray, the father\\nof American Universalism, Avho, it is said, was greeted with a\\nshower of stones when he lirst. attem[ited to })reach in Jloston.\\nWhile the building stood, it was tlie last of* the old wooden\\nchurches, l)ut after ninety-six years of service it was succeeded l)y\\nthe brick edifice luiilt in LS. iS, now a. IJaptist Seaiuen s liethel.\\nTlu^ lu ick chapel, on the north side of North Bennet Street,\\nand oidy a few paces from Hanover, was the second house of\\nworship of the Methodists in Bostun. They lirst occupied a\\nsmall wooden structure in Methodist Alley, now Hanover Ave-\\nnue. The society, which has now such numerical slreiiglh in\\nthe land, had, it is asserted, its beginning among the British\\nsoldiers who ariive(l iu 17GH, a i\\\\ W of whom were INIethodists.\\nIll IT Mr. r oar(lmaii, colleague of Fillmore, the first Metho-\\ndist preacher sent to America l y AVesley. Ibrmed a small society,\\nwhich soon dissolved. In (ictubiT, I 7S4, lU-v. William Black,\\nof Halifax, ])reached in the Saiideiiiaiiian hapel, oii Jhiuovtu\\nnear !ross Street, and in the Second liajitist Church. The\\nbuilding in Methodist Alley was dedicated in May, 179G, and", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "FROiM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY.\\n173\\ncontinued to he used by the society until Septeml )er, 1828,\\nwlien the Nortli Eennet kStreet Chapel was dedicated.\\nA distressing accident occurred at the laying of tlie ((irner-\\nstone of this chapel. The floor gave way under tlic jiressure of\\nthe great munber of people attending the ceremony, and precipi-\\ntated tlio living mass into the cellar licncath. No lives Avere\\nlost, but many received serit)us injuries.\\nThe famous eccentric })reaclier, Lorenzo Dow, occasionally\\npreached in the little church in Methodist Alley. He was ex-\\ntremely theatrical in his manner, but an eflective sjieaker. In\\ntliis small house the preacher miglit almost shake hands with\\nliis liearers in the front seats of the gallery.\\nThe New North Churcli is one of the monuments still pre-\\nserved in the North End. Seventeen substantial mechanics\\nforuKMl the nucleus of this, the\\nSecond Congregational Society\\nin this part of tlie town. In*\\n1714 they erecteil a small\\nWoollen building at the ciirui. r\\nof Clark and Hanover (North)\\nStreets, unassisted by the more\\nAvealthy part of the community\\nexcept liy their ])rayers and good\\nwishes. This house reijuired\\nenlargement, in 1730, to accom-\\nmodate its increasing congrega-\\ntion and in 1802 was superseded\\nliy tlie present edifice. In 1805\\na bell from the foundry of Paul Eevere was placed in the tower.\\nJolui AVebl) was tlie hrst minister, tlie two Mathers assisting at\\nthe ordination. In 1870 tlie church was raised bodily, and\\nmoved back to conform to the increased width of tlie street, it\\nhaving been sold to the Catholics a few years before.\\nThe installation of Rev. Peter Thacher, in 1719, as I\\\\Ir.\\nWebb s colleague, was attempted to be prevented by the minor-\\nity opposed to him, wlio as.sembled at the house of Thomas\\nLee, in Eennet Street, next the Universalist meeting-house,\\nNEW NORTH CHURCH.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "174 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nresolved to resist the progress of the minister and the eouneil\\nwliieli met at Mr. Wehl) s, on the corner of Nortli Bennet and\\n8ah ni Streets. A crowd gatliered and matters looked serious,\\nwhen J\\\\Ir. Welib k ll his party out hy a back way to the church,\\nthus out-manceuvring the rival i action. The liouso of Dr.\\nEliot, of the Xew Nortli, is still standing. It is next but one\\nto the nortli corner of Hanover and Ijcnnet Streets, is of wood,\\nand appears in good preservation.\\nOn the southwest corner of North and lark Streets stooil,\\nwithin thirty years, an ancient brick building, reputed to be\\nover two hundred years old. It was certainly built as early as\\nI60O, and probably dated back a few years anterior. It had\\nl)een line of the oldest inns or (inlinaries in IJosbm, and was\\ncalleil the Ship Tavern. It stood at the head of or opjiosite\\nlark s shipyard, and was kept by John Vyal in 100.3. Vyal s\\nwas a favorite resort of tla^ King s (Jommissioners, who were\\nsent over by harles II., after the restoration, with instruc-\\ntions to visit the New England Colonies, and adjust all\\nmatters of dispute. Colonel Iiichard Nichols, a soldier of\\nTurenne, Colonel George Cartwright, Sir Robert Carr, and\\nSamuel Ma\\\\ erick, the founder of East Boston, composed the\\ncomruission.\\nSir Bobert Carr having assaulted a constable at the Ship\\nTavern, (lovernor Leverett sent a letter recpiesting Sir Bobert\\nto attend at his house to answer the complaint lodged against\\nliiui. arr replied as follows\\nS Vii I ivceyvtMl last iii ^lit in answer to w as I am S Robert\\n;iir I would liave loniplyed w yn dcsyies, but as I am w y Kyng s\\noiumissioii, shal not grant yo re([Uests, Ixitli in respect of his\\nMajestyes honor and my oune duly, and rest yiuu s\\nBoston Jan. 23. l()(i(). Kobeht Carr\\nFor Major ({eiieraf John Leverett, these\\nA second summons to -arr was received with a re|Jy more\\ninsulting in its b lior than the liist, and tlii bellicose commis-\\nsioner seems to have avoided the arrest.\\nAs fir back as Vyal s proprietorship the tavern was known\\nHist, and Aiiti(i. of Boston.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 175\\nas the Xoali s Ark, (li ul)tl( ss fmiii the fancied resemblance\\nof tlie ship on its sign to the Ark of Scripture. Ey this name\\nit was subsequently known until its disappearance in 1 8GG, both\\nin the proprietor s deeds and by common repute.\\nThe old Shi}) Tavern, or Noah s Ark, was probably built liy\\nThomas Hawkins, whose shipyard was below. It Ijecame later\\ntlie property of Tliomas Hutchinson, fether of the governor, and\\nwas given by him to his daughter Hannah, the wife of Ifev.\\nSamuel Mather. The original l)uilding was of two stories, to\\nwhich a third was added ])y a nindcrn jiroprietor. Tlie walls\\nwere of brick, laid in the Englisli Dond, witli overhanging eaves,\\nand rool with projt^cting Lutlieran windows. A seam in the\\nold front waU was attributed to the earth(piake of 16G3. It\\nwas altogether a remarkal)le specimen of the anti(|ue style of\\nbuildings, of which not a single pure specimen is now existing\\nin Boston.\\nBesides the tavern, Vyal carried on a brew-house, one of the\\nfirst of which we find any mention, at tlie corner of Clark and\\nXorth Streets, where Mathews IMock stooil. This brew-\\nhouse obtaine(l a wide reputatiim Ixith in the Colonies and\\nabroad, rivalling Burton s or Alsopp s of our day. The old\\ntavern of Vyal was used as a barrack 1)y tlie British troops.\\nAYhile there, a- contagion broke out among tliem which carried\\nolf a large namber.\\nWhat is now Harris Street, next noilh of Clark, was once\\nknown as White-Bread Alley, and is so laid down on the maps.\\nIt was so named from the circumstance tliat the first penny rolls\\never oflered for sale in Boston were baked there by Madam\\nTudor. She was an Englishwoman, and began by sending her\\nlittle son, afterwards Deacon John Tudor, around among the\\nneighbors with her bread. She died at ninety, and the busi-\\nness was continued by her son.\\nWe next come to Salutation Street, raised in modern times\\nfrom the meaner appellation of alley witliout any particular\\npretension to the dignity. Its singular name comes from the\\nold Salutation Tavern, in former times at the corner of the\\nalley and North Street. A grotesque sign, descriptive of the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "176 LANDMAIJKS OF BOSTON.\\niiiectiny of two .nviitlciiicii df (he ciri, of small clothes, cocked\\nli:its, etc., in the act of ;j,iv( tiii,L; each other, ,na\\\\c tlic hostelry\\nits name. Samui l Ireen kept there in 17 )1, and AViiliam\\nCampbell in 1773.\\nThe Salutation, also called the Two Palaverers, while kejjt\\nby am})bell, was the rendezvous of the famous North Knd\\nCaucus. In the Hundred IJoston Orators it is stated that tins\\nlievolutionary association originated with Warren, and tliat the\\nresolutions for the destruction of the tea were there diawn up.\\nIt consisted at lirst of sixty-one niend)ers. l)r. John Voiing\\nwas the first })resident. When the best means of lidding Bos-\\nton of the regulars was under discussion, Hancock, who was a\\nmember, exclaimed, Burn IJoston and make John Hancock a\\nbeggar, if the public good reipiires it.\\nThe word caucus is said to occur tirst in ionlon s History\\nof the AnK rican Revolution, A^il. I. p. 3(35, published in 1788.\\nHe says that more than hfty years previous to his time of writ-\\ning, 8a.muel Adams and twenty others in IJoston, one (.)r two\\nfrom the North Eml of the town, where all the ship business is\\ncarried nn, used to meet, make a caucus, etc. from tlie fact\\nthat the meetings were held in a jiart of lloston here all tlie\\nship business was carried on, Mr. Pickering, in his Vocal)ulaiy\\nBoston, 1 (Si infers that caucus may be a coi ruption of\\ncalkers, the word meeting lieing understood. This deriva-\\ntion has been adopted by others.\\nA few ste|is bring us to TSattery Street, likewise an alley in\\n1 708, receiving its name fi om the North Pattei v bi low, to\\nwhich it conducted. It foi iiieily ran iiom liaiter Street to\\nthe Battery, but now to Hanover Street only.\\nThe lirst mention of what was afterwards calletl the Noiih\\nBattery occurs in the records in January, 1G4 1, when a work\\nat Merry s Point was agreed upon. There was, however, no\\ndefinite action taken until 1G46, when there appear propositions\\nabout a fortification at the North End, att Walter INIerry s\\n]ioint. doliiison s AVonder- Working ]*rovidence speaks of the\\nforts on o])p s and Fort Hill as the one well fortilieil on tin!\\nsuperficies thereof with store of great artillery well mounted.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "FROM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 177\\nThe other liath a very strong battery built of whole timber and\\nfilled with earth, the latter being the North Battery. In 1706\\na project was brought before the town to extend the North\\nBattery one hundred and twenty feet, with a breadth of IWrty\\nfeet, and 1,000 were voted for the improvement and security\\nof the work. John Steele had command in 1750.\\nThe town sold the North Battery to Jeffrey and Russell. It\\nbecame Jeffrey s Wharf between 1789 and 1796, and is now\\nBattery AVliarf, in memory of its ancient i)urpuses.\\nThe 52d, 43d, and 47th British reghuents, with companies\\nof grenadiers and light infantry, embarked from the North\\nBattery on the day of Bunker Hill, as did also the 1st Battalion\\nof Marines, led l)y jNlajor I itcairn, of Lexington fame, who\\nfell a victim to tlio murderous ih c from the fatal redoubt while\\ngallantly urging on his men to the attack.\\nWlien Lord Ilowe evacuated Boston the North Battery was\\narmed with seven twelve-pounders, two nine-pounders, and four\\nsix-pounders, all rendered unserviceable. From its position\\nthe work commanded the entrance to Charles River as well as\\nthe Town Cove and was deemed of the highest military im-\\nportance in those days of short-range artillery.\\nWliile in the neigh))orhood of the prominent wharves, we\\nmay appropriately refer to the long trucks once used in Boston\\nfor conveying heavy merchandise. As long ago as 1720 trucks\\nwere used, when we find, by an order regulating them, none\\nwere to be more tlian eighteen feet long to employ but two\\nhorses in one team to carry no more than one ton at a load\\nand wheel tires to be four inches wide the driver to go at the\\nhead of the thill horse, which he must govern by a halter to be\\nkept in the hand. These ponderous vehicles finally disap-\\npeared, and with them that distinctive body of men, the Bos-\\nton Truckmen, wlio once formed a leading and attractive feature\\nof our puljlic processions, with their white frocks and black\\nhats, mounted on their magnificent truck-horses. Hardy and\\nathletic, it would have been hard to find their equals on either\\nside of the water. The long jiggers now used are scarcely less\\nobjectionable than the old trucks.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "178 LANDMAliKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHATTER VI.\\nA VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS.\\nEarly Sliip-Building. Boston Sliiiiyards. Massachusetts Frigate. New\\nEiiglaiiil Naval Flag. First Seventy- Four. Hartt s Naval Yard. The\\nClonstitution. Her Launch, History, and Exploits. Anecdotes of Hull,\\nBuinhridge, and De(;atur. Old Ironsides Pi-ebuilt. Josiah Barker.\\nNicholson. Prehle. Stewart. Other Distinguished Otlicers. Escape\\nfrom the British Fleet. Anecdote of Dr. Bentley. Action with the\\nGuerriere. The Java. Cyane and Levant. Jielics of Old h onsides.\\nA Hair of the Figure-Head. Captain Dewey. The Frigate Boston.\\nCapture of Le Berceau. The Argus.\\nWE Iiave now brought tlie reader among the shijiyards,\\nwhich were in Itygone days a principal feature of tire\\nNi)rth End. The tirst ship built in the vicinity of Boston was\\nthe Ijlcssing of the Bay, at what is now Medford. It was a\\nbark of thirty tons ordered by (Jovernor AVinthrop, and was\\nlaunched on the 4th of July, 1631.\\nIn 1 032 33 a shi])pe of a hundred\\ntunncs was launched in the same\\ntown, so that the Medford ship-\\nwrights seem to bear tdl the palm in\\ncstaltlisliing this indttstry in our\\niicigliliorliood. The hrst mention of\\nslii[i-l)iiildiiig in Boston occtu s in\\n16-40, and a hundred years later\\nANCIENT suip. there were on the stocks at the same\\ntinu^ forty topsail vessels witli seven thousand tons capacity.\\nAs early as 1645 Captain 4 liomas Hawkins built the Seafort,\\na, line ship of four hundred tons, at his yard at the f^ot of\\nClark Street she was lost on the coast of Spain. John Rich-\\nards succeeded to the yard on the north of the Ship Tavern in\\n1688. Clark s yard was the same in 1722. In 1708 Jo.shua", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO, ix/9\\nGee liad a shipyard at the foot of Copj. -j riill, and fourteen\\nyears later there were no less than six yards lying around tlie\\nbase of the hill, two below Fort Hill, and another beyond the\\ncauseway at West Boston. In 1745 was built the Massachu-\\nsetts Frigate, which, under command of Captain Edward Tyng,\\naccompanied Sir William Pepperell s expedition against Louis-\\nburg, where she rendered efficient service, capturing the Vigi-\\nlant, French man-of-war of sixty-four guns, more than double\\nher own force. According to Captain G. H. Preble s Notes on\\nEarly Ship-Building, when it was designed to reduce Louis-\\nburg, Governor Shirley directed Captain Tyng to procxire the\\nlargest ship in his power. He accordingly purchased one on tlie\\nstocks nearly ready for launching, and made such improvements\\nupon her that she Avas able to carry twenty-four to twenty-six\\nguns. On her return to Boston this frigate brought Governor\\nShirley and lady, wlio had been to tlie theatre of war. Lbey\\nmet with a splendid ovation at the hands of the Bostonians, as\\nwe have related elsewhere.\\nWe may ajipntpriately mention liere the colors which were\\nused on the sea l)y the colony before 1 700, a\\nrepresentation of which is given herewitli.\\nThe field and cross Avere red, the tree green,\\nand the union white. The tree appears as a\\ndistinctive emblem on the coins as well as the\\nflag.\\nPemberton, in his description of P)Oston,\\nwritten in 1794, says new enoland flac\\nShip-building was formerly carried on at upwards of twenty-\\nseven dock-yards in the town at one and the same time, and cm-\\nployed a large number of mechanicks. In one of the yar ls, twelve\\nships have been launched in twelve months. In all the dock-yards,\\nI am credibly informed there have been upwards of sixty vessels\\non the stocks at one time. Many of the shijts built here were sent\\ndirectly to London with naval stores, whale oil, etc., and to the West\\nLidies with fish and luml)er. The whale and cod fishery employed\\nmany of our smaller craft. They were nurseries, and produced many\\nhardy seamen. About the year 1750, when paper money was sup-\\npressed in this then colony, the sale of ships lying in England, on", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "OSTON\\naccount (;f tbo ow, yive, occasioned a loss to them from twenty\\nto I ony per cent. T w .hips were built liei-e, unci ship-building grad-\\n:ially declined. Vessels are now built in the country towns not far\\nfrom where the timber grows.\\nThe harbor of Boston is at this date (Ncjvember, 1794), con-\\ntinues Peniberton, crowdiMl with xcssels. Eighty-four sail have\\nbeen counted lying at two of the wliarves only. It is reckoned that\\nnot less than four hundred and fitty sail of ships, brigs, schooners,\\nand sloops, and small crafts aie now in port.\\nTlio lirst war-slii}! built in IJostoii was a seventy-four, laid\\ndown at the yard of llenjaniiii loodwin, afterwards Tilley s\\nAVharf, a short distance from liarlcstowii Bridge. She was\\nordered liy the oiitiuental (Amgress, and Thomas ushing,\\na.fterwai (ls lieutenaut-goveruor, then agent of the government,\\ntook possession of the dwelling-lKiuse, stores, wharf, and yard\\nof (ioodwin for this pur^xise. In 1784, the exigency having\\n})assed liy, tlie ship was sold on the stocks by Thomas Iiussell\\nas agent of the Unite(l States. This was ])rol)aljly the lirst\\nseventy-four begun in the T/nitcd States.\\nIt is staled in I jn .iious s exccdieiit History of the Navy tliat\\ntlie America, liuilt at Portsmoutli\\nin 17S2, the command of whicli\\nwas destined for the renowned\\nPaul Jones, was tlie first A ossel\\nof this class built for our navy.\\nSlie appears to have been the first\\nalloat. i lie America, awarde(l\\nby a unanimous vote of on-\\ngress to the (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on(pieror of tlie\\nSerapis, was given to the French,\\nto supply tlie loss of the ]\\\\lag-\\nnilitpie, lost in IJoston Jiarbor in\\ntlie above j ear. Her fate is a\\nmatter of uncertainty.\\nKdmund Hartt s sliipyard will lie forever famous in (Uir an-\\nnals as tht^ ])}ace where tln I lide of the American Navy was\\nbuilt. The Hartts wen^ a- family of shii)wrights. Besides\\nl ,ilmuiid, tin re were P^dward, Ze|)haniah, and Balph the niast-\\nsmi OF THE TIME OF THE I lI.finiMS", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 181\\nmaker. Edmund lived opjiosite his yard, in what was tlien 8hi[)\\nStreet. He was one of tlie original trustees of the Mechanic\\nCharitable Association.\\nBefore the establishment of government dockyards, privak;\\nyards were used for building national vessels, and Hartt s went\\nfor a long time by the name of Hartt s Naval Yard. Thorn-\\nton s yard on the map of 1722 corresponds with Hartt s, whicdi\\nis now known as Constitution AVharf.\\nThe frigates Constitution and lioston and brig Argus were\\nall built here. All three are known to fame; but the glorious\\ncareer of Old Ironsides is indelibly associated with the downfall\\nof England s naval su[)remacy. The proud boast of Waller\\nOthers may use tlic (iccan as tlieii road,\\nOnly the Eiiglisli make it tlu^ir ahoile\\nwas rendered obsolete by the deeds of a navy unborn when he\\nwrote.\\nIn consequence of the depredations of the Algerine corsairs\\nupon our commerce, an act was passed at the tirst session of\\nthe Third Congress to provide, by purcliase or otherwise, four\\nsliips to carry forty-four guns and two to carry thirty-six. This\\nact was approved l)y President Wasliington, March 27, 17i)4.\\nThe keel of the (Jonstitution was accordingly laid by Mr. Ilartt\\nin November of that year, and preparations made for setting\\nher up. Mr. Cooper, in his Naval History, says her keel was\\nlaid on Charlestown Neck, a situation .somewhat I emott^, from\\nher actual birthplace, and has iiho incorrectly stated the\\ndate of her launch, an error into which many historians have\\nbeen led by the two unsuccessful attempts made before she\\nfinally passed to her destined element.\\nPeace being concluded with the Dey of Algiers, work Avas\\nordered stopped on three of the new frigates, and the mate-\\nrials sold. The act of July I, 1797, approved by President\\nJohn Adams, makes the first official mention of the Constitu-\\ntion. The Presiilent was authorizeil to cause the frigates\\nUnited States, Constitution, and Constellation to be manned\\nand employed.\\nThe names of all who contributed by their labor to the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "182\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nbuilding of Oltl Ironsides deserve, to be perpetuated, but tlie\\nrecords of the Navy Department liaving been destroyed wlien\\nWashington was captured in 1814, the loss of the mechanics\\nrolls has been supj)li( d oidy after diligent search. She was\\ndesigned by Joshua Hunij)hries of Philadel} hia, and constructed\\nunder the superintendence of Colonel George Claghorn of Xew\\nBedford. Captains IJarry, Dale, and Truxton of the navy agreed\\nwith ]\\\\Ii Humphries upon the dimensions of the Constitution,\\nand Mr. Humphries prejjared the drafts, moulds, and Ijuilding\\ninstru(tii)ns. Her masts and sjiais were made in the yard be-\\ntween Cdiney s Wharf and the shipyard Paul Revere furnished\\nthe copper Ixilts and s])ikes, drawn from mallealde copper by a\\njiroct ss then new and Ephraim Thayer, who had a shop at the\\nSouth End, made the gun-carriages for the frigate. He after-\\nwai ds made those used on the gunboats built under Jetferson s\\nadministration. Isaac Harris, who worked as an apprentice in\\nthe niast-yanl in 1797, put new sticks into the frigate during\\nthe wai iif 181l!. To him is said to belong the honor of first\\napplying in this country the important improvement of making\\nshijis masts in sections. He constructed the first sliears used\\nat the Navy Yard at C harlestown for placing\\nthe heavy masts of war-vessels in position.\\nA brave act is recorded t f him in connection\\nwith the Old South, and we shall presently\\n.dlude to him in connection with a very cele-\\nlirated flag-raising. The anchors of the Con-\\nstitution were made in Hanover, Plymouth\\nounty, Mass.\\nMr. Hartly of P.oston, father of a subse-\\nquent naval constructor, assisted Colonel Clag-\\nhorn aiul Captain Nicholson, who was a})-\\npointed her first commander, exercised a\\ngeneral supervision, in wdiich he was aided by General Jackson\\nand Major Gibbs of Poston. Under the orders of Colonel\\n(Taglnn-n, Edmund Hartt was the master carpenter. Tlie frig-\\nate s sails were made in the Old Granary, at tlie corner of l\\\\irk\\nand Tremont Streets, where now stands Park Street Church.\\nCONSTITUTION S FIG-\\nURKllKAD CARRIED IN\\nTHK WAR OF 1812.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 183\\nNo other building in Boston was large enniigh. The Messrs.\\nSkillings of Boston were the carvers of the tigure-heail and stern\\nornaments and of the cabin. She first carriotl at her prow a fig-\\nure of Hercules with uplifted clul). This was shot away before\\nTripoli, and seems to have been exchanged at the beginning of\\n1812 for a Neptune, which is alluded to in the old song,\\nBy the Tri Ient of Neptune, l)rave Hull ci-ied, let s steer,\\nIt points to the tnick of tht; hullying Guerriere.\\nShe subsecpiently bore a. [)lain l)illetdiead scroll, long preservcil\\nat Charlestown Navy Yard Ijy the thoughtful care of some un-\\nknown commander at that station. Finally, the l)ows of the\\ngallant old craft were decorated with a ])ust of leneral Jackson.\\nThe Constitution first carried an Englisli l)attery her frame\\nwas live-oak.\\nDay by day the vessel grew,\\nWith timbers fashioned strong and true,\\nStemson and keelson and stenisou knee,\\nTill, framed witli perfeet symmetry,\\nA skeleton ship rose ui to view.\\nAt length came the 20th September, 1797, the day on wliicb\\nColonel Claghorn had announced that he would launch the\\nConstitution. People poured into the town from all quarters.\\nThe day was pleasant, but cold, and the neighboring wharves\\nwere crowded with sj)ectators, who received warning that the\\npassage of the vessel into the water would create a swell that\\nmight endanger their safety. About six hundred people went\\nover to Noddle s Island, where they could obtain a fine view of\\nthe expected launch. At high water, twenty minutes past\\neleven, the signal was given, but the shi}) only movt d aliout\\neight feet. Her colors were then lowered, and the assembled\\nmultitude dispersed with disappointment and anxious forel)od-\\nings.\\nOwing to an accident to the lhiite(l Stntes, launched at Phil\\nadelphia, by which she ran off the ways an hour before it was\\nintended, damaging her keel and injuring several people, the\\nways of the Constitution were laid too level, to prevent a simi-\\nlar accident. Part of the site of Hartt s yard was natural, and\\npart artificial the latter sank under the immense weight. The", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "184 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nvessel might have been forced off, but tlie constructor decided\\nnut to attempt a lucasTire so hazardous.\\nOn Friday, the 22d, a second eli ort Av^as made to get the\\nfrigate afloat. She moved a httle and tlien stuck fast. Grave\\ndoubts were now expressiMJ as to th(! practicabihty of moving\\nher, and the ill-fated ship, as tlie superstitious now regarded\\nher, remained seemingly tixed in lier position.\\nSaturday, October 21, a third attem])t was made, the high\\ntides having allbrded an opj^ortunity of completing the ways.\\nThe day was lowering and cold, with an easterly wind. But\\nfew people assembled, the general Ijelief being that this would,\\nlike the other attempts, prove abortive. A few dignitaries,\\nspecially invited, gathered within the narrow limits of the yard.\\nAt half past twelve p. m. all was ready.\\nAnd at the mast-head,\\nWhite, blue, and red,\\nA flag unrolls the stripes and stars.\\nCommoilore James Sever stood on tlie lieel of the bowsprit,\\nand, according to the usage of the time, l)a[)tized the shi[) with\\na bottle of choice old Madeira from the cellar of Hon. Thomas\\nEussell, a leading Boston merchant. A few invited guests,\\namong whom were some ladies, stood on the essers deck. At\\nlast, at the given signal,\\nShe starts, she moves, she seems to feel\\nThe thrill of life along her keel\\nAnd, sjiui ning with her foot the ground.\\nWith one exulting, joyous hound.\\nShe leaps into the ocean s arms\\nWe have extracted the following incident of the launch from\\nthe manuscript of Captain Prelde s Tfistory of the Flag\\nWe are glad to be able to record ilie iiaine of llic person who\\nlirst, hoiste l om- flag over hei little imagining the glorious history\\nshe would make. When the Constitution wasal)out ready to launcli,\\nCoiiunodore Nicludson, who had charge and superintendence of her\\nconstruction, left the shipyard to get his 1)reakfast, lea\\\\ ing express\\norders not to hoist any Hag over her until Ins return, intending to\\nreserve the honor to himself Among the workmen ii]ion her was a\\nshi|.vvTiL;hl and eulker named Samuel Eentley, who, with the assist-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SIIIPYAKDS. 185\\nance of another workman naiui d Harris, bent on and hoisted the\\nstars and stripes diu-ing the conmiodoi e s absence. When the com-\\nmodore retvirned and saw our fiag, contrary to his orders, floating\\nover her, he was very wrathy, and expressed himself in words more\\nstrong than polite to the oft ending workmen. Could he have fore-\\nseen the future of the noble frigate he would have been still more\\nexcited. He had, however, the satisfaction of being the first to com-\\nmand her, and we know she was the first of the new frigates to caiTy\\nthe fifteen stars and strijies under canvas upon the deep blue sea.\\nBentley died in Boston in 1852. The fifteen stars and stripes were\\nworn by her before Tripoli and tliroughout the war of 1812.\\nIll Emmons s Naval Lirft the Constitution is described as a\\nsliip of 44 guns, 400 men, 1,57G tons, and cost, ready for sea,\\n$302,719. She has been several times rebuilt, but the orig-\\ninal model, tonnage, and general ai)pearance were preserved.\\nIn 1833 the frigate was taken into the new Dry Dock at\\nCharlestown in the presence of the Vice-President Mr. Van\\nBuren, Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, the Secretary of the\\nNavy Mr. Woodbury, and otlier distinguished personages. The\\nPresident, C.eneral Jackson, was to have been present, but was\\nprevented by illness. Commodore Hull had charge of her on\\nthis interesting occasion, and his clear voice Avas frequently\\nheard ringing from the quarter-deck of his former gh- ry.\\nLoammi Baldwin, engineer of the Dry Dock, also assisted at\\nthe ceremony. The frigate was entirely dismantled and dis-\\nmasted, with all her gingerbread-work stripped off preparatory\\nto a thorongh overhauling. Tier bull presented a most venera-\\nble appearance, the bottom being covered with mussels, many\\nof which were gathered as relics.\\nHere she was rebuilt by Josiali Barker, the eminent naval\\nconstructor of the Vermont and Virginia shiiis-of-the-line, the\\nfrigate Cumberland, shtoits-of-war Marion, Cyane, Bainbridge,\\nand many others. Mr. Barker s first shipyard occupied the\\nsite of the present Navy Vnrd. There is now in this yard one\\nof the famous umbrellas, used to warp the frigate away from\\nBroke s squadron, in duly, 1812.\\nThe Constitution first moved under canvas July 20, 1798,\\nproceeding to sea August 1 3. The roll of her commanders em-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "18( LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nl)r;iccs ill their order Samuel Nicholson, who liad been a lieu-\\ntiinaut with Paul Jones in his action with tlie Serapis Edward\\nPrehle, styltul tlie fatlier of our navy, who had served in the\\nold Protector and Wintliroji. and wlio in 1804 gallantly laid\\n()1(1 Ironsides under the walls of Trijjoli Isaac Hull, fourth\\nlieutenant of the old ])ark in her iirst cruise, executive officer in\\nISdO, and linally in 1812, as commander, the victor in the\\nfinious action with the (luerriere William Eainbridge, a tried\\norticer of the old navy, captured in the Philadelphia at Tri}ioli\\nin 1803, and sul)se(|uently conqueror in December, 1812, of the\\nJa^ a., Uritish frigate Charles Stewart, who closed the war so\\ngloriously lor his Hag by the capture of two Pritish frigates, the\\nyane and Levant. This action was fought on a Ijeautiful\\nmoonlight evening ofl Madeira after })eace was concluded, but\\nby the terms of the treaty the capture was legalized.\\nPesides these names, so illustrious in tlie pages of naval war-\\nfare, the Constitution was commanded a short time in 1804 by\\nthe lirave but ill-fated Decatur; by John Kodgers by Jacob\\n-bines by T. jNIacdonough, J. D. Elliott, and others, whose\\ndeeds have jiassed into history. The lu ave Lawrence, gallant\\nDavid P(u1er, harles Ludlow, and Charles Morris have served\\nin her as lirst-lieutenaiits, while Isaac Chauncey was a master\\ncommandant, and Shubrick a lieutenant. The latter officer,\\n[iromoted to rear-admiral, was tlie last survivor among the\\nolUcers of the battle with the yane and Le\\\\ant, in whicli he\\nwas engaged.\\nThe first crew of the Constitution were, with few exceptions,\\nnatives of Massachusetts. Her career and exploits are as fa-\\nmiliar as lioiisehold words. No ship was ever so loved by a\\nnation, not even the famous old Victory of Nelson. lond hick\\nimrsued her without the intervention of the horse-shoe which\\nNelson carried nailed to his mast-liead.\\nAye, jiut lier ato]) on the log-liook of fame.\\nHer voice alway.s roared from tlie \\\\aii.\\nWhen she bore down in thunder and darluiess ami rtame,\\nOra.sli foundering eacli foe tliat liefore tier came,\\nTile old sailors love flashes up at her nanie,\\nFoi- her yards Yount; Americans man.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 187\\nThe first cruise of Old Ironsides under Nicholson and the\\nsecond under Talhot are vend of any interesting featui*es, and\\nit was not untU Preble conmiandccl lier in the Mediterranean,\\nin 1803, that she fired a liroadside at an enemy.\\nCooper says that Preble was appointed to the Constitution as\\nfirst lieutenant under Commodore Nicholson, but got relieved,\\nhis relations with his commander not being cordial. Preble\\nhdistwl his fiag on board the Constitution, May 21, 1803. The\\nship, having been lying in Drdinary for ten months, was unfit for\\nimmediate service, and the commodore caused a thorough over-\\nhauling of the vessel to be made, personally scrutinizing every\\nrope and timber in her. Ihider liis orders she achieved her\\nearly reputation, and was, when ]u turn( (l her over to Decatur,\\na ship to be proud of. After lying some time in President s\\nRoads taking in powder, etc., the Constitution weighed anchor\\nand sailed on her famous cruise to the Mediterranean, Sunday,\\nAugust U, 1803.\\nHer escape from the British squadron in -Inly, 1812, was due\\nto Yankee ingenuity. The method ])y which this was accom-\\nplished is, it is believed, understood by few. The Constitution\\ncarried two umbrellas, so called, made of stout spars attached to\\na central one precisely like an umbrella frame. These were\\ncovered with canvas, and were capable of being expanded or\\nclosed the weight of the iron-work caused them to sink.\\nWhile the becalmed British vessels were towing with tlieir\\nItoats, Hull caused his umlu cllas to lie carried out aliead and\\nwarped his vessel up to tliem, so contriving, that while one\\nwas being hauled in the other was being put in position. In\\nthis way, he left his j)ursuers astern before they discovered the\\nmeans employed to escape them. Tliese umbrellas are now in\\nthe Charlestown Navy Yard, where, -it is hoped, they may be\\npreserved with care. The Constitution ran into Marblehead on\\nSunday.\\nWhile Dr. Bentley, pastor of the Second Chur(di at Salem,\\nwas in the midst of his sermon, some one called out under the\\nwindow of the church, The British fieet is chasing the Con-\\nstitution into Marblehead. The minister instantly dismissed", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "188 LAXDMARKW OF lioSToN.\\nliirf congrc^i^iitiou, seized his liat, and ran nut uf the cluurli, iV l-\\nlowiug- the men and canndii Inwards tlie scene of actii n. J ein,L,f\\na short, thick-set man, and tlie mer(;ury at eighty-five, tlie good\\ndoctor soon gave out, Avlien lie was lifted astride one of the\\ncannon, and in this way pmceeded to the heach. Dr. IJentley\\nwas a Ijoston Ijoy, graduate and tutor at Harvard, and for a\\nlong time an editor of the Salem Gazette and Salem Eegister.\\nThe folldwing anecdotes of Hull are printed in Miss (,)uincy s\\nMemoir\\nToward evening mi tlie 2!)tli ui August, 1812, a frigate (recog-\\nnized as the Constitution) caiue in under full sail and dropped her\\nanchor heside Rainsford Island, then the (piarantine groiuul. The\\nnext morning a Meet ol arnie(l ships appeared off Point Aldeiton.\\nAs they ra] idly ap]iriiathe(l, the Constitution was ol)serve(l to raise\\nher anchor and sails and go boldly forth to meet tlie apjiarent\\nenemy but as the frigate passed the leader of the Heet, a friendly\\nrecognition was exchanged instead of the expected broadside. They\\njoined company, and the Constitution led the way to Boston. It\\nwas the squadron of C^ommodore Rodgers returning unexpectedly\\nfrom a long cruise.\\nA few days afterwaids, Ilidl, who had just taken tlip Jueriieie,\\ncame with Decatur to breakfast at Quiiicy. When tliis incident was\\nmentioned, Hull said, I must acknowleili^e 1 participated in the\\napprehensions of my friends on shore, fhiiikiug myself safe in\\n])ort, I told my otticers to let the men wash their clothes, and get the\\nshi[) in order to go up to Boston and being excessively fatigued,\\nwent to my stateroom. I was sound asleep wlieii a lieutenant rushed\\ndown, exclainung, Ca])tain, the British aic upon us! an armed\\nfleet is entering the harbor No agreeal le intelligence, certainly\\nfor I was wholly un]ire])ared to engage with a su])erior force, lint\\ndeternuned to sell our lives as dear as T couhl, T ^ave orders to clear\\nthe ilecks, weigh anchor, and get ready for immediate action. I con-\\nfess I was greatly relieved when I saw the American flag and recog-\\nnized Rodgcis. In speaking of the conflict with the GucriieVe, he\\nsaid, 1 do not mind the day of battle the excitement cairies one\\nthrough but the day after is feari id it is so dreadhd to see my\\nmen wounde l and sulfering.\\nThese naval oHicers f)rnie(l a striking contrast. Hull was easy\\nand pre])ossessiiig in his manners, but looked accustomed to face\\nthe buttle and the breeze. Decatur was unconniioiily handsome,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SIIII VAItDS. 189\\nand remarkable for the delicacy and retiiiement of his appear-\\nance.\\nHull, who had a good deal of the blutf sailor about him,\\nexclaimed when he saw the mast of the Guerriere go by the\\nboard, Huzzah, my boys, we ve made a brig of her. A\\nshipmaster, prisoner on board tlie Ckierriere, gives an interest-\\ning relation of his experience during the action. While the\\nConstitution was manteuvring for position, (Japtain Dacres asked\\nhis prisoner, Do you think she will strike without tiring 1\\nObtaining permission to retire into the cockiiit, the captain\\nsays\\nWithin one moment after my fool Idt the l.ultler the Constitu-\\ntion gave that double-shotted l)roadsiile wliirli tluew all in the cock-\\npit over in a heap on the opposite sidi of the sliip. For a moment\\nit seemed as if heaven and earth liad struck togetlier a more territic\\nshock cannot be imagined.\\nAfter the firing had ceased, the prisoner returned to the deck,\\nand continues\\nWhat a scene was presented, and liow clianged in so short a time,\\nduring which the Guerriere had l)een totally dismasted and otherwise\\ncut to pieces, so as not to make lier worth towing into port. On the\\nother hand, the Constitution looked perfectly fresh, and even those\\nonboard the Guerriere did not know what ship had fought them.\\nCaptain Dacres stood with his otlicers surveying the scene, all in\\nthe most perfect astonishment.\\nAt this moment a boat was seen putting off from the liostile shi]).\\nAs soon as within speaking distance, a young gentlem m (Midsliip-\\nman, late Commodore Reed) haileil and said, Commodore Hull s\\ncoiniiliments, and wishes to know if you have struck your ilag?\\nAt this Captain Dacres appeared amazed, but recovering himself and\\nlooking up and down, he dclilierately said, Well, I don t know\\nour mainmast is gone, our mizzenmast is gone, and upon the whole\\nyou may say we have struck our flag.\\nThe little hurt received liy the Constitution in this engage-\\nment her hull showing only here and there a scar gave her\\nthe name of Old Ironsides, by which she was familiarly known.\\nHer crew, indeed, affirmed that the Guerriere s shot fell hann-\\nless from her iron sides.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "190 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\n(_)l(l li oiisides arrived in liitstoii n a Sunday, about, noon,\\nfrom this cruise. Tho sliip was soon surroundcil liy boats\\neager to learn the news, wliidi was communicated to the first\\nthat came alongside. Instantly the word was passed to the\\n(itlu r boats, The Constitution lias captured the Juorriere\\nThe men cheered, swung their liats, and spread tlie joyful\\ntidings to tlu^ shore, wliere thousands gathered on the wharves\\ntook up the refrain until it echoed from one extremity of the\\ntown to the other.\\nOn Brazil s coast she ruloil the voast\\nWlien Bainliriilge was her captain\\nNeat hammocks s ive, made of the wave,\\nDead Britons to be wrajijied in.\\nBainbridge, who succeeded Hull in the command of the Con-\\nstitution, next fought a well-contesteil action with the Java on\\ntlie coast of IJrazil, December 29, bringing his own ship victo-\\nriously out of tlie hglit. The Java, indeed, only struck her\\nHag after the loss of every mast and sjiar, bowsprit included.\\nHer gallant cinnmander, Lam1)ert, was mortally wounded. The\\ndisal)led condition of his prize, with the great tlistance from our\\nown shores, compelled I aiid)ridge to destroy the Java, as Hull\\nhad destroyetl the (iuerrier(\\\\ When the officers of the Java\\nleft the Constitution at St. Salvador, they expressed the warm-\\nest gratitude for the humane and generous treatment they had\\nexperienced.\\nUainbridge returned to T5oston I rom tliis cruise, arri\\\\ iiig on\\nthe liith of Felu uary. He was received on landing by a salute\\nof artilli ry, and a procession was formed at Faneuil Hall headed\\ny the I oston Light Tnfmti y and Winslow Idues, which\\nescorted the commodon^ to the Exchange oifee House, wliere\\nthe com])any sat down to a superb banquet. Hull and b odgers\\nwalked with Bainbridge in tlie procession, ami shaivd the aji-\\n]i]ause bestowed uiion him. At the dinner (iovernor (lore ])re-\\nsided, assisted by H. G. Ctis, Israel Thorndike, T. L. AVinthrop,\\nWilliam Sullivan, and others. The Legi.slature Inung in session\\nj)asst^d complimentary resolutions.\\nThe commodore, with some of his officers, visited the Federnl", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 191\\nStreet Theatre, where they were inimediately recognized ])y the\\naudience, which rose up as if by one iiiij)ulse, while chei^r upon\\ncheer shook the house from pit to dome. The veteran Cooper,\\nwho on that night was playing Macbeth, flung his bonnet in\\ntlie air and joined in the applause.\\nIn June, 1813, Stewart was appointed to command her, ami\\nproceeded to sea December 30, although Boston was then block-\\naded l)y seven of the enemy s ships. She returned in Ai)ril,\\n1814, and was chased into Marblehead by the frigates Tene-\\ndos and Junon. The (!ountry was alarmed, and the local\\nmilitia from Newburyport to Boston marched to defend the\\nfrigate one Boston company, the New England (luards, ])ro-\\nceeded as far as Charlestown, when tliey learnc(l that tlic ]iursuit\\nhad been abandoned. They then lound that their cariridge-\\nboxes were empty.\\nIn December, 1814, Stewart sailed on Ins second cruise and\\nencountered, February 28, ofi Madeira, tlie British frigates\\nCyane and Levant, which were both captured after a contest\\nin which the Constitution was handled Avith consummate skill\\nby her commander. Of the prizes, only the Cyane snc(;eeded\\nin reaching the United States, the Levant l)(nng nn-aptured by\\nSir George Collier s squadron, Avhich suddenly appeared off Port\\nPraya, where Old Ironsides was quietly lying with her captives.\\nAll three vessels were compelled to cut their cables and iiin for\\nit. The Cyane arriving first at New York, great anxiety was\\nfelt for the Constitution, and on her arrival at that port on the\\nir)th of May, 1815, the sliip and commander were greeted with\\nthe utmost enthusiasm.\\nOn the 4th of July, 1828, Old Ironsides returned from a long\\ncruise in the Mediterranean to the place of her nativity. As\\nshe passed up to the Navy Yard, the roar of her guns mingled\\nwith the echoes from the Castle and from Constitution Wharf,\\nthe place of her birth. The guns were firing peaceful salutes\\ninstead of round shot and grape, but the presence of the idohzed\\nfrigate gave additional ecJat to the national holiday.\\nIt was at one time decided to break her up, and orders had\\nactually been issued to this effect. The destruction of her old", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "VX2\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntimbers seemed like an act of sacrilege, and gave rise to Holmes s\\nmiich admired lines expressive of the universal feeling of con-\\ndemnation. To the poet s impassioned outlnirst is due the\\npreservation of the Constitution on the roll of the American\\nNavy\\n0, better tliat lier sliattered liviU\\nShould sink beneath the wave\\nHer thunders shook the mighty deep,\\nAnd tliere should be her grave.\\nNail to the mast her holy Hag,\\nSet every threadlxire sail,\\nAnd give her to the god of storms.\\nThe lightning, and tlie gale.\\nFrom the old timbers were made a nundier of relics which\\nhave no doubt been highly jirized l)y their possessors. i\\\\Ir.\\nBarker, tlie constructor, sent ii cane to Joshua Ilumpliries, her\\noriginal designer. In 183G a beautiful coach was liuilt entirely\\nof the wood of the old frigate at Amherst, ]\\\\Iass., intended as\\nTHE CONSTITUTION HAULED UP ON THE WAV.?.\\na New- Year s present to General Jackson from several gentlemen\\nof Xew York City. Coniniodiirc Hull presented canes from the\\noriginal wood to rresidcni Jackson, Mr. Van Buren, and Mr.\\nI oiiiset-t at the time the ship was docked.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 193\\nThe captiiivil flags of the yaiie, Levant, CTuerriere, and Java\\nare in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, but of her origiual\\nbattery, before which the wooden Avails of Old England went\\ndown, no traces have been found. One of the guns was dented\\nby the enemy s shot but we have reason to apprehend that these\\ndogs of war were broken up and treated as so much old iron.\\nThe Constitution carried out Ministers Barlow and Cass to\\nFrance, and brought home Mr. Livingstone and family. Her\\nflag has Ijeen seen in nearly every sea, and her deck has been\\ntrod by many noble personages. In 1822, wliile in the Medi-\\nterranean, she was visited Ijy Lord Ijyron, who, while endeavor-\\ning to preserve his incognito, was much embarrassed at finding\\nall the officers on deck in full uniform to receive him. Lord\\nByron was accompanied by Count (iamba, father of the Count-\\ness (luiccidli. A beautifully Ixtund volume of his poems was\\nlying on the cabin table, which he took up with evident j)]easure\\nat the delicate compliment implied.\\nAn eiusode of this visit caused Byron to remark, that he\\nwould rather have a nod from an American than a snuff-box\\nfrom an emperor. This is in pleasing contrast with the surly\\nsaying of Johnson, I am willing to love all mankind \\\\\\\\cept\\nan American. At this time (Jommodorc Jacob Jones flew his\\nbroad pennant on board the old craft.\\nAfter Old Ironsides had emerged a new ship from Mr. Bar-\\nker s hands, there happened to her an adventure that awakened\\nat the time the most intense excitement in Boston, and which,\\nfrom its pecidiar aspects, was soon communicated all over\\nthe seaboard. This was known as the Att air of the Figure-\\nHead. Andrew Jackson was President, and hail l)een greeted\\nwith the consideration due his official statiiin during his visit to\\nBoston of the previous year. Under this outward courtesy,\\nhowever, was an undercurrent of political antagonism, apparent\\nenough in the pidJic prints of the day. Cheers were raised for\\nMr. Clay in Faneuil Hall at the time of Ceneral Jackson s re-\\nception there. The old political party which controlled Boston\\nwas putting on the new title of Whig, under which it subse-\\nquently fought. Not even the LL. I), conferred upon the Pres-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "194 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\niili iit at TIarvard cnuM rccdiicilc, the, ojipositinn with the acts\\nof Ills adiiiiiiistratidii.\\nThe appearaure of the frigate (\\\\iDstitntion, therefore, with a\\nfigure-head of Presitlent -laekson was greeted with a storm of\\ndisapproval When it was known tliat it was tlie intention of\\nCommodore Jesse 1). ElHott, the theu eommander of tlie Navy\\nYard, to tlius ornament the frigate s l)Ows, and that Lahan S.\\nIJeeelier, the well-known JJoston carver, was at work upon it,\\nthreats were freely made tliat she would not he allowed to go\\nto sea with the ohuoxious image. Large brihes were also offered\\nto the artist to destroy his work, hut he remained true to his\\nemployers, working on the hgure-head in his garret, which\\nserved alike as his att Iiir and citadel. Alarmed, however, by\\nthe menaces against Beecher, and thinking the head no longer\\nsafe in his custody, Commodore Elliott caused its removal by\\nan armed boat s crew to the Navy Yard, where it was placed in\\nthe engine-house and finished by Beecher at his leisure. The\\nfigure represented the President in the Hermitage scene, holding\\nin his hand a scroll with the motto, The Union it must be\\npreserved. Beecher was also engaged upon the busts of Hull,\\nBainl)ridge, and Stewart for stern ornaments of the frigate.\\nThe graven image was placed at the Constitution s stem, but\\non the 3d of July (1834) Avas discovered to have been muti-\\nlated, the hea l being sawed completely off, leaving only the\\nbody of the Chief Magistrate. The affair caused a great noise.\\nIt was committed daring the prevalence of a violent tliunder-\\nst(irm, with sentinels pacing the ship s deck, while she herself\\nlay moored l)etween two seventy-fours (the Independence and\\nColumbus) off the yard. The act was a daring one, and Cdii-\\njccture was for a long time l)usy as to its author, who, however,\\nmaintained a jirudent reserve until the excitement caused liy\\ntlie a-lfair had time to cool. AVhat this excitement was may be\\nunderstood when it is stated that the i)eo])le of Wheeling, Va.,\\nrang the bells, asseml)led in public meeting, and ])assed resolu-\\ntidus a])]iroving the act.\\nOn the night in (piestion, Captain Dewey, a Boston ship-\\nmastei (ilitaitied n small mw-lHiat, and drop])ed ([uietly down", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 195\\nAvith the tide to when- tin tVi^^ite lay moored. Securing his\\nboat he proceeded to liis work, in the accompHshnient of which\\nhe had to cut through a copi)er bolt. Several times the sentry\\non deck looked over the bow, hearing perhaps the noise of\\nthe saw, wlien the workman ceased his labor for the time.\\nThe rain poured in torrents, which, with the intense darkness,\\nfavored the bold operator. The head of Jackson, like a victim\\nof the seraglio, fell into a sack. Dewey pulled to the shore\\nand repaired to meet some friends at a pubhc-house, where his\\nsuccess was duly celebrated.\\nIn this plight the Constitution she was then in commis-\\nsion proceeded to New York, where, in due time, a second\\nfigure-head bearing the same features took the place of the\\nheadless one. To secure it from a similar mutilation, a copper\\nbolt of extraordinary thickness was placed perpendicularly in\\nthe head. At the Charlestown Navy Yard may be seen the\\nbust of General Jackson from which the original was mod-\\nelled.\\nIn Marcli, 1835, the Constitution sailed from New York for\\nthe Mediterranean as flag-ship of Commodore Elliott, since\\nwhich time her history is that of a useful but peaceful ship.\\nAt the outbreak of the Rebellion she was lying at Annapolis,\\nAvhere she would doubtless have shared the fate of the govern-\\nment vessels at Norfolk and elsewhere, had not our soldiers\\nopportunely secured the place. Edward E. Preble, a grandson\\nof the commodore, was on board tlie onstitution at this time.\\nAfter being used as quarters for tlie midshipmen of the Naval\\nAcademy at Newport and Annapolis, she was, in 1871, towed\\nround to Philadelphia and laid up. She is now an object of\\nmuch interest to visitors at tlie Charlestown Navy Yard.\\nFrom sources already mentioned it is ascertained that she\\ncaptured eight armed vessels carrying one hundred and fifty-\\neight guns, and ten l^narmed jn izes. From this statement it\\nwill be seen that her crews shared more hard knocks than prize\\nmoney.\\nThe next war-vessel built at Hartt s yard was the P)Oston\\nfrigate of seven hundred tons, so called because she was built", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "196 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nl)y tlu sul (script inn (if Ilostdii iiicrcliunts and ntliiTs, an l given\\na IVcc-will nii ering tn tlic gnvcniinciit. Slir was designed,\\npnihalily, by Mr. Hartt, and built under liis su[\u00c2\u00bbenntendence.\\nHer rate was to liave been a thirty-six, but slie lUdunteil only\\ntwenty-eight guns. On tlic L l d of August, ITKS, li,.]- k,.,-! was\\nlaid, and in April, 171J1 President Adams appointed Captain\\n(J( orge Little, of INIassaehusetts, to command her. June 12\\nshe liaulcd into the stri ani, and sailc(l on her lirst cruise July\\nL l, IT U. She was declared to Ix-. one of the handsomest ves-\\nsels that ever tioated.\\nThe names of tliosc persons who contributed to build the\\nBoston are worthy of preservation. A notice ajipeared in the\\n(V utinel of June 27, 17 J(S, that a subscription would be opened\\nin the chamlier over Taylor s Insurance Office (corner of 8tate\\nand Killiy Streets) at one o clock, where those wdio wish to\\njoin in this testimonial of public s})irit might affix their sig-\\nnatures. At this meeting 115,250 was raised, of Avhich Hon.\\nWilliam I liillips gave 10,000. This subscrijitiou was sulise-\\n(pieutly in.reased to .f 130,000; the frigate cost 1137,009.\\nI)avid Sears, Stephen Higginson, Eben Parsons, John odnian,\\ndoseph oolidge and Son, Theodore Lyman, l!oot ami Pratt,\\nand Thomas Dickinson gave 3,000 each. Samuel Parkman\\nand Sanniel Elliott gave $4,000 each. Benjamin Joy, James\\nand T. 11. Perkins, Thomas Walley, John Parker, Stephen Hig-\\nginson, dr., Abiel Smith, and Thomas C Amory arc down for\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iLoOO each. St. Andrew s Lodge gave $1,000. Benjamin\\nanil Xathaniel Ooddard and Josiah Quincy gave $500. The\\ngivers of smalk r sums aiv not less deserving of mention, but\\nai-e too numerous for our limits.\\nThe Pjoston got to sea during the hostilities with France, and\\nsoon distinguished herself on the West India station by cap-\\nturing Le: Pjcrceau, a ship of twenty-four guns and two hundred\\nand twenty men Les Deux Anges, ship of twenty guns three\\nbarges, and three unarmed jirizes. At this time she was one of\\noiniiiodori Tal])ot s sijuadron. The next year, under command\\nol Caiilain McNeil, the I .ostou carried a minister to France\\niiiid joiiieij the Meililerranean Meet.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYARDS. 197\\naptain Little brouglit Le Berceaii, liis prize, into Boston\\nearly in November. The Frenchman was completely dismasted\\nin the enj^^agement, but was repaired and restored to the French\\nunder treaty sti[)nlations. For circumstances attending this\\nca})ture, Captain Little was court-martialled, the court sitting\\non board the (institution, but was honorably acquitted. In\\nher action with Le Lerceau the Boston had four killed and\\neight wounded. The French prisoners were conBned at the\\nCastle.\\nIn 1812 the Bdston was reported unworthy of repair, and in\\n1814, when tlie British were advancing on Washingtim, she was\\nburned to prevent her falling into the enemy s hands.\\nThe brig Argus, sixteen guns, two liundred and twenty-six\\ntons, was built at Hartt s yard in 1803, at a cost of $37,420.\\nShe was designed by Mr. Hartly. In August, 1813, having\\nlauded Mr. Crawford, our Minister to Franci at Havre, she\\n})roceeded to cruise oif the Fnglish and L ish coasts, ami cap-\\ntured and burnt so many vessels that the Irish declared the\\nChannel was all abhize. Between the Shannon and the Liifey\\nshe captured twenty vesstds, most of which were burnt. On the\\n14th August, 1813, the Argus fought and was caittured by the\\nBritish brig Pidican, of twenty-one guns. Lieutenant Wm. H.\\nAllen of the Argus was nmrtally wounded early in the conflict\\nhe was Decatur s first lieutenant when he took the ]\\\\Lxcedonian.\\nThe Argus had also been a busy cruiser during th(^ war with\\nTripoli. Buth Hull and Decatur had connuanded her.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "198 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nCOPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY.\\nCopp s Hill. British Works. Ancient Arch. Wm. Gray. Old Ferry,\\nRt iiiiiiisceiices of Bunker Hill. The Cemetery. Curious Stones,\\nEpitaphs, etc. Old Funeral Customs. Charter Street. Sir Wni.\\nPhii)s. \u00e2\u0080\u0094John Foster Williams. \u00e2\u0080\u0094John Hull. Colonial Mint. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Christ\\nChurch. Revere s Night Bide. The Chimes. The Vaults, Legends\\nof. Major Pitcairn. Love Lane. North Latin School. Prince Street.\\nSalem Church. North End Heroes. Captain Manly. Massachu-\\nsetts Spy. First Baptist Cihurch. Second Baptist Church. Draft Riot,\\nLS(33.\\nWE pursue our way, after oiu long halt among tlie ship-\\nyards, around the hase of Copp s Hill. Tlie hill itself\\nis the early Mill Eirld df l(l: 2 and later, so called hecause the\\nwindmill u.sed to grind tlie settlers omi was brought from Cam-\\nhridge in this year and j)laced upon the .summit. Tliis was the\\nlust windmill erected in the town. The a})pearance of Copp s\\nHill, which name is from William oi)p, an early posse.ssor, is\\nvery diH erent to-day from wliat it was in 1800. At that time\\nthe hill tcrniiiiatcil aluiiptly on the northwest side in a rugged\\ncliir almost inacci ssililc I rom the water-side. Southerly, the\\nground Ji U away in an easy descent to tin hottom of Nortli\\nScpiarc and the shore of the ]\\\\Iill Pond, while to the eastward\\na gradual slope conducted ti the North 15attery. The beach at\\nthe foot of the heatUand, o|)posite Charlestown, was made into\\na street with earth taken froiu the summit of the hill, which\\nwas where Snow-llill Street now crosses it. This made Lynn\\nStreet, now Atlantic Avenue e.xteiisiou, and afforded a\\ncontinuous route along the water.\\nGoing north, the rising ground at Kichmond Street indicates\\nthe beginning of the ascent. The hill has been known as Wind-\\nmill Hill and as Snow Hill; but our ancestors were never at a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "COPPS HILL AND THE VICINITY.\\n199\\nANCIENT MILL.\\nloss for names, as appears in the redundancy of their street\\nnomenclature. The foot of the hill, at the northeasterly side,\\nwent in old times by the name of New Guinea, on account\\nof its being exclusively inhabited by\\nblacks. A representation is here given\\nof the kind of windmill used by the\\nfirst settlers of Boston. Its architecture\\ndifters entirely from the mills used by\\nthe French in Canada, the old stone\\nmill at Xewi)ort, or of the western set-\\ntlements of the French. It is a copy\\nof one set up at West Boston, the de-\\nsign for which may have been brought\\nfrom the Low Countries.\\nThe work erected by the British from\\nwliich they bombarded the Americans on Bunker Hill and\\nset fire to Charlestown, was on the summit of the eminence,\\nnear the southwest corner of the Burial Ground. It was a\\nsmall affair, consisting, when it was visited in the following year\\n(1776), of only a few barrels of earth to form parapets. Three\\ntwenty-eight pounders, mounted on carriages, were left s])iked\\nwithin. The battery was cover(;d by a small earthwork to the\\nrear designed for the infintry. Traces of these works remained\\nuntil the summit was levelled in 1807.\\nAt the foot of Henchman s Lane, when the work of excava-\\ntion was proceeding at this point, there was uncovered an arch\\nbuilt of brick, of large dimensions, with an opening at the water\\nside. Thc re was origlually a high bank at this place, the\\narch sjianning the then Lynn Street aird communicating with\\nthe cellar of a house on the north side. Sixty odd years ago,\\nwhen digging for the foundation of the houses on. the east side\\nof the street, the remains of the arch were found, and are still\\nto be seen in the cellar of the house opposite Henchman s Lane.\\nThose who examined it while it was intact are of the opinion\\nthat it was intended as a place of concealment for smugglers\\nand their contraliand goods. Many speculations were indulged\\nas to its origin and its uses, the tlieory that it was a retreat for", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "200 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\npirates l)i iiin ilio favoritu one. J iinc lias disclosed that it was\\nImilt by a ajitaiii (hnieliy during the French wars, and used as\\na iilace of deposit for captured goods. Perha])S the captaiii was\\na IVee trader, or htted out privateers to prey upon the commerce\\nof the French king. (Jruidiy was a suhseipient owner of Sir\\nWilliam Phips s house, his hind running down the hill to the\\nwater s edge.* He built him a wharf of two captured vessels,\\nwhich he sunk for the purpose. These old arches were a\\nuni(pie feature of Old Poston, and doubtless began to be built\\naltout the time Ilandolph made the attemjit to collect the king s\\nexcise. Another is noted built liy Edward Hutchinson from\\nhis house on North Street.\\nLynn Street is described in 1708 as from the North Battery\\nnorthwesterly to the F erry-way at Hudson s Point it retained\\nthis name until after 182S. before it Avas built into a thor-\\noughfare this street was only a narrow way around the lieach.\\nIlt^nchman s Lane is coeval witli Lynn Street in receiving its\\nname, wliich was from ajitain l)aiii l Henchman, father of tlie\\nbookseller, who liveil within its precincts.\\nWe next come to Foster Street, in the lower jiart of which\\nwas formerly the cannon and bell foundry of Paul Pevere. U})\\nto the time of the establishment of these works both cannon\\nand bells were impoi ted Init lievere cast lirass guns success-\\nfully, and some of his bells still hang iii our steeples. Hollow-\\nware, stoves, and a \\\\ariety of articles for domestic use Avere\\nmanuficturcd at this foundry, erected jnwious to 17! 4.\\nThe rain had l)ecn falling as AVe continued our walk through\\nthe filthy street along the water. The air was lillcil with the\\nstench arising under the Avarm sun IVom tlie niml and garbage\\nof the gutter, and from every door and window i f the over-\\ncrowded tenements peereil forth a. swarm of dirty humanity.\\nSome one has called the L i.sh the finest peasantry in the Avorld,\\n])ut perliaps lie had not seen them herded together in our cities.\\nMusing on these disenchanting features of our antiipiarian ]iur-\\nsuit, we cast our eyes upward in the direction of lirist hurch\\nsteeple, Avhich ser\\\\ es us as a guide and beacon,\\nTlie jsliiiie eiiil (if tlic tuniirl \\\\v;is trnccif to the ctdlar of tlifsc iireiniscs.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 201\\nAikI lo from nit a dirty alley,\\nWliere pigs and Irish wont to rally,\\nI saw a crazy v/onian sally,\\nBedaubed with grease and mud.\\nThe reader knows what a trifle will suffice to collect a crowd\\nin tlie city. Let a single individual stop in one of our crowded\\nthorougld ares and gaze intently in any direction, he will bo\\ninstantly surrounded by a curious, gaping nudtitude. We\\n([uickeiu d ciur [)ace, and left beliind us the throng gathering\\naround tlic jioor creature crazed with drink, blaspheming, and\\ntearing lier hair by handfuls. In this niananivre we were antici-\\npated by a prudent policeman who turned the corniu- in our front.\\nTiie new Public Park under Copp s Hill takes in Gray s\\nAVliarf, built by Hon. William Gray, better known by the so-\\nbriqu(!t of P.illy. P)eginniiig at the lowest round of the\\nladder, lie climbed to the highest mercantile eminence, and at\\nthe time of his death, in 18:^5, was tin; largest ship-owner in\\nAmerica, perlun)s in the world. He was the owner at one time\\nof sixty S([uare rigged vessels, whose sails whitened every sea.\\nMr. Gray, after acting in the State Legislature, was elected lieu-\\ntenant-governor with Elbridge (Jerry in 1810. He was a Dem-\\nocrat in politics, sustaining the embargo, notwitlistanding it\\ninflicted a heavy loss upon him. He lived in Summer .Street,\\nin the mansion previously occupied by Govcrmir Sullivan.\\nThere were few to whom the face of the old merchant was\\nnot familiar. He was an early riser, and performed a consid-\\nerable amount of work before breakfast. Alfal)le in intercourse,\\nunostentatious in manner, Mr. Gray was also a man of practical\\nbenevolence. He aided the government largely in 1812, and\\nit is said but for him the Constitution would not have got to\\nsea and electrified the nation by her exj l(iits. Mr. Gray was\\nthe first president of tlu^ State Bank, the first democratic bank-\\ning institution that obtained a charter in Massachusetts. After\\nthe Treaty of Ghent, Mr. CJray presided over a pulilic dinner\\ngiven to John Quincy Adams, at which the venerable patriarch,\\nJohn Adams, was also present. Mr. Gray s old homestead in\\nSalem afterwards became the Essex Coffee House.\\nBenjamin Goodwin, mentioned in the preceding chapter in\\n9", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "202 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nconnection witli the .seventy-four, lived in a lionse between\\nCharter and Lynn Streets extending from one street to the\\notlier. rioodwin s Wharf extended from a point opposite Iris\\nhiiuse, and was sixty to eighty rods east of tlie hridge. He\\ncari ied on a distillery, bake-house, and blacksmith-shop. The\\npremises were seized by order of the British general, and occ\\\\i-\\npied liy his tr(i0})S at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill.\\nThe s(jldiers afterwards wantonly destroyed much of the })rop-\\nerty and some of the buildings, Mr. CTOodwin s damages being\\nestimated at 1,500, lawful money.\\nHudson s Point, tlie extreme northwest point of the town,\\nwas named from Francis Hudson, the ferry-man. It is lirst\\ncalled y*^ Mylne Point, in the grant of the ferry to Thomas\\nMarshall in 1G35. At this point Avere estaldislied both the\\nferries to harlestown and Chelsea. To be exact, the Ferry-\\nway Avas, in 1720, l)etween Mr. Gee s and Hudson s Pcjint, and\\nMr. Joshua Gee, the bcjat-builder, owned the present property\\nof the Gas Company, his residence being in Prince Street, a\\nshort distance from his yard. This Mr. Gee was also owner of\\na large tract on Copp s Hill, between Charter, Prince, and Snow-\\nHill Streets. The town voted in 1720 to move the General\\nCourt to take action ab(_iut a Ijridge at this place, but no action\\nfollowed.\\nAmong the reminiscences of the old Ferry, besides being the\\nprobable landing of Winthrop s comi)any and the ])lace where\\nthe tii st white woman jumpeil ashore, it is noteil as the point\\nof del)arkation for tlie Ihitish wounded IVom liunkei Hill.\\nTheir admitted loss in tliis battle was two huiidreil ami twenty-\\nsix killed, eight hun(lre l and twenty-eight wounded, thougli\\nestimates have lieeu made as high as iifteen hundred. In\\nFrothingham s account of the battle is the following descrii)tiou\\nof the harrowing seene\\nTlic woinidi il duiinu- the whole night and the next day were\\nconveyed 1(1 r.dston, wliere the streets were tilled with groans and\\nlamentation. A letter of June 30, 1775, says I have seen many\\nfrom P.oston wlio were eyewitnesses of the most mtlancholy scene\\nthey e\\\\-er l)eheld in this put of tlic Will Id. Tlie Saturday nii^-lit and", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 203\\nSiibbath were taken up in carrying over the dead and wonnded and\\nall the wood-carts in town, it is said, were employed, chaises and\\ncoaches for the officers. They have taken the workhonse, almshouse,\\nand manufactory house for the wounded. The physicians, surgeons,\\nand apothecaries of Boston rendered every assistance in theii power.\\nThe j^rocessions were melancholy sights. In the first carriage,\\nwrites Clarke, was Major Williams, bleedmg and dying, and three\\ndead captains of the 52d. In the second, four dead officers then\\nanother with wounded officers. The privates who died on the field\\nwere immediately buried there, in holes, Gage s report states.\\nOn Monday morning, a British account says, all the dead officers\\nwere decently buried in Boston in a private manner, in the ditterent\\nchurches and churchyards there.\\nFrancis Eawtlon, afterwards Marquis of Hastings, and George\\nHarris, afterwards a jjeer, were both officers of the 5tli, and\\nwounded. The 5th, 59th, and the Welsh Fusileers Avere ter\\nribly cut up.\\nThe first act of the British commander before the Lexington\\nexpedition, which liad a lujstile look, was the hauling of the\\nSomerset man-of-war from the stream where slie had been lying\\ninto Charles Eiver, so as to command the Ferry-ways. This is\\nstated in tlie Salem Gazette of April 18, 1775, and was to jn-e-\\nvent communication of the intended movement to the country.\\nThis vessel served to cover the disorderly retreat of the regulars\\nover Charlestown Ts^eck on their return from Lexington and\\nConcord. We shall see that the Somerset s wutcdi was ill-kept,\\nand that a Noitli End mechanic looked into the muzzles oi lier\\nguns as he carried Warren s errand and s[)rea(l the tidings\\nabroad. The Somerset went ashore on Cape Cod during the\\nwar, and her officers and crew were made ju isoners by the\\nmilitia, and sent to P)oston.\\nWhen Burgoyne s army was near Caml)ri(lge as }irisoners of\\nwar, some of the officers pushed on over the ferry into Boston\\nbut their hopes of comfortable quarters and good cheer were\\nspeedily dashed, for they were all perempt( irily ordered back to\\nthe prisoners camps at Union, AVinter, and Prospect Hills,\\nwhere barracks bad been prepared f )r them. Burgoyne him-\\nself had the privilege of entree into the town, which he im-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "204\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTHR MATHER TOMIi.\\nproved as we have seen, tlion;j;h times were changed since he\\nstood on Copp s Hill and saw his eonirades-in-arms advance np\\nthe hillside across the river to storm the American redonl:)t.\\nBurgoyne s graphic acconnt of the Ijattle written to Lord Stan-\\nley lias su])p]i( il the hest English narration of the hattle of\\nBnnher Hill. ^V ra])ier once helonging- to the general is in\\npossession of a descendant of that Benjamin (loodwin whose\\nproperty was so ill-nsed ])y the king s troops.\\nCopp s Hill Burying-Clround, first called the North Burying-\\nI^lace, was the scc ond place uf\\nsepulture within the town.\\nAbout three acres is enclosed\\nby the cemetery walls, made\\nn|) of several tracts. The\\ni.^ first was conveyed to the town\\nin IG.^9, and composed the\\nnortheastern part. An addi-\\ntional parcel was convt yeil in\\n1711 ])y Samuel Sewall and his wife Hannah, the daugliter of\\nJohn Hull, f(ir tlie jiurpose of enlargement. In the convey-\\nance was reserved uue indd s(piare in Avhich Mrs. Mary\\nThatcher now lyeth buried. wliich they had previously con-\\nveyed to Josluiadee. The deed ulso gave the right of way\\nacross the burying-ground, so that a small piece of i)rivate\\nproperty, without any restrietinus as to its use, exists in the\\nmidst of the cemetery. Another stiip of land was added\\non the Hull Street side in after years. On tlie Snow-Hill\\nStreet side the liill li^is lieeu cut down twenty feet, the cem-\\netery being there protected by a heavy granite wall. A gun-\\nliouse once stood in the southeast corner of the new part of\\nthe cemetery.\\nWhen we are at King s Chapel, or the Dranary Burial-\\n(liiiund, amid the bustle of a erowih d tlioroughfare, the mind\\nis wholly diveste(l of tliose feehngs of eahu and solitude with\\nwhich we are accustouieij to view tlie last resting-places of the\\ndead. The superstitious (hi not hurry past, nor do tlie timid\\npass liy on tlie otiier side. The al)sence of t uneral rites for so", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 205\\nlonjf a time deprives them of the awe and reverence which such\\nmournful pageants inspiiv the living- move on in a continual\\ntide, unbroken except in the still watidies of the night, sepa-\\nrated only by a narrow barrier from tlic; motionless dead.\\nBut in Copp s Hill it is ditferent. Quiet prevails, and we\\nalmost expect to hear the clink of Old Mortality s chisel among\\nthe gravestones.\\nBeneath those rugged elms, tliat yew-tree s shade,\\nWliere heaves tlie turl in many a mouldering lieap,\\nKach in his narrow cell forever laid,\\nThe rude forefathers of the handet sleep.\\nCopp s Hill is, however, strangely like the Chapel (Iround in\\none respect. The same matluiinatical pnnnsion is observal)le in\\nthe laying out of the walks and arrangement of the stones.\\nWhile a cemetery may be Ix autilied under a comix tent hand,\\nwhat can excuse the wholesale depredations made among the\\nbones of our ancestors of the North VavII\\nApparently the oldest stone in this ceraetory bears the date of\\n1625, or before the settlement of Boston, being that of (trace\\nBerry; that of Joanna, daughter of William Copp, is dated\\n1625-G. It is said that these stones were altered in a boyish\\nfreak, by (leorge Darracott, from 1G95. Many stolen gravestones\\nhave been recovered by Supt. MacDonald from drains, chimney-\\ntops, or cellars in the vicinity. The oldest stone, that to two chil-\\ndren of David Copp, dated IfiGl -1678, lay buried many years.\\nSince the beautiful symlxilic customs d the (occks and Ro-\\nmans, their emblems are to Ije found in every chuicliyard. The\\nbroken column, the cylimler and sphere, the moinnni utal urn\\nand t(n ch, are types derived from anti(]uity. The pyramids\\nof Egypt, the tombs by the banks of the Nile, now used by the\\nliving, and the splendid mausoleums of the (ireeks and Romans,\\nare evidences of the respect and veneration felt for the departed\\nin centuries gone by. Inscriptions were early used by the\\nGreeks until forbidden by Lycurgus, except to such as died in\\nbattle. Since then wit, humor, and sentiment have been ex-\\nhausted on marble or stone. Too many, ijerhaps, jjrofess a\\nvirtue if they have it not others are fixcetious, marking the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "206 LANDMAIJK.S OF HOSTOiN\\npas-sage of a soul into ctrruity witli a ilip])aut jest. Pope and\\nByron wrote epita])lis on ilogs, and Voltaire on a liird, wliile\\nPrior deuKjlishes the pretensi(.)ns of Westminster Abljey in four\\nlines\\nNobles anil lieralils, ))y your leave,\\nHere lies what once was Matthew rrior,\\nThe son of Adam and of Eve\\nCan Stuart or Nassau elaini lii,nlier\\nThe following is from a, stone in opp s Hill\\nA sister of Sarali Lueas lietli here,\\nWhom I did love most dear,\\nAnil now her son! hatli took its Hii^ht,\\nAnd hid her spi-htful foes i,iiod night.\\nMany iif tlie inseriptions are in rude contrast with the beau-\\ntifully chisrlli d armoi ial Ix ariugs here seen, as in King s Chapel\\niround. tlie liest exeeuted sperimeus of mortuary seulpture being\\nusually imported iVom England. 8ome of the stones are indeed\\njirimitive, being little more than solid bloeks, massy, and\\nscarce shaped into form, (^luaiut insn i])tiiius, the traditiomd\\ndeath sdiead and hourglass, gi eet you on every liaiid. ^lany of\\nthe older inseriptions ai-e illegilile, what wonder, after more\\nthan two hundred years coufliit with the elements Is the\\nspirit which prompted the jiimis work of (_)lil jNIortality e.xtin-\\nguislied in our historieal institutions 1\\nThe singular juxtaposition of names strikes the reader of the\\nheadstones in op]) s Hill. Here re])ose the ashes of Mr. John\\nMilk and Mr. William lleer of Samuel Mower and Tlieodnria\\nHay; Timothy iay and Hanie] (JraAes of Elizabeth Tout and\\ni homas Si-oot. Here lie Iiai ity llrown, I ^lizabeth Searlet, and\\nMarcy White .Ann K uby and I jinly Stoiie. I he nld fimiliar\\nNorth End names nvc here lui every side. Tlie Huguenot\\nSigoui iieys the (irays, of rojie-makiug fame tlie .Abiuiitlbrts,\\nclaiming descent from the Norman ompiest. k.dmund llartt,\\nbuilder of the Constitution; Deacon jNIoses (iraiit and ]\\\\laJor\\nSeward of llevolutionary memory, and a, liost o| othei s who go\\nto swell th(^ ranks of tlie unnumliered dead.\\nOn the Charter Street side, near the northeast corner of the\\nground, once grew a beautiful weeping willow, drooping grace-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AM) THE VICINITY. 207\\nfully over the monument of Joshua Ellis. This willow came\\nfrom the grave of the great Corsican at St. Helena. It was\\nruined by a gale in 1888.\\nInterments are now restricted to the tombs, and if we\\nexcept the occasional pilgrimage of a stranger, the cemetery\\nseems to be the common playground of the children of the\\nneighborhcjod. By levelling a range of old rookeries, on\\nthe Charter Street side, a fine view was opened across\\nCharles River, embracing the monument and s})ires of Charles-\\ntown, with the dismantled war-ships moored in piiet waters\\nbelow.\\nActs of vandalism are recorded with respect to some of the\\ngravestones in the yard. Those of (Jrace Berry and Captain\\nDaniel jNIalcolm having served King George s soldiers for target-\\npractice, by which they were splintered, and the insi-rijitions\\ndefaced. The names on some if tlie old tombs have been\\nobliterated and others substituted. The licautiful coat of arms\\nof the Hutchinsons has been thus desei rated. 80 says Thomas\\nBridgman in his Epitaphs. The remains of Thomas Hutch-\\ninson, father of the governor, once rested here. Besides the\\nMathers, Andrew and John Eliot, divines of old celebrity, lie\\nhere.\\nFrom Copp s Hill Burgoyne and Clinton witnessed the fight\\non Bunker Hill, and directed the fire of the battery. It was a\\nshell from here that set fire to Charlestown, adding to the gran-\\ndem- and horror of the scene. Clinton, seeing the ranks of his\\nveterans reel and fall back before the murderous discharges from\\nthe redoul)t, threw himself into a ])oat and crossed to the aid of\\nHowe.\\nThe British shipping took a prominent part in this battle,\\nespecially the Glasgow^ whi( ,h lay in a position where she swejit\\nCharlestown Neck with her guns, thus preventing reinforce-\\nments passing over to the Americans, and harassing their retreat\\nfrom the hill. An American ofticer told Putnam no one could\\ncross that Neck and live nevertheless it is stated, on the au-\\nthority of Major Eussell, that a number of Boston school-boys\\ncrossed and recrossed duriu j- the battle.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "208\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nThe (Glasgow was alsn (inc of tlio licet that lirnught tlic Brit-\\nish troops to Boston in 17(IS. The cngniving is from an (iriginal\\n(h-awing, and siiows the stylt; (it naval architecture in tlie last\\ncentury.\\nOut of this trancpiillity we can with difticulty conjure up the\\nscene of carnage that once\\nraged upon the hillside yon-\\nder. Tlie still, starry night\\nthat jn cceded the hattle, wlien\\na thousand men, stacking tlieir\\ntireliicks, with mattdck and\\nspade threw up the lirst ram-\\npart (if the licvdlutidii. (Irid-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0y, tlie veteran engineer,\\nmarking out the works upon\\nthe wet turf, with Poincroy,\\nTHE (;lasi, i\\\\v.\\nPrescott, Putnam, and many more that heard\\nTilt ilnim that beat at L(.)iii.sliur2; awl tluiiKlfU il in QiU liec\\nHow strangely to their ears must have sdundcd the cry of the\\nIh itish sentinel, All s well! as he paced when^ we now\\nstand. To the lahorers on that sultry nigiit this cry was hailed\\nat every hour as proof of their undiscovered toil. So the de-\\nfences grew, hour hy Imur, until the UKirning dawned on the\\neventful day.\\nIn this hattle (len.eral iage s military reputation was lost.\\nBy his neglect to seize and hold liailcstown heights a hattle was\\nforced upon him, Avith the loss ol Ilritish prestige and twelve\\nhundred of his hravest soldiers. And Howe, notwithstanding\\nthe bitter experience of that day, tliought to repeat the experi-\\nment at Dorchester Heights hefore a year had passed.\\nIt was once the custom to hang the escutclieon of a deceased\\nhead of a family from the win(h)W or over the entrance of a\\nhouse from which a funeral was to take place until it was over.\\nThe last iu.stiince noted is that of (Governor Hancock s uncle,\\nThomas Hancock, in 17G4. Copies of the escutclieon were\\ndistributed among tlic pall Itcarers, rings afterward, and gloves", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 209\\nwithin the century. Scarfs were oiico given tlie mourners,\\nbut this was prohibited, in 1724, by law.\\nBefore Copp s Hill was built upon so densely, it served the\\nXorth End poi^dation as a place of promenade and recreation.\\nThe common was far too distant, and wanted the attraction of\\nthe beautiful panorama of the harbor then to be seen from this\\neminence. Tlie character of this(piarter of tlu; town has since\\nthen und(M-g(jne a change, its residents no longer claiming tlie\\nhigh standing once their due. The hill, fortunately for its\\npreservation, is not in the line of the movement of traffic, and\\nhas experienced little alteration except on the water-side.\\nAfter the surrender oi (,)uel)(}c the North-Enders made an\\nunexampled Ixmhrc on (ip[) s Hill. Kortyfive tar-barrels, two\\ncords of wood, a mast, s})ars, and boards, with fifty pounds of\\npowder, were set in a blaze, and must have cast a ruddy glow\\nover the waters of the l ay. This, with a similar illumination\\non Fort Hill, was paid for by the province, together witli thirty-\\ntwo gallons of rum and much beer for the p( oj)l(^\\nCharter Street, wdiicli makes the northern boundary of tlm\\ncemetery, takes its name from theC barter of King William III.\\nTnder it Maine, Plymouth, and ^Massachusetts formed a sillgl(^\\n1 .ovincial government. The name has stood since 1708.\\nSir William Phips s name is closely identifie(l with the\\nstreet, both as a resident and for having l)een the first governor\\nunder the uew chartcn His residence was at the westerly (;or-\\nner of Salem and Charter Streets, which long went by the name\\nof Phips s Corner. The house was of ])rick, altere(l liy the\\naddition of a third story in the present century, and was use(l\\nin 1830 as an Asylum for Indigent Boys. The governor s name\\nis remembered in Phips Place, near at hand.\\nGovernor Phips s origin was ol)Scure. An apiirentice to a\\nship-carpenter in early youth, he is naturally found among his\\ncraftsmen of the Xorth End. He received knighthood for the\\nrecovery of .300,000 of treasure, in 1687, from a sunken\\nSpanish galleon, near the Bahamas, all of which he turned\\nover to the English government, receiving 10,000 as his\\nshare. He made two expeditions against Canada in 1090,\\nN", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "1210 LANPMAKKS OF JiOSTON.\\none against Quebec, resulting unsuccessfully, and another in\\nwhich liis tieet captured Port Royal. It is said he received liis\\nappiiintmcnt through the influence of Increase Mather, while\\nthe doctor was agent for the colony in England.\\nThe occasion of the govern(ji s arrival in Boston, May, 1692,\\nwas (ine of great rejoicing. On the Kith he was escorted from\\nhis dwelling to the State House by the Boston Regiment and\\nciinijtanics from Charlestown, with the magistrates and people,\\nnut only of Boston, but tln neighboring towns. The new\\ncharter and tlie governnr s commission were then read from the\\nbalcony, according to custom, and the old governor, Bradstreet,\\nvacated his office. A bampiet closed the ceremonies.\\nDr. otton ]\\\\lathi r says Phips dreamed when a poor boy\\nthat he would become rich and build him a house on the Green\\nLane, the ancient name of Salem Street. He lived to realize\\nhi.s dream, and lieconie tlie head of the colony.\\nSir William Avas a man of ungovernable temper. He assaulted\\nIlrenton, tlie collector of tlie port, and caned aptaiu Sliort, of\\ntlie Nonesuch frigate. He was of large stature and great per-\\nsonal strength, whi(di made these jiersonal conflicts undesirable\\nto his foes. An instance is given of his having acted a (jrom-\\nwellian part. Having procured, by a Imre majority, the passage\\nof an act prohibiting any but residents of the town they reju e-\\nseiited to be members of the Cieneral Court, Sir William rushed\\ninto the chamber and drove out the non-resident rejiresenta-\\ntives, who did not stand ujkui the order of their going, but left\\nthe governor master of the field. Governor Phips was a mem-\\nber of the Gld Xorth under the ministration of the Mathers.\\nAside from his imiu tuous disjiosition, he is described as a man\\nof sterling traits. He died in London in 1695, and was buried\\nin the church of St. Mary Woolnoth, where a long ei)itaph\\ncommemorates his life and public services.\\nHutclunson relates that once in Sir William s absence his\\nwife, whose name was INlary (William and Mary were the\\nreigning sovereigns), was applied to in behalf of a poor woman\\nwho had been committed under a charge of witchcraft, and that\\nout of the goodness of her heart she signed a warrant for the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "corps HILL AND THE VICINITY.\\n211\\nwoman s discharge, William and iMary, which mandate was\\nobeyed by the keeper of the jail without question.\\nIn Charter Street lived the ancestors of John Foster Wil-\\nliams, who, in the Massachusetts frigate Protector, of twenty-\\nsix guns, sunk the English ship Admiral I)uti of thirty guns,\\nduring the Revolutionary War. In this antion Preble, after-\\nwards commodore, was a midshipman witli Williams, who died\\nin Boston in 1814. Foster Street, now Clark, was intended to\\nperpetuate the old family. Paid Pevere, the Jidus Achates of\\nWarren, lived and died in a house in Charter Street which he\\nbought near the close of the war of Independence. It stootl near\\nHanover Street, on tlu^ west side, where Pevere Place now is.\\nSpencer Phijis, afterwards lieutenant-governor, was origi-\\nnally named David Bennet, but took the name of his Uncle\\nPhips when adopted by him. He also lived in Sir William s\\nhouse. Spencer Phips was in office while William Shirley\\nwas governor, and was of course overshad(\u00c2\u00bbwe(l by that remark-\\nable man. Phips was succeeded by Hutcliinson at his deatli\\nin 1757.\\nHull Street bounds the cemetery on tlic south. It is named\\nfor John Hull, through whose jiasture it was laid out, and was\\nconveyed to the town l)y Judge Samuel Sewall and wife, on\\nthe express condition that it should always bear that name.\\nJohn Hull, the primitive owner of this tielil, is famed as the\\ncoiner of the first\\nmoney in New Eng- ~J/\\nland. The scarcity ^^j- \\\\1^^\\nof silver in the col-\\nony for a circulating\\nmedium seems to\\nhave rendered the\\nstep necessary. The\\ncolonists being pur-\\nchasers as yet, the bullion flowed out of the country.\\nIn the History and Antiquities of Boston it is remarked\\nIt was no small stretch of authority for a Colony or a Province\\nto presume to coin money but tlii.s Colony was now very peculiarly\\nriNE-TREE SIIILLINC", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "21-2\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nt^ituatcil, aiiil its piwsuiinitiini in takiii^Lj this sti p was ;ifatly fovored\\nliy llic ivcfiit slate of atrairs in tlic luotluT couiitrv.\\nTill mint was stal lislifil at John }Iull, the .silversniitli s,\\nlioiisc, and he and Ills cDadjiitor, Eohci t Sanderson, took oath\\nthat all tlic money coined l)y them shonld he of tlie just alloy\\nof the English eojne tliat every shilliny slmidd be of due\\nweight, namely, three penny troj weight, and all other pieces\\nl)roportional)ly, so neere as\\n^\u00c2\u00bb^\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00abr^K ,i/^i^^^\\\\ ^^^^y could. This was, in\\n-^A \u00e2\u0080\u00a2AlJ L^iUf ^f\u00c2\u00b0 a^sa ;tS^ pin,, tj.^,p shilling. Hull s\\nhouse was the same formerly\\nowned hy Kev. John otton.\\nIn 1654 an order of the Gen-\\neral ourt prohihitt d the transportation out of its jurisdiction\\nof more than twenty shillings for necessary expenses l y\\nany person. Searchers were appointed to examine all [)acks,\\npersons, trunks, chests, boxes or the like. The penalty was\\nthe seizure of the whole estate of the offender.\\nHull began poor, and endi (l I ich, many of his new shillings\\nlinding their way into his own\\nsti ong-box. He was a very worthy\\nman, and a mendjer (if the First\\nhurch under IJev. John Wilson.\\nHe mai ried Judith, the daughter\\nof Kdmund (^Miincy, ancestor of\\nthat i amily in New England. From her is named that nnich-\\ndrcadc(l point of Narragansctt T a,y, where Neptune exacts his\\nti iliutc from voyagers through the Sound. It is said, moreover,\\nthat Hannah Hidl, his daughter, received for her wedding por-\\ntion licr wi ight in ])ine-tree shillings wlien she married Judge\\nSewall, a statement proliably originating in an ingenious com-\\n)utation of the weight of the sum she actually received. From\\nthis marriage, remarks (,)Tnncy, lias sjtrung the eminent family\\nnf the Sewalls, which has given three chief justices to Massa-\\nchusetts and one to Canada, and has been distinguished in\\nevery generation by the talents and virtues of its members.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "COPPS HILL AND THE VICINITY.\\n21-\\nSalem Street was, iu 1708, from Mr. Phips s corner in\\nCliarter Street to Prince Street from tlieuce to Hanover it was\\nBack Street.\\nChrist Cliurcli spire has long dominated over this locality,\\nand served as a landmark for vessels entering the harl)or. It is\\nthe oldest chnrch in Boston standing on its original ground,\\nhaving been erected in 1723, six years before the Old South.\\nOf the fifteen cluirchrs Imilt previous to 1750, only a few\\noccupy their original sites the others may be found in the\\nnew city wliich has sprung up as if by magic in the old bed\\nof Charles Piiver.\\nThis was the second Episcopal Church erected in tlie town.\\nIt has been in its day considereil (ine of tlie chief architectural\\nornaments of the North End. The body of the (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0luirch has the\\nplain monotonous style peculiar to all the old houses of wor-\\nsliip, but the\\nsteeple the\\ndesign o t\\nCharles Bui\\nfinch beau\\ntiliestliewhoh\\nstructure. Tht\\nold steeple wa^\\nblown down in\\nthe great gah\\nof 1804, fall\\ning upon an\\nold wooden\\nbuilding at tin\\ncorner of Tiles\\nton Street,\\nthrough which\\nit crashed, to\\nthe consterna\\ntion of tht\\ntenants, who,\\nhowever, es\\ntHRI 5T CHI R( H.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "CHRIST CHURCH.\\n1723.\\n214 LANDMARKS OF UUSTON.\\ncapt d injury. In rebuilding, the height was shortened about\\nsixteen feet by Joseph Tucker, the\\nl)uilder. Over the entrance is a plain\\ntablet with the name and date of the\\nliouse.\\nIt is generally known that from this steeple which was\\nvisible far and near warning was given of the intended\\nmarch to Lexington and tincurd. Paul Revere s narrative\\ngives a relation of tlu^ metlioil\\nOil Tuesday evening, the IStli of April, 1775, it was observed\\nthat a nundjer of soldiers were marching towards Boston Common.\\nAl)0ut ten o clock Dr. Warren sent in great haste forme, and begged\\ntliat I would immediately set oti for Lexington, wla-re were Hancock\\nand Adams, and acquaint them of the movemt-nt, and that it was\\nthought tliey were the objects. The Sunday before, l)y desiie of\\nDr. Warren, I had been to Lexington to see Hancock and Adams,\\nwho were at Rev. Mr. (Jlark s.\\nI returned at night, througli Cliarlestowu. There I agreed with\\na Colonel Conant and some other gentlemen that if the British went\\nout l)y water we would show two lanterns in the North Church\\nstci ])le, and if by land, one, as a signal for we were apprehensive it\\nwould be difficult to cross Charles River, or get over Boston Neck.\\n1 left Dr. Warren, called upon a friend, and desired him to make the\\nsignals. I then went home, took my boots and surtout, went to the\\nmirth part of the town, wliere I had kept a Ijoat. Two friends rowed\\nme across Charles River, a little to the eastward, where the Somerset\\nlay. It was then young Hood the ship was winding, and the moon\\nwas rising. They landed me on the Cliarlestowu side. When I got\\ninto town, I met Colonel Conaut and several others. They said they\\nhad seen our signals.\\nWithin the steeple are hung a chime of Itells, placed there\\nin 1744, the first whose cadences gladdened the town.\\nLow at times and loud at times,\\nAnd changint; like a poet s rhjones,\\nRang the beautiful wild chimes.\\nThese bells were from the famous West of England foundry\\nof Abel Rudhall, of (xloucester, whose bells have been lieai d\\nin many a town and hamlet of Merrie England. Each had\\nan inscription containing its own and much contemporary his-\\ntory, as follows", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICIXITY. 215\\nFIRST BELL.\\nTliis peal of eight bells is tlie gift of a number of generous persons to Clirist\\nChurch, in Boston, N. E., Anno 1744. A. R.\\nSECOND BELL.\\nThis Church was founded in the year 1723. Tiinotliy Cutler, D. D., the\\nfirst Rector. A. R. 17--\\nTHIRD BELL.\\nWe are the first ring of liells cast for the British Empire in North America.\\nA. R. 1744.\\nFOURTH BELL.\\nGod preserve the Church of England. 1744.\\nFIFTH BELL.\\nWilliam Shirley, Es(p, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay, in New Eng-\\nland. Anno 1744.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2SIXTH BELL.\\nThe subscription for these T)ells was begun by John Hammock and Ro])ert\\nTemple, Church Wardens, Anno 1743 completed by Robert Jenkins and\\nJohn Gould, Church Wardens, Anno 1744.\\nSEVENTH BELL.\\nSince generosity has opened our mouths, our tongues shall rhig aloud its\\npraise. 1744.\\nEIGHTH BELL.\\nAbel Rudhall, of Gloucester, cast us all. Anno 1744.\\nThe oliime.s or ring of bells, wvw obtaiiK il in England l)y\\nDr. Cutler, and were consecrated there. They were invested\\nwith the power to dispel evil spirits, according to iiojjular\\nbelief. The same bells still hang in the belfry. Their carillon,\\nvibrating harmony on the air of a (|uiet Salibath, suniiiions the\\nlil tli generatioit for whom they have indclainied (Jldiy to (iod\\nin the highest, and on earth jieace, gdod will tdward men.\\nThe chandeliers u.sed formerly in the churcli were given l)y\\nthat Captain Gruchy we visited not long since. Mrs. Crocker s\\nrelation is, that they were takon from a Spanish vessel by one\\nof Cruchy s privateers, and found their way to a Protestant\\nChurch instead of a Catholic Cathedral, as was intended. Dr.\\nCutler, the fir.st rector, lived on the corner of Tileston and\\nSalem Streets, in close proximity to the cluirch.\\nThe height of tower and steeple is 175 feet, and the aggregate\\nweight of the bells 7,1*72 ixmnds tlie smallest weighing 020", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "216 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\npounds, the largest 1,545. General (rage, it is said, witnessed\\nfrom Christ Church steeple the burning of Cliarlestown and\\nbattle of Bunker Hill.\\nIn this church is the lirst monument ever erected to the\\nmemory of Washington in our country. Dr. l yles, the rector,\\nleft Boston in 1775, and went to St. John, New Brunswick,\\nwliere he was settled as rector and cure of the church of that\\n])lace. This Dr. Byles was the son of Bev. IMather Byles, the\\npunning parson of Hollis Street. There does not appear to\\nhave been a settled pastor after this until 1778.\\nThe interior has been considerably changed by alterations.\\nP ormerly there was a centre aisle, now closed, as is also the\\nlarge altar window. The chancel is decorated with paintings\\ncri ditably executed by a Boston artist. The walls of the church\\nare of great strength, being two feet and a lialf thick the\\nbrick are laid in the style of the last century, in wliat is termed\\ntill- English Bond, of which liut a few specimens remain in\\nBoston.\\nLike many of the old Boston churches, this has its vaults\\nunderneath for the reception of the dead, and with them, of\\ncourse, its legendary lore. In Shaw it is n/corded that\\nIII 1S12, while the workmen were employed building Innilis, one\\nof them found the earth so loose that he settled his liai intu it the\\nwhole length with a single efi ort. The siqieiiuteiident directed him\\nto proceed till he found solid earth. Alumt six feet lielow tlie bot-\\ntom of the cellar lie found a rdttin rovt re l with a cnai se linen clotli\\nsized with gum, which, nn bdlHuL;. became wliite, and the texture as\\nfirm as if it had recently lieeii woxeii. Within this cotlin was aunther,\\nprotected from the air in a similar manner, and tlie furniture was\\nnot in the least injured l)y time. Tlie tlesh was siaiiid, and some-\\nwbat resembling that of an Egvptian nniiumy. The skin, when\\ncut, I esembled leather. The sprigs of evergreen, de])0site(I in the\\ncotiin, rescmliled the broad-leaved myrtle the stem was elastic the\\nleaves fresh and a])])ai ently in a state of vegetation. From the in-\\nsc,rij)tion it was found to lie the body of a Mr. Tliomas, a native of\\nNew En,L;lau who died in l ei niu la. Some of his family were\\naiiionu- the founders of hrist hurch. His remains, when discov-\\nereil, had lieen entombed ahoiit eii;lilv vears.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 217\\nMajor Pitcairn s remains were interred under tliis church,\\nand thereby hangs another legend. After being twice wounded,\\nPitcairn ralhed liis men for a third assault, and received his\\ndeath-wound while entering the redoubt, falling into the arms\\nof his own son, who bore him to the boat. He was brought\\nacross the river and taken to the house of Mr. Stoddard, boat-\\nbuilder, near the ferry, where he bled to death in a short time.\\nPitcairn was a large, portly man, and so was Lieutenant Shea,\\nwhose remains were also deposited under the church. The lat-\\nter died of fever and when, some time after the events of the\\nRevolution, the body of Pitcairn was sent for by his relatives\\nin England, it is said that of Lieutenant Shea was forwarded\\nl)y mistake. The sexton was at a loss to identifj^ the remains,\\nl)ut the presence of a large Ijlistering plaster on the head of the\\nl)ody he sent to England seems to jtoint to a Ijlunder on his\\npart. It has been (juestioned whether the monument in West-\\nminster Abbey to Pitcairn connnemorates his bravery and death\\non the battle-held, or that of a man who died from intlamma-\\ntion of the bram in his bed.\\nPitcairn will always be remendten-d as the leader of tlit; ad-\\nvance-guard who fired on the provincials at Lexington, and\\nbegan the great drama of the Revolution. He always main-\\ntained that the nunute-men fired first, wliicdi tliose present on\\nthe American siile warndy disputed. This circumstance has\\nassociated Pitcairn s name with undeserved oldoquy, for he was\\na brave officer and a kind-hearted man. Of all the British\\nofficers in Boston, he alone, it is said, dealt justly and impar-\\ntially by the townspeo|)le in their disputes with the troops.\\nHis men were warmly attaclied to him, and declared they had\\nlost a lather when he fell. Gage sent his own physician to\\nattend him. The bullet which laid the gallant marine low was\\nfired by a negro soldier from Salem. The regiment which he\\ncommanded arrived from England in the latter part of Decem-\\nber, 1774, in tlie Asia, Boyue, and Somerset.\\nRev. William Montague, rector of Christ Church, was the\\n])er8on to whom Arthur Savage gave the ball whicli killed War-\\nren at Bunker Hill. The identity of this baU has been disputed\\n10", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "218 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nby mnna of the martyr s de.sceudants, ou Uiv ground that it was\\nsaid to have been taken from the body, while ^^^u\u00e2\u0080\u00a2reu received\\nhis death from a ball in the head. The controversy was main-\\ntained with consideraljle warmth on both sides, the general\\nopinion favoring tlie authenticity of the fatal bullet. Arthur\\nSavage was an otticer of the customs in IJoston, and his state-\\nment that he took the ])iece of lead from arr( n s body is\\nworthy of l)elief. Mr. Montague is said to have been the\\niirst American Episcopal clergyman ordaiiUMl in Amcrii-a who\\npreached in an English pulpit. The English olH -ers billeted\\nin tiiis ipiarter of the town attended Christ Church.\\nTileston Street is the Love Lane of our ancestors, not from\\nthe Hymeneal Deity, else we may believe it would have been\\ntlie fivorite resort of the North End damsels and their love-\\nloi ii swains. It was thus name(l from the Love family, who\\nowne(l most of the street. Mrs. Susannah Love sold the ground\\nc ii wliieji the Eliot School was built, and tlie name of the lane\\nwas cJiaugtMl about 1820, for good old Master John Tileston of\\nthat school. Master Tileston presided over the school for two\\nthirds of a centiuy, and after he became sujierannuated his salary\\nwas (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ontinued the only instance of the kind in tlie history of\\nthe town or city. He lived at the westerly coiner of Margaret\\nand Prince Streets. Mather Byles is said to laive iirst seen the\\nlight in Tileston Street.\\nThe Iirst Grammar Scluxd in this jiart of the town was erected\\nill lleiinet Street in 1713, and was called the Noith Latin ScIkmiI.\\nLecompense Wadsworth was the hrst master. A writing-s(diool\\nwas built on the same lot, on Love Lane, in 171S and in 1741,\\nwlieii an enumeration was made, tliis school had more pupils\\nthan all tlie otliers comliined. Lp to ISOO tliere were Imt\\nseven si liools ill the town, and only nine wlieii Loston liecame\\na city. IJeiinet Street was for some time distinguished as jS orth\\nLatin Sch \u00c2\u00bbol Street. Tla^ old schools were known later as tlie\\nNortli (Irammar and North Writing, the subseipieiit name of\\nEliot being given to honor the memory of the jiastors of the\\n)id .\\\\ortIi (Jliurch. Since the city government went into opera-\\nticui it seems to have }\u00c2\u00bbassed into a caistoiu to name the schools", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 219\\nfor the mayors. The old school-house stood by the side of the\\npresent one, and was the thu-d in the town. Captain Thomas\\nHutchinson, father of the too-celebrated lieutenant-governor,\\nbuilt the house and gave it to the town. Three or four edihces\\nhave succeeded the original, the present structure having ])een\\ndedicated on Forefather s Day, 1859. Mather Byles, Edward\\nEverett, and Dr. Jenks are among the distinguished pupils of\\nthe school. Edward Everett lived, in 1802, in Proctor s Lane,\\nnow the easterly part of Richmond Street, and in 1804 removed\\nto Richmond Street. His mother afterwards removed to New-\\nbury, now Washington Street, to a house nearly opposite the\\nhead of Essex Street.\\nThe modern school acquired some notoriety in 1859, from a\\nreljellion of the Catholic pupils against the reading of the Ten\\nC(jnnuandments, which caused no little excitement in the old\\nNorth End. Various attempts have been made from time to\\ntime to prohibit the reading of the Scriptures in the public\\nschools, one of whicli gave rise to the following mot of Rufus\\nChoate What Ijanish the Bible from schools Never, while\\ntliere is a })iece of Plymouth Rock left large enough to make a\\ngun-Hint of\\nAt Prince Street we reach the old line of division ])etween\\nSalem Street proper and Back Street. The origin of Salem and\\nLynn Streets are obvious. Back Street was thus distinguish;^!\\nfrom Fore, through wliich our readers liave foUowed us iu a\\nformer chapter. Prince, named from some scion of roy;dty, lias\\noutlived King and (^ueen. This street was originally from Han-\\nover (Middle) to tlie sea, but now readies into North S(piare,\\nits easterly terminus. The portion between Salem and Hanover\\nwas anciently known as Black Horse Lane, from an old tavern\\non the corner of Back Street. This tavern, corrupted into\\nBlack-us-inn, was noted as a place of refuge and concealment\\nfor deserters from Burgoyne s army at Cambridge. It was of\\nconsiderable antiiiuity, the lane l)eing so called before 17(10.\\nThe royal regulars had barracks on the corner of Prince and\\nSalem Sti eets in 1775 76.\\nSalem Cliurch, at the corner of North Bennet and Salem", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "220 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nStreets, was organized in 1827. Its formation was coeval witli\\ntlie cliurch in Pine Street, and the dedication occurred January\\n1, 1828, at wliich time Rev. Justin Edwards, D.I)., was in-\\nstalled. On the opposite side of Salem Street was the very\\ncurious old house of ]\\\\Iajor Joliu Bray, whose robbery by the\\nnotorious liighwayman, Mike ^Martin, caused a great stir at the\\ntime, and for whicli Martin was hung.\\nThough we wc^ndd tain linger in the old North End, other\\nsections claim our attditioii. In it the spirit of resistance to\\nBritish tyranny was strongly dcveloju cl, and it contained less\\nof the tory element than some other quarters of the town.\\nThe stiu dy mechanics of the North Eud were ever ready to act\\nin the cause of liberty, no matter what the sacritice might be.\\nMany of her sons gained a noble reputation in the wars of the\\nrepublic. Tiiere was that old seadiou, John ]\\\\Ianly, who lield the\\nfirst naval commission issued by Washington, in 1775. He took,\\nin the Lee, the dangerous cruising-ground of Boston Bay, and\\ncaptured, in November, the British ordnance brig Nancy, a })rize\\nso important to the Continental army that the camps were wild\\nwith joy. Among other pieces taken was a hea\\\\ y l)rass mortar,\\nwhich Old Put mounted with a bottle of rum in his hand, while\\nMifHin christened it the Congress. The Lee made other im-\\nportant captures; and in 177G Maidy was given command of\\nthe Hancock frigat(% in which he captured the Fox, British\\nman-of-war, but was himself taken prisoner liy tlie Baiidjow, a\\nmuch heavier vessel than his own. He commanded afterwards\\nthe Jason and Hague, in both of wliiidi he gav(f evidence that\\nhe was a w^orthy comrade of Paul Jones. JNIanly was a bluff biit\\nindiscreet seaman, and for some irregularity was (;ourt-martialIed.\\nHe died in 179. at Jiis house in Charter Street.\\nAnother naval hero, still more renowue(l, was Commodore\\nSanuiel Tucker of tlie old Continental navy, who lived in a\\nthree-story brick building on the iKirth siile of Fleet Street,\\nwhere now stands a brick stable.\\nHis first cruise was in 177fi, with a commission signed by\\nSamuel Adams in his pocket, and a pine-tree Hag at his peak,\\nmade by the liaiids of Iiis wife. This intre[)id .sailor took from", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 221\\nthe enemy during the war sixty-two sail of vessels, more than\\nsix hundred cannon, and three thousand prisoners, and when\\nat length comjjelled to surrender the old Boston frigate, Avhich\\nhe then commandeil, to the British squadron at Charleston, he\\nkept his flag flying until Admiral Arbuthnot sent him a special\\norder to lower it. Tucker s reply was, I do not think much\\nof striking my flag to your present force l)ut I have struck\\nmore of yciur flags than are now flying in this harbor.\\nCommodore Tucker carried John Adams to Bordeaiix in 1 778,\\nthrough the six-ancl-twenty misfortunes of Harlequin. Dur-\\ning this voyage the ship was struck by lightning, and the Com-\\nmodore narrowly escaped death from the fragments of a falling\\nspar. His services, which it is believed were unsurpassed by\\nthose of any of his comrades of the old navy, met with tardy\\nrequital from the nation. According to his biograi)hcr, Mr.\\nSheppard, he retired in 1793 to a farm in Bristol, Maine.\\nJohn Adams, in speaking of a visit from Tucker, says, When\\nI see or hear of or from one of tliese old Men, whether in\\ncivil, political, military, or naval service, my heart feels.\\nTlie brave Lieutenant James Sigourney, who commanded the\\narmed schooner Asp, and fell heroically lighting in an engage-\\nment with a British flotilla in Chesapeake Bay in 1812, Cap-\\ntain Samuel Xewman, lieutenant in Craft s Artilltn-y in the early\\npart of the Eevolution; serving in the navy under Nicholson in\\nthe Deane in 1 782 killed in St. Clair s battle witli the Miami\\nIndians, C olonel Josiah Snelling, fighting against the Indians\\nand distinguished at Tippecanoe afterwards at York, I latts-\\nburg, and other fields finally colonel of the 5tli UnitiMl States\\ninfantry, and giving his name to Fort Snelling, Colonrl dolin\\nMountfort, brevetted for gallantry at Plattsl urg, and distin-\\nguished in the Florida war, Captain Sanuiel Armstrong, a sol-\\ndier of 1812, and Lieutenant Kol^ert Keith, who served under\\nMacomb at Plattsburg all lived in the North End.\\nNext north of Christ Church was a large brick building, end\\nto the street, occupied more than seventy years ago as a type and\\nstereotype foundry a part of the site next the church was\\nafterwards used for an academy. The north corner of Tileston,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "222 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nat its junction with Hanover Street, was the home of Professor\\nHenry J. L ipley, of tlie Newton Theological Institute.\\nAt the northerly corner of Sheatl e and Salem Streets was the\\nresidence of r)r. Samuel Stillman,, the well-known pastor of the\\nFii st Baptist Church from 17G5 to his deatli in 1807. From\\nhim Stillman Street takes its name. He preached elo\u00c2\u00abpiently\\nin till cause of lil)erty in his house of worship in the rear of\\nSalem, near Stillman Street. This church, once cowering under\\nthe lasji (if higotry, seeking t() hide itself in an ohscure corner\\nof the town, is iKiw translated to that liiial haven of all the\\nold churches, the Back Bay.\\nThe First Baptist hurch, like the Fpiscopal, had to struggle\\nagainst tiie determination of the magistrates, liacked by a ma-\\njority of the people, ti\u00c2\u00bb permit no other church than their own\\nto ohtain a foothold in their midst. A few individuals consti-\\ntuted the church in diarlestown in May, 1665, ut were driven\\nby persecution to a jirivate dwelling on Noddle s Island. They\\nerecteil their church in Boston without exciting the suspicion\\nof the authorities, until its dedication in February, 1679. This\\nact of contumacy Avas summarily dealt with. The church doors\\nwere nailed up, and the following notice posted upon them\\nAll persons are to take notice, that by order of the court, tlie\\ndoors of this house are shut U] and tliat they are inhiliited to hold\\nany meeting, or to open the (hini s theivof, witlioiif license from au-\\nthority, till the General Court take further ordei-, as they will\\nanswer the contrary at their peril.\\nDated at Boston 8th Mavdi 1680, Edward Rawson Secretary.\\nThe first house was erected on tlu^ baidvs of the Mill Pond,\\non the north side of Stillman Street, l)etween Salem and Pond\\n(now Endicott) Streets. This house was re])laced by a larger\\none, also of wood, in 1771, and abandoned in 1829, when tlie\\nsociety took possession of the brick building then erected at\\nthe corner of Hanover and Union Streets. This was in turn\\nvacated in 1858 for the edifice in Somerset Street.\\nIn Baldwin Place since become the Home of Little Wan-\\nderers is the house of the Second Baptist Church. This so-\\nciety organized in 174o, and held their first services at the house", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "COPP S HILL AND THE VICINITY. 223\\nof James Bownd in Sheaffe Street, near Copp s Hill, removing\\nlater to Proctor s School-house, until March, 174G, when they\\ntook possession of their new building upon the spot first men-\\ntioned. The first house was of wood, and quite small, liaving\\nnear the head of the broad aisle a basin for baptismal purposes.\\nIt was superseded, in 1810, by the present brick structure.\\nIn Salem Street was the old printing-office of Zachariah\\nFowle, first the master and then the partner of Isaiah Thomas,\\nin whicli was printed the old Massachusetts Spy in 1770,\\nuntil Thomas dissolved his connection with Fowle and opened\\nhis office in School Street, near the Latin School. Thomas,\\nwhose paper was a high organ of liberty, was ordered to appear\\nonce before Governor Hutchinsim for a publication reflecting on\\nthe executive, but refused to go. He removed liis types, press,\\netc., to Worcester a few days before the battle of Lexington.\\nThis was the origin of the Worcester Spy. Later he opened a\\nbookstore at 45 Newbury Street, under the name of Thomas and\\nAndrews, but did not reside in Boston. Oliver Ditson (Jo.\\nnow occupy the spot.\\nA few old buildings still remain in Salem, Prince, Charter,\\nand the neighljoring streets. (Jver the apothecary s door, at the\\ncorner of Salem and Prince Streets, is an anticpie lirad of rEs-\\nculapius, or some follower of the curative art, ^yhic]l is the\\noldest sign now known in the North End. ]\\\\Iany years ago it\\nstood at the edge of the sidewalk affixed to a post, but, ob-\\nstracting the way, it was removed. This is believed to be the\\noldest apothecary s stand in Boston now used for that purpose.\\nRobert Fennelly was the ancient dispenser of pills and purga-\\ntives on this corner.\\nIn the slums of the North End originated the draft riot of\\n1863. The officers who attempted to serve the notices in\\nPrince Street were cruelly beaten, and the mob, gathering\\ncourage from its triumph over a handful of police, reinforced\\nfrom the purlieus of Endicott, Charlestown, and neighboring\\nstreets, made an attempt to seize the cannon kc^pt at the gun-\\nhouse in Cooper Street, which was held by a little band of\\nregulars from Fort Warren. The rioters had killed and wounded", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "224 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nseveral of the garrison, and had nearly succeeded in demolish-\\ning the doors, when the guns were discharged into the mob with\\nfatal effect. After withstanding for a few moments the fusil-\\nlade from the small arms of the soldiers, the crowd gave way,\\nmoving towards I)ock Scjuare, where they exi)ected to secure a\\nsupply of weapons by breaking open the store of William Eeed\\nand other dealers in arms in that vicinity. Eight of the rioters\\nwere known to have been killed, l)ut those who fell were re-\\nmoved by their friends, and no authentic data can lie given.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 221\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nTHE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE.\\nMarlborough Street. Governor Winthrop. Old South. Warren s Ora-\\ntions. Tea-Party Meeting. British Occupation. Phillis Wheatley.\\nSpring Lane. Heart and Crown. Boston Evening Post. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Province\\nHouse. Samuel Sliute. William Burnet. William Shirley. Thomas\\nPownall. Francis Bernard. General Gage. Lexington E.xpedition.\\nSir William Howe. Council of War. Court Dress and Manners.\\nGovernor Strong. Blue Bell and Indian Queen. Lieutenant-Governor\\nCushuig. Josiah Quincy, Jr. Mayor Quincy.\\nrp^HAT j)art of Washington Street lying between School and\\ni Suninier Streets was, in 1708, named Marlborough Street,\\nI roni the great duke whom Tliackeray irreverently calls Jack\\ni lmrchill, tlie man of lUenlieim, Kaniillies, Oudenarde, and\\n]Malpla(|Uet.\\nAs we stand at the .south corner of School Street at its union\\nwith \\\\Va.shington, a coHection of old buihUngs faces us extend-\\ning from the yard of the church nearly to Spring Lane. This,\\ntogether with the church proju-rty, was a part of tlie estate of\\none of the greate.st men among the early colonists, John Win-\\nthrop. It was long thought, with good reason, to have l)een\\nhis first and only place of residence, in Boston, for here bul)-\\nbled up in its native purity the f;unous (iovernor s Spring,\\nwhich played so impoitaiit a ])art in the settlement of Boston,\\nif, indeed, it did not actually determine it. It is evident,\\nhowever, that when the frame of Winthrop s house at Cam-\\nbridge was taken down, and removed hither (probably by\\nrafting it round to what was long known as the Governor s\\nDock it was again set up on the site of the present Exchange\\nBuilding. His removal to The Greene came some years\\nlater, and from liere the great governor s body was l)orne to\\nthe toird).\\nThe life of Winthrop is the liistory of tlie Colony. It ap-\\n10* o", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "2:iG LAND.MAIIKS OF BOSTON.\\npears in cumiectiuu with its atl airs, or the biogra})hies of his\\ncoiiteiiiporaries. Uiuler liis rule church and state were one\\nand tlie idea of tolerating any l)elief but tlieir own was repug-\\nnant to the practice, whatever may have been the theory, of the\\ntlu ii colonists. Winthrop was one of the tirst selectmen of\\nIJostoH, and more than any other moidded its government.\\nThe remarkable affair of ^Vnne Hutchinson, in wdiich so many\\njii rsdiis ol importance were participants, shook to its centre the\\nsocial and religious faln ic Winthrop had assisted to raise, and\\nleft him at variance with 8ir Henry Auxne, next to himself the\\nmost considerable man in the infant colony. His rule was iron\\ntowards all Avho professed any Init the orthodox faitli, until a\\nsliort time l)efore his death, when, it is said, he refused to sign\\nan order for the 1)anishment of some dissenting person, saying to\\nDudley tliat he had done too niucli of that work already. The\\nl c(|uot war, begun while Vane was governor, ended under\\nAV^inthrop. So fir as tlie neig]d)oring Indians were concerned,\\nthe governor maintained peace liy a Hrm yet conciliatory policy.\\nThe chiefs were entertained at his table, and greatly editied by\\nthe governer s domestic economy, (diicataubut refused to eat\\nuntil Ills liost said grace, and received at his dei)arture a suit\\nof tlie governor s clothes, in which he strutted home to his\\nwigwam with increased imjwrtance.\\nAccording to the modern view, the governor did not favor\\n])opular government his ojjinion l\u00c2\u00bbeing that wisdom resided in\\nth(^ few. As a man he was less inflexible than as a magistrate,\\nfor it is related that he reclaimed a thief wh(^m he detected\\nstealing his wood in the following manner. Friend, said the\\ngovernor, it is a very cold season, and I doubt you are poorly\\nro\\\\ide(l with wood; you are welconre to suj)ply yourself at my\\npile till the winter is over. The governor had four wives, and\\nlost not only three of these, but six children. His death occurred\\non tilt! 2Gth of March, 1G49, at the age of sixty-one. He was\\nen(( imbed in King s Chapel Ground, on the north side. One\\nof his sons became governor of Connecticut, and shares his\\ntomb a lieautiful statue of Winthrop, by Greenougli, is in the\\nchapel at jMount Auburn. The governor left a journal of liis", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE.\\n227\\nvoyage from Eugland, and of the proceedings in the colony up\\nto his decease, which was edited by James Savage. Some of\\nthe admirers of (Jovernor Winthrop s character have declared\\nhim worthy of canonization, had we like liome a sacred cal-\\nender.\\nThe Old South still stands, one of the monuments of Old Bos-\\nton. Its existence has been often threatened, and the attem])t\\nof the society to sell it, in 187G, aroused the j)atriotic spirit of\\nBoston as never before\\nsince tlie days of 18G1.\\nIt is the richest church\\ncorporation in the city,\\nand, next to Old i rinity\\nof New York, in the\\ncountry. The Winthri\\nestate passed through\\nThatcher and Mrs. Nor-\\nton to the church, and\\nin consequence of its\\ncentral location has lie-\\ncome of great value. Its\\nparishioners once dwelt J^-\\nwithin sight of its stee-\\npie, liut now few can bi3\\nfound within sound of\\nits bell. Milk Street,\\nFranklin Street, Sum-\\nmer and Winter, Brom-\\nheld and School, have\\nnot a residence left.\\nTavo of them at least\\nwere once fdled with the abodes of the most respectable inhab-\\nitants of the city, but commerce has said Move on and the\\nthe population has vanished before it.\\nCuriously enough, the Old South, arising from a schism in\\nthe First Church, like it originated in Charlestown, where also\\nwas organized the First Baptist Society. Like the Baptists,\\nTHE OLD SOUTH.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "228\\nLANDMARKS ()F BOSTON.\\nalso, tliis society was prorlainied against, l)ut erected a lioiise\\nof woisliip, the third ill Bostoji. The tlu ok)gical disputes,\\nquestions of doctrine or cluirch government in which tliis\\nsociety originated, liowever interesting, cannot be given here.\\nThomas Tliacher was the hrst minister, settled in Fel)ruary,\\n1G70. The lirst house was of wood, and stood until 17.!\\nwhen it was taken down to give place to the then new hrick\\nedifice. In the front was jdaced, in 1867, a tal)let bearing the\\nfollowing inscription, so that all who run may thus read a little\\nof the liistory of the church\\nOLD SOUTH.\\nChurch gathered 1669.\\nFirst House built 1670.\\nThis House erected, 1729.\\nDesecrated bt British Troops, 1775-6.\\nThis little memorial contains a succinct account of the church\\neven to the last line, Desecrated by British Troops, which\\nwas strenuously objected to by many at the time the tablet was\\nplaced there. The occupation of churches by troops has T)een\\ncommon in all wars, notaldy so in the late Iiebe llion. Such\\noccupation has not been generally considered as calling for a\\nnew consecration, and the use of the word desecrated is per-\\nhaps not fortunate, though the usage of this house was pecu-\\nliary malicious and repugnant. The name id South goes\\nno lurtlier l)ack than the building of the New South, in\\nSummer Street, in 1717. It was primarily the South INleeting-\\nhouse, being then considered in tlie south part of the town.\\nOn a stone at the southwest corner of the church is sculp-\\ntured, N. E. (Newly Erected) March 31, 1729.\\nThe jxissession of tlu South Meetingdiouse liy Sir Edmund\\nAndros has l)een stated in connection with King s Chapel.\\nFrom this church, in 1688, was buried Lady Andros, wife of\\nthe arl)itrary Knight. The governor s house was doubtless in\\nIhe immediate vicinity of Cotton Hill, as from Judge Sewall s\\naccount of the funeral we learn that the corpse was carried", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 229\\ninto tlie hearse drawn by six horses, the sohliers making a\\nguard from tlie C!overnor s house down the Prison Lane to\\nthe South Meeting House. The tomb of Lady Anne An-\\ndres Avas identified by the care of a relative, who found a\\nslab, with her name inscribed, while repauing her last resting-\\nplace.\\nNone of the city churches are so rich in historical associa-\\ntions as this. Here Lovell, Church, Warren, and Hancock\\ndelivered their orations on the anniversaries of the Massacre.\\nWhen Warren delivered his second address in March, 1775,\\nan officer of the Welsh Fusileers, Captain Chapman, held up to\\nhis view a number of pistol-bullets, at the same time exclaim-\\ning, Fie fie This was construed to be a cry of fire, and\\nthrew the house into confusion until (juieted by William Coo-\\nper, while Warren dropped a handkerchief over the officer s\\nhand. Many other officers were present with the purpose, as\\nwas thouglit, to overawe the speaker. But Warren was not to\\nbe overawed. At the same time the 47th regiment, returning\\nfrom parade, passed the Old South, when Colonel Nesliit, the\\ncommander caused the drums to beat w^ith the view of drown-\\ning the orator s voice.\\nA w riter thus describes the events of that day\\nThe (lay came and the weather was reuiarkalily fine. The Old\\nSouth Meeting-house was crowded at an early hour. The Britisli\\nofficers occupied the aisles, the flight of steps to the pulpit, and\\nseveral of them were within it. It is not precisely known whetlier\\nthis was accident or design. The orator with the assistance of his\\nfriends made his entrance at the window by a ladder. The officers,\\nseeing his coolness and intrepidity, made way for him to advance\\nand address the audience. An awful stillness preceded his exor-\\ndium. Each man felt the palpitations of his own heart, and saw\\nthe pale but determined face of his neighboi The speaker began\\nhis oration in a firm tone of voice, and proceeded with great energy\\nand pathos. Warren and his friends were prepared to chastise con-\\ntumely, prevent disgrace, and avenge an attempt at assassination.\\nIn the old church Benjamin Franklin was ba]itiz( (l. In tlie\\nnew, was held the famous Tea-Pa rty meeting, adjourned from", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "230 LANDMAliKS OF BOSTON.\\nFaiiouil Hall Ijecause the crowd was too great to be contained\\nthere. It is believed that Samuel Adams had with others con-\\ntrived this assemljlage to draw oil attention from their j^h^ns,\\nalready matureil and waiting only the signal of execution.\\nCertain it is that the Mohawks ajjpeared precis(^ly at the mo-\\nment when negotiation had failed to prevent the landing of the\\ntea. At this meeting was made the first suggestion to disi)ose\\nof the tea in the way iinally ado})ted. John liowe, who lived\\nin Pond Street, now Bedford, said, Who knows how tea will\\nmingle with salt water 1 The idea Avas received with great\\nlaughter and approval. It is from the same iJowe that liowc\\nStreet took its name.\\nGovernor Hutchinson was at this time at his country-seat\\nin Milton, afterwards occupied by Barney Smith, Esq.,\\nwhere he received a committee from the meeting, who made a\\nlinal dfiuaud that the cargoes of tea sliould be sent away. The\\ngovernor, however, n-fused to interfere in the matter. It is re-\\nlated that he was afterwards informed that a mob was on its\\nway to visit him, and that he left his house with his flxce half\\nsliaven, making the best of his way across the fields to a place\\nof safety.\\nI)uring the absence of the committee Josiah Quincy, Jr.,\\nniaile an eloquent sjyeecli. When the deputation returned with\\nthcii iiiira\\\\drab]i ivport, about sunset, the Indian yell was\\nheard at the cliurcli door, and the baml of disguised Mohawks\\nsince so famous in hist(:)ry, hlled the street. The meeting\\nbroke up in confusion, notwithstanding the efforts of Sam-\\nuel Adams to detain the people, wh i rushed forth into tlie\\nstreet. The Indians, aft r their momentary pause, took tlieir\\nway through Milk Street directly to Griffin s, now Liverpool\\nliaif, opposite the foot of Pearl Street.\\nTlie number of the simukded Indians has been variously\\nestimated at from sixteen to eighty. Their disguise was effected\\nin a earpenter s shop, wliere Joseph Lovering, a boy of twelve,\\nheld the candle for the niasqueraders. They wore paint ami\\nraiiie(l hatchets. Under their blankets were concealed many a\\nlace(l and I uffled coat. 1 )epeiid upon it, says Jolm Adams,\\nthey wei-e IK) (irdinary Mohawks.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "TIIR OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 231\\nThe women of Boston Avere not behind the men in their op-\\nposition to the tea-duty many, doubtless, keenly felt the loss\\nof their favorite beverage. The ladies had theu meetings, at\\nwhich they resolved not to use the obnoxious herb. Here is\\nthe lament of one matron over her empty urn\\nFarewell the tea-board, with its gaudy equipage\\nOf cups and saucers, cream-bucket, sugar-tor.gs.\\nThe pretty tea-chest, also, lately stored\\nWith Hyson, Congou, and best double fine.\\nFull many a joyous moment have I sat by ye.\\nHearing the girls tattle, the old maids talk scandal.\\nAnd the spruce coxcomb laugh at maybe nothing.\\nTliough now detestable.\\nBecause I am taught (and I believe it true)\\nIts use will fasten slavish chains iqiou my country,\\nTo reigu Triumphant in America.\\nThe occupation of tlie Old South l)y troops was at the in-\\nstance of General John Burgoyue. It was his regiment, the\\nQueen s Light Dragoons, that set up the riding-school in the\\nHouse of God, overthrowing its sacred memorials, and transform-\\ning it into a circus. These brave troopers never showed their\\ncolors outside the fortifications. The pulpit and pews w^ere all\\nremoved and burnt, and many hundred hjads of gravel carted\\nin and spread upon the floor. The east gaHery was reserved\\nfor spectators of the feats of horsemanship, while a bar fitted\\nup in tlie first gallery olfered means of refreslnnent. Tlie\\nbeautiful carved peAV of Deacon Hubbard, with the silken hang-\\nings, was taken down and carried to s house by an officer\\nand made a hog stye. The south door was closed, and a leap-\\ning-bar placed for the horses. It has been stated that some of\\ntlie valuable books and mantiscripts of Eev. Thomas Prince\\nwent for fuel during the winter, as did also the adjoining par-\\nsonage house, and the noble sycamore-trees that skirted tlie\\ngrass-jilot in front.\\nAfter the surrender of Burgoyue his army marched to Cam-\\nbi iilge. General Heath, then comniaiKliiig in Boston, invited\\nSir John to dine with him, and he appeared in response to the\\ninvitation, bringing with him I hillips and Riedesel. After dinner\\nNewell s Diary. TliarlicrV. Military .Journal.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "2S2 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nJ .urgoyne desired to go out of town Ly way of Charlestown, and\\n(ieueral Heath accompanied him to the ferry. The cmiosity to\\ns( tlie prisoners was very great, and the inhabitants crowded\\nthe streets, windows, and even the house-tops, to gratify it. As\\nthe processi(ni was passing the Province House, General liur-\\ngoyne observed to tlie other generals, There is the former\\nresidence of the governor. Some one in the crowd who heard\\nthe remark saitl, in an audilile voice, And on the other side is\\nthe riding-school.\\nA good anecdote is told of the hero of Portugal and Flanders\\nwhile the prisoner of Gates. In tlie hi iglit of jocular con-\\nversation Burgoyne told the victor of Saratoga tliat he was\\nmore fit for a midwife than a general. Acknowledged, said\\n!ates, for I have delivered you of seven thousand men.\\nWhile the regulars held possession of the cluirch, an incident\\noccurred which friglitened tlie more superstitious among them,\\nso that it was difficult to maintain a guard, as was the custom,\\nat the church door. Among the troops were a good many\\nSctttch Presbyterians, who were not a little fearful of retrilju-\\ntive justice for their altuse of the jjlace. Some one, knowing\\nthe Scotch belief in apparitions, ap[)eared to the sentinel as\\nthe ghost of I)r. Sewall. The Scot yelled with affright to the\\nguard stationed at the Province House, and was witli difficulty\\npacified.\\nWhen I) Estaing s Heet lay in Boston harbor, in September,\\n1778, the British fieet, of twenty sail, hove in sight. It was\\ndiscovered ;inil the alarm given by Mr. John utler ii oiii the\\nsteeple of the )lcl South. Admiral O Eslaing, who was on\\nshore, immediately put ott for the s(piadron, and the militia\\nwere ordered to the Castle and the works on Noddle s and\\nGeorge s Island, hoirhester Heights, etc., but the enemy made\\nno attempt. The same fleet afterwards made the descent on\\nNew Bedford and Martha s A ineyard.\\nThe old church lias been considerably cliangeil in its inferior.\\nIt was one of the last to retain the S([uare pews, elevated ]iulpif,\\nand sounding-board. The upper gallery was altered, a new\\norgan ohtaiiied. and the brush of modern art apjilied to the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "Daring Feat op Isaac Harris The Old South in Flames", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 233\\nceilings otherwise the house remains much the same as when\\nerected. It liad a narrow escape from destruction ]jy tire many\\nyears ago, but was saved Ijy superhuman efibrts on the part of\\nIsaac Harris, tlu; mast maker, who ascended to the roof while\\nit was on lire, and succeeded in extinguisliing the flames. For\\nthis Ijrave act he received a silver i)itcher.\\nOne of Dr. Sinvall s Hock was Phillis Wheatley, a woman of\\ncolor and a slave.. She was a pure AlVican, In ought to America\\nin 17G1, and yet she possessed genius of a high order. 8he\\nwas, in a great measure, self taught, never having received any\\nschool education, yet \\\\\\\\T(ite admirable verses. Her poems were\\ncollected in a. thin volmue and pubhshed in London, and have\\nalso been rejiriuted iu this country. One of her effusions, ad-\\ndressed to Washington, may l^e found in Spai ks s Life of\\nWashington it brought an ackncnviedgmeut from the g(Uieral,\\nthen at Cambridge, also printed therein. She accompanied the\\nson of her master to London in 177. 5, where she received great\\nnoti(;e from the nobility, ])iit .soon returned to lioston, where\\nshe contra(;t(!d an unhappy marriage, and died not long after in\\nutter destitution at her house in Court Street. The genuine-\\nness of her ])oems was atteste(l by lovernors Hutchinson, Han-\\ncock, Bowdoin, her master Wheatley, and almost every clergy-\\nman in I)Oston. The following extract is from her Hymn to\\nthe Evening\\nFilled witli the praise of Him who gives the light,\\nAnil (haws the sable curtains of the night.\\nLet placid slunihers soothe each weary mind,\\nAt morn to wake, more heavenly, more refined\\nSo shall the laliors of the day begin\\nMore pure, more guarded fi-om the snai-es of sin.\\nNight s leaden sce])tre seals my drowsy eyes\\nThen cease my song, till fair Aurora rise.\\nThe church yard was used as a recruiting station in 1862,\\nand the building itself was leased by the government for a Post-\\nOflfice, after the Great Fire of 1872 compelled its removal from\\nthe P^xchange,\\nIf you look closely at the masonry of the Old South you will\\nnotice that each course is laid with the side and end of the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "2. U LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nbrick alteriuiting. Joaluui Blanclianl was the mason. The\\nAW .st Church, Old Brattle Street, Park Street, and some others,\\nwere built in the same manner. Gawen Brown, of Boston,\\nmaile tlie first clock, esteemed the finest in America. The\\nI rince library was depositi d in the tower.\\nSpring Lane recalls the ancient Spring-gate, the natural foun-\\ntain at which Winthroi) and Jolnison stooped to quench their\\nthirst, and from which, uo doubt, Anne Hutchinson and her\\nneighljors filled their fiagons for domestic use. The gentle-\\nwomen may have paused here for friendly chat, if the rigor of\\nthe governor s opposition to the schismatic Anne did not for-\\nbid. The handmaid of Elder Thomas Oliver, another near\\nneighbor on the opposite corner of the Spring-gate, fetched her\\npitcher, like another Rebecca, from this well and grim Richard\\nr.rackett, the jailer, may have laid down his halberd to quaff a\\nmorning draught.\\nWater Street is also self-explanatory it descended the incline\\nti) tlie water at Oliver s Dock. We have described elsewhere\\nthe primitive aspect of the region from Congress Street to the\\nharbdr. A British barrack was in Water Street at the time of\\nthe Massacre.\\nAt the north C(irner of Washington and Water Streets was\\nthe sign of the Heart and Crown. It was the printing-office\\nof Thomas Fleet in 1731. After his death, crowns being un-\\nl)( l ulai the sign was changed to the Bible and Heart. Fleet\\n.SI lid IxMiks, hdusehdld goods, etc. In 1735 he began the pufdi-\\ncation (if the Bostcm Evening Post, a successor of the AVeekly\\nRehearsal, begun in 1731. Here is one of the Post s advertise-\\nments it Wduld Idok sdiuewhat strangely in the Cdlunuis of its\\nmddern namesake\\nf (I lie sold l)y the ]irinter of tliis paper, the very best Negro\\nWoman in lliis Town, wlio lias liad the Snudl-Pox and the measles\\nis as liearty as a Horse, as lirisk as a Bird, and will work like a\\nBeaver. Aug. 2:]d. 1742.\\nHaving taken in the surroundings of the chnreh to the north,\\nwc may now set our faces sduthward and visit in fancy the\\nolliciai residence of the royal dej)uties.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE.\\n235\\nThe Province House was one of the last relics of the col-\\nony to disappear. It has formed the theme of some pleasant\\nfictions by Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales, as well as a brief\\nsketch of the edifice not founded in fancy. The liquid which\\nmine host mixed for the novelist before he set about his re-\\nsearches has a smack of reality about it, and may have enlivened\\nhis picturesque description.\\nThis ancient abode of the royal governors was situated nt arly\\nopposite the head of Milk Street. The place is now shut out\\n4\\nprr iN( I iioLsF\\nfrom the vision of the passerd)y by a row of brick structures\\nstanding on Washington Street. Before tlie erection of any\\nbuildings to screen it from view, the Province House stood\\ntwenty or thirty paces back from old ]\\\\ra.rlbnr()Ugh Street, with\\na handsome grass lawn in frnnt, ornauicnfcd l)y two stately oak-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "2. G LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntre(\u00c2\u00ab, Avliicli rearcil ilicir verdant t()j)s on citlicr side the gate\\nseparating tlie grounds I roni the highway, and cast a grateful\\nsluide over the approach to the luaiisiou. At either end of the\\nfence were porters lodges, and the visitor passed over a i)aved\\nwalk to the huilding. Ample stables stood in tlie rear.\\nThe huilding itself was a three-story brick structure, sur-\\nmounted by an octagonal cupola. Over all stood the bronze\\nelUgy of an Indian, the chosen emblem of the colony. This\\nligure, which served the purpose of a vane, was Lif hammered cop-\\nper it had glass eyes, and ajjpeared in the act of fitting an arrow\\nto its bow. It w;is the handiwork of Deacon 8hem Prowne.\\nA Uight of near twenty massive red freestone steps conducted\\nto the spacious entrance-hall, worthy the vice-regal dwellers\\nwithin. A i)ortico sui)[)orted l)y wooden pillars was surmounted\\n]iy a curiously wrought iron l)alustrade, into which was woven\\nthe date of erection and initials of the proprietor, I\\\\ ter 8ar-\\ngeant\\n1(). P. S. 79.\\nFrom this balcony the viceroys of the province were accus-\\ntomed to harangue the people or read proclamations. The royal\\narms, richly carved and gilt, decorated the front the l)ricks\\nwere of Holland make. The interior was on a scale of princely\\nmagniticence, little corresponding to the general belief in the\\nsimplicity of the mode of living of the times. The homes of\\nFaneuil, of Hutchinson, and of Frankland have shown that\\nluxury had effected an entrance into tlie habitations of the ricli.\\nThe house of Peter Sargeant was a ht companion to tlie others\\ncited. On the first floor an ample reception-room, panelled with\\nrich wood and hung with tapestry, openecl from the hall. This\\nwas the hall of audience of Shute, I]urn(^t, Shirley, Pownall,\\nliernard, Oage, and, last of all, Sir AVilliam Howe.\\nIt is prol)al\u00c2\u00bble tliat the hrst of tlie governors who oc( Upied\\nthe Pntvinee House was Samuel Shule, an old soldier of ]\\\\Iarb\\nboiMUgh, who had won disiiiictioii iVom his king on the bloody\\nfields of Flanders. Ilis a(huinist ration of the atl airs of the\\nI olony. which he governe(l from 1710 to 1723, was unfortunate.\\n]\\\\c came into conlhct wilii I he Legishiture on cpiestions jf pre-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "tup: old south and ruoviNCE house.\\n237\\nrogative. The governor, almost stripped of his authority, was\\nobHgerl to seek a reiiKnly at court, and though his powers were\\nconfirmed, he did not enjoy tlie fruits of the decision.\\nIt is perliaps not generally known that a paper cun-ency of\\nsmall denominations was issued in the colony as early as 1722.\\nSpecimens are here reproduced. They were printed on parch-\\nment, of the size given in the engravings. No other instance\\nis remembered of the emission of such small sums in paper\\nuntil we come down to the\\n^1\\n\u00c2\u00a9nopennj).^,^\\nperiod of the Kevolution.\\nThe whole amouiit authorized\\nwas only 500, and sj^eci-\\nmens are very rare. The cuts\\ngiven here are exact fac-similes\\nof the originals now in the\\npossession of the Antiquarian\\nSociety. A very full account\\nof early IMassachusetts cur-\\nrency may be found in tlie\\nProceedings of that society fjr\\n18G6, from the pen of Nathaniel Paine, Es(|. Tii tlie first years\\nof the settlement wam})um, l)rass farthings, and even musket-\\nImllets, supplied a circulating meilium.\\nWilliam P.urnet was born in 1088, at the Hague. The\\nPrince of Orange, afterwards King William of England, stood\\ngodflither for him at the baptismal font. His father was\\nthe celebrated Bishop Burnet, author of the Histoiy of the\\nReformation in England. The elder Burnet, falling under tlic\\ndis])leasure of King James, re-\\ntired to the Continent, entered\\nthe service of the Prince of\\nOrange, and accompanied him\\nto England when William ob-\\ntained the tlirone of his father-\\nitXX^. lunc I722.1J; ^^/ftive James. He\\n1 W was rewariled with the bishop-\\nric of S;disl ury, while the son\\nIf\\n13tol)incc of\\nUjea3affacl)u\\nett;g. June 1722", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "m .s\\nLAN]\u00c2\u00bb.MAI;KS (IK DOSTON.\\nreccivtMl subsequently from the House of Hanover the gov-\\nennueiit of New York, and aftcrwarils that of Massachusetts\\nColony.\\nThe new governor was rcccivcil with enthusiasm on his\\narrival. He was met at thr icoi gr Tavern, on the Xcek, hy\\nthe lieutenant-govcrniir, nirmhers df tin. ouncil, ami olonel\\nT)u(lle3^ s regiment. Under this esrnrt, and followed l)y a A ast\\nconeiiurse of gentlemen (in hnisehack, in coaches and chaises,\\nhe proceeded to the ourt House, where his commission was\\nread. Shouts of joy and salvos of artillery from the forts and\\nCastle welcomed him to JJoston. JSlather iJyles was ready with\\na laudatory comjiosition\\nWliile rising Sliouts ,i gc iicv;il .Iny lUdclaim,\\nAnd ev ry Tongui O lUii iift ]is}is thy naiiif\\nTo view tliy face while cniwiliiig Arniics run,\\nWliose waving Banners lihize against tlie 8un,\\nAnd deeii-mouth d Cannon, with a tlinnd ring roar,\\nSound tliy eonmiissiim strefchM from Sliore ti) Siiore.\\ni44vl,,i\u00e2\u0080\u009et,.^^.^t t-.\\nG- 3 tl\\nBurnet lived but a short time to stem the tide df dinKisition\\nto kingly authority, and died September 7, 17i While he\\nlive(l he maintained in\\n[iroper state the dignity\\nof his office. His negro\\nalet, Andrew the Trum-\\n[leter, stood at the ]iortal\\nof the Province House,\\nor (bMv his I lxcellency\\nalimad in his coacli. His\\niiieiiiKjc was under the\\ncareof a coni})etent house-\\nkeeper. Betty, the black\\nlaundi ess, had the care\\nof twenty pair and one\\n(d Holland she.ls, with\\ndamask najikins, and\\nstore of linen to match. A goodly array of plate garnished the\\nsideboard, and ani. ient weapons graced the walls. Hol)by, the\\ntj^il^robmre Of ttip\\n9\\\\ Q5a^ n. e.\\nON", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 239\\ncook, presided over the cuisine and coach, chariot, and chaises\\nstood in the stables. He had a steward and a French tutor.\\nJN^otwithstanding the governor directed his funeral to take\\nplace in the most })rivate manner, after the form of any Prot-\\nestant church that might be nearest, the authorities would not\\nhave it so, and expended nearly X 1,100 upon a showy pageant.\\nThe governor was a cliurchman and attended King s Chapel,\\nbut showed he had no religious bias in his instructions for his\\nl)urial. Burnet was probably the first and last governor who\\ndied in the Province House.\\nA\\\\ illiam Sliirloy was the admitted chief of the long roll of\\nprovincial governors. He lived at one\\ntime in King Street, but, after he became\\ngovernor, built an elegant mansion in\\nEoxbury, afterwards occupied by Govern-\\nor Eustis, and now, we believe, standing\\non Eustis Street, metamorphosed by mod-\\nern improvements. Shirley, no doubt,\\ncame to the Province House to transact\\nofficial business, and at the sitting of the (Jeneral niirt. In\\nthe reception-room was, perhaps, matured that celebrated expe-\\ndition, which resulted in the capture of Louislnirg. All tlie\\nmeasures relating to the enterprise were conducted with great\\nability. Profauid secrecy was maintained as to its ubjcct while\\nunder discussion l)y the General Cuurt the Guvernor carried\\nthe measure by only a single vote. Volunteers Hocked in from\\nall quarters, and tlie town became a camp. Over two thousand\\nmen Avero raised. Sir WilHam Pepperell, whom an English\\nhistorian has contemptuously called a Piscataquay trader,\\nAvas given the command, and on the 16th of June, 1745, the\\nbulwark of French power in America Avas in the hands of the\\npro\\\\dncial forces.\\nAnother measure of Governor Shirley deserves mention. Ten\\nyears before the passage of the Stamp Act by the English Par-\\nliament, the Legislature of the colony had passed a similar act\\nof their oAvn, laying a tax on vellum, parchment, and public\\npapers for tAvo years ueAvsi)apers were included at first, but", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "1^40\\nLANDMARKS OF LiOSTON.\\nsO()]i ext iiipted. This show.s that it wa.s uut the .stamp tax to\\n\\\\vhi(;]i our ancestors ol)ji cti (l, Imt to its levy without tlieir con-\\nsent. 8})eciniens are ht re given from documents of the time to\\nwhich the stamps were attixed. One of the cuts (the three penny\\nstamp) is engraved from the original die used in the stam])-ot}ice.\\nIt is a short steel Ijar attached to the circular })art, the impres-\\nsion being made liy a })low from a hannuer. This interesting\\nsouvenir of the times of Sliirley was the\\npid}ierty of Jeremiah Colburn, 1jS(]., of\\nlloston, a. welfknown antiipiarian.\\nThe ex^iatriation of the unfortunate\\nFrench from Acadia took ])lace wliile\\nShirley was governor, and ]\\\\lassa(/husetts\\nreceived a])out two hundred families. The\\nterrihc eai tlKpiake of 1 75r) sliook the town\\nto its foundations, and lilleil the streets with the debris of ruined\\nhouses, al)out fifteen humlrcd sustaining injuiy. Sliirley was\\na, man of letters, and wrote a tragedy, he- ^t^mm^\\nsides the history of the Louisburg expe-\\nditioii. lie also held a government in\\nthe lialianias, and was ma-ile lieutenant-\\ngeneral. His son, AVilliam, was killeil at 6\\\\*\\nthe defeat of Braddock.\\nThomas Pownall supersede(| lovernor\\nShirley, in 1757-58, as governor. lie\\noccupieil the chair oidy three yeais. He made a ]iopular and\\nenlightened chief magistrate, contrasting favorably with the\\nflmimn/ i\u00e2\u0080\u009e^ dark, intriguing Lieutenant-tiovernor\\nllutchins in. The great and disastrous\\nlire of Rlarch 20, 17()(), occurred ])efore\\nl^Qa the departure of the governor to assume\\n=Jg/| the government of South Carolina; also\\niwi the organization and reiitting of the land\\nand naval forces, under (Jeneral Amherst,\\nxuuMuintuir for the reduction of (^)uebec and Montreal.\\nGovernor Pownall was u stanch friend of the Colonies, even\\nal ter hostilities commenceil with the mother country. IVo in-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOFTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 241\\nmate of the Province House was more respected or more\\nregretted. The governor made an excellent jilan or picture of\\nBoston from the Castle in 1757.\\nPownall, it is said, was a great ladies man. He was rather\\nshort in stature, and inclined to be corpulent. It was the\\nfashion of that day for a gentleman to salute a lady when\\nintroduced to her. The governor was presented to a tall dauK^\\nwhom he retpiested to stoop to meet the ottered courtesy.\\nNo says the lady, T Avill never stoop to any man, not\\neven to your Excellency. Pownall sprang uinm a chair, ex-\\nclaiming, Then T will stoop to you, madam an l imprinted\\na loud smack u] (in tln^ (;heek of the haughty one. This, like\\nmany good old customs of our fi irefathers, has fallen into neg-\\nlect. It was Pownall who induced the Legislature to erect a\\nmonument in Westminster Ahliey to Loi d Howe, who fell at\\nTiconderoga, and was much esteeuKHl in J]oston. Anotlier was\\nordered to be erected to (Jeneral WoHe at the cast end of the\\nTown House, but Hutchinson prevented its licing carried out.\\nHis successor, Francis liernard, was rccciveil on his arrival\\nfrom New Jersey with the usual pomp and ceremony, and\\nescorteil through the town to his residence at the Province\\nHous^^ During the period of TJernard s administration, from\\n1760 to 17() J, the stormy events whi(;h caused the Colonies to\\nthrow otf the yoke of Great Britain occurred. The AVrits of\\nAssistance, tlie Stamp Act, the introduction of troops, and the\\nremoval of the General Court to Cambridge, heaped odium\\nupon his conduct of affairs. Vohunes have been written upon\\nthe liistory of those nine years. 8o Bernard j)assed out from\\nthe shelter of the Province House witli none to do him rev-\\nerence. The king recalled him, and the province spurned him.\\nThe last crowned head in this colony was proclaimed by Ber-\\nnard. He gave a valualde portion of his library to Harvard.\\nIt has been said of Bernartl that he was only a facile instru-\\nment in the hands of Hutchinson. He was even called Hutch-\\ninson s wheell)arrow, carrying the burdens imposed by his wily\\nlieutenant. Bernard s character has been described as arbitrary\\nhe was, however, upright, with correct principles and courteous\\n11 V", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "241\\nLANDNfARKS OF BOSTON.\\nOpen, ami aiiKHiLj,\\naddress. Tie Imilt Inin i tine summer residence at Jamaica\\nIMain, aftei wards dcrupicd by Martin Brimmer.\\nAfter the goveriKir s departure for England, watch and Avard\\nwas l)ut ill kept at tlie Province House, or else his Ancient\\nIlutchinsuii, iKiw liis successor, trouI led himself laut little about\\nthe gill ids and chattels uf tlie barniiet. The mansion was broken\\nitlier articles stolen were three feather-beds,\\nfour i)air of Idaiikets, ditto of sheets,\\nall marked with Ins Excellency s ini-\\ntials. Die thief, l)esides this mure\\nbulky booty, stole a crown-piece of\\n-Tames TT. and two German rix dol-\\nlars.\\nThe next inmate of the Province\\nHouse was Thomas Gage, who was\\nexpectetl to support the kingly pre-\\nrogative l)y force of arms. We first\\nfound the general in cpiarters in\\nlirattle Street, and gave there an\\noutline of his (%ireer while military governor. He occupied the\\nI rovince House wlieii a|i[)oiuted to the government in 1774,\\narid tlie tread aii l cliallenge of a Th itisli grenadier resounded\\nfor tlie lirst time in the ancient liaTls.\\nHere was held the council l)etween Earl I\\\\rcy and the gov-\\nernor relative to the ex])edition to Tvexington, so mysteriously\\nnoised abroad, and which (lage declared he had imi)art.ed the\\nknowledge of to only one other; even Lieutenant-ColoneT\\ntSmith, who Avas intrusted with the command, di(T not kiRiw his\\ndestination. As Percy was going to his quarters from this\\ninterview, he met a number of townspeojJe conversing near the\\noiiimon. As he went towards them, one of them remarked,\\nThe British troops have marched, but will miss their aim.\\nWhat aiml asked the Earl. The cannon at Concord, was\\nthe answer. Percy retraced his stejis to the Province House,\\nwlu ri his chief heard with surprise and mortification the news\\nthat the movement was no longer a secret. He declared he had\\nl)een Itt trayed.\\n)1.()NV SKAL.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 243\\nThe following explanation has been given of the manner in\\nwhich ({age s plans were tliwarted. A groom at tlie Province\\nHouse dropped into the stables, then opposite the Old South on\\nI\\\\Iilk Street, for a social chat with a stable-boy employed there.\\nThe news was asked of the British jockey, who, misconceiving\\ntlie sentiments of his friend, replied, that he had overheard a\\nconversation between Gage and otlier officers, and oliservcd,\\nThere will be hell to pay to-morrow. This was immediati ly\\ncarried to Paul Kevere, who enjoined silence on his informant,\\nand added, You are the third person who has brought me the\\nsame information.\\nIt was here, too, that the pertidy of Benjamin Chuich was\\ndiscovered by Deacon Davis, a visitor to the general. Before\\nthis time he had been esteemed an ardent friend of the cause\\nof liberty. His residence was at the south corner of Washing-\\nton and Avon Streets.\\nOn the morning of the 17th of -Tune, 1775, Gage called his\\nofficers together to attend a coun-\\ncil of war. Howe, Clinton, P ur- //L^\\ngoyne, and Grant were present, /yy^-^ c/ ^^/^^z\\nIt was an anxious consultation.\\nGlinton and (irant proposed to\\nland the troops at Charlestown Neck under })roiertiou of the\\nships, and take the American works in reverse. Tliis ]ilau,\\nwhich would have probably resulted in the ca})ture of the whole\\nprovincial force, was disai)[)roved by (iag(;, Avho feared to place\\nhis men, in case of disaster, between the intrenched Americans\\nand reinforcements from Cambridge. General Gage returned to\\nEngland in October, 1775. He married an American lady, and\\na niece of the general by this marriage was tlie wife of the late\\nGeneral William H. Sumner, of Jamaica Plain. Gage had\\nserved at Fontenoy and CuUoden, and in Braddock s campaign.\\nHe is said to have borne an extraordinary personal reseinltlance\\nto Samuel Adams, the chief conspirator against his sway, but\\nfew can fail to mark in the portrait of the general the absence\\nof that firmness and decision which is so conspicuous in that\\nof the patriot.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "244 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nGage s well-kiKiwn proclamation was tlius liuiiiorously liit\\noff soon after its aiii\u00c2\u00bbcaranc(^\\nTom Gage s Proclamation,\\nOr blustering Denunciation,\\n(Rej)lete witli Defamation,\\nAnd speedy Jngulation,\\nOf the New England Nation),\\nWho shall his luous ways shun.\\nThus graciously the war I wage.\\nAs witnessetli my liand\\nTom Gage.\\nSir William Howe, as Gage s military successor, took up his\\n(|uarters at the Province House, and occupied it during the\\nwinter (if 1775-70. As the siege had now begun, its position\\nwas central and well adapted for comnuinication with the\\nworks at the Neck, or at Copji s Hill, from which it was about\\nequally ilistant. The Governour s Tbiuse iiow presented a\\nbusy scene, and so indeed did the neighlxu-liood. The dragoons\\nheld possession of the OLl Soutli. The orderlies horses stood\\nhitched in front of the general s (piarters, and armed heel ami\\nsabre clattered \\\\i\\\\ and down the broad staircase, bringing re-\\n(irts from the vaiiiius outposts.\\nHowe was a good soldier, but not an enterprising one. He had\\nfnught with AN dlle at Quebec as lieutenaiit-cuhmel, receiving\\nthe grade df majnr-general in 1772. f)uring tlie siege he coolly\\ngave the order to occupy or pull down churches or dwellings as\\nnecessity dictated. He has been much execrated for setting\\nlire to Gharlestowii, but the lire ke|)t up from some of the\\nhovises justified tlm act in a military view. Finally Howe\\nefiected the withdrawal of his army witlmut loss iVom Boston,\\nby making tlie safety of the town a guaranty of his own. His\\nafter career in America was measurably successful defeating\\nW asliington at Long island and AVliite I lains, he took posses-\\nsion of New York, while the battles of Brandywine and Ger-\\niiianlown gave him Philadelphia. He was relieved by his old\\nconu ade Sir H. lintou, and returned liome in 1778, when an\\nothcial iiKpiiry was made into his conduct. Howe s address\\nto his troops l)eftire the Itattle of Bunker Hill is a soldierly\\ndocinnent.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PKOVINCE HOUSE. 245\\nGentlemen, I am very ha^tpy in having the honor of com-\\nmanding so fine a body of men I do not in the least doubt that\\nyou will behave like Englishmen, and as becometh good soldiers.\\nIf the enemy will not come from their intrenchments, we must\\ndrive them out, at all events, otherwise the town of Boston will Ije\\nset on fire by them.\\nI shall not desire one of you to go a step further than where I\\ngo myself at your head.\\nRemember, gentlemen, we have no recourse to any resources if\\nwe lose Boston, but to go on board our shi^is, which will be veiy\\ndisagreeable to us all.\\nThere is every reason to believe Sir William s military duties\\ndid not prevent his exercising a generous hospitality. The hall\\nof audience has no doubt resounded with mirtli and music\\nwhen the general received. There were his royalist neigldjors,\\nthe Mascarenes, Harrison (Jray, the Boutineaus and Master\\nLuvell, with many kindred spirits of the court ])arty. There\\nwere (Tintun, Burgoyne, the noble Percy, and many more of\\ntlie army and navy to grace the levees of their commander by\\ntheir presence. The buzz of conversation ceases as 8ir William\\nleads out some beautiful tory for the stately minuet, an ex-\\nample speedily followed by his guests. Perlia[)s amid the\\nstrains of the Fusileer s band strikes in the deep diapason of\\nthe continental cannon.\\nThe coming of the troops into Boston made formidable\\ninnovations in the customs and dress of the old founders.\\nThe sad-culoi^ed garments and high-crowned hats gave place to\\nvelvet coat, ruffles, and cocked hat. Gentlemen of condition\\nwore the small sword in full dress, with a gold-headed cane to\\nset off the lace depending from their sleeves. A gentleman s\\nball dress was a white coat, trimmed with silver basket but-\\ntons, collar and button-holes crossed with silver lace. Or, a\\ncoat of blue or scarlet cloth trimmed with gold might serve a\\ngallant of the period. His hair w^as craped and powdered. A\\nsatin embroidered waistcoat reaching below the hips, with small\\nclothes of the same mateinal, gold or silver knee-bands, white\\nsilk stockings, and high-heeled morocco shoes, witli buckles of\\nsome precious metal, completed a truly elegant attire.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "246 LANDMAUKS UF BOSTON.\\nTliu ladies wore a sac(iue Avitli a hnv^ trail petticoat hand-\\nsomely trimmed. Satin shoes with paste or metal buckle con-\\nlined delicate feet. The hair was craped and ornamented\\naccording to fancy, and profusely sprinkled with white powder.\\nThe gown was set olf to advantage by two or three tiers of\\nrulHes. 8uch was court dress, and court etiquette prevailed.\\nThe nuuniers were distinguislu d for stiffness and formality,\\nrelaxing a little under the inthience of the ballroom. The\\nlast queen s ball was held February 22, 1775.\\n(Jur reader will care little to know who originally owned the\\nground whereon stood the Province House. Peter Sargeant\\nliuilt it in the year 1G71), and the Provincial Legislature became\\nits purchaser in 171 G. After the Pevolution it was occupied\\nl)y the Treasurer and otlier officers of the Commonwealth.\\nWhen the building was reconstructed in 1851, old copper coins\\nof tlie reign of the Georges, and sonie even of as old date as\\n1012, were taken from the Hoors and ceilings, Avhere they had\\nlain pcnJii since dropi)ed by a careless functionary, or perhaps\\nfrom the breeches pocket of my Lord Howe. Ancient-look-\\ning bottles of Holland make were found too, suggestive of\\n8chnapi)S and Dutch courage. IJurnet perchance may have\\ninlierited the weakness with his Dutch l)lood.\\nAfter the adoption of the State Constitution it became a\\nlovernment House. The easterly half was occupied l)y the\\nGovernor and Council, Secretary of State and Eeceiver-General.\\nThe otlier half was the dwelling (tf the Treasurer. The State\\nwas inclined to keep up the character of the Province House\\nby making it tlu^. governor s offuual residence, and voted sums\\nof money f tr the jmrpose. In 170G the Commonwealth, being\\nthen engaged in l)uilding the present State House, sold the Pro-\\nvince House to John Peck, but it reverted back to the State in\\n17l)!\u00c2\u00bb, Peck being unable to fultil his part of the contract.\\n(iovernor Caleb Strong occupied it after his election in 1800.\\nlb had been active in promoting the cause of the L evolution,\\nand tiiok part in all the ju ominent measures of organization of\\nthe liody politic at its end. He was in the United States\\nSenate in 1781) -1)7. In 1812 he was again elected governor.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND rilOVIXCE HOUSE. 247\\nBeing a strong Federalist, lie refused to answer tlie calls made\\nupon liiiu for troops by the general government, l)ut took\\nmeasures to protect the State from invasion. The old revolu-\\ntionary works at South Boston were strengthened and manned,\\nand a new one erected on Noddle s Island in 1814, which bore\\nthe governor s name. This conliict between State and Federal\\nauthority forms a curious chapter in the political history of\\nthe times.\\nGovernor Strong is described as a tall man, of moderate ful-\\nness of rather long visage, dark complexion, and lihu^ eyes.\\nHe wore his hair loose combed over his forehead, and slightly\\npowdered. He had nothing of the polish of citii s in his de-\\nmeanor, but a gentle complaisance and kindness.\\nIn 1811 the Massachusetts General Hospital was incorpo-\\nrated and endowed by the State with the I rovince House.\\nThe trustees of the institution leased tlie estate, in 1S17, to\\nDavid Greenough for ninety-nine years, who, erecting tlie\\nstoi es in its front, converted it to the nses of trade. It be-\\ncame a tavern, a hall of negro luinstrelsy, and was linally\\ndestroyed by fire in October, 1864, to the bare walls.\\nSome relics of this venerable and historic structure remain.\\nThe Indian came into the possession of Henry (Jreenough, Esq.,\\nof Cambridge, and was permitted to remain some time in the\\nhands of the late Dr. J. C. Warren, of Park Street, but at his\\ndecease no traces of it could be discovered, much to the regret\\nof its owner. Eventually it came to light, and with the royal\\narms is in the possession of the Historical Society. Colonel Ben-\\njamin Parley Poore became the posse.ssor of much of the cedar\\nwainscot and of the porch. The panelling he made use of for\\nthe finish of a pre-Uevolutionary suite of rooms, while the porcli\\nforms the entrance to his garden at Indian Hill, West Newljury.\\nThe grand staircase down which Hawthorne s ghostly })ro-\\ncession descended led to apartments devoted to domestic uses.\\nThe massive oaken timbers were nieiuorials of the stanch and\\nsolid traits of the builders. Here Shute brooded and funuMJ\\nhere Burnet wrote and IJernard plotted; and here Gage and\\nHowe planned and schemed in vain. All have passed away.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "248 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nThe Blue Bell aud Indian Queen tavern stood on each side\\nof a passage formerly leading from Washington Street to Haw-\\nley. Nathaniel Bishop kept it in 1G73, which entitles it to Ite\\nranked with the old ordinaries. The officers from the Province\\nHouse and Old South often di (ip[ied in to take their cognac\\nneat. The landlady, at this time, a stanch whig, had the re-\\npute (d an amazon. Some officers one day, exciting her ire by\\ncalling IVir hraiidy under the name of Yankee blood, she\\nseized a spit and drove them from her house. Zadock Pomenjy\\nkept the inn in 1800. About ISi O the Wasliington Coffee\\nHouse was erected in place of tlic Indian Queen, but it, tdo,\\nhas vanished. It will be remendx red as the starting-place of\\nthe old Koxbury Hourlies. The passage-way referred to was\\naljout ojtposite Ordway Place.\\nAuotlier Indian Queen was in Brondield s Lane, since Street.\\nIsaac Trask kept it, and after liim Nabby, liis widow, until\\n1816. Simeon Boyden was next proprietor; Preston Shepaid\\nin 1823, afterwards of the Pearl Street House and W. Muu-\\nro( Tliis was the late Bromfield House, now replaced by a\\nhandsome granite block styled the AVesleyan Association Build-\\ning. It Avas a great centre for stages wdiile they oiuitinued to\\nrun. The likeness of an Indian princess gave the name to old\\nand new tavern.\\nThe Bromheld House site becomes important as the liirth-\\nplace of Thomas Gushing, lieutenant-gt^vernor imder Hancock\\nand Bowdoin, friend and coworker in the patriot cause with\\nAdams, Otis, and Warren. The British Ministry ascribed great\\ninfluence to Cushing. He was mend)er both of the Provincial\\naud Oontinental Congresses, ami (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0omnussary-general in 1775.\\n(Governor Cushing was a member of the Old S uth. He died\\nin 1788, and was buried in the (Jranary Burying Crouiid.\\nA few paces from the site of the old Indian Queen, in a\\ngandjrel-roof liouse, standing end to the street, was tlie\\nabode of the gifted Josiah Quincy, Jr., and the birthplace of\\nhis son, Josiah, who is best known to Boston as the greatest\\nof her chief magistrates. Uriah Cotting, Charles Bulfinch, and\\nJosiah Quincy are the triumvirate who, by waving tlieir mngi-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "Washingtos Street, Day after the Great Fire Guarding the Ruins", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 249\\nclan s waml, cliauged Bostou from a straggling pruvinclal tuwu\\ninto a metropolis.\\nJosiali Quincy, Jr., died at the early age of thirty-one, while\\nretnrniug from a voyage to England, undertaken partly for the\\nbenefit of his health. He was constitutionally delicate, and his\\nmental strength far exceeded his physical. He was chosen, with\\nJohn Adams, by Captain Preston, to defend him on his trial\\nfor the Massacre in King Street, and did defend him with all\\nhis aljQity, notwithstanding his own father warmly opposed liis\\nundertaking it. Mr. Quinc^y was possi ssed of high orattirical\\npowers. The phlegmatic ,lohn Adams named him the Boston\\nCicero his political writings, begun in the Boston Gazette of\\nOctober, 17G7, are full of fire and patriotic fervor. When in\\nEngland he was, with Franklin, singled out for a brutal allusion\\nby Lord Hillsborough, who declared they ought to be in\\nNewgate or at Tyburn. His strength proved unequal to the\\nvoyage, and he breathed his last within sight of his native laud\\nonly a few days after the Ijattle of Lexington.\\nAsk ye what thoiiglits\\nC onvulseil liis soul, wheu his dear ii.-itive sliores.\\nThronged with the imagery of hist delight,\\nGleamed on his darkening eye, while the hoai-se wave\\nUttered his death dirge, and no hand ot love\\nMight yield its tender trembling ministry\\nJosiah Quincy, Jr. is said to have been the first Boston\\nlawyer who put u[) a signJjoard over his door.\\nJosiah Quincy succeeded Mr. Phillips as mayor in l(Sl 3, over\\nhis competitor Otis. We have paid a triljute to his forecast and\\nenterprise already. To him is due the estaUishment of Houses\\nof Lidustry and Reformation. Commercial Street completed\\nhis transformation of the Town Dock region. ITnder him the\\nFire Department was founded in 1827. After a long and useful\\npublic service in city. State, and national councils, ]\\\\L Quincy\\ntook the presidency of Harvard ITniversity in 1829, where he\\ncontinued in ofiice until 1845.\\nAt the annual festival of the public .schools of Bostou in\\nFaneuil Hall, August, 1826, and on completion of the granite\\nmarket-house, Judge Story, Ijeing present, volunteered the fol-\\n11*", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "l!r)0 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nlowing seutimeut, May the fame of om* hoiioi eil mayor\\nprove as diirable as the material of Avhidi tlie beautiful market-\\nhouse is constructed. (_)n which, quick as light, the mayor\\nresponded, Tiiat stupendous monument of the wisdom of our\\nforeflithers, the Sujjreme Court of the United States; in the\\nevent of a vacancy, may it be raised one story higher. This\\npun lias also been attriljuted to Edward Everett.\\nBenjamin Hichborn, another Kevolutionary patriot, next oc-\\ncu[iietl the premises made vacant liy the Quiucys. He was a\\ngraduate of Harvard, and an cnunent niendter of the Suffolk\\nbar. For liis zeal in his c()untry s cause he was imju isoned on\\nbt)ard a Ih itish vessel, the Preston, lying in Boston harbor.\\nMr. Hichborn was a Jettersoniau Democrat. He was colonel\\nof the Cadets in 1778, and marched at their head into lihode\\nIsland. In the year following he had the misfortune to be\\nconnected with an unfortunate accident which caused the death\\nof his frit^nd, lienjamin Andrews. The gentlemen were exam-\\nining sonic pistols, j\\\\lrs. Andrews being present. One of the\\nweapons, incautiously handled, was discliarged, taking efiect iu\\nMr. Andrews s head, causing death in a few minutes.\\nQuiiicy .s Lite.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "f!;OM THE OLD SUUTII KOUA JJ iOET HILL. 251\\nCHAPTER TX.\\nFROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL.\\nBirthplace of Franklin. James Rcintineau. Bowdoiu Block. Hawley\\nStreet. Devonshire and Franklin Streets. Joseph Barrell. The Ton-\\ntine. Boston Lilirary. Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Bishop Cheve-\\nrus. Federal Street Theatre. Some Account of Early Theatricals in\\nBoston. Kean, Fimi, Macready, etc. John Howard Paine. Federal\\nStreet Church. The Federal Convention. Madam Scott. Robert\\nTreat Paine. Thomas Pahie. Congress Street. Quaker Church and\\nBurying-Groiind. Sketch of the Society of Friends in Boston. Mer-\\nchants Hall. Governor Shirley s Funeral. Fire of 1760. Pearl Street.\\nThe Ropewalks. The Grays. Conflicts between the Rope-Makers\\nand the Regulars. Pearl Street House. Spurzlieim. Washington Alls-\\nton. Theophilus Parsons. T. H. Perkins. (Sovernor Oliver. Quincy\\nMansion. Governor Gore. LiverjtODl Wharf. Tea Party and Incidents\\nof. The Sconce. Governor Aiidros Dejiosed. Sun Tavern. Fort\\nHill.\\nWE enter on IMilk Street, the ancient Fort Stro( t, con-\\nducting from the governor s honse to the Sconce, or\\nSouth Battery, a route Ave now ]iropose to follow.\\nBefore we come to Hawley Street we see a granite edifice\\nwitli Birthplace of Franklin standing out in hold relief\\nfrom the pediment. No new light has heen shed upon this\\ninteresting question since we left the Blue Ball. It is enough\\ntliat we honor the philosopher s name in many public places,\\nno locality may claim him. Apropos of Franklin, Avlien he\\nwas at the court of his most Christian Majesty, he soon liecame\\ntlie rage, not only of court circles, hut of the capital. Presents\\nflowed in upon him, which he, witli ready tact, contrived to\\nshare with his fellow-commissioners, so as to avoid the appear-\\nance of invidious distinction. Among other things, there came\\nto his lodgings a superb gift of fruits, labelled Le digne Frank-\\nlin. This time, said Silas DeancN you cannot pretend this\\nis not for you alone. Not so, said Franklin the French-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "252\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nmen cannot master our Ainciican names it is, plainly, Lee,\\n.Deane, Franklin, that is meant.\\nArthur Lee, Franklin s fellow-commissioner, composed eight\\n_ lines of the famous Liberty\\nSong of John Dickinson,\\nwhich the latter sent James\\nOtis, upon news that the\\nLegislature of ]\\\\[assaehu-\\nsetts refused to rescind the\\nresolve to send a circular\\nletter calling a convention\\nof the sister colonies to\\noppdsc taxation witliout\\nrepi esentation. It was\\nSt jtrinted in the Pennsyl-\\n/irL^-?- u**^ V ,S^ vania (Chronicle, July 4,\\n__^ 1708, and is the earliest\\n--^2:~~^ Qf ^]jy Eevolutionary lyrics\\nii,ANK,,-,s i.LMni.A.E that boldly speaks of in-\\ndependence and union.\\nThen join hand in haml, luaM- Anieiiinns ull\\nBy uniting we stand, by (lividiuL;- we lull\\nIn so righteous a cause let us liope to succeed,\\nFor Heaven approves of eacli generous deed.\\nOur purses are ready,\\nSteady, friends, steady,\\nNot as shives, hut as freemen, our money we ll give.\\nTill old house here rejiresciitiMl is a- (plaint specimen of the\\nold order of buildings. It was burnt L)eceml)er 29, LSIO,\\nshortly after a drawing liad been .secured. Old Josiah Frank-\\nlin, the father of Benjaiuin, was a. native of England, and liy\\ntrade a silk-dyer he lieeame a I cspertable soap-boiler and\\ntallow-chandler in l^xistou. Tlenjamin was born on the Gth\\nof January, 1700. and is upon the church records as having\\nreceived baptism the same day. Upon this is fiundeil the\\nclaim of the old house to lie tlie place of his nativity. Tlie\\nsign of the statue of Faust, displayed l)y former occujiants\\nof the Birthplace of Fraiddin, was the same used by Thomas", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 253\\nand Andrews in years gone by at the old stand in NewLnry\\nStreet.\\nOpposite to us, and just below, is the Old South Block,\\nl)uilt upon the site of the parsonage in 1845. Next below\\nis Sewall Block, which cuvci-s the site of the mansion of James\\nBoutineau, a royalist^ whu departed from Boston in the train\\nof Howe. Boutineau niarric(l Peter Faneuil s sister, Susannah,\\nand was, like Faneuil, descended from the French Huguenots.\\nHe was a lawyer and managed the case of his son-in-law, Rob-\\ninson, the same wdio assaulted James Otis his house, a brick\\nmansion, stood a little removed from the street, Avith the usual\\nHagged walk, shaded by trees, leading up to it.\\nBowdoin Block has a noteworthy record. It stands at\\nthe east corner of Hawley Street, once known as Bishop s Alley,\\nprobably from Bishop of the Blue Bell, and also as Boarded\\nAlley, from its having been boanh d over at onetime, a\\nname our readers will sec rej)rodu(u d in a lane leading from\\nHanover Street to North. On the corner of the aHey, Seth\\nAdams once carried on printing his son was the first post-\\nrider to Hartford, and rode hard to carry the post in four days.\\nIn this same Boarded Alley was esta])lishe(l the first theatre in\\nBoston, of which more hereafter.\\nIVlorton Place was named at the re(iuest of Thomas Kilby\\nJones, whose wife was a JMorton, and not for Governor ]\\\\Iorton,\\nas has been supposed. It was here Payne, father of Jnhn How-\\nard, kept- a school, before Morton Place was constructed.\\nOn the site of Bowdoin Block was another old-time mansion,\\nwhich belonged at one time to James Bowdoin, son of the\\ngoAan-nor, minister to Madrid in bso.S. He was once a merchant\\nin State Street, occupying a row of three stores with John\\nCoffin Jones and Thomas Pussell. He was a man of highly\\ncultivated intellectual tastes, but of slender habit. He filled\\nmany offices within the State l)efore his appointment to the\\ncourt of Madrid. James Bowdoin was a munificent patron of\\nBowdoin College, to which he gave lands, money, and his valu-\\nable library and philosophical apparatus collected abroad. His\\nwidow, also his cousin, married Oeneral Henry Dearborn, and", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "254 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nboth resided tlierc until tlicir decease. Tliis house was also the\\nl)irtliplaee of the Hon. 11. Winthvoji it hecame afterwards\\na hotel called the Mansion House.\\nDevonshire Street has swallowed n\\\\ the old Theatre Alley,\\nwhich eondiu ted hy a narrow and hy no means straight way\\nto Franklin Street, liy the rear of the ld Boston Theatre,\\nhence its name. Besides Pudding Lane, a name borrowed from\\nold Tondon, l)evonshire Street, meaning that part lying north\\nof jNIilk Street, has been known as .billilfe s l^ane. AVhere the\\nnew l*ost-(Ji}iee is was (ince an old inn calle(l the Stackpole\\nHouse, hrst the mansion of AVilliam Stackj)ole, and afterwards\\nkept as a tavern by Bouillard of the Julieii. Tt was a large\\nbrick Iniilding, end to the sti-eet with court-yard in front.\\nPrevious to the year 1792 all the lower part of Franklin\\nStreet Avas a quagmire. No greater change has taken place\\nin Boston than the conversion of this swamp into useful, solid\\nground. Jdseph Barrell, Es(j., wlio.se estate was on Summer\\nStret t, lirst drained the slough for a garden, in which he had\\nbuilt a lisli-pond, amply stocked Avith gold-fish. Where the\\nold iJdston Theatre stood was a, large distillery, and behind it\\na, pasture extending Ijetween Summer and Milk Streets as far\\nas Hawley Street.\\nThis fToseph Barn^ll, wliose handsduie grounds and mansion\\nbecame afterwards the ])niperty of Benjamin Bussey, Avas a\\n])iiineer in the northwest coa.st trade, which dpened such a\\nmagnilicent held to American commerce. He Avith nthei s\\niitted out the hrst Boston vessels Avhich (loul)led Cape Horn.\\nThey Avere the Colundiia, aptain Kendrick, and Washington,\\nCaptain firay. The cajitains exchanged vessels at sea, and the\\nriilund)ia, s Avas the iirst keel that })assed the bar of the great\\nriver, which iioAV bears the name of Captain Gray s vessel, the\\nohimbia.\\nThe improvement Avas carrie(l out by Charles Bullin(;h, Wil-\\nliam Scdllay, and harles aughan. The Legislature refused\\nto incorporate the projectors on the Tontine plan, but the im-\\nprovement Avas afterwards carried successfully through, Avith\\nsome iiiddilication. A block of sixteen handsome l)uildings.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 255\\ndesigned for dwellings, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was erected in 1793, and called the\\nCrescent, or Tontine. It lias been mentioned tliat this\\nwas the first block of buildings erected in Boston. The name\\nTontine signified an association for building purposes on the\\nannuity plan, as jiractised in Europe. A large arch penetrated\\nthe Idock, Hanked by buildings on either side, standing a little\\nin advance of the rest these Avere ornamented with pilasters\\nand balustrade. The opposite side of the street was called\\nFranklin Place. In the middle of the street svas an enclosed\\ngrass-plot three hundred feet long, containing a monumental\\nurn to the memory of Franklin, then recently deceased. This\\ncentral strip, oval in form, has, like the Tontine-Crescent, passed\\nfrom view the original conveyance prohibits tlie erection of\\nbuildings upon it.\\nThe rooms over the arch were occupied by the Historical\\nSociety and by the Boston Library. This latter was incor-\\nporated in 1794, and was designed to be somewhat more pop-\\nular in its character than either the Athenteum or Historical\\nSociety. It grew steadily in public favor, and by the reversion\\nof its shares to the corporation at the death of the shareliolder\\na handsome fund was in time obtained. The Library sold its\\nproperty, Avhich jested upon no foundation, the arch ex-\\ncepted, and removed first to Essex Street, and finally to the\\nbuilding remodelled for them in Boylston Place. These peculiar\\ntenures of liouses without land are uncommon in this country,\\nbut are said to be quite usual in Scotland, wliere separate\\nstages or flats of the same building are owned by diflerent\\nproprietors. This arch gave its name to Arch Street.\\nLooking south across Franklin Street, wc see a noble pile\\nwith the name of the Rich Buildings on its lofty front. This\\nis, or was, consecrated ground, and supported the weight\\nof the Church of the Holy Cross, until traffic swept it from\\nthe street. A brief notice of the origin of the Eomish wor-\\nship in Boston has been given. This church was erected, in\\n1803, by the efforts of Rev. Father Matignon, who came to\\nBoston in 1792, and of John Cheverus, afterwards Bishop of\\nthe diocese, since of Montauban, France, who followed him", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "256 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\niu 1790. Tlie Prutestants generously contributed to build an\\nedifice their fathers woidd not have for a moment tolerated. It\\nwas consecrated by llishdj) Carroll of Ijaltimore when com])leted.\\nThe greatly enhanced value of the ground led to its demolition\\nmany years ago; a massive and lofty temple has since reared\\nits huge bulk on the Neck, mainly founded on the price of the\\nFranklin Street Cathedral. Leside the church, the Catholics\\nerected a building which was used as a convent of Ursulines.\\nBoston was constituted into a See in 1810 which included all\\nthe New England States. A curious parallel might be drawn\\nin the occupation of the house of tlii^ French Hugueudts, wIki\\nHed from Catholic peisei ution, by a congregation of that faith.\\nBishop Cheverus, afterwards a Cardinal, was sincerely l)e-\\nloved in Boston by Protestants and Catholics alike. (Jtis and\\nt^hiincy were his friends. He took a deep interest in the heated\\ncontroversy that ensued over the treaty negotiated with Creat\\nBritain by Washington, known as Jay s Treaty.\\nOn this question Harrison Cray Otis came before the people\\nof Boston for th(^ first time in a public speech, and the good\\nBishop w^as so charmed witli the brilliant oratory of the s[teaker,\\nthat he threw^ his arms around Mr. Otis, and exclaimecl, Avhile\\nthe tears ran down his iace, Future generations, young man,\\nwill I isi nj) and call thee blessed.\\nThe Federal Street was the hrst regular thcatri established\\nin Bosbin. It was opeiu^l February 3, 1794, with the tragedy\\nof (Justavus Yasa. Thomas Paine, the same who afterwards\\nchangi d his narni to IJobcrt Treat, because he wanted a Chris-\\ntiiiii name, wrote flic j prologue, having been adjudged the prize\\nagainst a number of comitetitors. Charles Stuart Powell was\\ntli first manager. The theatre was also called the Old Drury,\\nafter I)rury Lane, London. In 179cS, while nnder the manage-\\nment of Barrett and Ilarjier, the house Avas destroyed by fire,\\nleaving only the briek walls standing. The theativ was soon\\nrebuilt and opened in October, 1798, under the management\\nof Ml llodgkinson, with Wives as they AVere. JNlr. George\\nL. Ilarrett conduejcd the next season, and in the following\\nyear, 18U0, the celebraleil Mrs. Jones appeared. ]\\\\lr. Lickson", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FOUT HILL.\\n257\\nwas a favorite actor at tins house until his retirement from the\\nstage in 1817. In this year the managers were Powell, Dick-\\nson, and Dutt and under their auspices Edmund Kean first\\nperformed in Boston. He met with a favorable reception, and\\nBOSTON THKATici: ANn I KANK i.iN .sri;i:i:r.\\ndeparted with a full purse and high opinion of Txistdii, wliicli\\nhe pronounced the Literary Enii)orium of the Western\\nWorld.\\nIn 1825 Kean renewed his visit to Ameiica, but the Bos-\\ntonians, offended at his supercilious conduct on the occasion of\\nhis second engagement, when he refused to play to a thin\\nhouse, would not allow him to utter a, woi d, and he was finally\\ndriven from the stage by a showei of ])rojectiles. Henry d.\\nFinn, then one of the managers, vaiidy endeavored to obtain a\\nhearing for the tragedian, who stoo(l before the audience in the\\nmost sulunissive attitude, while his countenance was a picture\\nof rage and humiliation. A riotoiis crowd from tlie outside\\nforced their way into the house and destiT)yed what they could\\nof the interior. The discomfited Kean sought safety in flight.\\nFinn was one of the best eccentric comedians Boston has\\never known. Besides being an actor, he Avas a clever minia-\\nture painter. He first appeared at the Boston Theatre October\\n22, 1822, and perished in the ill-fated Lexington lost in Long\\nQ", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "258 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nIsland Sonnil, January 1 l. ^Kl. Finn usually announced his\\nbeneiits with suiuc witty inorcain like this\\nLike a grate full of coals 1 Luni,\\nA great full house to see\\nAnd if I prove not grateful too,\\nA great fool I shall be.\\nKean, notwithstanding his fiasco in Boston, -was possessed\\nof generous impulses, of Avhicdi many aneedntes are related in\\nillustration. The scene on the night of his retirement from\\nthe stage, when he appeared as Othello, at (Jovent (iarden, as-\\nsisted by his son Charles as lago, is an ever-inemoral)le event\\nin the annals of the stage. Broken down hy emotion and\\nphysical infirmity, the actor liad to l)e hornc from the theatre hy\\nhis son to a neighboring house. Tie survived but a few weeks.\\nEdmund Kean was noted for the ahuse of liis ])owers by in-\\ndulgence in the social glass. He liad a weakness to ])e thonglit\\na classical sidmlar, and would (juote scraps of Latin common-\\nplaces. One evening, while deep in a nocturnal orgie, his secre-\\ntary, Ii. r]ii]lii)s, tired of waiting for him, sent a servant to\\nreport the situation at two in the morning.\\nI hillljis. What s Mr. Kean loing now\\n(itir. Makiii,;.;- a speech about Sliakesjieare.\\nI hillijig. He s getting diunk, you liad Itetter order the cairiage.\\n(Half i)ast two.)\\nrhillip^. AVhat s he at now I\\nll u l,r. He s talkiu-- Latin, sir.\\nriu /lijis. Then he /.s (hunk. I must get him away.\\nMi S. Susanna fjowson, the giftetl authoress of Oharlotte\\nTemple, ap[ieared at the Federal Street Theatre in Septeml)er,\\n179G. In March of the year following her play of Americans\\nin England was brought out at this house, and received with\\ngreat favor. ]\\\\L s. Kowson soon sought a more congenial em-\\nI)l()yment, opening in the early part of 1797 a school for young\\nladies in Federal Street with a single jmpil. Her facile pen\\nAvas equally ready in |)rose or verse, the latter covering a wide\\nrange from deep jiathos to stirring martial odes.\\nMrs. iJowson s remarkable force of character enabled her to", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 259\\nrise superior to the deep-seated prejudire against novel-writers\\nand actresses, she was hotli, and to command not only the\\nrespect, but the patronage at last of many wlio would have\\nlooked upon an association with her at one time as contaminating.\\nMacready made his first appearance before a Boston audience\\nat this theatre in the charact(!r of Virginius and Boston was\\nalso his place of refuge after the lamenta])Ie Astor Place Riot,\\nin New York. John Howard Payne also acted here. About\\n1833 the house was closed as a theatre, and leased to the\\nsociety of Free Inquirers. In 1834 the Acach-my id Music,\\nan institution for the culture of vocal and instnuuental nuisic,\\nobtained possession. Mr. Lowell Mason conductinl the Acad-\\nemy, and the name of the theatre was now change l t(j the\\nOdeon. Rehgious services were held on Sundays by Rev.\\nWilliam M. Rogers s society imtil the building of their cliurch\\non Winter Street. The stage was again clearc^d for theatri(;al\\nperformances in 1846-47, under a lease to Mr. C. R. Thome.\\nLafayette visited the Boston Theatre on the last cnxming of\\nhis stay in 1824. An entire ncnv front was erect(;d on Fed(n-al\\nStreet in 182(5, and an elegant saloon added with many interior\\nimprovements. About 1852 the theatre property was sold.\\nThe present business structure is erected on its site at the\\nnortheast corner of Franklin and Federal Streets.\\nCharles Bulfinch was the architect of the Boston Theatre.\\nIt was built of brick, was one hundred and forty feet long,\\nsixty-one feet wide, and forty feet high. An an^ade projected\\nfrom the front, serving as a carriage entrance. The house had\\ntlie appearance of two stories both the upjier and lower were\\narched, with square windows, those of the second stage being\\nthe most lofty. Corinthian pilasters and columns decorated\\nfront and rear. Several independent outlets afforded ready\\negress. The main entrance was in front, where, alighting under\\ncover from tlieir carriages, the company passed through an open\\nsaloon to two staircases leading to corridors at the back of the\\nboxes. The pit and gallery were entered from the sides.\\nThe interior was circular in form, the ceiling being composed\\nof elliptic arches resting on Corinthian columns. There were", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "2 i() LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntwo rows of boxes, the secoud suspended by invisible means.\\nTlie stage was flanked by two columns, and across the oj)ening\\nwere thrown a (iriiicc and lialustiade over this were painted\\nthe arms of the Uniti il States and of Massachusetts, blended\\nwitii liistrionic end)lems. From tlie arms depeuded the mottcj,\\nAll the \\\\\\\\\\\\)rld s a Stage. The walls were jiainted azure, and\\nthe columns, front of the boxes, etc., straw and lilac color the\\nl)alusjrades, mouldings, etc., were gilt, and tlie second tier of\\n])oxes were hung with crimson silk. There was also a beautiful\\nand sjtacious Ixdlroom at the east end, handsomely decorated,\\nwith snjall retiring-rooms. A c/iisii/e, well furnished, was be-\\nneatli. Such was tlie lirst play-house JJoston ever had.\\nCast on the opening night (if the lioston J heatre\\nNEW THEATRE\\nWill open on Mcjiiday next, Fi Iiniary 3(1,\\nWith the truly Repulilieaii Tragedy,\\nGUSTAVUS VASA,\\nTHE DELIVKHER OF HIS COUNTRY.\\nAll the characters (being the first time they were ever performed by the present\\ncompany) will be personated by Messrs. Baker, Jones, Collins, Nel-\\nson, Bartlett, Powell, S. Powell, and Kemiy Miss Harrison,\\nMrs. Jones, Mrs. Baker, and the Child by Miss Cor-\\nnelia Powell, being her first appearance on\\nany Stage. To which will lie added\\nan Entertainment called\\nMODERN ANTIQUES\\nor,\\nTHE MERRY MOURNERS.\\nMr. and Mrs. Cockleto]) by Mr. Jones and Miss P.akci The otlier characters\\nby Messrs. S. Powell, Collins, Nelson, Baker, etc., Mvs.\\nJones, Mrs. Baker, and Mrs. C ollins.\\nThe history of the Boston stage is instructive, as showing the\\ngradual develo|tment of a change of feeling in regard to the\\nestalilishment of theatres. The earliest attemi)t at su(di exhi-\\nbitions was a performance at the British Coffee House of\\nUtway s Orphan, in 1750, followed by a law forbidding them\\nunder severe penalties. The British ollicers had their theatre,\\nin 1775, in Faneuil Hall, where they producecl the Blockade\\nof Boston, by General Burgoyne, Zara, and other pieces.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 2(Jl\\nIn 1792 a company of comedians from London, chief anidng\\nwhom was Charles Powell, htted up a stahle in Uoard iVlley\\n(Hawley Street) into a theatre. Governor Hancock was highly\\nincensed at this infraction of the laws, and made it the subject\\nof special comment in liis message to the Legislature. The\\nrepresentations were conducted under the name of Moral\\nLectures, but were brought to a summary conclusion by thi^\\napi)earance of Sheriff Allen on the stage, who arrested one of\\nthe performers as he stood in the guise of the Crooked Back\\nTyrant. The audience sympathized witli tlie actors, and amid\\ngreat excitement, in which Hancock s jiortrait was torn from\\nthe stage-box and trampled under focjt, the play ingloriously\\nended. The law, liowever, was re])eal(^d, before the yi^ar was\\n(lut, niaiidy through the efforts of Joliii (iardiiicr, while Samuel\\nAdams and H. G. Otis opposed its abrogation. i\\\\Ii\\\\ )tis, how-\\never, defended the captured knight of tlie buskin, and procured\\nhis dischai ge on technical grounds.\\nBill at the opening in Boaril Alley\\nNEW EXHIBITION ROOM.\\nBoAHD Alley.\\nFEATS OF ACTIVITY.\\nTlii.s Evening, the 10th of August, will be cxtiiliited Dancing on the Tight\\nRope by Monsieurs Plaeide an I ]\\\\Iai1iii. Mons. I lacide will\\ndance a Hornpipe on a Tight Rope, ]ilay the Violin\\nin various attitudes, and Jump over a\\ncaue backwards and forwards.\\nINTRODUCTORY ADDRESS,\\nBy Mr. Harper.\\nSINGING,\\nBy Mr. Wools.\\nVarious feats of tumbling liy Mons. Placide and Martin, who will make\\nsomersetts backwards over a table, chair, c.\\nMons. Martin will e.xliibit several feats on the Slack Rope.\\nIn the course of the Evening s Entertainments will be delivered\\nTHE GALLERY OP PORTRAITS,\\nor,\\nTHE WORLD AS IT GOES,\\nBy Mr. Harper.\\nThe whole to conclude with a Dancing Ballet called The Bird Catcher, with the\\nMniuet de la Cour and the Gavot.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "262 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nJohn Howard Payne, Avlicise nicmoiy is imuiortalizcd liy\\nHome, Sweet Home, lived in a little old w^ooden buikling\\nat tlie corner of Channing, loriiK rly Berry and Sister Streets.\\nHis father, at one time, kept a s^^ hool in liis dwelhng, which he\\nstyled the Berry Street Academy. Howard showed an early\\ninclination for theatricals, and was the leader of an amatenr\\nconijiany composed of his young companions. He was also\\npossessed of a martial spirit, and organized a band of juvenile\\nsoldicTS of his own age, with whom iie ])araded the streets,\\narmed with muskets horroweil of Wallach, the Essex Street\\nJew. )n one occasion, when drawn u}) on the omnion, they\\nwere inviti (l into the line and passed in review liylJeiu ral\\nElliiitt. The company was called the Federal Baud, and tlieir\\nuniform, blue and white, was copied from the Boston J^iglit\\nInfantry. Payne Avas sent to Union College, Schenectatly,\\nthrough the generosity of a noble-minded jN^ew-Yorker. His\\nfather s death occurring while he was at college, he resolved\\nto try the stage, and made; his lirst ajipearance at the Park\\nTheatre in February, ISOl), as Young Norval. He astonished\\neverybody, and went the nnind of American theatres with\\ngreat success. He went to England in 1813, sulfiuing a brii-f\\nimprisonment at Liverpool as an American alien. After a time\\nhe went to Paris, and devoted himself to adapting sui-rcssful\\nFrench l lays for the London stage. He witnessed tlie return\\nof Bonaparte from El1)a, and the scenes of the Ilundrcd\\nDays. His future life was one of trial, vicissitude, and unre-\\nquited effort. The plays of Tlierese, and lari, the Maid\\nof Milan, are from his pen. Home, Sweet Home, was first\\nsung by Miss Tree, sister of Mrs. Chai les Keaii, and procured\\nher a wealthy husbanil, and filled the treasury of ovent iar-\\nden. Payne afteiwards received an ajipointment from our gX)V-\\nernment as consul at Tunis. He died in 1 S52. Wlio knows\\nthat Sweet Home was not the })laint of his own heart, sigh-\\ning for tlie scenes of his youth?\\nAn exile from home, jileasure dazzles in vain,\\nAh, give me my lowly thatclie l cottage again\\nTile lijrits singing sweetly tliat caiiir tn my call.\\n(Jive me them, antl that peace ot miml dealer than all.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL.\\n203\\nOLD FEDERAL STREET CHURCH.\\nAnother abandoned clmrrli-site is near. Tlie Old Pre.sliyte-\\nrian Meetingdiouse stood on tlu; nortli corner of Federal and\\nBerry Streets. The latter has changed its name to Channiug,\\nas it did its ancient orthography,\\nBury into Berry. The founders\\nof this church were Irish Pres-\\nbyterians, and their hrst Imuse\\nof worship was a barn, wliidi\\nsufficed until they were able, in\\n1744, to l)uild a neat wooden\\nedifice. Governor Hancock ])re-\\nsented the bell and vane whidi\\nhad belonged to the Old Brattle\\nStreet Meeting-house. The old\\nhouse was a pattern of many that\\nmay still be seen in our t lder\\nNew England villages.\\nAn amusing incident is related\\nof the vane, Hancock s gift. Colonel Erving, meeting Pev.\\nJohn Moorhead, directed his attention to the fact that the\\nvane did not move, but remained fixed in its position. Ay,\\nI must see to it, said the honest parson, who ran immediati-ly\\nto the mechanic who placed the vane on the steeple. A fatiguing\\nclimb to the top revealed that the fault was in the wind, which\\nhad remained due east for a fortnight.\\nMr. Moorhead, the first pastor, was ordained in Ireland, and\\nwas installed in Boston in 1730, a hundred years after the set-\\ntlement. This was also the church of Jeremy IJelknap, and of\\nDr. W. E. Channiug, for whom the neighl)oring strcn-t is named.\\nIt was to this church tlie Convention adjourned fi om the\\nOld State House, when it met to consider the adoption of the\\nFederal Constitution, January 9, 1788.\\nThe Veiition did in Boston meet,\\nBut State House could not liol l eiu\\nSo then they went to Federal Street,\\nAnd there the truth was told euh\\nJeremy Belknap was tlien pastor ui tlie church. John Han-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "-04 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ncock was president (if the (Joiiventi(.)]i, and u-orgc 11. jNIinot\\nvice-president. To tlie ettbrts of Hancock is largely due the\\nadoption of the instvunient. Tlie joy of the peo](le at the rati-\\nlication was unhounded, and a monster procession celebrated\\nthe event, in wliicli tlie nieclianics of IJoston, who had taken a\\nlively interest in the ])roeeedin,!j,s, liore a jfroniinent pait. Tlie\\nnaval hero, John Foster AVillianjs, then livint; in Leverett s\\nan(- ((Jongress Street), lent his aid after the ibllowing uian-\\nner\\nJolm Foster Williams, in a sliiji,\\nJoined in the social liaml, sir\\nAnd made the lasses danee and skiji\\nTo See him sail on land, sir\\nIn 1809 the Federal Street society erected a neAV and elegant\\nhouse, d(^signed liy (diaries Bulhnch. it was, when huih, the\\noidy sjiecinieii ul pui e Saxon-( Jotliic aridiiterture in Itoston.\\nIn IS. U a nuiiiher Polish rei ugees arrived in this country,\\nafter the final disnieniherineiit of their native laud. )ue Sun-\\nday I)r. Channing announced that a collection would he taken\\nup f r(he lieiietit of these exiles. The call was nohly responded\\nto among otiiers, Henry I lU kett, a mendier of the Tea I aity,\\nand one of the sterling patriots of IJevolutionaiy times, sent\\nhis check couched in these words\\nPay to Count Pulaski, uiy commauder at the hattle nl l^ raH(ly-\\nwine, liis Ijretliren, or liearer, one hundred dollars.\\nAnciently Ke(leral Street was known as hong Lani hut tVom\\nthe adoption of the Federal Constitution was known hy its\\nl\u00c2\u00bbresent name. AVhat was true of the lower part of l rauklin\\nStreet is (pially so of Federal, d liei e was once a sutlicieiit\\nde[)th of water near the meeting-house we have just dcscrihed\\nfor smelts to he taken. Shaw cites l)r. hanning as saying he\\nhad taken these fish at the corner of Federal and ^lilk Street.s,\\nand another authority as having seen tlirei feet of water in\\nFederal Street.\\nAt the Uppel end of Fe(leral Street, next the orner of jNlil-\\nlon Place, lived Madam Scctt, the widow of loveruor Han-\\ncock. She mairied aplain dames Scott in 1 7 .t i. lie had", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "FEOM THE OLD SOUTH EOUND FORT HILL. 265\\nbeen long einployt il Ity the governor as master of a London\\n})acket, and again, after tlie peace, sailed as master of the Nep-\\ntune, tlie first ship of a regidar line of London packets.\\nMadam Scott outUved lier husband many years, retaining her\\nfaculties unimpaired until near the close of her life. She died\\nin 1830, over eighty. She was the daughter of Judge Edmund\\n^hiincy, of Braintree, and long celeljrateil fnr lier wit and\\nbeauty.\\nDm otliy Quincy was at Lexington with her affianced liusljand\\n(Hancock) when tlie battle of Lexington occurred, and looked\\nout u])on the fearful scenes of that morning. She knew Earl\\nI t-rcy widl, and related that she had often heanl him drilling\\nhis troops of a moi-niiig on tlu^ Common. Lafayette was a\\nfavorite with her, having been entertained by her in 1781.\\nWlieii the Marciiiis revisited Boston, in 18:^+, his first call was\\nupon .Madam Scott. They regarded each other intently for a\\nfew moments without speaking, each contemplating the ravages\\ntiua; and care had made in the features of the other.\\nAs Lafiiyette rode into town, rect iving the private and heart-\\nfelt homage of every individual of the immense throng that\\ngi eeted him, he perceived his ancient hostess of more than forty\\nyears l)efore, seated at a balcony on Tremont Street. The\\n(leneral directed his carriage to stop before the house, and, rising\\nto his feet, with his hand upon his heart, mad(^ her a graceful\\nsalutation, which was as heartily returned. This little episode\\nwas loudly applauded by the spe(-t;it()rs of the interesting\\nmeeting.\\nThe mansion of Robert Treat Laine, the eminent lawyer,\\njudge, and signer of our Magna Cliarta, was at the west corner\\nof Milk and Federal Stre; ts. The house, a brick one, fronted\\non Milk Street, and appeared in its latter days guiltless of\\npaint. It was a large, two-story, gamlnvl-roof structure, with\\ngardens extending Ijack some distance on Federal Street. In\\nthe yard was a large jack -with a turn-spit, according to the\\nciilinaiy fashion of those days. In this house Judge Paine\\ndied May 11, 1814. A Bost(aiian by birth, pupil and usher\\nof the Latin School, he was a delegate to the Provincial Con-\\n12", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "266 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\ngress of 1774, which chose him a member of tlie Continental\\nCongress he was the first attorney-general of Massachusetts,\\nand member of the State Constitutional Convention and also\\njudge of the Supreme Court of the State. Judge Paine con-\\nducted tlie prosecution nf (_ a[)tain Preston. He was an able\\nand witty writer as a man, beloveil by liis fellow-citizens who\\nhonored him with so many higli })ul Iic trusts. lie was enter-\\ntaining iu cnnversation, but subject in his later years to fits of\\nabstraction from which he w^ould rouse himself with a pleasant\\nsmile and jest.\\nThe younger Robert Treat Paine was one of those brilliant\\ngeniuses which occasionally illuminate a community iu which\\nwit condiiiicd with sentiment commands a high value. He had\\na decided peitc/ui/it for the theatre, and married an actress,\\nMiss Baker. lie was first called Thomas, but, strongly dislik-\\ning the appellation of the great infidel Thomas Paine, he ap-\\n])ealed to the Legislature to give him a Christian name,\\nlie lunl been a patron of the little theatre in Poard Alley,\\nand assisted with his pen at the inauguration of the Boston\\nTheatre. His father, as we know, lived hard by, and young\\nThomas was scarcely of age when he wrote the successful com-\\nposition. The greatest of his political lyrics, Adams and\\nLiberty, was written at the request of the Massachusetts Char-\\nitable Fire Society. As first composed, all mention of AVash-\\nington was inadvertently, no doubt omitted. ^Nlajor Hen\\nPusscll, iu whose house Paine happened to l)e, interfered wlieii\\nthe poet was about to helj) himself from the sideboard, humor-\\nously insisting that he should not ([uench his thirst until he\\nhad in an additional stanza i-epaired the oversight. Paine\\nthoughtfully paced the room a few moments, suddenly asked\\nfor a pen, and wrote tlie grand lines\\nTilioiiM the tfinpest of war oversliailow onr land,\\nIts holts could ne er rend Freedom s temjile asunder\\nFor unmoved at its portal would Washington stand,\\nAnd repulse with his breast the assaults of tlie tliundei-.\\nHis sword from the sleep\\nOf its scabbard would leaj).\\nAnd conduct with its point r\\\\i-i y ll;isli to tin- deeji", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 267\\nFor ne er shall the sons of Columliia lie slaves,\\nWhile the earth bears a j)lant, or tlie sea rolls its waves.\\nThe younger I aiiie died in 1 S11, tliree years before Ids\\nfather. Part of the garden lying on Federal Street became\\nthe site of the Fourth Baptist Church. Church and dwelling\\nlong ago joined the shadowy procession of vanished landmarks.\\nFather and son were both buried from the family mansion.\\nBefore the occupancy Ijy Judge Paine, this house, it is said,\\nliad l)een tlie abode of Colonel John Erving, Jr., a merchant of\\nhigh standing, and colonel of the Boston Regiment. His father,\\nthe old Colonel Jolm Erving, was an eminent mercliant before\\nhim, and lived in Ti emont Row. The younger Erving was son\\nin-law of Gov(!rnor Shirley, and at his death the gijvernor s\\nfuneral took place from tlie house of liis relative, Monday,\\nApril 1, 1771. A long procession followed the remains to King s\\nChapel, beneath which they were deposited. The Ancient and\\nHonorable Artillery Company, commanded by Captain Heath\\nthe officers of the Boston Regiment, in full regimentals with the\\nusual mourning of l)lack crape, attended. On the coffin were\\nplaced the two swords of the deceased, crossed. The pall was\\nsupported by Governor Hutchinson, Lieutenant-Oovernor )liver,\\ntwo judges of the Superior Court, and two of the Ht)norable\\nCouncil. Dr. Caner preached the funeral sermon, after which\\nthe body was interred, the military firing three volleys, and a\\ndetachment of the Train of Artillery as many rounds as the\\ndeceased had lived years, namely, sixty-five. The governor\\nwill be remembered as a patron of King s Chapel, and it was\\ndoubtless his expressed wish to be buried there.\\nIn that part of Congress Street lying north of AVater Street\\nwere the old Quaker Churcli and Burying Ground. The latter\\nwas situated opposite Exchange Place,* and was the fourth in the\\ntown in antirpiity, having been establislied in 1709. The Friends\\nbuilt a brick meeting-house on that part of their lot subsequently\\noccupied by the Transcript, and later by J. E. Farwell Co,\\nThe house was nearly destroyed in the great fire of 1760, but\\nwas repaired the same year. Though once numerous, only eleven\\nFormerly Linilall Street.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "268 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nof the sect remaiiKMl in rxistmi in 1744; tlieii wiirshi[) in this\\nhouse ceased aliout ISOS, and in 1827 the property was sold.\\nThe remains were cxluinicd hy the Friends and taken to Lynn,\\nwhere they again received burial. No interments were made\\nin this cemetery later than about 1815. From time to time the\\nrelics of tlie (^hiakers have been thrown to the surface T)y the\\nexcavations on and near this site. At a later period the\\nFriends erected a small stone house in Milton Place, Federal\\nStreet, still existing in 1872 but in 1848 it was conjectured\\nthere was not a single (^hiaker in iJostoa in 1855 none were\\nresident here, tl;e, society, like the French Cliurch, had be-\\ncome extinct. The house in Milton Place was once protected\\nby a fence, and shaded l)y handsome trees, all gone, and on\\ntlie spot a brick warehouse stands to-day.\\nThe (,^)uakers liave the distinction of ha\\\\ ing built the lirst\\nbrick meeting-house in Postoii it Avas in Ihattle Street, and\\ndates back to 1092. This was disused in 1708, and tlie society\\nremoved to ongress Street. The sect seems to liave lloni islied\\nunder persecution, dying out when it had ceased. The (j)uakers\\nsuffered every species of crueliy in estaliHshing their faitli in\\nPoston. Scourging and im[)risoinnent weri the mild means of\\nprevention lirst employed liaiiishment and the loss of an ear\\nwere sulise(|uently decreed, at least three ])ersons lost this\\nuseful member liy the hands of the })\\\\dilic executionei al)out\\n1G58. Fven under tins severity tlie uakers continne(l to in-\\ncrease and tlourisli. Selling them into slaveiy was triecl and\\nfailed, and the death enalty was applied as a last resort. Fonr\\nof the pers(M ute(l sect were hanged, and but for the i ear of in-\\ntervention by the crown the Puritans wouhl have cut them otf\\nroot and branch. This occurred in KKiO, rather more than two\\ncenturies ago. It nuist be remarked, however, that some of the\\neccentricities of the early Qnakers would not be tolerated even\\nnow except among barl)arians.\\nCongress Street has been mentioned as the headquarters of\\nthe Anthology Chdj, the first purely literary society we have\\nan account of since tlie Pevtilutioii.\\nIn Kevolntionaiy times cluljs were quite munerous in Bt)ston,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH liOUND FORT HILL. 269\\nand formed the nuclei around wliich tlie })atriots gathered. One\\nof the earliest of these was tln Whig CIuIj, of which James Otis,\\nDr. Church, Dr. Warren, Dr. Young, Richard Derhy of Salem,\\nBenjamin Kent, Natlianiel IJarher, William Mackay, oloiRd\\n15ige]o\\\\v of Worcester, and a few others were members. I liey\\ncorresponded with Wilkes, Colonel liarre, tSaville, and other\\nleaders of the opposition in Parliament. Civil iJights and the\\nBritish Constitution were the standing sul)jects of discussion.\\nIn 1777-78 there was another chdi, com])osed of young\\nmen fresh from college, among whom were liufus King, hris-\\ntoplier Core, William Eustis, Boyal Tyler, Tlunnas Dawes,\\nAaron Dexter, etc. They met in Coloiud Trundmll s rooms at\\nthe corner of Court ami l rattle Streets, and discussed pijlitics,\\nliterature, and war.\\nTli(! building on the northeast corner of Water and Congress\\nStreets was formerly Called Merchants Hall, and in it were\\nkept the United States I ost-Officc, and Merchants Exchange\\nin 1829. The new edifice occupied for the former is there-\\nfore the second location u[)ou the same street. The Post-\\nOffice occupied the lower Hoor. Aaron Hill was tlu^ })ost-\\nmaster, with eight clerks, and one p(;nny-postman. Toplilf s\\nReading Boom shared tlie lower apartment with the Post-Office,\\nand contained all mercantile intelligence useful to merchants\\nwhere they most do congregate.\\nUpon this same spot once stood an old gandirel-roofed house\\nwith diamond-paned windows, a, ]iatriarch among its fellows.\\nOn the front was a Indl s head and horns, from which the house\\nwas known as the Bull s Head. Over ojjposite was Horn Lane,\\nsince Bath Street. This was the haljitation of George Bobert\\nTwelves Hewes, a mendicr of the Tea Party. His father was\\na glue-maker, soap-boiler, tanner, tallow-chandler, and perhajxs\\nfilled u\\\\) his leisure with other employments. Young Hewes\\nwas baptized at the Old South, and had a considerable share\\nin the tumults worked up by the Boston mechanics. He lived\\nto be ninety-eight years ohl, retaining a clear intellect until\\nnear the end of his long life-journey.\\nRobert Hewes s elder brother, Shubael Hewes, was Butcher-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "270\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nMaster-* IciuTal in tlic tnwii Avliilc Hnwc lidd inissessinn, and at\\none time during the siege six head dt rattle was tlie entire stnek\\nin his hands for troops or inhabitants. His hnteher-shop was\\nat the smith cdrner of Wasliingtun Street and Harvard Tlaee,\\nopposite tlie )ld South, in an nld liuihling with a ]irn)( cting\\nupper story. A slaiightfrdmusi was eonnerted with tlie estali-\\nlishment. Peoph of wealth and positinn weiv glad to olitaiu\\nthe rejei^ted portions of tlie slaughtered animals during the\\ninvestment of the town.\\nJl LIKN HOUSE.\\nThe old Julien House must ever remain an dlijert ol interest\\nU all gastronomers. It was called didien s PcsttH atdr, and\\nwas the tirst establishment noticed witli this distinctive title;\\nall the rest were taverns or boarding-houses. It was M. Julien\\nwho first introduced that agreeable potufje which bears his\\nnaiue. He came to this country with the celebrated Dubuijue,\\nwdio was a refugee from tlie French Revolution. Dubuipie\\noccupied for a time the Shirley mansion in Koxbury. The old\\nhouse with its gables, overhanging up{)er stories, and huge", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 271\\ncliimney was taken down in 182-1, and succeeded by Julien,\\nafterwards Congress, Hall. Its site was once a tanyard. After\\nM. Jvdien s death in 1805 his widow succeeded him, keeping\\nthe house for ten years. It is suj)posed to have been built\\nalxiut 1760.\\nThat part of (^-ongress Street lying south of ]\\\\lilk was\\nformerly Green Lane, and in 1732 was named Atkinson Street,\\nfrom an old family whose lands it passed through. The ancient\\nproprietors of the soil, who gave their lands to make our high-\\nways, did not stipidate that the original names should remain\\nunchanged, like the far-seeing Chief J ustice Sewall. One in-\\nstance is mentioned of an individual who had lived on eight\\ndifferent streets within hfty years, but had never moved from\\nhis original dwelling. Hence the maps of Boston at various\\nperiods bear l)ut little resenddance to each other; and he who\\nvisits only occasionally distant localities finds himself lost.\\nThe happy expedient was hit upon of renewing some of the\\nold names in the new part of the city, and we have Newbury\\nand Marlborough, where th(\\\\y may well baffle some future in-\\n(piirer. In Tirecn s Barracks in Atkins. )u Street were quartered\\npart of the 14th Royal Regiment at the time of the Massacre.\\nAs we are now in the route of the Tea Party, we will con-\\ntinue with it through Pearl Street. Before taking leave of\\nMilk Street, however, we must remark that it had noma other\\nresidents not unknown to fame. Below us is Oliver Street,\\nnamed for that family. The (piarters of General Howe were in\\na house at the corner of Oliver and jNlilk Streets. To him,\\nprobably, was confided the immediate charge of the troojjs and\\nworks in and around Fort Hill.\\nIn Milk Street was the residence of Thomas Flucker, Secre-\\ntary of the Province under Hutchinson, whose name is seen\\nappended to the official papers of that interesting period.\\nFlucker s daughter, Lucy, married General Knox. We have\\nseen her sharing the privations of camp life with her husband\\nwherever his duty called him. She was a lovely and lughly\\naccomplished woman, contributing greatly to the little female\\ncircle around the American headquarters. Through this mar-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "272 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nriage Knox became posse.s.so(l of a large, estate at Tlioiiiastoii,\\nMe., named for rieneval John Thomas.\\nAdmiral Grave.s, of the fb ct, st cms to have jircferred snug\\nquarters ashore to the eal)in of the. flagship, for he took u[) his\\nresidence at the southeast corner of Pearl and High Streets,\\nwhere he might have ready access to liis shij piug. The admi-\\nral, it will he remembered, Av^as exempted, with Gage, from\\nj)ardon l)y the Provincial ongress.\\nThe great flre of March 20, 1700, which began at tlie Fmizen\\nHead, in (Joridiill, consumed every house ou the north side of\\nMilk Street, from Congress Street to the water, and on tlie\\no[)posite side it swept all before it the dwelling of Secretary\\nOliver and a few tenements excepted to Fort Hill. The\\nBattery, or Sconce, took lire and Idew up, nutwitlistanding a\\nlarge })art of the ])owder was thrown into the liarbor, lovernor\\nHutchinson })ersonally assisting in this lal)or. All the region\\nnow known as Lil)erty S(piare was Imrnt over, sliops, ware-\\nhouses, and the sl\\\\i])yard tliat has lieen noteil so tliat from\\nDevonshire Street to tlie wab r s edge, from Milk Street to the\\nnorth side of State Street, scarcely a house reiuaine(l standing.\\nOliver Street was very l)adly pave l with coblile-stones some\\ntime before the Pevolution, as far as the Wendell and )liver\\nHouses, l)eyond Avhich there was no pavement. High, and all\\nthe neighboring Streets, were unpaved, as Lit( as LSOcS. At\\nthis time tliere was a l:)rick sidewallc on the north side of Pearl\\nStreet, but none on the (jtlier, and some gentlemen caused a\\nplank Avalk to lie laid from High Street uj) the hill to their\\nresidences at the top. The old b evolutionaiT fort was levelled\\nand converteil into a mall since 17U7, the ground lying around\\nit remaining in possession of the town until after 1800.\\nKilby Street, noticed at its outlet into State, was named for\\nOliristopher Kill)y, an eminent Boston merchant, on account of\\nhis liberality to the sufferers by the gn^d. lire of 17 iO, when\\nthe street was noAvly laid out and widened. .Mr. Charles AV.\\nTuttle says a descendant of Christopher Kilby married the\\nseventh Duke of Ai-gyle, grandfather of the Manpiis of Lornc,\\nsinc(i married to the Princess Louise of England. Kilby re-\\nsided in Cj)ueen Street.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "FRO!\\\\r THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 273\\nOn till )na]i nf 1722 no street is laid down where the present\\nPearl Street is, Init a number of ropewalks extend in its general\\ndirection from (Jow Lane (High Street) towards Milk. In 1732\\nthe alley along the ropewalks obtained the name of Hutcliinson\\nStreet, changed in 1800 to Pearl. In 1771 there was but a\\nsingle house on the east side, that of Charles Paxton, Esq., an\\nelegant three-story brick, some little distance from Milk Street.\\nPaxton was one of the revenue commissioners, and was not for-\\ngotten by the mi b which called at Secretary Oliver s. He had,\\nhowever, made liis escape with his valuables, and the owner of\\nthe hous(! saved his property by proposing to broach a barrel\\nof punch at the tavern near by. Tlu; mob accepted the alter-\\nnative. Paxton was also a mandannis councillor, and proscril)ed\\nby the Provincial Congress, with Jonathan Sewall and Benja-\\nmin Hallowell.\\nThe west side of the street was oc(nipied in its entire length,\\nat the date mentioned, by seven ropewalks these were all buint\\nin 1794, and the street liecamc dotted with tin; residen(;es of\\nthe wealthy and refined.\\nThe first rope-maker in P oston was John Harrison, whose\\nrope-held was on Purchase Strecit, at the foot of Sunnner\\nthe former street now occupies the ground. From this circum-\\nstance arises the name Piu chase, ])art of the way having Ixn-n\\nthus secured. Harrison first exercised this calling here in 1042,\\nand in 1663 appealed to the selectmen not to license a rival\\nartisan in the town. Isaac P Davis, whose middle name is the\\ncapital letter only, was tlie last rope-maker in Boston.\\nThe Crays were the most celebrated rope-makers of Boston.\\nEdward, the senior, first served an apprenticeship with Barton,\\nat Barton s Point, now West Boston. In 1712 he began making\\nropes on the Pearl Strc^et tract, purchased of Theodore Atkin-\\nson. He was the father of Harrison Gray, treasiurer of the\\nI^rovince, and of John, who succeeded to tlie ropewalks, seven\\nhundred and forty-four feet long, warehouse, dwelling, and out-\\nhouses, a snug patrimony.\\nIn that building long and low,\\nWitli its windows all a-row.\\nLike tlie port-holes of a Inilk,\\nVZ* K", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "2/4 LANDMAKKS OF liUSTON.\\nHuman spiders spin and spin,\\nBackward down their threads so thin,\\nDropping eaeli a lienipen l)idk.\\nHarrison Oray, treasurer of the colony, and grandfother of\\nHarrison iray Otis, was proscribed, and had his estates confis-\\ncated after liis fliglit from Boston. It is stated, in Sabine s\\nLoyalists, that in August, 1775, inquiry was made in the\\nHouse of liepresentatives concerning the horse and chaise,\\nformerly Harrison (Iray s, which was tiscd by tlie late Dr.\\n(General) Warren, and came into the hands of the committee\\nof supi)lies after Dr. Warren s death. The horse and cliaise\\nappears to have been traced to Dr. William Eustis, afterwards\\ngovernor, as he was directed the next day to deliver it to the\\ncommittee named. Mr. Gray went first to Halifax, thence to\\nLondon, where his hoTise was the resort of the Boston refugees.\\nOf him it was written\\nWhat Puritan could ever I ray\\nIn godlier tones than Treasurer Gray\\nOr at town-meetings, speecliifying.\\nCould utter more melodious whine,\\nAnd shut his eyes and vent his moan,\\nLike owl afflicted in the sun\\nAt tliese ropewalks Itcgan the conflicts Ijetween the soldiers\\nand roi)e-makers, whidi culminated in tlie 5111 of Marcli aifair.\\nAmong the soldiers were a good many mechani(^s, wlio were\\noften employed as journeymen. One. of these in(|uired of a\\nnegro workman at Mr. Gray s if his master wished to hire a\\nman. The negro answered that his master wislied to have\\nhis vault emi)tied, and tliat was a jjrojier ^vork for a Lobster.\\nFor tliis insolent remark the soldier gave the negro a severe\\nbeating. Mr. Gray came up, parted them, and endeavored to\\npersuade tlie soldier to return to his barracks, Ijut the latter\\ncursed him, and offered for sixpence to serve him as he had\\ndone the negro. Mr. Gray took him at his word, and after a\\nsound thrashing, the soldier rushed ofl to his barracks at\\nWheelwright s, now Foster s Wharf, swearing vengeance. But,\\nin the language of Pope,\\nWhat direful contests rise from trivial tilings", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. Zib\\nThe soldier ivturiu il in liulf ;iu liour with uearly seventy of\\nliis comrades of tlie 14th, armed with pipe-staves wdaicli they\\nhad obtained at a cooper s shop. They made a furicnis attack\\nii])on tlie rojjewalk men, who stood ih m, and tinall} re})ulsed\\ntheir assailants, pm suing them over tlie hill. The soldiers, rein-\\nforced to the luunber of aljout three hundred, headetl by their\\nsergeant-major, returned with redoubled fury to the conflict, l)Ut\\nthe rope-makers had been joined by the brawny shipwriglits,\\nmast and l)hK-k makers, from Hallowell s shipyard at the foot\\nof Milk Street, armed with their beetles, wedges, and marlin-\\nspikes. The soldiers pulled down the fence in High Street en-\\nclosing the Held, since (^uincy Place, and the roj)ewalk nwK\\nlevelled that on Pearl Street. A territic melee ensued, but the\\nathletic nu^chanics of Fort Hill were too much for the soldiery,\\nwho were again worsted. This occurred on tlie )d of March,\\n1770; the massacrt! in King Street took j.lace on the Ttth.\\nThe northwest corner of Pearl Street is the site of the Pearl\\nStreet House, opened in 18. ^G liy Colonel Shepard, formerly of\\nthe Indian Queen in Bromfield Street. The liouse stood until\\nthe Great Fire of 1872. It was the first erected on the south\\nside of the street, after the rope walks, and was built by Mr.\\nGorham for a residence.\\nOn the opposite corner resided Mr. -Tohu Priiu e, a gentleman\\nof tory proclivities, wdio, however, did not join tlie loynjist\\nhegira of 1770. His estate, whicli had a courtyard and gul-\\ndens, was altered by him in about 1812, when Ik; Iniilt a block\\nol five buildings, the centre house twice as large as the otiiers,\\nfor his own residence. It had a roof with a pediment raised\\nabove the others, giving the whole block somewhat the appear-\\nance of a pulilic edilice. After residing there for a few years,\\nhe removed to a l)eautiful residence at Jamaica Plain, and this\\nPearl Street mansion became the boarding-house of Mrs. Le\\nKain.\\nIn this house John Gaspard S])urzheim, the gifted Prussian\\nphrenologist, resided during liis visit to Boston, and here, also,\\nhe died, in the same year of his arrival in this country. He\\nlies buried at Mount Auburn, his tomb being a coiisj)icuous\\nobject in that ftimed cemetery.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "270 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAttached to the estate of Mr. Prince was a hirge barn. Tliis\\nwas Washington Allstoii s studio after his return to Boston, and\\nnntil liis removal to (Jambridgeport, in consequence of tlie con-\\nversion of tlie barn into a livery-stable. Here his large picture\\nof Uelshazzar s Feast, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, was\\nrolled up and laid aside, although he worked at it at this time.\\nAUston was the antipodes of Stuart. He w as refined, gentle,\\nand unassuming a charming companion, and a great fiivorite\\nin society. fJesides being a jiainttu he wrote verses, and a vol-\\nume iif his pDcms was jiublishetl. Coleridge said he was un-\\nsurpassed l)y any man of his age in poetical and artistic gt-nius.\\nFor many years after ^Vllston left I\u00c2\u00bbome every American was\\n([uestioni il by the native artists for news of the American\\nTitian il was generally conceded that for two hundred years\\nno artist s coloring had so closely resembled tliat of the great\\nmaster.\\nHis Dead iMan Avon the first prize of two hundred guineas\\nfrom till Uritisli Institution, and the artist could have disposed\\nof it for a large sum on the spxif, bnt he ]\u00c2\u00bbrcferi ed to sell it for\\nless tlia-n its value to the Pennsylvania Academy, through\\nMessrs. jNIcMurtie and Sully. Allston employed his leisure\\nhoin-s at Harvard in drawing hgurcs and lamlscapes. The pic-\\ntures of Pine, in the olumbian Museum, lioston, were liis first\\nmasters in coloring l)ut, most of all, he admired a head of\\nCardinal Pentivoglio, by Smil)ert, in the College library, while\\na student. Tliis was a cojiy from Vandyke, and seemed perfec-\\ntion to the young artist until lu- saw works of greater merit.\\nAllston continued to ])aint industriously and successfully\\nnntil Ills death, which occurreil at Cand)ridge, July 9, 1843.\\nlie liad paintetl all day, and during the evening ccmversed Avith\\nunusual cliccrluhu ss. 1 lis wife Id t tlie roctm for a few moments,\\nand when she returned he was dying. Allston was liljerally\\npatroni/,e(l, ami no American ])ainter of his day received such\\npric es. His tirst wife was a sister of William Ellery Channing\\na sister of llichard II. l)ana was the Mrs. Allston who survived\\nhim. De Toccpieville went to Cambridgeport on ])urpose to\\nsee the artist ami the lirst in([uiry of Lord Mori)etli, when In;", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH KOUND FORT HILL. 277\\nlanded in Boston, was, Where does Allstou live? A num-\\nber of liis pictures are preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts,\\nincluding several unfinished works. The late S. F. B. Morse\\nwas a pupil of Allston.\\nThe house next Iji yond that of ^Nlr. Prince was that in whi( li\\nTheophilus Parsons, LL. I)., lived after his removal to Boston\\nin 1800, and in which he died. Judge Parsons, as chief of the\\nMassachusetts Bench, as one of the framers of the State Consti-\\ntution, or as a zealous advocate foi tin- adoiition of the Federal\\nConstitution, ranks high in the estimation of his (;ountrynien.\\nAn instance of Judge Parsons s address is gi\\\\ n in connection\\nwith the convention in Federal Street. (Jne of the delegates,\\nKev. Mr. Perley, of Maine, refused to vote for an instrument\\nwhicli did not acknowledge the Supreme Being. The lawyer\\nund(U took to argue him out of his position. 1 suppose, said\\nMr. Parsons, that in the course of your ministtu ial labors you\\nhave preached fnnn texts in every l)ook of the Old Testament.\\nYes, said Mr. Perley, I probably have. You have\\npreached from texts in the Book of Esther 1 J)onbtless I\\nhave, said Mr. Perley. Do you know that in the liook of\\nEsther, said Mr. Parsons, there is not a single allusion to the\\nSupreme Being 1 It is not possible, said Mr. Perley.\\nLook said Mr. Parsons. The search was made;. You\\nare right, said Mr. Perley, and the clergyman confessed his\\nscruples removed.\\nTheophilus Parsons, the younger, is best known by excellent\\nworks on commercial law, and for other labors in the literary\\nfield. He studied law with Judge Prescott, father of the his-\\ntorian, and son of the Colonel Prescott of Bunker Hill.\\nNext the house of Judge Parsons was that of Paxton, or\\nPalmer. This house was divided, and became the residence of\\nJames Lovell, the naval officer, and of Thomas Handasyd Per-\\nkins, so well remembered for his numificent contribution in aid\\nof a blind asylum. Between this mansion and the (^uincy\\nestate a field intervened.\\nColonel Perkins was one of the most eminent of B(jst(jn\\nmerchants, and, with his brother James, engaged largely in the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "278 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nCliiua ami Java trade. Aiuassiug great wcaltli, liotli brothers\\ncontributed freely to benevolent or literary olijects. The atten-\\ntion of Colonel T. H. Perkins was probaltly tirst drawn to the\\nblind l)y tlie partial loss of his own siglit. Tlie uiney Kail-\\nway, and the Washington and lluid-^er Hill Monuments were\\neach ol)jects of his interest and etforts. lie laid th(^ corner-stone\\nof the Mercliants E.\\\\(diange in State Street, and lilierally aided\\nthe Mei cantile Library. He was, in common with some iif his\\nneigldiois, an ardent opjionent of the war policy of Mr. Madison.\\nWlien olonid Perkins was in Paris, during a i)eriod of ap-\\njiichended revolution, Lafayette confided his son, George Wash-\\nington, to his care, and the latter lived for some time in his\\nfamily in iJoston.\\nImmediately behind the mansion of Mr. Perkins was the\\nresidence of iVndrew Oliver, lieutenant-go\\\\ ernor under Hutch-\\ninson s re /i)ii( distributor of stam[)s, etc. The house stood\\nnear Jliver Street, though it did not appear to lia,ve front(^d\\nupon it. Its condition was so dilajiidated in 1808 as to att ord\\nlittle idea of its former appearance. It was in goiul repair after\\nthe devolution, and occupied by families of respectability.\\nMr. ()liver was visited by the mob who overthrew the stamp-\\nohice at tlie dock, not far ilistant. (iovernor Pi rnard recites in\\nliis pro(damation that the secretary s house was entered with\\nforce ami violem-e, his furniture damaged, windows broken, and\\nfences pulled down, to the gi eat terror of his ^fajcsty s liege\\nsubjects. The secretary, a|)preheiisi ve of a second visit from\\nhis fellow-citizens, thought it prudent bi resign liis office forth-\\nwith. Mr. Hubdiinsoii was present at Oliver s house when the\\nmob attacke(l it he used his endeavors to suppress the riot\\nwith force, but neither the sherilf nor the colonel of the Boston\\nli.egiment thought jiroper to interfere. Peter diver, l rother of\\nAndrew, was chief justice in 1771, adhered to the royal cause,\\nand left liosbm with the king s troops.\\nSecivtaiy )li\\\\ er died in llosfnn in 1771. He was one of the\\nmost aflluent ol the Old iiostonians, and had a ])rivate e.stal)-\\nlishment i i\\\\al]ing that of any in tin- juovince. Coaches, chariot,\\nnegro slaves, and good sbaling plate in abundance attested his", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "FROM tup: old south round fokt hill. 279\\nwealth. He was a ,u,( nerous patron of Smibert, who painted\\nall tlie family portraits, including one in which the secretary\\nand his two brothers were represented. Anilrew Oliver wished\\nto stand well with his countrymen, and at the same time enjoy\\nthe emoluments of an officer of the crown. He soon found the\\ntwo were incomjiatible, and })assed from tlu^ stage soon after\\nthe events occurred that have given notoriety to his name. On\\nthe opposite side of Oliver Street was the residence of Judge\\n(Jliver Wendell. It fronted towards the east, with grounds\\nadjoining.\\nUntil 1872 Quincy Block marked the site of an old estate,\\nwhich extended to High Street. Here Mr. Quiucy passed the\\nearlier years of his married life, until elected to Congress in\\n1805, when the mansion was occupied by Cliristo[)her Gore.\\nIt is described by Miss Quincy as\\nA handsome edifice of three stories, the IVout oruameuted with\\nCorinthian pilasters and pillars of the same order supported a\\nporch, from which three flights of red sandstone stejis, and a l)road\\nwalk of the same material, descended to Pearl Street. Honeysuckles\\nwere twined around the porch, and high damask rose-l)Ushes grew\\nbeneath the windows at the corner of Pearl and High Streets stood\\nthe stable and coach-house. The grounds ascending towards Oliver\\nStreet were formed into a glacis, and were adorned with four Englisli\\nelms of full size and beauty, the resort of munerous birds, especially\\nof the oriole, or golden robin.\\nChristopher Core was a P.ostonian liy l)irth, and an eminent\\nlawyer. It was in his office that Daniel Wel)ster read law, and\\nby his advice that the latter continued steadfast in the profes-\\nsion when beguiled by some ofter of pl:u\u00c2\u00ab whicdi might have\\nterminated his great career. Mr. Trore was tlu^ first district\\nattorney ap])ointed l)y Washington over the Massachusetts dis-\\ntrict he was also a connnissioner under Jay s treaty, and a\\nUnited States senator. In 1809 he was (dected governor of\\nMassachusetts. Tins was the period of the embargo of Mr.\\nJefferson, and of the stirring scenes preceding the war of 1812.\\nThe temper of the Pxistonians was decidedly adverse to tlie\\nmeasure the mercantile class, whose interests were most nearly", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "280 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\naliecteil, were Ijitter iu their cuiiuiiciits upon tlie adiiiinistratiou.\\nCuluuel Uoyd, commauding at Fort lnde} endenc e, received\\norders to tire upon any vesstd attempting to violate the embargo,\\nupon wliich the color.s on the shi|)})ing were placed at halt -nia.st.\\nThe Wasp, afterwards cou(pier()r of the Frolic, lay in the stream\\nwatching the idle vessels, and threats were freely made to huru\\nher.\\nAVilliam Su]li\\\\ an says. Governor Gore was tall, a little in-\\nclined to ciirpulency in middle age, and erect, but began to\\nbentl at an earlier age than common. He became bald at an\\nuimsually early period. His hair was tied liehind and dressed\\nwith powder. His face was round and tlorid, his eyes black\\niiis manners courteous and amialjle. (_iore Hall, at Harvard, com-\\nmemorates a magnihcent be(piest to the University in his will.\\nOn the site of the Athenteum once stood the block of that\\nname; we wish tlie custom prevailed more generally of tlius\\ndistinguishing localities. In the hall of the Atheiueum tlie\\ndisciples of Baron Swedenborg hehl their worsliip the society\\nhad existed in Boston since 1818, receiving legislative sanction\\nin 1823. It has been mentioned that the Athena um owed\\ntheir Iniilding to the munificence of James Perkins. Quiucy\\nPlace and Perkins Street were visible memorials of two distiu-\\ngui.shed families. The Place is now Hartford Street.\\nHigh Street has ceased to be high, and, to keep piace with\\nthe custom of the times, should receive a more aiipropriate\\ntitle. )f yore it mounted the height to the, esplanade of Fort\\nHill now it has sunk ti: a monotonous level. Sister Street\\nrejoices in the name as well as the smell of Leatlier, while Wil-\\nliams Street, named for John Foster Williams, is metamorphosed\\ninto Matthews. Pearl Street is tlie acknowledged shoe and\\nleather mart of the country, and has furnished the State with\\nat least one chief magistrate. The Hutchinsons, Atkinsons,\\n(irays, Perkinses, Quincys, Parsonses, (Jridleys, and the rest,\\nhave shed a lustre round tlie ancient hillside, though granite\\nnow usurps the terraced gardens, and drays instead of chariots\\nstand at tlie loors.\\nThe building on the corner of Hi di and Pearl Streets", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FOET HILL. 281\\nmarks the site of ;i iiuvmiuotli structure erected for a private\\nresidence, and known as Harris s Folly. Extensive gardens\\nreached up the hill, ([uite to the enclosure at the top. In 1809\\nall the land was open to the mall on the summit of the hill.\\nThe northwest corner of Pearl and High was for a time the\\nlocation of the ongress House, altered frum a private residence\\ninto a hotel.\\nProceed we onward to l^irchase Street, anciently Belcher s\\nLane, the hirthplace of Thomas Dawes, afterwards a judge of\\nthe 8u[)reme Court of tin; State, and tif the Municipal Court\\nof Boston and of Sanniel .Idams, the great central figure of\\nthe patriot junta. The elder Thomas Dawes was the architect\\nof Brattle Street Church. He was a high patriot, and the\\ncaucuses were sometimes held in his garrc t, where they smoked\\ntobacco, drank Hip, and discussed the state of the country.\\nDawes was also adjutant of the Boston Regiment. The tories\\ngave him the nickname of donathan Smoothing-plane.\\nA short descent hrings us to Livi rpool Wharf Where now\\nAtlantic Avenue winds around the margin of the water, the\\nold footpath under the hill was known as Flounder Lane Sea\\nStreet was its continuation to Windmill Point. Beyond this\\npoint the Sea Street of later times was built straight into the\\nharbor, enclosing the South Cove it is now known as Atlan-\\ntic Avenue in its entire length, it having been extended round\\nthe entire deep-water front of the city.\\nLiverpool Wharf, then (Iridin s, was the destination of the\\nTea Party of December 10, 1773. It was a cold wintry after-\\nnoon, when\\nJust, as glorious Sol was setting,\\nOn the wharf a ininieroiis crew,\\nSons of freedom, fear forgetting,\\nSuddenly appeared in view.\\nThe three Indiamen, with their high jioops and ornamented\\nsterns, were lying ([uietly moored at the wharf They had\\nbeen for some time under guard of a committee of twenty-five\\nfrom the grenadier company of the Boston Regiment, of which\\nHenry Knox was one. The hatches were closed, and this vigi-\\nlance committee took care no attempt was made to land the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "282\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ncargo. The iiaiut S of the three .shi]i.s were the Dartmouth,\\nCaptain James Hall, The Eleanor, Captain James JJruce, and\\nbrig lieaver, Ca})tain Ilezekiali Coffin.\\nTlic numher (if jK^ sons (lisguisfd as Indians was not more\\nthan st Venti i ii, liut the ac,c( s,si(.ins fnmi the\\n)ld South, and of appnaitirc fids and idlers,\\nswelled tlie number to more tlian a hundriHl\\nas many as sixty went on lioard the ships.\\nm Each slii[) liad a .letaehment allutted in it\\nunder a rei-oginzed leader; Lendall Pitts\\nwas (ine (if these chiefs. Everything was\\n(irderly, systematic, and ddubtless previdusly cducerted. J lie\\nleaders demandiMJ of those in charge of the ships the keys to\\nthe h;itches, candles, and matches, whi(di were jmuluced. The\\niJartniduth was hrst visited, and relieved of her cargo of one\\nhundred and fourteen chests. As the chests were passed on\\ndeck, they Were sm;ishe(l, and nervous arms phinge(l them into\\nthe dock. The contents of three hundre(l and forty-two chests\\nmingled witli the waters of tlie liay, and the work was done.\\nIt was low tide when tlie ships were lioarded, and the ap-\\nprentice lioys, wild formed the larger nundiei- of those engaged\\nin the atfair, jumpe(l uiion the Hats, iind assisted in breaking\\nup and trampling into the nuid such of the chests as had\\nescaped the hatchets of those on lioard the vessels. The tide\\nbeginning to tlow, tlie whole mass was .soon adrift.\\nWe give the names of the actors in this conversion of Bos-\\nt(in liarlior into a teajiot, as fir as known l r. Thomas Young,\\nPaul Pevere, Thomas j\\\\l(dvill, Henry Purkett, Caj)tain Henry\\nPrentiss, Samuel loi e, (Jeoige li T. Hewes, Joseph Shed,\\nJolin Crane, Josiah Wheeler, Thomas P rann, Adam Colson,\\nThomas Chase, S. Cooledge, Joseph Payson, James Ihewer,\\nThomas liolter, Edward I roctor, Samuel Sloper, Thomas Cer-\\nrish, Natlianiel (ireeii, Edward llow, i^benezer Stevens,\\nNi( holas Canipliell, John Pussell, Thomas Porter, AVilliaui\\nHurdley, Penjaiuin Rice, Nathaniel Erothingham, IMoses Grant,\\nPeter Slater, -lames Sfari Aliraham Tower, Isaac Simpson,\\niloseph Eayres, Joseph Lee, AVilliam Molineux, -lolm Spiirj", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 283\\nThomas Moore, 8. Ilowanl, JNtatthew Loriug, Thomas Spear,\\nDaniel Ingollson, Jonathan Hunuewell, John Hooteu, llichard\\nHunnewell, Wilhani Pierce, WiUiam Russell, T. Jamniell, ]\\\\Ir\\nMcintosh, Mr. Wyeth, Edward Doll)ier, Mr. Martin, Samuel\\nPeck, Lendall Pitts, Samuel Si)rague, Ijenjamin larke, Julm\\nPrince, Richard Hunnewell, Jr., David Kinnison, Jolm Truman,\\nHenry Pass, Jose})h Mountt ort, AVilliam Hurd, Joseph Palmer,\\nJoseph (/Oolidge, Ohadiah urtis, James Swan, Mr. Kingson,\\nand Isaac Pitman.\\nThere are antlioiities who giv(! Dr. Warren as a member of the\\nMohawk Pand. Many incith uts are related of this event, it is\\nsaid that on tlieii return from the wharf tlie hand passed a house\\nwhere Admiral Montague of the lleet happened to he, and tliat he\\nraised tlie window and cried (.)ut, Well, hoys, you ve hail a tine\\npleasant evening for your Indian caper, liave n t you I Jut miml\\nyou have got to pay the fiddler yet! never mind shouted\\nPitts, till leader; never mind. S(|uire I just come out here,\\nif you please, ami we ll settle the liill in two minutes. The\\npopulace raisi d a shout, the lifer struck u|i a lively air, and the\\nadmiral shut tlu^ window in a hurry. A [mwerful lleet lay in\\nthe roads; the troo[is were at the astle, yet nut a move was\\nmade to arrest the woik of destruction.\\nThomas Melvill, in ait r times a distinguished citizen of\\nBoston, was of tlie paity. )n his return home his wife col-\\nlected a little of fJie tea fi oni his shoes, which was put into a\\nhottli with a uieiuorandum written on ]iarelimeiit, and kept as\\na [)recious relie in the family. Many came to see the famous\\nherb, until at last it was found necessary to seal it, to preserve\\nit from vandal hands. This hottle of tea came into possession\\nof Leuniel Shaw of this city, son of the late dudge Shaw.\\nJohn rane, another of the ])arty, while busily employed in\\ntlie hold of (Uie of the shi])s, was knocked down l)y a chest of\\ntea, falling from the deck upon him. lie was taken u|i for\\ndead, and concealed in a neighlioi ing raipentei s shop undei a\\npile of shavings. After the party hail tinished they returned,\\nand found rane li\\\\ing.\\nSome cif tliese luiiiius ;ire from Lossing s Fiuld-Book.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "284 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nSeveral persons who were detected in the act of secreting\\ntlie fragrant })lant were rougldy handled.\\nOne Captain O Cminnr, says Hewes, whom I will knew, came\\non hoard for this pur})osc, and when he supjioscd lie was not noticed,\\ntilled his pockets, and also the lining of his coat. But I had de-\\ntected Inm, and gave information to the captain of what he ^v\u00e2\u0096\u00a0as\\ndoing. We were ordered to take him into custody, and just as he\\nwas stepj)ing from the vessel, I seized him ly the skirt of his coat,\\nand in attemjiting to imll him liack, I tore it oil hut springing for-\\nward hy a rapid effort, he made his escape. He had, liowever, to run\\nthe gantlet of the crowd upon the wliarf eacli oui as he passed giv-\\ning him a kick or a stroke. Tlie next day we nailed the skirt of his\\ncoat, which 1 liad indh-d oti to the wliijipiug-posl in Cliarh stown,\\nthe place of his residence, with a ]al el upon it.\\n(Iriffin s Wliarf, as well as AVlieelwi iglit s, hud a nuniher of\\nlarge warehouses, in whi(di had l)een (juartered the detachnient\\nof the DDth, and the train of artillery which landed in Octo-\\nber, 17G8. A lire naught in one of tlie stores used a.s a lahor-\\natory in INlarch, 17 and an ex])losion o(-curred, iiijui ing sev-\\neral men and terrifying the neighborhood.\\nKowe s Wharf coincides with the old Southern liattery or\\nSconce, an outwork of Fort Hill, and teiininus in this direction\\nof the famous Barricado. As early as l(i32 a foit was begun\\non the eminence then calh^d Corn Hill, but .soon changed to the\\nFort-held, and hnally to Fort Hill. The IJostonians were aided\\nby their brctlnvn from C harlestown, loixbury, and Dorchester;\\ntwo yeai s after, it was ih clai ed in a. stat(! of defence.\\nThe Sconce was probably not built until S(nne time after the\\nmain work, ])erhaps at the time of the I utch war. It was con-\\nstructed of whole timber, with earth and stone lietween, and\\nwas coiisidi i ed very strong, in time of eace it was in charge\\nof a, gunner only, but had its company assigneil to it in case of\\n(hinger. In 17(* it was commanded by (Captain Timothy\\nClark, who was ordered to furnish an account of the ordnance,\\naiiimuiiitioii, etc, meete to bee offered liys (!ra(te the Huke\\nof Marlborough (ireat Master of her Majestye s )i (lnance.\\nIn 174. the battery mounteil thirty five guns at- this time no\\nWork appears on the summit of the liiil. In 1 7 7-i Jeremiah", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. 285\\nGreen was captain witli tli rank of niajur. The Britisli eon-\\ntinueil to Imld it witli a garrison, and had a laboratory there.\\nColonel Poincroy s reginieut, the G4t]i, occu})ied the hill in\\nNovemljer, 17()8 thi Welsh B\\\\i.sileers, who had won a splendid\\nname for valor at INlinden, were posted there in 1774, and in\\n1775 the works contaiued four hundred men. After the evacu-\\nation the works were found greatly damaged, l)ut were occu-\\npied and strengthened hy the Americans. I)u ortail, chief\\nengineer of the American army, came to Boston in )ctohei-,\\n1778, to make a survey of the works, when this with others\\nwas strengthened and i)ut in the best postures of defence. Sul)-\\nsequently, in 1779, when Washington was fortifying the passes\\nof the Hudson on a great scale, the heavy guns were removed\\nfrom all the works here and sent forward to tlie army against\\nwhich Clinton w^as then advancing.\\nThe battery and fort acijuire a celebrity as the theatre of\\nthe seizure and deposition of CovcriKir Aiidros. In April, 1689,\\nthe news of the landing of the Trince of (_)i-ange at Torbay\\nreached Boston, and threw ilw town into a ferment. TIk^ gov-\\nernor, Tiandolph, and souk; otliei s sought the security of the\\nfort; the drums beat to arms, au l tlie inhabitants ran from all\\n(piarters to the Town llouse, whci c the} joined their respective\\ncompanies. The ca])tain of a frigate which lay l)efore the town\\nAvas seized on shore, and held as a hostage. Approaching the\\nhill by the rear, tlu^ train-bands divided, a part going aroimd by\\nthe water to the battery. A few soldiers in this work retreated\\nup the lull to the main body, and the townsmen turned the\\nguns u])on tlieiii. Andros cursed and fumed, but was forced to\\nyield himself a prisoner, with his companions. Some were\\nimprisoned in the old jail his Excellency was i)laced under\\nguard at ]\\\\Ir. Usher s Ikhisc. The frigate still showed tight, and\\nlay with her ports triced up, and her men at quarters; but\\nafter the people had got possession oi all the fortifications and\\nI\u00c2\u00bbointed the guns at her, the ca])tain was compelled to send\\ndown his topmasts, unbend his sails, and send them ashore. The\\nkeys of the Castle were next extorted from Andros, and the\\nbloodless revolution was ended. It is said Sir Edmund was", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "^SG LANDMAKKy OF J -OSTOX.\\nliiiiKlciiircd a^ lie was cdiKlui tctl fniin the fort; we may well\\nItclicve. lie was imt allowed to pass tliroUL!,li the ranks of the\\ntow iisiueii witliout sonic r. ininilcrs of his fillen state.\\nProliahly lil i;;)stoii lu vev knew a lay of greater rejoicing\\nthan that which hronght the news of JUirgoyne s snrrender.\\nThe rumor of the falling l)ack of the American army to Still-\\nwater liad licen received witli deep lori lmdings fir tlic future,\\ns] dily dissi[iated hy the glad tidings of the greatest victory\\nof the wai-. A thundering salute was lired from Fort Hill and\\n)orc]iesti r Xeck. IIopi animated every heart ancAV, and joy\\nwas visilile in every countenam-e.\\nFrom the Sconce, the lane leading up the hill to the firt was\\nnamed Sconce Lane, since Hamilton Street, and the walk along\\nthe beach the i atterymarclj, which has absorbed the street.\\nA specimen of th(^ small arms in use at the time of the set-\\ntlement is in the Historical Society s possession. The guns\\nAvere without locks, match or fuse lieiug used at the rate of\\ntwo fithoiiis for every ]iound of powder and twenty Indlets\\npikes were still in use for f lot-soldiers.\\nWla-re are tliesc nld au.l feudal clans,\\nTheir jiilces and bills and ]iartisan.s\\nTheir liaulii rks, jerkins, Inilt s\\nA battle was a battle then,\\nA breathini; )iieee uf wank but men\\nFiuht nnw with |Hi\\\\v(ler indi s.\\nThe iMulding lately oceiipiial by a (ilass ompany at the\\ncorner of Hamilton Street was the I esideiice of lliMijamin Hal-\\nlowell, giMudtatlier of the admiral. It became afterwards a\\nnoted inn, kimwn as the Sun, and kept- by (Goodrich in\\n1S22.\\nThis old Sun Tavern was demolished many years ago. It\\nwas the third or fourth of that name in Boston. One of the\\nsame name was in I)ock Scpiarc in 172-i, kept by Samuel\\nIMeiU s another was in Cornhill in 1755, kept by Cnjjtain\\nJanies l)ay: we may suppose the conjuiKition of nanies did\\nnot escape tJie wits of the (l;iy. The sign of tJie Sun in T!at-\\nterymareh Street has been (aim|iared in shape to a gravestone,\\nwith its circular top. There the likiuiess ended for underneath\\nthe rays of a gilded smi was the legend,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "FROM THE OLD SOUTH KOUND FOKT HILL. 287\\nThe best Ah^ anil Porter\\nUnder the Sun.\\nBy a curious transition the sign was afterwards erected in\\nMoon Street, where it became the proper synil)ol of Mrs. Milk,\\nwhose mixtures were perhaps not as mild as tlie name indicated.\\nFew of her customers escaped a coup de t^ohil her nei .,dd)(irs\\nwere Waters, Beer, and Legg. Sun Court, near by, reflected\\nthe name of the greater luminary.\\nAt the east corner of jNIilk Street and Liberty S(|uare was\\nthe Commercial Coffee House, built on the site of llallowell s\\nshipyard. It was kept by William Meriam from 1 S17 until\\nabout 1830, and was a house of considerable resort for ship-\\nmasters. In 1(S38 John Low was landlord, and later Colon(d\\nWhitney. Its place is noAV occupied by Tliorndike s granite\\nbuilding. Here was in 17i 8 the }\u00c2\u00bbrinci})al shipyard in the;\\ntown, from which was launched the ship Genet fully rigged,\\nand named in honor of the then French minister to this\\ncountry.\\nISide Viator. We were about to invit( the reader to ascend\\nFort Hill. The waters of the harbor ha\\\\-e swallowed the emi-\\nnence, and it is as completely obliterated as if an earthipiake\\nhad engulf( (l it. The base indeed is left, l ut it requires a\\nstrong imagination to pii-tin e an elevation ighty feet above us,\\nbearing on its top the elegant inansions of a, past generation,\\nwith the tops of noble elms waving in the cool sea-breezes.\\nYet this was the i)eculiar spot to wlii(-li residents were invited\\nfifty years ago, with the assurance that the green |)ark on its top\\nwould afford a perpetual ]ilace of recreation.\\nThe streets which strugglt^l up the sides of the hill were once\\npeopled with a highly respectable class, but Broad Street and\\nthe outlying works were soon carrieil liy Irish, and the citadel\\nwas yielded to them. From the hill radiated tlie wdiarves, like\\nthe fingers of the hand the eastern slope was peopled liy ship\\nartisans and mechanics pertaining to that craft. The summit\\nof the hill was levelled so as to form a jilateau, in the centre\\nof which was the grass-plat (Micircle(l with an iron fence and\\nstudded witli trees. On the south side was built the Boylston", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "288 LANDMARKS OF F50ST0X.\\nSuliiKil and f;uii-liousc (if llic AVasliin.i^tini Artillery tlic f^pace\\nenclosed by the Imildiii^s (Ui tin dilicr sides \\\\v;is called AVash-\\nington Place. The school reeeived its naiue in honor of Thomas\\nand Ward Nicholas Boylston, liberal Ijeuefactors of Boston and\\nthe neighboring University. A windniill was erected un the\\nhill in the year 1701.\\nThe Washington Artillery oni[)aiiy, on one of its annual\\nvisits to East Boston for target-practice, gave a sample of their\\ngunnery by knocking over a cow with a twelve-pounder shot.\\nThe owner received the ])iice demandeil fur the slaughtered\\nanimal. The company, with a, keen eye to l usiness, had the\\ncow dressed and sold at a considerable advance on the price\\npaid the owner.\\nThe land from the hill-t^ i no doulit furnished the material\\nfor tilling up the docks east of Kilby ami Batterymarch Streets.\\nThe old fort had disaj)peared long before the lievohition, and it\\nwas not until then that the hill was again fortified. In 1869\\ntlie levelling of the hill was ordered, and fully comjileted within\\nthree years. Then came the Great Fire of 1872 to transform\\nthe region we have been traversing into a heap of blaekened\\nrub1)ish, with the rectification of some street lines, the widen-\\ning of others, and the inconsiderate changing of street names,\\nconsequent upon the rel)uilding, still further to confuse tlie\\nnomenclature already sufficiently perplexing in all conscience.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "A TOUR EOUND THE COMMON. 289\\nCHAPTER X.\\nA TOUR ROUND TUP: COMMON.\\nLong Acre. Tremont House. Mr. Clay. Pre.sident Jackson. Cliarles\\nDickens. Little Honse-lot. Tremont Theatre. Tlie Cadets. Adiiio\\nPaddock. Paddock s Mall. Granary Bury big-Ground. The Granary.\\nAlmsliouse. Workliouse. Bridewell. Park Street Church. Man-\\nufactory House. Liuen-Spinning Introduced. Elisha Brown. Massa-\\nchu.setts Bank. Incident of the Lexington E-\\\\i)edition. The Common.\\nIts Origin. The Great Mall. Fences. Winter Street. Governor\\nBernard. John McLean. Samuel Adams. St. Paul s. Masonic Tem-\\nple. Margaret Fuller. Washington Gardens. The Haymarket.\\nWest Street. The Gim-House. Colonnade Row. Massachusetts Med-\\nical College. Haymarket Tlieatre. Boylston Street. John Quincy\\nAdam.s. General Moreau. Charles Francis Adams.\\nUP( JX the pavement of Trt iiiuiit Street ouce more, we renew\\nour wanderings in the vicinity of the Old iranary Hury-\\ning-(_}riiund. Common Street Ava.s the tir.st distinctive ajipella-\\ntion received hy that part of Tremont from School Street to\\nJjoylstiin, or, to t opy the language of the record, from Melyne s\\ncorner, near Colonel Townsend s, pa.ssing through the Common,\\nalong by Mr. Sheef s into Frog Lane. It did not become\\nTremont Street until 1829. The name of Long Acre was given\\nto that part of the street between School and Winter by Adino\\nPaddock, of whom something anon. It came from that jmrt\\nof London in which the great jilague (jriginated, and which was\\nnoted for its mughouses. In London Long Acre is the scene\\nof Miitt Prior s amours, when, after an evening with Swift,\\nOxford, Bolingbroke, and Pope, he wouM go and smoke a pipe\\nand drink a bottle of beer with a common soldier. This name\\nof Paddock s was generally accepted, thougli we do not learn\\nthat it ever had any official sanction.\\nTlie Tremont House, so long a marked feature of this locality,\\nis no more. The corner-stone was laid on the 4tli of July, 1828,\\nand it was opened to the public October 16, 1829. Isaiah\\n13 s", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "290 LANDMAliKS OF JUJSTOX.\\nIto,u,xa ,s was tlie ai cliiku;t. It was tliou.^ht tu 1h and was at\\nthis time, a moikd of luxury and elegance. It had seen some\\nnotable guests. Henry Clay, or, more familiarly, Harry of the\\nWest, tarried lierc So did his antagonist, thru President,\\nJaekson, on his visit to IJoston in June, LS- TIk. sc two men\\ngave rise to t\\\\V(.) party watchwords which have been perpetuated\\nin a singular manner. Two rival })olitical hands of Kentuckians\\nwent to settle on the hanks of the Missouri. One party came\\nfrom the lUue-Cirass region, and were Clay men. The other\\nwas from the Big Sandy, and were Jackson men. The battle-\\ncry of till i)arties was, Clay and Liberty, Jackson and\\nIndependence. Each little band of settlers iKUued their vil-\\nlages for their war-ciy, and eventually the counties for their\\npolitical chiefs. So they n(jw remain.\\nBrave Hull came also to see the docking of his old shij), the\\nConstitution. diaries Dickens, on his lirst visit to America,\\ncame to the Treiuont House. It took him eighteen days to\\ncome over in the Britannia. It is said the tirst person he asked\\nfor on his arrival A\\\\ as Bryant but, as the steamer reached her\\ndock after dark, we may conclude the comforts of his hotel\\nengrossed the novtdist s mind. He gives a somewhat humorous\\naccount of his initiation into ^Vmerican hotid customs\\nDinner, if you please, said I to the waiter.\\nWhen? said tlie waiter.\\nAs (piirk as possil)le. saiil I.\\nlliglit away said tlie waiter.\\nAfter a moment s hesitation, I answered No, at hazard.\\nNot right awa} cried tlie waiter, witli an ninimut nf surprise\\nthat made me start.\\nI looked at liini (Laditi idly, and returned, No I would rather\\nhave it in this private reoui. I like it veiy nuidi.\\nAt this, I really tlinii^lit the w.-iiter riuist have gone out of his\\nmind as I believe he wonld ha\\\\ e done, but I oi the iiitei position of\\nanotlier man who whispered in his ear, Directly.\\nWell and that s a fact said the waiter, looking helplessly at\\nme. Right away.\\nI now saw that right away and directly were one and the\\nsanu thing. So T i-eversei| my pre\\\\ i(ius answer, and sat down to\\ndiinier in ten minutes ai tei wai ds, and a capital diinier it was.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "A TOUK HOUND THE COMMON. 291\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Tlu hotel (a very excellent one) is culled the Tiemoiit House.\\nIt liiis more galleries, colonnades, piazzas, and passages than I can\\nremember, or the reader would believe.\\nLieutenant Derby, better known as Jolm Plueuix, humor-\\nously reviews the prospect of the burial-ground from the\\nwindows, which he considered, not witliout st)me degree of\\nplausibility, part and parcel of all IJoston hotels. Derby was\\na very clever artist, and used to draw comic caricatures on the\\nblackl)oard of Jones s in San P l aiicisco. This was before the\\nmerchants had an exchange there, and Phcenix Avas accustomed\\nto i)ut liimself under the head of ship arrivals, instead of regis-\\ntering liis name at tlie office.\\niJefore the hotel was taken down, and next the cemetery,\\ntliere was a vacant lot, on which once stood a modest little brick\\ndwelling, built by a Mr. Newman. The hotel displaced three\\nante-Kevolutionary houses one, fronting lieacon Street, Avas\\nthe resideiice of John Parker; the corner of Trcniont was an\\nopen lot, with handsome lK)rse-chestnut trees, lielonging to an\\nold-fashioned house Avith the end to the street, the mansion of\\nthe Hubbard family. Next was a housi; built by Tliomas Per-\\nkins, whose wife Avas a IMascarene. It fronted on tlie street,\\nand had a garden.\\nThe old Tremont Theatre stood on the si)ot noAV covered by\\nthe Tremont Temj)le. The corner-stone AA as laid on the morn-\\ning ()f July 4, 1827. The theatn; was built so rajiidly that a\\nperformance took jilace on the 24th of September. Wiv(!S as\\nthey Were, and .Maids as they Are, was the piece chosen l)y\\nMr. Pelby. tstindli, the fither of the since famous Eliza\\nBiscaccianti, led the orchestra. W. P. Blake read the prize\\naddress, tht^ same eminent comiMlian so long connected Avith\\nthe New York theatres.\\nMr. Pelby Avas tlie prime moA er in the project to erect another\\ntheatre, Avhich had professedly for its ol)ject the elevation of the\\ncharacter of the Boston stage. But little o})position was en-\\ncountered from the Boston Theatre proprietors. A company\\nAvas organized in February, and the Avork pressed to early com-\\npletion.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "21)2\\nLAMi.MAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nTREMONT HOUSE AND THEATRE.\\nThe filler 1)01 itli siiccoedeil Pelliy in the inaiiagement of the\\nse(;oii(l scusnii, but withdrew hefori^ it ended. AVilson and\\nh lissell successively conducted, tlie latter hrin^^in;^ out the cele-\\nlirated Master liurke, who produced an unparalleled exciteiuent.\\nl or twenty live iii,L;hts lie tilled the house with fa8hi inal)le au-\\ndiences, ^lessrs. llarrett and Harry were sulise(|uent niana.i;ers.\\nThe TreiiKuit always maintained a, hi.nh standin.L; thou.nh its\\npatroiia,Lj,c iV ll oil in latei- years. It is noticeahle as the first\\nI mston house in which operas were produced. iNIany sterling\\nactors have appeareil here, among whom the veteran John\\n(iilliert and wife long held a high pLu-e in general esteem.\\nFinn jihiyeil here, investing his parts with a (plaint hue humor\\nthat seldom failed to set the house in a I oar. In 1S42 the\\nTivmont ceased to l)e a. theatre, having heen sold to the l!a.j tist\\nSiiciety of h ev. I)r. Colver. The interior was remodelled, and\\nreceived the name of the Tremont Tenq)le. The pi esent huild-\\ning is the third, the hrst having heen de.stroyetl by hre on\\nWednesday, Mari h 31, 18.12. The falling walls crushed and\\nhruisetl a nundier of persons.\\nThe Theati c was a plain sidistantial edilice with granite front.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMJION. 293\\nin imitation of the Tonic, witli pillars siippditini; an cntal)la-\\nture and ])t!diment. The entrance doors were arched, opening\\ninto a wide hall from which ascended a staircase to the boxes\\nof the dress circle. There were lol)1)ies for promenade, with\\ndrawing-rooms, and a pretty salxm in the centre. Isaiah\\nRogers was the architect. The hous(! had a third tier and i)it.\\nIt was sold for about 55,000.\\n.Elihu 15urritt, the learned blacksmith, lectuivd in the theatre\\nbefore its alteration, i or the bciictit ol the huich Society.\\nUnder the aus[)ices of the Mcrcantih Library .Vssociation,\\nWebster, (Jhoatc, and l^vcri tt havt^ di livrrc(l addresses in tht^\\nTemple, wdiile J(, nny Lind and iitherinc; Hays have lii re\\npoured forth their golden notes to enrapture(l audiences. Here,\\ntoo, (lliddoii unrolled his iiiuinniy in presence of astonished\\nspectators, ami set the medical i raternity in a fever of ex-\\ncitement. Last, l)ut not least, came Charles l)ickens, to in-\\nterpret his own incom{)arable woi ks.\\nIn the Ituilding adjoining the Temple were tlie (juarters of\\nthe Independent Cadets, the oldest military oiganization, next\\nto the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, in Boston.\\nThis corps was instituted in 178G, ])ut existed prior to that\\ntime. It was first styled the lovernor s KootCuanls. Tliec()m-\\nmanders have tlu; rank of lieutenant-colonel. Leonard Jarvis\\nwas tlie commander in 1768, and John Hancock was elected in\\n1772, receiving his commission from (Tovernor Hutcthinson.\\nThe Boston Gazette of May 12, 1772, contains the following\\nadvertisenusnt\\nWanted, Immf diatcly, For His Excellency s Com])aiiy of Cadets,\\nTwo Filers tluit understand Playing. Those that are Masters of\\nMusiek, and are inrlineil to engage with tlie Cnuipany, are desired\\nto apply to Col. Jolm Hancock.\\nThe Company received (Jeneral Cage when he laiideil at\\nLong Wharf, in May, 1774, and esci rte(l him to the Court\\nHouse anil thence to the Province House, his residence. The\\ngeneral had caused a beautil id silk standai d with his arms em-\\nbroidered thereon to be made in London, and presented to the\\nCadets. Becoming, however, jealous and suspicious of Hancock.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "294 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nthe governor revoked liis commission through Thomas Flucker,\\nhis secretary, upon which the corps disbanded, and through a\\ncommittee returned the standard to (jage at Danvers.\\nIn 1778 the Cadets were redivivi, being then commanded\\nby Colonel Hichborn. In that ycnir they took part in the ex-\\npedition to Rhode Island, as did also the Light Infantry Com-\\npany. Hancock, their old commander, was now major-general,\\nand accompanied them. The first parade of the Cadets after\\nthe peace was in 1785. Colonel T. H. Perkins commanded in\\n1789. In 1795 the corps was reorganized.\\nBromlield Street was named, in 1796, for Ilonoral)le l^dward\\nErom field, a distinguished merchant, wliose mansion stood on\\nthe site of the Bromfield House. Previously it was Kawson s\\nLane; it continued to be called Bromfield s Lane until 1829.\\nThe Horticultural Building stands on the site of the old\\nMuseum. Montgomery Place is Bosworth Street. Bumstead\\nPlace, once the abode of Adino Paddock, coach and chariot\\nbuilder for the gentry of Boston and the country round, has\\nbeen sealed by a solid wall of buildings, closing up the old en-\\ntrance to Music Hall. Paddock was a hot tory, and left Bos-\\nton with the royal party. His estate, it is said, fell into the\\nhands of Bumstead, a coach-maker like liimself, from whom\\nthe place took its name.\\nPaddock is entitled to grateful remembrance for the noljle\\nEnglish elms he planted opposite his habitation, known as\\nPaddock s Mall. The year 17G2 has been assigned as the\\nprobable period of their setting out, consequently they had\\nstood considerably more than a hundred years, liefore being\\ndestroyed root and branch. Tlie trees came from P^ngland.\\nThey were kept for a time in a nursery at Milton, until placed\\nhere by Paddock, assisted by John Ballard and John Crane;\\nthe latter a member of Paddock s train of artillery. Pad-\\ndock s Walk and Row are other names by which the mall\\nhas been called.\\nThese well-remembered trees were practically a continuation\\nof the Tremont Street Mall, which, at first, extended no far-\\ntln-r than AVest Street, and, with Pa(kh)ck s Mall, made the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "A TOUR PtOUNP THE COMMON. 295\\nonly shaded walk in this part of the town. As long as he re-\\nmained in Bostoii, Paddock gave these elms liis personal care,\\nfor in 1771 we find him offering a gninea reward for informa-\\ntion of the person or persons who had cut and hacked one\\nof the trees opposite his house in Long Acre. Until 1874\\nthey remained a marked feature of this locality, hut some of\\nthe trees having then sutferpd from neglect, they were declared\\nto be an obstruction to travel, and cut down in haste, notwith-\\nstanding public sentiment strongly expressed itself against the\\nact. With the aid of axes and derricks, fifty laborers quickly\\nundid the work of a hundred years, and vain was the appeal\\nWoodman, spare that five I\\nTouch not a .single hougli\\nIn youth it slieltered nie,\\nAnd I 11 i rotect it now.\\nT was my forefather s hand\\nThat placed it near his cot\\nThere, woodman, let it stand,\\nThy axe shall harm it not.\\nPaddock was, in 1771, caiitain of the train of artillery be-\\nlonging to the Uoaton Pegiment, of whi(;h John Krving was\\ncolonel. This company was particularly distinguished for its\\nsuperior di.scipliuc and the excellence of its material. In this\\nschool were raised two artillery officers of high repute, in the\\nPevolutiouary army, namely, Colonel John Crane and General\\nEbenezer Stevens. I xith were liouscwriglits, and tlie company\\nwas itself compo.sed of mechanics. Tlic two dlliccrs named are\\nnot the only ones who gained dist/mct-ion in the battle-fields of\\nthe old war. Paddock, on his return to England, was fretpiently\\nconsulted by the ministry alxnit American affairs, and received\\nthe military command of the island of Jersey. In 17(;0 Pad-\\ndock was one of the firewards of the town of Boston, associated\\nwith John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Thomas Dawes, and others.\\nGeorge Cabot, a prominent leader of tlie ?\u00c2\u00bblassachtisetts Fed-\\neralists, lived in the first hou.se in liunistcad Place in 1810.\\nHe was in early life like the old navigators, his namesakes, a\\nsailor, and became a very sviccessful merchant was president\\nof the Unittid States Branch Bank in the year mentioned, hav-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "296 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\niiig a conceded rejjiitatioii as a liiiaiicicr. A\\\\ liili- in tlie United\\nStates Senate in 17!J1 -9G, Hamilton, tlic founder of our finan-\\ncial system, often conferred witli him. ^Ir. abot incurnul\\ngreat odium for his connectitm with the Hartford Convention\\nin 1814, of which hody lie was president. Aaron Burr said\\nof him when in the Senate, that he never s})oke but light fol-\\nIowimI iiini.\\nJranary Uurial-Ground is notalde fur the honored ashes\\nit contains. It dates back to IGGO, and was hrst called tli6\\nSouth Burying-Cl round the subsequent name of Uranary\\nwas from the town granary, which stood within the enclosiu-e.\\nIt is necessary to say here that the onnnon oi iginally extended\\nin this direction to the Tremont House, and the cemetery is\\nformed from its ancient territory. The eastern margin reached\\nto Mason ^Street, and Treiudiit Street therefore runs tlu-Dinih.\\nthe Common, as it originally was. After the creation of tlie\\nCommon liurying-Grouud, the Granary was sometimes styled\\nthe Middle (iround.\\nI like tliat ancient Saxon phrase which calls\\nThe burial-ground God s Acre It is just\\nIt consecrates each grave witliin its walls,\\nAnd breathes a benisou n ri- tin- sleepiiiLC dust.\\nThe Checkleys, Bytlelds, Lydes, Faneuils, AVendells, and a\\nhost of the old IJostonians, (Joverudrs llellinghain, Dummer,\\nHancock, Adams, Bowdoin, -ushing, Sullivan, Enstis, and\\nSumner lie l\u00c2\u00bbeneath the sod in this cemetery. The eelelirated\\nsurgeon, \\\\)y. John Jetl ries, Uriali (Jutting, Be v. ^Messrs. Eckley,\\nBelknap, Stillman, Lathroji, and Haldwin, and dudge Sewall\\nand John Hull, were also entombed here.\\nThe Bellinghani family becoming extinct, his tondi was\\ngiven to the family of lovernor .lames Sullivan. It lies on\\nthe we.st side of the enclosure. The Baiienil insci iption was\\nchiselled Funal by some awkward hand, who thus clijiped the\\nold Huguenot atronymic of its due projiortions. Governor\\nHancock s tomb is on the Park Street side. His remains, after\\nlying eight days in state, were brouglit to their last resting-\\nplace by an innnense concourse of pe(.iple. The venerable", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COALMOX.\\n297\\nSamuel Adams followed tlic liicr until fatigue compelled liim\\nto retire. It was one of the greatest funeral pageants Boston\\nhad seen. The ranks of the ]irocession were swelled by the\\nCiKANARV BIRVINr:\\nmilitia of tnwn and country. T\\\\\\nCourt on this occasion made their\\nwigs and black silk gowns. They\\nters in black gowns and (dub wigs.\\nGeneral Warren s remains were\\n.Minots, next to that of Hancock,\\nthe residence of Dr. J. AVarren,\\nBunker Hill.\\nThe cemetery accpiires an even\\nthe place wliere the victims of the I\\nTheir funeral was conducted with\\ntheir martyrdom has been heralded\\nAmerican Liberty, the remains of\\n13*\\n-OI .imND.\\nle .ludgi s of the Supreme\\nlast appearance in their big\\nwere followed by the barris-\\nplaced in the toud) of the\\nami immediately in rear of\\nafter they were exhumed at\\ngreater interest from being\\niostou jNlassacre were buried.\\ngreat pomp hut although\\nas tlie foundation-stone of\\nthe slaughtered Bostoniaus", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "2 .)H LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nliave received no liliiiig testimonial from their countrymen.\\nThe spot i.s in the extreme nortlieast corner of the yard,\\nidentified by two bronze markers.\\nThe Franklin cenotaph stands out in bold relief in the midst\\nof the field of the dead. Under it repose the dust of both of\\nKra.id ;lin 3 jiarents. The moiniim nt was erected through the\\nexertions of a lew citizens in 18:^7, and the ceremony of layiny\\nthe corner-stone was attended by the governor, lieutenant-gov-\\nernor, and many otlicr officials. General II. A. 8. Dearborn\\ndelivered an address some Fraidvlin Sch :)ol im^dals Avere appro-\\npriately [ilari d undi rncath.\\nr y the year 17. )S both this and King s Chapel ground be-\\ncame so filleil with the dead that the gra.ve-digg(n s were obliged\\nto liury them four deep. In this year thi lirick wall and tombs\\nwere erected on tlic^. front of the old, or Chapel, burying-place.\\nThe Granary ground was enlarged in 17ir)-17 by taking in\\nl\u00c2\u00bbart of the highway on the easterly side, liut i]i about twenty\\nyars it^ becami- (ivercrowdcd, as we have seen, and the town\\nlicgaii to cast about for a new Ideation. It was not until after\\nthe date last meiitiimed that any toiuljs were erected here.\\nWhere was there ever a gi-iveyard witJiout its attendant hor-\\nI nrs i Tradition is respmisihle i m the statement that the hand\\nof Hancock was severed fmm the arm the night after his inter-\\nment but this proved a crui l invention. An instance is given\\nof an emiity tomb lieiiig taken jiossessiou of liy some wandering\\nvagrants, li-nm whicli they terrified the neighbiuhiind Ity the\\nsound nf midniglit revelry. Human jackals ]ia\\\\-e practised\\nhere their hateful calling, robbing the graves of their peaceful\\ninhahitants.\\nThe stone wall and fence were erected under thi^ administra-\\ntion of Mayor Armstrong. When, in 1897, the new Congre-\\ngational House was being erected, on IJeacon Street, it became\\nnecessary to demolish a row of tombs on that side, which was\\ndone, and tlu^ remains removed to suburban cemeteries.\\nfiiijiiaial Ca^Siir, dead, and iurnr(l to day,\\n]Miij;lit stop a hole to Ixccp the wind away.\\njS ext the burial-ground stood tlie Old (Jranary. It was a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "A TOUE ROUND THE COMMON. 299\\nIdiig wooden l)uil(ling, er( .ot( (l iirst at tlic upper .siile of the Com-\\nmon, but removed about 1737 to the present site of the church.\\nIt was estabhshed so as to have a supply of grain, especially\\nin cases of scarcity, where the poor might })urchase the smallest\\nquantities at a small advance on the cost. The building con-\\ntained, wlien full, twelve thousand bushids, and was the largest\\nin the town. The selectmen ap})ointed a keeper at tlieir jNlareh\\nmeeting, also a committee for tlie purchase of grain, flohn\\nI cnno, a noted wit, was keeper before the Uevohitioii. It was\\nnot used as a granary after the American war, l)ut was occupied\\nliy various minoi town officials. In 17 J the town voted to\\nsell the building, on condition of an early removal. .Still it\\nremained tenanted by vaiious tradesiuen, refreshment stands,\\netc., until 1809, Avlien it was remov( (l to Commercial Point,\\nDorchester, and altered into a hotel. There it may now lie\\nseen. We have noticed tliat tin; (Constitution s sails were made\\nin the Granary.\\nAll the land upon wliich Park Street is built belonged to the\\nCommon, and was at an early ilay appropriated to uses of the\\ntown foi various institutions. The sti eet was Iirst calliMl entry\\nStreet, from its leading u[) to Centry Hill, as the summit of\\nI5eacon Hill was called.\\nThe Almshouse was hrst erect(Ml on Beacon Street, in l()n2.\\nIt was burnt in 1082, measures Ix ing then taken to rebuild it.\\nThe reconstructed building was a two-sf,ory luick, with a gable\\nroof, fronting on lleacon Street it was of an L shape. This\\nwas designed as a home for the poor, ageil, or intirni. It was\\nsoon found that the mingling under the same roof of persons\\ndeserving charity with those coniined for offences against the\\nlaws was an evil (h^inauding a remedy, and measures were\\ntaken, iu 1712, to buil l a Bridewell, or House of Correction.\\nThis was erected in Bark Street, in what year does not appear,\\nbut it is shown on the map of 1722. A part of this house was\\napplied to the use of the insane.\\nA Workhouse was erected in 1738, contiguous to the Bride-\\nwell. It was a large, handsome brick building, facing the\\nonnuon, of two stories, gable roof, and was a hundred and", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "300 LANDMAltKS OF JJUSToN.\\ntwi lity fcrt ill lcii,L;tli. I liis ImiMiii^ was (l( utc(l to the coii-\\nlinemeiit oi iiiinoi (lircuders, .such as the jjidvinrc law .st^ lcil\\nrogues and vagaljonds.\\nThe Ahusliouse heeanie, in the lapse of years, totally inade-\\n(|uate to its purposes. It had no ]iro[ier ventihition, nor sepa-\\nrate Iiospital for the treatment of the sick liad air, lilth, and\\novercrowding tnld fi^arfully upun the inmates. Xo remedy Avas\\napplie(l to tliese evils until iSOl, when a new Iniilding Avas\\nerecte(l in I.everett Street. 1 )uriiig the l;( \\\\dhhi( Diary War the\\ninmates fre(Hicntly suH en d t irtlic necessaries of life, and apjiear\\nto have lieeii at all times largely dejieiideiit on the (diarity of\\nthe townsj pie. In 1 7 .l the town snld all its ])roperty on\\nl*ark and lieacon Streets, except the (iranary or church lot.\\n15oth Almshouse and Workhousi were under the government\\nof the overseers of the poor, re}iresented hy keepers. The\\ninmates of the toinier, whatevt-r may have heen their temjioral\\nneeds, were cared f u s[)irit-ua.lly, a sermon heing preached to\\nthem every Sunday in summer. ajitain Keayne, in KiaG, left\\na legacy of Il O, and Mr. Wel.h, in IGGO, one of 100, for\\nthe founding of the Almshouse, which was receiveil and apjilied\\nhy the town in IGO:^. The i ormer also left a sum to he used\\nin ])uilding a granary. IJoth AVorkhouse and Almshouse were\\noccujiied hy the Uritish wouiidiMl after Hunker Hill.\\nAdjoining the Bridewell was tlie PoTuid, situated where\\nNo. f) Park Street now is. Such were the antecedents of\\nPark and P.eacoii Streets.\\nFor a lung time the handsome spire of Park Street diurch\\nwas the highest nhject seen on approaching the city. It, how-\\never, succumhed to its neighhor in Somer.set Street, placed at a\\ngreater altitude. As one of the monuments of the (Jonnnou it\\nis iiise|)arahle frdui the landscape, the slender, graceful steeple\\nrising majestically ahdve the lree-t(i])s from any point of ohser-\\nvation. The little nmnildr of tJie weather un its pinnacle\\nrecalls the lines ni Alhert (J. ireeiie\\nI liL il. iwii Ikis liriilsi-. tlic miirn is np,\\nAiKitlicr iliv lit ^iin\\nAnil tliciT lli\\\\ iKiisi il ;iih1 L ililcil spfiir\\nIs tlasliiiin ill till siiii.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON 301\\nUpon that steep and lol ty tower,\\nWhere thou thy watcli hast kejjt,\\nA true ami taithtul sentinel,\\nWhile all around thee slept.\\nThe church was cri ctcil in ISO and was the hrst Conorega-\\nlional Society constitiiteil since ITicS. Vvoin the fervor of the\\nih)( trines preached v.dtlnn its walls, its site has been known as\\nHriiustone Corner, a name too suggestive to he agreeable.\\nTARK sTiti;i:r ciiritcn.\\nEdward D. irittin, D. D., was the first ])astor. Dwiglit, IJccrher,\\nStone, and other gifted })reacliers have occupied its pul|)it.\\nUnderneath were vaults long since removed for the dead.\\nI eter Uanner, an English architect, the same who made the plan\\nfor the tine old mansion-house of Eben Crafts in Eoxbury, de-\\nsigned this church.\\nThe Manufactory House of the oltl colony times stood on the\\neast side of what is Hamilton Place. The west end fronted\\nLung Acre, or Tremont Street, and had delineated u2:ion the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "302\\nLANP.MAIiKS OF BOSTON.\\nLINEN SriNNIXG-WHEEL.\\nwall a female figure, distaff in haml, synilxilic uf the industry\\nit was intended to pronidte.\\nThe establishment uf spiiiniug-schodls is an interesting inci-\\ndent in the history uf Bustun. The\\nmanufacture of cotton lia l l)egun as\\nearly as 1(343, the raw material being\\nulitained from the West Indies. In\\nIGGT), uwing to the scarcity of cloth,\\nthe ciiurt ordered spinning to be em-\\npluyeil in private families, sunie abate-\\ninent from the rates being made as\\ncom})ensation.\\nAbout 1718 a number of culonists\\narrived from Lundoiiderry, brin^iug\\nwith them the manufacture uf linen and the im})lements nsed\\nin Ireland. Tlie matter was earnestly taken u} l)y the Bostu-\\nnians, ami a V(.tte passed to establish a. spinning-schuul (in the\\nwaste lanil in front of Captain Suuthack s, about where Sc.ol-\\nlay s buildings were. These emigrants likewise introduced the\\ngeneral use of their favorite vegetable, the ])otatu.\\nFrom these beginnings dates the establishment of the Manu-\\nfactory House by the province. AVilliam I hillijis, Alolineux,\\nand others carried the measure through the General Court. An\\nexcise was laid on carriag( s and\\narticles of luxury to erect the build-\\ning. S|)inning noAV became the\\norder of the day. Young and old,\\nrieli and ]iooi-, re}iaired to the om-\\nniuu with their spinning-wheels,\\ngreat and small, stimulated by a\\npremium utfered to the most skilful.\\nIMany were clad in garments of their\\nown manufacture as evidence of\\ntheir industry, and on the appointed\\ndays the mall resounded with the\\nI uni uf luisy wlu els. The nuvelty soon wore off, and after\\nthree or four years the manufacture whully ceased. For a short\\nWOOLLEN SriNNING-WHEEL.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 303\\nlime after the building was used for the manufacture of worsted\\nhose, metal buttons, etc., but in 17G8 was rented by the prov-\\nince and occupied l)y private families.\\nAt this time it ac([uired celebrity from the attempt made by\\nColonel Daliymple, of the 14tli royal regulars, to obtain it for\\nquarters for his regiment l)ut the tenants, with Mr. Elisha\\nBrown at their head, flatly refused them admission. Governor\\nBernard issued his mandate, Avliicli was served by the sheriff,\\nordering the surrender of the premises but the doors were\\nsecurely closed, and Brown boldly denied the right of Bernard\\nto dispossess him. The wily lieutenant-governor tried next to\\ninduce the tenants to open, but with no greater success, and at\\nlast a stratagem was tried. The sheriff and liis dej)uties ob-\\ntained an entrance to the cellar, but instead of securing the\\nobstinate tenant, were l)y him made close prisoners in the\\ncellar, where they remained until a file of soldiers from the Com-\\nmon came and released them.\\nThus did Elisha Brown make good his resistaiKu* against the\\nctmibined civil and militaiy authority of the jjrovincc, after\\nenduring a state of siege fur several W( eks. A gravestone in\\nthe (Jranary commemorates his gallant vindication of jiriA^ate\\nrights. Dalrymple s men were quartered in Faneuii Hall.\\nThe INIassachusetts Bank was first located in this l)uilding.\\nIt was instituted in 1784, in which year the l)ank became a\\npurcliaser of the building, sold by order of the (Jeneral Court.\\nHanking was a very different affair in those days from what it\\nis at present. Arti(;les of merchandise were received as security\\nfor loans, and an entertaining picture might be drawn of the\\n]irocession drawn up before the doors on discount days. One\\nhalf per cent per month was the rate demanded, and no credit\\ncould exceed sixty days. Governor Bowdoin Avas the first\\npresident.\\nThe building was of two stories, of brick, with an entrance on\\nHamilton Place liy a flight of douljle stone steps protected by an\\niron railing. It was used by the British during the occupation,\\nand received its quota of the wounded from Bunker Hill.\\nVarious famiHes occupied it in after years also P. A. von", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "304 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nHagen, a pioiu cr in the iiiaiiulactiirc nl iiiaiiot oitcs. In 180G\\nit was pulled (Idwii, auil Jlaiuillun I lace then Ijuilt. The\\nManiifacioi v House was one liundreil and IVirty le.(;t liiug, with\\nan uiiohstiueted soutliei ly view iu 1781. It had a large hall\\nin the centre, with wings lit ly feet long extending U])on either\\nside underneath was an exe.ellent cellar, tlie same in which\\nSheritt Greeideai soj ourneil. The central i)art was occupied hy\\nthe hank, giving twenty other apartments Idi tenants. The\\nland lielonging id it cox-ered tlie wliole place.\\nThe corner of Hamilton Place has interesting literary asso-\\nciations, having heen occupied hy the publishers of the Atlan-\\ntic Monthly and the Nortlv American Review. The originator\\nof the Iveviow was William Tudor, son of Hon. Judge Tudor,\\nand one of the founders of the Anthology Clul). The first\\nfour volumes of the Review, which was first published in 1811,\\nare said to be almost entirely from his hand the first numljer,\\neven to the literary notices, Avas, as Mr. Tudor himself stated,\\nwholly Avritteu by him. Mr. Tudor, as the agent of his brother\\nFrederick, estalilishi il in ISO the traffic in ice with the West\\nIndies, which has grown to such prodigious pn i})ortii uis. 1 le was\\nalso the first to dravv public attention to the erection of a nion-\\nximent on Bunker Hill, but did Jiot live to sei^ its completion.\\nAs we are treiiching on the limits of Jj)ng Acre, a Revolu-\\ntionary incident rises into \\\\ii W. Here, on the morning of the\\nI .lth of Api il, f ai l Percy raiigeil his cohimus for the march to\\nLexington, oloiiel Smith had sent a, courier requesting rein-\\nforcements, an i Percy was lo command them. His brigade,\\nmade np of ei,L;ht comjianii s of tliree regiments of infantry,\\nthe 4th, l mI, and P.Jth, detachments of Pitcairn s marines,\\nami two pieces of artillery, extended iVom the head of the mall\\nto oui t Street, opposite tile school-house of Ma.ster Carter.\\nI ercy, mounted on a white horse, galloped up and down his\\nranks. The school, thrown into a, ferment ))y the umisual\\nspectacle, was dismissed by the master with the speech,\\nBoys, war Ikis begun the school is ln okeii up.\\nThe cohimn look up its march over the Xeck to the tune of\\nYankee l)oodle. Percy seems to have stood liigh in the conli-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOUND THE COMMON. 305\\n(leiu e of his general, aud, in fact, he appears to have been a\\nuniversal favorite. The return from tlie march in which the\\nprovincials\\nTaught Percy fasliionable races,\\nAnd modern modes of Chevy-chaces,\\nis celebrated in the Revolutionary liallad in this wise\\nLord Piercy seemed to snore, but may the muse\\nThis ill-timed snoring to the peer excuse.\\nTired was the long boy of his toilsome day\\nFull tifteeii miles he fled, a tedious way\\nHow should he then the dews of Somnus shun,\\nPerhaps not used to walk, much less to run.\\nThe Common is n^w, as under the government of John Win-\\nthrop, the common land of the inhabitants of Boston. Its\\noriginal purpose was for pasturage and military parade. From\\nthe earliest times until after iJostcni became a city, the tinkling\\nof bells and hjwing L f cattle might be heard across its hills anil\\ndales. It was, after its })urchase from lUackstone, preserved\\nfrom encroachment l y a vote passed March 30, 1040\\nOrdered, that no more land l)e granted in the Town i at of the\\nopen ground or conuuoii tiidd, which is In tween Cenlry Hill and\\nMr. Colhron s end, exccjit 3 or 4 lots to make vp the street from\\nBro. Roljt. Walker s to the Round Marsli.\\nColbron s held was at the lower end of the Common, lying\\nalong Pleasant Street and the water, to Washington Street. It\\nwas IJoylston Street that the selectmen had in view.\\nNo other city in America has fifty acres of green turf and\\nnoble forest trees in its very nudist. Its central position renders\\nit accessible from every quarter of the town, and, although it is\\nnot dignified with the name of a park, it is at once the glory\\nand beauty of the ancient peninsida. We shall take up its\\nfeatures as we pass along under the green arches of the Great\\nMall.\\nUpon the earliest map you will see but three trees on the\\nCommon. These were the monarch, then and long known as\\nthe great tree, and two of res})ectable size standing near the\\nmiddle of Park Street. The first trees planted Avere tlie outer\\nrow on Tremont Street, between 1722 and 1729. A second\\nT", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "landmakks of t-oston.\\nlow was jilacL d tlierc in 17. )1, and the third was added fifty\\nyears latec, suiiie authnrities say liefniT the lievuhitinii. Tliis\\n\\\\va]l was Idii. j, kimwii as I lie hdh there l)eiiiLi: im uther\\nAvitliiii tlie iiiiiiiion, until tliat next IJeacon Street was laid out\\nin iSl l i. liarles St ivet was tlie next laid out, in 1823;\\naiul Tarlv Street Mall, in ISi C), under the elder niney s may-\\noralty.\\nIt has l)een stated, on the authority of the sou of one of\\nthose employed, that the tii st trees of the. (Jreat Mall, set out\\nnear the Park Stivet liureh, were, planted by the api)rentices\\nof Adam olsou the elder, then one of the selectmen of the\\ntown. One of the apprentices was named Ilurd. Colson\\nwas a leather-dresser, and lived in i^ nig Lane, n(.)W Boylston\\nStreet.\\nr.ut the (Ireat Mall was not at the he^innin.ti, of this century,\\nas now, a grove of near a Ihinl of a niile in length. The\\nla.rg(^ trees scarcely extended helow West Street, those beyond\\nIx ing merely sajilings. That part of the Common forming the\\nsoutheast corner, comprising a little more than two acres, and\\nlying east of the liurying-ground, was not aei^uired until 17S7,\\nwhen it was purchased of William Foster, ^vhose mansion stood\\nwhere now the llot(d Telliam is. The tract ac(pnre(l was known\\nus Foster s l- asture.\\nThe IJritish soldiers, \\\\vith a truly vandal spirit, I ut down\\nseveral of the largest trees in the mall the morning they evac-\\nuated the town. A large inunber had before been sacriliced to\\npnwide fuel, but this was the act of malice alone. The surface\\nof the Common Avas greatly distigured by cellars and dit(dies\\ndug throughout the camps, traces of which h)ng remained\\nvisible, even to the circles made by the tents. Ceueral llowu\\nstayed the destrirction of the trees of the mall at the solicita-\\ntion of the selectmen.\\nr.efore the Revolution there was a ^yooden fence, but this,\\ntoo, was used for fuel, and the ommon lay open until after the\\nl ea.ce, when it was rebuilt I)y a subscription set on foot by Dr.\\nOliver Smith. The iron h lice was erected in 1S;!G, at a cost\\nof $82,500. Its length was j: -2 yards, rather more than a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOUND THE COMMON. 807\\nmile. In 1733, wliPii tlic town voti il to [ilant a second row of\\ntrees at a suitable tlistaiice IVdin tliosc ahi ady set out, tli\\nselectmen were directed to set up a mw of posts witli a rail on\\nthe top of them, extending from the Granary Burying-(1 round\\nto Colonel Fitche s, leaving openings at the several streets and\\nlanes. In 173!) a similar fence was ordered from Comiiioii\\nStreet to Beacon.\\nThe Common aji{\u00c2\u00bbears to hav lu i u hrst (;alle(l entry\\nField, taking this name from tlic hill on wliosc slope it lay,\\nwhich later received the name of lieacnn Hill. Century Field\\nis another instance of the (plaint orthography, of which the.\\nrecords furnish abundant specimens. It a[)pears to have been\\nindiH erently called the Training Field and Centry Field\\nfor a long time.\\nThe building of the Subway has oflfected a marked trans-\\nformation in tlie Tremoiit Stnn^t Mall, compelling, as it did,\\nthe removal of many of the noble elms tliat overarched it, and\\nleading to the removal of tbe iron fiMi(-(^ ])y which it was en-\\nclosed, so practically resulting in a widening of Tremont Street.\\nOn the corner of Winter Street once stood an old ante-Kevo-\\nlutionary house, with a ftne garden, in which, it is said, (lovernor\\nBernard at one time made his town residence. It became a\\nfiimous boarilingdiouse undi r the suiressive auspi(-es of ]\\\\Irs.\\nHatch and Mrs. Uexter. Joveiiior Strong, when in town\\nduring his second term, resided with JNIrs. Hatch.\\nThe following toast was published in 1817, as having 1 een\\ngiven at tlie celebration by the lilacks in Boston of the anni-\\nversary of the abolition of the sla ve-ti ade\\n(jroveruur Bnaiks, may tlu mantelpiece of Caleb Strong tall ujion\\nthe hcd of his (listiuguished predecessor.\\nJohn McLean, the eminent merchant, foTinder of tlie jNIcLean\\nAsylum, boarded with INIrs. Dexter. His tinancial reverses are\\nAvell known. It is related of him tliat he one day assembled\\nhis creditors at a dinner, where each found under his plate a\\ncheck for the full amount dun him. This was after he had been\\nlegally released from his obligations.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": ";!()8 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAmong the names lirstdwcd upnn this Imsy mart of fasliion\\n^ya,s Blott s Lane, iVnm K olx it lilutt alsn Ilaiinisti i s ami Wil-\\nlis :i Lane.\\nWinter Street once I masted a resident so intiuential in tlie\\ncause uf liberty as to rcrcivc the distinction of outlawry from\\nGeorge III. The ofl enccs of Samuel Adams and Joim Hanrock\\nwere too flagitious to admit of pardon. The liousc of Sammd\\nAttains stood on the soutli side of inter Street, on the corner\\nof A\\\\ int cr Place. It was a two-story Avooden house, fronting on\\nthe street at the liack was an L, and in the rear a small gar-\\nden. The l)uilding was standing as late as 1820, and, while it re-\\nmained, was not the least interesting oliject to lie seen in lioston.\\nSamuel Adams was a Boston hoy. liurn in 1722, he had\\nseen the administi atioiis of the royal governors from Burnet to\\nlage. He took his degree at eightet U at Harvard, and after\\ntrying unsuccessfully a merchant s career, devoteil himself to\\nliterature, until calleil to a |iolitic,al life. First a tax-gatherer,\\nthen a representative, his iniluencc begins to appear at the com-\\nmencement of tlie Stamp Act dilfi ulties. After the jNIassacre,\\nhe overbore the tlimsy olijectioiis of Hutchinson to a removal\\nof the troops from the town by a maidy, bold, and unauswer-\\nal le argument.\\nTn later times, in all the movements of the people of T oston\\npreceding actual hostilities, Samuel Adams was the adniitted\\npower l)ehind the throne. Wari cn was biave, Hancock ricli,\\nand .\\\\dams sagacious. It. was remarkeil of Hancock that he\\npaid tlie jioslage, wliile ,\\\\daiiis did tlie writing. Lord North,\\nwhen iiifoniii d tliat Hutchinson had yielded to the demand of\\ntlie chainiiaii of the town committee, called the regulars Sam\\nAdams s two regiments. in contempt. The Ministry styled\\nhim llief of file Levoliition.\\n.Mr. delleisoii s opinion of Samuel Adams is a concise and\\ndeser\\\\-cd tribute to the pati iot. Says the sage of Monticello,\\n1 can say that he was truly a grent man, wise in council,\\nfertih in resources, immovable in Ids purposes, and had, 1\\nthiiil a greater share tliaii any oilier meiidier in atlvising and\\ndirectinu our measures in the Nortlierii war.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "A TOUil ROUND THE COMMON. 309\\nWhen Adams, a i ugitive witli Haiu-dck, heard the hiiiig on\\nLexington Connnon, lie exulted, knowing that the day of hu-\\njuiliation was passing forever away. The sword was now to\\ndecide the contest, and Adams labored without intermission in\\nthe councils of the incii)ient nation. He was an active meml)er\\nof the Congress of 1774; and he drew uj), with John Adams,\\nthe draft of the .State Constitution. A niemlu r of the con-\\nvention to consider the Federal (Constitution, he was not at\\nfirst in favor of its adoption, hut acceded to the plan of\\nHancock to ratify the instrument and j)roj)os(! amendments to\\nit in accord with the views of Massachusetts statesmen. He\\nwas lieutenant-governor under Hancock, and followed him to\\nhis last resting-})lace. From 1794 to 17U7 the veneral)le Sam-\\nuel Adauis gov(;rned the State. He died in 18(). 5, an octoge-\\nnarian.\\nIt is related l)y Waterhousc^ that the two Adauises, -lohii and\\nSamuel, were one day walking in the luall we have just heen\\ndescril)ing. As they came opjiosite the no])le mausion of Han-\\ncock the latter remarked, with emphasis, I have done a very\\ngood thing for our cause, in thi^ course of the past week, by en-\\nlisting the master of that house into it. He is well disposed,\\nand has great riches, and we can give him conse(pu Uce to enjoy\\nthem.\\nSamuel Adams was of ordinary lieight, nuiscular form, and\\nhad light complexion and light bhu; eyes. He wore a red\\ncloak, a gray tie-wig, and cocked hat. In ])ersou he was very\\nerect. His fatlier was a brewer, and his son Samuel succeeded\\nto his business. Admiral Coffin used to relate that he had car-\\nried malt on his back from Adams s brewery.\\nThe old estate on Purchase Street, where Adams was born,\\nwas only about sixty feet north of Summer. It faced the\\nharl)or, connuauding a fine view, ami was conspicuous among\\nthe few buildings contem])orary with it. On the roof was an ob-\\n.servatory and a railing, with steps leading up fnuu the outside.\\nIt was improved in 1730, and the grounds were still adorned\\nwith trees and shrubbery as late as 1800.- This was the estate\\nWells s Life of Samuel Adams.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "!10\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\npreserved liy Saiiiucl Ailaius ufti-r his fatlier s unsuccessful\\nsj)eculatiou in tlie Laiul liank sclieiui;.\\nOtlier statesmen and soldiers famous in the pages of history\\nha\\\\ e walked in the old mall. We have no douht that Wash-\\nington and Winslow, I-oudon, Amher.st, and Hood, (lage, lin-\\nton, llurgoyne, and Howe, have all sought its leai y shades.\\nTalleyrand, Moreau, Louis Philippe, and Lafayette have douht-\\nless paced within its cool retreats, and meditated upon the fate\\nof empires the\\\\ were to l)uild or overthrow. Silas l)ea,ne,\\nI ulaski, ciles, and ireene iiave certainly trod this famous walk.\\nSt. I aul s, o\\\\ ei-shado\\\\ved and overtopped as it is hy its feudal-\\nlooking neighhor, has yet some points of attraction. It was\\nSI PAI I. s c IlliRClI AM) MASUNIC TKMI I.E.\\ndesigned hy a,j tain Alexander Pai ris, thougli, it is said, AVil-\\nlard (h-ew some of the woi-kiiig plans, and superintended the\\nstone-work, cutting some of tlie capitals with his own hand in\\nthe adjoining gardens. The front is unlinished, and the general", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "A TOUK ROUND THE COMMON. 311\\naspect of the biiilding did not suti.sfy tlie expectation for a\\nmodel of ancient art. The pediment was intended to he orna-\\nmented with bas-reliefs representing I*aul Ijefore Agrip} a, which\\nwould have added to tlie beauty of the front, hut want of funds\\ncompelled the ahandonment of this design. The main building\\nis of gray granite, once white, but now Idackened by the action\\nof the elements. The portico is of sandstone from Ac(piia\\nCreek, the columns of whidi liave been coniparccl, not inaptly,\\nto a collection of grindstones, tlijy Ix-ing (;om})osed of many\\nseparate sections. Taken as a whole, tlie ap|)earance of St.\\nPaul s may Ix styled dark, gloumy, and peculiar.\\nThe erection of St. Paul s marktMl an era in the architei-ture\\nof Boston churches. Hitherto the houses of worship were of\\nthe same general (-haracter, King s C hajiel and Brattle Street\\nalone excepted. The latter were the only departures from the\\nstiff, and, we may add, ugly strucMires iiitro(luce(l l)y the Puri-\\ntans. St. I aid s was the lirst specimen of the; pure Ionic in\\ntlie town.\\nThis was the fourth E])isco]ial churcli r( ct( I in Boston;\\nconsecrated June 30, 1820. T)r. Samuel F. -hirvis was the first\\nrector. The interior is chaste and beautiful. The ceiliug is a\\ncylindrical vaidt, with panels spanning the whole width of the\\nchurch. ITnderneath the floor are tombs. The remains of\\nJeneral Warren Avere deitosited undei- St. Paul s in ilic toudi\\nof his nephew. Dr. John C. Warren, until ivmoved in August,\\n1855, to the family vault at Forest Hills.\\nSolomon Willard came to Boston in iNOf, and first worked\\nat his trade of carpenter. He was em])loyi d on the fimous Ex-\\nchange Coffee House, the conflagration of which, in 1818, was\\nseen a hundred miles from Bt)ston. He very soon applied him-\\nself to the study of architecture and (-irving in wood. The caj)-\\nitals for the Brighton jNlectingdiouse, and those for Park Street\\nChurch steeple, are by his liand. He also carved a bust of\\nWashington for the seventy-four-gun ship of that name, and\\nexecuted a model of the public liuildings in Washington for\\nIMr. Bultinch. The eagle now on the apex of Ihe pediment of\\nthe Old Custom House was carved bv ^Ir. Willard; it is five", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "312 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nfeet high, and measures the same distance from wing to wing.\\nHis great work was the Bunker Hill Monument, of whicli lie\\nwas the architect, and he was also the discoverer of the Buidier\\nIlill Quarry at Quincy. The Court House, in Court 8(juare,\\nwas designed by Mr. Willard.\\nThe old Masonic Temple, now occupied by R. H. Stearns\\nCo., is built upon a part of the A\\\\ asliiugton Gardens. Tiie\\ncorner-stone was laid in 1830, and two years elapsed before it\\nAvas dedicated. The basement and belt is of hammered granite.\\nTwo lofty Gothic towers, with battlements surmounted by pin-\\nnacles, flank the entrance, and are a picturestpie feature of the\\nenvirons of the Great Mall. Busy trade now usurps the high\\nplaces of INIasonry, to which a newer and more magnificent\\ntemple lias been dedicated.\\nIn the iipper story of the Masonic Temple was the school of\\nA. Bronson Alcott, the philosopher, and father of tlie popular\\nauthoress, Louisa May Alcott. lu Mr. Aleott s school Sarah\\n]\\\\Iargaret Fuller, afterwards Countess d Ossoli, was an assistant\\nteacher before she went to Providence, E. I., to leach. Miss\\nFuller, the best talker since De Stael, lived with her uncle,\\nHenry H. Fuller, on the north side of iVvon I^lace (Street),\\nwhere she held for several seasons lier Conversations for\\nyoung ladies. She was afterwards invited to New York, Ijy\\nHorace Greeley, as a contributor to th(^ New York Tril une.\\nThe memory of her remarkable talents and literary successes\\nis still fresh, and recalls the painful impression caused by her\\nsad fate from shipwreck on Fire Island, when returning from\\nEurope in 1850 with her husband and child.\\nIt is said she coidd compose Latin verse wdien only eight\\nyears old. Her writings, much as they were adnured, were not\\neipial to her conversation, in which her wonderful brilliancy\\nand force of expression came forth with full power, until the\\nbest talkers preferred to become listeners in her society. The\\nstory of her life has often been told, and constitutes one of the\\nbrightest as well as one of the saddest pages of our history.\\nThe Washington (iardens extended to the corner of West\\nStreet. They were surrounded by a brick wall, a part of which", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOUND THE COMMOX. 313\\nis seen in tlie forcgrouiitl of tlic view of the Haymarket in tlie\\nillustration. A concert was announced here as early as 1815,\\nl)y J. II. Shatfer. In 1819 an amphitheatre was erected witliin\\nthe grounds, which aftcrwai (ls took the name of tlie Washing-\\nton Theatre. The managers of Federal Street were at first\\ninterested in this establisliineiit, until it passed from their con-\\ntrol and became a rival. The house was adapted to the uses\\nof a circus as well as for a theatrt e(piestrian performances\\nhaving l)eeii given in it a number of times. As such it ap[\u00c2\u00bbears\\nto have been the first in lioston. Following the Old Drury and\\nIlaynjarket, it had an Fnglish name, l)eing called Vauxliall.\\nA l)attalion of Ijritish troops is sai l to have been ([uartered in\\nthe, grounds at the time of the occujtation, when they were\\nknown as (Ireenleaf s (iardens.\\nThe site of these gar lens was the residence of Stephen Green-\\nleaf, the old sherilf uf Sullblk under the stormy administration\\nof (jovernor Bernard. lie was the same whose exploits at the\\nManufactory House have ])een chronicled. The sheriff was a\\nconhrnied royalist, ])ut did not join in the hegira of that party\\nfrom lioston. lie died at the great age of ninety-one. After\\nhim it became the mansion of James Swan, who long lived in\\nI aris, and was imprisoned in St. Pelagie for many years.\\nThe reader will obtain from the illustration an excellent idea\\nof what the distrii^t endiraced between West and Boylston\\nStreets was in 171J8. At tlu? lower corner of West Street was\\nthe Haymarket. Beyond, at the south corner of Mason Street,\\nwas Hatch s Tavern, with Frothingham s carriage factory in the\\nn^ar farther on is seen the Old Haymarket Theatre, and, at\\nthe corner of I oylston Street, tin: residence of William Foster,\\nwhere now the Hotel Pelliam stands. In the right foreground\\nis the West Street entrance to the Common; the trees receding\\nalong tlie mall discldse the river l)eyond, whose breezes then\\nfanned anil invignrate(l the habit ue i of the spot. The picture\\nis from a water-cohu by IJobertson, once the property of John\\nHoward Payne, now in possession of the Public Lil)rary. The\\nWhipi)ing-Post and Pillory were situated near the West Street\\ngate after their removal from State Street.\\n14", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "314 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nLoujj; biifore the Iicvolution, as early as 1722, a free school\\nwas estalilislied in what is now Mason Street, near tlie corner\\nof West. It was then on the Iwundary of the Common, tlie\\nlaud now lying Ijetween having Ijei^n sold oil from it. The\\nschool was called the .South Writing, was the fourth in the\\ntown, and has, in later times, tieen known as the Adams School.\\nThe Common extended to Mason Street since lyOO.\\nA guudiouse stood at the corner of West Street at the lu gin-\\nniug of tlie devolution, se|iarate(l ])y a. yard from the school-\\nliouse. In this gundiouse were kept two lirass three-pounders\\nlicloiigiiig tti aptaiu Adino Taildock s train. These pieces had\\nheen recast from two old guns sent hy the town to London for\\nthat pur[)ose, and had the arms of the province engraved upon\\ntliem. They arrived in Uoston in 17 J8, and were lirst used at\\nthe celehration of the King s l)irth(lay, June 4, when a salute\\nwas lired in King Street. Both scliool and gun liouse are con-\\nnected witli a celelirateil event.\\nMajor I addock had expressed an intention of surrendering\\nthese guns to iovernor iage. Tiie meclianics, who composed\\nthis company, resolved that it should not lie so. The Ih itish\\ngeneral had l)egun to seize the military stores of the i)rovince\\nand disarm the inhabitants. Accordingly, the jiersons engaged\\nin the plot ruet in the school-room and when the attention of\\nthe sentinel stationed at the door of the gun-house was taken\\notf hy roll-call, they crossed the yard, entered the building, and,\\nremoving the guns from their arriages, cairieil them to the\\nschool idom, where they were conc(^aled in a Ixix in which fuel\\nwas kept.\\nThe loss of the guns was soon discovered, and search made,\\nin which the school did not escajie. The master placed his\\nlame foot upon the 1)0X, and it was not disturbed. Several ot\\nth(; boys were privy to the aliiiir, but made no sign, llesides\\nthe schoolmaster, Abraham llolbrook, Nathaniel 15alch, Samuel\\n(lore, Moses Grant, Jeremiah h idley, Winston, and some\\nothers executed this conjt di lUKit).\\nLoring s account says the guns ivmaineil a fnrtuight in the\\nschool roi mi. At the end of that time they were taken in a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOL Xl) THE COMMON. 315\\nwheelbarrow at night aud carried to Winston s blacksmith s\\nshop at the South End, and deposited under the coal. From\\nhere they were taken to the American lines in a boat. The\\nguns were in actual service during the whole war. After the\\npeace the State of Massachusetts applied to Congress for their\\nrestoration, which was granted l)y a resolve passed IVIay 19,\\n1 7S8, in which General Knox, Secn etary at AVar, was directed\\nto place a suitable inscription n\\\\Hm tlieni. The two guns were\\ncalled the Hancock and Adams, and were in charge of the\\nAncient and Honorable Artillery Company, until presented,\\nin IS-Jf), by the State to tlie Uunker Hill Monument Associa-\\nti(jn. They are now to be seen in tlie chamljer at the top of\\nHunker Hill Monument. The inscription, except the name, is\\nthe same on each\\nTlie Hancock\\nSacred to Liberty.\\nTliis is oiu! )i four i-umon,\\nwliicli coiistituteil the wliolc train\\nof Fiel l Artillery\\npossessed by the British (lolonies of\\nNorth America\\nat the conuiienceineiit of the war,\\non the 19th of Ai)ril, 1775.\\nThis cannon\\nand its fellow,\\nbelonging to a number of citizens of\\nBoston,\\nwere used in many engagements\\nduring the war.\\nThe other two, tin; jiroperty of the\\nGovernment of Massacliusetts,\\nwere taken by tlie enemy.\\nBy order of the United States\\nin Congress assemlded,\\nMay 19, 1788.\\nThe two guns referre(l to as cajitured by the enemy were\\nconcealed in a stable belonging to a house on the south side of\\nCourt Street, near the Court House. Tliey were taken out over\\nthe Neck in a cart loaded with uianure, driven liy a negro ser-\\nvant of George Minot, a Dorchester farmer. Thus the four guns\\nbelonging tt\u00c2\u00bb the province escaped the clutches of Gage. The", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "316 l.\\\\.ni)ma];ks of boston.\\ntwo last referred to were some time in possession of the Dor-\\nchester Artillery.\\nColouiiiule Iiow, a luiiionii raii^c of twenty-four brick Imilil-\\nings, Avas constructed in ISli, and ociaijiicd l y tlie elite of\\nUoston society. Each house liad, or was intended to ]ia\\\\e, a\\nr iw of iVeestiuie columns in ti-oiit suppoi ting a. pia/za, hence\\nthe name. In ISi l, alter tlie visit of J^afayette, ^Vmos Law-\\nrence and other occupants of the row i)etitione(l to liav(i\\nColonnade Kow called Fayf^tte Place, hut it failed to receive\\nofficial sanction, though it continued to he so called by the resi-\\ndents. At the same time the name of South .Allen Street was\\nchanged to Fayette Street. But few of tlie huildings in the\\nrow retain their original aj peaiance, iiiexoralile trade having\\ndemanded and obtaine(l adnuttain e into this stronghold i} i\\nBoston aristocracy. A nion^ ph l)i ian appellation of the block\\nwas Cape (Jod Row, either from the aiitei edents of some of\\nthe dwellers, or their traffic in the sta[)le of the Commonwealth.\\nThe Lowells have l)een a distinguished family in Massachu-\\nsetts, from Kevolutionary times to the present day. Judge\\nLowell was a delegate to the ougress of 17 ^2-S3, and was\\nappointed by Washington .lud^e of the Lnited States District\\nouit at its organization. The judge will ever be remembered\\nas the mendier of the convention which liamed the State on-\\nstitution, where, as one of the committee to draft that in-\\nstrument, he insertecl in the Liil of b ights the clause\\nde(daring that all men are boi u free and eipial, witli the\\navoweil pui |iose of a,l)olishing slavery in the ommoiiwealth.\\nKev. (jharles Lowell, of the West hui cli, was a son of\\nJudge Lowell, who iirst studie(l law in lioston bidbre Ik; took\\nup theology. Mir distinguished contemporary poet, Jaiues\\nL-Ussell Lowell, was a sou of the clergynian. Another of the\\nsons of the ltevoluti(niary judge was Francis Caliot Lowell, to\\nwhom, more than any other, belongs the credit id establishing\\nthe Waltham cotton factory, the jaccursor of the Lowell works.\\nThe city of Lowcdl was named fu- liini. It was his son, John\\nLowell, Jr., who founded l)y his will the Lowell Institute.\\nAt No. 19 of the Colonnade resided John Lowell, son of the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "A TOUR HOUND THE COMMON. 317\\njiu1,l;o iif TJwvolutiiinary antecedents. I\\\\[r. Lowell ar(|uire(l fame\\nas a political writer, wielding a trenchant ])en. As an opj)onent\\nof the Last War, as that of 1S12 was long called, he\\nohtainetl considerable celebrity nnder his nam de jilame of the\\nBostiin Iicbcl, frmn the boldness and severity with which he\\nattacked the administration. He refnsed office, deeming the\\n])ost of lionor tlu; private station, bnt is remembered as a\\nfounder of the Massachusi tts (ieueral Hospital, the Athena-um,\\nSavings iJaiik, and the llnspital Life Insurance omi)any. He\\nbuilt a brick Imuse in ScIkihI Street, occuj)ied for lawyers\\nofiiccs, (HI the ground now open in front of tlie (^ity Hall.\\nThe Massachusetts Medical ojlege, anap|)eudage of Harvard\\nUniversity, was at one lime situated in Mason Street, imme-\\ndiately behind oloiinade L uw. It was a brick edifice, with a\\npediment raised above the ceiiti al portion. A lome, with bal-\\nustrade, surmounted the whole. The doulile tier of wimlows\\nwere enclosed in arches rising the whole height of the buiMing.\\nTaken altogether, its exti riial aspect might be called ugly.\\nWithin, the central building was occupied b} an anatomical\\nmuseum, with a l;d o|-;itory underneath the; lecture-room was\\nin the south wing.\\nI^ntold horrors were associated with tins l)uilding in the\\nminds of tlie urchins who fre([uented the adjoining school-house.\\nIts contiguity to the Common Uurying-rironiid, too, seemed to\\nsavor of a strong union lietweeii demand and supply. The\\nprofessors were regardeil in the neighborhood as so miny ogres,\\nand the students as no better than vam]iires. They ate their\\noysters or j)assed the jest over the dissecting-table with a sang-\\nfro ul simply horrilde to the uninitiated. An instance is re-\\nmembered of a studeid, who went to pass the evening at a\\nfriend s house, taking a dead woman s arm, which he coolly\\nunwrap[)ed from a newsiia])er to tln^ affright (if his hostess.\\nThe college was remove(l to the West End, where it has ac-\\n(piired a fearful notoriety in connection with a well-remend)ered\\ntragedy enacted there.\\nThe Haymarket Theatre stood next south of Colonnade Row.\\nThis was an immense structure of wood, erected iii 1796, and", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": ".SI 8\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\n(ijii iK d l){ inl)( r I d, (if tliat yar, l)y Piiwdl, it tlu Ft ilcral\\nStreet, rnwcll hail fallen nut with the pmiirietdrs if the latter\\nliduse, ami the lla^iiiai ket was Imilt liy his friends. It was\\ndesigned to aecdninuidate the iniddlin;^ interest, hnt the town\\n(iould not support two theatres. I he property proved a poor\\nsjK culation, and was taken down after staudin.ti; six years only.\\nThe liu,ne strueture was said to have been the lar!.i, est and hest-\\narranged therdre in .Vniei ica while it stond it was a. source of\\nterror to the iieighhorhood from its liability to take, fire. No\\n(it her theatrical entei prise was started in 15(iston until the\\nWashington (Jardeii enteitainnieiits, in 1819 began.\\nThe Ilayniai ket opened with the Helle s Stratagem. ]\\\\Ir.\\nJ. A. Dickyon, afterwards of the Ftuleral Street, appeared on the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2boards here for the lirst time, lie became, after his retireriient\\nli-om the stage, a well known merchant, in (irnhill, and accu-\\nmulated a handsome fortune. J )i(dvsoii was the first agent in\\nthis country of Day and Martin s blarking. Mrs. Parley made\\nher (lebttt at this theatre as Narcissa in Inkle and Yarico.\\nThere were a jiit, gallery, and three tiers of boxes, with a hand-\\nsome saloon and minor conveniences for the audience. ]\\\\Ir. and\\nMrs. (1. L. Uarrett also ai\u00c2\u00bb})eared at this house, the lattei making\\n\\\\\\\\vr lehnf as Mrs. Beverly in the Oaniester. The following\\nwas the liill on the opening night at the Ilaymarket\\nBELLE S STHATAOEM.\\nS. PdWrll.\\nDoi icdurt\\nSir Geoi-^n\\nFlutter,\\nSuvillc,\\n(lurtall,\\nVillars,\\nHardy,\\nLetitia Hardy\\nLady Frances,\\nMiss Ogle,\\nMrs. Racket,\\nouflnvdod,\\nManidtt.\\nV. 1 dwell.\\nJ. 11. Diiksdii.\\nTayl.ir.\\nA Youiil; AiHci-ican.\\nSinisiiii.\\nMrs. S. I dwell.\\nMrs. llu-lies.\\nMiss Harrison.\\nMrs. Simpson.\\nThe AVinthrop House and the adjoining Freemason s Hall,\\nwhich madi the cornel of r.oylstoii Street, Avere destroyed by\\nlire in ;\\\\]ui], 1S(U, which left nothing but the walls standing.\\nThe present grand temple of Masonry succeeds to both the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOUND THE COMMON. 319\\nformer. It is a magnificent monument of this angle of the\\nCommon.\\nThe Masonic Temple is not unworthily supporterl on the\\nopposite corner by the Hotel Touraine, a site whicli will\\nnever lose interest as the homo of John (jluincy Adams, sixth\\nPresident of the United States. In the old mansion-house\\nwas horn Charles Francis Adams, who erected the Hotel\\nBoylston on this site.\\nBoylston Street was the ancient Frog Lane of the South End,\\nIts route was the same as now^, except that the sea washed the\\nsoutherly end at the foot of the Common. We have remarked\\nthat the fathers of Boston were not particular about names.\\nThe future was veiled from them, and any peculiarity served\\ntheir purpose. The amphibious croaker may have rendered the\\nair of the neigidxirhood vocal with his evening song in the day\\nof Adams (ir Ins neighiior Foster. Sloughs and mud dioles were\\ncommon in the vicinity. It is recorded that one, both wnde and\\ndeep, lay in IVont of Mather Bylcs s house. The selectmen were\\nimportuned to see to it without avail, until one morning a pair\\nof them got their chaise stuck fast in the midst, when the pai\\nson accosted ilicm with, Well, gcnilemen, I am glad to see\\nyou stirring in this matter at last.\\nThe Old Man eloquent is one of the honored names on\\nthe roll of the Boston Bar. The Athenaeum was enriched by\\nhis private library at a merely nominal sum. He studied law\\nwith Theophilus Parsons, and wa-(jte powerful politi(-al articles\\nunder the signature of Publicola, in 1791, advocating neutrality\\nwith France. Minister to Holland, England, and Prussia, he\\nwas intimate with Burke, Fox, Sheridan, Pitt, and their con-\\ntemporaries of the period of the French Revolution. A mem-\\nber of the United States Senate from 180.3 to ISOS, his views\\non the measures of Mr. Jefferson wa^re in conflict with those of\\nMassachusetts, and he resigned. He was minister to Russia in\\n1809, and a commissioner at Ghent in 181.5. Again minister\\nto England in 1817, he became subsequently Mr. Monroe s\\nSecretary of State, and his successor in 1825. In 1831 he was\\nreturned to Congress, wdiere he continued until his sudden", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "3 20 LANDMARKS OF T .OSTON.\\ndcrcasi in the Capitol in ]S[S. I his is tlic last of rartli I\\nam cnuteiit, weiv the last won Is he spoke.\\nMr. Adams was minister to liussia ilui iny the invasion of\\nl)0]iaparte. When (piestioned as to the l)nrning of Moscow,\\nhe stated that hotli the Kmperor and Rostopcliin, the jj, overnor,\\ndenied ha\\\\ iiig ordered it.. Had the government assumed the\\nrespoiisihility, tliey would have Ijeen ol)lig d to indemnity the\\nsuti erers.\\nIn ]\\\\Iiss uiney Memoir are some intei esting personal reeol-\\nleetions of Mr. Adams while at the court of St. IVtershurg.\\nSaid he:\\nI never saw Ale\\\\inider on tli(^ throne. He was a man who cared\\nlittle aliout tliMiiies, and vas mie ol tlie most complete re|iul ]ii-ans,\\nin character and manners, 1 have ever known, tie used to walk the\\nstreets ot St. I^-tershuig evei V l;iy, and stop and talk to eveiy one\\nhe met. He was extremely popular, and I do not helieve he was\\ncarried oil hy treachery. .Vlexandei-. duriiiL; the whole of llu war\\nwith I x uaparte, exposed himself a.-^ mmh as any of his otticers. At\\nthe close of that war he w.is uudouhledly one of the tirst ,L;enei als\\nin Knrope. Moreau was killed at his side hy a cannon-hall from tlie\\nwalls of Dresden.\\nSpeaking of Moreau s death, Mr. Adams ol)served\\nHe was fighting against his eountiy, which no man can ever he\\njustified in doing. A man, if he (lisappro\\\\-es a ,i;iiverinuenl or a war,\\nmay remain quiet and neutral hut uothiiiL; should e\\\\-er induce him\\n(o take U] arms iKjainst In s fniitifnj. I saw IMoreau s funeral at. St.\\netershur,L; which was attended with i;reat pomp.\\nThe victor of Hohenlinden was exi luded hy decri e from the\\ni a.nks of the French army, July (i, ISOl, ami uudei the surveil-\\nfance of a, coloind of gendarmes went to adiz, where he em-\\nfiarke(l for the Tnit.ed States. Moreau was in America, eight\\nyeai s, during which he lra.V(dled extensively, visiting Hoston\\namong other jilaces. The veiierahle William Minot, of this\\ncity, once stated, in an interview, that he rememhered .seeing\\nthe general in a passing carriage while he was in Doston. He\\nwent to Niagara Falls, and descended the Ohio and Mississippi.\\nA small alllueiit of the INIissouri is named for him.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 321\\nHe lived for some time at Morrisville, in Pennsylvania, in a\\nhouse pureliased by him on the banks of the Delaware, the\\nmost conspicuous in the i)lace. The general was very aifable\\nand hospitaltle. He also resided in New York, where lie was\\nmuch consulted by American politicians, though he sedulously\\nabstained from party intrigue himself. After a residence of\\nal)out eight years in the United States he returned to Europe,\\nto engage in tlie strife then raging there. The American vessel\\nwhich carried Moreau tliis was in 1813 was permitted to\\nj^ass the Idockade by Admiral Cockburn, at the rec^uest of the\\nIJussian minister.\\nHis deathdied was attended by the King of Prussia, the\\nEmperor of Austria, and Emperor Alexander, who manifested\\nthe deepest grief at his loss. Metternich, Schwartzenburg, and\\nthe allied generals visited him, and Alexander, who had a great\\nfriendship for the dying general, held him a long time in his\\narms. The foUowirig is an extract of a letter to INIadame ISIoreau,\\nwritten l\\\\y Idni, with a steady hand, while sinking under the\\namputation of his liml)s\\nMy dear friend, at the battle of Dresden, three days ago, I had\\nl)oth legs carried away by a cannot shot. That scuuutbxd, B(inaparte,\\nis always luckj\\nCharles Francis Adams passed his boyhood with his father\\nat St. Petersburg, and while the elder Adams was minister at\\nthe court of St. James, the son went to an English school. He\\nstudied law in Webster s office, and was admitted to the bar,\\nbut never practised. IVIr. Adams, after having edited a Boston\\nnewspaper, and served in the legislature, was the candidate of\\nthe Free Soil party for the Vice-jiresidency in 1848. But Mr.\\nAdams is best known by Ids diplomatic services at the same\\ncourt where his father served so long. His conduct of delicate\\nnegotiations during the great civil war was such as to place him\\nat the head of American diplomats. His services were further\\nrequired by our govermuent in the negotiations at Geneva,\\narising from tlie Alabama and other claims. ISIr. Adams mar-\\nried a daughter of Peter C. Brooks, a wealthy citizen of Boston.\\nIn this corner of the Common, and adjoining the Burying-\\n14* u", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "LANDMAltKS OF HOS J OX.\\n(iiMUinl (111 the east, were situati il the liay-scales, after their\\nremoval tVdiu tlie corner 1 West Street, and also a gnu-house;\\nthe latter was transferred, in iSL li, to a location near the former\\nf rovideiice depot, it contaiue l a laboratory, well furnished\\nwith warlike matei-ial. There was ;dso a laljoratory on Pleasant\\nStreet, between the comer of Jioylstou ami riaif s llottd, during\\nthe Iievolutiou, on wliat is now called Park S(|uare, and another,\\nsul)se(|uently used l y Frothiugham, Wheeler, and Jacobs as a\\ncarriage fictory, as shown in the illustration.\\nThe. first manidiM ture ol duck was begun l)y an incorporated\\ncompany in Boston, abuut IT .HI. They erected buildings on a\\nlarge lot in lioylston Street, at the corner of Tremout. In\\n1702 they were in the full tide\\nof success, employing four liun-\\ndivd operatives, and turning\\nout fifty pieces a week of ex-\\nelleiii canvas. Here were nian-\\nufacture(l the (Constitution s\\nxiils, so that she was an Aiihu\\nicau ship throughout, except in\\nher armament. The luanufac-\\nture of cotton began in New\\nEngland as early as 1G43, and calico }(rinting was undertaken\\nin lioston before 17 J4.\\nDuring the war of 1812 a numlier of field-pieces belonging to\\nthe government were collected in this corner of the ommon,\\nand the city military took turns mounting guard over tlie })a.rk.\\nThe Xew England (Guards, wliidi were organi/ed in 1S12, per-\\nformed their share u{ this iluty, and several of the members,\\namong whom was Abbott Lawrence, gxit their one hundred and\\nsixty acres of land from the general government in requital for\\na certain term of ser\\\\ice here, at the Charlestown Navy Yard,\\nand at Noddle s Island. There were sixty-seven names on the\\nmuster-roll in 1814, and in 1859, after the laj)se of nearly half\\na centni-} forty-tliree of the sixty-seven were still living, of\\nwhom it is doul)tful if any now survive.\\nT liiii^ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0iJr TiiinifjaTTT;-\\nOLD LOOM.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 323\\nCHAPTER XL\\nA TOUR ROUND THE COMMON CONTINUED.\\nCommon Burying-Giound. Joshua Bates. Public Garden. Ropewalks.\\nTopography ol the Common. British Troops on. Descrijition of their\\nCamp.s. The Liglit Horse. Powder House. Old Elm. Witchcraft\\nand Quaker E.xecutions. The Duel in 1728. Mill-Dam. Mexican\\nVolunteers. Beacon Street. Prescott. Cojiley. John Phillips.\\nWendell Phillips. Robert C. Winthrop. Hancock Mansion. Governor\\nHancock. General Clinton. State House. Public Statues, etc.\\nThe Beacon. The Monument. Lafayette s Residence. George Ticknor.\\nMalbone. Samuel De.xter. Incidents of Lafayette s Visit in 1824.\\nJosiah Qumcy, Jr. Historical Resume. Rei eal of the Stamii Act.\\nfl^^HE (iiiniioii Buiying-Grouiul lias but little antiiiuity com-\\n-L pared with the Chapel, Co})p .s Hill, or (irauary Cemeteries.\\nIt was opened after these in 1756, and has, aecordhig to its\\nchanging relations with others, been called at various times the\\nSouth and Central Ground.\\nUnder Mayor Armstrong, the Eoylston Street INIall was car-\\nried across the foot of the Common, cutting ofl some of the\\ntombs on that side of tlie graveyard. The owners of the\\nvaidts resisted th\u00c2\u00bb^ invasion of the sacred dust, but the im-\\nprovement was accomplished by which Beacon and Ticmont\\nStreet Malls were connected.\\nUnsupported tradition lias given to the Common Ground\\nthe credit of being first used for negro burials, l)ut we timl no\\nbetter evidence of this than that some very thick skulls were\\ndug up at a considerable depth from the surfoce. It is known,\\nhowever, that this was the se})ulclire of such of the common sol-\\ndiers as died from disease during the British occui)atioii, and of\\nthose who died from their wounds received at Bunker Hill.\\nThey were buried in a common trench, according to military\\ncustom, and many of the remains Avere exhumed when the ex-\\ncavations were proceeding at the northwest corner of the yard.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "24 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nI iic (ifticer.s who died df tlicir Imrt.s at lUmker Hill wero in-\\ntci ivd ill tlie churches and cenicteiies, hastily, but with greater\\ndrccncy. Many of these have been forwarded to their far-\\naway homes.\\nAV^e cannot pass the OKI Public Library site without an allu-\\nsion to its great benefactor, Josliua Bates. Tliis eminent Los-\\ntonian, who lifcame a mcndier of the great house of the Barings\\nin l^iindon, was a inMir lioy, almost as lunnble as the least among\\nthose wlio daily licnctit by his generosity. ]Ie attracted the\\nattention of his i)atron, William Gray, Avliile driving a load of\\nstones on his father s team. His ([uick, ready replit e interested\\nthe mci chant, who gave him a jilace in his cdunting-house,\\nwhence graduated a iinancier second to nnm^ in the Uld or\\nNew AVorld.\\nIn the Public Lilirary is a Revolutionary relic of interest,\\nwhich acquired an even greater importance in connection with\\nthe Sanitary Commission in th(^ war of Rebellion. It- is the\\noriginal capitidation of Burgoyne at Saratoga, with the signa-\\ntures of the king s commander, Riedesel, and the lesser officers,\\nEnglish and Hessian, in order of rank.\\nIn vain tliey fought, in vain they fled\\nTheir chief, lumiane ami tender,\\nTo save tlie re.st, soon tliought it l est\\nHis forces to surrender.\\nAA here now the Pulilic Garden is teeming with beauty,\\nnearly the Avlmle extent of the ground was dccupicd by rope-\\nwalks, live in number. As you pass along harles Street going\\nin the direction of Beacon, these ropewalks stretidied about\\nthree fourths of the distance, tliere meeting the water which\\nwashed Charles Street. On the other hand, tliey continued\\nnearly to Eliot Street. Charles Street was divided from the\\nCommon aliout 1804.\\nThese ropewalks were the successors of those in Pearl and\\nAtkinson Streets, destroyed by lire in 1794. The town granted\\nthe tract in order to prevent the erection of new buildings in\\na district tlu y endangered, as well as to render sul)stantial aid\\nto the unfortunate rope-makers they were again consumed in", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 325\\ntheir new locatiou in 180G. The land whereon these rope-\\nwalks were sitnated was marsh, or flats, which indeed was\\nthe prior condition (if nearly all that low ground now known\\nas the parade of the Connnon. At higli tides most of this\\ntract was prohably overflowed. On the verge of it was a little\\nelevation known as Fox Ilill, long ago levelled to contribute to\\nthe filling of the marsh. As long ago as 1750 the town voted\\nto lease tliese marsh-lands hut if they were used, the purpose\\nhas not transpired.\\nTo continue the topography of this region of tlie Connuon,\\nfrom the bottom of eacon Street to aiiil)ridge Bridge was a\\nhigh bluff, similar to the headlands of the harbor islands; the\\nbasii washed by tlie river. Excellent springs, covered at high\\nwater, trickled along the beadi. Tliis eiiiinence, known as West\\nHill, was occupivMl by tlie IJritisli as a mortar-battery it has\\nbeen reduced to a convenient grade, and euiployed in making\\nCharles Street. It seems clear that the shor(! or beach once\\nleft this headland with an inward swei^p, southerly to the\\nhigher ground at the foot of IJoylston Street.\\nAfter the era of improvement was begun by the Mount\\nVernon proprietors, the hill was reduced by them. In tliis\\nlabor they emiiloyeil the first railway used in New England, l)y\\nan inclined plane, over whi(;h box cai s conveyed tlieir loads to\\nthe water at the foot of the hill. About this tiuie a sea wall\\nwas built along Charles Stre; t from Beacim to IJoylston.\\nTo return to the ropewalks. The town, in its generosity,\\ninvested the jiroprietors with a title which might have forever\\nprevented the existence of the Public (:larden, now properly a\\npart and parcel of the Common. The rights of the proprie-\\ntors were finally purchased by the city. The piesti in whether\\nthe city should sell these lands lying west of (diaries Street,\\nwas, in 1824, negatived liy the citizens, who thus d(!cided to\\npreserve the beautiful view of the river and its shores beyond,\\nnow obstructed by the newly erected city of the Back Bay. In\\nthis manner has been secured the Pvdilic lardeii,\\nWliere opening roses breathin^^ sweets diffuse,\\nAnd soft carnations shower their bahuy dews", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "o26 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nWliere lilies smile in virgin robes of white,\\nThe tliin undress of superficial light,\\nAud varied tulips show so dazzling gay,\\nBlushing in briglit diversities of day,\\nEach jiainted Howeret in the lake below\\nSurveys its beauties, whence its beauties grow.\\nFrom the Ijottom of tlie Common tlie troops were embarked\\nin silence for Lexington, at about ten o clock on the night pre-\\nceding the memoralile 19th of April. On the Common were\\nari ayed the forces engagcMl at Bunker Hill before they marched\\nt(i the lints of emliaikatimi. Many a tall fellow heard the\\n(liiims beat the rajipel for the last time as lie shouldered his\\nhrelock, and fell in the ranks on that eventful morning.\\nOf the lirst tri Kips which the Ministry dcsjiatched to B iston,\\nthe 2!)th went into camp on the Comiudu fir a short time, un-\\ntil they were quartered in various parts of the town. The 14th\\nand the Train marched with the 29th to the Connnon from\\nLong Wharf, but were assigned to other localities. On the 31st\\nof October, 1768, took place the first military execution ever\\nwitnessed in Boston. The doomed man was Bichard Ames, a\\nprivate of the 14th; his crime, desertion. He was slidt nn the\\nCommon, l)oth regiments being jiresent inider arms. Inter-\\ncessicin was made with General Cage to sjiare the man s life\\nwithout avail.\\n41iese were iidt tlie hrst trdops td use the t(^wn training-field\\nby many, but their eduiiiig marked an epoeli in histdiy. The\\npnivimial finves (if Sliirley and I epperell enlivened the green\\nsward in ITlo; and in 1758, on the 13th January, Cieneral\\nAmherst and his army, 4,500 strong, disembarked from their\\nships, and ]iiiehed tlieir tents on the Common. This Avas the\\nforce destine(l to opca-ate against Canada. At this time, and\\nlong afterwards, the British officers wore bayonets. A pdrtrait\\nof (Jeneral Wolfe is extant Avitli a firekick slung at his back and\\nthe bayonet by his side. Burgdyne s officers also Avore them\\nwhen they came to Boston in 1777.\\nThe Highland Begiment, cdmmaiideil by CdLniel Fraser, ex-\\ncited \\\\]\\\\f admirat-idii df the tdwn, wliicli liad seen nothing like\\nit liel dii Their colonel was the, same wlin disj)layed such con-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 327\\ngpicuoiis bravery at the battle of Stillwater in 1777, iiiuler\\nBurgoyne s command. In the crisis of the second day s battle\\nGeneral Morgan called some of his trusty riflemen, and, pointing\\nout the gallant Briton, said to them That gallant officer is\\nGeneral Fraser. I admire and honor him, but it is necessary\\nhe should die victory for the enemy depends ui)i)n him. Take\\nyour stations in that clump of bushes, and do your duty. In\\na few minutes Fraser fell, mortally wounded. He re(piestetl to\\nbe buried in a redoubt he had erected, which was accordingly\\ndone, under the fire of the American guns. The object of the\\nburial-party being discovered, the firing ceased, except the oc-\\ncasional booming of a minute-gun in honor of the valor of the\\ndeceased soldier. Fraser s regiment was with Wolfe at the\\nmemorable ascent of the Heights of Al)raham in 1759, and,\\nunder Murray, was engagtnl at the battle of Quebec in 17G0.\\nOn the 2d July, 1774, the train of artillery from the Castle\\nlanded, and marched to the Common. On the 4th of October\\nthere were two regiments stationed here, and it continued there-\\nafter a permanent camp until the evacuation. Two c()m})anies\\nwere stationed in the mortar redoubt, and also held a small\\nthree-gun battery higher up on the slope of the hill. When\\nthe British departed, the thirteen-inch mortar from the battery\\nwas found lying on the Ijeach, where it had ])een overturned,\\nuninjured. Another of the same calibre, found sunk at the end\\nof Long Wliarf, was placed by the Americans in the South\\nBattery. One of these Revolutionary relics was taken to\\nCharlestown Navy Yard the other was mounted on the bat-\\ntery at New York, the same year it was captured. Two twelve-\\nponnders from the battery on Beacon Hill were also secured by\\nthe Americans. There were a fi W shot thrown into the British\\ncamp during the siege by an American floating battery, but no\\nharm was done.\\nThe positions of the British defences and encampments on\\nthe Common during the winter of 1 775-70 were as follows\\nA small earthwork was thrown up at the northwest corner, a\\nlittle higher up than the present entrance on (Jharles Street\\nthis was designed for infantry, and held by a single company.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "328 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTIr little elevation lueiitioned by the name of Fox Hill was\\nnearly or (|uite .surroiunUHl by water at times, and was hence\\ncalletl the island on this was a small redoubt. At the south-\\nwest corner, at a point at high-water mark, now intersected\\nby Boylston Street extension, was another breastwork for\\ninfantry. South of this was a strong redoubt, which would be\\nbisected by Hollis Street, were it extended to the shore as it\\nthen existed one front faced Pleasant Street, while the other\\nwas along the then beach. This I ormed the lirst line, the\\nPleasant Street redoidjt and the battery at the foot of Beacon\\nStreet being on the Hanks.\\nOn the westerly slope of the hill overlooking the parade, and\\non which the monument is now situated, was a square redoubt,\\nbehind which lay encanijied a liattalion of infantry to the east,\\nand on a line with the easternmost point of the hill, were two\\nhalf-moons for small arms, with a second battalion in its rear.\\nAb(\u00c2\u00bbut opjiosite Carver Street, resting on the southwest corner\\n(jf the burial-ground, was a l)astioned work, directly across\\nBoylston Street. This was the second line. On the hill for-\\nmerly known as Flagstaff Hill, but now dedicated to the sol-\\ndiers monument, the artillery was parked, protected by intrench-\\nments. Immediately behind this hill, stretching from the\\nburial-ground across to Beacon Street Mall, were the camps of\\nthree battalions of infantry. Such were the dispositions to\\nprevent a landing liy the American forces under Washington.\\nNone of the works were f(irmitlal)le except the most southern,\\nwhich was connected with the lines on the Neck. The C ommon\\nwas an intrenched camp, with a regidar garrison of 1,750 men.\\nI lie remains of the Britisli works were visible until the be-\\nginning of the century. I have talked witli tliose wlio have\\nseen the holes made by the soldiers for tlieir kitchens, and the\\nditches on the hill where the nioniuiient now stands.\\nThe strength of the Ihatish ptxsition luay be inferred from\\nthe fact that Du oudray, an exj)erieuce(l French officer of\\nartillery, engaged liy our commissioners to command that arm\\nin our service, laughed long and lieartily on viewing from Bea-\\ncon Hill the works which the British had erected, and which\\ntliey hiid so precipitaleh abandoned.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 329\\nBehind the three-gun battery situated on Beacon Hill were a\\nnumber of ropewalks, Ijounding north on Myrtle Street, and\\noccupied in Kevolutionary times by Henderson Inches. This\\nwas the camp of the British Light Horse, wlio used the rope-\\nwalks as their stables, and the Old South as a riding-school.\\nJoy Street now passes through the site of these ropewalks.\\nTlio spur of Beacon Hill known as Mt. Vernon, and for which\\nthat street takes its name, was called Mt. Hoardam, and\\nJ\\\\It. Whoredom, a diti erence merely of orthography. We shall\\nsee that the military positions in and around tlie Common were\\npresided over by some distinguished personages.\\nIn May, 1 706, an act was passed erecting a Powder House in\\nthe town, and one was built on the hill near the Frog Pond.\\nThere was another pond on the (Common in early times called\\nthe Horse Pond, a stagnant pool of water long since filled up.\\nIt was situated a little to the southeast of old Flagstaff HiU,\\nand was connected by a ditch with the river across the ditch\\na little foot-bridge was thrown. A third pond, to the westward,\\nwas called Sheehan s, {V nii a man of that name hanged there.\\nThe Powder House referred to must not be confounded with\\nthe one at West Boston, a much larger and better-built\\nmagazine.\\nThe superficial features of the Common, except in the in-\\nstances pointed out, remain unchanged. It is true that the\\nMighty Flm, once undisputed monarch of all it surveyed,\\nno longer rears its hoary front, or ])uts forth its scanty ver-\\ndure as of old. Long had inci easing decrepitude presaged\\nits downfall, for it had battled with the gales of many a\\nwinter, and liad been shorn of its strength of limb hy the\\nstroke of many an icy blast. Yet like a giant it stood, ma-\\njestic in decay, until laid low by the great gale of February\\n15, 1876. Thousands flocked to the spot, eager to secure\\nsome relic of this brave (jld tree, now only a memory and a\\nregret.\\nThe brandies of the Did Elm, if we may believe tradition,\\nhad been adorned with strange fruit, such as Tristan L Hermite\\ndelighted to suspend from his master s forests. We know that", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0377.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "530\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAVilliain licihiiison and jNIai iuaduko Stevenson, convicted Quak-\\ners, were liung upon the Common. Mary Dyar was reprieved\\nafter her foot was on tlie fiital ladder, through the intercession of\\nher son, and escaped to meet a similar fate the next year. The\\nlifeless forms of JSIargaret Jones, of Anne IIil)l)ins, and perliaps\\nother victims of jutlicial murder, may have dcjx iidfd i rnm tln se\\nsame liiiilis during the reign of the witclicraft hni-rors. Tlif\\nremains of tli( s(; who sutVcrcd at tliis time wcrr triMtcil willi\\nstudied cruelty. Tlieir hodics were ri fus.Ml their friends, and\\neven the privilege^ of protecting tlicir })lare of sfpulture was\\ndenied.\\nTlie hest judges considered the age of this tree to have been\\nconsiderably more than two hundred and fifty years. It a\\\\)-\\npears to have exceeded tlie usual term of maturity allotted to\\nits species; Imt artilicial means, wiMi i^reat care for its pi eserva-\\nlion, liad no doulit eke(l out its existence. A terse hiograi)hy", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0378.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 331\\nof the tree is found on the entrance to the enclosure, placed\\ntliere by Mayor Smith, under whose direction the fence was\\nerected\\nTHE OLD ELM.\\nTliis tree has been standing here for an unknown period. It is\\nbelieved to have existed before tlie settlement of Boston\\nbeing full grown in 1722. Exliibited marks of\\nold age in 1792, and was nearly destroj ed\\nby a storm in 1832. Protected\\nby an Iron Enclosure\\nin 1854.\\nJ. V. C. Smitli, Mayor.\\nIt should be mentioned, however, that a traditioii has been\\ncurrent wliich assigns to Captain Daniel Henchman the same\\nwho commanded a company of foot from Boston, in King\\nPliilip s war, and was also captain of the Ancient and Honora-\\nble Artillery Company in 1676 the honor of planting the\\nGreat Elm, six years earlier. This, if true, would make the\\nelm more than two hundred years old. But the tree could\\nhardly have attained, in tifty-two years, to the size represented\\non the earliest plan of the town. It is also worthy of remark\\nthat the age of Liberty Tree, planted only sixteen years after\\nthe settlement, was deiinitely known and csiuljlislicd by the\\nSons of Liberty, while we nowhere meet with any contempo-\\nrary account of the planting of the Great Elm.\\nThe shooting of Matoonas, one of King Philii) s sagamores,\\nis chronicled in 1656. He was tied to a tree, perhaps this\\nvery elm, and met death with the stoical indifference of his\\nrace.\\nThere was, formerly, on the northerly side of the Great Elm,\\na, cavity large enough to serve as a hiding-place for boys. This\\nbeing fiUed with clay and covered with canvas, in process of\\ntime was closed up by the natural action of the tree. Known\\na hundred years ago as The Great Tree, and appearing full-\\ngrown a century and a half gone by, tliis venerable tree might,\\nwitliout dispute, liave claimed to be the oldest inliabitant.\\nAmong tlie events witli which tlie liistory of the Common is\\nconnected is the duel fought near tlie I owder House, July 3,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0379.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "332 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON\\n17 JiS, at between seven and ei^ht o clock in the evening. Both\\nthe (iinhatants were young men of the lir.st respeetaliihty\\ntheir names, Benjamin Woodliriilge and Henry l hini})s. They\\nfought with swords, the h)rmer being thrust through the body,\\nMdiik his adversary received some shght wounds. PhilHps was\\nhurric(l away on Ixiard the 8heerness man-of-war, then lying in\\nthe liarbor, by his Ijrother (Jillam I hillips, Peter Faneuil, and\\nsome others. Tlie body of the unfortunate Woodl)ridge was\\nfound the next morning lying near the scene of the alfray. ]\\\\Ir.\\n.Sargent, Ijetter known as the tSexton of the Old School, has\\ngiven some interesting details of this all air. Tlie Faneuils and\\nPhillilises were connected by marriage, which accounts for the\\nagency of Peter Faneuil in Henry Phillips s escape. Young\\nWoodln idge lies in the (.Jranary 15urying( Iround.\\nThis duel gave rise to a new law, which decreed that the\\noffender, upon conviction, should be carried publicly in a cart\\nto the gallows, ^vith a roj)e about his neck, and set on the gal-\\nlows an hour, then to be imprisoned twelve months without\\nbail. Any })ersou killed in a ihicl was denied Christian\\nBurial, and interreil near tlie usual place of pulilic execution\\nwith a stake drove througli the body. J )eatli was tlie jienalty\\nmeted out to the survivor with the same vindictive pursuit of\\nthe senseless remains.\\nWhen the I .ritisli troops were lirst stationed in the town,\\nthey had a hospital at the liottom of the ommon it took tire\\nand was nearly consumed in INlay, 17(i!*. There was also, at a\\nlater jieriod, a guard-house in the same locality.\\nPublic executions have occuri ed at the bottom of the Com-\\nmon, at or near the foot of Beacon Street, the criminals being\\nhastily buried in the loose gravel of the be;ich. So carelessly\\nwas this performed tliat an eyewitness relates that he has seen\\nthe corpse of one victim disinterred by the sea, with the mark\\n(^f the hangman s noose still visible.\\nThe Mill-Dam, or Western Avenue, now Beacon Street,\\nshows hardly a trace of its old character or purpose, it l)eiug\\nbordered in its whole extent- by residences. It was the greatest\\nundertaking in its day llostdu had witnessed; we may even", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0380.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "TOUK ROUND THE COMMON. 333\\ndoubt whether the far-seeing Mr. Cotting perceived it to be the\\nfirst step towards converting tlie Back Bay into terra firma.\\nTIic work was begun in 1818 by the Boston and Eoxl)Uty\\nMill Corporation, but jNlr. Cotting did not live to see its com-\\npletion, Colonel Loammi Baldwin succeeding him as engineer.\\nIn our Introduction we have given a very brief account of tliis\\nthoroughfare. Laborers were l.)rought from Ireland specially to\\nl)c employed on it, and it was openetl with due ceremony. A\\ncavalcade of citizens crossed from tlie Brookline shore, and were\\nreceived by the inhabitants on tlie Boston side.\\nMany recollect the entranci into tlie city of the Massachu-\\nsetts Volunteers after the Mexican war. They were almost\\nliterally in rags, and it Avas not until the charitable hands of\\nBoston ladies had sui)plied needful chitliing tliat the regiment\\nwas aT)le to march into town. Their appearance indicated little\\nof the })()mp and circumstance, Imt much of the hard usage\\nand bad rations, of glorious war.\\nWe may now pursue our way up the ascent of Beacon Street\\nand its neighboring mall. The exi)ense of this mall was de-\\nfrayed from a fund raised by subscription to erect fortiH( ations\\nduring the war of 1812, then remaining in the hands of the\\ntown officers.\\nHere aged trees catliedral walks compose,\\nAnd mount the hill in venerable rows.\\nThe name of Beacon Street was applied very early to that\\nportion north and east of the State House, and to the westerly\\npart before the Revolution. At this timc^ there were not nion;\\nthan three houses between Charles Street and the ujtpcr end\\nof the Common, the Joy house, when built, making the fourth.\\n1 lie rest of the hill was covered with small cedars and native\\nshrubbery, with here and there a cow-path, through which the\\nherds ranged unmolested.\\nThe home of Prescott, the eminent historian, was at 55\\nBeacon Street. A deeper interest attaches to the labors of the\\ngifted author on account of his partial blindness, caused by an\\ninjury to his eye while at Harvard. All eiforts both at hctme\\nand abroad failed to improve his sight, and his literary work had", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0381.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "334 LANDMAIIKS OF BOSTON.\\nio 1m pi iionni il with tlic ;ii(l nf an amanuensis, though he\\nOfcasiuiKilly wnitc with a styhis on a. writing-frame prejiared ex-\\niire.ssly for him. jS o library can 1)e railed complete that does\\nnot contain Ferdinand and Isidiella, The C oiKpiest of\\nMexico, rem, and Charles the Fifth. He died ])efore\\ncompleting his Philip II., which lie had intended to make his\\ngreatest work. Mr. Fivscnti was l-he grandson of the. old\\nsiildicr nf Louishurg and Jiuidver Hill, and hy a cnincidence\\nmarried a granddaughter of that Captain Linzee who com-\\nUKinded the FalcdU at the hatlle just named. He was a\\nI C. L. of (;)ld (Jxford, and niciuher of many of the learned\\nsocieties of Europe and America.\\nThe mansion of the late Daviil Sears, now a clul) house, is\\nrei:dere(l interesting as tlu^ site nl the home nf .Idhn S. nplcy,\\nthe distinguished Amei ica.n ]ia,intcr. Copley (.iwned the greatest\\nestate in I xiston, emhracing eleven acres, in which were included\\nthe rcsei ve(l six acres of lUaekstoue. Walnut Street wa.s the\\neastern Iniundary, Finckiicy Street its northern, and the hay its\\nwesterly limit. (!)n the nuilhwest corner of the tract stood the\\nnld I owder House to Avhich we have referred. It was built in\\n1774, remote from the ])osition of the former magazine near the\\n(ireat Tree, where it had been exposed to accidents on days of\\n]iublic rejoicing. The walls were of Braiutree granite, seven\\nfeet, thick, with l)umb-priiof arch. It was surrounded by 2\u00c2\u00bb;di-\\nsades, and was estimated to contain, wdien full, a thousand bar-\\nrels of powder. Near it was a watchdiouse.\\nopley was in a certain sense a ]iupil of Smihert, the works\\nof that artist having been his lirst studies. He married a\\ndaughter of iJichard Clarke, a rich merchant, and one nf the\\n(ibiioxious tea-consignees. The painter acted fur the consign-\\n(H s in one of the conferences with the town committee. The\\n(Jlarkes IkhI a store in King Street, and liAed in the Cooke\\nmansidu, ]ireviously described, iu School Street. The house\\nwas visited hy a nioh, and the Clarkes with the other con-\\nsignees retii-ed for safety t(.i the Castle.\\nIn the old two-story house which formerly stood here Cop-\\nley painted some of his best pictures, probably those of Han-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0382.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "A TOUK ROUND THE COMMON.\\n33^\\ncock and Adams among the number. Here also Charles W.\\nPeale, father of IJembrandt Peale, studied with Copley in\\n1708. In 1774, leaving his family in Boston, Cojjley went to\\nEngland, where he at once gained an advanced rank among the\\nTHE HEARS ESTATE.\\nBritish painters. His Death of Lord Chatham established his\\nfame, and his large picture of the Siege and Belief of (lil)raltar\\nwas hung in Guildhall, London. He died suddenly in 181.3.\\nDunlap relates that Copley s di^ath was thouglit to liave been\\nhastened by the following circumstance\\nSome American sjieculator who was acipiainted with the superb\\nsituation of Copley s liouse in Bostf)n, overlooking the l)eautiful\\ngreen and parade called the Common, made an offer to the painter\\nfor the purchase, which, in com])aris(iu to the value of property in\\nformer days m Boston, seenaMl i-iuinuous. Copley eagerly closed", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0383.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "33Pi LAND^^ARKR OF liOSTOX.\\nAviili liiin, and sold tlie judpeity lor a .soiiy coiiipured with its real\\nvalue. Shortly after, lie, learning it was worth twenty times the\\nmoney he had sold it for, tried to undo the hargain, and sent his\\nlawyer son to Boston for the purpose, Init it was too late.\\nThe. following is the true history of this transaction. When\\nColonel William Hull was in England, he bought of Copley all\\nhis tract of land west of the Beacon Hill. About the same\\ntime (Jardiner Greene, Copley s son-indaw and agent, sold the\\nsame property to Harrison Cray Otis and Jonathan Mason.\\nThe other claimants at length compromised with Colonel Hull,\\nand the conveyance was made by the younger Co] ley in 17 JG,\\nwhen he came to the TTnited States. The society of the future\\nChancellor of Great Pn-itain was mncli courted during his visit\\nto Boston and New ork. The elder Copley never returned to\\nhis native city.\\nTrumbull describes Coi)ley as an elegant looking man, dressed\\nin fine maroon cloth coat with gilt buttons. Besides being a\\njiainter, Copley was an engraver, having executed a portrait of\\nBev. William Welsteed of Boston. This knowledge seived him\\nin good stead in London. Cojiley, with West, was one of\\nTrumbull s siu-eties when the latter was thrown into prison in\\nLondon.\\nLord Lyndliurst said his father was liis own master, and\\nentirely devoted to his art to the last year of his life, and that\\nhe never saw a decent picture, except his own, until he was\\nthirty. Sully s opinion of Copley was that lie was e inal in\\nall respects but one to West he had not so great desjudeh, but\\nthen he was more correct, and did not so often rejieat him-\\nself.\\nTlie adverse criticism upon Copley s pictures Avas that they\\nAvere crude in coloring, and wanted ease and naturalness. His\\nhistorical paintings Avere a collection of ])oitrails without action,\\nbut his draperies were consi(lere(l ex([uisite. I r. Dilidiu con-\\nsidered his portraits admiridile, bid- too stitf and stately. A\\ncatalogue of the existing works of this eminent native artist\\nwas ])repared by Mr. Augustus T. Perkins of Boston.\\nGeneral Knox lived in the Copley House, after the war, for", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0384.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0385.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0386.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 337\\na short time. The old maiLsion frouted Beacon Street, and had\\nhne grounds and a stal)le attached.\\nDavid 8ears inherited a large fortune from his fother, and, go\\nwhere you wiU in Boston, you will find monuments of his\\nwealth and enterprise. He commanded the Cadets previous\\nto the war of 1812, as well as since that time. His mansion\\nwas long the admiration of the town. Some beautiful panels\\nin the front were executed by Willard.\\nHarrison Gray Otis erected a handsome residence next west\\nof the Sears estate Judge (yushing s adjoined it on the east,\\nand was the second of the three houses mentioned as consti-\\ntuting Beacon Street.\\nThe house standing at the corner of Walnut Street was the\\nfirst built of brick on Beacon Street. It was erected in 1804\\nby Hon. John Phillips, first Mayor of Boston, and father of\\nWendell Phillips, the celebrated antislavery orator of Boston.\\nHis maiden speech on this question was made in Faneuil Hall\\nin 1837, twenty -four years before the antagonism between the\\nNorth and South culminated in civil war. Unlike most re-\\nformers, he lived to see the triumpli of the great principles to\\nwhich he devoted the best years of his life. He also outlived\\nthe social ostracism to which his undeviating advocacy of\\nthose princij)les subjected him for years.\\nThis mansion, now considerably altered in its exterior ap-\\npearance, was next the residence of Thomas L. Winthrop,\\nlieutenant-governor of Massachusetts from 1826-32, wlio died\\nin 1841. He was father of tlie Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, who\\nlias been prominently connected with most of the societies for\\nthe advancement of science, art, and literature, and whose ser-\\nvices in many fields of usefulness are fully acknowledged by\\nhis fellow-citizens. Mr. Winthrop s mother was a daughter of\\nSir John Temple, and he was, tlierefore, by this marriage, a\\ngreat-grandson of Governor Bowdoin. The statue to Franklin,\\nin School Street, is the product of his suggestion and, at its\\ninauguration, he delivered an address on the life and character\\nof the great Bostonian worthy of the occasion.\\n15 V", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0387.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "338 LANDMAKKS OF JiOSTON.\\nOu tlic opposite corner of Walnut Street was the residence\\nof B. P. Homer, a liiglily resjiected niercliant. In tlie rear\\nof Mr. H( mer s, on Walnut Street, was the house in which\\nI)r. Creoi ge l*arknian livei] at the time of his nuirder l)y Web-\\nster in ISVJ.\\nJoy Street recalls the name and estate of Dr. John Joy, ex-\\ntending lietween this thoroughfare and Walnut Street, and\\nBeacon and ]\\\\It. Vernon Streets. Dr. Joy was an apothecary\\nin Washington Street, at the corner of Spring Lane. It is\\nrelated that liis wife was nuich averse to a rem(.)val so far out\\nof town as Beacon Street then was, and exacted a promise from\\nthe Doctor to return into the town at no distant day. In tliat\\nday a residtuice in Williams Court was considered far more\\neligiljle. The doctor huilt a wooden house on the hill hack\\nfrom Beacon Street, Avhich was ultimately removed to South\\nBoston I oint.\\nNext to the corner of Joy Street lived Sanuud T. Armstrong,\\nanother of Boston s chief magistrates, of whose improvement\\nof the Common we have recited several instances. He was the\\nson of the Eevolutioiiary soldier, John Armstrong. Mr. Arm-\\nstrong was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 183G. He\\nhad in former years Ijeeii a l:)ookseller in State Street, at the\\nC()rner of Flagg Alley, the firm l)eing Belcher and Armstrong,\\nand then at No. 50 in )ld Coridiill, the site of Paid Pevere s\\nslioj). This Adcinity took the name of Booksellers Pow, from\\nthe numl)er of that trade there congregated.\\nBefore you come to the grounds of the State House, two\\nfreestone residences attract your notice. These showy edihces\\nhave dispLu .ed one of the nolJest ])rivate mansions of the Colo-\\nnial perioil, huilt l)y Thomas Ilain ock in 1737, and given to\\nhis nephew, the governor, liy his aunt, Lydia Hancock. The\\nhouse long remained a unique feature of the .siu roundings of\\nthe Common, until it heeaiue too anti(piated for modern ideas,\\nand too valuable. The front of tlu; estate embraced from Mt.\\nVernon Street, given to the town by the governor, to Joy\\nStreet, formerly Clapboard, and since lj(dknap Street. All of\\ntlie original State House and pari of tlie new, including Han-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0388.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON.\\n339\\nK MANSION.\\ncock Avenue, Mt. Vernon Place, and a part of Hancock Strer t,\\nin which was situated\\nthe nursery, ])elongt(l\\nto the Hancocks. Tlie\\nsite of the State Hou^e\\nwas Hancock s pastun\\nand gardens and ii\\nchards surrounded this\\ntruly princely mansion\\nTlie building was (d\\nstone, built in the sul)\\nstantial manner favort d\\nby the wealthier Bos\\ntonians. The walls\\nwere massive. A bal\\ncony projected over the\\nentrance door, upon\\nAvhich opened a large window of tlu; second story. The cor-\\nners and window-openings were oi namented with Braintreii\\nstone, and the tiled roof was surmounted by a balustrad( Dor-\\nmer windows jutted out from the roof, from which might be\\nobtained a view as beautiful as extensive. A low stone wall\\nprotected the grounds from the street, on which was placed a\\nlight wooden fence, with gate-j)osts of Uu- sam\u00c2\u00ab material. A\\npaved walk and a dozen stone steps conducted to the mansion,\\nsituated on rising ground at a little distance back from the\\nstreet. Before the door was a wide stone slab, worn by the\\nfeet of the distinguished inhabitant and his illustrious guests.\\nA wooden hall, designed for festive occasions, sixty feet in\\nlength, was joined to the northern wing it was afterwards re-\\nmoved to Allen Street.\\nAs you entered the governor s mansion, to the right was the\\ndrawing or reception room, with furniture of bird s-eye maple cov-\\nered with rich damask. Out of this opened the dining-hall referred\\nto, in which Hancock gave the famous breakfast to Admiral D Estaing\\nand his officers. Opposite this was a smaller apartment, the usual\\ndining-hall of the ftnnily next adjoining were the china-room and\\noffices, with coach-house and barn behind.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0389.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": ";34() landmai;ks of boston.\\nAt tlic left of the entrance was a second saloon, or family draw-\\ning-room, the walls covered with crimson paper. The upper and\\nlower halls were hung with pictures of game, hunting-scenes, and\\nother subjects. Passing through this hall, another flight of steps led\\nthrough the garden to a small summer-house clijse to Mt. Vernon\\n.Street. The grounds were laid out in ornamental flower-beds bor-\\ndeied with liox box-trees of large size, with a great variety of\\nfruit, among which were several immense nuillierry-trees, dotted the\\ngarden.\\n8uch is the description given 1)V INIiss Kliza Jardner, many\\nyears an inmate of the Hancock House.\\nTlii.s Avas the house pillaged by the soldiers about the time\\nof the battle of Lexington, who also broke down and mutilated\\nthe fences, uutil, on complaint of the selectmen, General Gage\\nsent Percy to occu|)y it. It is also stated that in the previous\\nmonth of March Uritish olficers had set an example to the men\\nby harking the fences witli their swords, breaking windows,\\netc. A few days afterwards Hancock was again intruded ujion\\nby his red-coattul neighbors, who refused to retire from his\\npremises at his recjii^st, and mockingly told him liis possessions\\nwould soon be theirs.\\nAt this time lage bail an order from the king for Hancock s\\napprehension, l)ut he feared to meet the issue a second order\\ndirected him to hang the patriot. The wrath against Hancock\\nescapeil in a variety of ways moiv harmless. One of the eifu-\\nsions indited to the patriot reads thus\\nAs for their king, John Hancock,\\nAnd Adams, if they re taken,\\nTlieir lieads for signs shall hang np high\\nUpon that hill called Beacon.\\nTlie Hancock House became tlie rpiarters of (Jeneral linton\\nwdiile lie remained in Tioston lie tmik connnand at harles-\\ntown, Septemlier, 1775. Doth house and stables were in part\\noccupied by tlie wnunde(l liom ]hink r Hill. The house, how-\\never, received nu important injury during tlie occupation, the\\nfurniture sliowiug liut little signs of ill-usage, and the pictures\\nremaining untouched.\\nIn this bous(! Hancock had entertained D Estaing in 1778,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0390.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 341\\nLafayette in 1781, Washington in 1789, Brissot, chief of the\\nGirondists, and, in later times. Lords Stanley and Wortley, and\\nLabouchiere and Bougainville.\\nD Estaing rested under a cloud for his desertion of oiu forces\\nin Rhode Island, bixt was, nevertheless, hospitably entertained\\nby Hancock. About forty of the French officers dined every\\nday at the governor s table, for he was a generous host. On one\\noccasion an unusual number assembled to partake of the gov-\\nernor s viands, when, in the language of Madam Hancock, the\\nCommon was bedizened with lace. The cooks were driven to\\ndespair, and the exigency was only met ])y milking the cows on\\nthe Common. We do not learn whether this was acceptal)le to\\nthe owners of the cows. The Count re([uited the governor s\\nentertainments by a grand dinner on l)oard Ms ship. The\\ngovernor s lady, seated near lier host, was requested to pull a\\ncord, which was the signal for a discharge of all the guns of\\ntlie s(|uadron. The good dame conlesst d herself surpiiscd at\\nthis coup dc theatre.\\nBrissot was astonished to lind tlic governor in friendly con-\\nverse with a hatter (Nathaniel Bah-h). Balcli was a great\\nfavorite of tlie governor s. He was a fellow of infinite jest,\\nmajestic in appearance, benevolent, and (if sterling worth. His\\nwitticisms never failed to set tht^ tahh; in a roar. Loring\\nrelates that when Hancock liad occasion to go into the district\\nof Maine on an official visit, he was attended 1)y Hon. Azor\\nOrne of his council, and his old friend Balcli. Tlieir arrival\\nat Portsmoutli, N. H., was tlius humiimusly announced\\nOn Thursday last, arrived in this ti wn, Nathaniel Balch, Esq.,\\nacconqjanied by His Excellency John Hancock, and the Hon. Azor\\nOrne.\\nWlien Hancock was dying he called his old friend Baldi to\\nhis bedside, and dictated to him tlie minutes of his will, in\\nwhich he expressly gave his mansion-house* to the Common-\\nwealth. r)eath intervened before this intention couhl be carried\\nout.\\nA strong effcn-t was made to save this old New England mon-\\nument, but without avail. It was proposed by Governor Banks,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0391.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "342 LANDiMAIiKS UF BOSTON.\\nin 1859, that the Commoinvcaltli slioukl purchase it, and the\\nlicirs ollered it at a low vahiatiun. A joint committee of the\\n].(\\\\L!,islatui e reported favoraldy ii})on the measure, but it niet\\nwith strong opposition from the rural districts, and was defeated.\\nSuggestions were ottered to make it the residence of the gov-\\nernors, or a museum for the collection of Iievolutionary relics.\\nThe house was in excellent preservation, the interior wood-work\\nbeing sound as when the halls echoed to the tread of the old\\ngdvernoi The chamber (if Lafayette remained as Avhen he\\nslept in it the apartment in which Hancock died was intact;\\nthe audience hall was the same in which Washington, D Estaing,\\nBrissot, the Percy, and many more had stood and, finally, the\\nentrance-hall, in which for eight days the dead patriot lay in\\nstate, ojiened upon tin- liroad staircase as in the time of old\\nThomas and Lydia Hancock.\\nState action tliiling, smne etforts wer made by the city, in\\n1863, to secure tlie iclics i)f tlie building itself. The heirs\\noffered the mansii\u00c2\u00bbn, with the piitures and some other objects\\nf)f histnrical interest, as a free gift, with the design of preserv-\\ning it as a memento of Colonial and Iievolutionary history. It\\nwas i)roposed to take it down and erect it anew on some other\\nsite. Few will regret that such an historical anachronism was\\nnot committed. The buildiii.u was pulled down, and with it\\ndisappeared the oidy uioiimiieiit to the memory of John Han-\\ncock, until one was iccently erected in the (Granary Oround.\\nGovernor Hancock entered the Latin School in 1745. He\\nwent to England when ipiite young, where he witnessed the\\ncoronation of the monarch Avho afterwards set a price upon his\\nhead. President of the Provincial Congress in 1774, of the\\n(Jontinental C ongress in 1776, he first affixed his bold auto-\\ngraph to the Declaration of Independence, and it thus circu-\\nlated upon the floor of Congress. We find him acting as\\nmoderator at a town-meeting in 1778, the same year he was\\na]i])ointed major-general of the Massachusetts militia. We have\\nseen him ])residing over ami directing the action of the conven-\\ntion which ratified the Federal Constitution, and at the peace,\\nthe choice of the people of his native State as their chief", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0392.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0393.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0394.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "A TOUR HOUND THE COMMON. 343\\nmagistrate. Hancock died sincerely regretted. If lie had some\\nconsi)icuous faults, tliey were more than counterbalanced by his\\nmany noble quahties.\\nHancock was tall, nearly six feet, and thin. In later years\\nlie stooped a little, and was a martyr to the gout. In his attire\\nhe was a type of the fine gentleman of his day, a scarlet coat,\\nI icldy embroidered, Avith rutHes of the finest linen, being his\\nun Unary dress.\\nWe give herewith a fac-simile of the; nuicli-admired auto-\\ngraph of Governor Hancock ai)peuded to a ticket of the lottery\\nauthorized by law fir the rebuilding of Faneuil Hall after the\\nfire of 17G1. The euLiraviuL: is of the exact size of the original.\\nBoston June 1765.\\nFaneuil U^W LOTTERY, No. five.\\n^-T HE Poffeffor of this Ticket (No 3^^S^\\nA intitlcd to aojr Prize drawn againll faid\\nNumber, io a Lottery granted by an Af of\\nthcGcncralCourt of the Prortnce of xhciVaftchufetti-\\nBay, for Rcbsilding FANEUit-HALt fubjcf^ to bo\\nFANEriL HAM. I.OTTEnV TirKF.T.\\nWe have reached the higliest puiiit nf the city, and can\\nleisurely contemplate the immeii.se pile oC the State lloii. ^e,\\nwith its glistening dome, whieh fitly ei owus the view of Ijhs-\\nton as you approach by land or water. It is am it her mnnument\\nto the genius of Charles r)ultinch, liy win mi it was designed.\\nWere we to ascend to tlu cupola we should see a panorama\\nspread before us wiiich even the famed Xeapolitan seaport can\\nhardly surpass. But of Old lioston, as it stood when the first\\nLegislature assembled in the Capitol, we slundd find but little\\nleft. Even the Capitol itself is nmrh changed.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0395.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "344 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nDr. Holmes has said in his Autocrat,\\nliostoii State House is the huh of tlie sohir system. You\\ncould ii t pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tii e of all\\ncreation straightened for a crowhar.\\nThis expression thus ai)plie(l only to the State House, but\\nsince niodilied into the Hul) of the Universe, is now gi^ner-\\nally used in connection with Boston itself, until the Bostonian\\nabroad has become familiar and even content with hearing\\nhis native or adopted city styled the Hub from Maine to\\nCalifornia.\\nThe State House tract was jxissed ])y the town to the Com-\\nmonwealth in 1795 the nominal consideratioii was five sliil-\\nlings. Samuel Adams laid the corner-stone July 4 of the\\nsame year, dedicating it forever to liberty and the rights of\\nman. In 1798 it was completed, and occujjied ])y the legisla-\\nture, Increase Sumner l)eing then governor. The building re-\\nceived enlargement in 1855, which cost considerajjly mon^ than\\nthe original edifice.\\nThe adornment of our public grounds with statues of dis-\\ntinguished men is becoming a feature of Boston. Washington,\\nFranklin, Adams, Webster, Mann, Everett, Hamilton, and the\\ndiscoverer of America have effigies in bronze or marble in their\\nhonor. Tlie Army and Navy Monument on the Common, dedi-\\ncated September 17, 1877, is the work of Martin Milmore.\\nA copy in plaster of Houdon s Washington, at Richmond,\\nVa., is in the vestibule of the Athena um, as is also a jilaster\\nmodel of the statue of Bowditch by Ball Hughfs. The ligure\\nof the Saviour on the ai)ex of the pediment of the Church of\\nthe Immaculate Conception is a cojiy from Thorwaldsen. The\\nAristides and Columlms in Louislnirg Square are specimens\\nof Italian art, and were imported by Mr. lasigi. The statue\\nof Hamilton in granite in Commonwealth Avenue is by Dr.\\nIiiuimcr, and is believed to have been the first in tht^ country\\n(;ut from that material. There are also three typical figures in\\ngranite on the front of Horticultural Hall, rejiresenting Flora,\\n(Vres, and Pomona. These are by ]Milmore.\\nThe bronze statue of Webster in the State House grounds is", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0396.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 345\\nby Powers. It was tlie second executed by the artist, the first\\nbemg lost at sea while en route from Leghorn. The work\\nhardly fulfilled the expectations of Mr. Webster s admirers, or\\nthe hopes founded on the high reputation of the sculptor. It\\nwas first jjlaced in the vestibule of the Athenaeum, until removed\\nto its present position by consent of the Legislature.\\nThe statue of Horace Mann was cast in Munich, and is the\\nwork of Miss Steblnns. The fund was raised by the contri-\\nbutions of school-children and teachers throughout the State.\\nThe State paid for the pedestal.\\nIn the vestibule are the statues of Governor Andrew and\\n(if Washington. Tlie latter was placed in the State House in\\n1827, and is by Sir F. Chantrey. The idea originated with\\ngentlemen of Boston who liail been associated witli Washing-\\nton in public life. They organized under the name of the\\nWashington Mdiminent Association, and tirst intended to erect\\nan equestrian statue, a purpose which want of sutHcicnt funds\\nobliged them to abandon.\\nWe give the interior arrangement of the old halls, as they ex-\\nisted before the remodelling of this building, ahundred years after\\nits erection, and so fortunately preserved from threatened demoli-\\ntion when the palatial addition was built on the Reservoir site.\\nThe torn and battle-stained colors of the Massachusetts\\nregiments are liere gathered in the keeping of the Common-\\nwealth. In life. Governor Amlrew presented most of these\\nHags; his statue is tlieir appropriate guanlian.\\nIn the lower lialls were also placed the tablets from the mon-\\nument formerly on the summit of Beacon Hill. They are four\\nfeet four inches long, and three feet three inclies wide. The\\ngilt eagle which perched upon tlic top of the column found a\\nplace over the Speaker s chair, in the Hall of Representatives.\\nA rpi\u00c2\u00bbuted bust of Samuel Adams stood in a niche in the wall\\nand the alcove in which stands the Chantrey statue was flanked\\nby two brass cannon consecrated to the valor of Isaac Davis\\nand John Buttrick, two heroes of the battle of Lexington.\\nOn the 2Gth of August, 1824, Lafayette received the citizens\\nof Boston in the lower hall and on the next day a second\\n15*", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0397.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "34G LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nreception was given by the distinguislied Frenchman. No\\ngreater crowds ever thronged to do homage to any visitor in\\nthe lialls of tlie Ca]iitoL n tliis occasion tlie national stand-\\nard was displayed for the lirst time from the cupola.\\nWhen the (leneral was again in Boston in 182; to assist at\\nthe laying of the corner-stone of Unnker Hill Monument, the\\nLegislature resolved to invite him to meet it iu the Hall of\\nJiepresentatives, and reipiested ex-(!overnor Lincoln to address\\nhim on the occasion. I lie (leneral was received by both\\nhouses in joint convention on the IGth of June, Governor\\nLincoln in the Speakci- s chair. Among the distinguished guests\\nwas Mr. Larbour, United States Secretary of War.\\nIn the old Senate Chand)er ar(^ jiortraits of thi old Colonial\\ngovernors Kmlicott, Winthrop, Leverett, ihadstreet, and Lur-\\nnet. A hue ])ortrait of lovernor Sunniei presented by (leneral\\nW. 11. Suninei hung above Pivsident s chair. There are\\nalso ortraits of Fi ancis lligginsun, first minister of Salem,\\nami nf Lieidenant-Oovernor Lill.\\n)n the front of the gallery are some interesting relics of the\\nliattle of Ijenningtnn. presented by ieneral John Stark. They\\nare a musket, drum, a heavy trooper s s\\\\V(_ird, and grenadier s\\nca[) with the curious conical brass pLite, on which, as well as\\ntlic lirass plate of the drum, is embo.ssed the emblematic horse\\nof the l)uchy of Westphalia.\\nUnderneath is the letter of acceptance Avritten by order of\\ntlie (ieneral Assemljly, and signed by Jeremiah Powell, Presi-\\ndent of the ounciL\\nBesides these are two old firelocks, be(pieathed to the State\\nby Kev. Theod(n-e Parker. )ne of them has the maker s name\\non tlie lock-plate, Jrice, 17() J, and an iuscrijition on the butt\\nas f(- llows\\nTlip First Fiiv Arm,\\naptiiri d ill the\\nWar I d- iii(lr|irii(lcnce.\\nThe otlier is more anti(piatc(l in appearance. Tt has the donor s\\nname on the lock-plate, and an inscrijition on the breecli which\\nreads,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0398.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON.\\n347\\nTliis Firearm was iisecl by\\nCapt Joliii Parker\\nill tlie Battle of Lexington\\nApril 19tli\\n1775.\\nIn connection witli the State House we present an en-\\ngraving of the desk, long used in tlie Ohl State House by\\nsuccessive speakei S of the House (if Representatives. (Ju the\\nremoval of the Legislature fnmi\\ntheir time-honored place of meet-\\ni]ig, this desk was deemed too an-\\ntiquated for further service. It\\nis now one of the interesting me-\\nmorials of the colony in the keep-\\ning of the Historical Society. Tlie\\nchair is a relic of Plymouth Col-\\nony, having belonged to (rovernor\\nEdward Winslow, and is also de-\\nposited with the same socifity.\\nLet us conti ast for a moment\\nthe spacious halls of legislation and conveniences of the New\\nState House with the confined limits of the )ld, and let John\\nAdams describe the famous Council Chamber of the latter as\\nhe saw it in 1768.\\nThe same glorious portraits of King Charles II. and King\\nJames II., to which might be added, and should be added, little\\nmiserable likenesses of Governor Winthroj), (iovernor Bradstreet,\\nGovernor Endicott, and Governor Belcher, liiui^ up in obscure\\ncorners of the room. Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson, C ommander-\\nin-Chief in the absence of the Governor, must be placed at the head\\nof the council table. Lieutenant-Colonel Dalrvmple, Commander-\\nin-Chief of his Majesty s inilitaiy forces, taking rank of all his\\nI\\\\Iajesty s counsellors, must be seated l y the side of the Lieutenant-\\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the province. Eight-and-\\ntwenty counsellors must be painted, all seated at the council-board.\\nLet me see, what costume What was the fashion of that day in\\nthe month of March Large white wigs, English scarlet cloth\\ncloaks, some of them with gold-laced hats, not on their heads, in-\\ndeed, m so august a presence, but on a table before them. Before\\nSPEAKER S t)ESK, AND WINSLOW S CHAIE.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0399.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "348 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nthese illustrious personages appeared Samuel Adams, a member of\\nthe House of Representatives, and their clerk, now at the head of\\ntlje great assembly at the Old South Church. Thucydides, Livy,\\nor Sail list would make a sjieech for him, or jieiha^JS the Italian\\nBotta, if he had known anytliing of this transactidii, one nf tlie most\\nimportant of the RevDlution liut I am wliolly incapable of it\\nand if I had vanity enough to think myself capable of it, slu uld not\\ndare to attempt it.\\nThe portrait.s referred to by the venerable writer wt-re full\\nlengths, attril)ute(l tn Vandyke, but evidently erroneously, as\\nthese monarchs were minors when Vandyke died. r()\\\\ernor\\nPownall, in wliose time they were sent over, placed tliem in\\nsome obscure corner, where tliey remained uidil (Idvernor\\nBernard discovered and im united them in elegant frames, and\\nhung tliem in the Council Chamber.\\nIn the State Library was a fine original portrait of General\\nGage, presentetl to tlie State by General W. H. Sumner,\\nbetween whom and the JJritish general s wife it will be re-\\nmembered a relationship existetl. Tlie last of the royal\\ngovernors is now restored to fellowship with his illustrious\\npredecessors.\\nSuspended from the ceiling of the Kepresentatives Cliainber\\nis the ancient symbol of Mas.sacliu.setts, the codtisli, which lias\\nbeen a greater source of wealth than the mines of California.\\nThe same hsli, wliich the reader may see upon one of the\\ncolony stamps we have represented in a previous chapter, hung\\nin the old hall in State Street, but was taken down, and was\\nnot restored until after tlie peace, when, on the motion of John\\nHowe, it was again displayed before the assembled wisdom of\\nthe Commonwealth.\\n(_)ther evidence that the much maligned codfish was the\\naccepted olUcial emblem of jNIassachusetts, in bygone days, is\\nfound in the fact stated by Golden that, at a conference held\\nwith the Five Xations at The Oneida Castle, in 1690, New\\nKngland, which the Indians call Kinshon, a fish, sent the\\nwooden niodcd of a codlisli, as a token of its adherence to the\\ngeneral Covenant. Tin s fish was banded round among the\\nsachems, ;nid then laid aside to be put up. On anotlier occa-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0400.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "A TOUR EOUND THE COMMON.\\n349\\nsion 3000 of codfish was sent to England as a present to\\nthe king from the General Court, hoping thus to win a mon-\\narch s favor I)y liook or hy crook.\\nThe summit of Beacon Hill, on which stood the ancient\\nPharos of Boston, is intersected by Temple Street, named for\\nSir John Temple, who married a daughter of Governor Bowdoin.\\nA portion of the elevation comes within\\nthe Iieservoir site, and the houses south\\nof it. The tract owned by the town\\nwas only six rods square, with a way\\nof thirty feet leading to it. I his w^as\\nsold to John llancuck and Samuel\\nSpear in 1811, when the action of the\\nabutters in digging down the hill ren-\\ndered it untenable. On the top of this\\ngrassy mound Avas erected the Beacon,\\nshowni in all the early plans of the town.\\nIt was a tall mast standing on cross tim-\\nbers placed iipon a stone foundation,\\nand supported by braces. Treenails were\\ndriven through the mast by which it was\\nascended and near the top projected a\\ncrane of iron sixty-five feet from tlie l)as(%\\nupon which was suspended an iron skeh;-\\nton frame, designed to receive a T)arrel (if\\ntar, or other combu.stibles. This I ecep-\\ntacle was placed at an altitude of nioi-e\\nthan two hundred feet from the sea level, bfia. on.\\nand coidd be seen, when fired, for a great distance inland. Its\\nobject was to alarm the country in case of invasion. This\\nbeacon was erected about 1G.3-I-35, ilu^ town having ordered\\nit set up on Gentry Hill in this year, with a watcli of one\\n])erson, to give the signal on the approach of danger. It was\\nnewly erected in 1768, having flxllen from some cause un-\\nknown. In Novemlier, 1789, the beacon was blown down.\\nFollowing the primitive signal spar, a monument of brick,\\nsixty feet in height and four in diameter, was erected, in 1 790,\\n:-=es =fc- 3i2", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0401.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "350\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nconnuc Uiorating the events tif the lievolution. Charles Bul-\\niiiich was the designer. It was a plain Doric shaft, raised\\non a pedestal of stone and brick, eight\\nfeet high. The outside was encrusted\\nwitli ceincnt and on the top was a\\nlargi gildt d eagle of wood, supporting\\nthe American Arms. After the fall of\\nthe old beacon, Ciuvernor Hancock of-\\nfered to erect another at his own cost,\\nbut tlie movement for an obelisk being\\nah cady on foot, the proposal was with-\\ndrawn, and the selectmen proeeeded to\\nlay out the hill for the monument. The\\nmonument was taken doAvn and the\\nliill Icvfllcil iu 1811. It stood very\\nnear the soutlieast corner of the Reser-\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oir, TVnn])le Street passing directly\\nover its i)08iti(ni. The earth Avhich\\nInrnied the c(ine was deposited in the\\n]\\\\rillpond, making a future foundation\\n__ fur the Lowi ll and Eastern Eailroad\\nstatidus. Tlic tablets of slate l)ear m-\\nscriptioiis written l)y the architect,\\nCharles ISulhnch, as follows\\nON THK SOUTH SU^E.\\nTo Commemorate\\nthe train of events\\nwhich led\\nto tlie American Revolution\\nand finally secured\\nLiberty and Indeijenilencc\\nto the United States,\\nthis column is erecte l\\nby tlie voluntary contiibutious\\nof the citizens\\nof Boston\\nM.D.CCXC.\\nON THE EAST SIDE.\\nAmericans\\nWhile from this eminence\\nScenes of luxuriant fertility\\nof flourishing commerce\\n;ui l the abodes of social happiness\\nmeet your view,\\nForget not those\\nwho by their exertions\\nHave secured to you\\nthese blessiiiLTs.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0402.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "A TOUR HOUND THE COMMON. 351\\nON THK WliST SIDK.\\nStamji Act passed 1765. Repealed 176(j.\\nBoard of Customs established, 1767\\nBritish troops fired on the iidiabitauts of Boston,\\nMarch 5, 1770\\nTea Act jiasscd 1773. Tea destroyed in Boston, Di (enil)er 16.\\nI ort of Boston shut and guarded June 1, 1774.\\nGeneral Congress at Philadelphia Sept. 5\\nBattle at Lexington, Ai ril 19, 1775.\\nBattle at Bunker Hill, June 17.\\nWashington took conmiand of tlie army July 2.\\nBoston evacuated, March 17, 1776.\\nIndependence declared liy Congress^\\nHancock President, July 4.\\nON THK NORTH SIDE.\\nCapture of the Hessians at Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776\\nCaptiiro of the Hessians at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777\\nCapture of tlie Britisli army at Saratoga, Oct. 17.\\nAlliance with France Feb. 6, 1778.\\nConfederation ol the United States formed,\\nBowdiiin President of Convention, 1780.\\nCapture of tlu; British army at York, Oct. 19, 1781\\nPrelinunaries of Peace Nov. 30, 1782\\nDefinitive Treaty of Peace Sept. 10, 1783\\nFederal Constitution formed, Sejit. 17, 1787\\nAnd Ratified by the United States, 1787 to 1790.\\nNew Congress assembled at New York, A])ril 6, 1790.\\nWashington inaugurated President, April 30.\\nPublic Debt fuiide.l, August 4, 1790.\\nThe base of the iiioiuiiiicnt was eiiddsed by a railing, with\\nbenches for the use of pilgi inis to the spot. A view, equalled\\nonly by that now to be obtained i n ni the lautcni of the State\\nHouse, well rei)aid a l)r(^athless sc raiuble up the steep acclivit}\\nOn the Derne Street side a flight of Avooden steps conducted\\npart way up the eminence, but, after thai, the explorer had to\\navail himself of the f lot-holes worn by other visitors, until he\\nreached a space fifty feet square on the summit. On all sides,\\nexcept the north, the contour of the gi ouud was perfect; there\\nit had been encroached upon, in 17 U, to a degree endangering\\nthe elevation by one Thomas Tlodson. The town, by a com-\\nmittee, remonstrated witli Tbxlson, but to no j)urpo.se, although\\nThomas Ifancock and James Otis, Esqrs., were of the delegation.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0403.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "352 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nTlif ((intiimaciitus Hoils(tn persisted in diLjging gravel nn liis lot,\\naiul the eomiiiittee were obliged to content themselves with a\\nrecommendation to employ tlie intervention of the General Court.\\nNo account ajijicars that the original beacoii was ever used,\\nbut when the troops were momentarily expected in 1768, the\\nBostonians prejjared it for tiring, to gi\\\\ e the intelligence to the\\ncountry. Gdvernor ilcrnard waxed very wroth at this presuni])-\\ntion, and sent Shcriti (ireenleaf to remove the tar-ljai rel wliich\\nthe Sdus (if Lilierty had placed in the skillet. Matters nnw,\\nwrote the governor, exceeded all fm nier exceedings.\\nIn 186.5 the Legislature authorized the relmilding of Beacon\\nHill .Mdiiument by the Bunker Hill iMnuunicnt Association,\\nthey to receive the tablets now in the custody of the Common-\\nwealth. To Mr. R. C. Wintliroji is said to belong the credit\\nof the suggestion, since carried out to completion.\\nMt. Vernon Street was formerly called Sumner Street as far\\nas Belknap Ix-yond this it was Olive Street. Tlie whole was\\nthen called Sumner, and, in 1833, l)y its present name. Han-\\ncock was Geiu-ge Street I5ciwdoin, like Hancock, named for the\\ngovernor, was first ^liddlecott Street. As early as 1722 only\\na narrow pathway prolonged Beacon Street across the Hantxick\\npasture, around the })ase of Beacim HUl. To this the name of\\nDavie s Lane was given. Beacon Street then terminated at the\\nAlmshouse.\\nBesides the ropewalks mentioneil west of Hancock Street,\\nthere was one east of it, which liecame the property of the\\nState by purchase. This ropewalk-site now forms the westerly\\nside of tlie State House. A long rojiewalk, coinciding nearly\\nwitli the line of doy Street, is upon tlie earliest map rope-\\nmaking was an iinporlant industry of Old Boston, especially\\nof the westerly portion of it.\\nSucceeding to the old gamlnvl-rooied .Vlmshouse came the\\nstately edilice at the corner of Park and liearon Streets, chiefly\\nremarkable as having been the house in which Lafayette so-\\njourned during his visit to Boston in l^ 2i. It was erected by\\nThomas Araory, before 1 800, for his residence, its site conmianding\\na beautiful view of the Common, but was later divided into four", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0404.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON.\\n353\\ndwellings. In part of this mansion resided Christopher Gore,\\nduring the year he was governor of Massachusetts. Fisher\\nAmes, who died July 4, 1808, was buried from this house.\\nThe funeral services took place at King s Chapel. Hon. Sam-\\nuel Dexter pro-\\nnounced his eu- ^_\\nlogy. It Avas\\nlater tenanted\\nby George Tic-k-\\nnor, the distin-\\nguished scholar,\\none of the found-\\ners of the Public\\nLibrary, and au-\\nthor of the His-\\ntory of Spanish\\nLiterature.\\nBefore the di-\\nvision of the\\nbuilding, it was kept as a fashionable boarding-house by Mrs.\\nCarter, until she removed to the present Howard Street. These\\nIxiarding-houses were, before the erection of the Tremont House,\\nthe resort of strangers visiting Boston.\\nEdward G. Malbone, the celebrated portrait-paibter, had his\\nstudio there. He accompanied Allston to Europe, and was\\nurged by West to remain, but preferred returning to the United\\nStates. Malbone excelled in niiniaturi -painting.\\nSamuel Dexter was a resident in that part of the house front-\\ning on Beacon Street. A Bostoniaii and a Harvard man, ]\\\\Ir.\\nDexter was one of the greatest lawyers Massachusetts ever had.\\nJudge Story said of him that he never descended to finesse or\\ncunning before a jury Webster, that his statements were argu-\\nments. He served in both houses of Congress in the upper\\nbranch during the excitmg times of the troubles with the French\\nRepublic. He was successively Secretary of War and of the\\nTreasury, under ]\\\\Ir. Adams, and for a time acting Secretary of\\nState. In politics Mr. Dexter was a stanch Federalist, but sup-\\nLAFAVF.TTK", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0405.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "354 LANDMAKKS OV BUSJON.\\nported tlic \\\\v;ir uf 1812. lie was iir.st president of the first\\ntemperance society fornied in Massaclinsetts. The accompKshed\\nscholar, Lucins M. Sargent, studied law with Mr. Dexter.\\nAfter Mr. Dexter, the building Avas used not too success-\\nfully as a clubdiouse. It was rented by Mr. Quincy, when\\nnia.) (ir of Boston, for the use of Lafayette, during the week ho\\nwas the guest (_\u00c2\u00bbf the city.\\nLafayette, in (jrder t(j redeem his pledge to be in Boston at a\\nstated time, had to ride forty miles at night, arriving at Declham\\nat- luidniglit. His m( eting with Governor Eustis, with whom\\nhe had been acquainted in the old lievolutionary army, was ex-\\ntremely interesting, the governor exclaiming, I am the hap-\\npiest man that ever lived.\\nLlie General was escorted from the residence of fJovernor\\nEustis, in ]tOxl)ury, into town, l)y a cavalcade which conducted\\nhim to the city limits, where he was received by the city au-\\nthorities. He proceeded, under a military escort, to the head\\nof the mall on Tremont Street, where the scholars of the public\\nschools were drawn up to receive him. All accounts agree that\\non no occasion were there ever so many people in Boston before.\\nAfter paying his respects to the governor and Council in the\\nSenate Chamber, the General was conveyed to his lodgings. A\\nhandsome arch was thrown over Washington Street, at the site\\nof tlie old fortifications, Avitli this inscription written on the\\nspur of the moment the day previous l)y the poet Sprague\\nWelcome, Lafa.yi tte\\nThe fathers in glory shall sleep,\\nThat gathered with thee to the liglit,\\nBut the sons will eternally keep\\nThe tablet of gratitude liright.\\nWe how not the neck, and we bend not the knee\\nBut our hearts, Lafayette, we surrender to thee.\\nAnother arch was erected on the site of the Old Liljerty\\nStump, opposite Boylston Market. Lafayette rode, uncovered,\\nin the barouche witli Mr. Quincy, l)owing incessantly to the\\nmultitudes that presseil around him. A scene of great interest\\noccurred when the General appeared on tlie balcony of the man-\\nsion he was to occupy. On either side of him were Governor", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0406.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "A TOUR KOUND THE COMMON. 355\\nEustis and ex-Governor Brooks, clad in their old Continental\\nuniforms. These two, brothers in arms, had ])uried an old\\nanimosity to greet the iioble Frenchman, a circumstance\\nknown to and applauded by many. The Boston Regiment,\\nwhicli had escorted the General, passed in review and, amid\\nthe cheers of thousands of spectators, the General and his dis-\\ntinguislied comj)anions withdrew.\\nA dinner was given to Lafayette at the Exchange Coffee\\nHouse on the 27th, at which, after the company had partaken\\nof an elegant repast provided by Colonel Hamilton, the General\\ngave the following toast\\nThe city of Boston, the cradle of Liljerty may Faneuil Hall\\never stand a monument to teach the world that resistance to oppres-\\nsion is a duty, and will, under true republican institutions, l)ecome\\na blessing.\\nThe General made a visit to the battle-ground of Bunker\\nHill, also to the Navy Yard, where he Avas welcomed by Com-\\nmodore Bainbridge. He passed an evening at Mrs. Lloyd s,\\nlady of Senator Lloyd, at their residence in Homerset Street.\\nHe also visited Governor luistis at Roxbury, and Governor\\nBrooks at jVIedford, where, in allusion to the ex-governor, an\\narch was erected near the meeting-house with the inscrip-\\ntion\\nGeneral Lafayette,\\nWelcome to oxu- hills and Brooks.\\nHe attended divine si^rvice on Sunday at Brattle Street,\\nwhere he heard Dr. Palfrey, and in the aftern(jon went to\\nQuincy to dine with the veneralde John Adams. That was\\nnot the John Adams I remember, said the General, sadly, after-\\nwards. That was not the Lafayette I remember, said the\\npatriarch after the meeting.* Both had changed, the ex- Presi-\\ndent was verging on ninety, and the General sixty-seven Mr.\\nAdams died in 182G, Lafayette in 1834.\\nOn Monday, August 30, a grand military review took place\\non the Common. The troops were under the command of\\nMajor-General Crane. The Cadets escorted General Lafeyette\\nfrom liis lodgings to the State House, thence to the Co mm on,\\nLife of Qiiincy,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0407.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "onG LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nwliiTc tlic ^ovcrnoi and ntlicr officers of the Cnmmonwealth\\nwere asseiutiled. Aliout .six thousand troops took part in the\\nreview, Generals Lyiuan and Appleton commanding brigades.\\nDinner was served in an immense man^uee, to which more than\\ntwelve liundred guests sat (h)wn. In tlie evening the General\\ngave a levee at his residence which was thronged liy all classes,\\ntlie Maripiis ])estowing particular attention on every individua?\\nof humlde appearance or advanced age.\\nLafayette enjoyed Ins visit to Boston liighly. He was clieered\\nto the echo whenever he went a.l)road, and tlie corner of Park\\nStreet was sel(h)m deserted. (_)n(^ day, Avhen he returned from\\nsome excursion with the mayor, there was a great crowd to see\\nhiiu alight. He turned to the mayor and said, Mr. Quincy,\\nwere you ever in Europe? No, General. Then, said\\nLaf lyette, you cannot understand the difference l)etween a\\ncrowd in EurojJC and here in Bt)ston why, I should imagine\\nthe ]ieoph f your city were a picked popidation out of the\\nwhole human race.\\nGeneral Lafayette s first visit t(i Pxtston was in 1778, with\\nD Estaing. He was next liere in r7S0, when he returned from\\na trip to France, where he hail been to transact some business.\\nHe remend^ered perfectly the persons who had received him on\\nthat occasion, when he landed from the frigate Hermione at\\nHancock s wharf, and whom he had visited. On his second\\nvisit lie was accompanied by his son and by M. Levasseur. The\\npeo[)le of America will not soon forget their generous and gal-\\nlant ally, who asked pernnssion to serve as a volunteer in the\\nAmerican army. Brandywine, where he was Avounded, and the\\ntrenidies of Yorktown, alike attest his valor. He has no monu-\\nment but ])a])er, oven more duralde than marlde, furnishes\\nus with records like this\\nHead-cpiarters Oct. 15th, 1781.\\nFor to-morrow.\\nM. G. ]\\\\I. La Fayette,\\nB. G. Muhleid)urK and\\nHaynes l)rigade.\\nMai. en. La Favette s division will mount the trenches to-moiTOW.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0408.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "A TOUR ROUND THE COMMON. 357\\nIt was at Yorktown that the Manjuis, with his American\\nLight Division, stunned the enemy s river-battery, while Baron\\nViomenil, witli the Frencli gi enadiers and chasseurs, assauUed\\nanother important work on tlie extreme left. The Americans,\\nwith the Man^uis at their head, succeeded in capturing their\\nredoubt first, when Lafayette sent liis aid, Major Barbour, to\\nthe Baron with the message, I am iii my redoubt where are\\nyoul The Baron, who was waiting for his men to clear away\\nthe abattis, returned answer, I am not in mine, but will be in\\nfive minutes. A touehing incident of his visit connected with\\nthis exploit is related by Mr. (^uiney\\nOn the day of his arrival an old soldier would press through the\\ncrowd in the State House, and cried out, You don t remember me,\\n(Jeneral Imt I was close to you when we stormed our redoul)t at\\nYorktown. I was just behind Captain Smith. You rememl)er Cap-\\ntain Smith He was shot thi ough the head as he mounted the\\nredoubt. Ah yes, yes I remember, returned Laiayette. Poor\\nCaptain Smith But we beat (he French we beat the French\\nNext below the residence of Mr. Ticknor on Park Street\\nwas that of Hon. Abbott Lawrence. Farther down was that of\\nJosiali Quincy, Jr., tlie .second mayor of that name. His ad-\\nministration will be remembered for the introdiictinn of the\\nCochituate water, a measure strenuously urged by his father\\ntwenty years before its accomplishmi ut. The event was cele-\\nbrated with military and civic dis|)lays, and an immense multi-\\ntude thronged the Common to see tin; water let on I or the first\\ntime.\\nAt the corner of Beacon and INIt. Yernon Streets was the\\nresidence of William Molineux, cuu of the early patriots and a\\nlironnnent merchant. He built a sjilendid mansion for his ilay,\\nbut died in 1774. Mr. Molineux was oiu^ of the famous com-\\nmittee that demanded of Governor Hutchinson the immediate\\nremoval of the troops after the Massacre. His colleagues were\\nAdams (Samuel), Hancock, ^Yarren, Phillips, Henshaw, and\\nPemberton. John Adams relates, as an amusing incident, that\\nMolineux was obliged to march side by side with tlie cou)-\\nmander of some of the troops, to protect them IVom the indig-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0409.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "358\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nnation of the people, in tlieir progress to the wharf, from which\\ntliey were to embark for the Castle.\\nAs tlie agent of Charles Ward Apthorp, IVIr. ]\\\\Iolineux rented\\nthe stores belonging to the former, on Wheelwright s wharf, for\\nbarracks. The estate of INIolineux seems to luive passed to ]\\\\Ir.\\nApthorp, for we find it conliscated as such by the Common-\\nwealth. In 17S2 it ])ecame the residence of Daniel Denison\\nRogers.\\nHaving completed our circuit of the Common, we may ven-\\nture the remark that its beauty, as a park, is surpassed by the\\nvalue of its historical associations.\\nAVe have seen tliat })art of the forces which captured Louis-\\nburg were assembled and organized here that the tr()0])s which\\ncoucpiered Quebec were recruited and probaldy brigaded here by\\nAmherst that it was the mustering-place for the conflicts which\\nushered in the American IJevolution and the fortihed camp\\nwhich lield the beleaguereil town in sultjection.\\nIt is associated with the deep liorrors of Quaker executions\\nwith the elocpience of Whitetield, which paved the way for\\nmany eminent divines after him to address the people under\\nthe Catheilral trees. It lias in all times been a place fur\\npulilic rejoicings, for the celebration of our republican calendar\\ndays, or for martial displays.\\nThe repeal of the Stamp Act was celebrated in Boston on\\nthe 19th May, 176G, as no event was ever obser\\\\ ed before.\\nDaybreak was ushered in with music,\\nthe beating of drums, and firing of\\nsmall-arms. The guns of the Castle\\nproclaimed the joyful intelligence,\\nwhich was taken up and echoed by\\nthe town batteries. In the evening\\nan ol)elisk. which had been erected\\non the Common, was illuminated\\nwith two hundred and eighty lamps.\\nThcic was a general illumination.\\nHancock s mansion was brilliant with lights, and in front of\\nthe house a -stas^e was built from which fireworks were exhib-\\nRF.PEAL OBELISK.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0410.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "A TOOK HOUND THE COMMON.\\n359\\nited. The Sons of Liberty liiid uvected a similar stage in front\\nof the Workhouse, from whicli they answered the disjjhiy at\\nthe Hancock House. Under this liospitable roof were enter-\\ntained the genteel part of the Town, while the crowd outside\\nwere treated with a pipe of wine.\\nThe obelisk was intended to be placed under Liberty Tree,\\nbut was con-\\nsumed the night\\nof the celebra-\\ntion. Next above\\nthe pedestal were\\nallegorical figures\\non each of the\\nsides, symboliz-\\ning the condition\\nof the colony\\nfrom the enact-\\nment to the re-\\npeal of the Stamp\\nAct. We giv(! a ameiuca in mstrkss.\\ncopy of an engraving, by Paid Iicvere, rejjroducing one of the\\nsides.\\nAccident alone prevented the Common being the scene of a\\nsanguinary struggle l^etween the royal and American forces.\\nWhen Washington occupied Dorchester Heights, he coniideiitly\\nexpected an attack from Howe, and liad })rei)ar(Hl a counter-\\nstroke. Two divisions, under Putnam, were to attack the town.\\nSullivan, with one, was to assault the works on Peaeon Hill,\\n(ireeue, with the other, was to carry the post at liarton s Point,\\nand make his way to a junction with Sullivan. Greene was\\nwell qualitied for the task assigninl him, having been in lioston\\ntwo years before, and seen tin; liutis on the Connnon. Provi-\\ndence arrested the purpose of Howe, and the t(jwn was entered\\nwithout a shot being tired.\\nHancock has the credit of first introducing music upon the\\nCommon for the benefit of the people. He caused a band to\\nplay in front of his dwelling, paid for by himself. In former", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0411.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "360 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ntimes buoths and .staiuLs IVir tlie sale of refreshments were\\nerected along Paddock s and the Great Mall, ultimately em-\\nbracing all four sides of tlie Common.\\nLord Harris, wlio was captain of the grenadier company of\\nthe Fifth Foot, Percy s regiment, wrote home, in 1774, Oui\\ncamp is pitched in an exceedingly pleasant situation on the\\ngentle descent of a large common, hitherto the property of the\\nBostonians, and used for the purpose of grazing their cows,\\nwhich now, poor creatures, often attempt to force their way\\ninto their old pastures, where the richest herljage I ever saw\\nabounds.\\nLord Harris relates an instance of a cow impaling herself on\\na range of firelocks with the bayonets on, going off with one\\nsticking in her side. Harris s company was at Lexington. At\\nBunker Hill he received a wound in the head, falling senseless\\ninto the arms of his lieutenant. Lord liawdon.\\nPublic executions occurred occasionally on the Connuim until\\n1812, when the park was rescued from these legalized exhibi-\\ntions. It ceased to be a common grazing-lield under the elder\\n(^hiincy in 183U, dangerous accidents having occurred to piom-\\nenaders. If a mere handfid of settlers more than two centu-\\nries ago allotted fifty acres for the common benefit, a quarter\\nof a millicm people can well alford to preserve it.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0412.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 361\\nCHAPTEE XII.\\nVALLEY ACRE, THE BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON.\\nGovernor Bowdoiii. General Burgoyne. Boston Society in 178 2. David\\nHinckley s Stone Houses. James Lloyd. Lafayette. Daniel Davis.\\nAdmiral Davis. Historic Genealogical Society. Valley Acre. Uriah\\nCotting. Governor Enstis. Anecdote of Governor Brooks. Millerite\\nTabernacle. Howard Atliena-uni. Bowling Green. Old Boston Physi-\\ncians. Charles Bulfinch. New Fields. Peter Chardon. Mrs. Pel-\\nham. Peter Pelham. Thomas Melvill. Dr. William Jenks. Captain\\nGoocli. West Church. Leverett Street Jail. Poor Debtors. Alms-\\nhouse. Massachusetts General Hospital. Medical College. National\\nand Eagle Theatres.\\nGOVERNOR JAME8 BOWDOIN lived on Beacon Street,\\nnear the corner of tlie street named for him, the house\\nbeii)^f situat( (l at some, distance; ba(;k from the street, with a high\\nfli ,fht of stone stej)s Icadinu; wy to it. Tlie fixmily name of the\\ngovernor was Baudoin. Krecinent mention is made in these\\npages of prominent events or institutions witli which the name\\nof Governor Bowdoin is connected. He \\\\v;is chief magistrate\\nof Massachusetts from 1 785 87, and Shays s Rebellion occurred\\nunder his administi ation. It was vigorously suppressed by\\nI xiwdoin, to whose aid tlie ofHcers of the old army cpiickly\\nrallied. This was the dark period of our history. The old\\nArticles of Confederation wen; entirely inadequate to carry on\\nthe government. No taxes could lie levied without the consent\\nof all the States, and the central government was likely to fall\\nto pieces for want of the means to carry it on. Public and\\njirivate credit shared the general wreck.\\nAt this crisis the rebellion of Shays broke out. General\\nLincoln commanded the State; lV)rces, with Generals Brooks and\\nCobb to support him. The outltreak was crushed with little\\nbloodshed, and the authority of the laws restored. Bowdoin s\\npopularity was impaired by this affair, and he lost his election in\\n16", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0413.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "3G2 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\n17S7. lie was a sufferer from consumption, and finally suc-\\ncumb(;d to its attacks.\\nGeneral Burgoyne occupied the Bowdoin mansion in 1775;\\nat the same time Clinton resided in that of Governor Hancock.\\nTliese two chiefs overlooked the forces on the Common, and had\\n[lailii ular charge of the dei eiices of West Boston. The man-\\nsion in after times hecanie the bdarding-house of Mrs. Delano.\\nNext, to the eastward, was the residence c f William riiil-\\nlips, Senior, a line nld jire Bcvolutinnary mansion, ap^\\n})r(iaclied l)y several Hights of stone .steps. It stood in the\\nhill, at a higher elevatiim than the Bowdoin or Sears houses on\\neither side of it, tlie summit being considerably higher than the\\nhouse-tops now in Ashl)urt(in Place. Some noble trees stand-\\ning on the estate furnu d a, landmark Ibr approaching vessels,\\nthey were cut down for fuel l)y the IJritish. This estate, be-\\nlonged successively to Sanuiel Sewall and Edward Bromiield.\\nFreeman Place Chapel was erected on the site.\\nWhat the society of Beacon Street and its vicinity was in\\nthe last entury may be gathered from tlie testimony of a keen\\nobserver of that period.\\nCount Segur says that Boston alfords a ])roof that democ-\\nracy and luxury are not incompatilile, for in no i)art of the\\nUnited States is so much comfort or a more agreealjle society to\\nbe found. Europe does not ofTer, to our admiration, women\\nadornecl with greater beauty, elegance, education, or more bril-\\nliant accomplishments than the lailies of I oston, such as Mes-\\ndames Smitli, Tudor, Jervis, and Morton. M. dc Chastellux\\nalso pays suitable acknowledgments to tlie Boston ladies, like\\na gallant Frenchman while liotli unite in eulogy of Adams,\\nHancock, Dr. Cooper, and other leading spirits it was their\\nfortune to meet.\\nThe two stone houses at the easterly corner of Beacon and\\nSomerset Streets, sometime the home of the American Con-\\ngregational Association, were erected soon after the war of\\n1812 by David Hinckley. They were, at that time, the hand-\\nsomest ]\u00c2\u00bbrivate I esidences in Boston, and were occupied suc-\\ncessively by citizens distinguished in financial or commercial", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0414.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLINf! GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 3G3\\npursuits, until they became tlie Somerset Club House. They\\nhave lately passed into the hands of Houghton and Button.\\nConnected with one house is a domestic tragedy, which can\\nnow aftect no one by repetition. An Italian, named Perodi,\\nwho was the French teacher of a daughter of Mr. Hinckley,\\navailed himself of the opportunity to secure the young lady s\\naffections. This, coming to the knowledge of her fiierc^-,\\nresidted in an interview, at which Perodi advanced pretensions\\nto rank and position in the old country by documents after-\\nwards alleged to be forged. The denouement 0(, (;asioned the\\nabsence of Perodi for a time but he returned, and, ascertain-\\ning that the object of his pursuit was then living in Somerset\\nPlace (Allston Street), repaired thitlier, entered the house un-\\nperceived, ascended the stairs to the lady s ajiartment, and, Ix iiig\\ndiscovered, stabbed himself with a poniard.\\nMr. Hinckley took down an old stone house situated on his\\nlot, considered the oldest, of stone, in Poston. Tt was Iniilt by\\nRev. James Allen of the First Chur(;h, and was occupied by Ins\\ndc^scendants until about 18()(i, one of whom, Jeremiah Allen,\\nwas high sheriff of Suffolk.\\nProceeding onward through Somerset Street, viodo pedesfn,\\nwe pass the site of the First Paptist Church, Ashburtoii Phice,\\nformerly Somerset Court, to Pemberton S(piare, and its new\\nCourt House, where before stood a double brick mansion, with\\narched doorway, under the sign of the Somerset House.\\nThis house was built by Hon. -lames Lloyd after Somerset\\nStreet was laid out, and opened at the back npon the gaidiMis\\nof his father s estate, which extended up the hill beside that of\\nCardiner Greene. The elder Lloyd was a very distinguished\\nl)hysician Drs. Joseph Warren, John Jeifries, Isaac Eand, and\\nJohn Clarke were students with him. He was for some time\\nsurgeon at the Castle, and had a fine old residence on Tremont\\nRow.\\nHis son was in the United States Senate in 1808- 13, during\\na most exciting period. A Postonian by birth, he liad been\\nactive in mercantile affairs l)efore engaging in political life.\\nLafayette became his guest in this house in 1825. During this", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0415.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "3fi4 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nsdjduru the Marquis paid visits to Daniel Webster, John Ael-\\naias, at Quincy, General Hull, at the residence of Mr. McLellan\\nin Winthrop Place, where he nict his old companions in arms,\\n(Jenerals Ct)W), lluntinyton, Colonel Putnam, and others. He\\nalso visited (Jeui ral Dearhorn and Hon. T. L. Winthrop, Mrs.\\nTickuor, in rrenioiit Street, Madam Humphries, Avidow of his\\nold comrade General Hum])hries, in ]\\\\It. Vernon .Street, and\\nattended a party L;iven in his honor by ]\\\\[ayor Quincy.\\nA pulilic dinner was L^ivcn to Lafayette at the Marlliorougli\\nI Intel, at which were itresent the Secretary of War, lovernor,\\nami Lieutenant-( Joveinor, lions. Messrs. Phillips, Lloyd, and\\nWebster, the veteran Colonel McLane, and others. Giles were\\ndelivered on this occasion by Charles Sprague and Colonel\\nEverett. The Jeiieral went afterwards to the I Boston Theatre,\\nwhere he listenecl to a com[)linientary address from Miss LVwell,\\nand witnessed the })lay of Charles IL, with Finn, Kilner, etc.,\\nin the cast.\\nThe two l)uildings on the opposite side of the street, one of\\nwhich is used by the Llistoric xenealoyical Society, were built\\nby Haniel Davis, a lawyer of some prominence in the District\\nof Maine, who removeil to Pxistou in 1(S04. As a barrister, his\\ntalents were not, jn rhajis, conspicuous at a bar where Otis, JNIor-\\nton, and their peers practised, but he had the faculty of grasp-\\ning the jxiints of a case in the court-room, and constructing his\\nargument as the trial progressed. He was appointed Solicitor-\\nGeneral by (ioveruor Strong, an ollice created expressly for\\nliim, as, in I7(i7, it had lieen for Jonathan Sewall. Perez Mor-\\nton was at the same time Attorney-General.\\nEear-Admiral Charles H. Davis was the son of Daniel Davis,\\nand was Ixirn in the most southerly of the two houses. Admiral\\nDavis is best known as victor in the engagement with the\\nrebel fleet before Memidiis, Tenn., in June, 18()2. His scientific\\nlabors in connection with the na\\\\al service have been of great\\nvaluta Lie was with Dujiont in the exj)edition which captured\\nPort Iioyal, with L arragut below icksburg, and in the expeili-\\ntion up the Yazoo. While engaged in the coast survey he tlis-\\ncovered several dangerous shoals ott Nantucket, in the tmck of\\nvessels bound into New York.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0416.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACKE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 365\\nI lic Now England Historic (leiiealogical Society occupies tlie\\nuurtiierly house, a liandsomo and well-arranged building.\\nThe local histories ami fainiiy genealogies of ew England are\\nthe objects upon which the society has been founded. For an\\nanti(piarian association it is eminently ])rogressive, a (urcum-\\nstance that accounts for its rise and progress among older insti-\\ntutions of its kind. Its collections, open to every student, are\\nmade available through the exertions and interest of its officers\\nin every department of historical research. The collections and\\npublications of the society have stimulated the writing of town\\nliistories, so that what was (jnce a hopeless labor may jje inves-\\ntigated in a brief period and with system.\\nThe society had its beginning in 1844, with live gentlemen\\nwell known in antiriuarian circles, namely, Charles Ewer,\\nSamuel G. Drake, W. H. Montague, J. Wingate Thornton, and\\nLemuel Shattuck. ]Mr. Ewer, an old Boston bookseller, was\\nthe tirst president. He deserves honorable mention as the pro-\\njector of tilt! South Cove improvemimt and tlu; opening of\\nAvon Street. In 184.1 the society was incorporated.\\nThis elegant building, which was dedicated in 1871, cost\\nabout $40,000, and was entirely paid for by subscriptions\\namong members and others, raised chiefly through the instru-\\nmentality of its president, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder. It con-\\ntains 30,000 volumes, 25,000 pamphlets, and a large collection\\nof manuscripts and curiosities, which, being wholly germane to\\nthe field in which the society labors, fornx a unii|ue and valua-\\nble Hbrary.\\nValley Acre was a name anciently applied to the valley lying\\nbetween Pemljerton and Beacon Hills, now intersected liy Som-\\nerset and Bulfinch Streets, and reaching to the low ground\\nbelow. The name was retained until about the present century,\\nor until the disappearance of the hills upon either side deprived\\nit of significance.\\nFarther down Somerset Street we miss the substantial, com-\\nfortable-looking residences of Messrs. Welister and Cotting, and\\nof Dr. Jackson, whose name is associated with the ether dis-\\ncovery. The Sultan sent a decoration to Dr. Jackson, whose", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0417.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "36G LAxNDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nclaiiu.s t(i be the discoverer of the great anresthetic were disputed\\nby J)r. JNlortun, the weight of })ul:)lic opinion favoring the hitter.\\nAVe liave in the I uhlic JanU n a monument dedicated to the\\ndiscovery, whereon one may seek in vain for the name of him\\nwho has conferred sucli incalcuhible benetit upon the human race.\\nIt will scarcely be credited that a discovi-ry fraught with such\\nimportant consequemx s as was that of ajiplying ether in sur-\\ngical operati(jns could not be announced in a Boston newspaper\\nuntil the discoverer sent to the olhce of jiublication a j)aid\\nadvertisement. Yet this actually happened less than sixty\\nyears ago. Ether was lirst administered by Dr. W. T. (i. ]\\\\Ior-\\nton, at his office, 19 Tremont How, now street, about ojiposite\\nthe northerly end of the ]\\\\Iuseuni, (September 30, 184G. The\\nvalue of the discovery was at lirst more readily ap})reciated\\nabroad than at home.\\nMr. (Jotting, notwithstanding the gigantic enterprises he con-\\nducted, in conse(|uence of reverses during the war of 1812, died\\nin straitened circumstances. To his genius Boston owes the\\ninauguration of an era of improvement begun against the tradi-\\ntional and conservative policy of the citizens generally. By\\ndint of indomitable energy and perseverance he succeeded in\\nrealizing most of his designs, and, had he lived, would have\\nworthily continued what he had so well begun. Besides the\\ndistinguished occupants of the AVebster mansion mentioned was\\nWilliam Hopes, an eminent merchant connected with the Bus-\\nsiaii trade.\\nDr. William Eustis, who succeeded John Brooks as governor\\nof Massachusetts in 1824, found his residence in Boxbury\\nhe lived in the old Shirley mansion too distant from the\\nState House, during sessions of the CJeneral Court, and, in the\\nwinter of 1825, took lodgings with Mrs. INIiles, the successor\\nof ]\\\\Irs. Carter, in Howard Street. The house stood Avhere the\\nHoward AthentBum is. Here he soon fell ill and died, being\\nburied from this house on the 12th of Feln uary with military\\nlionors. The funeral services took i)lace at the Old South, and\\nthe remains were })laced in the Cranary Burying Ground. Gov-\\nernor Eustis studied medicine under Josepli Warren; he served", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0418.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACKE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 367\\nas surgeon in the Revolutionary army, and, at its conclusion,\\ntook a residence in Sudbmy Street, and commenced a practice.\\nHe served two terms as member of Congress, and held other\\noffices under the State.\\nGeneral Sumner relates of him some interesting reminis-\\ncences. He says\\nI remember one occasion particularly, when I was mvited to the\\ngovernor s table to a diinier given m compliment to Lord Stanley,\\nLord Wortley, and M. Labouchiere. The latter gentleman, in his\\nvisit to Boston, was so impressed with the beauty and execution of\\nAllston s picture of Elijah in the Wilderness, that he purchased it\\nof the painter at the price of a thousand dollars.\\nBrooks and Eustis, two old cronies of the Revolution, about the\\ntime of Lafayette s reception, m 1824, were on unfrientlly terms.\\nThe difference was caused by the election of Brooks as President of\\nthe Society of the Cincinnati, a vacancy havmg occurred while\\nEustis was vice-president and absent from the coiuitry. The friends\\nof both exerted themselves to bring al)out a reconciliation, and, an\\ninterview being arranged, the old friends did not eudjrace each\\nother merely as old friends, but they shook hands so heartily, and\\nthe intercourse was so familiar, the one calling the other John,\\nand the other calling Eustis Doctor, and sometimes Bill, that\\nthey pai ted with as friendly feelhigs as had existed between them at\\nany period.\\nUpon tlie spot where stands the Howard Athenreum was\\nbuilt, during the excitement of 1843 44, a huge wooden struc-\\nture, dignified with the name of Tabernacle. Here the dis-\\nciples of the prophet Miller awaited the day of ascension, amid\\nscenes that beggar description. The interior was hung with\\npictures representing the monsters of the Book of Revelation,\\nin which the artist had drawn freely upon imagination to de-\\npict the grotesque and horrible. Frenzy seemed to hold pos-\\nsession of tlie worshippers at this temple many disposed of\\nall their worldly goods, the reason of others was affected, and\\nthe whole city was agitated almost beyond belief, until the day\\nfixed for the end of all things human came and went like\\nother days. An error of calculation had been made by the\\nprophet, but his deluded congregation dissolved silently and\\ningloriously.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0419.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "368 LANDMARKS OF BOSTOJSr.\\nTt is rclatod that in l)iiil(liiiL^ tlic tVoiil wall on Howard\\nStreet due regard was not had to safety, and that it had a\\ndecided leaning outwards. J lie mayor s attention being called\\nto the fact, he expostidated with tlie builders, who replied,\\nthat it made Imt little ditferenee as tlie world itself would\\nlast hut a few days at the most. The mayor, INIartin Brim-\\nmer, compelled them to rebuild the wall iu (luestiou, oliserving\\nthat they might incline it so as to fall inward, but not out-\\nwardly. Miller, the apostle of the sect, had been a soldier of\\n1812, serving with distinction on the northern frontier with\\nthe rank if captain.\\nThe Tal)erna(de was next Icascil for theatrical performances,\\nand under the hands of carpciitcis and painters underwent a\\nspeedy transformation. A new iiunt, painted in imitation of\\nfreestone was erected, and the house received the name of\\nthe Howard Athen;euni.\\nThe first performance was on the night of October 13, 1845,\\nwhen the School for Scandal was given. Messrs. Johnson,\\nAyling, F(ird, and Brayley were the managers. JNlr. James H.\\nIIa(d\\\\ett, since so famous for his impersonations of the flit\\nknight, made his lirst appearance in T)oston at this house.\\nIn February, 1846, a few nniuites after the closing of the\\ntheatre, fire was discovered issuing from it, and the theatre-\\ntabernacle was speedily consumed.\\nThe present theatre was buill^ in 1840, ami was o])ened in\\nOctober of tliat year under the control of Mr. Hackett. Isaiah\\nEogers was the architect. At this theatre ]\\\\Ir. AVilliam Warren\\nmade his debut ])efore a Boston audience as Sir Lucius O Trig-\\nger, in the IlivaJs. The A^iennoise (diildren also appeared\\nat the Howard, creating an unexanii led furor. The house is\\nfurther celebrated for the first representations of Italian opera\\nin Boston by a comitany from Havana, who opened in Ai)ri],\\n1847, with Ernani, when the golden notes of Fortunata\\nTedesco first enrajitured Bostonians. Blangy, the Bavels, Ma-\\ndame Anna Ifishoj), anil other celebrities brought the theatre\\ninto high repute. Eliza Ostinelli made her first appearance on\\nthe stage at the Howard in La Sonnambiila.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0420.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACKE, BOWLING GKEEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 369\\nTliis estate is furtlier noted as the okl-time hal)ita-tion of\\nHon. James Pitts, a counsellor and mover of the address to\\nGeneral Gage.\\nVaHey Aere is not more obsolete than the old Bowling Green,\\nupon which we have entered to tind it changed to Bowdoin\\n8(|uare. Cambridge Street began in early times at Sudbury\\nStreet, extending along the green, and thence to the river.\\nA\\\\diat is now the squai-e fell away in a natural slope to the\\nMill Pond. Tlie rest of the quarter known as West Boston\\nwas very sparsely peopled. On a small eminence in the present\\nneighborhood of tlie West Cliurch was a windmill rope-\\nwalks covered most of the neck known as Barton s Point, on\\none extremity ui which wtire situated the copper-works, which\\ngave their name to Copper, now Brigliton Street. Across the\\nI)oint eartliworks were thrown up in 1775. The greater part\\nof the area west of Bowdoin Scjuare was in its primitive con-\\ndition of fields or pastures, and so remote was it considered\\nfrom tlie centre of poimLition, that the Province Hosiiital and\\nPest House was located near West IJoston Bridge, on what is\\nnow Grove tStreet, from which tlie point was called Pest\\nHouse Point.\\nA hundred years ago there were but three-and-twenty phy-\\nsicians and surgeons in all Boston. Besides the honored names\\nof Lloyd, Rand, Danforth, Eustis, Jarvis, Hay ward, Homans,\\nand Warren, there was Dr. Thomas uliinch in liowdoin\\nSquare, father of Charles Bultinch, the distinguished airhitiK t.\\nThe impress of Mr. Bultinch s genius is seen not only in his\\nnative city, but in the Capitol of the nation, which was planned\\nby him after the destruction of the original by the British\\n(ieneral Ross. Mr. Bullinch s early taste for this branch of\\nart was cultivated by travel in the Old World amid the works\\nof Iiiigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, and the old masters of\\nthe Continent. Returning, he at once applied himself to the\\nbeautifying of his birthplace. Before his day there were but\\nfew public buildings that would attract the notice of a stranger.\\nArchitectural beauty was but little considered, mere adaptation\\nto the purposes of the structure being all that the builder\\n16* X", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0421.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "370 LANDMxVRKS OF BOSTOJST.\\nattempted. The Beacon Hill Monument, the Franklin Street\\nCrescent, the new State House, introduced a new era, which\\nEogers and WillaiMl, Ihyant and Billings, have perpetuated.\\nOf ]\\\\Ir. Bulhnch s jjuhlic works the State House was indeed\\nconsidered somewhat faulty in its proportion of length to\\nheight hut it is statetl that the original [)lan contemplated\\ngreater length to the wings, de})arted from on economical\\ngrounds. Mr. Bullinch was a Harvard man, graduating in the\\nsame class with Sanuiel Dexter and Judge John Davis. He was\\nclosely identihed with the interests of the town, serving on the\\nBoard of Selectmen a period of twenty-two years, during nine-\\nteen of which he was Chairman of the Board.\\nBesides other works of which mention has been made, Mr.\\nBullinch was architect of the State Prison, the Old City Hall,\\nthe Cathedral in Franklin Street, Federal Street Church and\\nTheatre, the Xew South Church in Summer Street, the Mas-\\nsachusetts General Hospital, Haymarket Theatre, and of the\\nenlargement of Faneuil Hall. University Hall, at Cambridge,\\nand numerous private residences, attest his industry and the\\ngeneral estimation in Avhich his services were held.\\nThe names of the early dwellers in the New Fields, as the\\npastures of West B(jstc)n were called, have or had their names\\nreproduced in Allen, Ihittoljih, Middlecott, Bullinch, Lynda,\\nand Southack Streets. Garden and Grove were descriptive of\\nints of rural beauty in Allen s pasture, as was Centre Street,\\nof its ecpial division. Leverett is from the famous old Governor\\nJohn, and Staniford and Chambers (part of which was called\\nWiltshire) and Jk lknap left their ])atrouymics to those avenues.\\nCambridge Street terminated in a marsh, from wliicli arose the\\nnorthwest slope of Centinel Hill, the shore receding a consider-\\nable distance from the line of Charles Street. The ropewalks\\nreferred to Avere situated upon and in the vicinity of Poplar\\nStreet. John Steel made b(jlt-roi)e, lines, and other cordage\\nthere in 1719.\\nBefore the Avork of demolition liegan in BoAvdoin Square, it\\nAvas the seat of many elegant old-time estates, Avith broad acres,\\ngardens, and noble trees, of Avhicli but a solitary specimen", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0422.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 371\\nhere and there is left. The Eevere House, from which Web-\\nster harangued the citizens, is on the grounds and residence of\\nKirk Boott, whose son Kirk Boott was connected many years\\nwith the Lowell manufactures. The hotel is named for Paul\\nEevere, first president of the Mechanic Charitable Association,\\nby which it was built. It has enjoyed the distinction of enter-\\ntaining President Fillmore, Jenny Lind, the Prince of Wales,\\nand the Grand Duke Alexis of Eussia.\\nOn the site of the Baptist Church, erected in 1840, was tlie\\ndwelling of Theodore Lyman, Sr. The space in front of the\\nchurch, once ornamented with trees and separated from the street\\nby an iron fence, is at present utilized Ijy a row of unsightly\\nshops, between which one must pass to reach the church. The\\nCoolidge and Parkman estates are covered with modern struc-\\ntures, as is, also that of Lieutenant-Governor Armstrong, on\\nthe corner opposite the Eevere House. The two stone houses\\nfronting the square were l);iilt l)y Samucd Parkman, father of\\nDr. George Parkman. The range of brick ])uil liiigs, from\\nHoward Street in the direction of Bulfincli, was the second\\nbuilt in the town, in 1800, and obtained the name of West\\nEow, as distinguished from South liow, near the (_)ld South,\\nand North Eow in Anne Street.\\nPeter Chardon, another of the Huguenot desccmdants, Iniilt\\na house on the corner of the street bearing his name. It was\\nliit several times during the bombardment of March 2, 1776.\\nA school-house was erected in 1804, at tlie corner of Char-\\ndon and Hawkins Streets, the eighth in the town. In 1800\\nHawkins was commonly known ))y the name of Tattle Street.\\nA portion of the latter street was occupied by the distil-\\nliouses which gave the name of Distil-House Square to the\\nneigliboring space.\\nMrs. Mary Pelham, mother of Coi)]ey the painter, lived in a\\nhouse between the estate of Governor Sullivan, where the\\nBowdoin Square Theatre is, and Alden Court. Slie was the\\nwidows of Eicliard Copley, tobacconist, and continued to follow\\nthe business after her second marriage. The following ad-\\nvertisement may be found in the Boston News Letter of\\nJuly 11, 1748:", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0423.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": ".il J, LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nMis. Mmi V Pclbaiii (foi iiierly the widow of f oiiley, on Long\\nWharf, tol)acoonist) is removed to Liiidel s Row, a^ ainst the Qualver\\nMeeting House, near tlie upper end of King Street, Boston, where\\nshe continues to sell the liest Virginia Tobacco, Cut, Pigtail, and\\nSjiun, of all sorts, by Wholesale and Retail, at the cheapest rates.\\nAt this time the Pelhanis lived over the tol)aceo shop.\\nPel ham posses.sed a versatile genius. He ke})t a writing and\\naritlimetic school in 1748, and was one of the earliest teach-\\ners of dancing to tlie Uostonians, having had a school at the\\nhouse of I hilip Uumaresq, in Summer Street, as early as\\n1738.\\nHe is still more noted as the earliest Boston engraver we have\\nan account of, having, in 1727, engraved a portrait of Cotton\\nMather. He also engraved a number of 8mil)ert s jiaintings,\\nchieHy of the leading Boston divines C)f tliat day. Mr. Pelliam\\nalso used the pencil with consideral)le skill.\\nPetracing our steps to Green Street, we find a resident who\\nbrought the old and new Boston into juxtaposition, until his\\ndecease, in 1832, at the advanced age of eighty-one. We allude\\nto Major Tlumias Melvill, who lived in an old wooden house\\non the south side of Green Street, betw(!en Staniford and the\\nl)uilding formerly the Church of tlie Advent. Thomas Mel-\\nvill s father was a cadet of the Scottisli family of the Earls of\\n]\\\\Ielvill and Leven. He came to this country (juite young, and\\nat his death left Thomas, his only son, an orphan at tlie age of\\nten years. The latter was educated at New Jersey College,\\nwhence he graduated in 1769 he took the degree of A. M.\\nat Harvard in 1773. He was a democrat, and a iirm friend\\nof Samuel Adams, of whom he liad a small portrait l)y Copley,\\nnow at Harvard. Herman Melville, tlie widl-kiiown author, is\\nhis grandson.\\n]\\\\lajor IMelvill s long and honorahle connection Avith the\\nBoston Fire Dejiartmeiit continued for forty years, and his\\n(h^ath was hnally caused b}^ over-fatigue at a fire near his\\nhouse. Tliis connection commenced as lireward in 1779, in the\\ngood old times wlien those officers carried staves tipped at tlie", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0424.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 373\\nend with a brass flame, and marshalled the bystanders into\\nlines for passing buckets of water to the scene of conflagration.\\nOne of the town engines was named Melvill, in. honor of the\\nmajor.\\nMajor Melvill was a member of the Cadets, one of the mem-\\norable Tea-Party, and captain in Craft s regiment of artillery in\\nthe Revolutionary War. He commanded a detachment sent to\\nNantasket to watch the movements of the British fleet. In the\\nexpedition into Rhode Island, in 1778, he took the rank of\\nmajor. On the organization of the Custom House, under State\\nauthority, he was appointed surveyor, wliich office he held unlH\\nthe death of James Lovell, when he was commissioned naval\\nofficer by \\\\V ashington, remaining in ofiice more than forty years,\\nuntil superseded by President Jackson in 1829.\\nThe brick church mentioned in fh-een Street was consecrated\\nin 1826, at which time Rev. Dr. William Jenks was installed\\nas pastor. He was the first tit found a Seamen s Bethel in Bos-\\nton and was the author of a valuable ommentary on the Bible,\\nand many otlier useful works. The I)oetor was a valued meia-\\nber of a number of learned societies, a pure and much-beloved\\nmember of society, and died sincerely regretted. His residence\\nwas in Crescent Place.\\nGouch Street, which we think should l)e spelled Gooch, is\\nconnected with an incident of American history fitly perpetu-\\nated by the name.\\nWhen Sir William Howe attack(Ml Fort Washington, on tlie\\nHudson, and liad summoned tlie garrison to svu render, Wash-\\nington, who from the opposite shore had witnessed the assault,\\nwished to send a note to Colonel Magaw, accpiainting him that\\nif he could hold out till evening, he (Washington) would en-\\ndeavor to bring off the garrison during the night. The brave\\nCaptain Gooch offered to be the bearer of the note. He ran\\ndown to the river, jumped into a small boat, pushed over the\\nriver, landed under the l)ank, ran up to the fort, and delivered\\nthe message came out, ran and jumped over the broken ground,\\ndodging the Hessians, some of whom struck at him with their\\npieces, and othere attempted to thrust him with their bayonets", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0425.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "374\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nescaping through them, he got to his hoat and returned to Fort\\nLee.\\n(loueh Street is further noted for its sugar-houses, of which\\ntliere were seven in the town in 1704, each capable of manufac-\\nturing 100,000 pounds annually.\\nThe West Church, on Lynde, fronting Cambridge Street, was\\norganized in 1736. liev. William\\nHooper, fiither of a signer of the\\nDeclaration of Indepentlence, was\\nthe first pastor, but after nine\\nyears service he became attached\\nto the Church of England, and\\ncrossed the ocean to take orders.\\nHe became afterwards pastor of\\nTrinity.\\nJonathan Mayhew, one of the\\ngreatest lights of the Boston pul-\\nI pit, whose eloquence stimulated\\nand upheld the cause of liberty, succeeded Mr. Hooper. His\\nusefuhiess was terminated by his decease in July, 1766, two\\nmontlis after the Stamp Act repeal, on which he preached a\\nniemmaltlc discourst*. Simeon Ibjward, Charles Lowell, and\\nC. A. Lartol liave been the successive pastors.\\nThe frame of the original Church was set up in September,\\n1736, liut it was not until the following spring that it was com-\\npleted. It shareil tlie fite of other Boston churches in 1775,\\nbeing used fur l)arracks, and also suffered the loss of its steeple,\\ntaken down In tlie lU itish to prevent signals being made to the\\nProvincials at Candtridge. The old house was taken down and\\ntlie pivseiit (ine built in 1S06. The first Sunday school estab-\\nlished in New England is said to liave originated in the West\\nChurch, in 1812.\\nThe charitable and corrective institutions of the town, after\\ntheir removal from Park, Beacon, and (^4)urt Streets, were located\\nat West Boston. The jail remained in Leverett Street until\\n1851, when it was removed to its present location on the nortli-\\nNow ii braiuli of the Pulilic Lilirary.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0426.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. o75\\neriy exteusiou of Charles Street, situated on land reclaimed from\\nthe sea. This was not eflected until after twelve years agitation\\nhad demonstrated the necessity for the change. There were\\ntwo separate prisons within the same enclosure in Leverett\\nStreet, one of which was converted into a House of Correction\\nin 1823, and was so used until some tune after the completion\\nof the House of Correction at South Boston. The Leverett\\nStreet jail was considered very secui e, walls and floors Ix ing\\ncomposed of large blocks of hewn stone clamped together with\\niron, while between the courses loose cannon-balls were laid in\\ncavities hollowed out for tlie purpose. Such a building neces-\\nsarily occupied some time in construction, and upon its comple-\\ntion, in 1822, the old stone .jail in Court Street was taken down,\\nthe materials gi ing in i\u00c2\u00bba,rt to l)uild the gundiouse in Thacher\\nStreet.\\nIn the Leverett Street jail d(d)tors were confined, and even\\nwhen under bail could not go out of the narrow limits of the\\nward in which it was situated, without forfeiture of their l)onds,\\nand subjecting their bondsmen to payment of the entire claim\\nagainst them. The law which gavi^ the creditor this ]iower\\nover the person of his uid ortunate debtor was not repealed\\nuntil a comparatively recent period, although mitigated in some\\nof its more rigorous provisions.\\nCharles Dickens animadverted severely ujxui our prison sys-\\ntem, which he examined when in tliis country, and ronounced\\nbarbarous. The American Notes may liave wounded our self-\\nlove, but they told some unpleasant tliough wholesome truths.\\nAmong the executions which have taken place in the enclosure\\nof Leverett Street jail, that of Professor Webster is prominent.\\nHis demeanor at the gallows was dignified and self-possessed.\\nBefore he sriffered the penalty of the law he atldressed a letter\\nto a relative of the family he had so terribly wronged, in which\\nhe eloquently implored that his punisliment might fully expiate\\nhis crime.\\nThe streets Barton, Vernon, and ]\\\\Iinot are of comparatively\\nrecent origin. They occuj)y the site of tlie Almshouse built in\\n1800, after its demolition in Beacon Street. At the time oi its", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0427.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "376 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nerection here it was situated on tlie Lank of the river, from\\nwhich a wharf, now forming the site of the old Lowell de})ot,\\nextended.\\nTlie New Almshouse, as it was called, was a brick building\\nif three stories, with a central structure, from which wings ex-\\ntended. This central building was consideraldy higher than\\nthe rest, and had lofty, arched windows, with a raised pediment\\nrelieved by ornamental work on either gable stood a carved\\nemblematic tigure. The whole edifice was two huiidreil and\\nseventy feet in length by fifty-six in depth. It stood until\\nMay, 1825, when it was superseded by the House of Industry\\nut South Bost(Ui, and the land sold to i rivate individuals. A\\nbrick wall, with iron gates, surrounded the Almshouse enclosure.\\nNo building having been erected to take tlie jilace of the AVork-\\nhouse, or Bridewell, the inmates were obliged to be received\\ninto the Almshouse but a small brick building was subse-\\nquently erected, adjacent to the latter, for a Bridewell.\\nIt has always been the fate of some who have known lietter\\ndays to l)eco]ue dependants upon the public charity. _)ne nota-\\nble instance is mentioned of the daughter of a clergyman of\\nthe French Protestant hurch having sought and ol)tained an\\nasylum in tlie old Almshouse. Slie continued to visit and be re-\\nceived into the houses of her former friends, who, with intuitive\\ndelicacy, forebore to cjuestion her on the suliject of her residence.\\nThe tract bounded by Cambridge Street, North Russell Street,\\nand the Hospital grounds was once under water. Bridge, Blos-\\nsom, and Vine Streets have all been built since 1800.\\nAt the west end of McLean Street (formerly South Allen),\\nwith the front towards Cainltridge Street, stands the ]\\\\Iassaclni-\\nsetts (Jeneral Hospital. It is built of Chelmsford granite, and\\nwas considered in 1821, when completed, the finest public or\\nprivate edifice in New England. It stands on what was for-\\nmerly Prince s pasture, four acres of which constitute the Hos-\\nI)ital domain. In 1840 it was enlarged by the addition of two\\nwings. Charles Bultinch was the architect of the ox iginal. In\\ntbis hospital ether was first applied in a surgical opei ation ot\\nmagnitude, by request of Dr. J. C. Warren.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0428.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACKE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 377\\nSome of the sources from wliich the Hospital drew its being\\nhave been adverted to. A bequest of 5,000, at the cLjse of\\nthe hist century, was the beginning. Nothing further was\\netfected until 1811, when fifty-six gentlemen were incorporated\\nunder the name of the Massachusetts General Hos j^ital. The\\nMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL.\\ncharter likewise granted the Province House, under condition\\nthat 100,000 should be raised from other soim;es within ten\\nyears. Tlie Hospital Life Insurance Company was re(|uired to\\npay tribute to its namesake by its act of incorporation.\\nNo eleemosynary institution in the country ever accuuudated\\nthe means of carrying out its humane objects with greater\\nrapidity. John McLean l)e(pieathed 100,000 to the Hosi)ital,\\nand $50,000 more to be divided between that institutidu and\\nHarvard. By the year 1816 the trustees were able to purchase\\nthe estate at harlestown, now Somerville, and build two brick\\nhouses, whicli were ready for tlit^ rec(!|)tion of the insane in\\n1818. This is the asylum so long known by the name of its\\nnoble Ijenefactor, McLean. His name was justly conferred\\nupon the street without loss to its ancient possessor, as there\\nwas also North Allen Street, now known simply as Allen.\\nIn Grove Street we have the new location of the Massachu-\\n.setts Medical College, after its removal from Mason Street.\\nThe building derives a horrible interest as the scene of the\\nmurder of Dr. Parkman, the details of which long dwelt in", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0429.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "378 LANDMAIIKS OF BOSTON.\\ntlu! memories of many. Tlie unsuspectiDg victim repaired to\\nthe College, where lie had an appointment with his murderer,\\nfrom which he never departed alive. No similar event ever\\nproduced so great a sensation in Boston. Both the parties were\\nof the tirst standing in society. The deadly blow might have\\nbeen struck in a moment of passion, hut the almost tiendish\\nart with which the remains were concealed and consumed was\\nfatal to Dr. Webster. Not the least of the toucliing episodes\\nof the trial was the appearance of the daughters of the prisoner\\no]i the witness stand, giving their evidence under the full con-\\nviction of their father s innocence.\\nBesides the Howard Athenieum the AVest End had still an-\\nother theatre within its limits. In 1831 a small Avooden Iniild-\\ning was erected by Messrs. W. and T. L. Stewart on tlie old\\nMill Pond, fronting on Traverse Street. This was designed for\\ne(pu strian performances, and was called the American Amphi-\\ntlieatre. Mr. William Pellty, formerly of the Tremont, became\\nthe lessee, and remodelled the interior so as to adapt it to dra-\\nmatic performances, opening it on the 3d of July, under the\\nname of tlie Warren Theatre. The enterprise proving success-\\nful, ]\\\\Ir. Pelljy Avas enabled to build a new house in the summer\\nof 183G, Avhich was inaugurated on the 15th of August as the\\nNational Theatre. At this house Miss Jean Margaret Davenport\\nmade her first appearance before a Boston audience, as did also\\nJulia Dean, a flxvorite Western actress. In Ai)ril, 1852, the\\ntheatre was destroyed by fire, l\u00c2\u00bbut was reljuilt and reo])ened in\\nNovember of the same year by Mr. Leonard.\\nThere was a little theatre erected in 1841, at the corner of\\nHaverhill and Traverse Streets, opened l)y Mr. Wyzeman Mar-\\nshall under the name of the Eagle Theatre. Mr. W. H. Smith\\notticiated a short time here as manager, but the concern proving\\na serious rival to the National, INIr. Pelby obtained an interest,\\nand closed the house in a manner not altogether creditable to\\nhim.*\\nSeveral of the companies of the regiment of Massachusetts vol-\\nunteers, raised for service in the Mexican war, were quartered at\\nlapii s Bdstoii Stage.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0430.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "VALLEY ACRE, BOWLING GREEN, AND WEST BOSTON. 379\\ntlie West End. Companies A and B had ([uarters in Pitts\\nStreet. Lientenant-Colonel Abbott s company was located in\\nthe ohl wooden buikling on tlie east side of Leverett Street,\\nwliich was afterwards used as a police station. Captain Edward\\nWebster s company was enlisted in tlie famous building on the\\ncorner of C jurt and Tremont Streets, and in the office of his\\nfather, Daniel Web.ster Captain Webster afterwards became\\nmajor of the regiment, and died in Mexico. Isaac Hull Wright\\nwas the colonel.\\nThe Mexican war was uniiopular in Boston. The regiment\\nwas neglected by the State otiicials, and gTeeted with oppro-\\nbrious epithets, and even pelted with mud, when it paraded in\\ntlie streets. jNIeetings were called in f aneuil Hall, at wliich\\nthe war and the soldiers were denounced by the antislavery\\nleaders, Theodore Parkei Wendell Phillips, W. Lloyd Garrison,\\nand others. As soon as the regiment was mustered into the\\nTTnited States service, the State refused to have anything fur-\\ntlier to tlo Avith it.\\nNATIONAL THEATRE.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0431.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "380\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTEE XIII.\\nFROM CHURCH GREKN TO LIBERTY TREE.\\nChurch Green. New Soutli f liiirch. Dr. Kirklaiid. American Headquar-\\nters. Geueral Heath. Anecdote of General Gates. Jerome Bonaparte.\\nSir William Pepperell. Nathaniel Bowditch. George Bancroft.\\nTrinity Church. Seven Star Inn and Lane. Peter Faneuil. Governor\\nSullivan. Small-Pox Parties. Duke of Kent. Sir Edmund Andros.\\nLamb Tavern. White Horse Tavern. Colonel Daniel Messinger.\\nLion Tavern. Handel and Haydn Society. Lion Theatre. Curious\\nStatement about Tiats.\\nri^IIK name of Cliurcli Gr(!0]i wa,s applied very early to the\\n_L vacant 8})are lying at the intersection of Bedford and 8uui-\\nnier 8treet.s, from which we may infer that it was looked upon\\nas a ^irciper site for a meetinghoiisi: by the earliest settlers of\\nBoston. The land was granted Ijy the town to a number of\\npetitioners in 171 T), of whom Samuel Adams, father of the\\nl)atriot, was one.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2There was not a more beautiful site for a cliurch in Boston.\\nThe grouml was high and level,\\nthe old church having an unob-\\nstructed outlook over the harbor.\\nSamuel hcckley was the first\\npastor, ordained in 171S. )ur\\neugraA ing represents the church as\\nrebuilt in 1814. The originators\\nof till movement for the new\\nchurch held their first meetings at\\nthe old Bull Tavern, at the corner\\nof Summer and Sea Streets, of\\nwliicli we liud mention in 1708.\\nThe church sjiire towered to a\\nluaght of one hundred and ninety\\nVEW StUITII cnCIKH.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0432.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH (IKEEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 381\\nfeet from the fmindation. Tlie building was of Chelmsford\\ngranite, and designed by Bidfinch a portico projected from\\nthe front, supported ])y four Doric columns. In 18G8 it was\\ndemolished, and the temples of traffii; have arisen in its stead.\\nFifty years gone by Summer Street was, beyond dispute, the\\nmost beautiful avenue in Boston. ]\\\\Iagniticent trees then skirted\\nits entire length, overarching the driveway with interlacing\\nbranches, so that you walked or rode as within a grove in a\\nHglit sdftened by the leafy screen, and over the shadows of the\\nbig elms lying across the })avement. The palaces of trad( now\\nrear tlieir splendid fronts wliere stood the gardens or mansions\\nof the (lid merchants or statesmen of Boston.\\nTlie (lid wooden house (piite respectable for its day- in\\nwliicli I r. John T. Kirkland resided was at the corner of Sum-\\nmer and Lincoln Streets. lie was the sdii of the celebrated\\nIndian missionary, Sanniel Kirkland, fmnder of Hamilton Col-\\nlege, who was instrumental in attaching the Oneidas to the\\nAmerican cause during the IlevobUion, and acted as chaplain\\nto our firces under General Sidlivan in 1799. The younger\\nDr. Kirkland, who possessed abilities of a high order, became,\\nin 1810, president of Harvard. Another eminent clergyman,\\nJeremy I5elknap, was also a resident of Summer Street.\\nBedford Stieet was in former times known as Pond Lane,\\nfrom the Town Watering-Place situated on the east side. A\\nline drawn due south from Hawley Street would ]iass through\\nthe pond. Blind Lane was a name applied to the lower i)art\\nof the street in 1800. Summer Street was called Y Mylne\\nStreet, from its conducting towards Windmill Point, Avhere a\\nmill was erected, it appears, as early as 163G, the highway to\\nit being ordered laid out in 1044.\\nAs late as 1815 there was a pasture of two acres in Summer\\nStreet, and the tinkling of cdw-liells was hj no means an un-\\niisual sound there. The line old estates of the Geyers, Coffins,\\nEussells, Barrells, Lydes, Prebles, etc. were covered with or-\\nchards and gardens, and these hospitable residents could set\\nbefore their guests cider of their own manufacture, or butter\\nfrom their own dairies. Chauncy Place, named for tlie distin-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0433.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "382 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nguislicd pastor of the First Chuivli, was Liiil out in 1S()7, over\\na part (if tlie estate of Elieiiczer I rclilc, limtlier nf mnmoilore\\nEdward, a leading niercliant of I xiston, and at one time a\\npartner of William (rray. JMr. l rel)le s liouse was on the lower\\ncorner of wdiat is now Cliauncy Street. The estate of the\\nFirst hni cli adjoined on the west.\\nAVc have noticed the residence in this street of Daniel Web-\\nster, which the stranger may find without trouble, and will not\\npass witlmut rendering silent homage to the matchless abilities\\nof tliat great man. Mr. Webster cared little for money, and\\nwas sometimes pressed by his crediturs. On one occasion he\\nwas dunned by a needy tradesman for a tritling sum, and, after\\nemptying his pockets in vain, lie bade liis visitor wait until he\\nciiuld call oil a friend near at haml for the money. The loan\\nwas no sooner asked than olitained but at his own door Mr.\\nWebster Avas met by an application from another friend for a\\ndeserving charity, to whom he gave the money lie had bor-\\nrowed, and returned empty-handed to his creditor.\\nWhen Mr. Webster received Lafoyette after the ceremonies\\nat Bunker Hill, to give edat to the occasion and accommodate\\nthe numerous and distinguished company, a door was made con-\\nnecting with the adjoining house of Mr. Israel Thorndike.\\nThe bullet which the Mar(piis received in his leg at IJrandy-\\nAvine was the occasion of a graceful compliment hj President John\\n(,)uini y Adams. A new frigate was ready to launch at Washing-\\nton, in which it was intended Laflxyette should take passage for\\nFrance, and, when all was ready, the President, who had kept his\\npurpose a secret from every one, himself christened her the Bran-\\ndywine, to the sur^irise of (Jommodore Tingey and the naval\\nconstruct(ir, who supposed she would be called the Sus(piehanna.\\nThe impression has obtained that Boston ceased to be a gar-\\nrisoned town after the evacuation by Sir William Howe, and\\nthe departure of the great l)ody of our own troops for New\\nYork. This is very far from being the case. The command\\nof the t(\u00c2\u00bbwn was first assumed l)y Putnam, w^as transferred to\\nGreene, and finally remained with CJeneral Ward, whose age\\nand infirmity prevented his taking the field actively. The", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0434.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 383\\ncamps at Cambridge and RoxLuiy continued to be the rendez-\\nvous of the new levies. The town of Boston was the head-\\nquarters of the Eastern District, with a reguhir garrison. James\\nUrquhart, the British town-major, was succeeded by an American\\nofficer. Major Swasey, with tlie same tith^. Colonel Keith was\\ndeputy adjutant-general under Heath.\\nGeneral Ward was relieved by General Heath in 1777, and\\nretired from the army. General Heath established his head-\\nquarters at the mansion-house of Hon. Thomas Eussell, whicli\\nstood some distance back from Summer Street, about where\\nOtis Street now is. Here the General entertained D Estaing,\\nPulaski, Silas Deane, r)urgoyne, Phillips, and Iviedesel. It was\\nthe fortune of Gcnieral Heath to command in Boston while tlie\\n})risoners from Sai atoga and Bennington remained at Cambridge,\\nand he was soon (engaged in a petit guerre with Burgoyne. Soon\\nafter the arrival of the convention troo])s, Phillips proposed to\\nGeneral Heath tliat all orders affecting the prisoners should be\\ntransmitted through their own generals, but the American com-\\nmander was not disposed to thus delegate his authority.\\nHeath was succeeded by General Gates in October, 1778, who\\narrived with his wife and suite on the Gth of that month and\\nassumed the command. Gates, like AVashington and Gage, liad\\nserved in the campaign of Braddock, where he was severely\\nwounded, and l^rought off the field by a soldier for whom ho\\never after entertained an affectionate regard. Gates was tlu n a\\ncaptain in the British army, and his preserver was a private in\\nthe royal artillery, named Penfold. The old soldier, having\\nbeen invalided, desired to remain in Americni, and applied to\\nGates for his advice. We give a part of the reply, which does\\nhonor to the heart and memory of Gates\\nCome and rest your firelock in my chimney-corner, and partake\\nwith me while I have, my savior Penfold shall not want and it\\nis my wish, as well as Mrs. Gates s, to see you spend the evening\\nof your life comfortably. Mrs. Gates desires to be affectionately\\nrememberetl to you.\\nBoston can thus Ijoast of having lieen commanded by the\\nablest generals on either side of the Revolutionary struggle.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0435.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "384 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\n(Jeneral Gates was said to liave lived at miH tiiiit witli liis father\\nin the service of Charles, Hukeof lloltoii. It was liis furtuiie\\nto have achieved the greatest victdry of the K evoJution at Sara-\\ntoga, and sustained the most couiplete defeat at aniden, of any\\nofficer connnandiiig in that v/ar.\\nThe Russell uiansion was aiterwards (iccu]iied as a pulJic\\nhouse by Leon Chajipotin. -leronie l (ina[)arte, after his mar-\\nriage with j\\\\Iiss Patterson at IJaltinidre, made a visit to Buston,\\nand lodgiMl here for a tiuie. It will he recollected that this\\nmarriage was never sancti( ne(l hy the Emjteror. ()tis Place,\\nnow Street, was laid out through the estate of Sii AVilliam\\nPe])pere]l.\\nThe Sir William p| erell of our notii c was the gramlson\\nof the captor of Louishurg, and son of Colonel Kathaniel Sj)ar-\\nhawk. By the tenor of his grandfather s will, Avhicdi made him\\nthe residuary legatee of the baronet s possessions, he was re-\\nquired to change his name to Peppeiell. This was done by an\\nact of the Massachusetts Legislature. The baronetcy became\\nextinct with the decease of the elder Sir William, and was re-\\ncreated by the king for the benetit of his grandson in 1774.\\nThe younger Sir William Avas a stanch friend of the mother\\ncountry, and was one of the King s Mandamus Councillors in\\n1774. He left America wdth the lioyalists in 1775, and his\\nlarge estates in Boston and in Maine were confiscated.\\nAt Ni\\\\ 8 Otis Place lived Nathaniel Powditch, so long\\nActuary of the IMassachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company\\nin Boston. Born in poverty, after serving an apprenticeship to\\na ship-chandler until he was twenty-one, and following the sea\\nfor a number of years, he i)ublished in PSOQ, before he was\\nthirty, his work on navigation. His commentary on the cele-\\nbrated Mk-anl(jti( Ce/i sfe of Laplace estaljlished his fame as\\none of tlie leading scientific minds of either the Old or New\\nWorld. His son, Nathaniel Ingersoll, had improved an anti-\\nquarian taste by exhaustive researches among the records of the\\ntown and colony, and the articles from his pen under the sig-\\nnature of Gleaner were of the greatest interest to all students\\nof our local history. His contenq)orary Sigma (L. M. Sar-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0436.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 385\\ngent), wielded in the same cause a brilliant and caustic pen,\\ninvesting the characters of the dead past with life and action.\\nAt the corner of Winthrop and Otis Place was the residence\\nof George Bancroft in 1840, at which time he was Collector of\\nthe port of Boston. Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Channing, and\\nSamuel Osgood were members of the literary coterie who met in\\nthat liouse, to discuss the new philosophy of Transcendentalism,\\nwhich for a season turned the heads of all educated Boston.\\nWhile Secretary of the Navy, in Polk s cabinet, Mr. Bancroft\\nhas the credit of establishing the Naval Academy at Annapolis.\\nThe estate at the southwest corner of Summer and Chaun-\\ncy Streets was the pro])erty of the First Ohurch, having been\\nconveyed to it in 1680. The greater part of the original place\\nwas laid out over the church estate to gain access to the church,\\nwhich was placed upon that part of the ground in the rear of\\nSummer Street formerly the garden of the parsonage. Four\\nbrick dwellings were built on the Summer Street front l)y\\nBenjamin Joy in 1808. Before this tot)k i)lace the ground was\\noccupitnl by the parsonage. One of the pastors who filled the\\npul})it after the removal to tliis locality Avas William Emerson,\\nfather of Kalph Waldo Emerson, the essayist and poet. His\\nministrations continued from 1799 to 1811, and he had the\\ndistinction of preacliing the first sermon here.\\nAfter sixty years service, the house in Chauncy Place was\\ndeserted by the society for the new antl elegant temple at the\\ncorner of Marlborough and Berkeley Streets, whicli was occu-\\npied December, 1868. An enduring relic of the Old Brick\\nchurch remains in a slab of slate taken from beneath a \\\\vindow\\nin the second story, south side, on whi(;h is inscribed,\\nBurned to ashes October 3, 1711.\\nRebuUding June 25th. 1712. July 20, 1713.\\nThe Post-Office occupied this corner in 1859, at wliieh time\\nNahum Capen was postmaster but remained only until the\\nnext year, the site not being considered an eligil)le one.\\nBy the year 1728 King s Chapel could not accommodate its\\nnumerous parishioners at the south j)art of the town, and steps\\nwere taken to build an Episcopal church at the corner of Haw-\\n17 Y", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0437.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "380\\nLANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nley iunl SiuiiDicr Streets. Tlie coniei -stone Avas nut laid, Ikiw-\\ncver, until IT- il, when Mr. Coimuissary Priee of King s Chai)el\\nolHeiated at tlii.s ceremony. The next year it was opened\\ninr worship. Among the lirst oftieers we Jind the familiar\\nnames of hai les Apthnrji, Jlenjandn yaneuil, Philip l)uniares(|,\\nWilliam nllin, ,iiid Tlionias Aston. Pev. Addiugton Daven-\\n})ort, a hrolher-indaw Peter Fanenil, Avho had been an\\nassistant at King s (_ hapel in 1737, Avas the lirst rector of\\nJ rinity.\\nThe first liuililing Avas of Avood. It was ninety feet long, and\\nsixty hroad, without any external adiu ument. It had neither\\ntower nor stee-\\nple, nor Avin-\\ndows in the low-\\ner story of the\\nfront. There\\nAvere three en-\\ntrances in front\\nunprotected by\\njxirrhes. The\\ninterior Avas\\neomposeil of an\\narch resting up-\\non (Jorinthian\\nOLD TRINITY rUrRCH. JullarS AV 1 1 ll\\nhandsouKdy carve(l ;ind gildrd capitals. \\\\n the chancel Avere\\nsome paintings, considered Acry beautiful in their day. Taken\\naltogether, Trinity might boast the handsomest interior of\\nany church in Boston of its time. Tn 1,S28 it was supplanted\\nby the givuiite e(lilice seen in our view on the opposite V^S^,\\n\\\\U Y. Jolm S. .1. Jardiner laying the corner-stone. Trinity, like\\nthe other Ei)is(-opal churches, had tombs underneath it.\\nWe do not learn that Trinity received any special marks of\\nroyal favor, such as Avere shown to its predecessors, King s\\nChapel and Christ Church. To the former the king and queen\\n(William and Mary) gave, liesides the communion ]ilate, a pub\\npit-cloth, a cushion, and a i ainting Avhich reached fnuu the top\\n^HfM", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0438.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE.\\n387\\nto the bottom of tlio east end of the church, containing the\\nDecalogue, the Lord s Prayer, and the Apostles Creed. Biit\\nGovernor 8hirl(^y, who had so li})erally aided the Chapel, gavt;\\nTrinity a service for communion, table-cloths, and books. Peter\\nPaneuil had in 1741 oifered 100 toAvards an organ, but one\\nwas not procured until 1744.\\nWhen General Washington was in Loston in 1789 he ])asse(l\\nthe Sa])bath liere, and went to bear\\nDr. (afterwards Bishoj)) I arker in the\\nforenoon, and to IJrattle Street in the\\nafternoon, when; he sat in (lovernor\\nBowdoin s pew.\\nCuriously enough, Trinity Churcli\\noccupied the site of tlie old Pleiades\\nor Seven Star Inn, from whicli Sum-\\nmer Street took the name of Seven\\nStar Lane. Trinity Avas completely\\ndestroyed l)y tlie Great Fire of 1872, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0hi^ v nin;, h in is72.\\nto rise again, in greater beauty, on Coi)ley S(piare.\\nPeter Faneuil occu])ied pcAv Xo. 40 in )ld Trinity. We\\nmay easily picture him descending from his chariot on a Sun-\\nday morning Avhile his negro coachman assists him to alight.\\nWe doulit not the heads of the young Boston belles Avere\\nturned towards the Avealthy bachelor as he advanced up the\\naisle to his dcA^otions. Ilis good l)rot]ier Davenport no doubt\\nenjoyed those perquisites so pleasantly referred to by Pope\\nAvhen he says,\\nHe that hath these may pass liis life,\\nDrink Avith the squire, and kiss his wife\\nOn Sundays preach, and eat liis fill\\nAnd fast on Fridays, if he will", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0439.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "388 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nToast CliuiL li ami Queen, explain the news,\\nTalk with church -wardens about pews,\\nPray lieartily for some new gift.\\nAnd shake his head at Dr. Swift.\\nThe corner of Hawley Street, next below Trinity, will be\\nremembercil as the estate of Goveruur James Stillivan and\\nof Lieutena.nt-( lovernor (Jray.\\nGovernor Snllivan was the brother of the Eevolntionary\\ngeneral; was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1S()7, and\\nre-electeil in ISIKS. lie had been a niend)er of the Ma.ssachu-\\nsetts Provincial Congress Judge of the Superior ourt and\\nDelegate to Congress in 1784, from the District of Maine where\\nhe then resided. Mr. .Sullivan was also a member of the State\\nConstitutional Convention, and one of the Commissioners ap-\\npointed by Washington to settle the boundary between the\\nUnited States and British Provinces. AV illiam Sullivan^ son\\nof the governor, Avas a listinguished lawyer and scholar. He\\nAvas a stanch Federalist, and wrote an aljlo vindication of that\\nparty.\\nWhen Governor Sullivan Avas Ijefore the jieojde as a candi-\\ndatt% it is said a caricature appeared in the entinel reflecting\\nseverely upon his integrity. His son, liichard Sullivan, Avay-\\nlaid Benjamin liussell, the editor, in the vicinity of Scollay s\\nBuildings, as he Avas proceeding to the office from liis residence\\nin Pinckney Street, and after demanding of Pussell if he Avas\\nresponsihlc for ail that appeared in his j)a]i( r, and receiving an\\naffirmative answer, struck him a IjIow across the face Avith his\\ncane, leaving Russell staggered by the violence and suddenness\\nof the attack.\\nThe elder Levi Lincoln Avas lieutenant-governor Avith Gov-\\nernor Sullivan, and on his decease ])ecame acting governor.\\nHis son Levi Avas lieutenant-governor in 1823, and governor\\nin 1825 -;U. Anotlier son, Enoch, Avas governor of Maine in\\n1827-2 On the decease of tlieir mother, Martlia Lincoln,\\nher remains Avere followed to the grave l)y her two sons, then\\nchief magistrates of two States.\\nJo.seph Barrel], Avhom Ave liave mentioned in onr view of\\nFranklin Street, Avas one of the foimiost of the old merchants", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0440.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "FKOM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 389\\nof Boston. His name stands first on tlie list of directors of\\nthe C)ld United. States Bank, in company with John Codman,\\n(Jalel) Davis, Christopher Gore, John Coffin Jones, John Low-\\nell, Theodore Lyman, Jonathan IMason, Jr., Joseph Russell, Jr.,\\nDavid Sears, Israel Thorndikt^, and William Wetmt)re.\\nIt is related that a person carried to a bank in Pennsylvania\\nsome bills which that bank had issued, and demanded gold and\\nsilver for them. He was answered that the bank did not })ay\\ngold or silver. Give me, then, said he, bills of the United\\nStates Bank. We have none. Then give me bills on\\nany l)ank in N ew England. We have none of these. Pay\\nme, then, in the best conuteyfcit Ijills you have.\\nThe reader will perhaps experience some incredulity when lie\\nis told that, before the discovery of the present mode of vaccina-\\ntion, small-pox parties were among the fashionable gatherings\\noi Gld Boston. The guests were inocnilatcMl, and withdrew for\\na time from the world. An invitation of this kind appears in\\nthe following extract from a letter of Joseph Barrell, dated\\nJuly 8, 1776\\nMr. Storer has invited Mi-s. Martin to take the small-pox at lii\u00c2\u00bb\\nliouse if Mrs. Wentworth (k sin^s to get rid ol her fears in the same\\nway, we will accommodate her in the Ix st way we can. I ve several\\nfriends that I ve invited, and none of them will be more welcome\\nthan Mrs. W.\\nJoseph Barrell occupied store No. 3, south side? of the Town\\nDock, where he advertised brown sugar, double and treble re-\\nfined, looking-glasses, wine, oil, etc.\\nHe w as the owner of the triaiigiilar estate at the junction of\\nWashington with Brattle Street, of which he gave a portion to\\nthe town for the widening of the latter.\\nThe fine granite structure of the Messrs. Hovey stands on\\nthe site of tlie old-time mansion of the Yassalls, erected l)y\\nLeonard Vassall, whose son William built tlie house on Pem-\\nberton Hill, afterwards the residence of Gardiner Greene.\\nThomas Hubbard, who })recede(l Hancock as Treasurer of Har-\\nvard College, and Freilerick Jeyer, who left Boston with the.\\nBrewster s Portsmouth.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0441.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "390 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nadherents of the crown, were subsequent proprietors as the\\nestate of the latter it was confiscated, but was subsequently\\nrestored.\\nWhen the Duke of Kent, son of George III., and father of\\nVictoria, the reigning (^)ueen of England, was in Boston, he was\\npresent at the wedding of Nancy W. Geyer, who married Rufus\\nG. Ainory. Prince Edward, as he was then styled, did not in-\\ncline to visit Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Adams.\\n.South of tlie Vassall-Geyer property was the estate of John\\nRowe, whose house -subse(pientlythatof Judge Prescott, father\\nof the historian stood upon the spot formerly occupied by Dr.\\nRobbins s Church in Redford Street, opposite tlio building of\\nR. ir. White and Co. A wharf and streiit once handed down\\nthe name of Rowe, as true a friend to his country as any\\nwhose names have reached a greater renown, but the wharf\\nalone retains this title. Rowe Street, Avhicli was given to and\\naccepted by the city on condition that it should be so called,\\nhas become since 1856 absorbed in Cliauncy Street, that part\\nlying l)etween Bedford and Summer Streets having been pre-\\nvious to this divided by an iron fence, the southerly portion\\nbeing known as Bedford and the northerly as C-hauncy Place.\\nBidding adieu to Summer Street, we pause for a moment at\\nwliat was formerly Bethune s Corner, where now ai e tlie glit-\\ntering shop-windows of Sliuman and Company, and where a\\nceaseless human tide, crossing the narrow street, struggles with\\nthe passing vehicles. From the old mansion-house of Thomas\\nEnglish, which stoo(l hero, was buried Benjamin Faneuil.\\nLf)oking in the direction of the Old South, a little north of\\nSummer Street, was the reputed residence of Sir Edmund An-\\ndios, wlio dwelt, it is said, in an old house which disappeared\\nabout 1700, and which stood nearly on the spot now occupied\\nliy number 422 Washington Street. This tradition existed\\nearly in the present century, and may have been true, though\\nit could not have been the habitation of tlie knight wlien\\nLady Andros, to whoso funeral we have referred in a for-\\nmer chapter, died. Andros was governor of New England\\nonly three years. We know that his country-seat was at", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0442.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "FROM ClIUKCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE.\\n391\\nDorchester, it was still standing in 1825, and there is\\nabundant evidence that he lived in Boston, but none that we\\nare aware of, that he owned an estate here. Though a change\\nof residence was less common among the old inhabitants of\\nBoston than at the present day, it was no anomaly.\\nEarl Bellomont, writing to the Lords of Trade from Boston,\\nin 1698, says he paid X 100 a year for a house, besides his\\ncharge for a stable, and continues in the following strain\\nIt is for the King s honour that his Governour have a bouse\\nthere is a very good house plot where Sir Ednmnd Andres lived iu\\nthe best part of the town. T is the least ol their thoughts I doubt\\nto build a house for tlie King s Governour.\\nTliis refers without d(tul)t to otton Hill or the vicinity,\\nwhich was tlu?n the best part of tlie town, and Andros only\\nfollowed the example of Endicott, Bellingham, and Vane, when\\nhe located there. The region lying around Sunnner Street was\\nthen considered remote. Even\\nas late as wlien Boston became a\\ncity, it was thought too far out\\nof town by small sliopkeepers,\\nbusiness not having then en-\\ncroached so far upon the resi-\\ndence quarter.\\nThreading our way through\\nold Newbury Street with our\\nface towards tlie soiitli, we\\npass the old stand of Thomas\\nand Andrews at number 45.\\nTlionias printed tlie Spy in\\nUnion Street, near the mar-\\nket, at tlie south corner of\\nMarshall s Lane, leading from\\nthe INIill Bridge into Luion\\nStreet, and at the bottom of\\nRoyal Exchange Lane near the IMarket, Dock Square, besides\\nBack Street, Avhere the hrst number was probably printed.\\nWe cannot pass by the neighborhood of Avon Street with-\\nf.\\\\i;st s statue, 170", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0443.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "392 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nout thinking of old B;irtliolo]nt w Given and liis News Letter,\\nof Benjamin Churcli and hiy treachery, of Margaret Fnller and\\nher Tintimely fate, any more than we can pass the Old South\\nwithout thinking of the riding-school, or Bunker Hill Monu-\\nment without thinking of Prescott and Warren.\\nA group of taverns next claims our attentio]i. Tlie inns of\\nOld Ldiiddii rendered u}) their names freely to their colonial\\nimitators, and our older residents might drink their punch\\nunder the same signs they were used to frequent beneath the\\nshadow of Old 8aint Paul s. We have had no Johnson with\\nhis corner at the Mitre, no Dryden with his snug retreat at Will s\\nCoffee-house, nor can we show any as famous as Button s, where\\nPope, Steele, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Addison were wont to\\nassemble at the best head in England but we liave visited\\nsome where matters more serious than wit and sentiment were\\ndiscussed, and where measures were digested more important to\\nmankind.\\nWe commend to our modern hotel-keepers the fallowing ex-\\ntract from a law enacted about 1041)\\nNor shall any take tohacco any inne, or coiniiion victual\\nhouse, except in a private room there, so as the master of said liouse\\nnor any guest there shall take offence thereat which if any do,\\nthen such persons shall forbear, upon pain ot two shillings and\\nsixpence for every such offence.\\nWe come first to the Adams House, whicdi stands on the\\nground formerly occujiied l;\u00c2\u00bby the Liunb Tavern, sometimes styled\\nthe White Lamb. The Landj was an unpretending l)uilding\\nof two stories, but of good repute in Old Boston. The sign is\\nnoticed as early as 174G. Colontd Doty lie] it at the sign of the\\nLamb in 17G0 Edward Kingman ke})t it in 1S2G after which\\nit was conducted successively l)y Lalian Adams, for whom the\\nhouse was named, father of Olivtn- Optic (W. T. Adams), and\\nby A. S. Allen. The first stagc-coacdi to Providence, advertised\\nJuly L O, 1 7 i7, ])y Thomas Saliin, put u}i at the sign of the Lamb.\\nThe A\\\\ hite Horse Tavern was a few rods south of the Lamb,\\nsituated nearly ojiposite the mansion-house of Dr. Lemuel Hay-\\nward, physician and surgeon, iVoiu whose estate Hay ward Place", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0444.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0445.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0446.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 393\\nis named. It had a large square sign projecting over the foot-\\nway, on which was dehneated a white charger. We find tliis\\ntavern mentioned in 1794, and infer that it was the rendezvous\\nof one of the companies of the Boston Regiment, as young\\nWoodlu idge came liere for his sword hefore meeting Phillips on\\nthe (Jonnno]!. It was kept liy Joseph Morton, father of Perez\\nMorton, in 1760, and for a long time thereafter. In 1787\\nIsrael Hatch became mine liost we append his advertisement\\nentire\\nTAKE NOTICE\\nEntertainment for\\nGentlemen and Ladies\\nAt the White Horse Tavern,\\nNewl)ury- Street.\\nMy friends and travellers, you 11 meet\\nWith kindly welcome and good cheer,\\nAnd what it is yon now shall hear\\nA spacious house and licjuors good,\\nA man who gets his livelihood\\nBy favours granted hence he 11 he\\nAlways smiling, always free\\nA good large house for chaise or chair,\\nA stable well expos d to air\\nTo finish all, and make you blest,\\nYou 11 have the l)rcezes froni the west.\\nAnd ye, who flee th approaching Sol,\\nMy doors are open to your call\\nWalk in and it shall be my care\\nT oblige the weary traveller.\\nFrom Attleborough, Sirs, I came,\\nWliere once I did you entertain,\\nAnd now shall here as there before\\nAttend you at my open door,\\nObey all orders with despatch,\\nAm, Sirs, your servant,\\nI.sR.vEL Hatch.\\nBoston, May 14, 1787.\\nColonel Daniel IMessinger, wlio was always in recpiest to sing\\ntlie odes on public occasions, commenced business near the\\nLand) Tavern in 1789. He was l)y trade a hatter, and had\\nserved an apprenticeship with Nathaniel Balch (Governor Han-\\n17*", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0447.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "394 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON\\ncock s favorite) at 72 Old Cornliill. Colonel Messinger had a\\nvoice of great strength and pnrity, and had snng in presence of\\nWasliington, Lafayette, Jerome Bonaparte, and other distin-\\nguished personages.\\nAnother neighljor of the Lamb was the Lion Tavern, on the\\nsite of the former Melodeon. Its sign was the traditional\\nBritish Lion, but it seems to have lived on terms of amity witli\\nits peaceful neighl)ur. The tavern at length passed into the\\npossession of the Handel and Haydn Society, and was devoted\\nto the performance of oratorios. This society organized 30th\\nMarch, 181.5, and hrst met at Jraui)ner s Hall, Franklin Street.\\nThe original number of members was thirty-one, and tlieir hrst\\npublic performance was given in King s Chapel, Christmas\\nevening, 181. 5, when selections fmm the Creation, Messiah, etc.\\nwere given in presence of an audience nf iipwards of a thousand\\npersons. The Lion was, in 1789, called the Turk s Head.\\nThe Lion Tavern estate was called the Melodeon by the\\nHandel and Haydn Society, in place of which we noAV have the\\nannex to Keith s fine theatre. The first Melodeon was oc-\\ncupied by Rev. Tlieodore Parker s society on Sundays, linth\\nsocieties removed later to Music Hall in Winter Street.\\nIn 1835 the Lion Tavern became the projierty of Mr. James\\nEaymdud, and was innnediately transformed into an am})hi-\\ntheatre, under the name of tlie Lion Theatre. It o]iened in\\nJanuary, 1836, with a comedy by Buckstoue, supplemented hj\\ne(pi( strian [lerformances. Mr. J. B. Booth appeared at this\\ntheatre in May, 1 S3r). It passed through varying fortunes\\nuntil 1844, when, after it liad lieen rechristened the Melodeon,\\nMr. Macready and ]\\\\Iiss Cuslnnan appeared here for a sliort\\nseason. Jenny Lind, Sontag, and Alltoni, all gave concerls at\\ntile Mehideou.\\nTliere seems to bave been a time in the liistory of Boston\\nwhen the settlers were called upon to wage a war of extermina-\\ntion against a domestic enemy, one which they had undoubtedly\\nbrought among themselves. -)ur readers have heard of a bounty\\nfor tlie scalps of savages, wolves ears, anil liears claws, l)ut\\nnever perhaps of a jirice being set upon rats, as tlie following", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0448.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. 395\\nextract from the to^vn records, selected from a number of\\nthe same description, will show was once the case\\nOn the first day of January, 1743, the Selectmen gave a certifi-\\ncate to the Province Treasurer, that they had paid out of the Town\\nStock to sundry persons for 9280 Rats killed in or near the Town,\\nsince the last day of August, 154. 13 4* old tenor and desired\\nhim to pay tlie same to Joseph Wadsworth Estp Town Treasuier.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0449.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "396 LANDMAllKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTEE XIV.\\nLIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHnORnOOB.\\nLiberty Tree. Its History. Hanover Square. Lilierty Hall. Hanging\\nill Ettigy. Auchnmty s Lane. The Old Suft olk Bench and Bar.\\nBoylston Mauket. Charles Matthews. James E. Murdoch. Peggy\\nMoore s. Washington Bank. Beac h Street Mnsenni. Essex Street.\\nRainsford s Lane. Harrison Avenne. Ailmiral Sir Lsaac Coffin. Gen-\\neral John Coffin. Anecdote of Admiral CofHn. Sir Thomas Aston\\nCoffin. Henry Bass. Old Distill-houses. Manufacture of Rum.\\nGilbert Stuart, Anecdotes of. First Glass Works. Disappearance of\\nTrees. Early Planting of Trees. Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe. South\\nCove. Hollis Street. Colonel John C rane. General Ebenezer Stevens.\\nMather Byles, Anecdotes of. Hollis Street Church. Fire of 1787.\\nI A FAYETTE said, when in Boston, Tlie world slioidd\\nnever forget tlie spot where once stond l^ilierty Tree, so\\nfamons in your annals. It lias Loen tlie eaie of David 8ears\\nthat this injunction sin mid iidt tall to the ground unheeded.\\nIn the wall of the hnildin*; at the southeast corner of Essex\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baStreet, at its junction with Wasliington, we see a handsome\\niVc^estoiu; has-relief, representing a tree M itli wide-s])reailing\\nln anches. Tliis memorial is ])laced directly over the spot Avhere\\nstood the famed Lilierty Tree. An inscription informs us that\\nit commemorates\\nIjiberty 1776\\nha.Vf and Order\\nSons of Liberty 17C6\\nIndepenilenee of their country 177 5.\\nThe ojjen space at the four corners of Wasliingto]i, Essex,\\nand Boylston Streets was on(-e known as Hanover Square, front\\nth(! royal house of Hanover, and sometimes as the Elm Neigli-\\nhorhood, from the magnificent elms with which it was environed.\\nIt was one of the linest of these that olitained the name of Lib-\\nerty Tree, from its heing used on the tir.st occasion of resistance\\nto the obnoxious Stamp Act. In ITT-t this tree, with another,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0450.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.\\n397\\nstood m the enclosure of an old-fashioned dwelling at the his-\\ntoric corner; in 1766, whc]) the repeal of tlie Stamp Act took\\nplace, a large copper plate Avas fastened to the tree inscril)ed in\\ngolden characters\\nThis tree was itlaiited in tlie year 1646, anri pruned by order of tlie Sons of\\nLiberty, Feb. 14tli, 1766.\\nIn August, 1775, the name of Liberty liaving Ijec ome ofteu-\\nsive to the tories and their Dritish allies, the tree was cut down\\nby a party led by one Joli Williams. Armed with axes, they\\nmade a furious attack upon it. After a long si)ell of laughing\\nand grinning, sweating, swearing, and foaming, witli malice\\ndiabolical, they cut down a tree because it bore the name of\\nLiberty. Some idea of the size of thi tree may be formed\\nfrom tlie fact that it made\\nI ourteeii cords of wood.\\nI lie jesting at the expense\\nof the Sons of Liberty\\nhad a sorry conclusion;\\none of the soldiers, in at-\\ntempting to remove a\\nlimb, I cll to the pavement\\nand was killi d.\\ni hc gi ound innnedi-\\nately about Liberty Tree\\nwas popularly known as\\nLiln^rty Hall. In August,\\n1767, a tlagstalf had betai\\nerected, which went\\ntlirough and extended\\ndhoxi its highest branches.\\nA flag hoisted upon this staif was tlie signal for the assembling\\nof the Sons of Liberty for action. Captain Mackintosh, the\\nlast captain of the Popes, was the first captain-general of\\nLiberty Tree, and had charge of the illuminations, hanging of\\neffigies, etc.\\nEssex Gazette, 1775.\\n-\u00c2\u00a54 0..^iP^\\ni^m\\nLIBERTY TRICK.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0451.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "398 LANDMAKKS OF BOSTON.\\nAlU-r tlie old war was over a liberty-pole wius erected on tlie\\nstump of the tree, the latter long serving as a j)oiiit of dirt ction\\nknown as Liberty Stump. A second pole was placed in ])osi-\\ntion on the 2d July, 1S2G. It was intended to have been raised\\nduring the visit of l^afayette in 1825, and the following lines\\nwere written by Judge 1 )awes\\nOf liigli renown, liere grew tlie Tree,\\nTlie Elm so dear to Liberty\\nYour sires, beneatli its sacred shade,\\nTo Freedom early lioniage paid.\\nThis day witli filial awe surround\\nIts root, that sanctifies the gi ound,\\nAnd liy yoiu fathers sjiirits swear,\\nTlie rights they left you 11 not impair.\\nGovernor Bernard, Avriting to Lord Jlillsbdrough tmdor date\\nof June 18, 17G8, gives the following account of Lilierty\\nTree\\nYour Lordship must know that Lilierty tree is a lai ge old Elm\\nin the High Street, upon wliieh the effigies were liung in the time\\nof the Stani[) Act, and from whence the mol)s at tliat time made\\ntheir paraxh^s. It has since been adorned with an inscription, and\\nli;is olitained the name of Liberty Tree, as the ground uudei it has\\nthat i f Lilierty Hall. In August last, just before the counuencemcnt\\nof the present trouldes, tliey erected a flagstaff, which went through\\nthe tree, and a good deal above tlie top of the tree. Upon this they\\nhoist a flag as a signal for the Sons oi Liberty, as they are called. I\\ngave my Lord Shellumie an account of this erection at the time it\\nwas made. This tree has often put me in mind of Jack Cade s Oak\\nof ReformatidU.\\nLiberty Tree Tavern in 1833 occupied tlie spot wliore once\\nLiberty Tree .stood. It was kept by G. Cummings. In its im-\\nmediate vicinity and opposite the Loylston jNIarket was Lafay-\\nette Hotel, built in 1824, and kept l\u00c2\u00bby S. Haskell in the year\\nabove mentioned.\\nThe Sons of Lil)erty adopted the name given them by Colonel\\nLarre in a speech in Parliament, in which he took occasion thus\\nto characterize those Avho evinced a disjiosition to resist the\\noppressive measures of the Ministry. Under the bran(dies of\\nLiberty Tree that resistance lirst showed itself by public acts.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0452.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 399\\nAt daybreak on the 14tli August, 1765, nearly ten years\\nbefore active hostilities broke out, an effigy of Mr. Oliver, the\\nStamp officer, and a boot, with the Devil peeping out of it,\\nan allusion to Lord Bute, were discovered hanging from\\nLiljerty Tree. The images rciuiained hanging all day, and were\\nvisited by great numbers of peo[)le, both from the town and\\nthe neighboring country. Business was almost suspended.\\nLieutenant-(jrovernor Hutchinson ordered the sheriff t(j take\\nthe hgures down, but he was obliged to admit tliat he dared\\nnot do so.\\nAs the day closed in the effigi(;s were taken down, placed\\nupon a bier, and, followed by several thousand peo])le of every\\nclass and condition, proceeded ih st to the, Town Ifdusi and\\nfrom thence to the supposed office of the Stamp Master, as has\\nl)een detailed in that connection. With materials obtained\\nfrom the ruins of the building, the jjrocession moved to Kort\\nHill, where a bontire was light(!d and the effigies consumed in\\nfull view of Mr. Oliver s liouse. (Jovernor Bernard and (uiuncil\\nwere in session in the Town House Avhen tlu ])rocession jtassed\\nthrough it, as the lower floor of the building left open for public\\npromenade permitted them to do. In the attacks whi(;h fol-\\nlowed upon the houses ol the secretary, lieutenant-governor,\\nand officers of the admiralty, INlackintosh api)ears to have been\\nthe leader. In these proceedings the records of the court of\\nvice-admiralty were destroyed, an irreparaldc loss to the prov-\\nince and to history. IMackintosh was arrested, but immediately\\nreleased on the demand of a number of persons of character\\nand property.\\nMr. Oliver n(nv publicly declared his intention of resigning,\\nand when the stamps arrived in Boston in September they were\\nsent to Castle William. In Novendier there was another hang-\\ning in effigy of two of the king s advisers. The anniversary of\\nPope Day was celebrated by a union of the rival factions, who\\nmet in amity and refreshed themselves under Liberty Tree\\nbefore proceeding to Copp s Hill, as was customary. But the\\ngreatest act whi(;h occurred under this fomous tree was the\\npublic declaration of Secretary Oliver that he would not in any", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0453.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "400 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nway, by himself or by deputy, perform the chities of stamp\\nmaster. The Secretary, desirous of less pidilicity, had requested\\nthat the ceremony miglit take place at tlie Town House, but\\nthe Sons had deteriniiied that tlie Tree was the proper\\nplace, and Mr. (Oliver ]in sentcd himself tliere. Besides this\\ndeclaration, sul)scribod to before llicliard Dana, justice of the\\npeace, Mr. Oliver fully rccantetl his sentiments in favor of the\\nStamp Act, and desii cd the pcoph^ iw longer to look upon\\nhim as an enemy, but as a, friend, a piece of duplicity\\nfully exj)osed by the discovery of his correspondence on the\\nsubject.\\nOn the 14th Feln uary, \\\\7(U the tree was pruned under the\\ndirection of skillful i)ersoiis, and on the 2()th the plate was\\nattached. On this day the ceremony of burning stamped i)apers,\\nand the effigies of Bute and Jrenville, took jilace at the gallows\\non the Neck, the Sons returning to Hanover S({uare, where they\\ndraidv his Majesty s health an l other toasts expressive of their\\nloi/tilti/ to the throne.\\nFrom this time all measures of [)ulilic concern Avere discussed\\nby the Sons of Liberty under the. umbrageous shdti r of their\\nadored tree. The affair of Hancock s sloop, the arrival of the\\ntroops, the Non-im})ortation Act, eacli received the attention\\nthey merited. On the 14th August, 17G9, anniversary of the\\niirst Stamp Act proceedings, and the day of the Union and\\nhrmly condjined Association of the Sons of liberty in this\\nProvince, there was a great assem1)ly iiuder Lil)erty Tree.\\nMany came from great distances. Reed and Dickinson (a\\nbrother of John Dickinson) were present from Philadel})hia.\\nPeyton Kandolph was expected, but did not come. The British\\nflag Avas hoisted over the tree, and, after drinking fourteen\\ntoasts, the meeting adjourned to Roljinson s Tavern, Dorchester,\\nknown also as the sign of the Til)erty Tree, where the day was\\npassed in festivity and mirth. John Adams was present, and\\nhas left an account of the gathering, into which we shouhl not\\nhave to look in vain for Samuel Adams, Otis, and their com-\\npatriots.\\nAfter the establishment of the troops in Boston the necessity", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0454.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "LIBEETY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 401\\nfor secrecy in their movements compelled the patriots to resort\\nto the clubs for conference. The tree, however, had borne its\\npart in the acts preliminary to the great conflict which ensued,\\nand to pilgrims to the shrines of American history the spot\\nwhere it once stood must ever possess an interest second to no\\nothei in tliis historic city.\\nTlie tree their own hands had to liberty reared\\nThey lived to behold growing strong and revered\\nWith transport then cried, Now our wishes we gam,\\nFor our children shall gatlier the fruits of our pain.\\nIn freedom we re born, and in freedom we 11 live\\nOur purses are ready,\\nSteady, friends, steady\\nNot as slaves, but as freemen, our money we 11 give.\\nSamuel Adams, a namesake of the Revolutionary patriot and\\nan old resident of North End, had in his possession until his\\ndeath, in 1855, a flag which was used on the liberty-pole\\nl)rior to the Eevolution, and which he displayed on public\\noccasions with great satisfaction. Some services which he per-\\nformed on the patriots side, in which he sustained losses, pro-\\ncured him a small appropriation from the State.\\nThe hanging of effigies appears to have originated in England\\nin 1763. This was at Honiton, in Devonshire, famous for its\\nlace manufacture, two years Itefore the exhibitions in Boston\\nfrom the limbs of Liberty Tree. A tax having been levied\\nupon cider, the effigy of the minister concerned in it was sus-\\n[\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ended from an apple-tree that grew over the road, with the\\nfollowing lines affixed to it\\nBehold the man who made the yoke\\nWhich doth Old England s sons provoke,\\nAnd now he hangs upon a tree,\\nAn emblem of our liberty.\\nEssex Street was the line of division between old Newbury\\nand Orange Streets. Newbury reached to Winter Street, while\\nOrange conducted from tlie fortifications on the Neck into town\\nits name was no doubt given in honor of the Prince of Orange.\\nEssex Street, which was named in 1708, was also called Auch-\\nnuity s Lane, for the family so distinguished in the history of\\nthe old Suffolk Bar.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0455.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "402 LANDMAKKK OF BOSTON.\\nThe cLlcr l^olicrt Auclnnuty ^vas a barrister during the ad~\\nniini.sti atiuji uf iJclcht r and Shirley, and in liis latter years judge-\\nadv(_icate (jf tlie Court of Admiralty.\\nTlie younger Auclnnuty was judge of tlie same court when\\nthe lievolution liegan. His associates at the bar were Read,\\nJ^ratt, (Jridley, Trowbridge, Adams, Otis, the gifted Thacher,\\nand tlie brilliant C^uincy. He was born in Boston, and assisted\\nAdams am] (,,)aincy in the defence of Captain Preston, for his\\n[)artici[iatiiin in the massacre in King Street. His residence was\\nin iSchool Street, next the old Extinguisher Engine-house.\\nA nejihew, Sir Samuel Auclnnuty, born in New York, fought\\nagainst his countrymen in the service of King George.\\nBenjamin Pratt, afterwards chief justice of New York, mar-\\nried a daughter of the old Judge Auchmuty. He was a small,\\nthin man, and from the loss of a lind:) was obliged to use\\ncrutches. It was of lum that John Adams said that he had\\nlookccl with wonder to see such a little boily hung u})on two\\nsticks send forth such eloquence and displays of mind. Pratt s\\noffice was in the second house north of the corner of Court Street\\nin old Cornhill, where Gould and Lincoln s bookstore was\\nformerly ke[ t his country-seat was on Milton Hill.\\n(Jxi nliridge Thacher s office was ojijiosite the south door of\\nthe Old State House. Sampson Salter Blowers, eminent at the\\nsame l)ar, lived in Southack s Court (Howard Street). Gridley,\\nwitli wliom Jaiucs (_)tis studied, lived in a house next north of\\nCornhill Si|uarc. Jolm Adams s office was in a house next\\nahovc William iMinot s, which was on C(.iurt Street, opposite\\nthe C(-)urt House, where now stands Minot s Ihiilding. Pead\\nbuilt and lived in the house described as Mr. Minot s. (-azneau\\nliveil in a, house next east of the Court House. Chief Justice\\nDana s father lived at the corner of Wilson s Lane. John\\nQuincy Adams s office was in Court Street.\\nBefore the Revolution eight dollars Avas the fee in an impor-\\ntant cause, five dollars was tlie limit i or a jury ai\\\\gunient, two\\ndollars for a, continuance. Lhen tlie lawyers went the circuits\\nwith the judges. The courtesy and dignity which distinguished\\nthe intercourse between bench and bar did not continue under", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0456.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 403\\nthe new order of things, if we may credit Fisher Ames, who,\\nin aUusion to the austerity of tlie court, supposed to be Judge\\nPaine, and the manners of the attorneys, remarked, that a\\nlawyer should go into court with a club in one hand and a\\nspeaking-trumpet in the otlier. Chief Justice Parsons and\\nJudge Sedgwick were the last barristers Avlio sat upon the\\n1)ench. Perez IMorton and Judge AVetmore were tlie last sur-\\nvivors who liad attainetl the degree.\\nBoylston Market, when opened to the public in 1810, was\\nconsidered far out of town. It was named to honor tlie benev-\\nolent and philanthro])ic Ward Nicholas Boylston, a descend-\\nant of that Dr. Zabdiel Boylston so famous in the history of\\ninoculation. The parties interested in the movement met at\\nthe Exchange oflee House on the ITt-h of danuary, 1809,\\nwhen their arrangements were perfected. Jolin (.^Uiincy Adams,\\nwho then lived in Boylston Street, was much intei ested in the\\nnew market, and made a luief addrc^ss at the laying of the\\ncoruer-stoiu The buililing was d(^signe(l by Bulhnch, and Mr.\\nBoylston presented the clock. In 1870 the solid ])rick struc-\\nture was moved back from the street eleven feet without disturb-\\ning the occupants. Before the erection of this market-house,\\nFaneuil Hall jNlarket was the principal source of su])p]y for the\\ninhabitants of this remote quarter.\\nBoylston Hall, over the market wliicli has also l)een known\\nas Pantheon Hall and Adams Hall is associated with a\\nvariety of musical, theatrical, and miscellaneous entertainments.\\nIt was occupied by the Handel and Haydn Society in 1817, the\\nyear after their incorporation, and used l)y them for their mu-\\nsical exhibitions. In 1818 Incledon and Phillips, the cele-\\nbrated vocalists, assisted at their performances. The celebrated\\nCharles Matthews gave his Trip to Paris here in 1822, after\\nthe close of liis engagement at the old theatre, as Mr. Clapp\\nsays, to meet the wants of those holy puritans who would\\nnot visit the theatre to see an entertainment which they patro-\\nnized in a hall. Mr. Buckingham, editor of the Galaxy, char-\\nacterized the performance as low and vulgar, for which and\\nother strong expressions Matthews commenced an action for", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0457.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "404 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\ndamages the suit never came to trial. A theatre was also\\nestablished here liy Wyzemau Marshall, and the since much-\\nadmired and successful actor Murdoch conducted at one time a\\ngymnasium and school of elocution in Boylston Hall. Added to\\nthese, it was used by several religious societies and as an armory,\\njjriov to its being replaced by the Continental Clothing House.\\nU})on this spot once stood the tavern of Peggy Moore.\\nThe vicinity was the usual halting-place for the country people\\ncoming into town with their garden produce. Then ox-teams\\nwere the ride, few farmers having horses, and the neighbor-\\nliood of Peggy ]\\\\I(ii ire s was usually a scene of plenty and of\\njollity. From the shrewdness with which barter was carried\\non, the place was dulilied shaving corner, and among the\\nkeen blades who traiHrked on this exchange, iKUie, it was said,\\nexcelled William Poster of the neighboring lane. Even the\\nfuture President may have cheapened his joint here, or turned\\nthe scale in his favor l)y a call at Peggy Moore s.\\nThe Washington Bank was long located at the corner of\\nWashington and Beach Streets, where its imposing granite\\nfront remained until the erection of the present buildings.\\nThe bank was incorporated in 1825, with a capital of half a\\nmillion. For a long time previous to its demolition the\\nbuilding was occupied as a furniture warehouse. In Beach\\n.Street was established the shortdived Dramatic Museum in\\n1848, in a building known as the ]ieach Street Market.\\nWe will enter ujKin Essex Street. A short walk brings us\\nto Harrison Avemie, one of the new streets risen from the\\nsea-shore. Tlie beginning of this now handsome street, shaded\\nfor a consideral)le distance by trees, was in the portion from\\nEssex Street to Beach, where it was arrested by the water.\\nThis was called Painsford s Lane, until included in Front\\nStreet (Harrison Avenne) in 182rt. The name was from\\nDeacon Edward Painsford, who took the oath of freeman in\\n1637, and was one of those disarmed in the Anne Hutchinson\\ncontroversy. His tract was on the westerly side of Essex\\nStreet extending to the sea, and se})arated from Garrett Eoiu ne\\non the west by his lane.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0458.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 4U5\\nHannson Avenue, which was built in 1806-07, and first\\nnamed Front Street, extentled from Beacli Street to South Bos-\\nton bridge. Up to 1830 the docks and flats on the west side of\\nthis street were not all filled up. Its present name was given, in\\n1841, in honor of General Harrison. A straight avenue, three\\nfourths of a mile in length and seventy feet wide, was something\\nunknown in Boston before this street was laid out.\\nOn the east side of Rainsford s Lane was the house in which\\nwere born Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin and his brotlier John, a\\nmajor-general in the British army. Both were sons of Nathan-\\niel Coffin, CoUector of his Majesty s Customs, and a firm\\nloyalist. Sir Isaac was educated in the Boston schools, and\\neutered the royal navy in 1773, just before the Revolution.\\nJohn Coffin volunteered to accompany the royal ai-my in\\nthe battle of Bunker Hill, and soon nficv ol)tain(Hl a commis-\\nsion. He rose to the rank of captain, and weut with the New\\nYork Volunteers to Georgia, in 1778. At the battle of Savan-\\nnah, at Ho1)kirk s Hill, and at Cross reek near Charleston,\\nhis conduct won the admiration of his sui friors. At the battle\\nof Eutaw his gallantry attracted the notice of General Greene.\\nHe was made colonel, 1797 major-general, 1803 general\\n1819.\\nThe old mansion of the Coffins was afterwards removed\\nfarther up Harrison Avenue. It was of wood, three stories high,\\nwith gambrel roof, and was still to be seen by the curious on\\nthe east side of the street, standing at a little distance back\\nwith the end towards it, not many years ago.\\nThe following anecdote of Sir Isaac is authentic. While\\nin Boston once, the admiral stopped at the Tremont House,\\nand, being very gouty, was confined to his room. At King s\\nChapel prayers were offered for his recovery, and after service\\nwas over a gentleman paid his respects to the distinguished\\nvisitor at his room, where he found him with his leg swathe l\\nin bandages, and in no conciliatory mood. His footman\\nhaving accidentally run against his gouty foot, the admiral dis-\\ncharged a volley of oaths at liis devoted head, follomng them\\nwith his crutch. The efficacy of the pra\\\\ ers may be doubted.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0459.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "406 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nStill another of tins famous royalist family was destined to\\nac(|uire rank and distinction in the British service. Sir Thomas\\nAston Cotiin, Bart., was a son of AVilliam Cohin of Boston, and\\ncousin of Admiral Sir Isaac. All three of the distinguished\\nCoffins were horn in Boston, and bred in her puhlic schools.\\nThomas atos at one jx riod private secretary to Sir Guy Carle-\\nton, and attained the rank (if commissary-general in the Brit-\\nish army. I[e Avas a graduate of Harvard.\\nThe admiral ever retained an affectionate regard for his na-\\ntive country. His fiimily were descended from that tight\\nlittle isle of Nantucket, where the name of the Coffins has\\nl)een made flimous in story for their ex})loits in the whale\\nfishery. He gave evidence of his attachment hy investing a\\nlarge smn in the English funds for the benefit of the Cofiin\\nschool on the island, of which fund the mayor and aldermen\\nof Boston were made trustees for the distribution of the annual\\ninterest among five of the most deserving boys and as many\\ngirls of that school.\\nNext south of the little alley that divides Harrison Avenue\\nlived Henry Bass, one of the Tea Party, at whose house\\nSamuel Adams and Major Melvill often jjassed a convivial\\nevening and ate a Sunday dinner.\\nl)y the extension of Harrison Avenue north to Bedford\\nStreet, the residence of Wendell Phillips was demolished. A\\nliandsonie tablet affixed to the wall of the adjoining building\\nacquaints us with this fact. There is still another. It was\\nthe ex])ressed wish of Mr. Phillips to the writer to be remem-\\nbered as a resident of Essex Street, where forty years all his\\nlife had been passed among the plain people, whose lifelong\\nchampion he was.\\nThe manufacture of rum in Boston has been referred to else-\\nwhere. Prior to 1793 the neighborhood of Essex and South\\nStreets was largely occupied by distilleries. In 1794 the town\\ncontained no less than thirty. The oldest in this vicinity, long\\nin possession of the French family, is found as early as 1714,\\noperated by Henry Hill, and later by Thomas Hill. Besides\\ntliis, there were also Child s on Essex Street, and Avery s\\nand Haskins distilleri(\\\\s, between Essex and Beach Streets.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0460.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 407\\nGilbert Stuart lived and painted in 1828 in a modern three-\\nstory brick house, standing alone in Essex vStreet, numbered 59,\\nnear the opening of Edinltoro. The latter is a modern thor-\\noughfare. Befon; removing to Essex Street, Stuart resided in\\nWashington Place, Fort Hill, where he had a i^ainting-room.\\nHe took up his permanent residence in Boston in 180G, and died\\nhere July 9, 1828. His two daughters, Mrs. Stebbins and JVIiss\\nJane Stuart, pursued their father s profession in Boston the\\nlatter htng followed her art at Newport, R. T. Stuart, it is said,\\ndid not instruct his daughters as he might have done.\\nStuart was not particularly prepossessing in appearance, and\\nwas very careless in dress, but a, man of great genius. His eye\\nwas very piercing, and photographed a subject or a sitter at a\\nglance. He was easily olfendeil, and would then destroy his\\nworks of great value.\\nHaving exhausted the patronag(^. of Newport, Stuart went\\nover to London, where he began to paint in 1781. He soon\\nfound himself without money and without friends in the great\\ncapital, and for some tiuK^ played tJK^ organ at a church to\\nsecure the means of living. In tliis the kudwlcdge of music\\ncultivated in Americ-a stood him in gocjd stead. He was a\\ncapital performer on the flute, and it is related Ity Trumbidl\\nthat he passed his last night at Newport serenading the girls.\\nHis passion for music led him to neglect his art at tliis time,\\nand some of his friends thought it necessary to advise him to\\ngo to work. To his musical genius lu^ owed his bread in the\\nswarming wilderness of Ldiiddii.\\nAmong the flr.st patrons of Stuaii were Lonl St. Vincent, the\\nDuke of Northumberland (I ercy), and (iLmel Barre, Avho,\\nlearning of his embarrassments, came intn liis room one morn-\\ning soon after he had set up an independent easel, locked the\\ndoor, and made friendly oilers of itssislance. This the ])ainter\\ndeclined. They then said tliey wmild sit for their portraits,\\nand insisted on paying half price in advance. This is Stuart s\\nown relation.\\nStuart became a pupil of West at twenty-four, tin, latter\\nha\\\\ing lent him a small sum and iuviteil him to his studio.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0461.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "408 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nHe afterwards painted a full length of his old master. While\\nwith West, Stuart often indulged of a morning in a bout with\\nthe foils with his master s son Eafe (Raphael West). He was\\nsurprised one morning by the old gentleman just as he had\\ndriven Eafe to the wall, with his back to one of his father s\\nbest pictures. There, you dog, says Stuart, there I have\\nyou, and nothing but your background relifves you. Stuart\\npainted in London at Jolm Palmer s, York Buildings.\\nStuart, while in Paris, painted Louis XVL But his greatest\\nwork was tlie head of Washington, now in the Museum of Fine\\nArts. This portrait lie oflered to the State of Massachusetts for\\none thousand dollars, but it was refused. It would now be a\\nmatter of difficulty to fix a })rice upon it. The head remained\\nin Stuart s room until his widow i ound a purchaser for it. The\\nfirst jiicture of Washington painted by Stuart was a failure,\\nand he destroyed it, but he produced at the second trial a\\ncanvas that never can be surpassed. Of the works of the older\\npainters there are said to be eleven of Smibert s and eighteen\\nof Blackburn s now in Boston.\\nThe first glass-works in Boston were located in what is now\\nEdinboro Street; the company was established in 1787. The\\nLegislature granted an exclusive right to the company to manu-\\nfacture for fifteen years, and exemption from all taxes for five\\nyears the workmen were relieved from military duty. The\\ncompany first erected a brick building, conical in form, but this\\nl)roving too small, it was taken down and replaced by a wooden\\none a hundred feet long l)y sixty in breadtli. After many em-\\nbarrassments the company Ijegan the manufacture of window-\\nglass in November, 1793. Samuel (J^ore was one of the\\noriginators of the enterprise, but the company failed to make\\nthe manufacture remunerative. In 1797 the works were con-\\ntrolled by Charles F. Kujifer, who continued to make window-\\nglass. They were blown down in the great gale of IHlf), and\\nsubsecpiently taking fire, were consumed.\\nThe manufiicture of glass in Massachusetts was begun some\\ntime before the Revolution in a part of Braintree called Ger-\\nmantown. Nothing but bottles, however, were produced here.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0462.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 409\\nand the works failed before the commencement of the war.\\nThe house was burnt down and never rebuilt.\\nOpposite Oliver Place were two magnificent specimens of the\\nAmerican elm, standing in the pavement before two old-time\\nbrick houses. Tliey were as large as those of the Tremont\\nStreet mall, and were pleasant to look at.\\nTime was when the trees were everywhere now they are\\nindeed rare, and the places that once knew them now know\\nthem no more. F(jrmerly there were few, if any, situations in\\nthe town in wliich trees were not seen, but they are now fast\\nfollowing the old Dostonians who planted them or dwelt beneath\\ntlieir grateful shade. Fifty were removed at one time from\\nCharles .Sti-eet when the roadway was widened these were\\nreplanted on the Common. Thi^re were two noble elms at the\\ncorner of ongress and Water Streets fifty years ago, scarcely\\nexceeded in size liy those, of the malls. Bowdoin Square, the\\nCoolidge, Bulfinch, and I arkman estates, were adorned with\\nshade and fruit trees. Occasionally, during our pilgrimage, we\\nhave discovered some solitary tree in an unexpected place, but\\nit only stands because its time has not yet come.\\nBut rising from the dust of busy streets,\\nThese forest children ghiildeii many liearts\\nAs some old friend their welcome presence greets\\nThe toil-worn sonl, ami fresher life imparts.\\nTheir shade is doubly grateful where it lies\\nAbo\\\\ e the glare which stifling walls throw back\\nThrough quivering leaves we .see the soft blue skies,\\nThen happier tread the dull, \\\\in varied track.\\nWe have remarked tliat the old })eninsula was but thinly\\nw^ooded, and the settlers socjn began to plant trees, supplying\\nthem.selves with wood from the islands for a time. We find by\\nthe records that the town took order as early as 1655 to pre-\\nvent the trees planted on the Neck from Ixnng spoiled. In\\nMarch, 1G95, it appears that several attempts had been made\\nby Captain Samuel Sewall to plant trees at the south end of\\nthe town for the shading of Wheeler s Point, and all others\\nwere prohibited from meddling with them. The trees on the\\nCommon and Liberty Tree were planted early. There was an\\n18", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0463.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "41U LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nEnglish elm on the Storer estate, Sudbury Street, which had\\nlew horizontal limbs, but which attained a very great height,\\nthe trunk being larger than those of Paddock s Mall. We have\\n])ointed to its felldw on West Street. Three English elms,\\nthought to liave been })lanted by some of the Oliver family\\nearly in the last century, stood on the edge of High Street, in\\nwhat was (,^)uincy Place, on the building of which they were\\nlevelled. They were of the size of tliose in Paddock s Mall.\\nA fourth of the same species stood in solitary grandeur at the\\nu])per part of the lot on Fort Hill, for years denominated as\\nI hillips s Pasture, which was the finest specimen of the English\\nelm in the town. Having ample room and erge enough, it\\nextended its branches horizontally in ev ry direction. This\\nmust have corresponded nearly in age with those mentioned in\\nHigh Streiit.\\nIn Essex Street was the cooper-shop of Samiud Peck, one\\nof the Tea Party, whosc^ two ai)prentices, Henry l^urkett and\\nEdward Dolbier, followed him to the scene of action at Clrifiin s\\nWharf.\\nTlie visitor to this quarter once saw, at the corner of Essex\\nand Columbia Streets, an old wooden hou.se, to which is ascribed\\ntlie honor of being the residence for a time of the ubiquitous\\nEarl I ercy. It .stood at a little distance back from Essex\\nStreet, on whicli it fronted. Built of wood, with gand^rel roof,\\nit belonged, at an earlier date, to Thomas Child the distiller\\npreviously mentioned.\\nAccording to ]\\\\lr. Sabine, this was the residence of ]\\\\Irs.\\nSlicatfe, wliose son, Roger Hale, became the protef/f of Percy,\\nwho took a gicat liking to him while lodging witli his mother\\nin this house. Under the protection of the Earl the young\\nr osti uian advanced to the rank of lieutenant-general in the\\nr.iitish army, and Itecame a baronet. His primipal military\\nservice seems to have been in -anada, though it was his wish\\nnot to have been employed against his native country. He\\nto ik command at Queenstown after the lull of (Icncral Brock,\\nand dclcmh Little York (Toronto) from tlie attack of our\\nforces un ler Cciicral Dearborn. He was also in the attack on", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0464.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0465.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0466.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY TREE AND THE NEIC4HB0RH00D. 411\\nCopenhagen under j^elsoii in 1801, and saw service in Holland.\\nSir Roger made several visits to his native town, and is repre-\\nsented as a man of generous impulses, high-minded, and well\\nworthy the interest of his noble friend and patron. ^Irs.\\nSheaffe was a daughter of Thomas Child.\\nTlie lower part of Essex Street ])nngs us to the limit of the\\nSouth Cove improvement in this directi jn, by whieh the an-\\ncient sea-border was oljlitcrated, and a territory nearly twice as\\nlarge as the Common added to the area of Boston. Charles\\nEwer has been named as the projector of this entei prise, which\\nreclaimed from tide-water that part of the South Cove from\\nEssex Street to South Boston Bridge, and lying east of Harrison\\nAvenue. Work was begun in 1833, a bonus of f 75,000 being\\npaid to the Boston and Worcester Railroad Company to locate\\nits depot within the cove forever. The railway purchased\\n138,000 feet of land for its purposes, and 48,000 were sold for\\nthe City, now the United States, Hotel. Another parcel of land\\nwas sold to the Seekonk Branch llailroad Company. By 1857\\nthe agent had acquired seventy-three a(;res of land and flats\\nseventy-seven acres in all were proposed to be reclaimed.\\nThe locomotives, cars, rails, etc. first used on the Worcester\\nrailroad were all of Englisli make. The passenger carriages\\nwere shaped like an old-fashioned stage-coach, contained a dozen\\npersons, and ran on single trucks. They bore little compaiison,\\neither in size, comfort, or adornment, to the luxurious vehicles\\nnow used on the same road. The freight cars, or vans, had\\nframes, over which was drawn a canvas covering similar to those\\nin use on the army baggage-wagon, so that when seen at a little\\ndistance a freiglit train did not look unlike a number of hay-\\nstacks in motion across the iields. The hrst locomotive used\\non this road was brought over from Englaml on the deck of a\\nship, and was with great difficulty landed and moved across the\\ncity from Long Wharf. It was called the Meteor.\\nWe will now transfer our readers to the vicinity of Hollis\\nStreet. Opposite the entrance to that avenue on Tremout\\nStreet is a remnant of old wooden buildings, whose antiquity\\nis vouched for by their extreme dilapidation. Patches of the", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0467.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "412 LANDMAEKS OF BOSTON.\\nroof seem returning to their native eartli, and the crazy struc-\\ntures a{)pear to have outhved their day and generation.\\nHere was the dwelhug and carpenter- sliop of Colonel J ihn\\nCrane, who came so near meeting his death in the hold of the\\ntea-ship. The sliop is still used by mechanics of the same\\ncraft. Crane, after the construction of the firtilicatidus on the\\nNeck, commanded that jiost, being then niajnr df a regiment of\\nartillery, of which the IJoston company funned the nucleus.\\nHe Ijecame au (-x})ert marksman, and was considered the most\\nskilful in the regiment. It is related that one day, as he\\nsighted a gun ItCiiring ujion T.oston, he intended to liit the\\nliouse of Dr. yles, a tory neighbor of his, who lived next\\ndoor. The shot, however, passed over the doctor s liouse, and\\ntore away his own ridgepule.\\nCrane was wounded in Xi W Y(n k in 177( he was in Sulli-\\nvan s expedition to Rhode Island in 1778, and succeeded Knox\\nin the command of the Massachusetts artillery. His services\\nwere highly valued by the commander-in-chief, who retained\\nliim near his headcpiarters. Colonel (_ rane was a Bostouian by\\nbirth.\\nMatlier Byles lived in an old two-story Avooden house, with\\ngambrel roof, situate(l just at the commencement of the bend\\nor turn of Tremont Stnu t so that when that street was ex-\\ntended, it cut olf a i art of the southeast side of the house.\\nWhat is now called Common Street is a part of old Nassau\\nStreet, which commenced at JSoylston and ended at ^)range,\\nnow W;ishington Street. Tremont Street was o] ened through\\nto Ptoxl)ury line in 1832. At one time that i)art from Boylston\\nto Common was called Holyoke Street.\\nEev. Mather Byles, the lirst p.istoi- of Hollis Street Church,\\ncame on his mother s side from the stock of those old Puritan\\ndivines, John Cotton and Kichard Mather. He was by l)irth a\\nliostonian, having lirst seen the light in 17()G, an l tlied, an\\noc.togcniarian, in his native town in 1788. He A\\\\ as evidently\\npopular with his parish, as he continued his ministrations for\\nmore than forty years, until his tory procli\\\\ ities caused a sepa-\\nration from his flock. After the name of tory came to have a", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0468.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "LIBEETY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 413\\npeculiar significance, Mather Byles s associations seem to have\\nbeen almost altogether with that side. He was a warm friend\\noi Hutchinson ami other of tlie crown officers, hut remained in\\nBoston after the adherents of the royal cause had generally left\\nthe town.\\nIn 1777 he was denounced in town-meeting, and, having been by\\na subse([uent trial pronuiuiced guilty of attachment to the Royal\\ncause, was sentenced to confinement, and to be sent with his famdy\\nto England. This doom of banishment was never eid orced, and he\\nwas pernntted to remain m Boston. He died in 1788, aged eighty-\\ntwo yeare. He was a scholar, and Pope, Lansdowne, and Watts were\\nhis correspondents.\\nISIany anecdotes are recorded of tliis witty divine. On one\\noccasion, when a sentinel was ])laced before his door, he jjer-\\nsuaded him to go an errand for him, and gravely mounted\\nguard over his own house, with a nuisket on his slniulder, to\\ntlie amusement of the passers-by. Dr. Byles paid his addresses\\nunsuccessfully to a lady Avho afterwards married a Mr. Quincy.\\n8o, madam, said the Doctor imi meeting her, you prefer a\\n(Quincy to Byles, it seems. The reply was, Yes for if there\\nhad been anything worse than l)iles, (!od would have afflicted\\nJol) with them. His two daughters, whose peculiarities were\\nscarcely less marked than those of their father, continued to\\nreside in the old homestead. They remained violent tories\\nuntil their death, though they were very poor and somewhat\\ndependent upon the benevolence of Trinity Church parish.\\nThe following anecdotes of Eev. Mather Byles illustrate his\\npeculiar propensity. Just before the Eevolution, Isaiah Thomas,\\nautlior of the History of Printing, paid a visit to the Rev. Dr. B.,\\nand was taken l)y him to an upper window, or observatory as the\\nDoctor called it, from which there was a fine prospect. IS ow,\\nsaid Dr. Byles to his comi)anion, you can ohserve-a-tory. At\\nanother time, Avhen Dr. Byles was Ijowed with the infirmities\\nof years, Dr. Harris, of Dorchester, called upon him, and found\\nliim sitting in an arm-chair. Doctor, said the aged punster,\\nyou will excuse my risinf\\nSabiue s Loyalists.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0469.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "414 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nation. In his last illness lie was visited by Eev. William\\nMontague, rector of Christ Chui-ch, and Eev. Dr. Parker,\\nrector of Trinity. Dr. Parker approached the sick man s bed-\\nside, and asked liim how he felt. I feel, said the inveterate\\njoker, that I am going where there are 210 bishops.\\nThe two following verses, addresseil to Dr. Byles, are from a\\npoetical description of tlie Boston clergy, whicJi apjx ared about\\n1774. It contained thirty-seven stanzas, and was tlie rage of\\ntlie town. Green, Trundndl, Dr. Church, and Dexter of Ded-\\nliam were all charged with tlie authorship.\\nThere s punning Byles, provokes our smiles,\\nA man of stately jiarts\\nWho visits folks to erack his jokes,\\nTliat never mend tlieir hearts.\\nWith strutting gait and wig so great,\\nHe walks along the streets,\\nAnd throws out wit, or what s like it,\\nTo every one he meets.\\nThe original name of Ilollis Street was Harvard. Street\\nanil church were named for Thomas Hollis, an eminent Lon-\\ndon mercliant, and benefactor of Harvard College. Hollis\\nStreet ajipears on a map of 1775, continued in a straight line\\nto Cambridge (Back) Bay. Tlie growth of this part of Boston\\nhad, by 1730, called for a place of worship nearer tliaii Sum-\\nmer Street. (loveriior Belchei wlio was tlicn a resident in\\nthe vicinity, gave the land for a site, and a small wooden\\nmeeting-house, thirty by forty feet, was erected in 1732. The\\nlirst minister was L ev. Matlier Byles. A ])ell weighing 800\\njiounds was given l)y a nephew of the Thomas Ilollis for whom\\nthe church was named, and was ])]aced in the steeple on its\\narrival. This l)ell liegan the joyful peal at one o clock on the\\nmorning of the lOtli of May, 1706, as nearest to Liberty Tree,\\nand was answereil l)y Clu ist Chuicli from tlie other extremity\\nof the town, announcing the Stamj) Act Ile2:)eal. The steeples\\nwere hung witli flags, and Liberty Tree decorated with banners.\\nTlie church was destroyed by the great fire of 17S7, but the\\nsociety, nothing daunted, reared another wooden edilice in the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0470.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "LIBERTY THEE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.\\n415\\nALILIA i_hli;lh.\\nyear following, of which we present an engraving. It was\\nerected npon the same spot as the former church, hut had, un-\\nlike it, two towers instead of a steeple. Charles Bulfinch was\\nthe architect, and Josiali Wheeler the huilder. Tliis huilding\\nwas removed in 1810, to give\\nplace to the present edihce,\\nand was Hoated on a raft duwn\\ntlie harhor to East I\u00c2\u00bbraintrep,\\nwhere Eev. Jonas Perkins\\npreached in it forty-seven\\nyears. Thougli now turned\\ninto a theatre, and denuded\\nof its fine steeple, the main\\nbuilding remains substan-\\ntially as before.\\nThe steeple of Hollis Street reached to an altitude of nearly\\ntwo liundred feet, and was one of the most prominent objects\\nseen from the harbor. This was the churcli of West, Holley,\\nPierpont, and Starr King. Singularly enougli, the churcli had\\nlost by death, while in the service of the church, l;)ut a single\\none of its pastors (Dr. Samuel West) since its organization.\\nIlev. John Pierj)ont, one tif our native jioets, was first a lawyer,\\nand then a merchant. In the late civil war, though past his\\nthreescore and ten, he joined a Massachusetts regiment as\\nchaplain. He died at JNIedford, in ItSGO, while holding a clerk-\\nship in the Treasury Ihi])artment at Washington. Thomas Starr\\nKing was but twenty-four when he assumed the jiastorate of\\nHollis Street, and after twelve years of service removed to San\\nFrancisco, where he bore a prominent part in arraying Cali-\\nfornia in active sympathy with the North during the civil war.\\nA number of works have emanated from the pen of this gifted\\nand lamented author and divine, of which the White Hills is\\nperhaps the best known, and most enjoyable.\\nIt is a singular fact that in only two instances the (Han-\\nover Street Methodist and Hollis Street) have three churches\\nbeen erected on the same spot in Boston. The New Nortli,\\nOld South, Brattle S(iuare, Bromfield Street, Bulfinch Street,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0471.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "416 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nAVest, Baldwin Place, Phillips, Maverick, and Trinity churches.\\nBaptist Bethel, and King s Chapel, are or were the second edi-\\nfices on tlie same site.\\nZachariah TVHiitman, in his History of the Ancient and Hon-\\norahle Artillery, says,\\nThe erection uf pews on the ,L;roiui(l-lliior (jf inccting-houses was\\na New England invention. Some ot the tirst meeting-houses in\\nBoston that had pews had no liroad ur other aisle, hut were entered\\nfrom without hy a door, the owner keeping the key.\\nThe tablets in Hollis Street Church hearing the Ten Com-\\nmandments were the gift of Benjamin Bussey.\\nThe terrible fire of 1787 laid waste the whcde of the region\\naround Hollis Street. It commenced in William Patten s malt-\\nhouse in Beach Street, extending with great rapidity in a\\nsoutherly direction. The s[)ire of Hollis Street Cliurch soon\\ntook fire from the binning Hakes carried through the air, and\\nthe church was burnt to the ground. P)oth sides of Washing-\\nton Street, from Eliot to Common on the west, and froiu Beach\\nto a point opposite Common Street on the east, were laid in\\nruins. This fire cost the town a hundred houses, of wdiich\\nsixty were dwellings. Suljscriptions were set on foot for the\\nsufferers, and the Mar(pus Lafayette, with characteristic gener-\\nosity, gave 350 sterling towards the relief of the sull erers.\\nThe British, it is said, on their retreat from the works on the\\nNeck left a rear-guard at Hollis Street, Avho had orders, if the\\nAmericans broke through the tacit convention Ijetween Wash-\\nington and Howe, to lire a train laid to Hollis Street Church,\\nwhich had served them as a barrack. This guard, after remain-\\ning a, short time at their ])ost, took to tlu^ir heels, and scam})ered\\noff under the impression that the Yaidvees were close upon\\nthem.\\nWe conclude our cliajiter with a visit to another poet,\\nCharles Sprague, who resided in the evening of his life, and\\ndied in his eighty-fifth year, at No. 636 on the east side of\\nWashington Street, in a substantial old-fashioned house.\\nIt has be( n stateil that the oratit)n which Mr. Sprague de-\\nlivered July 4, 1825, before the city authorities Avas afterwards", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0472.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "LIBEKTY TREE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 417\\neft ectively used on a similar occasion as an original protkiction\\nby a Western icero, who might have worn his laurels undis-\\ncovered had he, not in an unguarded moment i urnished a copy\\nfor the press.\\nMr. Sprague went to the Franklin School when Lemuel\\n8haw, the late Chief Justice, was usher there. He became con-\\nnecteil with the State Bank in 1820, and subsequently cashier\\nof the (!l(il)e when that bank was organized. His first poetical\\nessay, by whicli his name came before the public, was a })rize\\nprologue, delivered at the opening of the Park Theatre, Hiiw\\nYork, of which the following is an extract\\nThe Stage where Fancy sits, creative queen,\\nAnd waves her sceptre o er life s mimic scene\\nWliere young-eyed Wonder cojnes to feast liis sight,\\nAnd quaff instruction wliile he drinks deliglit.\\nTlie Stage that threads each labyrinth of the soul,\\nWakts laughter s peal, and l)ids the tear-drop roll\\nThat shoots at Folly, jnocks ])roud Fashion s slave,\\nUncloaks the hypocrite, and brands the knave.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0473.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "-ilS LANDMAIJKS OF BOSTON.\\nCHAPTErt XV.\\nTHE np:ck and the fortifications.\\nTlie Ncc-k tlfscril)(. (l. Measures to protect tlie Knad. Paving the Neck.\\nHenry T. Tuckeniian. Old Houses vs. Modern. Massaclmsetts Mint.\\nTlie Gallows. Anecdote of Warren. Executions. Early Fortifica-\\ntions. Tlie British Works and Armament. American Works. -George\\nTavern. WasJiington s Statt His Personal Traits. Washington\\nHouse. Washington Hotel. Anecdotes of George Tavern. Scarcity\\nof Powder. Continental Flags. Entry of Washington s Army.\\nEnti-y (if Pujchaniheau s Army. Paul Jones.\\nWE Ikivc cdiiductiMl till ivailcr t]iniu,Lj,li all (if C ulniiial\\nI]o st( u omhraced witliiu the peninsula, and arc now to\\nsurvey the l)aiTier which the coLjnists raised a.nainst the jiower\\nof the niiglity Dritisli Enijiire. The more we examine the\\nresources and state of j)reparatiou of the people, the nion^ we\\nare astonished at the hardihood with which a mere collection\\nof tlie yeomanry of the country, without auy pretension to the\\nname of an army, sat down hei ore tlie ,L;ates of the^ town of\\nlloston, and c(.imi)e]]ed the hau.L;hty Eritons to retire from her\\njirofaned ti mples and ruineil hearthstones.\\nA strip of territory lyiu- alou^ tlie ,^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0reat aveiuie, to the main-\\nland still retains the appellation of The Neck. Eon.ij, may\\nthe oidy hattle-ground within our ancient liuiits preserve the\\nname liy which it Avas known U Wintlirop and to Washington.\\nAll lloston propel was once style(l -Tlie Xeck, in distinction\\nfrom Noddle s Island, llrookliiie, and other tciritory included\\nwithin the .jurisdiction. The peninsula, out^rowinij,- her de-\\nl)endencies, the name attached itself to the narrow isthmus\\nconnecting- with the mainhind.\\nThe Neck may he said to have hej^un at each Street, wdiere\\nwas its greatest hreadth, diminishing to its narrow^est point at\\nDover Street, increasing gradually in width to the neighhorhood", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0474.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0475.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0476.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 410\\nof Dedham Street, thence ex[)aiKliiig in greater iiroportion to\\nthe line at the present car stables nearly opposite Arnold\\nStreet. The Neck, according to its designation in Revolution-\\nary times, was that ])art lying south of Dover Street.\\n(_ ai tain Nathaniel luring, in his account of his visit to Bos-\\nton in 1710, printed in London in 1720, says\\nThe Neck of Land betwixt the city and country is about forty\\nyai ds broad, and so low tliat the s[)riiig tides soiuetinies wash the\\nroad, which raiglit, witli little charge, be made so strong as not to be\\nforced, there being no way of connng at it liy land l)ut over that\\nNeck.\\nWhether what constituted old Boston was at one time an\\nisland, or was becoming one by the wasting forces of the ele-\\nments, is an interesting (piestion for geologists. ^Ve know that\\nf(n- nearly a hundred and fifty years scarcely any change had\\ntaken ])lace in the a])pearancc of the Neck l;)ut the action of\\nthe town anthorities seems to indicate a fear that its existence\\nwas seriously threatened.\\nWithin the recollection of persons now living the water has\\nbeen known to stand n\\\\) to the knees of horsi s in the season\\nof full tides at some places in the road, on the Neck. The\\nnarrowest part was natui ally the most exposed, as it was the\\nmost (digible also for fortifying. At some points along the\\nbeach there was a good depth of water, and (Jibben s shipyard\\nwas located on the easterly side a short distance north of Dover\\nStreet as early as 1722, and as lati as 1777. Other portions,\\non both sides of the Neck, were bordered by marshes, more\\nor less extensive, covered at high tides.\\nWharves were l)uilt at intervals along the eastern six ire,\\nfrom IJeach to Dover Street. In front of these wdiarves tlwell-\\nings and stores were erected, facing what is now Washington\\nStreet. Josiah Knapp s dwelling, formerly standing at the\\ncorner (jf Kneeland Street, was one of these, his wharf Ijeing\\nso near the street that the passers-by complained tliat the bow-\\nsprits of his vessels vu\\\\lading there obstructed the highway.\\nIn the spring the road upon the Neck was almost impassable,\\nesi)ecially before the centre was paved, which was from neces-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0477.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "420 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nsity doiH at last, l)ut witli sudi large .stuiies that tin iiavciiicnt\\nwas always avuidcil liy vehicles as lung as the old mail was\\npnietieable.\\nJNIeasures hegaii to he veiy early ediisidered to jiroteet the\\nNeek fritm the viuleiiec^ dl tlie sea. lu 1708 the town gra)it(Ml\\na iiiiiul)er (if individuals all the tract included within astle and\\na jxiint a little north of l)over Street, conditioned n])on th(i\\ncouiiiletion of a highway and erection of certain harrie r,s to\\nsecure and kee[ olf the sea. A .second grant was made\\nnearly eighty years later for a like jturiiose, extending from the\\nlimits of the iirst grant to a i)oint a little heyond the former\\nestatf of dohn D. AVillianis, E.s(|., where the Cathedral now\\nstands. From this beginning dates the reclamation oi that\\nextensive area now covered in every direction with sujierb\\npublic edihces or private mansions.\\nA dike was built on the exposed eastwai d side, crossing the\\nniarshi s to the hrm ground on the Iloxbury shore, bei ore the\\nlievolution, whi(h traversed lioth the British and American\\nworks on the Neck. This followed in genend direction tli\\nextension of llari ison Avenue. A sea-wall was built about\\nthe same time on the west sitle, hir some distance south li-om\\nthe bridge at Dover Street, nearly as far as AValtham Street.\\nIn a word, tlie general a])iiearance of the Neck eighty years ago,\\nto a spectator i)laced at the (.*ld Fortifications, was siinilar to\\ntlie tui upikes cro.ssing the Lynn marshes to-(lay, and was deso-\\nlate and forbidding in the extreme, especially to a nocturnal\\ntraveller.\\nFiom the old fortitications, northwardly, the highway was\\ncalleil Orange Street as early as ITOS. AVashington Street was\\nnamed nfter th memorable visit of the ieneral in 1 7S and at\\niirst extend. d only from near I \u00c2\u00bbover Street to IJoxbury line\\nthe name was not ajiydii d to the whole extent of the jjresent\\nthoroughfare until ISl I, when Cornhill, IMarlborough, New-\\nbury, and )range became one in name as well as in fact.\\nF ew of the thousands who daily traverse the Neck, with its\\nelevatetl road, street-cars and private equipages following each\\notluu- in rapid succession, can realize that travellers were once", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0478.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 421\\nin great daii^^er of losing their way along the narrow natural\\ncauseway and its adjacent marshes. Yet so frequent had such\\naccidents become that not only the town but the General Court\\ntook action in 1723 to have the dangerous road fenced in.\\nThe Neck marshes were a favorite resort for l)irds, and were\\nmuch freciuented l)y spdrtsmen. It is related that .Sir luiiles\\nand Lady Frankland one day Uiirrowly escaped Ijeing shot as\\nth(!y were jjassing over tlie highway. In 1785 the town of\\nEoxbury was obliged to place siaitinels here to prevent the\\ndesecration of the Sal)l)ath. The meadows continued in much\\nlater times to Ije a resort for tins purjiose.\\nThe Neck was paved quite early in the last century, accord-\\ning to the fasliion we have descriljed elsewhere. In 17r)7 tlie\\nGeneral Court autliorized a lottery to raise funds for paving and\\nrepairing the highway. The forty-two rods of Orange Street,\\nmentioned as having been ordered paved in 1715, were prol)ably\\nthe portion nearest the town, Imt it was paved in 1775 as far\\nas the British works. The whole Neck was pave(l under the\\nmayoralty of Josiah Quincy.\\nIn colonial times the fortification whicli was raised a little\\nsouth of I)over Street was the limit of the town. all beyond\\nAvas nearly in its prinntive condition. In 17 .I4 theie weiv but\\neighteen buildings between Dover Street and the line, in\\n1800 there were not more than one or two houses from the site\\nof the new Catholic (Jatlunlral to Roxbury. Tlie few Imildings\\nstanding between the American and Ilritish lines were burnt\\nduring the siege, and only two barns and tln-ee small houses\\nwere then left on what was properly termed the Neck.\\nA few doors north of Dover Street, on the easterly side of\\nwhat was then old Orange Street, was the lu)me of the favorite\\nauthor and poet, Henry T. TuckiM man. The house was struck\\nduring the siege by a shot fmm the American lines. INIr. Tuck-\\nerman has contributed largely to our literature botli in verse\\nand prose, as an essayist, critic, biographer, and accomplished\\ntraveller. He was also well known through his articles in our\\nleading magazines. As a poet, his liome gives a good sam-\\nple of his style.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0479.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "421\\nLANDMAIiKS OF J .OSTON.\\nA terrace lifts :il)Ove the People s Square\\nIts colomiade\\nAbout it lies tlie warm ami crystal air.\\nAnd fir-trees sluule.\\nThis lions. like iiuist nf those, on ouv main avenue in the\\nhe.n inning of tlie eentury, stood eml to the street, uhich gaA e\\na singulai* impression to a stranger, and reealls the tnUowing\\n([uaint (h srri})tion ol Alliany hy old Jedediah JMorse, whitdi\\nhas given rise to a witticism on the j)eculiarity of the inhahi-\\ntants of that town\\nThis city and suhurlis, hy enumeration in 1797, contained 1, 2G3\\nhuildings, ot which !S(!3 were dwelliiigdiouses, ami (i,():;il inliahitants.\\nMany of them arc in the (dothic style, with the gahle end to the\\nstreet, which ustcmi the first settleis lndught from Holland the\\nnew houses are Imih in the mniU vn style.\\nThe only puri)ose of utility fur w Inch the Neck was formerly\\nnsed, ex(, ei t perhaps the grazing aliorde(l hy the marshes along\\nthe causeway, was fnv liri(d\\\\-niaking. Idiere were hriekyards\\nnorth of l)oVer Street, as well as south, hefnre the KeVnhltidU.\\nThese gave emplcymeid tn many poor people (hiring the enn-\\ntinuanee of the Port Act. In this cdnnectiun we may nientinn\\nthe total alisencc of huilding stone of any kind on the site of\\noriginal Itosion. idie [irincipal (devations have heen idther\\nwholly or partially removed without- encouidering a leilge of\\nany descriplioii.\\nIn ()(d(iher, 17S(h the State of Massa/diuscdts, heing greatly\\nin ward, of a specie cui ivncy, passed an aid. to estahlish a nnnt\\nfor the coinage\\n-^rr^^ ^--77^;;^ of copper, silver.\\nJ:. VV 7 v-^ hK^ M^ j*\\\\^\\\\ was one (d the\\nX^^l-^l V-) iF-^/l^ .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i..dvwdnchth\\nStates coiitiiiued\\nto exeridse under\\nthe ,)ld .Vrti-\\n(des of Collfed-\\nM ;sAriic-;KT r i |-.Ni oi \\\\~s,\\neration. doshua. Wetherle was appointed master of the mint", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0480.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 423\\nin May, 1787, and autlKH izcd to erect tlio necessary works and\\nmacliinery. .$70,000 in cents and half-cents were onlercd 1o\\nbe struck as soon as practical )le.\\nWetlierle established his works on tlie Neck, in the rear of\\nwhat is now Rollins Street, and at Dedham, the copper being\\nfirst carted to Dedham to be rolled, and then Itrought ])ack to\\nBoston to lie coined. In July, 1787, the national government\\nestablished the devices of its cupper coin.\\nEarly in 1788 the copper coin ordered by the State began to\\nbe issued, but only a few thousand dollars of the large amount\\nordered were put in circulation befoiv the work was susi)ended\\nby the State in consecpience of tlie adoption of the Federal\\nConstitution, which reserved the I ight to coin money to the\\ngeneral government. The (iiuhlems on the Massachusetts cent\\nand half-cent were the same. )ne side bore the Annu ican\\neagle with a bundle of arrows in the rigid lalon and an olive-\\nbranch in the left, with a shield on the breast, on which is tlie\\nword cent the word IMassaehuseits eiicirditig the bor-\\nder. The reverse represents a full length Indian grasping his\\nbow and arrow, but, as Mr. Felt remaiks, considerably improved\\nin appearance since he ajtpeared on the colony seal. A star\\nappeal s near the head, as in the State seal, emlilematie of one\\nof the United States, and the wonl ommonwealth com-\\npletes the device.\\nThe first oT)ject which arrested the attention of the tra\\\\-eller\\nas he journeyed towards Old lioston was the gallows, standing\\nas a monument of civilization at the gates. It was at first\\nsituated near the old fortification on the easterly sid(^ of the\\nNeck, but stood at a later period not fiir from the site; of the\\nNew Fuglaiid Conservatory of ^lusic.\\nA chai acteristic anecdote is related of T)r. Warren in connec-\\ntion with the gallows. Tt is said that as he Avas one day passing\\nthe spot he met some British officers, one of Avhom exclaimed,\\nGo on, Warren, you will soon come to the gallows. Warnm\\nimmediately turned back and demamled to know which of them\\nhad tlnis accosted him. but neither of the warriors hail the\\ncouraue to avow it.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0481.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "424 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nHere were hanged the pirates John WilHains, Francis Fred-\\nerick, Jolm P. liog, and Niles Peterson, in 1819 and in tlie\\nfollowing year Michael Powers was also executed for tlie mur-\\nder of Timothy Kennedy. Perez Morton was then district-\\nattorney. Powers was defended by Daniel Webster, but was\\nconvicted, on an unliroken cliain of circumstantial evidence,\\nof having murdered and tlien l uried his victim in a cellar.\\nThe defences of IJostdU very early engaged the attention of\\nthe settlers. Fort Hill was fortitied as early as 1634, and steps\\nwere taken to build a work on Castle Island in the same year.\\nIt is reasonable to conclude tliat tlie protection of tht^ land side\\nreceived even earlier attention, the danger being more imminent.\\nThe Indians in the neigliborhood were, as a general thing,\\nfriendly, but wen^ not trusted, ami a guard of an officer and six\\nmen was jJaced on the Neck, by onler of the court, in A|)ril,\\nK;;}!. We cannot, however, fix the date with precision, though\\na barrier was certainly erected prior to IGK). The gates of the\\nold fortification were constantly guarded, and were shut by a\\ncei tain hour in the evening, after whicli none were allowed to\\npass in or out.\\nThe primitive barrier had disap[)eared before 1710, the\\nbroken power of the Indians leaving nothing to appreliend\\nfrom tliat ijuarter. In this year the town voteil that a line of\\ndei enee l)c forthwith made across llic Neck, between lloston\\nand lloxbury. A suitable nundier ol great guns were ordered\\nto be mounted, and a gate erected across tin- roail. The f mn-\\ndation of this work was of stone and brick, with jiarapet of\\nearth part of what was considered to be the remains oi the\\nold fort was uncovered in ISOO, when excavations were making\\nin the street, just south of the corner of Dover Street.\\nIn 8ei\u00c2\u00bbteniber, 1774, when matters were approaching a crisis\\nbetween the people and the King s troops, (iage liegan to lV)rtit y\\nthe Neck. The remains of the old w irks wei c stivngthened,\\nguns mounted, and earthworks thrown up some distance in\\nadvance of these on l)oth sides of the highway. The armament\\nat first consisted of two twenty -four and eight nine ])ounders.\\nThe first troops stationed Ijy Gage in this (piarter were the", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0482.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FOUTIFICATIONS.\\n425\\n59th regiment, wliicli avrivctl iVnui Salem Septemlxa- 2, and\\nencamped on tlu? Neck. On the Uli tniiv i)iece.s uf tivld artil-\\nlery were taken fiom the oniinon and placed in t ruiit of the\\ntroops, fatigue parties from which went to work upon the in-\\nti cnclnncnts. By midwinter the ordinary garrison was one\\nhundred and lifty men, with a hcld-ofhcer in command. This\\nforce was increased before tiie l)attl(! of Lexington to three\\nhundred and forty men. A deep fosse, into which the tide\\nHowed at high water, was dug in front of the l)oYer Street fort,\\nconverting Boston for tlie time into two islands.\\nIn July, 1775, when tiie siege had fairly begun, tlie work\\nnearest the town mounted eight twenty-fmr, six twelve, two\\nnine, and seven six pouuder guns, and was called during the\\nsieg(! The trreen Store Hattery, from the warehouse of\\nDeacon Ih own, painted that color, which stood on the site of\\nI he New Grand Theatre. The advanced work, whitdi was\\nmuch the stronger, mounted eight twenty-four, four twelve, one\\nnine, and seven six pounders, with six eight-inch howitzers,\\nand a moi tar battery. Tlie road passed directly through the\\ncentre of both lines, the first, being clos(!d by a gate and draw-\\nbridge. The redan was Hanked by a bastion on each side of\\nthe highway, from which the lines were continued across the\\nintervening marshes to the sea,. Floating batteries, abattis,\\n(roiis-de-loiip, and other aj)pliaiices known to military science,\\nwere not wanting. Two guard-houses were on either side of\\nthe road immediately in the rear of the advanced post, while a\\nthird and smaller work, lying between the otliers on the eastern\\nsea-margin, l)oi e on Dorchester Neck, and took the left curtain\\nand bastion of the main work in reverse. Al)ove all waved the\\nstandard of Enulaiid.\\ntKITlsH LINE;\\n^TliN NKCK IN 1775,\\nThe position of the main I ritish wm-k, vestiges of which\\nwere distinctly visible as late as 1822, particularly on the west", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0483.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "42(i LANDMARKS OF r.OS l ON.\\n.sido of till XiM-k, was Ix twccn T) Mlliain ami aiitmi Stricts.\\nMounds, raiiiiiarts, and wide ditclies yet attested the strength\\nof the defenees wliieh Washington deemed too formida])le to\\nhe carried hy assault. IJemains of jilanks and jioles used to\\nsupport the emhanknient of what may have heen one of tlie\\nbastions were discovered many (^ars since in iligging the cellar\\nof Ed\\\\\\\\ ar(l 1). Peters s liouse on the north corner of Canton and\\nWashington Streets. ]\\\\Ir. John (Jriggs, whose recollections of\\nthe Neck went l)ack more than half a century, reraemhered\\ntraces of the intrenchments on the east side, where we have\\nlocated them. The visitor to the spot will imt fail to ohseive\\nthat from this point the lirst unol)structed view is obtained in\\nfront as far as Washington jNFarket.\\nIjy Washington s or(ler Colonel (Iridley rendereil these works\\nuseless as soon as the Continental army moved to New York,\\nso that if the enemy, whose fleet was still on the coast, should\\nsuddeidy repossess themselves of Boston, they ndght not iind\\nthe old defences available. From this stronghold lage, l[ iwe,\\nHilton, and lUirgoyne grindy marked the rising inti ciKdiments\\nof the Americans three (juai ters of a mile away, or listened to\\nthe roll of the drums that grecteil the a[)iiroach of their chief-\\ntain as he made his daily tour of the hostile lines. !age at\\none time appears to have intrusted the defence of his lines on\\nthe Neck to Lord Percy.\\nolonel Truinbull, afterwards one of Washington s military\\nfamily, but. then belonging to a onnecticut regimoit. tirst\\nbrought himself to the notice of the genei al by a daring ex-\\n]iloit. Learning tliat a ]i]an of the enemy s works was greatly\\ndesire(l at. head(piai ters, he crept near enough to them to make\\na drawing, with wliich he ivturiieil to camji. For this act he\\nwas appointed aide-de-camp. A liritish soldier of artillery soon\\nafter came into the American lines with a plan of the hostile\\nforts. From the time of the investment until the siege was\\nraised, rigid martial law ]irevaile(l in liostoii. with sentinels\\njiosted at all impoiiaiit points, ]iatro]s Iravei sing the streets,\\nand a town majorat the head of pujice all airs.\\nHere !age remained ignolily shut up, atteiiijiting nothing", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0484.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 427\\nafter the battle of Bunker Hill l)ut a few maraiuling exeursioiw\\nalong the coast in search of fresh })rovisions. His extremities\\nare Imlicroiisly set forth by that inimital)le lievolutionary poet,\\nPhili]! Freiieau. The scene is a midnight consultation at the\\ngeneral s (piarters.\\nThe clock strikes tipo Gage smote iqion his lireast,\\nAnd cry d, What fate determines must l e liest\\nBut now attend a counsel I impart\\nThat long has laid the heaviest at my heart\\nThree weeks ye gods nay, three long years it seems\\nSince roast-hecf have touch d, except in dreams.\\nIn sleep, choice dishes to my view repair\\nWaking, I gape, and chamj) the empty air.\\nSay, is it just that I, who I ule these hands,\\nShould live on husks, like rakes in foreign lands C\\nThe sjiace between the (i|i|i(ising works became a battle-\\nground for the skirmishing parties of the two armies, each of\\nwhich had pickets in their front, covered by slight intrench-\\nments. A short distance in adxance of the llritish works on the\\nwest side of tlie highway were the house ami barns of Enocli\\nIh own, which serve(l tlie llritish admirably as a post from\\nwhicli to annoy our men. Tins was the liouse at which Bur-\\ngoym^ proposed to meet (diaries Lee, to discu.ss the differences\\nbetween the colonie,s and the mother country. ongress, how-\\nevi-r, [Hit a veto t)n a proceeding neither nnlitary nor diplo-\\nmatic. On the 8th of duly (ITTf)) J\\\\Iajors Tupjier and rane\\nsurprised the gnai (l and destroyed the hou.se and out buildings.\\nThe bare chimneys remained standing, and to some extent af-\\ni orded a, prott ctioii to the enemy.\\nAft(^r the batth; of Lexington the Americans at lirst, merely\\nguarded the passage of the Xeck with a. small iorce under\\nolonel Bol)inson, or until the Pi ovincial Congress took meas-\\nlU es to organize an army, and regular nnlitary operations were\\nundertaken.\\nNo intrenchments appear to have been tlirown up on the\\nNeck by the Continental forces until after the battle of Bun-\\nker Hill, when the finious b oxl)ury lines were laid nit by\\nolonel Itichard Gridley, the veteran of Louis1)urg, uebec, and\\nHunker Hill, now chief-engineer of the army.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0485.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "428 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nFiMiu tliu best evidt Dce to be dlitaiiUMl iln sc lines were\\nsituated on the rising ground a little north of the old monu-\\nment on the line of division between Boston and IJoxbury, and\\nnear lifton I lace. An aliuttis was formed of trees felleil with\\nthe tops puinteil towards iJostun, as an i)l staele tii the much-\\ndreaded J^iglit Ibirse, a needless })recaution, for this choice\\nband of heroes never ap])eared outside their defences. The\\nendiaidvuients were strengthened Avith jilanks Idled between\\nwith earth. The works were liastioued, and rested with eitlier\\ntlank on arms of the sea.\\nThe American adviince(l post was iirst at the leorge Tavern,\\nwhi(di stood a little south of the site of tlie present Washington\\niNIarket, and was burnt by a Ihitish sally on the night of 8un-\\ntlay, -July 30, 177\\nThe George Tavern, sometimes ialle(l the St. (leorge, which\\nwe have had occasion to mention in connection with the ri cep-\\ntions of some of the royal governors, was iiu luded in an estate\\nof more than eighteen acres, extending nearly or (|uite to Kox-\\nbury line on the south and across the marshes to the great\\ncreek, which forme(l its lioundary on the west. It had or-\\ncliards, gardens, and a site which conimauileil a view of the town\\nof lloston and the harlior on one hand, and amliridge liay\\nwith the shores of the maiid;in l on tlie other. While it re-\\nmained, but few travellers migld, venture over the gloomy\\nNeck, over winch the cold winds swejit with violence, without\\na pause under its hospit.il)]e I oof.\\nThe (ieorge is noted in the history of the Colony as the\\nplace of meeting of the leiieral ourt in 17l 1, perhaj)s on\\naccount of tlie pre\\\\;dence (if till smallpox in lloston in that\\nyear, when it raged with fiiglitful violence. In 17. )0, while it\\nwas kept by Simon b ogcrs, the Probate ouit was held there.\\nJtogers continued to be landlord until 17- U. It was kept at\\ndiiferent times by (lideoii (iardner ami Samuel Mears, and in\\n1 7()!) bv ivhvard liardin, who changed the name to the King s\\n.Arms, a title it retaiiid but a short lime. In 1 788 a tavern\\nwas reopcui d on or near the site of the ieorge, liut was not of\\nlonu continuance.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0486.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 429\\nBefore the destruction of the tavern the xVniericaus tlirew up\\na work a little below where it had stood, and within musket-\\nrange of the Ih itish outpost. To this jxiint it was Washington s\\ndaily custom to proceed, accompanied Ity liis personal statf, com-\\nposed of men su])se(piently famous in Kevolutionary annals.\\nJ liere was MilHin, first aide-de-camp, afterwards governor of\\nPennsylvania, wlio, as president of the ongress in 1783, re-\\nceiveil the lesignation of liis old chief; .Joseph Keed of Phila-\\ndelphia, his trusted friend ami secretary; and Horatio (Jates,\\nwiiose nulitary experience enabled him to till acceptably the\\narduous [lost of adjutant-general, and bring a little order out\\nof the chaos that jirevailed in the American cam]).\\nieneral Washington s uniforui at this time was a blue coat\\nw itli butt -colored fticings, a rich epaulet on eacli shoulder,\\nbutf under-dress, and an elegant small-sword; a l\u00c2\u00bblack cockade\\nin his hat. It was at this point, from which he had, in 1775,\\ndaily viewed the ina(;tivity of his enumy with a surprise he has\\nnot concealed in his letters, tliat the general, in 1789, then\\nliecome President, mounted his iamous white charger, a present\\nfrom Charles IV. of Spain, and, attciidf l)y his .secretaries,\\nColonel Lear and IMajor Jackson, made liis last entry int;i Bos-\\nton.\\nProbably no great personage lias ever lived whose career has\\naflbrded fcwi r anecdotes to his Liograjiher then General Wash-\\nington. The calm dignity of his manner rejielled every at-\\ntempt at familiarity, l)ut this dignity was in no way associated\\nwith hauteur. It is relat(Ml that Gouverneur JNIorris, having\\nundertaken once tlie hazardous ex]ieriment of accosting the\\nPresident unceremoniously, declared that nothing would induce\\nliim to repeat the attempt. The French otficers who served\\nwitli Pochambeau were at once captivated by Washington s\\nnol)le presence and gracious manner.\\nThe Washington ^Market stands on the site of the Washing-\\nton House, in which ^Nlrs. Powson once ke}it her school for\\nyoung ladies, ami which, under the control of the Cooleys,\\nfather and son, became a much-fre([uented resort for sleighing-\\nTliaclicr s Military Journal.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0487.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "430 LANDMAIJKS OF BOSTON.\\n])artics, when the Neck was the roursi In whidi, in winter, the\\nItcauty and i a.shiuu of the town r( })aii e(l.\\nNext .soutli of till market is a three-.story hrick huildin.ij;,\\nkept as a t;i\\\\ ern as far ))aek as 1820, and known livst as ^Vash\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\nini;ton Hall, and sul)se(iuently as the AVashington HoteL It\\nwas kept in 1S. \u00c2\u00bb7, and lor some time snlise(|uently, hy Andierst\\nf aton of oneert Hall. JJoth of these houses were un the\\nleornc Tavern estate.\\nIn 17. 57 the following petition was presented l)y Stephen\\n^Alinot to he allowed a license to sell li([uors at his tavern on\\nthe Neck (sup} osed to he the George Tavern). It was alh.iwed.\\nThat your petitioner lately met with \\\\ery heavy losses hy the\\nway of the sea it stauils him iu stead to put his estate on the land\\nto tlie liest impi ovement lie possilily can iu a way (jf Trade iSL c.\\nAnd as he designs to kee]) for sale a variety of goods suitahle for tlie\\ncountry, So he appri lieiids it will hut little avail him unless he may\\nhe ]H rmitte(l to supjily his custduiers with liuni also, ln^-ause they\\nusually cliusf to take up all they want at one place.\\nThacher, who Avas a suigcoii of olonel Ja(^kson s regiment\\nin the old war, relates an amusing incident of the arrival (if\\nthat regiment at Uoston after a fori ed march from Providence,\\nP. I.\\nA severe rain all uiglit did not much ini])ede our marcli, hut the\\ntroops were hroken down with i atigue. We reached ISostnn at suii-\\nrisiug, and near the entrance of the Neck is a tavern, haxiiii; for its\\nsign a representation of a globe, with a man iu the act of struggling\\nto get thidUL^li it his head and shoulders were out, his arms cx-\\nteiideil, and the rest of his hody enclosed iu the L;lohe. On a lahel\\nfrom his mouth was written, Oh hdw shall 1 ^vt thmu-h this\\nwoihl This was read liy the soldiers, and oiie of them exclaiiueih\\nList, d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 u you, list, and you will soon get throu-h this wurld dur\\nregiment will lie thi ough it in an hour or two if we don t halt hy\\nthe way.\\nThe scarcity of powder within the American lines during the\\nsiege of iJoston is connected with an incident not without\\ninterest. At iirst, a few country ])eople were allowed to jiass\\ninto town with provisions, after undergoing a search at the\\nlU itish post at the C!reen Store. Market- wagons were hut little", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0488.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FOltTIFICATlONS. 431\\nxised, the farmers riding on horseback witli panniers containing\\ntheir niarl-ceting. leorgc Minot, of Dorchester, from his fro-\\n(pient visits was well known to the guard, who allowed him to\\npass without examination. Had they looked into the honest\\nman s panniers, they would have found them well filled with\\nvillanous saltpetre, which he was, at great pi rsonal risk,\\nconveying to his friends. The money to Ijuy the powder was\\nfurnished by Minot s father, -John j\\\\Iinot, a selectman of Dor-\\nchester. The government afterwards acknowledged and paid\\nthe claim, with which jNlinot purchased a part of Thompson s\\nIsland.\\nIt is a matter of history that, within musket-shot of twenty\\nBritish regiments, Washington s whole army was disbanded\\nand reorganized; it is no less true that in August, ITT; the\\nentire sujiply of [xiwder was oidy nint^ rounds per man. Wash-\\nington s letters at this time are full of anxiety.\\nThe Hags used ])y the Americans during the siege of lioston\\nhave always been a subject of much interest. The Hag of thir-\\nteen stripes was iirst raised on the heights near Loston, prob-\\nably at or near the commander-in-chief s headcpiailers, January\\n2, 1770. Letters from IJoston at this time say that the regulars\\ndid not understand it and, as the king s speech had just been\\nsent to the Americans, they thought the new Hag was a, token\\nof submission. The British Annual Begister of 177 says,\\nmon; correctly, that the ])rovincials burnt the king s speech, and\\nchanged their colors from the plain red ground they had hith-\\nerto used to a Hag with thirteen stripes, as a syndxd of the\\nnumber and union of tlu^ colonies. Tins was, without doid)t,\\nthe Hag that, on the 17th INlarch, ]77( waved over the Old\\nState House and Prcjvince House, and was borne in the van of\\nthe Ameri(-aii troops.\\nThe Pine Tree, Battlesnake, and stripeil flag were used indis-\\ncriminately until July, 1777, when the blue union, with the\\nstars, was added to the strii)es, and the flag estalJished by law.\\nThe private arms of AVashington, l)earing three stars in the\\nupper portion, and three bars across the escutcheon, were\\nthought to have had some connection with the Hag, but this\\ndoes not ap|)ear probable.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0489.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "432 LANDMAItKS OF BOSTON.\\nForever float that standard sheet\\nWhere breathes the foe but tails bel ore us\\nWith freedom s soil beneath our feet,\\nAnd freedom s lianner streaming o er us\\nThe first trnops tn ciitfr tlic town aftor the evacuation were\\nfive liumlrcd men, under (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(iniiiuiud dt Cokinel Ebenezer Learned,\\nwho unl)arred and iijx iieil tlic gates of the British works,\\n(ieneral Wanl accomiianied this detaelinient. They found the\\nNeck thickly scattered with crows -feet to inipeih- their ad-\\nvance. At the same time a detachment nnih r (leneral I utnam,\\nAvith Avliom was Colonel John Stark, landed at the i oot of the\\nonimon, and to the old wolf-hunter belongs the honor of lirst\\ncommanding in Iloston as the successor of Sir William Howe.\\nOn the 20tli the main army marclied in, and on the 22d such\\nof the inhabitants as had been separated from their fiiends\\nduring the ten months siege tlironged into the town. J utnam\\ntook possession of and garrisoned all the posts.\\nAVashington himself entereil liostdii tlie day after the evacu-\\nation, but, as the sniall])ox prevailed in town, the army did\\nnot march in until the 20tli, as stated. I5y Washington s order,\\nworks were thrown u]i on Fort Ilill, and those defending from\\nthe country were deniolislied. J he general remained ten days\\nin Boston. He attended the nu etings of the Legislature, and\\non the 28tli, accomjianied by the other general oihcers and their\\n.suites, marched in procession from the Council Chamber to the\\nOld Brick Church, where ap}iropri;ite services were held, after\\nwhich a dinner was provided for the general and his ofiicers at\\nthe Bunch of Crapes, in King Street. During his stay Wash-\\nington reviewed the Continental troops on the Ciunmon.\\nI he lirst national medal voted liy Congress was iiresented to\\n(leneral AVashingb n for his successful conduct of the siege of\\nBoston, by a resolution passed INlarcli 2; 177G. It was struck\\nin Paris from a die by Duvivier.\\nWilkes, in a speech delivei cd in Barliament on the evacua-\\ntion, said All the military men of tins country now confess\\nthat the retreat of General Howe from I .oston was an a1)Solute\\nilight as much so, sir, as that of Mahomet from Mecca.\\nOne (jther grand martial pageant of the Eevolutionary period", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0490.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0491.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0492.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 433\\nremains to be chronicled. This was the entry of Rochambeau s\\nforces into Boston in Deconilier, 17 S2. The array was com-\\nmanded by the brave General Baron de Vionu nil, Kochambean\\nhaving taken leave of his tr(X)})s at Providence, returning with\\na part of his staff to France.\\nThe French army was divided into four grand divisions, to\\nwhich was adiled the field artillery. The second division was\\ntlie first to arrive in the neighborhood of Boston, on the 4th,\\nthe first and tliird on the 5th, and the fourth on the Gth. The\\nartillery did not arrive until the 18th. A few desertions oc-\\ncurred on the marcli, and the officers were oljliged to exercise\\nthe greatest vigilance, as many of the poor felloAvs preferred\\nremaining in the country to embarking for an unknown desti-\\nnation.\\nNotwitlistanding it was midwinter, the troops, before enter-\\ning the town on the 7tli, clianged their dress in the open air,\\nand appeared in such splendid array as gave l)ut little hint of\\ntheir long, weary march from Yorktown. Their welcome was\\nenthusiastic and heartfelt. At a town-meeting held Saturday,\\nDeceml)er 7, of which 8anuiel Adams was moderator, James\\nSullivan and Saniuel Barret, with the selectmen, were appointed\\na committee to wait on General Viomenil with an address of\\nwelcome, to which the Baron returned a courteous reply.\\nWhat shall l)e said of the editorial and reportorial enterprise\\n(if that day 1 I eyond the brief notice we liave given of the action\\nin town-meeting, and that appears as an advertisement,\\nthere is not a single line referring to the entry in the columns\\nof the Independent Chronicle, then published in Boston, nor\\nany clew to a sojourn of seventeen days in the news department\\ntlie other two papers dismiss the ali air each witli half a dozen\\nlines. Such an event would now occupy the greater part of\\none (if our mammoth journals not the smallest scrap of\\ninf(irmati(in Avould be too trivial, not a button would escape\\nscrutiny. To the greater enterprise of Isaiah Thomas s Mas-\\nsachusetts Spy, and particularly to its Boston correspondent,\\nregular or sjjccial, who writes under date of December 12, 1782,\\nwe are indebted for the following\\n19 BB", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0493.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "434 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nLast week arrived in town from the southward, in four divisions,\\nthe troops of our generous ally, the King of France. A finer corps\\nof men never paraded the streets of Boston in the infamous adminis-\\ntrations of Bernard, Hutchinson, and Gage. The quiet, peaceable, and\\norderly behavior of these troops during their long march sutticiently\\ncontradicts the infammis falsehoods and niisrejjresentations usually\\nimposed on the world by perfidious Britons, who have often led us\\nto entertain an uni avorable opinion of the French troops. We are\\nhappily convinced that such a character belongs wholly and only to\\nthe troops employed by the lloyal Despot of Britain.\\nThe day was favoral)le, and the sunbeams danced and glit-\\ntered on tlie bayonets of these veterans of two continents as\\nthey proudly marched over the Neck and through the modest\\nstreets of Old Boston. At their head rode Yiomenil, wlio\\nachieved such renown at Yorktown, and afterwards lost his life\\nheroically defending his king at the attack on the Tuileries.\\nAt his side rode the Chevalier Alexander de Lameth, severely\\nwounded at Yorktown, and afterwards a soldier of Napoleon\\nthe Marquis de Champcenetz Count Mathieu Dumas Alex-\\nander Berthier, afterwards the adjutant-general and confidant\\nof Nai)oleon, but deserting him in the hour of adversity\\nByiich, the intrepid Englishman, who served in the ranks of\\nFrance, and many others whi\u00c2\u00bb gained renown in the wars\\ninto wdiich that nation was shortly after ])lunged. The offi-\\ncers wore singular-looking, two-cornered cocked hats witli the\\nwhite cockade, the uniform being white In-oadcloth, with fa-\\ncings of red, blue, or green, according to the corps to \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which\\ntliey lielonged the general alone wore a blue overdress faced\\nwith red. All the officers wore high military boots, were\\nsplendidly mounted, and tlicir (Miuipincnts and side-arms were\\nelegant and costly.\\nA complete band of music accomjianied the troops, whose\\nmartial strains were the first the Bostonians had heard since the\\nevacuation by the Ih itish forces our own army yet marched to\\nthe music of the life and drum.\\nAfter these marched th regiment Eoyal Deux-Ponts, the lar-\\ngest in the army, in four battalions, with its colonel, Count", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0494.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 435\\nChristian de Deux-l oiits, iVdiii wIkhu the regiment took its\\nname, at its head. Count Christian afterwards commanded the\\nBavarian corps at the battle ot HohenHnden with distinguished\\nvalor. Count William, second colonel of the same regiment,\\nwdio was wounded in the assault on the redoubt at Yorktown,\\nwhere he won the order of Naint Louis, was on his way to\\nFrance with the news of Cornwallis s surrender. The dress of\\nthis regiment was white. The men Avoro cocked hats, with\\n})ompons instead of cockades, woollen epaulets, white cross-\\nlielts, from wdiich was suspended a short hanger and cartouche-\\nbox, and spatterdaslies the hair was worn oi (incuc so far\\nthe descrijjtion will apply to the whole army, the colors varied\\nin all the regiments.\\nNext came the Soissonnais, with Count Segur, son of tlie Min-\\nister at AYar, and afterwards a peer of France, in tlii ir i ront.\\nSegur was rohmel en second of the icgiment, Init his senior.\\nCount de Saint Maime, had come into Boston in advance of tin-\\narmy. Segur is also known as a historian, and author of his\\nown memoirs.\\nThe regiment Saint-Onge, in wliite and green, follows, with\\nColonel Count le Custines, who became a general, and the\\nPrince de Broglie, second in connnand. Both fell under tlie\\naxe of the guillotine during the French Bevolution.\\nThe Bourbonnais in black and red, the iidantry of Lauzun,\\nall with arms and accoutrements in com})lete order, crowned\\nwith the laurels of victory and bi-aring the white s^taiidard and\\ngolden lilies in their serried ranks, close the brilliant jirocession.\\nBichegru, afterwards general, was a soldier of the Bourbonnais,\\nAn episode of tliis famous entry deserves mention. Young\\nTalleyrand Perigord, l)rother of Prince Talleyran l, was on tlu^\\nstart of the iNIaniuis Chastellux, who wished to take him back\\nto France; but the young warrior of eighteen was determined\\nto remain with the army, and, having ol)tained a grenadier s\\nnniform, marched in the ranks of the Soissonnais, witli liis\\nhaversack on his liack and his gun on his shoulder. Talleyrand\\nwas Avell known to the superior officei s, who pretended not to\\nrecognize him, and his Avarlike ardor became the toAvn talk.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0495.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "436 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON.\\nIIo was christened Va-de-hoii-rn ar (go A\\\\ illingly), and was the\\nsubject of luany attentions.\\nTlie cavaliy nf the l)nkc dc Lauzun, wliicli had crossed steel\\nwith railctnii s I aiiKUis tiMii|)( rs and licld him at bay at ilouces-\\ntcr, Virginia, wciv left licliind witli Washington s army on the\\n1 ludsdu. Thi y carried lances, and were styleil L /i/aiis, a name\\nrendered i nriiiidable by tlie i russians in the late Franco ierman\\nwar. The unitbi iii df this I anious c(irps was a Idiie hussar\\njacket, with high-cidwued round hat. Their leader, the beau-\\nideal of a dashing caA alier, carried the news of tlie capitulation\\nof oriiwallis to tlie king. When condemned afterwards l)y\\nthe tribunal of Kou(|uier Tinville, a moment before his ex-\\necution he turne(l to those wlio were to sutler with him and said,\\nIt is tinislied, gentlemen I de[iart on tlie great joui uey. J o\\ntlie I xecutioni r lie olfere(l a glass of wine, saying, Take it, you\\nhave need of courage to peiform your ihity.\\nThe artillery, ahlioiigh it did not join in the lisj)lay, must\\nnot lie forgotten. This arm wa-; attired in blue, faced with red,\\nwith white spatterdashes and red pompons. The men wore the\\nshort b omaii swoi d, and canied their lirelocks by the slings.\\nThe heavy artillery train remaiiieil with the American forces, to\\nassist, if necessary, in the i-e(|uction of New York.\\nA great concourse of jieople came out to the Neck to welcome\\nthe gallant Frenchmen, and as the l)rilhant column move(l\\nalong it was met with the liveliest (h lnonstrations of joy and\\nalfection. bailies waAcil their handkerchiefs from the windows,\\nand the old streets echoed again with thi^ plaudits of the peo])le.\\nOur readers will doubtless agre(i that, of the many pageants of\\nwhich the Neck has 1 n the theatre, none were so well worth\\nwitnessing as the one on the day when the superb host of our\\nally, Louis X\\\\ l., with closed ranks ami lirni tread passed into\\nthe town or that other day when,\\nIn tlii ir r;ii;i;( (l icgiiiicntals,\\nStood the Ud ontiiR iitals,\\nwith little of the pomp of war in their api)earance, but with\\nth(^ light o| victory in every countenance, as they marched in", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0496.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "THE NECK AND THE FORTIFICATIONS. 4o7\\ntnuiui)h thruiiyh the abaiuluiR il wnrks ul the enemy, iiuiugu-\\nratiug by their valor and constancy the hope of a successful\\nissue to the couHict just begun.\\nThe stay of tlie French was taken up l)y a rt)und of reviews,\\nballs, dinners, and receptions. The ollicers found quarters and\\ngenuine hospitality among the inhabitants, and the men were\\nAvell cared for. Ijoth officers and men parted with keen regret\\nfrom tile friends they had found, a regret sincerely shared by\\nthe inliabitants. At a lire wliich o(;curi cil in tlie town the\\nFrench displayed such good-wdl and gallantry in assisting to\\nextinguish it that they were puljhcl}^ thanked. On the 11th,\\n(iovernor Hancock ami the council gave one of their solemn\\nfeasts to the general and tiehl offii ers, tlie Marquis de Vaudreuil,\\nand principal officers of the fleet.\\nThe fleet of the Marquis lay in the roads, consisting of tlie\\neiglity gun-ships Le Trioinphaiit, Le Couronne, and Le Due de\\nBourgogne the .seventy-fours L Hercule, Le Souverain, Le\\nNeptune, La Lourgogne, Northumberland, Le Bravo, Le Cit-\\noyen, and the two frigates L Amazone and La Nereide.\\nAt this time tlie s([uadron was joined by a most iiotaljle vol-\\nunteer in John Paul Jones, who was, at his own solicitation,\\npermitted to accompany M. de Vaudreuil. He was received\\nwith distinction by the Manpiis on board his own vessel, Le\\nTriomphant, and lodged with the Haron Viomenil. The de^-\\ntination of the s(iuadron a secret which was well kept was\\nJamaica. On the 24th of December the Heet set sail from\\nBoston for the rendezvous at Poiio Caliello, which after nu-\\nmerous disasters it reached in Febi uary. AVliile lying there,\\nPaul Jones f(dl dangerously ill of the fevt r. Peace ensued before\\nthe fleet of D Estaing, which Avas to co-operafe, arrived from\\nCadiz. It will be remembered that Jones was compelled, liy a\\nresolution of Congress, to surrender the America, the building\\nof wliich he had for sixteen months superintended, to M. de\\nVaudreuil, to replace Le IVLignitique, which had belonged to the\\nfleet of the Manjuis.\\nThe reader, who has patiently followed us in the attempt to\\nreconstruct to some extent the Boston of our lathers, to rebuild", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0497.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "438 LANDMARKS OF ItOSTON.\\niu iniagination their habitatidiirt, and U) revive tlieir venerable\\ncustoms, may, in a measure, realize those changes which have\\nswejit over the ancient peninsula, and wellnigh totally effaced\\nits lanihnarks and while he feels a just pride in that growth\\nwhicli is the expression of power, he may yet render due trilmte\\nto the solid traits and heroic deeds of those anti({ue characters\\nwho laid the foundations dee]) and permanent on which have\\nrisen the Metropolis of New England.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0498.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "INDEX.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0499.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0500.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAbbott, Colonel, .S79.\\nAcademy of Music, first established in\\nBoston, 259.\\nAdams, Charles Francis, birtliplace.\\n319; pulilic services, iWl marries,\\n321.\\nAdams Express Comiiany, 7ti, SO.\\nAdams Hall. .Sr li,iylston liall.\\nAdams House, site and name of, 392.\\nAdams, John, 39, (50 incident of his\\nnomination of Washington to com-\\nmand the army, 73, 82, 89, 100 res-\\nidence, 125, 126, 148, 181, 196, 201\\nsails for France, 221, 230 defends\\nPreston, 249, 309 de,scrij)tion of\\nHutchinson s Council, 347, 353, 355,\\n357 office, 402.\\nAdams, John Quincy, library of, 37, 39,\\n125, 201 residence, 319 sketcli of,\\n319 incidents of mission to Russia,\\n320 Lafayette visits, 364 names\\nfrigate Bralidy wine, 382; office, 402\\nlays corner-stone of Hoylston Market,\\n403, 404,\\nAdams, Laban, innkeeper, 392.\\nAdams, Samuel, 57, 69, 71 presides\\nat Civic Feast, 110 proscribed, 125\\nportrait, 140, 149, 214, 220 at Tea\\nParty Meeting, 229 resemblance to\\nCJeneral Gage, 243, 248 opposed to\\ntheatres, 261 birthplace, 281 fire-\\nward, 295, 297 residence and sketch\\nof, 308, 309 drafts State Constitu-\\ntion, 309 Governor of Massachu-\\nsetts, 309 death, 309 anecdote of,\\n309 personal ai)pearance, 309 de-\\nscription of hi birthplace, 309 lays\\ncorner-stone of New State House,\\n344 liusl of, 345, 348, 372, 401,\\n406, 433.\\nAdams, Samuel, senior, 380.\\nAdams School, 314.\\nAdams, Setli, i)rinting-office, 253.\\nAdams Street (Kilby), 109.\\nAdams, W, T., 392.\\nAdclphi Theatre, 74.\\nAdmiral Dulf, sjiiji, 211.\\nAdmiral Vernon J avein, 111 kept\\nby, 112.\\n.\\\\dventure. Galley (Kidil s vessel),\\n78.\\nAdvertiser Building, 79.\\nAlbion, 56.\\nAlboni, Madame, 394.\\nAlden Court, ;571.\\nAlcott, A. Bronson, .scliool, 312.\\nAlcott, Louisa May, :il2.\\nAlert, sloop-of-war, 171.\\nAIe.\\\\an ler, Em))eror, traits of, 20.\\nAle.xis, Grand Duke, in Boston, 371.\\nAllen, A. S., innkeeper, 392.\\nAllen, Rev. James, old stone resi-\\ndence, 363.\\nAllen, Jeremiah, 261 residence, 363.\\nAllen Street, 339, 370.\\nAllen, Wm. H., 197 W. H., 390.\\nAllotment of lands, 14.\\nAllston, Wasliington, 38 studio, 276\\npicture of Belshazzar, 276 .sketch\\nand anecdotes of, 276, 277 death,\\n276 jiicture of Elijah, 367.\\nAlmshouse, Old, 56 site and descrip-\\ntion of, 299 erected, 299 removed,\\n300 management of, 300 occupied\\n1)y wounded, 300, 352 at West\\nEnd, 375 description of, 376.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0501.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "442\\nINDEX.\\nAinazone, French ship, 437.\\nAiublard, James, resiileiK-e, 145.\\nAmerican Academy of Arts and\\nSciences, 37, 38, 39.\\nAmerican Amiiliitlieatre, 378.\\nAmerican CoHVe House, 41, 108.\\nAmerican Congregational Association,\\n363.\\nAmerican House, 68, 7 l.\\nAmerica, slup, 180, 437.\\nAmerica, seventy-four, Iniilt, ISO.\\nAmerican Works, location and descrip-\\ntion of, 427, 428, 429.\\nAmes, Fislier, 82 funeral, 353, 403.\\n/Ames, Joseph, 141.\\nAmes Manufacturing Company, 58.\\nAmes, Ricliard, sliot, 326.\\nAmherst, General JeH rey, 240, 310\\nin Boston, 326.\\nAmory, Jonathan, residence, 171.\\nAmory, Rufus G., 390.\\nAmory, Thomas, builds Club House,\\ncorner Park and Beacon Streets,\\n3. )2.\\nAmory, Thomas C, 196.\\nAnabaptists, 15.\\nAncient Arch, Ljnm Street, 199, 200.\\nAncient and Honorable Artillery, 83\\nfirst commander of, 88 Governor\\nDummer, T aptain of, 102 history\\nof, 137, 138 rendezvous, 138\\narmory, 138, 157; at Governor Shir-\\nley s funeral, 267, 315, 331.\\nAndover, Mass., 26, 60.\\nAndover Theological Seminary, 55.\\nAndre, John, execution of, 100.\\nAndrew, John A., office, 83 statue of,\\n345.\\nAndrews, BenJ., 250.\\nAndrews, Ebenezer T., 253.\\nAndrews, John, 307.\\nAndros, Lady Anne, burial-place of,\\n35 buried 228 tomb of, 229 fu-\\nneral, 390.\\nAndros, Sir Edmund, 15, 31 35, 40, 148\\ntakes possession of Old South, 228\\nhouse, 228 depo.sed, 285 reputed\\nresidence of, 228, 390, 391.\\nAnnapolis, Naval Museum at, 106.\\nAinie, Queen, 33, 64.\\nAime Street. Srr North Street, 127,\\n153.\\nAnnual Register, British, 431.\\nAnthology ciub, 37, 124 headquar-\\nters, 268 William Tudor, 3(14.\\nAntinomians, sect of, 63.\\nAnti(iuarian Society, 237.\\nApi)leton, General, 356.\\nAppleton, Samuel, 32.\\nAppollonio, Mr., 298.\\nApthorp, Charles, 32, 386.\\nApthorp, Charles W., 358.\\nApthorp, Madam, house, 121.\\nArl:)uthnot, Admiral, 221.\\nArched passage-ways, 121 peculiar\\ntenure of, 255.\\nArch Street, 39.\\nArea of Boston, 8.\\nArgus, brig, 181, 197.\\nArmstrong, Captain Samuel, 221.\\nArmstrong, John, Jr., 66.\\nArmstrong, Jonathan, Postmaster of\\nBoston, 92.\\nArmstrong, S. T., 298; residence and\\nbookstore, 338, 371.\\nAshburton Place, 50 named, 140, 362\\nformerly Somerset Court, 363.\\nAshlnirton treaty, 45.\\nAsia, British frigate, 217.\\nA.sp, schooner, 221.\\nAston, Thomas, 386.\\nAsylum for Indigent Boys, 209.\\nAtiienanim Block, 280.\\nAtlienii um, Boston, 37, 38, 39 All-\\nstou s pictures in, 276, 277, 280, 317\\nstatues in, 344, 345.\\nAtkinson Street. See CVmgress.\\nAtkinson, Theodore, 273.\\nAtlantic Avenue, 8, 115.\\nAuchmuty s Lane. See Essex Street.\\nAuchmiity, Robert, senior, 402.\\nAuchmuty, Robert, younger, residence\\nand sketch of, 402.\\nAuchmuty, Sir Samuel. 402.\\nAustin, Charles, killed. 114.\\nAustin, Josejih, 168.\\nAurora, privateer, 171.\\nAvon Street, News Letter printed near,\\nS2 iirojected by, 365 residents of,\\n392.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0502.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n44^\\nB.\\nBack Bay, improvement, 8, 333.\\nBack Street, 7, 153, 219. Sec Salem.\\nBainbridge, William, 100, 186 action\\nwith the Java, 190, 191, 194, 355.\\nBainbridge, sloop-of-war, 185.\\nBalch, Nathaniel, 314, 341 shop, 394.\\nBaldwin, Loamnii, 38, 152 Engineer\\nof Dry Dock, Charlestown, 185 En-\\ngineer of Mill Dam, 333.\\nBaldwin Place, 151 Second Baptist\\nCliurch in, 226, 416.\\nBaldwin, Rev. Thomas, buried, 296.\\nBallard, innkeeper, 107.\\nBallard, John, 294.\\n.Ballon, Rev. Hosea, 64.\\nBancroft, George, 166 residence, 385.\\nBanks, Commodore, 116.\\nBanks, Nathaniel P., 341.\\nBanner, Peter, architect of Park Street\\nChurch, 301.\\nBanni.ster s Lane. See Winter Street.\\nBaptist Bethel, 416.\\nBarber, Nathaniel, 269.\\nBarbour, Major, 357.\\nBardin, Edward, innkeej)er, 428.\\nBaring, Alexander, in Boston, 140.\\nBarker, James, innkeeper, 105.\\nBarker, Josiah, 185, 193.\\nBarlow, Joel, 193.\\nBarnard, Benjamin, 66.\\nBarnstable, 44.\\nBarre, Colonel Isaac, ]iortrait, 140,\\n269, 407.\\nBarrell, Josejih, estate of, 254 pidueer\\nin Northwest Coast trade, 254\\nsketch of, 389 store, 389.\\nBarret, Samuel, 433.\\nBarrett, George, 292.\\nBarrett, Mrs. George, 40 (h but in\\nBoston, 318.\\nBarrett, George L. 256, 3] 8.\\nBarricade, The, 8, 114 description of,\\n115, 284.\\nBarrister s Hall built, 317.\\nBarry, C!oniniiHlore John, 182.\\nBarry, Mr., 292.\\nBartol, Rev. C. A., 374.\\nBarton, Mr., 273.\\nBarton s Point, 24 ropewalks at, 273,\\n369 works to be assaulted, 359\\ncopper- works and intrenchments at,\\n369.\\nBarton Street, 375.\\nBass, Henry, residence of, 283, 406.\\nBates, Joshua, notice of, 324.\\nBath Street, 269.\\nBatter}7uarch Street, 106 old water\\nfront, 110 shipyards on, 112 filled\\nin, 288.\\nBatterymarch, The, 286.\\nBattery Street (Alley), 176.\\nBattery Wharf, 116, 168, 177.\\nBattle of Lexington, relics of, in State\\nHouse, 347.\\nBaudoin. See Bowdoin.\\nBaylies, Hon. W., 39.\\nBeach Street, 7, 404 great fire in,\\n416 Neck begins at, 418.\\nBeach Street Market, 404.\\nBeacon Hill, 3, 6, 7, 10, 17, 47, 52, 54\\nmaterial used to fill Mill Pond, 152\\ncalled Gentry Hill, 299 guns caj)-\\ntured on, 327 British works on,\\n328 caiup of the Light Hor.se, 329\\nropewalks on, 329 monument on,\\n345, 352 summit of, 349 to be\\nassaulted, 359, 365.\\nBeacon Street, 4, 37, 53, .56 Alms-\\nhouse in, 299 town property on\\nsold, 300 high blufi at foot of, 325\\nBritish woi-ks on, 328 named, 333\\naspect of, in 1775, 333 residents of,\\n333, 360 considered out of town,\\n338 terminus of, in 1722, 352.\\nBeacon, The, 17 description and his-\\ntory of, 349, 352.\\nBean, Mary, keeps the Admiral Ver-\\nnon, 112.\\nBeaver, tea shiji, 282.\\nBedford Place, 390.\\nBedford Street, 102, 230 called Pond\\nLane, 381 Blind Lane a part of,\\n381, 390.\\nBeecher, Henry Ward, 147.\\nBeecher, Laban S., 194.\\nBeecher, Lyman, 147.\\nBeecher s (Lyman) Clhurch, site of,\\n147.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0503.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "444\\nINDKX.\\nBeer, William, 206.\\nBeer Lane, 155.\\nBelcher, Andrew, residence of, 101\\nwarehouse, 102.\\nBelcher, Goviirnor Jonathan, 40, 67\\nresidence of, 102 portrait of, 347\\ngives land for llollis Street Church,\\n414.\\nBelcher (and Armstrong), A .jS.\\nBelcher s Lane. See Purcliase Street,\\n281\\nBelknap s Alley (Brattle Stivct), 71.\\nBelknap, Jeremy, 23tt, 2t): biuied,\\n296 residence of, 3S1.\\nBelknap Street, 329 idpewalk on,\\n352 named, 37(1.\\nBell Alley, 162. .SVc Prince Street.\\nBellamy, Samuel, 49.\\nBelle Boule, frigate, 139.\\nBellingham, Governor I\\\\i hard, resi-\\ndence of, 51, 53, 54, 5S, 91\\ntomb of, 296.\\nBelloiuont, Earl of, 77 house of, 391.\\nBennet, David. .SVv Sjieneer l hi})ps.\\nBennet Street, 153, 213..\\nBent, Ann, shop of, 391.\\nBentley, Joshua, 66.\\nBentley, Samuel, 184.\\nBentley, Rev. William, anecdote of,\\n187, l88.\\nBerkeley, George (Bishop), 72.\\nBerkeley Street, 385.\\nBernartl, Governor Francis, admits\\nBritisli troops to Faneuil Hall, 89,\\n236 recei)tii)n, 241 proclaims la.st\\ncrowned liead in colony, 241 coun-\\ntry residence, 242 ell ects stolen,\\n242, 247, 303 town residence, 307,\\n313, 348, 352 account of Liberty\\nTree, 398, 399.\\nBerry Street. .SVc banning.\\nBerry Street Academy, 2 )2.\\nBerry, Grace, 205, 2ti7.\\nBerthier, Alexander, in Co.ston, 433.\\nBethel Church, site of, 168.\\nBethune s Corner, 390.\\nBlack, Rev. William, 172.\\nBlack Horse Lane. See I rince Street.\\nBlack Horse Tavern, 219.\\nBlackstone, Sir William, 4, 47.\\nBlackstone, William, his settlement,\\n2, 3 house, 3, 10 orchard, 3\\nclaim to the Peninsula, 4 marries,\\ndies, 5 lot, 28 Common purchased\\nfrom, 305 reserved six acres, 334.\\nBlackstone s Point, 3.\\nBlackstone s Spring, 3, 4.\\nBlackstone Scpuire, 6.\\nBlackstone Street, 6, 7, 68, 127 built\\nin channel of Mill Creek, 132;\\nnamed, 152.\\nBlagck u, Rev. G. W. settled in Salem\\nStreet (Jliurch. 220 resigns pastor-\\nate of Old South, 220.\\nBlake (and Aldeii), 130.\\nBlake, W. R.. 291.\\nBland, Mr.. 74.\\nBible and Heart, 234.\\nBigelow, Colonel, 269.\\nBillings, HanuiKitt, 38.\\nBirthplace of Franklin, 251 burnt,\\n252.\\nBiscaccianii, Eliza, 291.\\nBishop s Alley, 253. See Hawley\\nStreet.\\nBishop, Madam Anna, 368.\\nBishop, Nathaniel, innkeeper, 248,\\n253.\\nBishop-Stoke Street, 52.\\nBlessing of the Bay, first shiji l)uilt in\\nvicinity of Boston, 178.\\nBlew An chor, 121, 122.\\nBlind Lane. See Bedford Street.\\nBloody Monday, 114.\\nBlossom Street built, 376.\\nBlott s Lane. See Winter Street.\\nBk)\\\\vers, Samjison Salter, otiice, 402.\\nBlue Anchor Tavern, location of, 121.\\nBlue Ball. The, 146; description of,\\n147, 102.\\nBlue Bell and Indian Queen, site and\\nsketcli of, 248 another in Broni-\\nlield s Lane, 248, 253, 275.\\nBoariled Alley, or Board Alley, 155,\\n253 theatre in, 261. See Hawley\\nStreet.\\nBoard man. Rev. Mr., 172.\\nP.olter, Thomas. 282.\\nP.olton, Dr., Ihitish surgeon, 108.\\nBonaparte, Jerome, anecdote of, 139.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0504.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n445\\nBookseller s Row, 338.\\nBook of Possessions, 19, 88.\\nBoot, Kirk, IDI! iiiansioii o), :J71.\\nBooth, Junius Brutus, 40, 41, 394\\nmanager of Tremont Theatre, 292.\\nBorland s Wliarf, 127.\\nBoston, a village, 2.\\nBoston Bay, 2.\\nBoston t hronirle, l(l7.\\nBoston, England, (i.\\nBoston Evening Post, otfiee of, 234.\\nBoston, frigate, built, 181, 195 his-\\ntory of, 196, 197 Old Boston,\\nfrigate, 221.\\nBoston Gazette, 391.\\nBoston Jail, 65 (Old I rison), 76, 77,\\n78 New Jail, 78 hurnt, 78\\nCounty, 78 Debtor s, 78 keys of\\nOld Prison, 78 Leverett Street,\\n78 deserii)tion of, 374 removed to\\nCharles Street, 375.\\nBoston Library, ineorpoi ;ited and\\nloeated, 255.\\nBoston Liglit Dragoons eseort Lafay-\\nette, 356.\\nBoston Light Infantry, 19(1, 262.\\nBoston Massacre, Kiio.x s relation of,\\n85, 89 burial of victims, 297 no\\nmonument to, 298.\\nBoston Pier (Long Wliaif), 114.\\nBoston Port Bill, 68.\\nBoston Regiment, The, 21, 65, 210 at\\nGovernor Shirley s funeral, 267\\ndetachment guard tea sldjis, 281\\nreceives Lafayette, 355, 398.\\nBoston Stone, 143 history of, 144, 145.\\nBoston Theatre, 254 opened, 256\\nEdmund Kean s first appearance at,\\n257 second appearance, and riot,\\n258 Mrs. Rowson, 258 Macready,\\n259 Jolm Howard Paine, 259 La-\\nfayette at, 259, 364 architect and\\ndescription of, 259, 260 cast on\\nopening night, 260.\\nBoston and Worcester Railroad, Com-\\npany purcliases depot grounds in\\nSouth Cove, 411 first e(pupmeut\\nof, 411.\\nBotta. 348.\\nBougainvUle visits Boston, 341.\\nBourbonnais (French regiment), 435.\\nBourgogne, Due de, Frencii ship, 437.\\nBourne, Garrett, his lot, 404.\\nBoutineau, James, residence of, 253.\\nBowditch, Nathaniel, 39 statue of,\\n344 residence of, 384.\\nBowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll, 384.\\nBowdoin Block, 253.\\nBowdoin College, James Bowdoin a\\njiatron, 253.\\nBowdoin, Governor James, 39, 57,\\n124, 233, 248 first President of\\nMassacliusetts Bank, 303, 337, 349\\nresidence of, 361 sketch of, 361,\\n362, 387 widow ot, 106.\\nBowdoin, James, Jr., resideni:e of,\\n253.\\nBowdoin Square, 369 -liangcs in,\\n370 trees in, 409.\\nBowdoin Sipiare Church, site of, 371.\\nBowdoin Strei t, named, 352 called\\nMiddlecott, 352.\\nBowdoin Street Church, 147.\\nBoweii, Mr., 41.\\nBowers, John, 52.\\nBowling Green, 369. .SVe Bowdoin\\nSquare.\\nBownd, James, residence of, 223.\\nBoyd, General John P., residence of,\\n168 commands Fort Independence,\\n280.\\nBoyden, Simeon, innkeeper, 248.\\nBoylstou s Alley, 121.\\nBoylston Hall, Museum in, 42 vari-\\nous occupants of, 403, 404.\\nBoylston Market, 130, 354, 398 his-\\ntory of, 403.\\nBoylston Place, Boston Library in, 254.\\nBoylston Street, 305 called Frog\\nLane, 319 Duck Factory in, 322\\nBritish works in, 328.\\nBoylston, Thomas, 288.\\nBoylston, Ward Nicholas, 288, 4o.!.\\nBoylston, Dr. Zabdiel, introduce^ in-\\noculation, 103, 403.\\nBoyne, British frigate, 217.\\nBrackett, Anthony, innkeeper, 61.\\nBrackett, Joshua, 61.\\nBrackett, Richard, 234.\\nBraddock, General Edward, 62.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0505.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "446\\nINDEX.\\nBnidstreet, Onvcrnor, portraits of, 34tJ,\\n347.\\nBraintree, 29.\\nBranilywine, IVigatf, iiaiin il, 382.\\nBrattle Sijuare, a ^/Zftce d arines, 121,\\n]2ti lieadquarter.s for stage.s, 126.\\nBrattle Street, 42 oi)eneil to Court,\\n71, 72, 74 l arraeks in, 121, 127\\nmarket in, 130.\\nBrattle Street Church, 49, 68 parson-\\nage, 76 ruins of, 122 history of,\\n122, 123, 124, 147, 234; Lafayette\\nattends, 355 Washington attends,\\n387, 416.\\nBrattle, Tlioinas, 31.\\nBravo, French slui 437.\\nBray s Wharf, 129.\\nBrasier Inn, 141.\\nBra/en Head, 146, 272.\\nBra/.er s Building, 91, 92.\\nBreed s Hill, 24, IKi.\\nBrenton, Captain William, Collector\\nof Boston, 210.\\nBrewer, Gardner, 147.\\nBrewer, Janie.s, 282.\\nBrickyards on the Neck, 422.\\nBridewell, site of, 299 at West Bos-\\nton, 376.\\nBridge, Thomas W., 35.\\nBridge Lane (Richmond Street), 155.\\nBridge Street, built, 376.\\nBridges, Cambridge, 24 Charles lliv-\\ner, 24, 180 West Boston, 24 Do-\\nver Street, 24 Craigie s, 24 Lech-\\nmere s Point, 25 Western Avenue,\\n25, 332, 333; South Boston, 25;\\nBoston South Bridge, 24 Canal, 24.\\nBridgliam s Wharf, 127.\\nBridgman, Thomas, 205, 207.\\nBrigham, Peter B., 71.\\nBrighton Street, called Cii] iicr, 369.\\nBrimmer, Martin, anecdote of, 368.\\nBi imstone Corner, 301.\\nBrissot, De, in Boston, 341.\\nBritannia, steamship, 290.\\nBritish Coffee House, 60 location of,\\n107 James Otis assaulted in, 108\\ntheatricals in, 260.\\nBritish Light Horse, stables and camp,\\n329.\\nBritish Society, 31.\\nBiitish Stamps (Stamjt Act), 8(1 speci-\\nmens of, 81 burnt, 90 riots, 110.\\nBroad Street, 109 built, 110 riot in,\\n111.\\nBrock, Ccneral, 410.\\nBromfield, Edward, residence of, 294,\\n362.\\nBromfield House, 248. See Indian\\nQueen tavern, 294.\\nBromfield, John, 38.\\nBromfield s Lane, 41. See Street.\\nBromfield Street, 10, 227 named, 294.\\nBromfield Street Church, 416.\\nBrooker, William, Postmaster of Bos-\\nton, 79 publishes Boston Gazette,\\n79, 104.\\nBrookline, 14, 418.\\nBrooks, Edward, 147.\\nBrooks, Governor John, sword of, 40,\\n43 at Bunker Hill, 86, 100, 355,\\n361 anecdote of, 367.\\nBrooks, Peter C, 321.\\nBrougham, John, 74.\\nBrougham, Mrs., 74.\\nBrougham, Lord, 53.\\nBi own, Charity, 206.\\nBrown, Deacon, 425.\\nBrown, Elisha, prevents occupation of\\nFactory House by troops, 303.\\nBrown, Gawen, 234.\\nBrown, Enoch, house and barnsof, 427\\nBritish out]iost, 427 destroyed,\\n427.\\nBrown, William, 49.\\nBruce, Captain James, 282.\\nBryant, Gridley J. F., 58. !iec United\\nStates Bank, 94.\\nBryant, W. C!., 290.\\nBuckingham, Joseph T., 403.\\nlUickminster, Jo.seph S., 38, 123, 124\\nBucks of America, 40.\\nliuilding stone, curious statcnient\\nabout, 422.\\nBuUinch, Ciiarles, 39 Franklin Street\\nimprovement, 75, 213, 248, 254\\narchitect of Boston Theatre, 259\\nof Feileral Street Church, 264, 311\\nof new State House, 343 Beacon\\nHill Monument, 350 sketch of,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0506.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n447\\n369, 370 designs new South Church,\\n380 Hollis Street Church, 415.\\nBulfiiich Street. See Valley Acre,\\n370.\\nBultinch Street Church, 41(3.\\nBultiiich, Thomas, residence of, 369.\\nBull s Head, tlie home of G. R. T.\\nIlewes, 269.\\nBull Run, 46.\\nP.uU Tavern, site of, 380.\\nBunistead Place, residence of Adino\\nPaddock, 294, 295.\\nBunch of Grapes Tavern, location of,\\n10. 107 Washington at, 432.\\nBunker Hill, Battle of, 60, 65, 69, 70\\nKno.x at, 85, 87 General Dearborn\\nat, 106 troops embark for, 113,\\n177 remini.scences of, 202, 216\\nGeneral Howe s address to his\\ntroops, 245 burial-place of soldiers,\\n323 Lafayette s visit to, 35.5.\\nBunker Hill Monument, Webster s\\noration at, 45 brass ginis in, 72,\\n112, 120, 278, 315; architect of,\\n312 corner-stone laid, 346, 392.\\nBunker Hill Monument Association,\\n352.\\nBunker Hill Quarry discovered, 312.\\nBurgoyne, General John, 125, 127,\\n203, 204, 207 his regiment occupies\\nOld South, 231 anecdotes of, 231,\\n232 at council, 243, 245; author of\\nplays, 260, 310 capitulation of,\\n324 occupies Bowdoin s house, 362,\\n426, 427.\\nBurnet, Gilbert (Bishop), 237.\\nBurnet, William, 31 re.sidence of,\\n65, 105, 236 born, 237 died, 237,\\n246, 247 portrait of, 346.\\nBurns, Anthony, remanded to slavery,\\n113.\\nBurr, Aaron, 296.\\nBurritt, Eliliu, 293.\\nBury Street. See Channing, 263.\\nBus.sey, Beujamiu, residence of, 254,\\n416.\\nBute, Lord, hung in effigy, 399.\\nButler, Peter, warehouse ami wharf,\\n112.\\nButler s Row, 112, 129.\\nButler, Pierce, 121.\\nBnttrick, John, 345.\\nButtolph Street, 370.\\nByles, Mather, 29, 64, 67 anecdotes\\nof, 85, 210 birthplace, 218, 219,\\n238 residence and sketch of, 412\\ndeath, 413 anecdotes of, 413, 414.\\nByles, Mather, Jr., 216.\\nByng, Admiral, effigy of, 150.\\nByron, Lord, 193.\\nc.\\nCabot, George, residence of, 295\\nsketch of, 295, 296.\\nCabot, Edward C.,38.\\nCalico printing in Boston, 322.\\nCambridge, 86.\\nCambridge Bay (Back Bay), 414.\\nCambridge Bridge, .325.\\nCambridge Commencement, 16.\\nCambridge Street, extent of, 369.\\nCampbell, John, Postmaster of Bos-\\nton, ])ublishes News Letter, 82, lot,\\nCanii)bcll, Nicholas, 282.\\nCampliell, William, iiuikeepcr, 176.\\nCamp, Fredericksliurg, 66.\\nCaner, Rev. Henry, 29, 32, 35, 267.\\nCanton, Mass., Revere s cupjier works\\nat, 120.\\nCanton Street, British works near,\\n426.\\nCape Cod, 49, 203.\\nCape C!()d Row, 316.\\nCapen, Nahum, Postmaster of Bos-\\nton, 385.\\nCarleton, Sir Guy, 406.\\nCarroll, Bishop, 256.\\nCarr, Sir Robert, insolent reply to\\nGovernor Leverett, 174.\\nCarter, Master James, 57, 75 resi-\\ndence of, 76.\\nCarter, Mrs., bo.xrding-house of, 353.\\nCartwright, Colonel George, 174.\\nCarver, Governor John, sword of, 40.\\nCarver Street, British works near,\\n328.\\nCass, Lewis, 139, 185, 192.\\nCastle, The, 24, 115 troops removed\\nto, 121, 170 French prisoners at,", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0507.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "448\\nINDEX.\\n197 view of Boston from, 241 tea\\nconsignees at, 3;54 surgeon, 3(Jo\\nstamps sent to, S Jit I ortilied, 4-J4.\\nCathedral (new), 420, 421.\\nCathedral Buildings, site of atliedral\\nof Holy Cro.ss, 2ii[\\nCaucus, Nortli End, i-cmlezvims and\\norigin of the name, 17ti.\\nCauseway (Mill Pond), 7, liJU origin\\nof, 15L\\nCauseway Street, 7, 150.\\nCazneau, Mr., residence of, 402.\\nCentinel Hill, :iH).\\nCentral House, 121.\\nCentral Wharf, arch on, 111, llfj.\\nCentre Street, 37, 153, 154.\\nCentre Writing School, 57, 75 anec-\\ndote of, 304.\\nentry Hill, 56. Srr Beacon Hill.\\nCentry Street named, 299. X c- Turk\\nStreet.\\nChambers Street, 370.\\nhanii ney, John, titi\\nCliamjicenetz, Manjuis, 433.\\nChange Avenue (.vcc Pillory), 93\\nUnited States Custom House on\\ncorner of, 105.\\nChanning Street, J(jlin H. Payne s\\nresilience in, 2 J2 named, 26o.\\nChanning, Rev. W. E., 263, 264.\\nChantrey, Sir F., statue of Washing-\\nton, 345.\\nChapin, Rev. E. H., 64.\\nhaiHuan, Ca]itain, 229.\\nCiiapmau Hall, 65.\\nChajiman, Jonathan, 140.\\nhapnian Place, 65.\\nChai)] otin, Leon, puhlic-house of, 3S4\\nentertains Jerome Bonajiarte, 3S4.\\nChard(. n, Peter, residenci of, -371.\\nCliardon Street, school-house in, 371.\\nCharles]., 10, 11, 50, 55.\\nCharles H., 33, 34, 51, 5:!, S3, 174.\\nCharles River, 2, 3, 17 coninianded\\nhy North Battery, 177, 203.\\nCharles Street, 4 ropewalks near,\\n324 o].ened, 324, 325 sea-wall\\nhuilt, 325, 333, 370 trees removed\\nfrom, 409.\\nCharleston, S. C, 103.\\nCharlestown, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 slaves\\nshipi)ed to, 13; P crry, 24, 25;\\nPortsmouth stage, 26, 57, 65; at-\\ntack on, 117.\\nCharlestown Piridge, 5, 7.\\nCharlestown Com})any, 5, 10.\\nCharlestown Ferry, 5, 125.\\nCharlestown Navy Yard, 182, 183,\\n186, 194, 195, 322, 327 Lafayette s\\nvisit to, 355.\\nCharlestown Neck, 25, 181 retreat\\nover, 203, 207, 243.\\nliarter Street, named, 209 residents\\nof, 211.\\nCiiase, Major-General, 355.\\nChase, Thomas, 282.\\nChastellu.x, Maniuis, 19, 24, 61, 85,\\n362, 435.\\nChatham Street, 112.\\nChauncey, Commodore Isaac, 186.\\nChauncy Place named, 381, 382.\\nChauncy Street, First C hurch removed\\nto, 84.\\nCheckley, Rev. Samuel, 380.\\nCheever. Ezekiel, 57.\\nChelsea, 14, 24.\\nClicruh, frigate, 171.\\niicverus. Bishop, 255 anecdote of,\\n2.W.\\nChicoi)ee, 58.\\nChiM, Ly.lia M., 167, 168.\\nChoate, Rufus, otlice, 82 anecdotes\\nof, 83, 219 p(U trait of. 141.\\nChiist Church, 163,200; history and\\ndescription of, 213, 214, 215, 216\\nlegends of, 216, 217 secoml Epis-\\ncopal churdi, 213 steejile lilown\\ndown, 213; chimes, 214, 215, 386,\\n414.\\nCliurdi, Colonel Benjamin, sword of,\\n40, 48.\\nChurch, Dr. Benjamin. 120. 1 19 on\\nthe Boston clergy, 161, 229 treason\\ndiscovered, 243 residrncc of, 243,\\n269, 392, 41 4.\\nChurch Green named, 380.\\nChurch pews, introduction of, 416.\\nChurch Si[uare, 84.\\nCirculating Library, First, 10(5.\\nCitoyen, French shi]), 437.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0508.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n449\\nCity Excliange, 99.\\nCity Hiill, 7 liistory of, 58, 59 Old\\nState House used as, 89.\\nCity Market, 130.\\nCity Tavern, 121.\\nCivic Feast held in Boston, 110.\\nClaghoni, Colonel George, 182, 183.\\nCIai)board Street. See Joy Street.\\nClapp, William W., 403.\\nClark, Rev. Jonas, 214.\\nClark, Captain Tiiuo, 284.\\nClark s shipyard, site of, 174, 178.\\nClark s Sipuire. See North Square.\\nClark Street, 19.\\nClark s Wharf, 170. See Hancock s.\\nClark, William, residence of, 163.\\nClarke, Benjamin, 283.\\nClarke, John, 55, 363.\\nClarke, Richard, store and residence\\nof, 334. Samuel, 59.\\nClay, Henry, 193 at Tremont House,\\n290.\\nClifton Place, American Avorks near,\\n428.\\nClinton, Sir H., 90, 103 arrived in\\nBoston, 125, 127, 207 at council\\nof war, 243 relieves Howe, 244,\\n245, 285, 310 occupies Hancock s\\nHouse, 362.\\nClinton Street, Triangular Wareliouse\\nin, 131.\\nClub House, Park Street, builder,\\n352 Lafayette resides in, 352\\nChristopher Gore, Samuel Dexter,\\nGeorge Ticknor, and Malbone live in,\\n352, 353 a boarding-house, 353\\nbecomes Club House, 354.\\nCoaches, public and private, first used,\\n25 nund.er of, in 1798, 25, 26.\\nCobl), General David, 100, 361, 364.\\nCobuni, John, residence of, 113.\\nCochituate Lake, 23.\\nCockburn, Adnnral, 321.\\nCockerel Church. See Second Church.\\nCodman s Buildings, 70.\\nCodman, John, 196, 389.\\nCodman s Whaif, 129.\\nCoflin, Admiral Sir Isaac, 154, 309\\nliirth]ilace and sketch of, 405 en-\\ndows Coffin School, 406.\\nCotfin, General John, 154 birthplace,\\n405.\\nCoffin, Captain Hezekiah, 282.\\nCoffin, Lieutenant-Colonel, 116.\\nCoffin, Nathaniel, 405.\\nCoffin, Sir Thomas Aston, 154, 406.\\nCoffin School, 406.\\nCoffin, William, innkeeper, 105.\\nCoffin, William, 386, 406.\\nCoggan, John, first shopkeeper, 88.\\nColbron, William, field of, 305.\\nColburn, Jerenuah, 240.\\nCole Lane (Portland Street), 126, 145.\\nCole s (Samuel) Lni, first in Boston\\n108, 109, 141.\\nCole, Master Samiiel, 75.\\nCollier, Sir George, 191.\\nCollingwood, Admiral, 116.\\nColman, Rev. Benjamin, 123, 138.\\nColonnade Row, built and named, 316\\nresidents of, 316, 317 called Fayette\\nPlace, 316, 317.\\nColson, Adam, 282 residence of, 306.\\nColumbian Centinel, office of, 100, 101.\\nColumbia River, named for, 254.\\nComey s Wharf, 182.\\nCommercial Coffee House, 105. See\\nBunch of Grapes, location of, 287.\\nCommercial Street built, 128, 153,\\n198.\\nCommon, The, 3, 4, 10, 17 collector s\\nboat burnt on, 170, 214, 289 extent\\nof, 296 Granary erected on, 262,\\n265, 299 Park Street built on, 299\\nAlmshouse, Workhouse, and Bride-\\nwell on, 299; s]iinning exhibitions on,\\n302 history of, 305 only three trees\\non, 305 the malls planted, 305, 306\\nmore territory purchased for, 306\\ndisfigured liy camps, 306 fences on,\\n306, 307 called Centry Field and\\nTraining Field, 307 West Street\\nentrance, 313 Mason Street the\\neast boundary, 314 hay-scales and\\ngun house on, 322 guns parked on,\\nin 1812, 322 Boylston Street Mall,\\n323 ropewalks on, 324 the lower\\n])art a marsh, 325 topography of,\\n325 troojis endmrked for Lexington,\\n326 English forces on, 326 mili-\\nCC", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0509.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "450\\nINDEX.\\ntary execution on, 326 a pennaiicnt\\ncamp, 327 position of Britisli\\nworks on, 327, 328 an iiitrenclied\\ncamp, 328 Powder House on, 329\\nponds, 329 executions on, 331,\\n332, 360 duel on, 332 Biitisli\\nliospital and guard-liouse on, 332\\nBeacon Street Mall, 333 review by\\nLafayette, 355 introduction of C o-\\nchituate water, 357 Stamp Act\\nrepeal, 358, 359 review of events\\non, 358 music on, 359 grazing\\nand executions on, discontinued, 360\\nWashington reviews C ontineutal\\ntroops on, 432.\\nCommon Burying-Ground opened, 323;\\nuses and traditions of, 323, 324\\nBritish soldiers buried in, 323\\nBritish fortification near, 328.\\nCommon Street descrilieil, 412, 4H).\\nCommonwealth Avenue, 124, 145\\nstatue in, 344.\\nConant, Colonel, 214.\\nConduit Street, 127.\\nConcert Hall, 70 military I onrt in,\\n71 early use by Masons, 71 (illicc\\nof Customs Commissioners, 71\\ngrand ball to Admiral D Estainu,\\n71, 430.\\nConcord, N. 11. ancient Kumford, 87.\\nCongress Hall. See Julieii.\\nCongress House, location of, 281.\\nCongress Street, 37, 234, 264. State\\nStreet so called, 89 United States\\nBanl in, 96 E.xchange Coffee House\\nin, 99 origin of name, 101 made\\nland, 109 Quaker church and buriab\\nground, 207, 268; the Anthology\\nClub, 268 part called Atkinson\\nStreet and Green Lane, 271.\\nCongress Square, Custom House in,\\n106.\\nConscription Riot, 1S63, 223, 224.\\nConstellation, frigate, 171, 181.\\nConstitution, frigate, 139 built, 180\\nhistory and exi)loit.s, 180 to 196\\nkeel laid, 181 first named oliieially,\\n181 designers and mechanics of,\\n182 figure-head, 183 battery, 183\\nlaunch, 183, 184 description of,\\n185; rebuilt, 185; first crui.se, 185,\\n186 commander, 186 escape from\\nBritisli rteet, 187 anecdotes of, 188,\\n189 named Old Ironsides, 189 rel-\\nics of, 192 figure-head affair, 193,\\n194, 195, 201 her sails made in\\nthe Granary, 322.\\nConstitution Wharf, 191.\\nConway, General, 140.\\nC ooke s C^ourt, 65.\\nCooke, Elisha, house of, 65.\\nCooledge, Thomas, 282.\\nCooley, Azariah, innkeeper, 429.\\nCoolidge, Josei)h, 196, 283.\\nCooper, J. Feniniore, 165 historical\\nerror, 181.\\nCooper, Rev. Samuel, 123, 124.\\nCooper, Samuel, 9.\\nCooper, Tliomas A., 191.\\nCooper, Rev. William, 123.\\nCooper, William, residence of, 72.\\nCopley, John S., 4, 52, 67, 73, 122,\\n140, 165 residence of, 334 goes\\nabro.ad, 35 dies, 335 sale of es-\\ntate, 335, 336 personal appearance,\\n)36 an engraver, 336 opinions of\\nhis works. 336.\\nCoj.ley, Richard, 371.\\nCopji, .Joanna, 205.\\nCopp, William, 198, 205.\\nCopper street. Sec Bi-ighton.\\nCopp s Hill. 6, 7. 10, 17, 22, 24, 114\\nused to fill Mill Pond, 152, l.^iS,\\n176 .shipyards at, 179 description\\nof, 198 British works on, 199, 202,\\n204 bombardment from, 207\\nplace of recreation, 208, 244, 399.\\nopp s Hill Burying-Gnmnd, 1.57, 159\\nMather s tom l), 162, lt)3, 199 de-\\nscription of, 204, 205 inscrii)tions,\\n2(15, 2(t(i.\\nCoram, Captain Tliomas, 30.\\nCorn Court, United States Court\\nHouse in, 106 named, 141.\\nCornish, Catherine, 16.\\nCoi-nish, William, 16.\\nCorn Hill. See Fort Hill.\\nCornhill (Old), 22, 55, 72 origin of\\nname, 76 first clock i)laced in, 85\\nextent of, 88, 89; Post-Office in,", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0510.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n451\\n104 Town Pump in, 118 Blue\\nAnchor in, 121 emblematic signs\\nin, 146 booksellers in, 338 named\\nWashington Street, 420.\\nCornhill (New), 42, 75 built and\\ncalled Market Street, 76, 104.\\nCornhill Court, 84.\\nCornliill Square, 84.\\nCorn Market 141.\\nCornvvallis Lord, capitulation of, 436.\\nCotting Uriah, 46, 248 buried, 296\\nbuilds Mill-Daiii, 333 resiilence,365,\\n366 builds New Cornhill, 76 Broad\\nStreet, 110 India Street, 111.\\nCotton Hill, 6, 8, 9, 34, 47 Andros s\\nhouse near, 228, 391.\\nCotton, Jolin, 7, 11, 35, 47, 48 house,\\n50, 51 estate, 52, 5(i, 63, 91, lOl,\\n412.\\nCotton, manufacture of, begun, 322.\\nCouronne, French ship, 437.\\nCourt Avenue, 84.\\nCourt dress, described, 245, 246.\\nCourt House, 44 new, 57 old Coun-\\nty, description of, 59 present, 77\\nold brick Court House, 78 (bounty,\\n78 Municipal, 78 present, built,\\n79, 82 old State House used as,\\n90 ])resent, 94 architect of, 312.\\nCourt Street, 42, 47, 68, 71, 75 Prison\\nLane, 77 Queen Street, 77, 79\\nheadquarters newspaper press, 81,\\n82 cannon concealed in, 315.\\nCoventry Street, 52.\\nCow Lane. iSrc High Street.\\nCrabtree, Mr., builds Causeway, 151.\\nCradock, George, 42, 56.\\nCradock, Mathew, 47.\\nCrafts, El)en, 301.\\nCrafts, Colonel Thomas, 221.\\nCrane, Jolin, Tea Party, 282 injured\\non tea ship, 283 i)lants trees in\\nPaddock s Mall, 294, 295 residence\\nand anecdote of, 412 destroys\\nBrown s house, 427.\\nCrawford, Thomas, 38.\\nCrawford, William II., 197.\\nCreek Lane, 127, 144 named, 145.\\nCrescent Place, 373.\\nCrocker, Hannah M., 161, 166, 215.\\nCrockett, David, 45.\\nCromwell, Oliver, 13, 51, 61, 83.\\nCromwell s Head, 61, 62.\\nCrooked Lane, 94. .SV-f- Wilson s Lane.\\nCross Street, 127 destroyed, 154, 158.\\nCross Tavern, 154.\\nCrosswell, Rev. Andrew, 64.\\nCrown Coffee House, location, 112.\\nCrown Point. See Ticonderoga.\\nCumberland, frigate, 185.\\nCummings, G., innkeeper, 398.\\nGushing, Judge, residence of, 337.\\nGushing, Thomas (Lieutenant-Govern-\\nor), 57, 136, 180 birthplace, 248\\ndies, 248 burial-place, 248.\\nCushman, Charlotte, 394.\\nCustom House, Royal, 42, 76, 94, 1 56,\\n157 First United States, 103, 105,\\n106 figures on, 106 in Custom\\nHouse Street, etc., 106; ships built\\non site of, 112 present, columns of,\\n94, 112, 131 State, 142.\\nCutler, Timothy, D. D., first rector of\\nChrist Churcli, residence of, 215.\\nCyane, sloojj-of-war, 185.\\nCyane, frigate, 186 cajjtured, 191\\ntlag of, 193.\\nDacrcs, Admiral James R., anecdotes\\nof, 99, 100, 189.\\nDaille, Rev. Pierre, 64.\\nDale, Captain Richard, 182.\\nI)alrynq)le, Colonel, 347.\\nDalton, Peter Roe, Cashier United\\nStates Bank, 96.\\nDana, Edmund T., 38.\\nDana, Richard, 400 residence of, 402.\\nDarracott, George, 205.\\nDarley, Mrs., dehut of, 318.\\nDartmoutli, tea slnp, 282.\\nDassett s Alley, 79.\\nDaveiq)ort, Rev. Addington, first rec-\\ntor of Trinity, 386, 387.\\nDavenport, James, innkeeper, 168.\\nDa\\\\enport, Jean Margaret, debai in\\nBoston, 378.\\nDavenport, John, 35 house, 55, 56.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0511.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "452\\nINDEX.\\nDavies Lane, 352.\\nDavis, Caleb, 389.\\nDavis, Admiral Charles H., l)irtlii)lace\\nand sketch of, 364.\\nI)a,vis, Daniel, residence and sketch of,\\n3ti4.\\nDavis, Deacon, 243.\\nDavis, l.saac, 345.\\nDavis, Isaac P., 273.\\nDavis, John, report of codfishery,\\n;us.\\nDavis, Judge John, 100, 370.\\nDavis, Major, 13 s.\\nDawes, Major Thomas, architect of\\nBrattle Street Church, 122, 260\\nhirtliplace, 281 fireward, 295, 398.\\nDay, Captain James, imikeei er, 286.\\nDean, John Ward, 139.\\nDean, Julia, first appearance in Boston,\\n;;7.s.\\nDeane, American frigate, 221.\\nDeane, Silas, 251, 31^0.\\nDearborn, General Henry, 100 Collec-\\ntor of Boston, 105, 106 residence\\nof, 106 married, 253, 364, 410.\\nDearborn, II. A. S., 106, 298.\\nDe Beaumetz, M., 141.\\nDecatur, Stephen, 186, 187, 188, 197.\\nDedliam Street, 419 British works\\nnear, 426.\\nDe Genlis, Madame, 141, 142.\\nDe Joinville, Prince, in Boston, 139,\\n140.\\nDelano, Mrs, biiarding-house of, 362.\\nDelight, privateer, 171.\\nDerby, George H., anecdote of, 291.\\nDerby, Hi. Irani, 269.\\nDi llic Street, 351.\\nDescriptions by early ti avellers, 16, 17,\\nIS, lit.\\nDeshon, Moses, 135.\\nD Estaing, Count, in Boston, 71, 91,\\n103 reception in Faneuil Hall, 138,\\n232, 339 anecdote of, 341, 356.\\nDeux Fonts, Connt Christian, 434\\nCount William, 434.\\nDevonshire Street, 98, 254.\\nDewey, Captain, 194.\\nDexter, Aaron, 2 ;9.\\nDexter, Mrs., 120, 307.\\nDexter, Samuel, 114 residence and\\nsketch of, 353, 354, 370, 414.\\nDibdin, Dr., 336.\\nDickens, Charles, at Tremont House\\n290, 293.\\nDickinson, John, Liberty Song of, 252.\\nDickinson, Thomas, 196.\\nDickson, J. A., 256, 257, 318.\\nDike built on the Neck, 420.\\nDistilleries in 1722, 18 oldest in Bos-\\nton, 406 Avery s, 406 Haskins s,\\n406 numlier in Boston in 1794,\\n406 Henry Hill, 406.\\nDistill-House Square, 151 nanie(l,:;71.\\nDitson, Oliver, and Conii)any, 223.\\nDock S(piare. 56, 126 covered by\\ntides, 127, 130 old market in, 134\\nriot of 1863, 142.\\nDolbier, Edward, 283, 410.\\nDone. Joseph, 49.\\nDoolittle s Tavern, 154.\\nDorchester annexed, 23, 160.\\nDorchester Artillery, 316.\\nDorchestei- Heights 208, 359.\\nDorchester Neck, 23, 425.\\nDorr Rebellion, 106.\\nDorsett s Alley, 79.\\nDoty, Colonel, imikeejier, .92.\\nDove) Street, shipyard near, 419.\\nDow, Lorenzo, 173.\\nDownes, Comniddoi c Jcilni, I esidence\\nof, in, 159.\\nDowse, Thomas, library of, 40.\\nDoyle, William M. S., 41.\\nDrake, Samuel G., 170, 3ti5.\\nDramatic Museum, site of, 404.\\nDraper s Alley, 121.\\nDraper, John, residence nl, 121.\\nDress of the Puritans, 11.\\nDrowne, Deacon Sheni, 135, 236.\\nDry Dock, Charlestown, opened, 139,\\n185.\\nDryden, John, 15, 63.\\nDulnupie, residence of, 270.\\nDuck Manufactory, location and his-\\ntory of, 322.\\nDu Coudray, M., 86, 328.\\nDudley, Governor Josei)h, 31.\\nDudley, Governor Thomas, 225.\\nDutf, Mr., 257.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0512.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n453\\nDuke of Argyle, 272.\\nDuke of Boltou, 384.\\nDuuiavesq, Philip, residence of, 372,\\n386.\\nDumas, Count Mathieu, 434.\\nDumnier, Jeremiah, residence of, 102\\nbirthpLace, 103.\\nDumnier, Governor William, 40 resi-\\ndence of, 102, 103.\\nDunbar, battle of, prisoners from, 13.\\nDunlap, William, 335.\\nDunster, Henry, estate of, 84.\\nDunton, John, 122.\\nDuplessis, 147.\\nDupont, Admiral, 304.\\nDu Portail, General, 285.\\nDurivage, F. A., 104.\\nDuvivier, P. S. B., makes die for\\nWashington Medal, 432.\\nDyar, Mary, hung, 330.\\nE.\\nEagle Theatre, history of, 378.\\nEarl s Coffee House, 70, 154.\\nEast Boston, 14, 23.\\nEast Boston Comi)any, 23.\\nEast Cambridge Bridge, 7.\\nEastern Avenue, 1(38.\\nEastern Military Disti-ict, 383.\\nEastern Stage House, location of, 154.\\nEasthani, 49.\\nEaton, Aniher.st, iiinkei ])er, 430.\\nEayres, Joseph, 282.\\nEckley, Rev. Joseph, buried, 296.\\nEdes, Benjamin (and Gill), prints Bos-\\nton Gazette and Country Journal,\\n80 office, 81 Tea Party council,\\n81 prints for Provincial Congress,\\n81 house, 121.\\nEdes, Thomas, Governor Hutchinson\\nconcealed in his hou.se, 166.\\nEdict of Nantes, 54.\\nEdiidjoro Street, 407.\\nEdwards, Jonathan, 72.\\nEdwards, Rev. Justin, 220.\\nEleanor, tea ship, 282.\\nElection Sermon (Artillery), 138.\\nElgin, Earl of, in Boston, 140.\\nEliot, Andrew, buried, 2U7.\\nEliot, John, 39, 155; resMonce, 174;\\nburied, 207.\\nEliot, Samuel, 56, 196.\\nEliot, Samuel A., 56.\\nEliot School, 65 history of, 218\\npresent school dedicated, 219 re-\\nbellion of pupils, 219.\\nEliot Street, 416.\\nElliott, General, 262.\\nElliott, Commodore Jesse D., 186\\naffair of figure-head, 194, 195.\\nEllis, Joshua, 16.5, 207.\\nEllis, Rowland, 165.\\nElm,. The Great, 10, 305, 329 witch-\\ncraft executions, 330 age and sketch\\nof, .330, 331, 334.\\nElm neighborhood, 396.\\nElm Street, 102 headquarters of\\nstages, 126 widened, 145. See\\nWing s Lane.\\nEmbargo of 1812, 116.\\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 385.\\nEmerson, William, 38, 385.\\nEmmons, C!ommodore G. F. 180, 185.\\nEndicott, Governor John, 5, 11, 40\\nhouse, 47, 48, 53, 56, 58 portraits\\nof, 346, 347.\\nEndicott Street, 151.\\nEngland, Church of. 33, 34.\\nEnglish High, and Latin Scliools, 390.\\nEnglish, Thomas, resilience of, 390.\\nEnterprise, schooner, 171.\\nEjiiscopalians, 4, 15.\\nErving, Colonel Jcilm, 295 residence,\\n207\\nErving, Colonel John, Jr., 263 resi-\\ndence, and funeral of Governor\\nShirley from, 267.\\nEssex Coffee House (Salem), 201.\\nEssex, frigate, 171.\\nEssex Junior, 111.\\nEssex Street, .53 Boston Library in,\\n25.5, 401, 404 residents of, 4(i7\\n410.\\nEustis Street, Roxbury, Shirley man-\\nsion in, 239.\\nEustis s Wliarf, 132.\\nEverett, Edward, 45, .50, 123, 124;\\nSchool, 219 residence, 219, 250.\\nEverett, Colonel, 364.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0513.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "4;-)4\\nINDEX.\\nEwer, Cliarles, projects South Cove Hall, 134, 135 death, 136; por-\\nand Avon Street improvements, 305, 1 trait, 141, 236, 253 the Wood-\\n411. j bridge-Phillips dnel, 113, 380; at-\\nE.xehange (present), S3; in Old State tends Trinity t liureh, 387.\\nHouse, 89; United States l!ank (m Fanenil, Susannah M., 253.\\nsite of, it5, 1(11, 1(14; in Congress Farragut, Admiral D. G., 304.\\nStreet, 209. Harwell, .1. E., 207.\\nE.xehange CJott ee llousi 91 history Faust s statue, sign of, 252, 391.\\nand deseription of, 98, 99 hurid, Fayette Place. Src Colonnade l!ow.\\n99, 100 banipiet to Bainbridge, Fayette Street. .Sec South Allen.\\n190; Willard works on, 311 eon- Federal Baud, 202. Sre J. Howard\\nHagration of. 311 dinner to Lafay- Payne.\\nett e, 355, 40. i Federal Street, 25 I lieatre, 250 fish\\nExchange Street, 50, 90 dest riptioii, I taken in, 2 i4.\\nlol. Federal Slreef Cliurcli, 89; site and\\nE.vtinguisher, Engine House, 402. deseription of, 203 anecdote of the\\nvane, 203 Federal Convention held\\nin, 203, 204 reljuilt, 204.\\nFelt, J. B., 423.\\nFairbanks, Pichard, Hist Postmaster Feniio, John, kccpi-r of tlie (iranary,\\nof Bo.ston, 104. J 299.\\nFanulists, 51. Ferries, 24; Charlestown, 202; inci-\\nFaneuil. Andrew, 54, 04, lol ware- dents of, 2o3.\\nhouse, los, 112; eonicr, 114, 11.5, Fifth British regiiiicid, 113, 110; at\\n103. I Bunker Hill, 203.\\nFaneuil, Benjamin, -30. 112 store, Fifty-seeond British regiment, 177.\\n129, 380 funeral of, 39(1. Fifty-ninth British regiment at Bunker\\nFaneuil Hall Market, 70, 127. .SVc 1 Hill, 203; jmsted on the Neck,\\nQuiney Market, PiO. I 425.\\nFaneuil Hall, .0, 39, 44, .54, 55 Five Points, 153.\\nI-oVfll s address in. 57; nsrd as Fillmore, Mill.ird, in Boston, 371.\\nTown House, 59 Trundml] exhibits Finn, Henry .1., 257 died, 258, 292.\\nhis jiiettire ill, 73 Kno.x s jiortrait.\\n80; Ihitisli troojis, 89; Eagle IVoni\\n[Tnite l States Bank. 95. 1 2 site,\\n127 a market, l: .(l liislory and\\ndeseriiition of, l: to 1 H iMntraits\\nill, 14(1. 141 called Cradle of Lib-\\nerty, tiuriit, 135 enlarged,\\nl;!5 grassliopper oil, 1; ,5, 193 Tea\\ni arty meeting, 229; aiiei ilote ot,\\n249; theatre in, 200; Dalrvan\\n[lie s regiment quartered in, 303\\nl hilli]is s lirst antislavery speech\\nin, 337 lotterv authorized to re-\\nbuild, 343; toa.st by Lafayette, 355;\\nant i Mexican war-meetings, .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0)79,\\n40.\\nFaneuil, Peter, 30; estate, 54, .55, 57\\nwarehou.se, 112, 129; builds Faneuil\\nFire Dei artmeiit, origin of, 11 20\\nreforms in, 50.\\nFire engine, tirst, 1 lirst made in\\nBoston, 20.\\nFires of 1054, lii7i!, 1078. 19 of 182.\\n23; of 17S7, 410.\\nFirst P.aptist Chiii-cli, l. ,(i liist iry\\nand location, 222 organi/e(l, 227,\\n30\\nFirst Battalion Marines, British, 177.\\nFirst book jirinted in Boston, 82.\\nFirst buildings, cliaraeter of, 9.\\nFirst Church, 7, 35, 50. 55, ,50 second\\nlocation, SI ()!,1 Brick, 84, 85 tirst\\nsite, 91. 1(12 burnt, 11 .lolin\\nHull member ,,f, 211, .0 estate,\\n382, 385; removal, 3S5 relics of\\nthe Old Brick, 3s.V", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0514.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nFirst clock set up, 85.\\nFirst Directory published in Boston,\\n110.\\nI irst gltiss-works, locution ami skctcli\\nof, 408 destroyed, 408.\\nFirst Metliodist Church, 172, 17- i\\naccident in, 173.\\ni irst newspaper printed in Boston,\\n16.\\nFirst stone lilock, 71.\\nFirst Sunday school in New England,\\n374.\\nFirst Universalist Cliurch, 172, 173.\\nFirst war ve.ssel built in Boston, 179.\\nFish market, location of, 127.\\nFish Street (North), 26, 153 de-\\nscription of, l.oS.\\nFitche, Colonel, 307.\\nFlagg Alley (Change Avenue), lO.o.\\nHags used by Americans, 431.\\nFlagstaff Hiil, Old, British works on.\\n328.\\nFlat Conduit, 127.\\nFleet, Tliomas, jtrinting-office of, 234.\\nFleet Street, 161 garden.s of Gov-\\nernor Hutchin.son on, 167 named,\\n168, 220.\\nFleming, John, 107. See Meiu.\\nFlounder Lane, 281.\\nFhicker, Thomas, residence of, 271\\nLucy, 271.\\nFuller Sarah Margai-et (Countess d Os-\\nsoli), residence and school of, 312\\nsiiipwreck and death of, 312, 392.\\nFulton Street, 128.\\nForbes, R. B., 161.\\nFore Street, Tlie, 7, 152, 21!t.\\nForest Hills, General Warren en-\\ntombed at, 311.\\nFort Du Quesne, 125.\\nFort Field. .SVe Fort Hill.\\nFort George, 168.\\nFort Hill, 6, 7, 17, 115 embargo tl.ag\\non, 116, 176 .shijiyards at, 17\\nillumination on, 20 great lii i-\\n1760, 272 Revolutionary fort lev-\\nelled, 272 fortified, 284 garrison\\nof, 285 works strengthened, 285\\nguns removed, 285 rejoicings on,\\n286 description of, 287, 288 lev-\\nelled, 288 Stamp Act troubles, 399,\\n4oy liill fortified, 424.\\nFort liill Block, 280.\\nFort indcjieiidence, 280. See Castle.\\nFort L(\u00c2\u00ab (N. Y.), incident of, 374.\\nFort Snelling named, 221.\\nFort Washington, incident of, 373.\\nForty-iuntli British regiment, part of,\\nin Lexington exi)edition, 304.\\nForty -seventh British regiment, 177,\\n229.\\nF (U ty-third British regiment, 177.\\nFoster. John, piints first book in Bos-\\nton, 82.\\nFoster Stivct, 200, 211. Stw Clark.\\nFoster, William, innkeeper, 10.5.\\nFoster, William, residence of, 306,\\n313, 404.\\nFoster s Wliarf. See Wieel Wright s.\\nFoundling IIos]iital, London, Eng-\\nland, 30.\\nFourth Baptist Church, site of, 267.\\nFourth British regiment, part of, in\\nLexington exi)e(lition, 304.\\nFourteenth British regiment, quarters\\nof, 271 on the Common, 326.\\nFowle, William B., 14.5.\\nFowle, Zachariah, i)rinting-office of,\\n223.\\nFox, British sliip. 220.\\nFoxcroff, Tliomas, )5.\\nFox Hill levelle l, 325, 328.\\nFrankland, Sir Cliartes IL, 30, 97\\nresidence, 162 Lady Frankland,\\n163, 165; description of house, 163,\\n164, 165, 236 narrow escape of, 421.\\nFrankland, Lady, narrow escajieof, 421.\\nFranklin Avenue (Dorsett s Alley),\\n79 part of Brattle Street, 79.\\nFranklin, Benjamin, 57 anecdotes of,\\n58 ai)prentice in Queen Street, 80\\njiublislies Courant, 80 his old jtress,\\n80, 145 birtlqilace, 146; oriL inal\\n])ort raits. 147, 162 obtains llutcli-\\ninson s letters, 166 ba])tized, 229,\\n249 anecdote of, 251 Ijorn, 252\\nMi s. (Reed), 80.\\nFranklin, James, ))rints Boston Ga-\\nzette, 79 N. K. Courant, 79 forbid-\\nden to print Courant, 80, 103, 104.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0515.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "456\\nINDEX.\\nFranklin, Josias, his sign and sliop,\\n14rt, 2f.2.\\nFranklin Place, 255.\\nFranklin Sehool, Charles Spragiie at-\\ntends, 417.\\nFranklin Statue, 57, 58, 337.\\nFranklin Street, 9, 39, 75, 227 a bog,\\n254 reclamation of, 254.\\nFraser, Colonel Simon, his regiment on\\nBoston Common, 320 death and\\nburial at Stillwater, 327.\\nFrederick, Fiancis, hanged, 424.\\nFreeman, James, 39.\\nFreeman Place Chapel, built on site of\\nGovernor Phillips s house, 362.\\nFreemason s Arms, 150. See Green\\nDragon Tavei-n.\\nFreemasons first Lodge in Boston,\\n150.\\nFreemason s Hall (Tremont Street)\\nburnt, 318.\\nFrench and Indian war, 20.\\nFrench army, entry into Boston of, 433\\nto 437 composition of, 433 uni-\\nform and band, 434 embarkation,\\n437.\\nFrench Artillery, uniform of, de-\\nscribed, 436.\\nFrench Huguenot Church, 03 de-\\nscription of, 64 occupied by Cath-\\nolics, 256.\\nFreneau, Philip, lines of, on General\\nGage, 427.\\nFree Writing-School, 75.\\nFriends of Lilierty, resort of, 70.\\nFrizell s Square. See North Srpiare.\\nFrog Laue. See Boylston Street.\\nFrog Pond, 329.\\nFront Street. See Harrison Avenue.\\nFrothingham, Nathaniel, 282.\\nFrothingham, Mr., 313, 322.\\nFrothingham, Richard, Jr., 116.\\nFuller, Sarah Margaret, 312.\\nG.\\nGage, General Thomas, 53, 57, 90\\nlands at Long Wliarf, 115 chariot,\\n116, 123, 124, 125, 127, 137, 149,\\n168, 203, 208, 216, 225, 236 in\\nProvince House, 242, 243 married,\\n243 resemblance to Samuel Adams,\\n243 i)roclamation ridiculed, 244,\\n247, 272, 293, 326, 340 portrait of,\\n348, 369, 426, 427.\\nGallery of Fine Arts, 130.\\nGallows, position of, 423 anecdot\\nabout, 423 executions, 424.\\nGamba, Count, 193.\\nGammell, T., 283.\\nGarden Court Street, 162, 164.\\nGarden Street, 370.\\nGardiner, John, 261.\\nGardner, Gideon, innkeeper, 428.\\nGardner, John S. J., 38, 386.\\nGardner, Eliza G., 340.\\nGarrison, William Lloyd, 379.\\nGas first used in Boston, 22.\\nGates, General Horatio, 66, 73, 103,\\n144, 145; anecdote of, 232, 310;\\ncommands in Boston, 383 anecdote\\nof, 383, 429.\\nGay Alley (Brattle Street), 71.\\nGay, John, 1.\\nGay, Timothy, 206.\\nGee, Joshua, shipyard of, 179 resi-\\ndence, 202, 204.\\nGeograjihical divisions, 10.\\nGeorge I., 102.\\nGeorge II., 90 portrait, 140, 107.\\nGeorge III., 58; accession last ]tro-\\nclaimed in Boston, 90, 167 outlaws\\nHancock and Adams, 3()8, 309.\\nGeorge Street. See Hancock.\\nGeorge Tavern, Governoi- Burnet s re-\\nception at, 238.\\nGeorge Tavern (St. George), American\\nadvanced post at, 428 burnt, 428\\nhistory of, 428, 429, 430 anecdotes\\nof, 430.\\nGerry, Elbi idge, 70, 201.\\nGerrish, Thomas, 282.\\nGeyer, Frederic, residence of, 389.\\nGeyer, Nancy W., 390.\\n(iil)ben s shipyard, location of, 419.\\n(iibbs, Major Caleb (of Boston), 182.\\nGill, John (Edes and), imprisoned by\\nHowe, 81. See Edes.\\nGilaian, Aj thur, 58.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0516.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n457\\nGlasgow, British frigate, 207, 208.\\nGlass manufacture begun in Massa-\\nchusetts, 408.\\nGoildanl, Beiijaiiiin, 196.\\nGoddard, Nathaniel, 196.\\nGoffe, General William, 55.\\nGooch, Captain, brave deed of, 373.\\nGoodrich, Henry, 286.\\nGoodwin, Benjamin, j-anl of, ISO, 201,\\n204.\\nGoodwill s Wharf, 202.\\nGordon, General Hugh McKay, 154.\\nGore, Governor Christopher, 39, 45,\\n72 defends Selfridge, 114, 190,\\n269 residence descrilied, 279\\nsketch of, 279 i)ersonal appear-\\nance, 280 resides in Park Street,\\n352, 389.\\nGore Hall named, 280.\\nGore, Samuel, 72, 282, 314, 408.\\nGorges, Robert, 4.\\nGorham, Mr., residence of, 275.\\nGouch Street named, 373 noted for,\\n374.\\nGouhl and Lincoln, bookstoi e of, 402.\\nGould, John, 215.\\nGovernment of Boston, 14.\\nGovernment House. See Province\\nHouse, 246.\\nGovernor s Alley, 64.\\nGovernor s Dock, location of, 114.\\nGovernor s Foot Guards. See Cadets.\\nGovernor s House. See Province\\nHouse.\\nGrafton, Duke of, 140.\\nGrand Lodge occupy Old State House,\\n91.\\nGranary, Constitution s sails made in,\\n182 the site of, 298 description\\nand uses of, 299 removed, 299.\\nGranary Biirying-Ground, 54, 7 204\\nGovernor Gushing buried in, 248,\\n289 history of, 29^6, 297, 298 noted\\npersons buried in, 296, 297 Frank-\\nlin cenotaph, 298 called South\\nBurying-Gronnd, 298 Faneuiltomb,\\n296 victims of Boston Massacre\\nburied in, 297 filled with bodies,\\n298 tombs erected in, 298 en-\\nlarged, 298 legends of, 298 stone\\n20\\nwall built, 298, 307, 323 Benjamin\\nWoodbridge buried in, 332 Gov-\\nernor Eustis buried in, 366.\\nGrant, Moses, 206, 282, 314.\\nGrant, U. S., 10.5 James, 243.\\nGraupner s Hall, 394.\\nGraves, Admiral Thomas, residence of,\\n272.\\nGraves, Daniel, 206.\\nGray, Etlward, 273.\\nGray, Harrison, 44, 245, 273 pro-\\nscribed, 274 goes to Lomlun, 274.\\nGray, John, 273.\\nGray, Captain Roliert, discoverer of\\nColumbia River.\\nGray, Thomas, 38.\\nGray, William, 201, 324, 382.\\nGray s Wliarf, 201.\\nGreat Mall, The, 305, 306 first trees\\nplanted in, 306 description of, 306\\ntrees cut down by British, 306 in\\ncidents of, 310, 360.\\nGreeley, Horace, 312.\\n(Jreen, Bartholomew, prints News Let-\\nter at, 82 residence, 98 ]irinting-\\noffice, 392.\\nGreen Dragon Tavern, 64, 148, 149,\\n150.\\nGreen, Joseph, 33, 66 residence, 67\\nlampoons the Masons, 96 residence,\\n67, 414.\\nGreen, .Jeremiah, 285\\nGreen, John (and Russell) otiice, 76, 81.\\nGreen Lane (Salem Street), 153, 210.\\nGreen Lane. See Congress Street.\\nGreen, Samuel, innkeeper, 176.\\nGreen Street, 151 residents of, 372;\\nchurch, 373.\\nGreen Store Battery, 425.\\nGreene, Albert G., 300.\\nGreene, Gardiner, 47 residence, 52,\\n53 President of the United States\\nBank, 94 Copley s agent, 336, 363,\\n389.\\nGreene, General Nathaniel, 66, 144,\\n282, 310 to assault Boston, 359\\ncommands in Boston, 382, 405.\\nGreenleaf s Gardens. S: e Washington\\nGardens.\\nGreenleaf, Dr. Johu^ 124.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0517.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "458\\nINDEX.\\nGreeiileaf, Stephen, 304 residcmc,\\n313, 352.\\nGreeiileaf, William, rea ls Derlaiatiou\\nof ludepeiidence, 91.\\nGreeiiough, Henry, 247.\\nGreenongh, Richard S., 38, 57, 58, 22(5.\\nGreen s Barracks, 271.\\nGreenwood, Ethan A., 42.\\nGreenwood, Rev. F. W. P., 30.\\nGreuze, 147.\\nGridley, Jeremy, 71, 314 residence,\\n402.\\nGridley, General Richard, at Bnnker\\nHill 208, 42() lays ont works on\\nNeck, 427.\\nGriffin, Rev. Edward D., 801.\\nGriffin s Wharf, 410. See Liverpool.\\nGriggs, John, recollections of Boston\\nNeck, 420.\\nGrove Street, 370 Medical College in,\\n377.\\nGrowth and progress of Boston, 23.\\nGrnchy, Captain, 200, 215.\\nGuerriere, British frigate, 99, 188, 189,\\n190 Hag of, 193.\\nGuiccioli, Countess, 193.\\nGimdiouse, on Copp s Hill, 204 in\\nCoo])er Street, 223 attack on, 224\\non Fort Hill, 288.\\nGuii-hon.se in West Street, 314; re-\\nmoval of guns from, 314 history of\\nthe guns Hancock and Adams, 315\\none on the Common, 322 removed\\nto Pleasant Street, 322.\\nGun-house (Thacher Street), materials\\nof, 375.\\nGunpowder Plot. .SVc Pojie Day, 149.\\nH.\\nHackett, James H., first appearance\\nin Boston, 368.\\nHagen, P. von, 303.\\nHaley, Madam, 52.\\nHalf-Square T ourt, 98 Custom House\\nin, 100.\\nHalifax. Lor.l, 78.\\nHalifax. N. S.,32: iiatriots carried to,\\n65.\\nHall, Captain James, 282.\\nHallowell, Benjamin, residence of,\\n148 assaulted, 170, 273, 285.\\nHallowell, Benjamin Carew, 148.\\nHallowell s shipyard, 275, 287.\\nHamilton, Alexander, 296 statue of,\\n344.\\nHamilton, Colonel, 355.\\nHamilton College, 381.\\nHamilton Place, 39 Manufactory\\nHouse in, 301 built, 304.\\nHamilton Street, 286.\\nHammock, John, 215.\\nHancock, Eltenezer, 66 office and\\nresidence, 144, 145.\\nHancock, frigate, 220.\\nHancock House, 141.\\nHancock, Governor John, 24, 40, 42,\\n43, 44, 49 house occupied liy Per-\\ncy, 53, 57, 69, 71 portrait by\\nTninilndl, 73, 91, 110 gives a bell\\nto Brattle Street Church, 122, 123,\\n124, 125 store, 129, 130 jiortrait,\\n140, 141 builds Hancock s Row,\\n144 Pope Day, 150 warehouses,\\n170, 176, 208, 214 address on Mas-\\nsacre, 228, 233, 248 action to .sup-\\npress theatres, 261 gives bell and\\nvane to Federal Street Church, 263\\npresides o\\\\er Federal Convention,\\n264 widow, 264 commands Ca-\\ndets, 293 commission revoked,\\n294 fireward, 295 tomb of, 296\\nfuneral, 297, 308 anecdote of, 309\\nhouse, 338 extent of estate, 338,\\n339 description of mansion, 339,\\n340 pilla-cd, 340 quarters of\\nGeneral Clinton, 340 incidents of,\\n340, 341, 342 anecdotes of, 341 dies\\nintestate, 341 sketch of, 341, 342\\njieisonal appearance, 343 350 in-\\ntroduces music on Common, 359,\\n393 dinner to Rocliambeau s offi-\\ncers, 437.\\nHancock, John (son of F]benezer),\\n349.\\nHancock, Lydia, residence of, 70 gives\\nher mansion to (JiAei iior John, 338,\\n342.\\nHancock, Madam, anecdote of, 341.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0518.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n459\\nHancock mansion, liktory of, 338 to\\n343 efforts to preserve it, 341, 342\\ndeniolislied, 342 Stamp Act rei)eal,\\n359, 362.\\nHancock s Row built, 144.\\nHancock School, 155.\\nHancock Street, named, 352 called\\nGeorge Sti-eet, 352.\\nHancock, Thomas, 76, 130, 163 liis\\nwharf, 17U funeral, 208 builds\\nhouse on Beacon Street, 338, 342,\\n351.\\nHancock s Wharf, description of. 17\\nevents at, 17 171 Lafayette lands\\nat, 356.\\nHandel, 32.\\nHandel and Ha,ydn Society, sketch of,\\n394 occupy Boylston Hall, 4(13.\\nHanover Avenue, 172.\\nHanover Church. -Viv Beecher s\\nChurch.\\nHanover, Massachusetts, anchors of\\nfrigate Constitution made at, 182.\\nHanover Sipiare, 396.\\nHanover Street, 10, 19, 25, 68, 70, 75,\\n130, 143, 144 widened, 145 Frank-\\nlin s birthplace, 146 widened, 147\\nbridged, L52 a neck, l. )2, 161\\nGovernor Hutchinson s f;ardens, 167,\\n172, 173.\\nHanover Street Church (IMethodist),\\n415.\\nHarper, Mr., 256.\\nHarris, Isaac, 1S2 hoists Hag over\\nConstitution, 1X5 saves Old Soutii,\\n233.\\nHarris, Lord George, 203.\\nHarris, Master, residence of, 161.\\nHarris, Rev. Thaddeus M., anecdcjte of,\\n413.\\nHarris Street, 175.\\nHarrison Avenue, origin and descrip-\\ntion of, 404, 405.\\nHarrison, John, first rope-maker, 273\\nropewalks, 273.\\nHarrison, Joseph, Collector in 1770,\\n97 assaidted, 168 Richard Ack-\\nlom, 170.\\nHarrison, Peter, 29.\\nHarrison, General W. H., 45\\nHarris s Folly, 281.\\nHart, Zephaiiiah, 180,\\nHartford Convention, 44, 295.\\nHartly, Mr., 182, 197.\\nHartt, Edward, ISO.\\nHartt, Edmund, 180 residence, 181,\\n196 buried, 206.\\nHartt s Naval Yard, 181, 183, 195, 196,\\n197.\\nHartt, Ralph, 180.\\nHarvard College, 33, 84; Rumford\\nProfessorship, 87, 103, 160 Gore\\nHall named, 280.\\nHarvard Place, 270.\\nHaskell, S., innkeeper, 398.\\nHatch, Israel, innkeeper, 96 adver-\\ntisement, 399.\\nHatch, Mrs., 307.\\nHatch s Tavern, location of, 313.\\nHatters Square, 145.\\nHaverhill Street, 378.\\nHawkins s Shipyard, 175.\\nHawkins Street, 371.\\nHawkins, Tlnunas, 175; .shiiiyard, 178.\\nHawthorne, Nathaniel, description of\\nOld Prison, 77 invocation to Town\\nPump, 84 Scarlet Letter, 92 Le-\\ngends of Province House, 235.\\nHay, Theodocia, 206.\\nHaymarket, The, 313, 322.\\nHaymarket S iuare, 151.\\nHajnnarket Theatre, site of, 313, 317\\nOldening and description of, 318.\\nHayne, Robert Young, 45.\\nHays, Catherine, 293^\\nHay-scales. Sre HajTiiarket.\\nHayward, Dr. Lemuel, residence of.\\n392.\\nHayward, John, Postmaster of Boston,\\n104.\\nHayward Place named, 393.\\nHealey, G. P. A., 140.\\nHeart and Crown, 146, 234.\\nHeath, General William, 40, 144, 145,\\n231, 267 commands in Boston, 383\\nheadquarters, 383.\\nHenchman, f ai)tain Daniel, 200 ac-\\ncredited witii planting theGreat Elm,\\n331.\\nHenchirian, Colonel Daniel, resi.lenca", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0519.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "460\\nINDEX.\\nof, 76 builds first paper-mill; 70\\nstore, 85, 137.\\nHencliman s Lane, 199, 200.\\nHerciile, French ship, 437.\\nHennione, French frigate, 35(3.\\nHewes, George R. T., residence of, 269\\nTea Party, 282, 283.\\nHewes, Shuljael, butcher-shop of, 270.\\nHibbuis, Anne, 53 executetl, 330.\\nHibl)ins, William, 5-3.\\nHichborn, Benjamin, residence and\\nsketch of, 250 commands Cadets,\\n294.\\nHigginson, Francis, portrait of, 346.\\nHigginson, Steplien, 190.\\nHigginson, Stephen, Jr., 190.\\nHigh Street, 37, 46, 272 called f ow\\nLane, 273 atiVay in, 274 dcsci-ilicd,\\n280.\\nHill, Aaron, Postmaster, 269.\\nHill, Thomas, 400.\\nHillier s Lane (Brattle Street), 71.\\nHillsborougli, Lord, 249, 398.\\nHills Wharf, 127.\\nHinckley, David, residence of, 362 tra-\\ngic incident connected with, 363.\\nHistoric Genealogical Society, 364\\norigin and sketch of, 365 Inulding\\nand library, 365.\\nHistoric al Society, Massachusetts, 39,\\n4(1, 141 relics of Hntcliinson in,\\n167 of Province House, 247 in\\nFranklin Street, 255 Speaker s Desk\\nand Winslow s chair, 347.\\nHodgkinson, Mr., 256.\\nHodscn, Thomas, 351, 352.\\nHolbrook, Abraham, 314.\\nHolland s C otfee House, 50.\\nHolley, Rev. Horace, 415.\\nHollis Street, British works near, 328,\\n411 originally called Harvard, 414\\ngreat fire in, 416.\\nHollis Street Church, 102, 103.\\nHollis Street Church, history of, 414,\\n415, 416 Stamp Act celeliration,\\n414 burnt, 414 removed to Brain-\\ntree, 415 tablets in, 416 fire of\\n1787, 410 troops quarti-red in. 416.\\nHollis, Thomas, Hollis Street nanicil\\nlur, 414.\\nHolmes, Francis^ innkeeper, 105.\\nHolmes, Dr. O. W., 05, 192. See Hub\\nof the Universe.\\nHoly Cross Cathedral, site and sketch\\nof, 255, 256 removal, 256.\\nHolyoke, Edward A., 39 residence^\\n159.\\nHolyoke Street. See Tremont.\\nHome of Little Wanderers, 222.\\nHomer, B. P., residence of, 338.\\nHood, Lord, 310.\\nHood, Thomas, 94.\\nHooper, Rev. William, 374.\\nHooten, John, 283.\\nHopkinton, Sir Charles Franklaml s\\nestate at, 102.\\nHorn Lane. See Bath Street.\\nHorse Pond, 329.\\nHorticultural Building, 294.\\nHorticultural Hall, 42 statues on, 344.\\nHospital Life Insurance Company\\nfounde l, 317, 377.\\nHotel Boylston, site of J. Q. Adams s\\nresidence, 319.\\nHotel Pelham, 313.\\nHouchin s Corner, 70.\\nHouse of Correction, site of, 299 in\\nLeverett Street, 375 at South Bos-\\nton, 375.\\nHouse of Industry, 370.\\nHovey and Company, 389.\\nHow, Edward C, 282.\\nHoward, Captain Anthony, 25.\\nHoward Athenanini, 40 site, 306. See\\nMillerite Tabernacle ojiening, 308\\nburnt, 308 rebuilt and .sketch of,\\n368.\\nHoward, .John, 48.\\nHoward, S., 283.\\nHowaid, Simeon, 374.\\nHoward Street, 47 (Southack s Court),\\n48, 49.\\nHowe, Lord George, monument erected\\nto, 241.\\nHowe, Sii William, 05, 69 at Bunker\\nHill, 70, 86, 90 arrival in Boston,\\n125, 127, 136, 100, 177, 207, 208, 225\\nresidence, 236 at council of war,\\n243 sketch of, 244 address before\\nbattle of Bunker Hill, 245, 246;", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0520.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "INDFA\\n461\\nquarters of, 271, 373 stops destruc-\\ntion of trees ou Conimou, 306, 382,\\n432.\\nHuh of the Universe, Dr. Holmes ori-\\nginates the saying, 344.\\nHuhljard, Deacon, 231.\\nHul hanl, Thomas, residence, 389.\\nHubbard, Tutliill, Postmaster of Bos-\\nton, 104.\\nHudson, Francis, 202.\\nHudson s i oint, 5 (Mylne Point),\\n24 named, 202.\\nHull, 116.\\nHull, (leneral, Lafayette visits, 364.\\nHull, Hannah, 204 anecdote of,\\n212.\\nHull, C onmiodore Isaac, at E.xchange\\nCoffee House, 99 anecdotes of, 99,\\n100, 139, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190,\\n192, 194, 197, 290.\\nHull, John, 51, 52, 204, 211 estal)-\\nlislies mint, 212 supposed residence\\nof, 296.\\nHull Street, 204 luuned. 211.\\nHumphries, General David, 100, 364.\\nHumphries, Mrs. General, residence\\nof, 364.\\nHumphries, Joshua, designs frigate\\nConstitution, 182, 192.\\nHunnewell, Jonathan, 283.\\nHumiewell, Richard, 283.\\nHunnewell, Richard, Jr., 283.\\nHunt, William M., 141.\\nHuntington, General, 364.\\nHurd, Mr., assists in planting trees of\\nGreat Mall, 306. William. 283.\\nHurdley, William, 282.\\nHutchinson, Anne, 51, 62 trial and\\nbanishment of, 63, 226.\\nHutchinson, Edward, residence of,\\n171, 200.\\nIlutdiinson Street. See Pearl Street.\\nHutchinson, Thomas (Elder), 163, 164;\\nresidence of, 168, 175 buried, 207\\ngives land for .school -house, 219.\\nHutchinson, Governor Thomas, 31, 40,\\n63, 90, 102, 122, 125, 158 residence\\nof, 166 sacked, 166 descriiition,\\n167 sails for England, 167 house\\nbuilt, 168 Bucceeds Speucer Phips,\\n211, 223, 230, 233, 236, 240, 241,\\n267, 271, 278, 293, 308, 347, 399. 413\\nI.\\nlasigi, Mr.. 344.\\nInches, Hender.son, 125 ropewalks\\nof, 329.\\nIndependent Cadets, march to Rhode\\nIsland, 250 quarters and sketch of,\\n293 disbanded, 294 reorganized,\\n294 est ort Lafayette, 355.\\nIndependent Chronicle, enterprise of,\\n433.\\nIndia Street, 109, 110 built, 111.\\nIndia Wharf, 111.\\nIndians, Eastern, 8.\\nIndian Hill, West Newljury, 247.\\nIngersoll, Joseph, innkeeper, 42, 105,\\n122.\\nIngollson, Daniel, 283.\\nInsurance Office, first, 107.\\nIpswich, 57.\\nIrving. Mr., 170.\\nIsland of Boston, 1.52.\\nJackson, Andrew, 95 visits Boston,\\n139, 18.3, 185,192, 193, 194 head of,\\n195 at Tremont House, 290, 373.\\nJackson, Judge Charles, 100.\\nJack.son, Dr., residence of, 365.\\nJackson, General Henry, 182 anec-\\ndote of his regiment, 430.\\nJa( kson, James, 38, 61.\\nJackson, Hon. Jonathan, 43.\\nJacobs, Mr., 322.\\nJamaica Pond, 23.\\nJames I., 50.\\nJames II., 34, 237.\\nJarvis, Leonard, 293.\\nJarvis, Rev. Samuel F., 311.\\nJason, American shij), 220.\\nJava, frigate, 190.\\nJefferson, Thomas, 126 his embargo,\\n279 opinion of Samuel Adams,\\n308, 319.\\nJeffrey (and Russell) purchase North\\nBattery, 177.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0521.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "462\\nINDEX.\\nJeffrey, Patrick, estate of, 25 ScoUuy s\\nBuilding erected ])y, 75, 7\\nJeffrey s WJiarf, 177. S -c North Bat-\\ntery.\\nJeffries, Dr. .loliii, lern^ui/cs War-\\nren s fiody, li;i buried, 2 M M\\nJekyll, John, 50.\\nJenivs, Rev. William, 57, 219 his\\nchurch and residence, 373.\\nJenkins, Rol)ert, 215.\\nJoluison, Lady Araltella, 35.\\nJohnson, Edward, 3 descriiition of\\nBoston, 17.\\nJohnson Hall, 59.\\ndoliuson, Isaac, 10; his location, 35,\\n52, 231.\\n.I.liiisi.n, Samuel, 193.\\nJolilfe s Lane. Srr Devonshire Street.\\nJones, Inigo, 309.\\nJones, Commodore Jacoli, isfi, 193.\\nJones. .John f ofRn, 124 residence of,\\n148, 2.33, 389.\\nJones, John Paul, sails from Boston in\\nFrench fleet, 437.\\nJones, Margaret, hung, 320.\\nJones, Mrs., 25(5.\\nJones, Thomas Kilby, Morton Place\\nnamed for, 253.\\nJonson, Ben, 61.\\nJosselyn, John, 17, 21.\\nJoy, Benjamin, 19(i, 385.\\nJoy, Dr. John, 333 sho}) and resi-\\ndence, 338.\\nJoy Street, 338.\\nJoy s Buildings, corner Congress and\\nWater, 37, 109 Washington Street,\\n84.\\nJulieu Hall, 277.\\nJulien House Restorator site and\\nsketch of, 270, 271\\nJulien, Jean Baptiste, residence of.\\n270 dies, 271 \\\\vi l(i\\\\v succeeds\\nhim, 271.\\nJuiion, British frigate, 191.\\nK.\\nKean, Charles, 258.\\nKean, Edmund, first jilays in Boston,\\n257 second visit and riot, 257 anec-\\ndote of, 25S.\\nKeayne, Caiitain Poliert, 58 house,\\n88, 137, 300. (394).\\nKeith, Colonel, 383, Keith s Theatie,\\nKeith, Lieutenant Robert, 221.\\nKendrick, Cajitain John, 254.\\nKennedy, Timothy, munlered, 424.\\nKent, Benjamin, 2(J9.\\nKent, Duke of, in Boston, 390.\\nKemble, Thomas. 13, 1(J2.\\nKiild, William. ini]irisiincd in Boston\\nJail, 77 ]iiracies, arrest and exeiai-\\ntion, 77, 78.\\nKilby, Chiistopher, residence of, 272\\nKilby Street named for, 272.\\nKilby Street, 2-3, 41, 105 dcsci iiition\\nof, 109 Stamp Oflice in, llo named,\\n272 tilled, 288.\\nKimball, Moses, 42.\\nKing Philip, 40 Philiii s War, 5, 83,\\n331.\\nKing, Rufus, 82, 269.\\nKing, Thomas Starr, sketch of, 415.\\nKingman, Edward, inidvee])er, 392.\\nKing s Arms. So George Tavern.\\nKing s Chapel, 28, 29; architect of,\\n29 history of, 30 descrii fion of\\n)ld Chapel, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 tondis\\nunder, 36, 46, 56, 61 Wari eii s re-\\nmains deposited in, 69, 163 Cmv-\\nernor Burnet attends, 239 Cdvernor\\nShirley Ijuried imder, 2 i7 over-\\ncrowded, 385 royal gilts to, 386,\\n394, 416.\\nKing s Chapel Bui ving-Crounil, 32,\\n35 legends of, 36 intei nients\\ncease in, M, 204, 205. 206 iv-\\ncnior Wintliidp buiicd in, 226, 22S\\nlilled with bodies, 298 tondis erected\\nin, 298, 323.\\nKing s Head Tavern, site of, 16)8.\\nKing Street, 55, 60 Andrew Faneuil s\\nwarehouse, 64 changed to State,\\nMl callcil Conuiv s, ,S9 full of\\ndwellings, 9.^ lower end in 1708,\\n108 gmat tide of 1723, 109 Gov-\\nernor Shirley resident in, 239.\\nKinnison, David, 283.\\nKirk, Edward N., 50.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0522.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n46^\\nKirk, Thomas, 170.\\nKirkland, John T., 38, 100 residence,\\n;3\u00c2\u00bb1.\\nKirkland, Samuel, 381.\\nKnap]), Josiah, dwelling of, 419.\\nKiieelaiid, Samuel, printing-ottice of,\\n79 prints Boston Gazette, 79, 80.\\nKneeland Street occupied by a wharf,\\n419.\\nKnight, Sarah, 162.\\nKiio.x, General Henry, shop of, 85\\nanecdotes of, 85, 86 portrait, 141,\\n158 maiTies, 271 estate at Thomas-\\nton, 272, 281, 315 occupies Copley s\\nhouse, 336.\\nKui)fer, Charles F., 408.\\nL.\\nLaboratory, British, on Griffin s\\nWharf, 284 American, 322 an-\\nother, 322.\\nLabouchiere visits Boston, 341, 367.\\nLafayette, G. W., resi les in Boston,\\n278.\\nLafayette Hotel, 398.\\nLafayette, Manjuis de, 45 anecdote\\nof, 97 in Bo.ston, 105, 124 at\\nFaneuil Hall, 138, 139 at Boston\\nTheatre, 259, 265, 278; streets\\nnamed for, 316, 341 reception in\\n1824, 345, 346 in 1825, 346 resi-\\ndence in 1824, 352, 396 fire of\\n1787, 416 incidents of his recep-\\ntion, 354, 355 anecdotes of, 355,\\n356, 357, 363, 364, 382.\\nLamb, Charles, 128.\\nLambert, Captain, 190.\\nLamb Tavern, site and history of,\\n392.\\nLameth, Alexander de, 433.\\nLa Nymphe, British frigate, 191.\\nLa Rochelle, 54.\\nLathrop, Rev. John, 160 residence,\\n168 buried, 296.\\nLatin School (South). 33, 44, 54, 56,\\n57, 72, 75, 136 Franklin goes to,\\n146.\\nLatin School Street, 56.\\nLaivd, Archbisho}), 50.\\nLauzun, Duke de, cavalry of, descrip-\\ntion of, 435 incident of his execu-\\ntion, 436 legion of, 435.\\nLavoisier, 87.\\nLawrence, 121.\\nLawrence, Abbott, 46, 120, 121, 322\\nresidence, 357.\\nLawrence, Amos, shoji of, 120 resi-\\ndence, 316.\\nLawrence Scientific School, 121.\\nLaws, curious old, 12, 15.\\nLearned, Colonel Ebenc/er, tirst to en-\\nter Boston after the e\\\\ acuation, 432.\\nLeather Street, 2S0.\\nLe Berceau, frigate, 196, 197.\\nLechmere s Point, 25.\\nLee, American schooner, 220.\\nLee, Arthur, 252.\\nLee, General Charles, 125, 42.5.\\nLee, Joseph, 282.\\nLee, Thomas, residence of, 173.\\nLee, William, entertains Talleyrand,\\n141.\\nLe Kain, Mrs., residence of, 275.\\nLe Mercier Andre, 64.\\nLeonard, Mr., opens National Theatre,\\n378.\\nLes Deux Anges, 196.\\nLevant, frigate, 186 captured, 191\\nflag of, 193.\\nLevasseur, M., 3. \u00c2\u00bb6.\\nLeverett, Governoi- John, 82 resi-\\ndence, 83, 1(12, 156, 174 jiortrait\\nof, 346.\\nLeverett s Lane, 101 John F. Wil-\\nliams resides in, 264. S( r. Congress\\nStreet.\\nLeverett Street, 151 Almshouse re-\\nmoved to, 300, 370 jail in, 374.\\nLe\\\\ erett Street Jail, del)tors confined\\nin, 375 executions in, 375.\\nLeverett, Elder Thomas, 101 owned\\nsite of exchange, 101.\\nLewis, Samuel S., 128.\\nLexington, 44, 53 battle of, 137.\\nLexington expedition planned, 242\\nthwarted, 243.\\nLev, Lord, in Bo.ston, 109.\\nLiberty Hall, 397, 398.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0523.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "464\\nINDEX.\\nLiberty sloop (Hancock s), seizuve of,\\n170.\\nLiberty Stjuare, 109 made ground,\\n109; Stamp Office in, 110; named\\nfor and celeV)ration of Civic Feast in,\\n110 burnt over, 272.\\nLiberty Tree planted, 3:31 arch\\nerected on site of, 354 Stamp Act\\nrepeal, 359.\\nLiberty Tree, .site of, 396 planted,\\n397 cut down, 397 effigie.s hung\\non, 399 events luider, 399, 400,\\n401 Lilierty stump and pole, 398.\\nLiberty Tree Tavern, 398.\\nLiglit Infantry Company, 294.\\nLiglithouse (tavern), The, 26.\\nLighting the streets, 22.\\nLincoln, Abraham, 141.\\nLincoln, Earl of, 35.\\nLincoln, Enoch, 388.\\nLincoln, General Benjamin, first\\nUnited States Collector of Boston,\\n103, 105 expedition to Nantasket,\\n116 commands troops in Sliays s\\nReliellion, 361.\\nLincoln, Governor Levi, 346.\\nLincoln, Levi, Sr., 388 Levi, the\\nyounger, 388.\\nLincoln, Martha, incident of her de-\\ncea.se, 388.\\nLincolnshire, England, 6.\\nLind, Jenny, 40,^293, 371, 394.\\nLindall Street, 267.\\nLindel s Row, Mrs. Pelham s shop, 372.\\nL Insurgcnte, frigate, 171.\\nLinzec, Cajitain, sword of, 40, 334.\\nLion Tavern, site and history of, 394.\\nLion Theatre, opening and sketch of,\\n394.\\nLi.sbon, earthquake at, 162, 163.\\nLittle, C aptain George, 196 court-\\nmartialle.l, 197.\\nLittle Wild Street, London, 58.\\nLittle, William, residence of, 168.\\nLivingstone, Robert, assists in htting\\nout C!aptain Kidd, 77, 78.\\nLivingstone, Robert, 193.\\nLiverpool Wliarf, 230 the Tea Party,\\n281 barracks and laboratory on,\\n284.\\nLloyd, Dr. James, residence of, 363.\\nLloyd, James, residence of, 363 en-\\ntertains Lafayette, 363.\\nLloyd, Mrs. James, residence of,\\n355.\\nLondon Bookstore, 107.\\nLondon Packet, 170.\\nLondon Stone, 144.\\nLong Acre. -SVr Tremont Street.\\nLong Island, 116.\\nLong Islanil (New York.) searcli on,\\nfor Kidd s treasui e, 78.\\nLong Wharf, incident of, loO. 112;\\nhistory of, 114, 115 events con-\\nnected with, 115, 116 embarkation\\nof Briti.sli troops from, lb), 117.\\n327 first locomotive huidrd fiom\\nEngland, 411.\\nLord A.shburton. Sec Alexander Bar-\\ning.\\nLord, James, Collector of Boston,\\n142.\\nLoring, James S., 65, 314.\\nLoring, Matthew, 283.\\nLothrop, Rev. Samuel K., 76, 123.\\nLoudon, Lord, 310.\\nLouisburg, 115, 137.\\nLouisburg Squai c, statues in, 344.\\nLouis Philippe (Due de Chaitres), in\\nBoston, 100, lOl residence of, in\\nBoston, 145.\\nLouis XVI., 58, 110, 145 portrait by\\nStuart, 408.\\nLovell, James, 65; Collector of Bos-\\nton, 142 residence of, 277, 373.\\nLovell, Master John, 44, 57, 65 eulo-\\ngy on Peter Faneuil, 136, 245.\\nLove Lane. S( Tileston Street, 218.\\nLove, Susannah, 218.\\nLow, John, innkeeper, 287.\\nLowell, Rev. Charles, 316.\\nLowell, Francis Cabot, establishes\\ncotton factories, 316 city of Lowell\\nnamed for, 316.\\nLowell Institute founded, 316.\\nLowell, Judge John, 316.\\nLowell, Jolm, 32 residence of, 316\\ncalled Boston Rebel, 317, 389.\\nLowell, John, Jr., fomids Lowell In-\\nstitute, 316.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0524.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n465\\nLucas, Sarah, 20 3.\\nLudlow, Charles, 186.\\nLudlow, Mr., 15.\\nLyman, Theodore, Sr., 49, 196, 371,\\n389.\\nLyman, General Theodore, 356.\\nLynch, General, 433.\\nLyndhiir.st, Lord, 52, 53 revisits\\nBoston, 336.\\nLynde Street, 370.\\nLynn, 25 reniain.s of Quakers re-\\nmoved to, 268.\\nLynn Street, 198 ancient arch in,\\n199, 200 orif^in of, 219.\\nM.\\nMacdonough, Tlionuis, 186.\\nMacedonian, irij;ate, 197.\\nMackay, William, 269.\\nMackerel Lane (Kilby Street), 105.\\nMa( kintosh. Captain, 397, 399.\\nMacready, W. C, first api)earance in\\nBoston, 259, 394.\\nMadison, James, 105.\\nMagaw, Robert, 373.\\nMagnalia, Mather s, 4.\\nMagnifi iue, French seventy-four, lest\\nin Boston harbor, 180, 437.\\nMain-guard, British, 90.\\nMain Street, 22.\\nMallione, E lward G. residence of,\\n353.\\nMalconi, Captain Daincl, 207.\\nManley, Captain John, captures hy,\\n220 dies, 220.\\nMann, Horace, statue of, 345.\\nManners and customs, 11, 12.\\nManufactory House, 39 site, 301\\ndescription of, 302, 303, 304 excise\\nlaid on carriages in support of, 302\\nattempt to occupy it by troops, 303\\nMassachusetts Bank in, 303 build-\\ning sold, 303 occupied Ijy wounded,\\n203, 303, 313.\\nMarblehead, stage to, 26 Frankland s\\ncourtship, 162 Constitution chased\\ninto, 187.\\nMarbui y, Rev. Francis, 63.\\n20*\\nMargaret Street, 218.\\nMarion, Joseph, establishes first insur-\\nance office, 107.\\nMarion, .sloop-of-war, 185.\\nMarket Dock, 127. See Town Dock.\\nMarket Place, first, 89 in 1708, 127.\\nMarket St(uare, 132.\\nMarket Street (New Cornhill), built,\\n76.\\nMarlborough Hotel, 225 dinner to\\nLafayette, 364.\\nMarlliorough, John, Duke of, street\\nnamed for, 225, 237.\\nMarlborough Street named, 225, 235\\nnew location of, 271, 385 named\\nWashington Street, 420.\\nMar([uis of Lome, 272.\\nMarston, Ca])tain John, innkeeper,\\n105.\\nMarshall, Jolin, Cliief Justice, 38.\\nMarshall Street, 143.\\nMarshall, Thomas, 24, 202.\\nMarshall Wyzeman opens Eagle Thea-\\ntre, 378 ojjens theatre in Boylston\\nHall, 404.\\nMarshfield, 46.\\nMartin, Mr., 283.\\nMartin, Mrs., 389.\\nMascarene, Jean Paul, 60.\\nMa.son, Jonathan, 335.\\nMason, Jonathan, Jr., 389.\\nMason, Lowell, 2f)9. See Odeon.\\nMason Street, Hatch s Taveiii in, 31S\\nSouth Writing-School in, 314 Med-\\nical College in, 317 boundary oi\\nCommon, 296.\\nMasonic Teniiile (old), description of,\\n312 Alcott s school, 312.\\nMasonic Temple (new), 318, 319.\\nMassachu.setts Bank, .site of British\\nCoffee House, 108 first location,\\n303.\\nMassachusetts cent, description and\\nhistory of, 423.\\nMassachusetts CharitalJe Fire Society,\\n266.\\nMassachusetts Company, 47.\\nMassachusetts Constitutional Conven-\\ntion, 45.\\nMassachusetts Frigate built, 179.\\nDD", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0525.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "466\\nINDEX.\\nMassachusetts General Hospital, in-\\ncorporated and endowed, 247, 317\\nsite and history of, 37*5, 377 ether\\nfirst used in, 37(J.\\nMassachusetts Historical Society, 5.\\nMassacliusetts Hospital Life Insurance\\nCompany, 384.\\nMassacliusetts Indians, 2, 8.\\nMassachusetts Medical College in Ma-\\nson Street, description, 317 in Grove\\nStreet, 37 J Parknian murder, 378.\\nMassachusetts Mechanics Cliaritahle\\nAssociation, first meetings of, 71 120,\\n147 early meetings, 14; 181 l)uild\\nRevere House, 371.\\nMassachusetts Spy printed, 223 re-\\nmoved to Worcester, 223 difl erent\\nlocations of, 391 enterprise of, 433.\\nMassacliusetts Volunteers (Mexican\\nwar), entry of, into Boston, 333.\\nMather, Cotton, 4, 8, ItiU res-\\nidence of, 101, HJ2 jMirtrait of,\\n372.\\nMather, Hannali. (SVc Crocker, 175.\\nMather, Rev. Increase, 65, 80, 1(50 res-\\nidence, IGl house burnt, 109\\nagent, 210, 391.\\nMather, Rev. Richard, 100, 412.\\nMather, Samuel, 100 residence, 161,\\n162 protects Governor Hntcliinson,\\n100 pastor of First Universalist\\nChurch, 172.\\nMatignon, Rev. Fatlier, 255.\\nMatliews Block, 175.\\nMatoonas, shot, 331.\\nMatthews, Charles, 403.\\nMattliews Street, 280.\\nMaverick Cliurch, 416.\\nMaverick, Samuel, 13, 174.\\nMay, John, residence of, 171.\\nMayliew, Rev. Jonatlian, 118, 374.\\nMaynard, J. E., stables of, 371.\\nMcintosh, Mr., 283.\\nMcLean Asylum, 377.\\nMcLean, John, residence, 307 anec-\\ndote of, 307 bequest to Hospital,\\n377.\\nMcLean Street, 370.\\nMcLellan, Mr., 364.\\nMcMurtie, Mr. 276.\\nMcNeil, Captain, 196.\\nMears, Samuel, innkeeper, 286, 428.\\nMedal voted to Wasliington, 432.\\nMein, John, establishes first circulat-\\ning library, 106 shop, 197.\\nMelodeon, sketcli of, 394.\\nMelvill, Thomas, Tea Party, 282;\\npreserves small bottle of tlie tea,\\n283 residence and sketch of, 372,\\n373, 406.\\nMelville, Herman, 372.\\nMelyne s Corner, 289.\\nMercantile Library, 278.\\nMercer, Captain George, 62.\\nMercliants Bank, 94. .Sfc United\\nStates Bank.\\nMercliants Exchange, present, corner-\\nstone laid, 278.\\nMerchants Hall, site and use of, as\\nPost-Office and Excliange, 269.\\nMerchants Row, named, 108 first\\nliouse of entertainment in, 108, 109,\\nllti, 112 Triangular Wareliouse in,\\n131.\\nMeriam, William, innkeeper, 287.\\nMerry s Point, 170.\\nMerry, Walter, his point, 176.\\nMessinger, Colonel, 139 .shop, 393,\\n394.\\nMethodist Alley. See Hanover Avenue,\\n173.\\nMetropolitan Phice, 419.\\nMetternicli, Prince, 321.\\nMexican war, 333.\\nMexican Volunteers, quarters of, 379\\nneglect and al)use of, 379 tlieir\\nHag, 379.\\nMiantiniimoh in Boston, 108.\\nMiddle Street (Hanover), 153.\\nMiddlecott Street, 370. Sec Bowdoin.\\nMiddlesex Canal, 24. 152.\\nMiHlin, Thomas, 110, 220, 429.\\nMiles, Mrs., Governor Enstis lodges\\nwith, 305.\\nMilitary Company of the Massachu-\\nsetts. .S t t Ancient and Honorable\\nArtillery, 137.\\nMilk, John, 206.\\nMilk, Mrs., 287.\\nMilk Street, 10 Museum in, 41 Post-", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0526.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n467\\nOffice in, 104, 105 inliabitants re-\\nmoved, 227 route of Tea Party,\\n230; Province House opposite, 235\\nancient Fort Street, description of,\\n251, 264 notable residents of, 271\\ngreat fire in, 272.\\nMill Bridge, 149, 152.\\nMill Creek, 127, 131, 132 bridged,\\n151 description of, 152 a canal,\\n152.\\nMill Dam, 25.\\nMiller, William, 367.\\nMill Field. *e. Copp s Hill.\\nMill Pond, 7, 8, 10, 126, 127, 145 de-\\nscription of, 150, 151, 152 filled\\nlip, 152 Baptist Cluirch on, 222\\nBeacon Hill used for filling, 350,\\n369 Theatre on site of, 378.\\nMill Pond Corporation, 151.\\nMilmore, Martin, 344.\\nMilton, first paper-mill in colony at,\\n76.\\nMilton Place, 268.\\nMinot s Building, 402.\\nMinot, George Richards, 39, 264.\\nMinot, George, 315 anecdote of, 431.\\nMinot, John, 431.\\nMinot, Stephen, petition of, 430.\\nMinot, William, 320 office, 402.\\nMinot Street, 375.\\nMinott, Stephen, 114. Sec Tea Wliarf,\\n115.\\nMint, established by Massachusetts,\\n422 site of, 423.\\nMolesworth. Captain Ponsonby, 97.\\nMolineux, William, 282, 302 resi-\\ndence and sketch of, 357.\\nMonck, George, innkeejier, 122.\\nMonroe, James, visit to Boston of, 100,\\n319.\\nMontagu, Laily Mary Wortley, 103.\\nMontague, W. (Admiral), anecdotes\\nof, 75, 283.\\nMontague, W. H., 69, 365.\\nMontague, Rev. W^illiam, 217 the\\nbullet which killed Warren, 218\\nanecdote of, 414.\\nMontgomery Place, 294.\\nMonument (Beacon Hill), 349 history\\nand description of, 350, 351 inscrip-\\ntions, 350, 351 rebuilding author-\\nized, 352, 370.\\nMoon Street, 159 Samuel Mather,\\na resident of, 161, 166 Sun Tavern\\nin, 287.\\nMoore, Peggy, tavern of, 404.\\nMoore, Thomas, 283.\\nMoorhead, Rev. John, 263.\\nMoreau, General, 139 funeral of,\\n320 visit to Boston, 320 resi-\\ndence, 321 returns to Europe, 321\\ndeath, 321.\\nMorgan, General Daniel, incident of\\nbattle of Stillwater, 327.\\nMorris, ommo lore Chai les, 99, 186.\\nMorris, Gouverneur, anecdote of, 429.\\nMorrison, Rev. Dr., 124.\\nMorse, Jedediah, 8 humorous de-\\nscription of Albany, 422.\\nMorse, S. F. B., 277.\\nMorton, Josejih, innkeeper, 393.\\nMorton, Marcus, 2. )3.\\nMorton, Perez, residence of, 113, 393\\nlast of the barristers, 403 district-\\nattorney, 424.\\nMorton Place named, 2. i3.\\nMorton, Thomas, 2.\\nMorton, W. T. G., office where ether\\nwas first ajiplied, 366 curious state-\\nment about the ether discovery, 366.\\nMount Auburn Chapel, statue of Win-\\ntlirop in, 226.\\nMountfort, Col. John, 221. Jos., 283.\\nMountfort s Corner, 158.\\nMount Hoardani. .SVc Mount Ver-\\nnon.\\nMountjoy s Corner, 158.\\nMount Veriion jiroprietors, 4 use\\nfirst railway in New England, 325.\\nMount Wollaston, 2, 14.\\nMount Vernon Place, 339.\\nMount Vernon Street, 338, 340 called\\nSumner and Olive Street, 352.\\nMount Vernon, 6 called Moiuit Hoar-\\ndam, 329.\\nMower, Samuel, 206.\\nMuddy River, 14.\\nMunroe, W., imikeeper, 248.\\nMurdoch, James E., 404.\\nMuhlenburg, General, 356.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0527.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "4G8\\nINDEX.\\nMurray, GfULM-.-il Jaiiu s, 327.\\nMurray, Rev. John, 172.\\nMu.seuni, Bo.stou, 38, 40, 41, 2;t4 Co-\\nhiniliiau, 41; burnt, 41, 42; New\\nEuLiland, 42, 74 New York, 42\\nMi.x s New Haven, 42 Wood s Mar-\\nket, 1:32 New England, 132.\\nMusgrave, Philip, Po-stniaster of IJo.s-\\nton, 79.\\nMusic Hall, 294 one in Brattle\\nStreet, 307, 394.\\nMusliawoniuk, 3.\\nMyles Standish exiieilitidii to Boston\\nBay, 2; eostuiiie, 11; swoi d of,\\n40.\\nMyliir i oiiit (Hudson s), 24.\\nM\\\\ine Stifef. -S lv Sujuuier Street.\\nMysdr, .S River, 2.\\nN.\\nNancy, Ihitisli ordnanee lirig, eaptureil,\\n22 I.\\nNantaskct Itoad, .ritisli fleet in, .i.\\n7r., ii:..\\nNapoleon I xHiaparte, 139, 1 11 Mos-\\ncow campaign, 320, 321.\\nNa]ioleon, Louis, in Boston, lol.\\nNason, Elias, 1 1.^,, \\\\r,\u00c2\u00b1\\nNassau Street, description ot, 412.\\nNational Lancers, )79.\\nNational Tlu atre, liistory of, 37S.\\nNaval Academy (Annapolis), lil3;\\nesfaJdislied, 3,S.-,.\\nNa\\\\ai Kcndezvous, Nortli Sipiare,\\n159.\\nNeal, Daniel, B;.\\nNec k, The, 7, lit, 21, 2: 24, 2, 43, 94,\\n214; (iovernor ISnrnel s n-ception,\\n2.3S, 211; calhe.lral ..n, 2. .(i Earl\\nI dcy s t I oops inarch o\\\\er, i04 lines\\non, 32S: retreat of tic Hritisli from,\\n410; desciiption of, US, 419; early\\ncondilion (,f, (l!i loid ovo 419,\\n420 paved, pjo, 121 dikes huilt to\\nprotect, 420; ilreai-y aspe. t of, 421\\na resort fin- spurtsiiien, 421 fenced\\nin, 421 hcMises on, 421 hriekyards,\\n422 guard stationed on, 424 I orti-\\nHed, 424 British works on, 425, 426\\npartly demolished, 426 American\\nworks, 427 taverns on, 428, 429,\\n430 entry of American and French\\narmies, 432 to 437.\\nNelson, Horatio, Lord, 186.\\nNeptune, French ship, 437.\\nNereiile, French shi] 437.\\nNesbitt, Colonel, 229.\\nNew Boston, 10.\\nNewbury Street, 20 new location of,\\n291 residents of, 391 named\\nWashington, 420.\\nNew England Bank, 105.\\nNew England Hag, description of, 179.\\nNew England Guards, 191 in I8l2,\\n322 sairvivors, 322.\\nNew England House, 132.\\nNew England Journal, S.\\nNew E.xhibition Room (Board Alley),\\nopening of, 261 l)ill of first i)er-\\nformance, 261.\\nNew Fields. ,SVr West Boston.\\nNew Guinea, 199.\\nNew Haven, 55, 57.\\nNewnuin, Henry, residence of, 291.\\nNewnnin, Captain Samuel, 221.\\nNew North Cluirch, 155 site and\\nsketch of, 173, 410.\\nNewj.ort, II. I., 9, 19, 29.\\nNew South Chnrch, 22S site and his-\\ntory of, )S0, :;sl.\\nNews Letter, where published, 82, 104.\\nNew State House first occupied, 91.\\nNewton, Thomas, 32.\\nNew \\\\nvk, 22.\\nNichols, Colonel Richanl, 174.\\nNicholson, Caiitain S.imnel, 182, 184,\\n186, 187. 221.\\nNiles s Block, 60.\\nNoah s Ark, 17.5. -SV,- Shiji Tavern.\\nNoddle s isliin.l, 13, 14, 2:!, 56; Bap-\\ntists meet on. 222 works erected in\\n1814, 247 garrisoned, 322, 418.\\nNorfolk County Road 27.\\nNorman, John, publishes liist direc-\\ntory, 110 office, 145.\\nNorth Allen Street, .77.\\nNorth .\\\\merican Review, tirst number\\nof, 304.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0528.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n469\\nNorth Battery, 116 liistory of, 17fi,\\n177 sold, 177 armanieiit, 177.\\nNorth Beiiuet Street, Methodist Chapel\\nin, 172.\\nNortli Burying- Place. See Copp s\\nHill.\\nNorth Carolina, white slavery in, 14.\\nNorth Church, 19.\\nNorth End, 10, 19, 25, 26, 27, 68,143\\nthree streets wide, 152 British\\ntroops in, 158 patriotism of and\\nfamous resi lents in, 220, 221, 222\\ndraft riot in, 223.\\nNorth End Coftee House, site of, 171.\\nNorth Grammar Schools, 21 .S.\\nNorth Latin School, 218.\\nNorth Latin School Street. See Ben-\\nnet Street.\\nNorth Margin Street, 150.\\nNorth Market Street, 105 Triangular\\nWarehouse in, 131.\\nNorth Mills, 151.\\nNorth Row, location of, 371.\\nNorth Scpiare, 130 description of,\\n156 to 170 reudezvou.s for tooojts,\\n158 barracks in, 168 Bethel\\nChurch in, 169; lire of 1676, 169.\\n198.\\nNorth Street, 7, 26, 127 Wood s\\nMuseum in, 132 drawbiidge at, 152.\\nNorth Street (Hanover), 153.\\nNorthumberland, Duke of, 407 lodg-\\nings in Boston, 410.\\nNorthumberland, French .ship, 437.\\nNorth Writing Scliool, 218.\\nNorton, Mrs., 227.\\nNoyes, Oliver, builds Long Whaif,\\nil4.\\no.\\nOak of Reformation, 398.\\nObbatinewat, 2.\\nOchterlony, Sir David, residence of,\\n153. 154.\\nO Connor, Captain, 283.\\nOdeoii. Sec Boston Theatre, 259.\\nOrange Street, 21, 102; extent and\\nname, 401 description, 420 named\\nWashington, 420 paved, 421.\\nOld Brick Church. See First Church.\\nOrations of the Cincinnati in, 1(15,\\n155 Washington attends, 432.\\nOld buildings, one corner Sun Court\\nand Moon Streets, 159.\\nOld Burying-Place (King s Chapel\\nYard), 35, 55, 56.\\nOld Cocked Hat in Dock Square, his-\\ntory and descri^jtion of, 132, 133.\\nOld ttorner (Court and Tremont), Ed-\\nward Webster s Company enlisted,\\n379.\\nOld Corner Bookstore, 02.\\nOld Drury. Sie Boston Theatre, 256.\\nOhl Fortitications, 420, 421 eret ted,\\n424 history of, 424 armament,\\n424 garrison, 425.\\nOld Market House, 130, 133.\\nOld North Church, location and his-\\ntory of, 160 burnt, 169 Sir Wil-\\nliam Flaps attends, 210, 218.\\nOld Prison. See Boston Jail.\\nOld South Block, 253.\\nOld South Church, 22, 30 keys de-\\nmanded by Andros, 34, 35, 52, 148,\\n182, 213 Dr. Blagdeu resigns pas-\\ntorate of, 220 history and desci-ij)-\\ntion of, 227, 228 Lady Andros s\\nfuniu al, 228 Warren s Address in,\\n229 Tea Party Meeting, 230 occu-\\npation l)y British troops, 231, 232,\\n329 tali let, 228 clock, 234, 244,\\n2.S2, 348 Governor Eustis s funeral,\\n3()6, 392, 416.\\nOld State House, 34, 43 used as\\nTown House, 58, 59 history and\\ndescription of, 89, 90, 91 Court\\nHouse, 90 alterations, 91 pro-\\nposal to Iniild the United States\\nBank on site of, 94 Po.st-Offiee in,\\n105 Selfridge killed near, 114 first\\nmarket on site of, 130 rendezvous\\nof Ancient and Honorable Artillery,\\n138, 210, 238 monument to Wolfe,\\n241 Federal Convention assendiled\\nin, 263, 293 Speaker s desk, 347\\ndescription of C ouncil Chamber,\\n347, 391, 431.\\nOld Stone House (Cross Street), de-\\nscription of, 154, 155.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0529.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "470\\nINDEX.\\nOld Way, The, 151.\\nOld Wliiirf. .See Barricado.\\nOlive Street. See Mount Vernon.\\nOliver, Governor Andrew, J(I7, 273\\nresidence, 278 uioblied, 278 dies,\\n278 sketch of, 278, 279 hung in\\nefligy, 31)9 resigns olliee of Staniii-\\nMaster, 400.\\nOliver s Dock, 109 named for, 110\\nscene of destruction of Stamp-OHice,\\n110.\\nOliver, Peter, 110 leaves Boston, 278.\\nOliver Place, 409.\\nOliver Street, 41 named, 271 paved,\\n272\\nOliver, Thomas, residence of, 234.\\nOrange Tree Lane, 68.\\nOrange Tiee (tavern), 25, 70.\\nOrne, Azor, 341.\\nOsgood, James R., and Company,\\n304. See N. American I evicw.\\nOstinelli, Mr., 291.\\n(.)stjnclli, Eliza, (Ulu t of, 368.\\nOtis, Harrison Gray, 14 law ottice,\\n44 anecdotes of, 46, 47, 57, 124,\\n190 first public speech, 256 op-\\nposes theatres, 261, 336 residence,\\n337.\\nOtis, Jame.s, 44 residence, 60, 71, 76,\\n89, 133, 135, 148, 149, 248, 252, 253,\\n269, 351, 402.\\nOtis Street, American headcpiai-ters,\\n383 Sir William Pepjierell s estate,\\n384.\\nO.xenhridge, Jdhn, 35, 55 house\\n56.\\nOxford, Loid, 78.\\nPaddy s Alley, 153.\\nPaddock, Adino, 26 names Long\\nAcre, 289 residence, 294 plants\\ntrees in Long Acre, 294 aptain of\\nArtillery, 295 intends surrender-\\ning his guns, 314 intention frus-\\ntrated, 314.\\nPaddock s Mall, history of, 294, 295,\\n360.\\nPaige, E., and Pompanv, innkeepers\\n105.\\nPaine, Nathaniel, 237.\\nPaine, Robert Treat, 57 residence,\\n265 died, 265, 267 sketch of,\\n266.\\nPaine, Thomas (R. Treat, Jr.), writes\\nprize address for Federal Street Thea-\\ntre, 256 sketch of, 266.\\nPainter s Arms, description of, 144.\\nPalfrey, Rev. J. G., 123, 355.\\nPalmer, Edward, 15, 34. Jos., 283.\\nPalmer, Mr., residence of, 277.\\nPantheon Hall. See Boylston.\\nPaper Currency, 237.\\nPark Scpiare, 322.\\nPark Street, 148, 299 Workhouse and\\nBridewell in, 299 town jjroperty on,\\n.sold, 300 Pound in, 300.\\nPark Street Churcli, 182, 234 si)ire\\nof, 300 history of, 301 architect\\nof, 301 capitals cut by Willard,\\n311.\\nPark Theatre (New York), oiieniug of,\\n417.\\nPaiker, Bishoji, anecdote of, 414.\\nParker Block, site of, 248.\\nParker, Chief Justice, 100.\\nParker House, 57, 65.\\nParker, Isaac, 82.\\nParker, John, 196 residence of, 291.\\nParker, Captain John, his musket,\\n347.\\nParker, Rev. Samuel, 387.\\nParker, Rev. Theodore, bei|neaths rel-\\nics to the State, 346, 379, 394.\\nParkman, Dr. George, 165 residence,\\n338, 371 scene of murder, 377.\\nParkman, Samuel, 141, 196 residence,\\n371.\\nParris, Alexander, architect of Saint\\nPaul s, 310.\\nParsons, Eben, 196.\\nParsons, Theophilus, residence of, 277\\nanecdote of, 277 .L Q. Adams a stu-\\ndent with, 319, 403.\\nParsons, Theoi)hilus, Ji-.. 277.\\nPatten, William, malt house of, 416.\\nPatterson, Miss, 384.\\nPaving of .streets, 21.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0530.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n471\\nPavilion, 56.\\nPaxton, Charles, residence of, 273\\nmobLed, 273, 277.\\nPayne, John Howard, 253 at Boston\\nTlieatre, 259 residence and sketch\\nof, 262 dies, 262, 313.\\nPayne, Mr., 253.\\nPayson, Joseph, 282.\\nPealiody, Ephraini, 46.\\nPeabody, George, 27.\\nPeale, Charles W., student of Copley,\\n353.\\nPeale, Rembrandt, 335.\\nPearl Street, 37 route of Tea Pai-ty,\\n271 Admiral Graves s (juarters,\\n272 called Hutchin.son Street, 273\\nnamed, 273 shoe market, 280.\\nPearl Street House, 248, 275.\\nPeck, John, purchases Province House,\\n246.\\nPeck, Samuel, 282 shop, 410.\\nPelby, William, 291 .ipens Warren\\nTheatre, 378.\\nPelham, Charles, 32.\\nPelham, Mary, resilience, 371 adver-\\ntisement, 372.\\nPelham, Peter, residence, 372 an en-\\ngraver, 372.\\nPelican, Britisli brig, 197.\\nPemberton, Rev. Ebenezer, 104.\\nPemberton Hill, 6, 8, 10, 34, 47, 52,\\n365, 389.\\nPemberton House, 50.\\nPemberton, James, 47.\\nPemberton Square, 50, .53.\\nPemberton, Thomas, 134, 154 ac-\\ncount of commerce of Boston, 179,\\n180.\\nPenfold, 383.\\nPenn, James, 56.\\nPennsylvania Academy, 276.\\nPeuob.scot E.\\\\pediti in, 12(1.\\nFepperell, Sir William, sword of, 40,\\n239 forces on the Common, 326.\\nPei perell, Sir William (Sparhawk),\\n57 estate and sketch of, 384.\\nPepys, Richard, 4, 5.\\nPercy, Earl of Northumberland, 44\\nquarters, 53, 242, 245, 265 marches\\nfor Lexington, 304 occupies Han-\\ncock House, 340 commands on\\nBoston Neck, 426.\\nPerkins, Augustus T., 336.\\nPerkins, James, 37, 196, 280.\\nPerkins, Sergeant, 16.\\nPerkins, Thomas, residence of, 291.\\nPerkins, Thomas H., 38, 196 resi-\\ndence, 277, 278 commands Cadets,\\n294.\\nPerkins Street named, 280.\\nPerley, Rev. Mr., 277.\\nPerodi, Mr., suicide of, -363.\\nPerry, Commodore O. H., at Exchange\\nCoffee House, 100.\\nPest-House Point, 369.\\nPeters, Edward D., resilience and re-\\nmains of fortifications, 426.\\nPeterson hanged, 426.\\nPettick s Island, 116.\\nPfaff s Hotel, 322.\\nPhilailelphia Coffee House, 171. Hee\\nNorth End Cbffee House.\\nPhiladelphia, frigate, 186.\\nPhillips, Adelaide, 40.\\ni iiillips, Edward B., 38.\\nPhillips Church, 416.\\nPhillips, Deacon John, 154.\\nPhillips, General William, 231, 383.\\nPhilliiis, Gillam, 332.\\nPhillilis, Governor Williau), .53 resi-\\ndence, 54, 55, .56, 100, 196, 337,\\n362.\\nPlnIlii)S, Henry, 96, 332, 3y3.\\nPhillips, John, first mayor, 14; resi-\\nWcndrll, residence of, 337,\\nPhilli]\\nPhillii\\n379.\\nPhillips, William. Sr., 302.\\nPhillips s Pasture, 409.\\nPhips, Mary, anecdote of, 210.\\nPhips Place, 209.\\nPhips, Sjiencer, resilience of, 211. Si2e\\nDavid Bennet.\\nPhijis, Sir William, 2o0 residence,\\n209 arrival in Boston, 210, 211.\\nPluebc, frigate, 171.\\nPickering, John, 39.\\nPickering, Timothy, 100.\\nPierce s Alley (Change Avenue), 105.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0531.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "47-!\\nINDEX.\\nPierce, William, shop of, 145, 283.\\nPierpoiit, Rev. John, .sketch of, 415.\\nPierpoiit (and Storey), set in pillory, 93.\\nPillniore, Rev. Jo.seph, 17-!.\\nPillory, incidents of, 92, 93, 313.\\nPinckney Street, 334.\\nPine Street Cliurch, 220.\\nPitcairn, Major John, ipiarters of, 158,\\n159 deatii and burial, 217.\\nPitt, William, 141.\\nPitts, Hon. James, resi lence of, 3 J9.\\nPitts, Lendall, one of Tea Party lead-\\ners, 282, 283.\\nPitts Street, Mexican Volunteers in,\\n379.\\nPitts Wharf, 127.\\nPleasant Street, (_!4, 305 lalioratory\\nin, 322 British works in, 328.\\nPleiades or Seven Star Inn, site of, 3S7.\\nPlymouth Colony, 2 relics of, 347.\\nPlymouth, Mass., 2.\\nPlymouth Rock, t lioate s mut on, 219.\\nPoinsett, Joel R., 139, 192.\\nPoint Alderton, 11\u00c2\u00ab, 188.\\nPiiint Judith, named foi-, 212.\\nPolk, James K., 385.\\nPollai d, Anne, lier landing and de])osi-\\ntion, 5.\\nPollard, Colonel Benjamin, 115.\\nPonieroy, Colonel (British), 285.\\nI omeroy, General Seth, 208.\\nPoniei oy, Zadock, 248.\\nPiind Lane. .Sv Bedford Street.\\nPon l Street. Sre Bedford.\\nPonsonliy, Lord, 97.\\nPoor delitors, 375.\\nPoore, Benjamin Perley, owner of\\nFranklin s press, 80 relics of Pi ov-\\nince House, 247.\\nPope, Alexander, 38.\\nPope Day, 107 descriiition of, 149,\\n150, 107 amuversary celelirate l,\\n399.\\nPoplai Street, 370.\\nPopulation of Boston, 20, 21.\\nPorniont, Philemon, .W.\\nPort.-r, David, Sr., residence of, 171.\\nPorter, Commodore David, 111 res-\\nidence of. 171. is\\nPorter, Admiral David D., 171.\\nPorter, Thomas, 282.\\nPortland Street, 120, 145.\\nPortsmouth, New Hampslare, 45 first\\nstage-coach to, 20.\\nPortsmouth, Hying stage-coach, 26.\\nPost-OHice ill Old State House, 89 on\\nsite Brazier s Building, 92 in Mer-\\nchants E.xchange, 209 history and\\nlocations of, 104 corner Congress\\nand Water Streets, 104 New, 141,\\n254 in Summer Street, 385.\\nPost-routes, first establislied, lo4\\nj)ost-rider to Hartford, 253.\\nPound, site of, 30ii.\\nPowder, scarcity of, in American canqi,\\n430, 431.\\nPowder-house on the Common, 329\\nat West Boston, 329 duel near, 332\\non the Cojiley tract, 334 descrip-\\ntion of, 334.\\nPowder-mill, hrst in New England,\\n118.\\nPowell, Charles S., first manager of\\nFederal Street Theatre, 250, 257\\nfits uji a theatre in Hawley Street,\\n201 opens Haymarket, 318.\\nPowell, Jeremiah, 340.\\nI owcis, Hiram, 38, 345.\\nPowers, Michael, hanged, 424.\\nPownall, Governor Thomas, 40, 230,\\n240 anecdote of, 241, .is.\\nPratt, Benjamin, ollice and description\\nof, 402.\\nPreble, Ebeiiezer, residence of, 382.\\nPreble, Edwar.l E., 195.\\nPreble, Commodore Edward. 111. 180,\\n187, 211.\\nPreble, Captain George H., 179, 184.\\nPrentis s, Captain Henry, residence of,\\n148, 282.\\nPrescott, Colonel Williain, sword of,\\n40, 208.\\nPrescott, Ju lge William, 277 resi-\\ndence of, 390.\\nPrescott, W. H., 38 residence of. 333\\nblindness, and literary work, 334.\\nPresident s Roads, 1,S7.\\nPre.ston, Captain Thomas, 71. 85 de-\\nfence, 120, 100, 200 tri:d, 402.\\nPrice, Roger, 386.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0532.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n47:3\\nPrice, William, 32.\\nPrince, John, residence of, 275, 283.\\nPrince Library, 23-1.\\nPrince of Orange, 401.\\nI rince Street, 151, 153, 1G2, 202\\nnamed, 219 description, 219\\nBritish Ijai racks in, 219. .S Black\\nHorse Lane.\\nPrince, Thomas, 52 library Imnied,\\n231.\\nPrince s Pasture, 370.\\nPrincess Louise, 272.\\nPrison Lane, 229.\\nProctor, Edward, 2.S2.\\nProctor s Lane, 219. .SVc Ricluuond\\nStreet.\\nProctoi- s Scliool-house, 223.\\nProspect Hill, 203.\\nProtector, frigate, 211.\\nProtector, ship, 18(3.\\nProvince Hospital, location of, 309.\\nProvince House, 04, 05, 225, 232 his-\\ntory and description of, 235 to 24S\\nlocation, 235 first gubernatorial oc-\\ncupant, 230 successive iidial)itants,\\n230 to 245 robbery in, 242 Lex-\\nington expedition planned in, 242\\ndivulged by a groom, 243 Church s\\ntreason discovered in, 243 I milt,\\n240 purchased by the colony, 240\\noccupied by State officers, 24()\\nstyled Government House, 240\\nsold, 240 relics of, 247, 293, 431.\\nProvince Pest-Housi;. See Hosjiital.\\nProvince Snow, 48.\\nProvince Street, 04.\\nProvincial Congress, 159.\\nPublic Garden occtipied by ropewalks,\\n324; a marsh, 325; secured to the\\ncity, 325 Ticknor s bequest, 3.52.\\nPublic Library, 313 relic in, 323.\\nPudding Lane, 98.\\nPulaski, Count, 204, 310.\\nPurchase Street, 87 named, 273\\nrope-field in, 273 biithphuu! of\\nSamuel Adams, 281 description of,\\n309.\\nPurkett, Henry, anecdote of, 204, 282,\\n410.\\nPutnam, Colonel, 304.\\nPutnam, General Israel, 69, 129 at\\nBunker Hill, 207, 208, 220 to as-\\nsault Boston, 359 commands in\\nBoston, 382, 432.\\nQ.\\nQuakers, 15 persecution of, 208\\nbuild first brick meeting-house,\\n208.\\nQuaker Burying-Ground, site and his-\\ntory of, 207, 208 remains e.xhumed,\\n208.\\nQuaker Lane, 101. .SVe Congress\\nSti-ect.\\nQuaker Meeting-house, 101 site and\\nhistory of, 207, 208 burnt, 207 in\\nMilton Place, 208.\\nQueen s Ball last held in Boston,\\n240.\\nQueen s Cha]ipell, 33.\\nQueen Street, 05 changed to Court,\\n77 Franklin s printing-oHice, i:0.\\nQueen s Light Dragoons, 231.\\nQuincy Block, 279.\\nQuincy, Dorothy. .SVe Hancock and\\nScott.\\nQuincy, Edmund (son of Josiah), 212.\\nQuhicy, E. S., 54, 188.\\nQuincy, Josiah, 14, 23, 82 improves\\nTown Dock, 128, 129, 130, 139, 190\\nbiithi)lace, 248; establishes House\\nof Industry and Reformation, 249\\nPresident of Harvard, 249 anec lotes\\nof, 250, 279, 354 reception of La-\\nfayette, 350 Neck paved by, 421.\\nQuincy, Josiah, Jr. (Mayor), 23 res-\\nidence, 357.\\nQuincy, Josiah, Jr. (patriot), resi-\\ndence, 248 dies, 249 sketch of,\\n249 Mi-s. Sigourney s lines on, 249.\\nQuincy, Judith, 212.\\nQuincy, Mass., Piesident Monroe at,\\n100.\\nQuincy Market, 127 ilescription, 128,\\n129.\\nQuincy Place, 275, 280 trees in,\\n409.\\nQuincy, town uf, 14, 20.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0533.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "474\\nINDEX.\\nR.\\nRailways, experiment, 26, 278 Low-\\nell, 20, 151, 350 Worcester, 26\\nProvidence, 26 Maine, 26, 151\\nEastern, 26, 151, 350 Old Colony,\\n27 Fitchlnirg, 27, 151 Hartford\\nand Erie (Norfolk County), 27.\\nRaiiiliow, British ship, 220.\\nliainsford, Edwanl, 404.\\nllainsford s Island, 188.\\nHainsfoi d s Lane. Sec Harrison Ave-\\nnue.\\nKaiid. Isaac, 363.\\ni;;md.ilph, Edward, first Collector, 34,\\nl. ii;, 157, 200; imprisoned, 28.5.\\nKaiiddlph, town of, 14 John, 73.\\nItantoid, Roljert, portrait of, 340.\\nRatclilf, Rev. Robert, 34.\\nRawdon, Francis, 203.\\nRawson, Edward, 222.\\nRawson, Grindal, 3.\\nRawsou s Lane. SVcBron) field Street.\\nRayuiond, James, 394.\\nRead, John, residence of, 4(t2.\\nRed Lyon Inn, site of, 156 fire of\\n1676, 169.\\nRed Lyon Wliarf, 157.\\nReed, Commodore George W. 189.\\nReeil, Joshua, 429.\\nReeil, William, store attacked, 224.\\nReJioboth, 5.\\nRepertory, The (newspaper), 91.\\nReservoir grounds, 338, 350, 352.\\nRevenge Cliurch. See Second Cliureh.\\nRevere, Paul, 32, 61 celebrated ride,\\n69 shop, 118 foundry, 120, 148,\\n149 residence of, 159, 211 en-\\ngraves and prints money for Pro-\\nvincial Congress, 159, 173, 182\\nnarrative of ride to Lexington, 214,\\n243, 282 .shop, 338 illustrates\\nStaiu]) Act repeal, 359, 371.\\nPu Vcre House, site of, 371 named,\\n371 ilistinguished guests, 371.\\nRevere Place, 211.\\nRevere s cannon and bell biundiv. 200.\\nRice, Benjamin, 282.\\nRicliards, Jolni, shipyard ol 178.\\nRidiniond Street, 19, 155, 156, 157,198.\\nRiede.sel, General Baron, 231, 324.\\nRinimer, Dr., 344.\\nRiot of 1863, 142.\\nRipley, Henry J., residence of, 222.\\nRobertson, Alexander, 313.\\nRobin, L Abbe, his description of Bos-\\nton, 18, 19, 114.\\nRobinson, John, assaults James Otis,\\n108, 253.\\nRobinson, William, executed, 330.\\nRochambeau, Jean Baptiste, Count de,\\n18, 01 army of, 113, 429.\\nRocliefoucauld, Liancourt, Duke de,\\n141.\\nRochester, Earl of, 34.\\nRodgers, Commodore John, 186, 188.\\nRoebuck Passage, 131. See Merchant s\\nRow.\\nRoidiuck Tavern, 131.\\nRog, John P., lianged, 424.\\nRogers, Daniel D., residence of, 358.\\nRogers, Isaiali, architect of Treiuont\\nHouse, 290 of Tremont Theatre,\\n293 of Howard Athenanim, 368.\\nRogers, Simon, innkeeper, 428.\\nRogers, Rev. Williani M. 259.\\nRoman Catluilic Churcli, mass first\\ncelebrateil in, 64.\\nRonmey, frigate, 170.\\nRomney, Lord, 78.\\nRopes, William, residence of, 366.\\nRopewalks, first, 273 in Pearl Street,\\n273 at Barton s Point, 273 riot at,\\nin Pearl Street, 274 at the foot of\\nCommon, 324 burnt, 325 title of\\nprojirietors jnirchased, 325 on Bea-\\ncon Hill, 329, 352.\\nRose, frigate, 34.\\nRoss, General, burns Wasliington,\\n369.\\nRostopchin, Governor, burning of Mos-\\ncow, 320.\\nRouillard, iimkeeper, 254.\\nRound Marsh, The, 305.\\nRowe, John, suggests throwing the tea\\noverboard, 230 resi lence of, 390.\\nRowe Street nanu-il, 230, 390.\\nRowe s Wharf, 109, 284.\\nRowse, Samuel, 40.\\nRowson, Mrs. Susanna, at Federal", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0534.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n475\\nstreet Theatre, 258 estal Wishes\\nsrliool for young ladies, 259 school,\\n429.\\nJioxliury, 17 annexed, 23.\\nRoyal Custom House, site in 1770, 97,\\n98.\\nRoyal Deux Fonts regiment, 434 uni-\\nform, 435.\\nRoyal Exchange Lane, 96.\\nRoyal Exchange, London, 136.\\nRoyal Excliaiige Tavern, location of,\\n96, 97, 98.\\nRoyal Marines, part of, in Lexington\\nexpedition, 304.\\nRuby, Ann, 206.\\nRudiuill, Al.el, 214, 21.5.\\nRuggles, Samuel, liuilds Faneuil Hall,\\n135.\\nRumford, Count (Benjamin Thomp-\\nson), 39 apprentice in Cornhill, SC),\\n87, 154.\\nRussell, Benjamin, 100, 207 anecdote\\nof, 266 anecdote and re.sidence of,\\n388.\\nRussell, John, 282.\\nRussell, Joseph, 76. See Green.\\nRussell, Joseph, Jr., 389.\\nRussell, Thomas, 96, 180, 184, 2.53,\\n383.\\nRussell, Hon. Thomas, Collector of\\nBoston, 169.\\nRussell, William, 283.\\nS.\\nSabin, Thomas, ]iuts on first stage to\\nProvidence, 392.\\nSal line, Lorenzo, 97, 410.\\nSailor s Home, 87.\\nSaint Andrew s Lodge, 1.50.\\nSaint Helena, 139.\\nSaint James Hot(^l, 96.\\nSaint Maime, ount de, 435.\\nSaint-Onge (regiment), 435.\\nSalem, 25, 27, 35.\\nSalem Church, 219, 220.\\nSalem Street. 7 widened, 145 called\\nBack Street, 153 description of,\\n213, 219 origin, 219 Massachu-\\nsetts Spy printed in, 223.\\nSaltonstall, Colonel Richard, 33.\\nSalutation Sti eet (Alley), 175.\\nSalutation Tavern, site of, 175 ren-\\ndezvous of the Boston Caucus, 176.\\nSandema)], Robert, 107, 212. Sec\\nMein.\\nSandemanians, first meetings of, 1.50\\nCliaj.el, 172.\\nSaratoga, battle of, 87, 103.\\nSargent, Henry, 104, 141.\\nSargent, Lucius M. (Sigma), 114, 332,\\n3.53, 384. Winthrop, J.\\nSavage, Arthur, 217, 218.\\nSavage, James, 227.\\nSavannah, (Ja., 103.\\nSavings Rank (Tremont Street), 37.\\nSavings Bank foumled by, 417.\\nScarlet, Elizabeth, 206.\\nScarlet Ijctter, 92 description of, 93.\\nScarlett s Wharf, 114 description of,\\n168.\\nScarlett s VVliarf Lane, 168. See Fleet\\nStreet.\\nSchool Street, 28, 32, 56, 57, 63, 67.\\nSchwartzenburg, Prince, 321.\\nScollay s Buildings, 37 descrij)tion\\nof, 74 history of, 75, 76 spinning\\nschool on site of, 302, 388.\\nScollay, John, 74.\\nScollay, William, 39, 74 residence of,\\n75 imjirovement of Fraidvlin Street,\\n254.\\nScollay S(piare, 74, 97.\\nSconce. See South Battery.\\nSconce Lane. See Hanulton Street.\\nScoot, Thomas, 206.\\nScott, Madam Dorothy, 124 residence\\nof, 264 dies, 265 witnesses battle\\nof Lexington, 265 anecdotes of, 265.\\nScott, Captain James, 264.\\nScott, General Winfield, presents Hag\\nto Mexican Volunteers, 379.\\nScotto, Thomas, 58.\\nSeafort, ship, 178.\\nSeamen s Bethel founded, 373.\\nSears s Building, 82, 83. Post-Office\\non site of, 104.\\nSears, David, 196 residence, 334\\ncommands Cadets, 337 mansion,\\n337, 389, 396.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0535.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "47G\\nINDEX.\\nSeroiid Raptist Cliurcli, location and\\nsketi Ii of, -J-J-i, \u00c2\u00b1a.\\nSecond CluiiTh( New Brick), 84; history\\nand location of, 155, 156, 158, Ifjl.\\nSeekonk Branch Railroad Company\\nlocated on South Cove, 411.\\nSegur, Louis Philippe, Count de, 19\\naccount of Boston Society in 1782,\\n362, 435.\\nSelfridge, Thomas O., kills Austin,\\n114.\\nSerapis, frigate, ISO.\\nSergeant, Peter, huilds Province House,\\n23 i, 246.\\nSeven Dials, 1, )3.\\nSeven Star Inn. Src Pleiades.\\nSeven Star Lane, Summei- Street so-\\ncalled, 387.\\nSever, James, 184.\\nSewall s Elm Pasture, 52.\\nSewall, Jonathan, 273, 364.\\nSewall, Rev. Joseph, 138, 232.\\nSewall, Samuel, 13, 35 residence of,\\n51 marriage, 52 presides at witch-\\nciaft trials^ 52, 204, 211, 228, 271\\nhuried, 296. 362 plants trees, 409.\\nSewall Street, .52.\\nSeward, Major, 206.\\nShattuck, Lemuel, 365.\\nShaw, Charles, 6, 8, 37, 102, 109.\\nShaw, Chief Justice, 83.\\nShaw, Francis, residence of, 158.\\nShaw, Lemuel, Chii^f .Tustice, 283;\\nusher (if Franklin School, 417.\\nShaw, Rohert residence of, 158.\\nSliaw, Major Samuel, residence of, 158\\nchallenges Lieutenant Wragg, 159.\\nShaw, William S., 38.\\nShawmut, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10.\\nShays, Daniel, 103.\\nShays s Reliellion, 361.\\nShea, Lieutenant, anecdote of, 217.\\nShealfe, Helen, 65.\\nSheatle, Mrs., 53 residence of, 74, 410.\\nSheatfe, Sir Roger Hale, 97, 154 resi-\\ndence and sketch of, 410, 411.\\nSheatfe Street supjiosed residence of\\nJohn Hull, 212.\\nSheatle. William, 65 Depity Clltc\\ntor in 1770,97.\\nSheatfe, Margaret, 97.\\nSheatl e, Susanna, 97.\\nShed, Joseph, 282.\\nSheehan s Pond, 329.\\nSheerness, British man-of-war, .332.\\nShelburne, Lord, 398.\\nShelcock, Richar I, innkeeper, 112.\\nShepard, Colonel, 275.\\nShejiard, Pi esion, innkeeper, 248.\\nShepi)ard, John H., 221.\\nSheriff, Ca])tain, 137.\\nShirley, Frances, 32.\\nShirley, Governor William, 28, 29, 30,\\n31, 32, 35, 42, 62 supersedes Belcher,\\n102 returns fi-om Louisburg, 115,\\n140, 162, 179, 211. 215, 236; resi-\\ndence of, 239 colonial stamp tax,\\n239, 240 events of his administra-\\ntion, 240 funeral of, 267 troops\\nfor Louislnirg, 326 gifts to Trinity\\nChurch, 387.\\nShirley, William, Jr., killed, 240.\\nShiji Street (North), 15;* ilescription\\nof. 168.\\nSlnp Tavei-n, site and history of, 174,\\n175, 178.\\nShort, Captain Riclianl, 210.\\nShort Street (Kiugsfon), 45.\\nShulirick. ommodore William B.,186.\\nSliurtleff, Nathaniel B., 8, 62.\\nShute. Samuel. 31, 49, 102, 236, 247.\\nShreve, Cium]i, and Low, 390.\\nShrimjiton s Lane, 56, 96.\\nShrimpton, Colonel Samuel, 56.\\nSidewalks in Boston, 22.\\nSiege of Boston, 86.\\nSigourney, Lietitenant James, 221.\\nSigourney, Lydia 11., 35.\\nSimons, Henry, 151.\\nSimpson, Daniel, 150.\\nSimpson, Isaac, 282.\\nSister Street, 262 name changed, 280.\\nScr Leather Street.\\nSi.xty-fifth British Regiment, 32.\\nSi,\\\\ty-fonrth British Regiment, 285.\\nSkiliin. Simeon, 92.\\nSlater. I rt. r, 2S2.\\nShu ery, negro, 13 white, 13, 14, 183\\nSloper, Samuel, 282.\\nSnelling, Colonel Josi.di, 221.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0536.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "IXDKX.\\n477\\nSnow, Caleb H., 133 residence of. 158.\\nSnow Hill. iS cc Copp s Hill.\\nSnow-Hill Street, lys, 204.\\nSnow, Rev. W. T., 67.\\nSmall, General John, 69, 125.\\nvSniall-pox parties, 389.\\nSniibert, John, residence of, 72 studio,\\n73 architect of Faneuil Hall, 135,\\n1(55, 334.\\nSniibert, Mary (Willianis), 72, 276\\nGovernor Oliver a patron. 279.\\nSinibert, Nathaniel, 72.\\nSmith, Abiel, 196.\\nSmith, Barney, 230.\\nSmith, Captain, 357.\\nSmith, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis,\\ncommands Lexington expedition,\\n242, 304.\\nSnnth, J. V. C, 331.\\nSmith, Dr. Oliver, 306.\\nSmith, Richard, innkee])er, 112 keeps\\nC rown Co flee House, 112.\\nSmith, Sydney, 129.\\nSmith, W. H. 40, 378.\\nSociety of the Cincinnati, 71 niet at\\nBunch of Grapes, 105 anecdote of,\\n367.\\nSiiissonnais (regiment), 435.\\nSomers, Lord, 78.\\nSomerset, British frigate, 203, 214,\\n217.\\nSomerset CIul) House, 363.\\nSomerset Court. .St t; Ashburton\\nriace.\\nSomerset, Mass., 52.\\nSomerset Place (Allston Street), 363.\\nSomerset Street, Webster s liouse in,\\n46 named for, 62 conveyed to\\ntown, 52, 363. Se.e Valley Acre.\\nSomerset, The, 363 house built, 3(i3\\nLafayette lodges in, 363.\\nSons of Liberty, 331 Stamp Act re-\\npeal, 359, 396, 397, 398.\\nSontag, Madame, 394.\\nSouthack s Court, 48.\\nSouthack Street, 370.\\nSouthack, Cyprian, 48, 49, 302.\\nSouth Allen Street, called Fayette\\nStreet, 316. See McLean Street.\\nSouth Battery (Rowe s Wharf), 109,\\n115, 158, 251 blown u]i, 272 de-\\nscription of, 284, 327. Sfc Sconce.\\nSouth Berwick, Me., 26.\\nSouth Boston, 23, 25 City institu-\\ntions, 376.\\nSouth Boston Bridge, 7.\\nSouth Boston Pohit, 338.\\nSouth Burying-Ground (Washington\\nStreet), gates of, 96 Granary so\\ncalled, 296.\\nSouth Cove, 7, 8 improvement, 411.\\nSouth End, 10.\\nSouth Margin Street, 150.\\nSouth Market Street, built, 129, 130.\\nSouth Meeting-house. Sec Old South,\\n228, 229.\\nSouth Mills, 151.\\nSouth Street, 7.\\nSouverain, French ship, 437.\\nSouth Writing-School, location and in-\\ncident of, 314 concealment of can-\\nnon in, 814.\\nSjiarhawk, Nathaniel, 384.\\nSparks, Jared, 233.\\nSi)ear, Nathan, 129.\\nSpear, Samuel, 349.\\nSpear, Thomas, 283.\\nSpear s Wharf, 129.\\nSpinning-schools, estal)lishnient of,302.\\nSprague, harles, 364 impromptu on\\nLafayette s reception, 354 home,\\n41() anecdote of, 417.\\nSjiragiu^, Samuel, 283.\\nSpring Gate, 234.\\nSpring Lane, 10, 39, 109. 234.\\nSprings of water, 10, 22.\\nSpurr, John, 2S2.\\nSpurzheim, John Gasjiard, residence\\nof, 275.\\nStackpole House, 254.\\nStackpole, William, 254.\\nStamps of Colonial Stamp Act, 239, 240.\\nStamp Act, celeljration of repeal, 358,\\n359.\\nStaniford Street, 370.\\nStanley, Lord, 204 visits Boston, 341,\\n367.\\nStark, General John, relics of Ben-\\nnington, 346.\\nStarr, James, 282.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0537.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "478\\nI^ DKX.\\nstate Bank, 95, 104, 201.\\nState House (new), .i M, :i-i9 l)uilt on\\nHancock s Pasture, o-itt arcliitect\\nof, 343 styled the Hub, 344\\nhistory of, 344 statue of Webster,\\n344 of Horace Mann, 345 of Gov-\\nernor Andrew, and General Wash-\\nington, 345 tablets in, 345 Lafay-\\nette s reception in, 345, 34l) Senate\\nChamber, portraits anil revolution-\\nary relics in, 346 ancient codtisli\\nin Rejiresentatives Chamber, 348,\\n355 faulty pro])ortions of, 370.\\nState Street, 26, 41 Governor Lever-\\nett s house, 83 early settlers in, 88\\nceleliration of Declaration of Inde-\\npendence, 91 wideneil, Idl cnlled\\nthe Broad Street, lltl Jeremiah\\nDumnier born in, 103 retrospective\\nview of, 113 military displays in,\\n11;; tire of 1711, 113 atlray in,\\n114 signs in, 146.\\nStatues, 2 ublic, 344, 345.\\nStavers, Bartholomew, 26.\\nStebbins, Mrs., 407.\\nStebbins, Miss, 345.\\nSteele, John, commands North Bat-\\ntery, 177 ropewalk, 370.\\nStevens, Elienezer, 282, 295.\\nStevenson, Marmaduke, hung, 330.\\nStevenson, Mary, 5.\\nStewart, Charles, 186 commands Con-\\nstitution, 191, 194.\\nStewart, Captain, 62.\\nStewart, T. L., 378.\\nStewart, W., 378.\\nStillman, Rev. Samuel, residence of,\\n222 buried, 296.\\nStillman Street, named, 222.\\nSt. Andrew. Holborn, 67.\\nSt. Andrew s Lodge, 196.\\nSt. Botolph s Church, Boston, Eng-\\nlaiiil, 7, 50.\\nSt. Clair, General Artlmr, 221.\\nSt. Mary Woolnoth, churrh of, 21it.\\nSt. Paul s, Warren s remains entondied\\nin, 69 architect* of, 310 descrip-\\ntion of, 311 a new era of church\\narchitecture, 311 fourth E]iisco[ial\\nchurch, 311.\\nI St. Paul s, London, England, 32.\\nSt. Vincent, Lord, 407.\\nStocks, location of, 92.\\nStoddard, Mr., 217.\\nSto ldar.l, Mrs., 21.\\nStone, Caj)tain, 15.\\nStone Chapel, 33. /Sec King s Chapel.\\nStone, General El)enezer W., 147.\\nStone, Emily, 206.\\nStone, innkeeper, 96.\\nStorer, Mr., 389.\\nStorey. .SVe Pierpont.\\nStoi rs, Rev. Richard S., 415.\\nStoiy, Joseph, 41. 100 anecdote of,\\n249 oiiinion of De.xter, 353.\\nStoughton, Governor William, 148.\\nStrafford, Earl of, 51.\\nStrong, Govei nor Caleb, sword of, 40\\nresi les in Province House, 246\\n.sketch of, 246, 247 builds works\\non Noddle s Island, 247 personal\\na)ipearaiice, 247 town residence of,\\n307, 364.\\nStuart, Gilbert, 38 portrait of Kno.x,\\n86 of Washington, 141 anecdote\\nof Talleyrand, 142, 276 residence\\nof, 407 sketch and anecdotes of,\\n407, 408.\\nStuart, Jane, 4(l7.\\nSub-Treasury (E.xchange), 103.\\nSudliuryLane, 47. .S r C Sudbury Street.\\nSudlnu y Street, 41 Governor Eustis\\nlives in, 367, i i9 trees in, 409.\\nSudbury River, 2:\\nSullivan, James. 3 114. 201 tomb\\nof, 296 residence of. 371 sketch\\nof, 388, 433.\\nSulli\\\\ an, General John, 359, 381.\\nSullivan, Richard, anecdote of, 388.\\nSullivan, William. 32, 190, 2S0, 388.\\nSidly, Tliomas, 276, 336.\\nSummer Stivet, hi. 201. 227 descrip-\\ntion and residents of, 3.S1 called\\nMylne Street, 381.\\nSumner, Governor Increase, 144 por-\\ntrait of, 340.\\nSumner, General W. H., 243, 346,\\n348, 367.\\nSumner Street. Srr Mount Vernon.\\nSun Court Street, 159, 161, 287.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0538.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n479\\nSun Fire Office in Boston, 107.\\nSun Tavern, General Dearborn s res-\\nidence, 106, 286 other taverns of\\nsame name, 286.\\nSurriage, Agnes (Lady Frankland),\\n162, 163.\\nSv^fan, James, residence of, 283, 313.\\nSwasey, Major, 383.\\nSwedenborg, Baron, 280.\\nSwift, General Josejili G., 100.\\nSwing Bridge, 127.\\nSymnies, Andrew, Jr., 66.\\nT.\\nT Wharf, 114, 115.\\nTabernacle, Millerite, location, 367\\nincidents of, 367, 368 changed into\\na theatre and destroyed, 368.\\nTalbot, Commodore Isaac, 187, 196.\\nTalleyrand, Prince, in Boston, 141\\namour of, 142.\\nTalleyrand, Perigord, anecdote of, 435.\\nTarleton, Colonel, 436.\\nTaylor, Rev. E. T. (Father), residence\\nof, 169.\\nTaylor s Insurance Office, 196.\\nTea Party, 72, 115, 120, 148, 149\\nmeeting, 229, 230, 231, 264 route\\nof, 271 arrival at Griffin s Wharf,\\n281 names of, 282 anecdotes of,\\n282, 283, 284.\\nTedesco, Fortunata, 368.\\nTemple, Sir John, 337, 349.\\nTemple, Robert, 215.\\nTemple Street, named, 350.\\nTerritory included in Boston, 14 en-\\nlargement of, 23.\\nThacher, James, 430.\\nThacher, Peter, 39, 123, 155 installa-\\ntion, 173.\\nTliaclier, Peter 0., 38 office, 402.\\nThacher, Samuel C, 38.\\nThatcher, Mary, 204.\\nThacher, Rev. Thomas, 227.\\nTha.\\\\ter, Adam W., 141.\\nThayer, Ephraim, 182.\\nTheatre Alley, 254. See Devon.shire\\nStreet.\\nThe Great Artillery. See Ancient and\\nHonorable Artillery, 137.\\nThirty-eighth British Regiment, 113,\\n116 arrival of, 170.\\nThomas and Andrews, bookstore of, 391\\nThomas, Isaiah, 79, 80, 98, 100, 107\\njirints Massachusetts Spy, 223\\nIjookstore, 223, 252 anecdote of,\\n413, 433.\\nThomas, Mr., body of, e.xhumed, 216.\\nThompson s Island, incident of pur-\\nchase, 431.\\nThorndike s Building, 287.\\nThorndike, Israel, 389.\\nThorne, Charles R., 259.\\nThornton, J. Wingate, 365.\\nThornton s Shipyard, 181.\\nThorwaldsen, 344.\\nThree Doves, 146, 147.\\nThree Nuns and a Comb, 146.\\nThree Sugar Loaves and Canister, 146.\\nTicknor, George, residence of, 353.\\nTicknor, Mrs., 364.\\nTicouderoga, removal of cannon from,\\n86, 87.\\nTileston, John, residence of, 218.\\nTileston Street, 174. 213 named, 218.\\nTileston, Thomas, 66.\\nTilley s Wharf, 180.\\nTingey, Commodore, 382.\\nTinville, Fouijnier, 436.\\nTipjiecanoe, battle of, 168.\\nTontine Crescent, 39 1)uilt, 254 de-\\nscription of, 255.\\nToplirt s Reailing Room, 269.\\nTopography of Boston, 7.\\nTout, Elizabeth, 206.\\nTower, Abraham, 222.\\nTown Bull, 129.\\nTown Cove, 7, 8, 115, 177.\\nTown Dock, 7, 8, 19, 102, 108; de-\\n.scription of, 126, 127 corn market\\nat, 141, 152, 389.\\nTowni House, 34 (Old State House),\\n58, 89 Pillory and Stocks in front\\nof, 92 Post-Office in, 104 burnt,\\n113 massacre, 126, 285, 399, 400.\\nTown Pump, location of, 84, 118 an\\nother in North Square, 159.\\nTown Records, 19.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0539.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "480\\nINDEX.\\nTown Watering-Place, 381.\\nTovviisend, Colonel I enn, 289.\\nTranscript, Boston, 267.\\nTrask, Isaac, innkeeper, 248.\\nTrask, Nal)by, 248.\\nTraveller Buikling. Sec t oluinhian\\nC entinel.\\nTraverse Street, Warren and Eagle\\nTiieatres in, 378.\\nTrefry, Widow, 26.\\nTrees, disappearance of, 4() planting\\nof, liy early settlers, 40t\u00c2\u00bb, 410.\\nTreniont Honse, 289 huilt, and anec-\\ndotes of, 290, 291 C onmion extends\\nto, 29(), 3.53.\\nTreniont Row, 47, 56 Choate s office\\nin, 82 Dr. Lloyd s in, 363.\\nTreniont Street, 9, 10, 35, 37, 38, 39,\\n41, 47, 48, 49, 63, 65, 68, 70, 72, 75\\nFaneuil s lionse in, 135 description\\nof, 2S9 Long Acre, 289 muster of\\nEarl Percy s brigade, 304 Mather\\nByles a resident of, 412 a part\\ncalled Nassau and Holyoke Sti eet,\\n412 opened to Roxbnry, 412.\\nTreniont Temple burnt, 292.\\nTreniont Theatre, history of, 291 cast\\nat opening, 292 managers, 292\\ndescription of, 293, 378.\\nTriangular Wareliouse, 130, 131.\\nTrimountain, 6, 17.\\nTrinity Church, 30 descii)ition and\\nhistory of, 386, 387 tieiieral Wasli-\\nington attends, 387, 416.\\nTrinity Church, New York, 227.\\nTriomiiliant, French sliij), 437.\\nTripoli, 171.\\nTrucks, long, 177.\\nTruckmen, 177.\\nTruman, John, 283.\\nTrunil)ull Gallery (Yale), 73.\\nTrundmll, Jonathan, 414.\\nTrumbull, t olonel John. (i9 studio in\\nBoston, 73 paintings 74, 269, 336\\ne.xjiloit of, 426.\\nTru.xton, Commodore Thomas, 182.\\nTucker, Joseph, rebuilds Christ Church\\nsteei)le, 214.\\nTucker, Commodore Samuel, residence\\nof, 220 exploits, 221.\\nTuckerman, H. T.,home of. 421.\\nTuckerman, Josc|iii, 38.\\nTudor, Freilerick, founds the ice trade,\\n304.\\nTudor, Deacon John, 175.\\nTudor, William (Judge), 82, 304.\\nTudor, Ma.hini, 175.\\nTudor, William. Jr.. 38 originates\\nNorth Anii iicaii Review, 304 ])ro-\\nposes a iiKiminifnt on Bunker Hill,\\n304.\\nTudor s Buildings, 82.\\nTun and Bacchus, 146.\\nTui)per, General Benjaiiiiii, exploit on\\nBoston Neck, 427.\\nTurell, Mr., 123 Captain, 161.\\nTurner, Rcibi-it, innkeeper, 122.\\nTuttle, Charles W., 272.\\nTwelfth Congregational hiirch, 64.\\nTwenty-third British Regiment, part\\nof, in Lexington expedition, 304.\\nTwenty-ninth British Regiment, 89\\n(punters, 121, 123 at the Massacre,\\n126 on the Common, 326.\\nTwickenham, 145.\\nTwo Palaverers. .Vcf Salutation Tav-\\nern, 176.\\nTyler, Royal, 269.\\nTyler, sculptor of London, England, 32.\\nTyng, Captain Edward, 179.\\nU.\\nUhlans, 436.\\nUmbrellas first usc(l in Boston, 116.\\nUnion Bank. 113.\\nUnion Cliurch, 148.\\nUnion L ollcgc, 262.\\nUnion Hill, 203.\\nUnion Street. 10, 126, 130; named,\\n145; widened, 147.\\nl^idted States Banic, tirst location,\\n92 directors of, 389 in 1824, 94\\nsketch of, 95 second location, 95\\nEagle from old Bank, 95 iron gates\\nof, 9 third location. W. 104, 295.\\nUnited States frigate, IM accident to,\\n183.\\nUnited States Hotel, located on South\\nCove, 411.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0540.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n481\\nUniver.salist Churcli, Sdioul Street, 63,\\n64.\\nUniversity Hall (Cambridge), 370.\\nUniversity of Utrecht, 10:3.\\nUpsliall, Nicholas, residence of, 157.\\nUrann, Tliomas, 282.\\nUring, Captain Nathaniel, account of\\nthe Neck, 419.\\nUrqhart, James, 383.\\nUrsiiluie Convent in Boston, 256.\\nUsher, Mr., Andros confined in liouse\\nof, 285.\\nV.\\nValley Acre, situation of, 365, 3C9.\\nValparaiso, Essex blockaded In, 171.\\nVan Buren, Martin, visits Boston, 139,\\n185, 192.\\nVane, Sir Henry, 50; executed, 51,\\n108, 109, 226.\\nVardy, Lidce, keeps Royal Exchange\\nTavern, 96.\\nVassall, Florentine, 31, 32.\\nVassal!, Jolin, 55.\\nVassall, Leonard, residence of, 389.\\nVassall, William, 31, 76 residence of,\\n389.\\nVaiidreuil, M. de, 61 fleet of, in F5os^\\nton, 437.\\nVaughan, Charles, 39; improves Frank-\\nlin Street, 254.\\nVergennes, Count de, 58.\\nVermont, shiii-of-the-line, 185.\\nVernon, Admiral Edward (Old Grog),\\n110.\\nVenion Street, 375.\\nVidal, Captain, 142.\\nVila, James, innkeeper, 105.\\nVine Street, built, 376.\\nViomenil, General, 356 entry into\\nBoston in 1782, 433, 434.\\nVirginia, ship-of-the-line, 185.\\nVyal, John, innkeeper, 174.\\nW.\\nWade, Edward, 26.\\nWadsworth, James, bounty for rats,\\n395.\\n21\\nWadsworth, Recompense, first master\\nof North Latin School, 218.\\nWakefield, Cyrus, 124.\\nWales, Prince of, in Boston, 371.\\nWalker, Admiral Sir H., 48.\\nWalker, Robert, 305.\\nWallach, Mr., 262.\\nWallcut, Mr., 39.\\nWaller, Edmund, 181.\\nWalley, Thomas, 196.\\nWalnut Street, 334 residents of, 337,\\n338.\\nWaltham Street, sea wall built to,\\n420.\\nWalter, Arthur M., 38.\\nWard, General Artemas, 69 com-\\nmands in Boston, 382 nJieved, 383,\\n432.\\nWardell, .lonatlian, 2. 70.\\nWards, division into, civil and military,\\n21.\\nWarren, John C, 38, 61, 247 resi-\\ndence of, 297, 311, 376.\\nWarren, Dr. John, liouse, (iO.\\nWarren, Josiijih, liirbhplace of, 60\\nresidence of, 6S manner of his\\ndeath, 69, 70, 124 portrait, 14(i,\\n148, 149, 176, 203, 211, 214 l)ullet\\nwhich killed him, 218 address in\\nOld Soutli, 228, 248, 269 cliaise of,\\n274, 283 remains jjlaced in Granary\\nGround, 297, 308, 311 a student of\\nmedicine, 363 Governor Eustis stud-\\nies with, 366 anecdote of, 423.\\nWarren Street, Roxburj 61.\\nWarren Theatre, 378.\\nWarren, William, 40 (/e//ii/. in Boston,\\n368.\\nWashington Artillery, 288.\\nWashington Bank, site of, 404.\\nWa.shington Gardens, old Masonic\\nTemple built on site of, 312 loca-\\ntion of, 312 history of, 313.\\nWashington, George, 31, 38 visit of, to\\nBoston, 42, 43, 4^4, 58 visits Boston,\\n1756, 62, m, 73 third visit, 91,124\\nportrait by Stuart, 141, 158; ay)-\\nl)roves buihling six frigates, 181\\nfirst monument to, 216, 220 de-\\nfeated, 244, 266, 279, 285, 310 stat-", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0541.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "48L\\nINDEX.\\nues of, 344, 345 oixlei s Boston at-\\ntacked, 3. 373 attfiids Brattle\\nStreet and Trinity in 17S9, 387\\nStuart s portrait of, 408 orders\\nlevelling of works on Neck, 42G\\nuniform of, 4 i;\u00c2\u00bb arms of, 431 en-\\ntry into Boston, 177ti, 43 2.\\nWashington Hall, site of, 43(1.\\nWashington House, site of, 429.\\nWashington Hotel. See Hall.\\nWashington IMarket, 42ti site of, 429.\\nWashington, Martha, 38.\\nWashington Monument, 278.\\nWashington Place, 2SS Gilljert Stu-\\nart s residence in, 407.\\nWashington Street, 20, 22, Sr (Corn-\\nhill, Marlborough, Ne\\\\vl)ury, Or-\\nange), 102; great lire of 1787, 41(3\\nnarrowness of, 419 named, 42(1\\ne.xtent of, 420.\\nWashington Tlieatre. See Garden, 313.\\nWashington Village, 23.\\nWasp, American slii]), 280.\\nWatcli-house on Beacon Hill, 334.\\nWater, supply of, 22, 23.\\nWater Street, 37 bridge at foot of,\\n109, 141 description of, 234 Brit-\\nish barrack in, 234 trees in, 409.\\nWatertown, 159.\\nWebb, John, 173, 174.\\nWebli, Mr., leaves legacy for Alms-\\nhouse, 300.\\nWeljster Buildin,-s, 4(3.\\nWebster, Daniel, 14 huv office, 44\\n.school, 45 anecdotes of, 45, 46, 47\\nfirst office, 79, 82, 124, 140 portrait\\nin Faneuil Hall, 140, 150. 279\\nstatue of, 344, 353 Lafayette visits,\\n3(35 anecdotes of, 3S2 receives\\nLafayette, 382 defends Towers,\\n424.\\nWebster, Edward, died, K!, 379.\\nWel)ster, Ezckiel, 45.\\nWebster, Fletcher, killed, 4(3.\\nWelister, Jolm White, residence of.\\n1(55 execution of, 375, 378.\\nWeljster, Redford, residence of, 105.\\nWeekly Rehear.sal, 234.\\nWelsh Fusileers at Bunker Hill, 20:\\n229, 285.\\nWells, S. A., 141.\\nWells, William, 38.\\nWellrteet, 49\\nWelsteed, lU v. William, 330.\\nWendell, .laroh. 42, (35, 115.\\nWendell, .lohn, 42.\\nWendell, (.)li\\\\er, (35, (5(5 residence of,\\n279.\\nWentworth, Mrs., 389.\\nWesley, John, 172.\\nWesleyan Association Building, site of\\nIndian Queen, 248.\\nWest, Benjannn, 38, 33(3 Stuart a\\npupil of, 408.\\nWest Church (Lynde Street), 72,234\\nwindnnll near, 3(39 historv of, 374,\\n41(3.\\nWest Boston, 10 windnull at, 199\\nPowder House at, 329 defence\\nof, 3G2 description of, 3(59, 370\\nstreets of, 370 town institutions at,\\n374.\\nWest Boston Bridge, 3(59.\\nWest End, 10.\\nWest Hill, moi-tar battery on, 325.\\nWest Newbury, Franklin s ])ress at,\\n80.\\nWest, Raphael, 408.\\nWest Row, location of, 371.\\nWest Ro.xljury, 23.\\nWest, Rev. Samuel, 415.\\nWest Street, 1(1, 93: linutof, the Mall,\\n306; llayniarket in, 313; Whi]iping-\\nPost and Pillory near, 313.\\nWestern Avenue (Mill Dam), 25.\\nWestminster Abbey, 32.\\nWetherle, Joshua, ajipointed nunt-\\nmastei 422.\\nWetmore, Judge, 403.\\nWetmoi c, William, 389.\\nWlialley, General Edward, 55.\\nWharton and Bowes, shop of, 85.\\nWheatley, John, 23:3.\\nWheatlev, Phillis, resi lence and sketch\\nof, 23:i.\\nWheeler, Benjamin, 66.\\nWheeler, David, 20.\\nWlieeler, Josiah, 2S2 builds Hollis\\nStreet (!hurch, 415.\\nWheeler, Mr., 322.", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0542.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n483\\nWlieeler s Point, 25 trees planted on,\\n409.\\nWheelwright s Wharf, British barracks\\non, 274, 284, 358.\\nWliidah (ship), 49.\\nWhig C hil 269.\\nWhipping-Post, location of, 92, 313.\\nWhi.ston.^Mr., 314, 315.\\nWliite Horse Tavern, site and sketch\\nof, 392, 393.\\nWhite, Marcy, 206.\\nWhite Plains, battle of, 87.\\nWhitebread Alley. See Harris Street.\\nWhitefield, Rev. George, 64, 102\\npreaches on the Common, 358.\\nWliiting, William, 74.\\nWhitman, Zachariali, 416.\\nWhitniore, W. H., 122.\\nWliitney, Colonel, 2S7.\\nWhittington, Richard, 131.\\nWhitwell, Willian), 387.\\nWilder, Marshall P., 365.\\nWildes, Epliraim, innkeeper, 154.\\nWilkes, John, .52, 269, 432.\\nWillard, Solomon, architect of United\\nStates Bank, 94, 310 sketch of, 311\\narchitect of Bunker Hill Monument,\\n312 discovers Bunker Hill Quarrv,\\n312, 337.\\nWilliam and Mary, 210.\\nWilliam III., charter of, 209, 237.\\nWilliams College, 120.\\nWilliams Court, 338.\\nWilliams John, 170.\\nWilliams, John, hanged, 424.\\nWilliams, John D., 420.\\nWilliams, John Foster, 211 died,\\n211, 264 street named for, 280.\\nWilliams Market, olil fortifications\\nnear, 424, 425.\\nWilliams, Major, 203.\\nWilliams Street named, 280. See Mat-\\nthews Street.\\nWilliamsburg, battle of, 168.\\nWillis s Lane. See Winter Street.\\nWilmington, Mass., 26.\\nWilson s Lane, 56 description of, 101.\\nWilson, John, 50, 91 estate of, 92,\\n212.\\nWiltshire Street. See Chamliers Street.\\nWindmill, old, 199 one at West Bos-\\nton, 199. See Windmill Point.\\nWindmill Hill. See Copp s Hill.\\nWindmill Point, 7 (Wheeler s) 25,\\n381.\\nWing s Lane (Elm Street), 102, 126,\\n145.\\nWinnisimmet, 14, 24 ferry, 68.\\nWinslow, Governor Edward, 40 his\\nchair, 347.\\nWinslow Blues, 137, 190.\\nWinslow, John, recognizes Warren s\\nbody, 69 store and residence of,\\n87.\\nWinter Hill, 203.\\nWinter Place, Samuel Adams s house\\nin, 308.\\nWinter Street, noted residents, 307\\nMrs. Dexter s, 307 Samuel Adams s,\\n308 called Blott s, Bannister s, and\\nWillis s Lane, 308.\\nWinthrop House, site, 318 burnt,\\n318.\\nWinthrop, John, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11\\nchosen selectman, 14, 19, 25 burial-\\nplace, 35 portrait, 40, 47, 50, 51\\nAnne Hutchinson on trial, 63 at-\\ntends First Church, 91 invites Lord\\nLey to his house, 109 journal, 130;\\norders ship built at Medford, 178\\ncompany, 202 residence, 225 house\\ndestroyed by British, 225 sketch\\nof, 225 death, 225 statue of, 226-\\n234 i)ortraits of, 346, 347\\nWinthroj), Judge, 39.\\nWinthrop s Marsh, 109.\\nWinthrop Place, 364.\\nWinthrop, Robert C, 57 birth]ilace,\\n254 residence of, 337 proposes\\nFranklin .statue, 337, 352.\\nWinthrop, sloop, 186.\\nWinthroji. Lieutenant-Governor Thom-\\nas L., 139, 190 residence of, 337\\nLafavette visits, 364\\nWirt, William, 82.\\nWoburn, 86.\\nWood, original growth of, 10.\\nWood, William, 6, 16.\\nWoodbridge, Benjamin, 96, 332.\\nWoodbury, Levi, 139, 185.", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0543.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "4S4\\nINDEX.\\nWoi im!msie s Wharf. 127.\\nWorcesT ?r py. ^v Massacinisen*;\\nSpy.\\nWolfe, Genera]. vivix sed monument\\n:o. 241. 2i4. o2^. -S27.\\nWorkhouse in P.^rk Sireei, \u00e2\u0080\u00a22ic3, 299,\\n300 occupied bv wounded, 3i 0.\\nWortley. Loid. \\\\isii* Boston. 341.\\nWnii^v;, Lieutenani, quariers of. 155.\\nWivn. Sir Christopher, epiiaph. 7p.\\nWriirhi, Colonel Isaac Hull. 379.\\nWyeth. Mr..2s3.\\nWyre, Robert, rvsideuoe of, 171.\\nYale College, 72.\\nYale, Governor Elihu, 73 epitaph, 73.\\nYork ^ToronIo^. Koyal Standard cap-\\ntured at. 1(.X\\nYorktown. Va., 10-3.\\nYoung. A. B.. 113. Younsr s Hotel,\\nYoimg. Dr. John. 176. 2^ 9. [S2.\\nYouni:. Thomas. 2^2.\\nTHE E V D", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0544.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0545.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2911", "width": "1848", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0546.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "HISTORIC MANSIONS AND\\nHIGHWAYS AROUND BOSTON\\nBEING A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF OLD\\nLANDMARKS AND HISTORIC FIELDS OF\\nMIDDLESEX WITH ADDITIONAL PICTURES\\nBy SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE\\nAuthor of Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of\\nBoston, New England Legends and Folk-Lore, etc.\\nWith twenty-one full-page plates, including pictures of\\nWashington s headquarters; General Putnam s head-\\nquarters Lowell s residence, Cambridge the Old Manse,\\nConcord; Christ Church, Cambridge Longfellow s Way-\\nside Inn. Also thirty-nine other illustrations and maps.\\nCrown 8vo. ^2.50.\\nThe author, with Iiis inexliaiistihie historic lore and his keen appreciation of every\\nItem, anecdote, relic, and place which belongs to the olden times, takes the reader by\\nhand, and, traversing old Middlesexshire, stops at every dwelling, hill, valley, river, or\\nport, and brings back the men and events of colonial and revolutionary times. IVaic/u\\ntnan ami Reflector.\\nIt gives with much detail the history of all the places about Boston that have been\\nmade memorable by noteworthy events or as the homes of prominent men. San Fran-\\ncisco Chronicle.\\nA precious volume. It is much more than a memorial of Boston and its vicinity;\\nit is a memorial of the old nation. It takes one back to the stirring times and issues of\\nAmerica s beginning, scenes made memorable by the lives of great men and the march\\nof great events. The Los Angele.s Herald\\nThe book is one to read and read again, and then dream over, and be enricheil.\\nThe Si. Paul Globe.\\nNEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FQLK=LORE\\nIn Prose and Poetry. With one hundred effective character\\nillustrations, from designs by Merrill and others. i2mo.\\n$2.00.\\nIt takes ui), in order, the legends of Boston, Cambridge, Lynn and\\nNahant, Salem, Marblehead, Cape Ann, Ipswich and Newbury, Hamp-\\nton and Portsmouth, York, Isles of .Shoals and Boon Island, Rhode\\nIsland, Connecticut, and Nantucket. All the old stories are reproduced\\nin telling form, and with apt quotations. Prose and poetry are com-\\nbined, so as to ]5resent a complete literary picture.\\nAll of the old favorites are before us: Motley s Solitary of the Shawmut, Whit-\\ntier s Old South Church, Holmes s Dorchester Giant. Longfellow s Paul\\nRevere s Ride, L. H- Sigourney s Charter Oak, and James T. Field s Nantucket\\nSkipper. We read of ISfistress Anne Hutchinson, the Quaker prophetess, the Duel on\\nthe Common the Washington Elm, Moll Pitcher, Endicott and the Red Cross, Giles\\nCorey the Wizard, Skipper Ireson s Ride, Capt. John Smith, Lord Timothy Dexter,\\nJonathan Moulton and the Devil, a Legend of Blackbeard, the Courtship of Miles\\nStandish, the Skeleton in Armor, and the Newport Tower.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Philadelphia Keystove-\\nLITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY\\nPublishers 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON", "height": "2921", "width": "1781", "jp2-path": "oldlandmarkshist00drake_0547.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC\\nPERSONAGES OF BOSTON\\nA NEW REVISED EDITION OF\\nOLD LANDMARKS OF BOSTON\\nBy SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE\\nAuthor of New England Legends, etc. New edition,\\nuniform with Historic Mansions and Highways Around\\nBoston. With ninety-three illustrations in the text and\\nnumerous full-page plates. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top.\\n$2.50.\\nI lie cordial reception given the autlior s Historic Mansions and\\nHijlnvays Aroinid Boston, issued in a new edition last year, justifies\\nthe publication of a revised and enlarged edition of his most popular\\nwoik on American history, Old Landmarks of IJoston.\\nMr. Drake has been for several years accumulating materials for a\\nthorough revision of the work. Besides numerous alterations in the\\nte.\\\\t, designed to keep pace with the march of improvement, the oppor-\\ntunity has been availed of for the introduction of new and interesting\\nmatter, as far as j^racticable. By no means the least important feature\\nof the new edition is the number of full-page illustrations, not found in\\nearlier editions, and which include a rare picture of Boston in 1830;\\nthe daring feat of Isaac Harris in saving the Old South from the flames;\\nBoston Common as a cow pasture, with the Great Elm C)ld Concert\\nHall, The Almack s of Boston State Street in 1S25, etc.\\nI am simply amazed at tlie extent and accuracy of its information. John G.\\nPalfrey.\\nVour )ld Jjandniarks of Boston is a perfect store-house of information.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHbnkv W. Longfellow.\\nLender Mr. Drake s toucli, details become interesting, old and forgotten scenes are\\npeopled with the personages of the olden time every corner becomes historic, and tlie\\ndead past lives again. Boston Globe.\\nAROUND THE HUB\\nA Boy s Book about Boston. Profusely illustrated. 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