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The Pine Tree, Rattlesnake, and striped flag were used indis- criminately until July, 1777, when the blue union, with the stars, was added to the stripes, and the flag established by law. The private arms of Washington, bearing three stars in the upper portion, and three bars across the escutcheon, were thought to have had some connection with the flag, but this does not appear probable.
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" Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us ? With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us !"
The first troops to enter the town after the evacuation were five hundred men, under command of Colonel Ebenezer Learned, who unbarred and opened the gates of the British works. General Ward accompanied this detachment. They found the Neck thickly scattered with " crows'-feet " to impede their ad- vance. At the same time a detachment under General Putnam, with whom was Colonel John Stark, landed at the foot of the Common, and to the old wolf-hunter belongs the honor of first commanding in Boston as the successor of Sir William Howe. On the 20th the main army marched in, and on the 22d such of the inhabitants as had been separated from their friends during the ten months' siege thronged into the town. Putnam took possession of and garrisoned all the posts.
Washington himself entered Boston the day after the evacu- ation, but, as the small-pox prevailed in town, the army did not march in until the 20th, as stated. By Washington's order, works were thrown up on Fort Hill, and those defending from the country were demolished. The general remained ten days in Boston. He attended the meetings of the Legislature, and on the 28th, accompanied by the other general officers and their suites, marched in procession from the Council Chamber to the Old Brick Church, where appropriate services were held, after which a dinner was provided for the general and his officers at the Bunch of Grapes, in King Street. During his stay Wash- ington reviewed the Continental troops on the Common.
The first national medal voted by Congress was presented to General Washington for his successful conduct of the siege of Boston, by a resolution passed March 25, 1776. It was struck in Paris from a die by Duvivier.
Wilkes, in a speech delivered in Parliament on the evacua- tion, said : " All the military men of this country now confess that the retreat of General Howe from Boston was an absolute flight ; as much so, sir, as that of Mahomet from Mecca."
One other grand martial pageant of the Revolutionary period
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remains to be chronicled. This was the entry of Rochambeau's forces into Boston in December, 1782. The army was com- manded by the brave General Baron de Vioménil, Rochambeau having taken leave of his troops at Providence, returning with a part of his staff to France.
The French army was divided into four grand divisions, to which was added the field artillery. The second division was the first to arrive in the neighborhood of Boston, on the 4th, the first and third on the 5th, and the fourth on the 6th. The artillery did not arrive until the 18th. A few desertions oc- curred on the march, and the officers were obliged to exercise the greatest vigilance, as many of the poor fellows preferred remaining in the country to embarking for an unknown desti- nation.
Notwithstanding it was midwinter, the troops, before enter- ing the town on the 7th, changed their dress in the open air, and appeared in such splendid array as gave but little hint of their long, weary march from Yorktown. Their welcome was enthusiastic and heartfelt. At a town-meeting held Saturday, December 7, of which Samuel Adams was moderator, James Sullivan and Samuel Barret, with the selectmen, were appointed a committee to wait on General Vioménil with an address of welcome, to which the Baron returned a courteous reply.
What shall be said of the editorial and reportorial enterprise of that day? Beyond the brief notice we have given of the action in town-meeting, - and that appears as an advertisement, - there is not a single line referring to the entry in the columns of the Independent Chronicle, then published in Boston, nor any clew to a sojourn of seventeen days in the news department ; the other two papers dismiss the affair each with half a dozen lines. Such an event would now occupy the greater part of one of our mammoth journals ; not the smallest scrap of information would be too trivial, not a button would escape scrutiny. To the greater enterprise of Isaiah Thomas's Mas- sachusetts Spy, and particularly to its Boston correspondent, regular or special, who writes under date of December 12, 1782, we are indebted for the following : -
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" Last week arrived in town from the southward, in four divisions, the troops of our generous ally, the King of France. A finer corps of men never paraded the streets of Boston in the infamous adminis- trations of Bernard, Hutchinson, and Gage. The quiet, peaceable, and orderly behavior of these troops during their long march sufficiently contradicts the infamous falsehoods and misrepresentations usually imposed on the world by perfidious Britons, who have often led us to entertain an unfavorable opinion of the French troops. We are happily convinced that such a character belongs wholly and only to the troops employed by the Royal Despot of Britain."
The day was favorable, and the sunbeams danced and glit- tered on the bayonets of these veterans of two continents as they proudly marched over the Neck and through the modest streets of Old Boston. At their head rode Vioménil, who achieved such renown at Yorktown, and afterwards lost his life heroically defending his king at the attack on the Tuileries. At his side rode the Chevalier Alexander de Lameth, severely wounded at Yorktown, and afterwards a soldier of Napoleon ; the Marquis de Champcenetz ; Count Mathieu Dumas ; Alex- ander Berthier, afterwards the adjutant-general and confidant of Napoleon, but deserting him in the hour of adversity ; Lynch, the intrepid Englishman, who served in the ranks of France, and many others who gained renown in the wars into which that nation was shortly after plunged. The, offi- cers wore singular-looking, two-cornered cocked hats with the white cockade, the uniform being white broadcloth, with fa- cings of red, blue, or green, according to the corps to which they belonged ; the general alone wore a blue overdress faced with red. All the officers wore high military boots, were splendidly mounted, and their equipments and side-arms were elegant and costly.
A complete band of music accompanied the troops, whose martial strains were the first the Bostonians had heard since the evacuation by the British forces ; our own army yet marched to the music of the fife and drum.
After these marched the regiment Royal Deux-Ponts, the lar- gest in the army, in four battalions, with its colonel, Count
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Christian de Deux-Ponts, from whom the regiment took its name, at its head. Count Christian afterwards commanded the Bavarian corps at the battle of Hohenlinden with distinguished valor. Count William, second colonel of the same regiment, who was wounded in the assault on the redoubt at Yorktown, where he won the order of Saint Louis, was on his way to France with the news of Cornwallis's surrender. The dress of this regiment was white. The men wore cocked hats, with pompons instead of cockades, woollen epaulets, white cross- belts, from which was suspended a short hanger and cartouche- box, and spatterdashes ; the hair was worn en queue ; -- so far the description will apply to the whole army, the colors varied in all the regiments.
Next came the Soissonnais, with Count Segur, son of the Min- ister at War, and afterwards a peer of France, in their front. Segur was colonel en second of the regiment, but his senior, Count de Saint Maime, had come into Boston in advance of the army. Segur is also known as a historian, and author of his own memoirs.
The regiment Saint-Onge, in white and green, follows, with Colonel Count de Custines, who became a general, and the Prince de Broglie, second in command. Both fell under the axe of the guillotine during the French Revolution.
The Bourbonnais in black and red, the infantry of Lauzun, all with arms and accoutrements in complete order, crowned with the laurels of victory and bearing the white standard and golden lilies in their serried ranks, close the brilliant pro- cession.
An episode of this famous entry deserves mention. Young Talleyrand Périgord, brother of Prince Talleyrand, was on the staff of the Marquis Chastellux, who wished to take him back to France ; but the young warrior of eighteen was determined to remain with the army, and, having obtained a grenadier's uniform, marched in the ranks of the Soissonnais, with his haversack on his back and his gun on his shoulder. Talleyrand was well known to the superior officers, who pretended not to recognize him, and his warlike ardor became the town talk.
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He was christened Va-de-bon-cœur (go willingly), and was the subject of many attentions.
The cavalry of the Duke de Lauzun, which had crossed steel with Tarleton's famous troopers and held him at bay at Glouces- ter, Virginia, were left behind with Washington's army on the Hudson. They carried lances, and were styled Uhlans, -- a name rendered formidable by the Prussians in the late Franco-German war. The uniform of this famous corps was a blue hussar jacket, with high-crowned round hat. Their leader, the beau- ideal of a dashing cavalier, carried the news of the capitulation of Cornwallis to the king. When condemned afterwards by the tribunal of Fouquier Tinville, a moment before his ex- ecution he turned to those who were to suffer with him and said, " It is finished, gentlemen : I depart on the great journey." To the executioner he offered a glass of wine, saying, "Take it, you have need of courage to perform your duty."
The artillery, although it did not join in the display, must not be forgotten. This arm was attired in blue, faced with red, with white spatterdashes and red pompons. The men wore the short Roman sword, and carried their firelocks by the slings. The heavy artillery train remained with the American forces, to assist, if necessary, in the reduction of New York.
A great concourse of people came out to the Neck to welcome the gallant Frenchmen, and as the brilliant column moved along it was met with the liveliest demonstrations of joy and affection. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs from the windows, and the old streets echoed again with the plaudits of the people. Our readers will doubtless agree that, of the many pageants of which the Neck has been the theatre, none were so well worth witnessing as on the day when the superb host of our ally, Louis XVI., with closed ranks and firm tread passed into the town ; or that other day when,
" In their ragged regimentals, Stood the Old Continentals,"
with little of the pomp of war in their appearance, but with the light of victory in every countenance, as they marched in
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triumph through the abandoned works of the enemy, inaugu- rating by their valor and constancy the hope of a successful issue to the conflict just begun.
The stay of the French was improved by a round of reviews, balls, dinners, and receptions. The officers found quarters and genuine hospitality among the inhabitants, and the men were well cared for. Both officers and men parted with keen regret from the friends they had found, - a regret sincerely shared by the inhabitants. At a fire which occurred in the town the French displayed such good-will and gallantry in assisting to extinguish it that they were publicly thanked. On the 11th, Governor Hancock and the council gave one of their solemn feasts to the general and field officers, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, and principal officers of the fleet.
The fleet of the Marquis lay in the roads, consisting of the eighty gun-ships Le Triomphant, Le Couronne, and Le Duc de Bourgogne ; the seventy-fours L'Hercule, Le Souverain, Le Neptune, La Bourgogne, Northumberland, Le Bravo, Le Cit- oyen, and the two frigates L'Amazone and La Néréide.
At this time the squadron was joined by a most notable vol- unteer in John Paul Jones, who was, at his own solicitation, permitted to accompany M. de Vaudreuil. He was received with distinction by the Marquis on board his own vessel, Le Triomphant, and lodged with the Baron Vioménil. The des- tination of the squadron - a secret which was well kept - was Jamaica. On the 24th of December the fleet set sail from Boston for the rendezvous at Porto Cabello, which after nu- merous disasters it reached in February. While lying there, Paul Jones fell dangerously ill of the fever. Peace ensued before the fleet of D'Estaing, which was to co-operate, arrived from Cadiz. It will be remembered that Jones was compelled, by a resolution of Congress, to surrender the America, the building of which he had for sixteen months superintended, to M. de Vaudreuil, to replace Le Magnifique, which had belonged to the fleet of the Marquis.
The reader, who has patiently followed us in the attempt to reconstruct to some extent the Boston of our fathers, to rebuild
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in imagination their habitations, and to revive their venerable customs, may, in a measure, realize those changes which have swept over the ancient peninsula, and wellnigh totally effaced its landmarks ; and while he feels a just pride in that growth which is the expression of power, he may yet render due tribute to the solid traits and heroic deeds of those antique characters who laid the foundations deep and permanent on which have risen the Metropolis of New England.
INDEX.
INDEX.
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A.
Abbott, Colonel, 379.
Academy of Music, first established in Boston, 259.
Adams, Charles Francis, birthplace, 319; public services, 321 ; marries, 321.
Adams Express Company, 76, 80. Adams Hall. See Boylston Hall.
Adams House, site and name of, 392. Adams, John, 39, 60 ; incident of his nomination of Washington to com- mand the army, 73, 82, 89, 100 ; res- idence, 125, 126, 148, 181, 196, 201; sails for France, 221, 230 ; defends Preston, 249, 309 ; description of Hutchinson's Council, 347, 353, 355, 357 ; office, 402.
Adams, John Quincy, library of, 37, 39, 125, 201 ; residence, 319 ; sketch of, 319 ; incidents of mission to Russia, 320; Lafayette visits, 364; names frigate Brandywine, 382; office, 402; lays corner-stone of Boylston Market, 403, 404.
Adams, Laban, innkeeper, 392.
Adams, Samuel, 57, 69, 71 ; presides at Civic Feast, 110; proscribed, 125 ; portrait, 140, 149, 214, 220 ; at Tea Party Meeting, 229 ; resemblance to General Gage, 243, 248 ; opposed to theatres, 261 ; birthplace, 281 ; fire- ward, 295, 297 ; residence and sketch of, 308, 309 ; drafts State Constitu- tion, 309 ; Governor of Massachu- setts, 309 ; death, 309 ; anecdote of, 309 ; personal appearance, 309 ; de- scription of his birthplace, 309 ; lays
corner-stone of New State House, 344; bust of, 345, 348, 372, 401, 406, 433.
Adams, Samuel, senior, 380.
Adams School, 314.
Adams, Seth, printing-office, 253.
Adams Street (Kilby), 109.
Adams, W. T., 392.
Adelphi Theatre, 74.
Admiral Duff, ship, 211.
Admiral Vernon Tavern, 111; kept by, 112.
Adventure, Galley (Kidd's vessel), 78.
Advertiser Building, 79.
Albion, 56.
Alboni, Madame, 394.
Alden Court, 371.
Alcott, A. Bronson, school, 312.
Alcott, Louisa May, 312. Alert, sloop-of-war, 171.
Alexander, Emperor, traits of, 320.
Alexis, Grand Duke, in Boston, 371.
Allen, A. S., innkeeper, 392.
Allen, Rev. James, old stone resi- dence, 363.
Allen, Jeremiah, 261 ; residence, 363. Allen Street, 339, 370.
Allen, Wm. H., 197 ; W. H., 390. Allotment of lands, 14.
Allston, Washington, 38 ; studio, 276 ; picture of Belshazzar, 276 ; sketch and anecdotes of, 276, 277 ; death, 276 ; picture of Elijah, 367.
Almshouse, Old, 56 ; site and descrip- tion of, 299 ; erected, 299 ; removed, 300 ; management of, 300 ; occupied by wounded, 300, 352; at West End, 375 ; description of, 376.
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Amazone, French ship, 437.
Amblard, James, residence, 145.
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American Academy of Arts Sciences, 37, 38, 39. American Amphitheatre, 378.
American Coffee House, 41, 108.
American Congregational Association, 363.
American House, 68, 70.
America, ship, 180, 437.
America, seventy-four, built, 180.
American Works, location and descrip- tion of, 427, 428, 429.
Ames, Fisher, 82 ; funeral, 353, 403. Ames, Joseph, 141.
Ames Manufacturing Company, 58.
Ames, Richard, shot, 326.
Amherst, General Jeffrey, 240, 310 ; in Boston, 326.
Amory, Jonathan, residence, 171.
Amory, Rufus G., 390.
Amory, Thomas, builds Club House, corner Park and Beacon Streets, 352.
Amory, Thomas C., 196. Anabaptists, 15.
Ancient Arch, Lynn Street, 199, 200. Ancient and Honorable Artillery, 83 ; first commander of, 88 ; Governor Dummer, Captain of, 102 ; history of, 137, 138 ; rendezvous, 138 ; armory, 138, 157 ; at Governor Shir- ley's funeral, 267, 315, 331.
Andover, Mass., 26, 60. Andover Theological Seminary, 55. André, John, execution of, 100.
Andrew, John A., office, 83 ; statue of, 345.
Andrews, Benj., 250. Andrews, Ebenezer T., 253. Andrews, John, 307.
Andros, Lady Anne, burial-place of , 35 ; buried, 228; tomb of, 229 ; fu- neral, 390.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 15, 31, 35, 40, 148 ; takes possession of Old South, 228 ; house, 228 ; deposed, 285 ; reputed residence of, 228, 390, 391. Annapolis, Naval Museum at, 106. Anne, Queen, 33, 64.
Anne Street. See North Street, 127, 153.
Annual Register, British, 431.
Anthology Club, 37, 124 ; headquar- ters, 268 ; William Tudor, 304.
Antinomians, sect of, 63. Antiquarian Society, 237.
Appleton, General, 356.
Appleton, Samuel, 32.
Appollonio, Mr., 298.
Apthorp, Charles, 32, 386.
Apthorp, Charles W., 358.
Apthorp, Madam, house, 121.
Arbuthnot, Admiral, 221.
Arched passage-ways, 121; peculiar tenure of, 255. Arch Street, 39.
Area of Boston, 8.
Argus, brig, 181, 197.
Armstrong, Captain Samuel, 221.
Armstrong, John, Jr., 66.
Armstrong, Jonathan, Postmaster of Boston, 92.
Armstrong, S. T., 298 ; residence and bookstore, 338, 371.
Ashburton Place, 50 ; named, 140, 362 ; formerly Somerset Court, 363.
Ashburton treaty, 45.
Asia, British frigate, 217.
Asp, schooner, 221.
Aston, Thomas, 386.
Asylum for Indigent Boys, 209. Athenæum Block, 280.
Athenæum, Boston, 37, 38, 39 ; All- ston's pictures in, 276, 277, 280, 317 ; statues in, 344, 345.
Atkinson Street. See Congress. Atkinson, Theodore, 273.
Atlantic Avenue, 8, 115.
Auchmuty's Lane. See Essex Street. Auchmuty, Robert, senior, 402.
Auchmuty, Robert, younger, residence and sketch of, 402. Auchmuty, Sir Samuel, 402. Austin, Charles, killed, 114. Austin, Joseph, 168. Aurora, privateer, 171.
Avon Street, News Letter printed near, 82 ; projected by, 365 ; residents of, 392.
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Back Bay, improvement, 8, 333. Back Street, 7, 153, 219. See Salem. Bainbridge, William, 100, 186 ; action with the Java, 190, 191, 194, 355. Bainbridge, sloop-of-war, 185. Balch, Nathaniel, 314, 341 ; shop, 394. Baldwin, Loammi, 38, 152; Engineer of Dry Dock, Charlestown, 185 ; En- gineer of Mill Dam, 333.
Baldwin Place, 151 ; Second Baptist Church in, 226, 416.
Baldwin, Rev. Thomas, buried, 296. Ballard, innkeeper, 107.
Ballard, John, 294.
Ballou, Rev. Hosea, 64.
Bancroft, George, 166 ; residence, 385. Banks, Commodore, 116.
Banks, Nathaniel P., 341.
Banner, Peter, architect of Park Street Church, 301.
Bannister's Lane. See Winter Street. Baptist Bethel, 416.
Barber, Nathaniel, 269.
Barbour, Major, 357.
Bardin, Edward, innkeeper, 428.
Baring, Alexander, in Boston, 140.
Barker, James, innkeeper, 105.
Barker, Josiah, 185, 193.
Barlow, Joel, 193. Barnard, Benjamin, 66.
Barnstable, 44.
Barré, Colonel Isaac, portrait, 140, 269, 407.
Barrell, Joseph, estate of, 254 ; pioneer in Northwest Coast trade, 254 ; sketch of, 389 ; store, 389.
Barret, Samuel, 433.
Barrett, George, 292.
Barrett, Mrs. George, 40; début in Boston, 318.
Barrett, George L., 256, 318.
Barricado, The, 8, 114 ; description of, 115, 284. Barrister's Hall built, 317. Barry, Commodore John, 182. Barry, Mr., 292. Bartol, Rev. C. A., 374. Barton, Mr., 273.
Barton's Point, 24 ; ropewalks at, 273, 369 ; works to be assaulted, 359 ; copper-works and intrenchments at, 369.
Barton Street, 375.
Bass, Henry, residence of, 283, 406. Bates, Joshua, notice of, 324.
Bath Street, 269.
Batterymarch Street, 106 ; old water front, 110 ; shipyards on, 112 ; filled in, 288.
Batterymarch, The, 286.
Battery Street (Alley), 176.
Battery Wharf, 116, 168, 177.
Battle of Lexington, relics of, in State House, 347.
Baudoin. See Bowdoin.
Baylies, Hon. W., 39.
Beach Street, 7, 404; great fire in, 416 ; Neck begins at, 418.
Beach Street Market, 404.
Beacon Hill, 3, 6, 7, 10, 17, 47, 52, 54 ; material used to fill Mill Pond, 152; called Centry Hill, 299 ; guns cap- tured on, 327 ; British works on, 328 ; camp of the Light Horse, 329 ; ropewalks on, 329 ; monument on, 345, 352 ; summit of, 349; to be assaulted, 359, 365.
Beacon Street, 4, 37, 53, 56 ; Almis- house in, 299; town property on sold, 300 ; high bluff at foot of, 325 ; British works on, 328 ; named, 333 ; aspect of, in 1775, 333 ; residents of, 333, 360 ; considered out of town, 338 ; terminus of, in 1722, 352.
Beacon, The, 17 ; description and his- tory of, 349, 352.
Bean, Mary, keeps the Admiral Ver- non, 112.
Beaver, tea ship, 282. Bedford Place, 390.
Bedford Street, 102, 230 ; called Pond Lane, 381 ; Blind Lane a part of, 381, 390.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 147. Beecher, Laban S., 194. Beecher, Lyman, 147. Beecher's (Lyman) Church, site of, 147.
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Beer, William, 206. Beer Lane, 155.
Belcher, Andrew, residence of, 101 ; warehouse, 102.
Belcher, Governor Jonathan, 40, 67 ; residence of, 102 ; portrait of, 347 ; gives land for Hollis Street Church, 414.
Belcher (and Armstrong), 338.
Belcher's Lane. See Purchase Street, 281.
Belknap's Alley (Brattle Street), 71.
Belknap, Jeremy, 239, 263 ; buried, 296 ; residence of, 381.
; Belknap Street, 329 ; ropewalk on, 352 ; named, 370.
Bell Alley, 162. See Prince Street. Bellamy, Samuel, 49.
Belle Poule, frigate, 139.
Bellingham, Governor Richard, resi- dence of, 51, 53, 54, 56, 58, 91 ; tomb of, 296.
Bellomont, Earl of, 77 ; house of, 391. Bennet, David. See Spencer Phipps.
Bennet Street, 153, 213.
Bent, Ann, shop of, 391.
Bentley, Joshua, 66.
Bentley, Samuel, 184.
Bentley, Rev. William, anecdote of, 187, 188.
Berkeley, George (Bishop), 72.
Berkeley Street, 385.
Bernard, Governor Francis, admits
British troops to Faneuil Hall, 89, 236 ; reception, 241 ; proclaims last crowned head in colony, 241 ; coun- try residence, 242 ; effects stolen, 242, 247, 303 ; town residence, 307, 313, 348, 352 ; account of Liberty Tree, 398, 399.
Berry Street. See Channing.
Berry Street Academy, 262.
Berry, Grace, 205, 207.
Berthier, Alexander, in Boston, 433. Bethel Church, site of, 168.
Bethune's Corner, 390. Black, Rev. William, 172.
Black Horse Lane. See Prince Street. Black Horse Tavern, 219.
Blackstone, Sir William, 4, 47.
Blackstone, William, his settlement, 2, 3 ; house, 3, 10; orchard, 3; claim to the Peninsula, 4 ; marries, dies, 5 ; lot, 28 ; Common purchased from, 305 ; reserved six acres, 334. Blackstone's Point, 3.
Blackstone's Spring, 3, 4.
Blackstone Square, 6.
Blackstone Street, 6, 7, 68, 127 ; built in channel of Mill Creek, 132; named, 152.
Blagden, Rev. G. W., settled in Salem Street Church, 220 ; resigns pastor- ate of Old South, 220.
Blake (and Alden), 130.
Blake, W. R., 291.
Bland, Mr., 74.
Bible and Heart, 234.
Bigelow, Colonel, 269.
Billings, Hammatt, 38.
Birthplace of Franklin, 251 ; burnt, 252.
Biscaccianti, Eliza, 291.
Bishop's Alley, 253. See Hawley
Street.
Bishop, Madam Anna, 368.
Bishop, Nathaniel, innkeeper, 248, 253.
Bishop-Stoke Street, 52.
Blessing of the Bay, first ship built in vicinity of Boston, 178.
Blew Anchor, 121, 122.
Blind Lane. See Bedford Street.
Bloody Monday, 114.
Blossom Street built, 376.
Blott's Lane. See Winter Street.
Blowers, Sampson Salter, office, 402. Blue Anchor Tavern, location of, 121.
Blue Ball, The, 146 ; description of, 147, 162.
Blue Bell and Indian Queen, site and sketch of, 248; another in Brom- field's Lane, 248, 253, 275.
Boarded Alley, or Board Alley, 155, 253 ; theatre in, 261. See Hawley Street.
Boardman, Rev. Mr., 172.
Bolter, Thomas, 282. Bolton, Dr., British surgeon, 108. Bonaparte, Jerome, anecdote of, 139.
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Bookseller's Row, 338.
Book of Possessions, 19, 88.
Boot, Kirk, 196 ; mansion of, 371. Booth, Junius Brutus, 40, 41, 394 ; manager of Tremont Theatre, 292. Borland's Wharf, 127.
Boston, a village, 2.
Boston Bay, 2.
Boston Chronicle, 107.
Boston, England, 6.
Boston Evening Post, office of, 234.
Boston, frigate, built, 181, 195 ; his- tory of, 196, 197 ; Old Boston, frigate, 221.
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