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The forty years was subsequently extended to seventy, on account of building Cambridge bridge, and then the double toll was discontinued : we have been thus particular in these details, considering the work at that time a great underta- king and presuming it will interest the sons, by showing the enterprise, foresight and public spirit of the father's ; for that property has netted so large an income, that the shares have been sold at from 2500 to 3000 dollars each.
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This bridge became unproductive in 1828, on account of Warren toll-free bridge, and its draw was raised for a per- manency : In 1839 a violent storm drove the ship Colum- biana from her moorings in Charlestown, staving her through four ranges of its piers : in 1840, the Legislature of Massa- chusetts purchased the franchise and properties of the bridge at $30,000, and resolved that the two Bridges should be put in the best state of repair and a toll taken, to pay the cost of the old bridge, the repairs on both, with an. extra fund, the interest of which, will keep them in good order ; at this time both the Charlestown bridges are free of toll.
Cambridge bridge, built in 1793, and Cragie's bridge, built in 1809, have been purchased by a company for the purpose of making them free-toll bridges; by the year 1858 this great work will be accomplished ; their charters would expire in 1879, and their franchise then, revert to the State, for their legislation ; but the patriotic citizens of Boston and Cambridge, have contrived to make them free as public roads at an earlier date.
BALLOON ASCENSION.
Mr. Lewis A. Lauriat, says, that he has ascended in his Balloon 48 times from various places between the British Provinces and Mexico, and the highest altitude he ever at- tained, was at 24,500 feet, admeasured by the Barometer and Revolving Index: that being 3000 feet beyond the upper clouds : there the thermometer ranged from 12 to 15 degrees below freezing point, and at that elevation the air was so rarified as to cause the gass in the balloon to expand nearly a third more in capacity than it was on leaving the earth : and the difficulty of breathing was such as to cause three times respiration to one below :- his pulse before starting being at 70, rose to 110 a minute ; causing small blood-vessels to swell and strain for vent, producing great pain in the forehead ; at last, streams of blood from his nose gave relief to his head; still. owing to the extreme light-
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ness of the atmosphere a constant and her evaporation through the pores of his body created incessant thirst that . water would be constantly desirable.
On his ascension on June 17th, 1839, from Chelsea, the wind blowing strong from the west, carried his balloon with great rapidity down the harbor, and perceiving that he was going a greater distance than was desirable, he made many attempts by dragging on the plains and passing through trees near Point Shirley, in hopes they would bring him to an anchorage ; but he was finally blown off on the ocean and there dragged for an hour and a quarter, he holding on to the broken netting-work outside of the balloon, for a dis- tance of 30 miles, towards Cape Ann : there he was rescued from his perilous situation by Capt. John Pierce of Well- fleet, who took him on board his vessel : on doing this, the balloon being somewhat released, it escaped from out of the remaining net-work and went off on the wings of the wind with greater rapidity than a steam-engine, and was a total loss : it cost one thousand dollars.
MR. LAURIAT RESCUED BY CAPT. PIERCE.
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EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE, 1808.
The old Exchange Coffee House, covering 12,753 square feet of ground, was completed in 1808 ; the present building bearing that title, stands on part of the ground ; it was de- stroyed by fire Nov. 3, 1818; it was the most extensive establishment of the kind in the United States : the building was commenced for a wild speculation, based on the circu- lation of Farmers Exchange Bank bills, which had no actual capital, worth nothing, but through the influence of building and its concomitants, acquired an imaginary value : the house cost upwards of half a million of dollars, and unfortu- nately for every one concerned, the bills were so current as to permit it to be built with seven stories instead of four, as originally designed ; when on fire at its attic, it was beyond the reach of engine power, and as Benjamin Austin ex- pressed himself, on learning the result, " it was conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, but it is now purified by fire .??
The height to the top of the dome on the building, was about 100 feet, and the diameter of that dome was 100 feet and 10 inches : the house contained 210 rooms, with a din- ing room to seat 300 persons : the principal floor was intended for a public exchange, but it never was used for that pur- pose : it had a reading room ; an observatory, billiard rooms, bar, &c. &c.
The next morning after the fire, the whole isolated front wall on Congress street, 90 feet high and 80 wide, seemed tottering over the heads of the people; the opposite build- ings were only 28 feet from the wall, but in the course of that and the succeeding day, it was levelled without any damage to the buildings, or the thousands of spectators who Were witnesses to that sublime wreck of matter.
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DEVASTATION AND DESECRATION OF THE BOSTON CHURCHES.
By the occupation of Boston by the 10,000 British troops under Lord Howe, the communities of the churches were thrown into the greatest confusion. Five of their meeting- houses, viz. The Old South, used as a riding circus, Brattle St .; Hollis St .; and Lynde St. as barracks and Hospitals ; and the staving to pieces of the church in North Square for fuel, caused a grievous sensation and calamity to the whole people of Boston : The Old South was stripped of every arti- cle of wood work within its walls, save the eastern gallery, which they reserved for spectators to their sports, the pulpit sounding-board, and the flooring, on which they had levelled about two feet of dirt for the trampling of their horses.
All the pastors friendly to the rights of the Americans left the town during the siege but Dr. Mather and Dr. Andrew Eliot : the three Episcopal clergymen fled with Gen. Howe on the 17th of March, 1776, and Dr. Byles of Hollis St. church was dismissed for his predilection for the cause of royalty : Mr. Morehead's Church in Federal St. was vacant, and Mr. Croswell's (Christ's Church,) was untenantable dur- ing the cold or stormy season : and Dr. Eben. Pemberton, pastor of the New Brick (corner of Hanover and Richmond Sts.) died June 27, 1777.
The first movement in this sad state of the churches was an union of the society of the Old North, (which church was destroyed by the British) with the Society of the New Brick, under the title of the second church, June 27, 1779.
. The first movement of the people on their return to Boston was by taking down every emblem of Royalty; King's Arıns, Signs, &c., and with them in State Street they made a bonfire.
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BOSTON ALMS-HOUS:", 1860.
The Old Alms-house, Work-house and Bridewell with a Granary, occupied the whole length of Park street : the first proposal for an Alms-house on the Boston Records, was made in Nov. 1650 : and it is noted that in Feb. 1665, " a person was admitted :" The Granary was a long wooden building for storing 12,000 bushels of grain, to deal out to those who bought by small quantities, at an advance of 10 per cent on the cost : The Alms-house was two stories, built of brick in the form of an L, with a gable roof : the Work-house was also two brick stories for dissolute and vagrant persons : The Bridewell was a sort of a prison for the disorderly : a part of the building was for insane persons : the Alms-house was burnt down Dec. 18th, 1682, and re-built June, 1686 : the Work-house was built 1738.
The new Alms-house in Leverett street near the Lowell Depot, was erected in 1800 : 270 feet front length by 56 feet depth-of 4 stories : well built with brick : the basement was for workshops and three large kitchens : over those, were 48 rooms 24 by 22 feet : in the centre of the range was a Hall 40 by 50 feet, and over that a chapel of the same size, with large arched windows finished with fluted pilas- ters of the Ionic order : the front and rear yards were 80 by 280 feet : the inmates of this building were removed to the city lands and public establishment on South Boston Point in 1825, and the lot sold to private individuals.
The present imposing buildings of granite for a House of Correction, House of Industry, House for Juvenile offenders and House for Insane persons at South Boston have been erected at various dates, as required by the occasion; the two first in 1821 and others after that date, on the City lot of up- wards of 100 acres of land : the establishments there in all their separate compartments, enjoy a high reputation for their judicious management by competent and careful offi-
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* cers; the houses of Correction and Industry are cach 220 feet long, 43 feet wide and 29 feet high.
The County Jail in Leverett street, and House of Correc- tion connected with it, was finished in 1822; in 1823 the Old Jail on Court street was taken down and its materials partly used in constructing a Gun-house and Ward Room on Thacher street.
The Court House on School street, now CITY HALL Was built in 1810, it consists of an Octagon centre 55 feet wide, with two wings 26 by 40 feet each, and each having en- trances from the front and rear ; the length of the whole building is 140 feet; in it are Halls in the second story, for the Mayor and Aldermen; Common Council and rooms for the City Clerk, City Marshal, City Auditor and Superintendant of the city cemeteries, and on the lower floor offices of Pro- bate, Clerks of the Supreme and Court of Common Pleas Courts ; rooms for Judges and Law Library and for Grand . and Petit Juries : the cost of the building was $92,817,16, the lower floor is brick, laid in cement. The Registry of Deeds office is in the rear of the City IIall in a fire-proof building.
COURT HOUSE, COURT STREET.
Commenced building in 1831 and was completed in 1836, its size is 176 feet by 54, its height 57 feet, of 4 stories ; the front and rear entrances are ornamented with a portico and four granite fluted pillars; the story next above the basement is occupied by the Police and Justices Court and officers for clerks of those courts and of the Common Pleas and Supreme: with rooms above for jurors and Law Library belonging to the counsellors. The courts of Common Pleas, Municipal, Su- preme Judicial, United States District, and United States Circuit Court are held in this capacious edifice ; this building stands on the site of the Old Court House and Jail.
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CORNER OF N. BENNET AND
HANOVER STREET.
Samuel Mather was a son of the venerated Cotton Mather, and after the decease of the parent was settled in his place as colleague with Mr. Gee, at the old North : his union with this church continued nine years, when some dissatisfaction being expressed at his laxity on certain points of doctrine in his sermons, with some few other grounds of uneasiness, a division took place in the church : Mr. Mather applied for a dismission in Feb. 1744, which the church declined to give : the request was submitted to a council, by whose ad- vice they voted Oct. 23d, to dismiss him from his pastoral relations and allow him a year's salary : on the 21st of Dec., thirty of " the brethren "> with a parting blessing from the church, left that, for the formation of a new society, and on the 29th of June, 1742, sixty-three women left and united in worship at the corner of North Bennet and Hanover Sts.
Mr. M. was invested with the title of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard College in 1773. He continued pastor of the church until his decease, June 27, 1785, at the age of 79. His desires were to be privately buried and not to have any funeral encomiums from any quarter, and that those of his church who left their first pledge at the Old North, should return there and redeem it: most if not all of which de- sires were complied with : the building was then sold to a society gathering to worship in the faith of the Universalists, under the guidance of Mr. John Murray.
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A list of the CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS settled in Boston from 1630 to 1847 ; furnished by that respected Antiquarian Rev. JOHN PIERCE, D.D. of Brookline .- I. is for installed :-- O. ordained :- HI. U. Harvard Uni- versity :- Y. C. Yale College :- N. H. for Nassau Hall :- U. C. Union College :- W. C. Williams College.
NATIVE PLACE.
EDUCATED.
I. OR O.
OB.
AGE. MIN.
1 John Wilson,
Windsor, Eng.
England |1. 27 Aug. 1630job. 7 Aug. 1667,78
2 John Cotton,
Derby, Eng.
England
I. 17 Oct. 1633 ob .. 23 Dec.
1652|67
3 Jolin Mayo,
Stortford, Eng.
England
I. 23 July
1656|ob. 5 April,
1663 57
3 John Davenport,
Coventry, Eng.
England
I. 9 Dec.
166S ob. 15 Mar.
1670 73
6 James Allen,
Eng.
England I. 9 Dec.
1668|
ob. 22 Sept. 1710 78
7 Increase Mather, D.D.
Dorchester.
H.U.1656|0. 27 May
1669 ob. 23 Aug.
1723 85 51
S Thomas Thacher,
Sarım, Eng.
England I. 16 Feb.
1670!ob. 15 Oct.
1078:53:34
9 John Oxenbridge,
Daventry, Eng.
England I. 10 April 1670 ob. 28 Dec.
1678 ob. 12 Scp.
1707 6S
11 Cotton Mather, D.D.
Boston,
If. U.1678 0. 13 May
16S1 ob. 13 Feb.
172S
65 44
12 Benjamin Wadsworth.
Milton,
H.U.1690 0. 8 Sept.
1696 dis. 16 June 1725
13 Benjamin Colman, D.D.
Boston,
H.U.1692 0. 4 Aug.
1699 ob. 29 Aug. 1747 73 1S
14 Ebenezer Pemberton,
Boston,
H.U.1691|0. 28 Aug.
1700 ob. 13 Feb.
1717 15 16
1; Thomas Bridge,
Hackney, Eng.
England !I. 10 May
1705 ob. 26 Sept. 1715 58
16 Joseph Sewall, D.D.
Boston,
H.U.1707|0. 16 Sept. II.U.170810. 20 Oct.
1711 ob. 16 April, 1750163 35
17 John Webb,
Braintree,
II.U.1712.0. 23 May
1716lob. 13 Dec.
17 13:50125
12 Thomas Foxcroft,
Cambridge,
H.U.12110.20 Nov.
1717job. 16 June, 1760 73 52 1718/ob. 22 Oct. 1758 72 10
Sandwich, .
H.U.1707|0. 1 Oct.
21 Thomas Prince,
21 Samuel Checkley,
Boston,
II. U.1715 0. 22 Nov.
1719job. 1 Dec. 176.,73 50
Portsmouth, N.H.
II. U. 1717|0. 23 May
1722job. 20 Sept. 1727 31, 5
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1674 65
10 Samuel Willard,
Concord,
HLU.1659|I. 10 April
1713|ob. 27 June, 1769|80:56
15 William Cooper.
Boston,
22 Wilhain Waldron,
0. 9 Nov. 1655|dis.
1672
4 John Norton,
20 Peter Thacher, 24 Joshua Gec, 25 Charles Chauncy, D.D. 26 William Welsteed, 27 Samuel Mather, D.D. 29 Mather Byles, D.D. 29 Willam Hooper, 30 Ellis Gray,
31 Andrew Eliot, D.D.
32 Samuel Cooper, D.D. 35; Jonath'n Mayhew, D.D. 34 Samuel Checkley, jr. 35 Andrew Croswell,
Martha's Vineyard, Boston,
Charlestown,
G: Eben'r Pemberton, D.D. Boston,
5: Alexander Cuming, 3: Penuel Bowen, 9: Samuel Blair, D.D.
40 Simeon Howard, D.D. 41 John Lathrop, D.D.
Bridgewater, Norwich, Conn.
N. II.1760 1. 19 Nov. H.U.1755|0. 6 May, N.H.1763 0. 18 May, N.H.1765|I. 25 Sept.
1766 dis. 10 Oct. 1767 ob. 13 Aug. 1801 72|07 1768 ob. 4 Jan. 1816 77145
1771|dis. S Feb. 1771 ob. 20 Dec.
1775|83 1775|31
4 2
Dedham, Portsmouth, N.HI
H.U.1776 0. 25 Feb. H.U.1774 0. 8.July, N.H.1772 0. 27 Oct.
|H.U.1772 0. 3 Nov.
|H.U.1779|0. 2 Jan. II. U.17691. 12 Jan.
Milion,
H.U.1696|I. 28 Jan.
H.U.1717|0. 18 Dec. H.U.1721 0. 25 Oct.
H. U.1716 0. 27 March 172Slob. 29 Sep. H.U.1723 0. 21 June, H.U.1725 0. 20 Dec. Scotland. 0. May,
1723job. 1 March, 1739;61|31 1723 ob. 22 May, 174S 50 25 1727 ob. 10 Feb. 1787 82 59 1753|58|26 1732 ob. 27 June, 1785 79 53 1733 dis. 1776 82 1737 dis. 19 Nov. 1716 30
Boston, Boston,
H.U.1734 0. 27 Sept.
173S|ob. 17 Jan. 1742job. 13 Sep.
1753 37 14 1778|59|36
Doston,
H. U.1743|0. 22 May, H. U.1741|0. 17 June,
1746lob. 20 Dec. 1747 ob. S July
1783|55/35 1766|46|19
H.U.1743|0. Sept.
1747 ob. 19 Mar. 1768|11|21 173>job. 12 April, 1785|77 49
1777/72 51
N.J.
Woodstock, Conn.
H.U.1762 0. 30 April, 1766 dis. 9 May,
1772 1769
Northampton,
H.U.1761|0. 25 Sept.
V.C. 1765 0. 19 May,
1765 71 1773 |ob. 25 Aug. 1775|28 1778 dis.
1778 ob. 2 April, 1779 ob. 30 April, 181116132 1779|ob. 14 Feb. 1813 59 33 1752|dis. 26 May, 1792 50 1755lob. 16 Dec. 1S02151132
1795 13,20
17 Joseph Eckley, D.D. - John Eliot. D.D. 1. Oliver Everett,
Peter Thacher, D.D.
Doston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Scotland,
H.U.1737|0. 14 April
H.U.172S.I. 6 Oct. H.U.1721|I. 16 March, 1751|ob. 9 Sept. 1. 25 Feb.
1761 |ob. 25 Aug. 1763|37
42 John Bacon, 13 John Hunt. 4! Joseph Howe, 45 Ebenezer Wight, 1 Tobin Clarke, D.D.
London, Boston, Dedham,
BOSTON NOTIONS.
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218
51 Jeremy Belknap, D.D. | Boston, 52 Samuel West, D.D. 53 John T. Kirkland, D.D. 54 John S. Popkin, D.D. 55 William Emerson, 56 Wm. E. Channing, D.D. Newport, R.I. 57 Joseph S. Buckminster, Portsmouth, N.H.
Martha's Vineyard,
Herkimer, Co. N.Y. H.U.1789 0. 5 Feb. Boston, Concord, H. U.1792|0. 10 July, H. U. 1789 I. 16 Oct. H. U.1798/0. 1 June,
H.U.1762;I. 4 April, 1787job. 20 June 1798:51:31 H. U.1761 |[. 12 March 1789 ob. 10 April, 1805 70 44
1794 dis. Nov. 1810
1799 dis 28 Nov. 1802
1799job. 12 May, 1811 42|19
1803 job. 2 Oct. 1812 65,39 1812|28 7
1805 |ob. 9 June, 1806
53 Charles Lowell, D.D. 59 Joshua Huntington, 60 Horace Holley, 61 E. D Griffin. D.D. 62 Samuel C. Thacher, 63 John L. Abbott,
Boston, Andover,
V.C. 1790 [ 31 July, II. U.1804|0. 15 May, Il. U.1805|0. 14 July, H.U.1807|0. 8 Dec. II.U.18110. 9 Feb.
1811 job. 2 Jan. 181832; 7
1813 job. 17 Oct. 1814 31 1
61 Francis Parkman, D.D. Boston,
65 Edward Everett, L.L.D |Dorchester,
66 N. L.Frothingham.D.D. Boston,
Hingham,
H . U.1812 0. 1 Jan.
1817job. 22 Sept. 1813:49,27 1817 dis. 16 April, 1826
Greenfield, Conn.
V.C. 1803 0. 3 Sept.
1818 dis. 2 Fcb. 1831
70 F.W.P. Greenwood,D.D. Boston,
71 James Sabine, 72 John Pierpont,
Litchfield, Conn. Eng.
V.C. 1804 0. 14 April,
1819 dis. 4 May, 1845
73 Benjamin B. Wisner,
1821|ob. 9 Feb. . 1835
14
71 Samuel Green,
Phillipsburgh, N.Y. U.C. 1813 0. 21 Feb. Stoneham, Warren, Conn.
[H.U.1816 1. 27 March 1823 ob. 26 Nov. 1834 1824 |dis. 18 April, 1829 1824 WC. 1805;I. 28 April, II.U.1820,0. 30 June,
75 Prince Hawes,
76 Ezra Stiles Cannett, D.D. Cambridge,
Boston, New London, Conn. Salisbury, Conn.
II. U.1800 0. 30 Jan. II.U.1800|0. 1 Jan.
Y.C. 1804 0. 18 May, 1808 ob. 11 Sep. 1819 34 11 Y.C. 1803 [. 9 March, 1809 dis. 24 Aug. 1818 1811 dis. 1815
1813
1814 dis. 5 March 1815
I.U.1811 0. 15 March 1815
67 Henry Ware, jr. D.D. BS Sereno E. Dwight, 69 J G. Palfrey, D.D.LLD. Boston,
H.U.18150. 17 June, H.U.1814|0. 21 Oct. I. 27 Jan.
1818 ob. 2 Aug. 18-13 46,22
1819 dis. 20 Feb. 1822
BOSTON NOTIONS.
NATIVE PLACE.
EDUCATED.
I. OR O.
CHURCHES.
DISMISSED.
77 Alexander Young, D.D. Boston,
H. U.1820 0. 19 Jan.
1825 New South,
CS Samuel Barrett,
Wilton, N.H.
H.U.1518 O. 9 Feb.
1825 12th Cong. Ch.
79 Lyman Beecher, D.D. 80 William Jenks, D.D.
New Haven, Conn. Boston,
HI.U. 1797 I. 25 Oct. H.U. 1823 0. 8 Nov.
1826, Green Street, 1826 Purchase St.
$1 George Ripley,
Greenfield,
East Hampton, L.I. V.C. 1822 0. 27 Dec.
H.U. 1810;I. 31 Oct.
1 June, 1810
84 Joy H. Fairchild,
Guilford, Conn.
V.C. 1813 I. 22 Nov. W.C.1810|1, 1 Jan.
IS27 S. B. 1st. Ch. 1827 S. B. 2d. Ch. 182S Salem Street, 1828 Pine Street, 1828;Castle Street, 1529, Pine Street. 1829 Second Ch. 1830 Salem Street,
15 May 1812
SS John Brown, D.D.
Brooklyn, Conn. Boston,
Washington, D.C.
Y.C. 1823;I. 3 Nov.
1832 Pine Street,
26 Mar. 1834
(92 Hubbard Winslow, 93 Joel H. Linsley,
Cornwall, Vt.
H.U. 1829 0. 1 Dec.
Lynn, Salem, H.U, 1826 0. 26 Mar. Bedford, H, U. 1823 0. 16 April, 1834 Old South,
(ob.'15 July 1837
Utica, N.Y.
H.U. 1825,1. 18 June, W.C.1816|[. 10 Dec. 0. 2 Nov.
9 Oct. 1SJ0 26 Nov. 1539
99 Frederic Turell Gray, 100 Charles F. Barnard,
[101 Win. Matticks Rogers, Alderney, Eng.
1102 Daniel Miner Lord,
Lyme, Conn.
H.U. 1827 1. 6 Aug. IA.C. 1530;1. 11 Nov.
1834 Brattle St. 1834, Pine Street, 1834 Pitts Street, 1834 Warren St. 1835, Winter St. 1535 Mariners Ch.
26 Sept. 1832 28 Sept. 1815 1 April, 1841 31 Oct. 1830
182 Edward Beecher, D.D. IS3 Lemuel Capen,
Dorchester,
West Hampton,
Perquiman's Co.N.c. N. H. 1809 I. 10 April
H.U. 1521 I. 21 May, D.C. 1809 I. 4 March, H.U. 1821 0. 11 Mar.
16 Feb. 1831
28 Oct. 1832
'59 Ralph W. Emerson, 90 George W. Blagden, 91 Amos A. Phelps,
Farmington, Conn.
Williston, Vt.
V.C. 1826 1. 13 Sept. V.C. 1825 I. 26 Sept. M.C. 1811 I. 5 Dec.
1832 Bowdoin St. 1832 Park Street, 1833; Second Ch. 1831 Essex St.
,94 Chandler Robbins,
95 Nehemiah Adams,
196 Samuel H. Stearns, 97 Samuel K. Lothrop, 98 Artemas Boies,
Blanford, Boston, Boston,
HI.U. 1825 0. 2 Nov.
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2 June, 1842 20 Aug. 1829 27 Aug. 1828
S5 Justin Edwards, D.D. 56 T. II. Skinner, D.D. (87 Mellish I. Motte,
Charleston. S.C.
V.C. 1797 I. 22 March 1826 Hanover Ch.
1826;Park Street,
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:103 Charles Fitch, 101 George W. Blagden,
1105 Cyrus A. Bartol, 106 Silas Aiken,
107 Joseph H. Towne, Boston, Boston, :108 John T. Sargent, 109 William W. Newell, 1110 Amos A. Phelps, 1111 Robert C. Waterston, 112 Frederic T. Gray, Boston, |113 Charles C. Shackford, |Portsmouth, N.II.
Dover, Farmington, Conn. Boston,
I. 24 May, Y.C. 1823 1. 25 Sept. B.C. 1832 0. 1 March, 1837 West Church, D.C. 1835 [. 22 March, 1837 Park Street, Y.C. 1830 1. 2 June, H.U. 1827:0. 29 Oct. V.C. 1830 1. 19 July, T.C. 1826 1. 24 July, 0. 21 Nov. I. 26 Nov.
H.U. 1835 0. 19 May, D. C. 1837 O. S Sept. H.U. 18380. 9 Feb. N.H. 1820 1. 1 June, Y.C. 1826 1. 2 March, Penn.1837 0. 31 Mar. A.C. 1839 0. 19. Oct. H.U. 1838 0. 7 Dec. N.Y. 1839 0. 18 Jan. Y.C. 1827 I. 29 Feb. V.C. 1822 I. 13 March, 1844 Salem Street, 1844'South Boston, 1814 Green Street, 1815!Winter Street, 1846Alelodeon, 1816 Hollis Street, 1815 South Boston, 1845 Warren Street,
1836|Marlboro'Chapel.13 Sept. 1838 1826!0id South Ch.
1837;Salem Street, 1837 Suffolk Street,
29 Dec. 1844 1837 MaverickChurch. 21 July, 1841 1839 Marlboro Chapel, 29 May, 1510 1839;Pitts Street.
1839: Bulfinch Street, 1811|South Boston, 1511 Garden Street, 1812 Purchase Street. 1812 Mt. Vernon C. Ch. 1842 Maverick Church. 1812 Pine Street. 1812|S. Cong. Ch. 1842|New North Cy. 1813;South Boston. 1844 North Union Ch.
18.45
117 Amos A. Phelps.
118 Austin Phelps,
W. Brookfield,
119 Fred'k D. Huntington, Hadley,
120 Amos Smith, 121 Wm. W. Patton,
Boston,
N. Y. City, Boston,
122 Joseph H. Towne.
123 Edward Beecher, D.D. Easthampton, L.I.
124 George W. Lippitt,
125 Wilhat. R. Chapman, Bethel, Mc.
28 Sept. 184
126 George Richards, 127 Theodore Parker, (128 David Fosdick, jr. 129 Joy H. Fairchild, ¡130 Thomas B. Fox,
|Hampton, Conn. Washington, D.C. Portland, Me. Bedford, N.II.
Lexington, Charlestown, Guilford, Conn. Boston,
Providence, R.I. H.U. 1838 0. 9 May, D.C. 1837 1. 23 July, New London, Conn. Y.C. 1810 0. 8 Oct. I. 4 Jan. A.C. 1831 I. 3 March Y.C. 1813 I. 19 Nov. 11. U. 1828 I. 9 Nov.
220
May, 1843 23 July, 1811 1
[114 William R. Chapman. Bethel, Me. (115 James I. T. Coolidge, Boston, 116 Edward N. Kirk,
Albany, N.Y.
Farmington, Conn.
BOSTON NOTIONS.
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BOSTON NOTIONS.
STATISTICS OF TRAVEL.
In 1788, the intercourse with distant towns was limited to two stages from and to Bos. ton, and twelve horses on the rout to New Haven : the first stage started from Pease's Tavern, corner of Long Acre (Common) and Winter Street :- In 1799 Twenty Stages and 100 horses were employed, which the Direc- tory of that year exulted in, as evidence of great prosperity and increase of business : and in 1806 there were thirty five stages for passengers to distant places, all told .- At this time, 1817, there are 250 Stages and Omni- busses, with about 1500 horses employed, not- withstanding there are seven Rail Roads to different sections of the country, daily, and almost hourly, loaded down with passengers and goods.
Two lines of Stages to Cambridge have about 200 horses and 40 carriages; the old line, has paid in tolls, over Cambridge bridge, nearly $5,000 per year for some few of the past years.
'The account of the passengers over the rail roads was received from the superintentendents ; the other items were obtained or estimated by persons most competent to give the information. Some branches of other roads lately opened are not included.
MODE OF CONVEYANCE.
PASSENGERS CARRIED.
Yearly. Daily Average.
Providence Rail Road,
412.997 1,313
Worcester Rail Road,
887.6-6
1,233
Fitchburgh Rad Road,
169,669
512
Lowell Rail Road,
330,000 1.054
Maine Rail Road,
302,920 967
Eastern Rail Road,
651.403 2.0-1
Old Colony Rail Road,
213.141 1-2
Total by Rail Roads,
2.107,-21
Roxbury Oumibusses,
602 525
1,005
Cambridge Onmibusses
203. 150
(150)
Other Omnibusses,
150,500
500
Other Public Carriages,
125.200
Chelsea Ferry,
617.750
1.750
Private Vehicles,
2.100,000
6,709
Total by Carriages,
1021.950
Total of Passengers,
27.939
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