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Boston Gazette, 391.
Boston Jail, 65 (Old Prison), 76, 77, 78 ; New Jail, 78; burnt, 78; County, 78; Debtor's, 78 ; keys of Old Prison, 78 ; Leverett Street, 78 ; description of, 374 ; removed to Charles Street, 375.
Boston Library, incorporated and located, 255.
Boston Light Dragoons escort Lafay- ette, 356.
Boston Light Infantry, 190, 262.
Boston Massacre, Knox's relation of, 85, 89; burial of victims, 297 ; no monument to, 298.
Boston Pier (Long Wharf), 114. Boston Port Bill, 68.
Boston Regiment, The, 21, 65, 210 ; at Governor Shirley's funeral, 267 ; detachment guard tea ships, 281 ; receives Lafayette, 355, 398.
Boston Stone, 143 ; history of, 144, 145. Boston Theatre, 254 ; opened, 256 ; Edmund Kean's first appearance at, 257; second appearance, and riot, 258 ; Mrs. Rowson, 258; Macready, 259 ; John Howard Paine, 259 ; La- fayette at, 259, 364 ; architect and description of, 259, 260; cast on opening night, 260.
Boston and Worcester Railroad, Com- pany purchases depot grounds in South Cove, 411 ; first equipment of, 411. Botta, 348. Bougainville visits Boston, 341.
Bourbonnais (French regiment), 435. Bourgogne, Duc de, French ship, 437 .. Bourne, Garrett, his lot, 404.
Boutineau, James, residence of, 253. Bowditch, Nathaniel, 39; statue of, 344 ; residence of, 384.
Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll, 384. Bowdoin Block, 253.
Bowdoin College, James Bowdoin a patron, 253.
Bowdoin, Governor James, 39, 57, 124, 233, 248 ; first President of Massachusetts Bank, 303, 337, 349 ; residence of, 361; sketch of, 361, 362, 387 ; widow of, 106.
Bowdoin, James, Jr., residence of, 253.
Bowdoin Square, 369 ; changes in, 370 ; trees in, 409.
Bowdoin Square Church, site of, 371. Bowdoin Street, named, 352; called Middlecott, 352.
Bowdoin Street Church, 147.
Bowen, Mr., 41.
Bowers, John, 52.
Bowling Green, 369. Square.
See Bowdoin
Bownd, James, residence of, 223.
Boyd, General John P., residence of, 168 ; commands Fort Independence, 280.
Boyden, Simeon, innkeeper, 248. Boylston's Alley, 121.
Boylston Hall, Museum in, 42 ; vari- ous occupants of, 403, 404.
Boylston Market, 130, 354, 398 ; his- tory of, 403.
Boylston Place, Boston Library in, 254.
Boylston Street, 305 ; called Frog Lane, 319 ; Duck Factory in, 322 ; British works in, 328.
Boylston, Thomas, 288.
Boylston, Ward Nicholas, 288, 403.
Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, introduces in- oculation, 103, 403. Boyne, British frigate, 217.
Brackett, Anthony, innkeeper, 61.
Brackett, Joshua, 61.
Brackett, Richard, 234.
Braddock, General Edward, 62.
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Bradstreet, Governor, portraits of, 346, British Society, 31. 347.
Braintree, 29.
Brandywine, frigate, named, 382.
Brattle Square, a place d'armes, 121, 126 ; headquarters for stages, 126. Brattle Street, 42; opened to Court,
71, 72, 74 ; barracks in, 121, 127 ; market in, 130.
Brattle Street Church, 49, 68 ; parson- age, 76 ; ruins of, 122 ; history of, 122, 123, 124, 147, 234; Lafayette attends, 355 ; Washington attends, 387, 416.
Brattle, Thomas, 31.
Bravo, French ship, 437.
Bray's Wharf, 129.
Brasier Inn, 141.
Brazen Head, 146, 272.
Brazer's Building, 91, 92.
Breed's Hill, 24, 116.
Brenton, Captain William, Collector of Boston, 210.
Brewer, Gardner, 147.
Brewer, James, 282.
Brickyards on the Neck, 422.
Bridewell, site of, 299 ; at West Bos- ton, 376.
Bridge, Thomas W., 35.
Bridge Lane (Richmond Street), 155. Bridge Street, built, 376.
Bridges, Cambridge, 24 ; Charles Riv- er, 24, 180 ; West Boston, 24; Do- ver Street, 24 ; Craigie's, 24; Lech- mere's Point, 25 ; Western Avenue, 25, 332, 333; South Boston, 25 ; Boston South Bridge, 24 ; Canal, 24. Bridgham's Wharf, 127.
Bridgman, Thomas, 205, 207.
Brigham, Peter B., 71.
Brighton Street, called Copper, 369. Brimmer, Martin, anecdote of, 368.
Brimstone Corner, 301. Brissot, De, in Boston, 341. Britannia, steamship, 290.
British Coffee House, 60 ; location of, 107 ; James Otis assaulted in, 108 ; theatricals in, 260.
British Light Horse, stables and camp, 229.
British Stamps (Stamp Act), 80 ; speci- mens of, 81 ; burnt, 90 ; riots, 110.
Broad Street, 109 ; built, 110 ; riot in, 111.
Brock, General, 410.
Bromfield, Edward, residence of, 294, 362.
Bromfield House, 248. See Indian Queen tavern, 294.
Bromfield, John, 38.
Bromfield's Lane, 41. See Street.
Bromfield Street, 10, 227 ; named, 294.
Bromfield Street Church, 416.
Brooker, William, Postmaster of Bos- ton, 79 ; publishes Boston Gazette, 79, 104.
Brookline, 14, 418.
Brooks, Edward, 147.
Brooks, Governor John, sword of, 40, 43 ; at Bunker Hill, 86, 100, 355, 361 ; anecdote of, 367.
Brooks, Peter C., 321.
Brougham, John, 74.
Brougham, Mrs., 74.
Brougham, Lord, 53.
Brown, Charity, 206.
Brown, Deacon, 425.
Brown, Elisha, prevents occupation of Factory House by troops, 303.
Brown, Gawen, 234.
Brown, Mr., house and barns of, 427 ; British outpost, 427 ; destroyed, 427.
Brown, William, 49.
Bruce, Captain James, 282.
Bryant, Gridley J. F., 58. See United States Bank, 94.
Bryant, W. C., 290.
Buckingham, Joseph T., 403.
Buckminster, Joseph S., 38, 123, 124. Bucks of America, 40.
Building stone, curious statement about, 422.
Bulfinch, Charles, 39 ; Franklin Street
improvement, 75, 213, 248, 254 ; architect of Boston Theatre, 259 ; of Federal Street Church, 264, 311 ; of new State House, 343 ; Beacon Hill Monument, 350; sketch of,
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369, 370 ; designs new South Church, | Butler, Pierce, 121. 380 ; Hollis Street Church, 415. Bulfinch Street. See Valley Acre, 370.
Bulfinch Street Church, 416.
Bulfinch, Thomas, residence of, 369.
Bull's Head, the home of G. R. T. Hewes, 269. Bull Run, 46. Bull Tavern, site of, 380.
Bumstead Place, residence of Adino Paddock, 294, 295.
Bunch of Grapes Tavern, location of, 105, 107 ; Washington at, 432. Bunker Hill, Battle of, 60, 65, 69, 70 ; Knox at, 85, 87 ; General Dearborn at, 106; troops embark for, 113, 177 ; reminiscences of, 202, 216; General Howe's address to his troops, 245 ; burial-place of soldiers, 323 ; Lafayette's visit to, 355.
Bunker Hill Monument, Webster's oration at, 45 ; brass guns in, 72, 112, 120, 278, 315; architect of, 312 ; corner-stone laid, 346, 392. Bunker Hill Monument Association, 352.
Bunker Hill Quarry discovered, 312. Burgoyne, General John, 125, 127, 203, 204, 207 ; his regiment occupies Old South, 231 ; anecdotes of, 231, 232; at council, 243, 245; author of plays, 260, 310 ; capitulation of, 324 ; occupies Bowdoin's house, 362, 426, 427.
Burnet, Gilbert (Bishop), 237.
Burnet, William, 31; residence of, 65, 105, 236 ; born, 237 ; died, 237, 246, 247 ; portrait of, 346.
Burns, Anthony, remanded to slavery, 113.
Burr, Aaron, 296. Burritt, Elihu, 293. Bury Street. See Channing, 263.
Bussey, Benjamin, residence of, 254, 416.
Bute, Lord, hung in effigy, 399.
Butler, Peter, warehouse and wharf, 112. Butler's Row, 112, 129.
Buttrick, John, 345. Buttolph Street, 370.
Byles, Mather, 29, 64, 67 ; anecdotes of, 85, 210 ; birthplace, 218, 219, 238 ; residence and sketch of, 412 ; death, 413 ; anecdotes of, 413, 414. Byles, Mather, Jr., 216.
Byng, Admiral, effigy of, 150.
Byron, Lord, 193.
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Cabot, George, residence of, 295; sketch of, 295, 296.
Cabot, Edward C., 38.
Calico printing in Boston, 322.
Cambridge, 86.
Cambridge Bay (Back Bay), 414.
Cambridge Bridge, 325.
Cambridge Commencement, 16.
Cambridge Street, extent of, 369.
Campbell, John, Postmaster of Bos-
ton, publishes News Letter, 82, 104, Campbell, Nicholas, 282.
Campbell, William, innkeeper, 176.
Camp, Fredericksburg, 66.
Caner, Rev. Henry, 29, 32, 35, 267.
Canton, Mass., Revere's copper works at, 120.
Canton Street, British works near, 426.
Cape Cod, 49, 203.
Cape Cod Row, 316.
Capen, Nahum, Postmaster of Bos- ton, 385.
Carleton, Sir Guy, 406.
Carroll, Bishop, 256.
Carr, Sir Robert, insolent reply to Governor Leverett, 174.
Carter, Master James, 57, 75; resi- dence of, 76.
Carter, Mrs., boarding-house of, 353.
Cartwright, Colonel George, 174.
Carver, Governor John, sword of, 40.
Carver Street, British works near, 328.
Cass, Lewis, 139, 185, 192.
Castle, The, 24, 115 ; troops removed to, 121, 170 ; French prisoners at,
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197 ; view of Boston from, 241 ; tea | Charlestown, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; slaves consignees at, 334 ; surgeon, 363; shipped to, 13; Ferry, 24, 25; Portsmouth stage, 26, 57, 65 ; at- tack on, 117. stamps sent to, 399 ; fortified, 424. Cathedral (new), 420, 421.
Cathedral Buildings, site of Cathedral of Holy Cross, 255.
Caucus, North End, rendezvous and origin of the name, 176.
Causeway (Mill Pond), 7, 150 ; origin of, 151.
Causeway Street, 7, 150.
Cazneau, Mr., residence of, 402.
Centinel Hill, 370.
Central House, 121.
Central Wharf, arch on, 111, 115.
Centre Street, 37, 153, 154.
Centre Writing School, 57, 75 ; anec- dote of, 304.
Centry Hill, 56. See Beacon Hill.
Centry Street named, 299. See Park Street.
Chambers Street, 370.
Champney, John, 66.
Champcenetz, Marquis, 433.
Change Avenue (see Pillory), 93; United States Custom House on corner of, 105.
Channing Street, John H. Payne's residence in, 262 ; named, 263.
Channing, Rev. W. E., 263, 264.
Chantrey, Sir F., statue of Washing- ton, 345.
Chapin, Rev. E. H., 64.
Chapman, Captain, 229.
Chapman Hall, 65.
Chapman, Jonathan, 140.
Chapman Place, 65.
Chappotin, Leon, public-house of, 384 ; entertains Jerome Bonaparte, 384. Chardon, Peter, residence of, 371.
Chardon Street, school-house in, 371. Charles I., 10, 11, 50, 55.
Charles II., 33, 34, 51, 53, 83, 174.
Charles River, 2, 3, 17 ; commanded by North Battery, 177, 203.
Charles Street, 4 ; ropewalks near, 324 ; opened, 324, 325; sea-wall built, 325, 333, 370 ; trees removed from, 409.
Charleston, S. C., 103.
Charlestown Bridge, 5, 7.
Charlestown Company, 5, 10.
Charlestown Ferry, 5, 125.
Charlestown Navy Yard, 182, 183, 186, 194, 195, 322, 327 ; Lafayette's visit to, 355.
Charlestown Neck, 25, 181; retreat over, 203, 207, 243.
Charter Street, named, 209 ; residents of, 211.
Chase, Major-General, 355.
Chase, Thomas, 282.
Chastellux, Marquis, 19, 24, 61, 85, 362, 435.
Chatham Street, 112.
Chauncey, Commodore Isaac, 186.
Chauncy Place named, 381, 382.
Chauncy Street, First Church removed to, 84.
Checkley, Rev. Samuel, 380.
Cheever, Ezekiel, 57.
Chelsea, 14, 24.
Cherub, frigate, 171.
Cheverus, Bishop, 255 ; anecdote of, 256.
Chicopee, 58.
Child, Lydia M., 167, 168.
Choate, Rufus, office, 82 ; anecdotes of, 83, 219 ; portrait of, 141.
Christ Church, 163, 200 ; history and description of, 213, 214, 215, 216; legends of, 216, 217 ; second Epis- copal church, 213 ; steeple blown down, 213 ; chimes, 214, 215, 386, 414.
Church, Colonel Benjamin, sword of, 40, 48.
Church, Dr. Benjamin, 120, 149 ; on the Boston clergy, 161, 229 ; treason discovered, 243 ; residence of, 243, 269, 392, 414.
Church Green named, 380. Church pews, introduction of, 416. Church Square, 84. Circulating Library, First, 106. Citoyen, French ship, 437.
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City Exchange, 99.
City Hall, 7 ; history of, 58, 59 ; Old State House used as, 89.
City Market, 130.
City Tavern, 121.
Civic Feast held in Boston, 110.
Claghorn, Colonel George, 182, 183.
Clapboard Street. See Joy Street.
Clapp, William W., 403.
Clark, Rev. Jonas, 214.
Clark, Captain Timo, 284.
Clark's shipyard, site of, 174, 178.
Clark's Square. See North Square. Clark Street, 19.
Clark's Wharf, 170. See Hancock's.
Clark, William, residence of, 163.
Clarke, Benjamin, 283.
Clarke, John, 55, 363.
Clarke, Richard, store and residence of, 334. Samuel, 59.
Clay, Henry, 193 ; at Tremont House, 290.
Clifton Place, American works near, 428.
Clinton, Sir H., 90, 103 ; arrived in Boston, 125, 127, 207; at council of war, 243 ; relieves Howe, 244, 245, 285, 310 ; occupies Hancock's House, 362.
Clinton Street, Triangular Warehouse in, 131.
Club House, Park Street, builder, 352; Lafayette resides in, 352; Christopher Gore, Samuel Dexter, George Ticknor, and Malbone live in, 352, 353 ; a boarding-house, 353 ; becomes Club House, 354.
Coaches, public and private, first used, 25 ; number of, in 1798, 25, 26.
Cobb, General David, 100, 361, 364. Coburn, John, residence of, 113. Cochituate Lake, 23.
Cockburn, Admiral, 321.
Cockerel Church. See Second Church. Codman's Buildings, 70.
Codman, John, 196, 389.
Codman's Wharf, 129.
Coffin, Admiral Sir Isaac, 154, 309 ; birthplace and sketch of, 405 ; en- dows Coffin School, 406.
Coffin, General John, 154 ; birthplace, 405.
Coffin, Captain Hezekiah, 282.
Coffin, Lieutenant-Colonel, 116.
Coffin, Nathaniel, 405.
Coffin, Sir Thomas Aston, 154, 406.
Coffin School, 406.
Coffin, William, innkeeper, 105.
Coffin, William, 386, 406.
Coggan, John, first shopkeeper, 88.
Colbron, William, field of, 305.
Colburn, Jeremiah, 240.
Cole Lane (Portland Street), 126, 145. Cole's (Samuel) Inn, first in Boston 108, 109, 141.
Cole, Master Samuel, 75.
Collier, Sir George, 191.
Collingwood, Admiral, 116. Colman, Rev. Benjamin, 123, 138.
Colonnade Row, built and named, 316 ; residents of, 316, 317 ; called Fayette Place, 316, 317.
Colson, Adam, 282 ; residence of, 306. Columbian Centinel, office of, 100, 101. Columbia River, named for, 254.
Comey's Wharf, 182.
Commercial Coffee House, 105. - See Bunch of Grapes, -location of, 287. Commercial Street built, 128, 153, 198.
Common, The, 3, 4, 10, 17 ; collector's boat burnt on, 170, 214, 289 ; extent of, 296 ; Granary erected on, 262, 265, 299 ; Park Street built on, 299 ; Almshouse, Workhouse, and Bride- well on, 299 ; spinning exhibitions on, 302 ; history of, 305 ; only three trees on, 305 ; the malls planted, 305, 306 ; more territory purchased for, 306 ; disfigured by camps, 306 ; fences on, 306, 307 ; called Centry Field and Training Field, 307 ; West Street entrance, 313 ; Mason Street the east boundary, 314 ; hay-scales and gun-house on, 322 ; guns parked on, in 1812, 322 ; Boylston Street Mall, 323 ; ropewalks on, 324; the lower part a marsh, 325 ; topography of, 325 ; troops embarked for Lexington, 326; English forces on, 326 ; mili-
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tary execution on, 326 ; a permanent camp, 327 ; position of British works on, 327, 328; an intrenched camp, 328 ; Powder House on, 329 ; ponds, 329 ; executions on, 331, 332, 360 ; duel on, 332 ; British hospital and guard-house on, 332 ; Beacon Street Mall, 333 ; review by Lafayette, 355 ; introduction of Co- chituate water, 357 ; Stamp Act repeal, 358, 359 ; review of events on, 358 ; music on, 359 ; grazing and executions on, discontinued, 360 ; Washington reviews Continental troops on, 432.
Common Burying-Ground opened, 323; uses and traditions of, 323, 324 ; British soldiers buried in, 323 ; British fortification near, 328.
Common Street described, 412, 416.
Commonwealth Avenue, 124, 145 ; statue in, 344.
Conant, Colonel, 214. Conduit Street, 127.
Concert Hall, 70; military court in, 71 ; early use by Masons, 71 ; office of Customs Commissioners, 71 ; grand ball to Admiral D'Estaing, 71, 430.
Concord, N. H., ancient Rumford, 87. Congress Hall. See Julien.
Congress House, location of, 281.
Congress Street, 37, 234, 264. State Street so called, 89 ; United States Bank in, 96 ; Exchange Coffee House in, 99 ; origin of name, 101; made land, 109 ; Quaker church and burial- ground, 267, 268; the Anthology Club, 268; part called Atkinson Street and Green Lane, 271.
Congress Square, Custom House in, 106.
Conscription Riot, 1863, 223, 224. Constellation, frigate, 171, 181.
Constitution, frigate, 139 ; built, 180 ; history and exploits, 180 to 196; keel laid, 181 ; first named officially, 181; designers and mechanics of, 182 ; figure-head, 183 ; battery, 183 ; launch, 183, 184; description of,
185; rebuilt, 185 ; first cruise, 185, 186 ; commander, 186 ; escape from British fleet, 187 ; anecdotes of, 188, 189 ; named Old Ironsides, 189 ; rel- ics of, 192 ; figure-head affair, 193, 194, 195, 201 ; her sails made in the Granary, 322.
Constitution Wharf, 191.
Conway, General, 140.
Cooke's Court, 65.
Cooke, Elisha, house of, 65.
Cooledge, Thomas, 282.
Cooley, Azariah, innkeeper, 429.
Coolidge, Joseph, 196, 283.
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 165 ; historical error, 181.
Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 123, 124.
Cooper, Samuel, 9.
Cooper, Thomas A., 191.
Cooper, Rev. William, 123.
Cooper, William, residence of, 72.
Copley, John S., 4, 52, 67, 73, 122,
140, 165 ; residence of, 334 ; goes abroad, 35; dies, 335 ; sale of es- tate, 335, 336 ; personal appearance, 336 ; an engraver, 336 ; opinions of his works, 336.
Copley, Richard, 371.
Copp, Joanna, 205.
Copp, William, 198, 205.
Copper Street. See Brighton.
Copp's Hill, 6, 7, 10, 17, 22, 24, 114 ; used to fill Mill Pond, 152, 158, 176 ; shipyards at, 179 ; description of, 198 ; British works on, 199, 202, 204 ; bombardment from, 207; place of recreation, 208, 244, 399.
Copp's Hill Burying-Ground, 157, 159 ; Mather's tomb, 162, 163, 199 ; de- scription of, 204, 205 ; inscriptions, 205, 206.
Coram, Captain Thomas, 30.
Corn Court, United States
Court
House in, 106 ; named, 141.
Cornish, Catherine, 16.
Cornish, William, 16. Corn Hill. See Fort Hill.
Cornhill (Old), 22, 55, 72 ; origin of name, 76 ; first clock placed in, 85; extent of, 88, 89; Post-Office in,
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104; Town Pump in, 118; Blue Anchor in, 121; emblematic signs in, 146 ; booksellers in, 338 ; named Washington Street, 420. Cornhill (New), 42, 75; built and called Market Street, 76, 104.
Cornhill Court, 84. Cornhill Square, 84. Corn Market 141.
Cornwallis. Lord, capitulation of, 436. Cotting Uriah, 46, 248 ; buried, 296 ; builds Mill-Dam, 333 ; residence, 365, 366 ; builds New Cornhill, 76 ; Broad Street, 110; India Street, 111.
Cotton Hill, 6, 8, 9, 34, 47 ; Andros's house near, 228, 391.
Cotton, John, 7, 11, 35, 47, 48 ; house, 50, 51; estate, 52, 56, 63, 91, 101, 412.
Cotton, manufacture of, begun, 322. Couronne, French ship, 437. Court Avenue, 84.
Court dress, described, 245, 246.
Court House, 44 ; new, 57; old Coun- ty, description of, 59 ; present, 77 ; old brick Court House, 78 ; County, 78 ; Municipal, 78 ; present, built, 79, 82 ; old State House used as, 90 ; present, 94 ; architect of, 312. Court Street, 42, 47, 68, 71, 75 ; Prison Lane, 77 ; Queen Street, 77, 79 ; headquarters newspaper press, 81, 82 ; cannon concealed in, 315. Coventry Street, 52. Cow Lane. See High Street. Crabtree, Mr., builds Causeway, 151. Cradock, George, 42, 56. Cradock, Mathew, 47.
Crafts, Eben, 301. Crafts, Colonel Thomas, 221.
Crane, John, Tea Party, 282 ; injured on tea ship, 283 ; plants trees in Paddock's Mall, 294, 295 ; residence and anecdote of, 412 ; destroys Brown's house, 427. Crawford, Thomas, 38. Crawford, William H., 197. Creek Lane, 127, 144 ; named, 145. Crescent Place, 373. Crocker, Hannah M., 161, 166, 215.
Crockett, David, 45.
Cromwell, Oliver, 13, 51, 61, 83. Cromwell's Head, 61, 62.
Crooked Lane, 94. See Wilson's Lane. Cross Street, 127 ; destroyed, 154, 158. Cross Tavern, 154.
Crosswell, Rev. Andrew, 64.
Crown Coffee House, location, 112. Crown Point. See Ticonderoga. Cumberland, frigate, 185. Cummings, G., innkeeper, 398.
Cushing, Judge, residence of, 337.
Cushing, Thomas (Lieutenant-Govern- or), 57, 136, 180 ; birthplace, 248 ; dies, 248 ; burial-place, 248. Cushman, Charlotte, 394.
Custom House, Royal, 42, 76, 94, 156, 157 ; First United States, 103, 105, 106 ; figures on, 106; in Custom House Street, etc., 106 ; ships built on site of, 112 ; present, columns of, 94, 112, 131 ; State, 142.
Cutler, Timothy, D. D., first rector of Christ Church, residence of, 215.
Cyane, sloop-of-war, 185.
Cyane, frigate, 186 ; captured, 191; flag of, 193.
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Dacres, Admiral James R., ancedotes of, 99, 100, 189.
Daillé, Rev. Pierre, 64.
Dale, Captain Richard, 182. Dalrymple, Colonel, 347.
Dalton, Peter Roe, Cashier United States Bank, 96. Dana, Edmund T., 38.
Dana, Richard, 400 ; residence of, 402. Darracott, George, 205. Darley, Mrs., début of, 318.
Dartmouth, tea ship, 282.
Dassett's Alley, 79.
Davenport, Rev. Addington, first rec- tor of Trinity, 386, 387.
Davenport, James, innkeeper, 168. Davenport, Jean Margaret, début in Boston, 378.
Davenport, John, 35 ; house, 55, 56.
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Davies Lane, 352. Davis, Caleb, 389.
Davis, Admiral Charles H., birthplace and sketch of, 364.
Davis, Daniel, residence and sketch of, 364.
Davis, Deacon, 243. Davis, Isaac, 345. Davis, Isaac P., 273.
Davis, John, report of codfishery, 348. Davis, Judge John, 100, 370. Davis, Major, 138.
Dawes, Major Thomas, architect of Brattle Street Church, 122, 269 ; birthplace, 281 ; fireward, 295, 398. Day, Captain James, innkeeper, 286.
Dean, John Ward, 139.
Dean, Julia, first appearance in Boston, 378.
Deane, American frigate, 221.
Deane, Silas, 251, 310.
Dearborn, General Henry, 100 ; Collec- tor of Boston, 105, 106 ; residence of, 106 ; married, 253, 364, 410.
Dearborn, H. A. S., 106, 298.
De Beaumetz, M., 141.
Decatur, Stephen, 186, 187, 188, 197.
Dedham Street, 419; British works near, 426. De Genlis, Madame, 141, 142.
De Joinville, Prince, in Boston, 139, 140.
Delano, Mrs., boarding-house of, 362. Delight, privateer, 171.
Derby, George H., anecdote of, 291. Derby, Richard, 269. Derne Street, 351.
Descriptions by early travellers, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Deshon, Moses, 135.
D'Estaing, Count, in Boston, 71, 91, 103 ; reception in Faneuil Hall, 138, 232, 339 ; anecdote of, 341, 356.
Deux Ponts, Count Christian, 434 ; Count William, 434. Devonshire Street, 98, 254. Dewey, Captain, 194. Dexter, Aaron, 269. Dexter, Mrs., 120, 307.
Dexter, Samuel, 114; residence and sketch of, 353, 354, 370, 414. Dibdin, Dr., 336.
Dickens, Charles, at Tremont House 290, 293.
Dickinson, John, Liberty Song of, 252.
Dickinson, Thomas, 196.
Dickson, J. A., 256, 257, 318.
Dike built on the Neck, 420.
Distilleries in 1722, 18 ; oldest in Bos- ton, 406 ; Avery's, 406 ; Haskins's, 406 ; number in Boston in 1794, 406 ; Henry Hill, 406.
Distill-House Square, 151 ; named, 371. Ditson, Oliver, and Company, 223.
Dock Square, 56, 126; covered by tides, 127, 130 ; old market in, 134 ; riot of 1863, 142.
Dolbier, Edward, 283, 410.
Done, Joseph, 49.
Doolittle's Tavern, 154.
Dorchester annexed, 23, 160.
Dorchester Artillery, 316.
Dorchester Heights, 208, 359.
Dorchester Neck, 23, 425.
Dorr Rebellion, 106.
Dorsett's Alley, 79.
Doty, Colonel, innkeeper, 392.
Dover Street, shipyard near, 419. Dow, Lorenzo, 173.
Downes, Commodore John, residence of, 111, 159.
Dowse, Thomas, library of, 40.
Doyle, William M. S., 41.
Drake, Samuel G., 170, 365.
Dramatic Museum, site of, 404.
Draper's Alley, 121.
Draper, John, residence of, 121.
Dress of the Puritans, 11.
Drowne, Deacon Shem, 135, 236.
Dry Dock, Charlestown, opened, 139, 185.
Dryden, John, 15, 63.
Dubuque, residence of, 270.
Duck Manufactory, location and his- tory of, 322. Du Coudray, M., 86, 328.
Dudley, Governor Joseph, 31. Dudley, Governor Thomas, 225. Duff, Mr., 257.
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Duke of Argyle, 272. Duke of Bolton, 384.
Dumaresq, Philip, residence of, 372, 386. Dumas, Count Mathieu, 434.
Dummer, Jeremiah, residence of, 102 ; birthplace, 103.
Dummer, Governor William, 40; resi- dence of, 102, 103.
Dunbar, battle of, prisoners from, 13.
Dunlap, William, 335.
Dunster, Henry, estate of, 84.
Dunton, John, 122.
Duplessis, 147. Dupont, Admiral, 364. Du Portail. General, 285.
Durivage, F. A., 104.
Duvivier, P. S. B., makes die for Washington Medal, 432.
Dyar, Mary, hung, 330.
E.
Eagle Theatre, history of, 378. Earl's Coffee House, 70, 154. East Boston, 14, 23. East Boston Company, 23.
East Cambridge Bridge, 7.
Eastern Avenue, 168.
Eastern Military District, 383.
Eastern Stage House, location of, 154. Eastham, 49.
Eaton, Amherst, innkeeper, 430. Eayres, Joseph, 282.
Eckley, Rev. Joseph, buried, 296.
Edes, Benjamin (and Gill), prints Bos- ton Gazette and Country Journal, 80 ; office, 81; Tea Party council, 81 ; prints for Provincial Congress, 81 ; house, 121.
Edes, Thomas, Governor Hutchinson concealed in his house, 166.
Edict of Nantes, 54. Edinboro' Street, 407. Edwards, Jonathan, 72.
Edwards, Rev. Justin, 220. Eleanor, tea ship, 282. Election Sermon (Artillery), 138. Elgin, Earl of, in Boston, 140. Eliot, Andrew, buried, 207.
Eliot, John, 39, 155 ; residence, 174 ; buried, 207.
Eliot, Samuel, 56, 196.
Eliot, Samuel A., 56. Eliot School, 65 ; history of, 218; present school dedicated, 219; re- bellion of pupils, 219.
Eliot Street, 416. Elliott, General, 262.
Elliott, Commodore Jesse D., 186 ; affair of figure-head, 194, 195.
Ellis, Joshua, 165, 207.
Ellis, Rowland, 165.
Elm, The Great, 10, 305, 329 ; witch- craft executions, 330 ; age and sketch of, 330, 331, 334.
Elm neighborhood, 396.
Elm Street, 102; headquarters of stages, 126; widened, 145. See Wing's Lane.
Embargo of 1812, 116.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 385.
Emerson, William, 38, 385.
Emmons, Commodore G. F., 180, 185. Endicott, Governor John, 5, 11, 40 ; house, 47, 48, 53, 56, 58 ; portraits of, 346, 347.
Endicott Street, 151. England, Church of. 33, 34.
English High, and Latin Schools, 390.
English, Thomas, residence of, 390. Enterprise, schooner, 171.
Episcopalians, 4, 15.
Erving, Colonel John, 295 ; residence, 267.
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