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Erving, Colonel John, Jr., 263 ; resi- dence, and funeral of Governor Shirley from, 267.
Essex Coffee House (Salem), 201.
Essex, frigate, 171.
Essex Junior, 111.
Essex Street, 53; Boston Library in, 255, 401, 404; residents of, 407 410.
Eustis Street, Roxbury, Shirley man- sion in, 239. Eustis's Wharf, 132. Everett, Edward, 6, 45, 50, 123, 124 ; School, 219 ; residence, 219, 250. Everett, Colonel, 364.
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Ewer, Charles, projects South Cove and Avon Street improvements, 365, 411.
Exchange (present), 83 ; in Old State House, 89; United States Bank on site of, 95, 101, 104 ; in Congress Street, 269.
Exchange Coffee House, 91 ; history and description of, 98, 99 ; burnt, 99, 100 ; banquet to Bainbridge, 190 ; Willard works on, 311 ; con- flagration of, 311 ; dinner to Lafay- ette, 355, 403.
Exchange Street, 56, 96 ; description, 101.
Extinguisher, Engine House, 402.
F.
Fairbanks, Richard, first Postmaster of Boston, 104.
Familists, 51.
Faneuil, Andrew, 54, 64, 101 ; ware- house, 108, 112 ; corner, 114, 115, 163.
Faneuil, Benjamin, 30, 112; store, 129, 386 ; funeral of, 390.
Faneuil Hall Market, 76, 127. See Quincy Market, 130.
Faneuil Hall, 30, 39, 44, 54, 55; Lovell's address in, 57; used as Town House, 59 ; Trumbull exhibits his picture in, 73 ; Knox's portrait, 86; British troops, 89; Eagle from United States Bank, 95, 102 ; site, 127 ; a market, 130; history and description of, 133 to 141 ; portraits in, 140, 141 ; called Cradle of Lib- erty, 133 ; burnt, 135 ; enlarged, 135 ; grasshopper on, 135, 193 ; Tea Party meeting, 229; anecdote of, 249; theatre in, 260; Dalrym - ple's regiment quartered in, 303 ; Phillips's first antislavery speech in, 337 ; lottery authorized to re- build, 343; toast by Lafayette, 355; anti-Mexican war-meetings, 379, 403.
Faneuil, Peter, 30; estate, 54, 55, 57 ; warehouse, 112, 129 ; builds Faneuil
Hall, 134, 135; death, 136; por- trait, 141, 236, 253; the Wood- bridge-Phillips duel, 113, 386 ; at -. tends Trinity Church, 387.
Faneuil, Susannah M., 253.
Farragut, Admiral D. G., 364.
Farwell, J. E., 267.
Faust's statue, sign of, 252.
Fayette Place. See Colonnade Row.
Fayette Street. See South Allen.
Federal Band, 262. See J. Howard Payne.
Federal Street, 25 ; Theatre, 256 ; fish taken in, 264.
Federal Street Church, 89; site and description of, 263 ; anecdote of the vane, 263 ; Federal Convention held in, 263, 264 ; rebuilt, 264.
Felt, J. B., 423.
Fenno, John, keeper of the Granary, 299.
Ferries, 24; Charlestown, 202 ; inci- dents of, 203.
Fifth British regiment, 113, 116 ; at Bunker Hill, 203.
Fifty-second British regiment, 177.
Fifty-ninth British regiment at Bunker Hill, 203 ; posted on the Neck, 425.
Five Points, 153. Fillmore, Millard, in Boston, 371.
Finn, Henry J., 257 ; died, 258, 292.
Fire Department, origin of, 19, 20 ; reforms in, 56.
Fire engine, first, 19; first made in Boston, 20.
Fires of 1654, 1676, 1678, 19 ; of 1825, 23 ; of 1787, 416.
First Baptist Church, 150 ; history and location, 222 ; organized, 227, 363.
First Battalion Marines, British, 177. First book printed in Boston, 82.
First buildings, character of, 9.
First Church, 7, 35, 50, 55, 56 ; second location, 84 ; Old Brick, 84, 85 ; first site, 91, 102; burnt, 113; John Hull member of, 211, 363 ; estate, 382, 385 ; removal, 385; relics of the Old Brick, 385.
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First clock set up, 85.
First Directory published in Boston, 110.
First glass-works, location and sketch of, 408 ; destroyed, 408.
First Methodist Church, 172, 173 ; accident in, 173.
First newspaper printed in Boston, 16.
First stone block, 71.
First Sunday school in New England, 374.
First Universalist Church, 172, 173.
First war vessel built in Boston, 179.
Fish market, location of, 127.
Fish Street (North), 26, 153 ; de- Foster, William, innkeeper, 105.
scription of, 158.
Fitche, Colonel, 307.
Flagg Alley (Change Avenue), 105.
Flags used by Americans, 431.
Flagstaff Hill, Old, British works on, 328.
Flat Conduit, 127.
Fleet, Thomas, printing-office of, 234.
Fleet Street, 161 ; gardens of Gov- ernor Hutchinson on, 167 ; named, 168, 220.
Fleming, John, 107. See Mein.
Flounder Lane, 281.
Flucker, Thomas, residence of, 271 ; Lucy, 271.
Fuller Sarah Margaret (Countess d'Os- soli), residence and school of, 312 ; shipwreck and death of, 312, 392.
Fulton Street, 128. Forbes, R. B., 161.
Fore Street, The, 7, 152, 219.
Forest Hills, General Warren en- tombed at, 311. Fort Du Quesne, 125.
Fort Field. See Fort Hill.
Fort George, 168.
Fort Hill, 6, 7, 17, 115 ; embargo flag on, 116, 176 ; shipyards at, 179 ; illumination on, 209 ; great fire of, 1760, 272 ; Revolutionary fort lev- elled, 272 ; fortified, 284 ; garrison of, 285 ; works strengthened, 285; guns removed, 285; rejoicings on, 286 ; description of, 287, 288 ; lev-
elled, 288 ; Stamp Act troubles, 399, 409 ; hill fortified, 424.
Fort Hill Block, 280.
Fort Independence, 280. See Castle.
Fort Lee (N. Y.), incident of, 374.
Fort Snelling named, 221.
Fort Washington, incident of, 373.
Forty-ninth British regiment, part of, in Lexington expedition, 304.
Forty-seventh British regiment, 177, 2:29.
Forty-third British regiment, 177.
Foster. John, prints first book in Bos- ton, 82.
Foster Street, 200, 211. See Clark.
Foster, William, residence of, 306, 313, 404.
Foster's Wharf. See Wheelwright's.
Foundling Hospital, London, Eng- land, 30.
Fourth Baptist Church, site of, 267.
Fourth British regiment, part of, in Lexington expedition, 304.
Fourteenth British regiment, quarters of, 271 ; on the Common, 326.
Fowle, William B., 145.
Fowle, Zachariah, printing-office of, 223.
Fox, British ship, 220. Foxcroft, Thomas, 55.
Fox Hill levelled, 325, 328.
Frankland, Sir Charles H., 30, 97 ; residence, 162 ; Lady Frankland, 163, 165 ; description of house, 163, 164, 165, 236 ; narrow escape of, 421. Frankland, Lady, narrow escape of, 421. Franklin Avenue (Dorsett's Alley), 79 ; part of Brattle Street, 79.
Franklin, Benjamin, 57 ; anecdotes of, 58 ; apprentice in Queen Street, 80 ; publishes Courant, 80 ; his old press, 80, 145 ; birthplace, 146 ; original portraits, 147, 162 ; obtains Hutch- inson's letters, 166 ; baptized, 229, 249; anecdote of, 251; born, 252; Mrs. (Reed), 80.
Franklin, James, prints Boston Ga- zette, 79 ; N. E. Courant, 79 ; forbid- den to print Courant, 80, 103, 104.
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Franklin, Josias, his sign and shop, 146, 252. Franklin Place, 255.
Franklin School, Charles Sprague at- tends, 417.
Franklin Statue, 57, 58, 337.
Franklin Street, 9, 39, 75, 227 ; a bog, 254; reclamation of, 254.
Fraser, Colonel Simon, his regiment on Boston Common, 326 ; death and burial at Stillwater, 327.
Frederick, Francis, hanged, 424.
Freeman, James, 39.
Freeman Place Chapel, built on site of Governor Phillips's house, 362.
Freemason's Arms, 150. See Green Dragon Tavern.
Freemasons' first Lodge in Boston, 150.
Freemason's Hall (Tremont Street) burnt, 318.
French and Indian war, 20.
French army, entry into Boston of, 433 to 437 ; composition of, 433 ; uni- form and band, 434; embarkation, 437.
French Artillery, uniform of, de- scribed, 436.
French Huguenot Church, 63; de- scription of, 64 ; occupied by Cath- olics, 256.
Freneau, Philip, lines of, on General Gage, 427.
Free Writing-School, 75.
Friends of Liberty, resort of, 70.
Frizell's Square. See North Square. Frog Lane. See Boylston Street. Frog Pond, 329.
Front Street. See Harrison Avenue. Frothingham, Nathaniel, 282.
Frothingham, Mr., 313, 322.
Frothingham, Richard, Jr., 116.
Fuller, Sarah Margaret, 312.
G.
Gage, General Thomas, 53, 57, 90 ; lands at Long Wharf, 115 ; chariot, 116, 123, 124, 125, 127, 137, 149, Gilman, Arthur, 58.
168, 203, 208, 216, 225, 236 ; in Province House, 242, 243 ; married, 243 ; resemblance to Samuel Adams, 243 ; proclamation ridiculed, 244, 247, 272, 293, 326, 340 ; portrait of, 348, 369, 426, 427.
Gallery of Fine Arts, 130.
Gallows, position of, 423; anecdot about, 423 ; executions, 424.
Gamba, Count, 193. Gammell, T., 283.
Garden Court Street, 162, 164.
Garden Street, 370.
Gardiner, John, 261.
Gardner, Gideon, innkeeper, 428.
Gardner, John S. J., 38, 386.
Gardner, Eliza G., 340.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 379.
Gas first used in Boston, 22.
Gates, General Horatio, 66, 73, 103, 144, 145; anecdote of, 232, 310; commands in Boston, 383 ; anecdote of, 383, 429.
Gay Alley (Brattle Street), 71.
Gay, John, 1.
Gay, Timothy, 206.
Gee, Joshua, shipyard of, 179; resi- dence, 202, 204.
Geographical divisions, 10.
George I., 102.
George II., 90 ; portrait, 140, 167.
George III., 58; accession last pro- claimed in Boston, 90, 167 ; outlaws Hancock and Adams, 308, 309.
George Street. See Hancock.
George Tavern, Governor Burnet's re- ception at, 238.
George Tavern (St. George), American advanced post at, 428 ; burnt, 428 ; history of, 428, 429, 430 ; anecdotes of, 430.
Gerry, Elbridge, 70, 201.
Gerrish, Thomas, 282.
Geyer, Frederic, residence of, 389. Geyer, Nancy W., 390.
Gibben's shipyard, location of, 419.
Gibbs, Major Caleb (of Boston), 182.
Gill; John (Edes and), imprisoned by Howe, 81. See Edes.
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Glasgow, British frigate, 207, 208. Glass manufacture begun in Massa- chusetts, 408.
Goddard, Benjamin, 196.
Goddard, Nathaniel, 196.
Goffe, General William, 55.
Gooch, Captain, brave deed of, 373.
Goodrich, Henry, 286.
Goodwin, Benjamin, yard of, 180, 201, 204.
Goodwin's Wharf, 202.
Gordon, General Hugh Mckay, 154.
Gore, Governor Christopher, 39, 45, 72 ; defends Selfridge, 114, 190, 269; residence described, 279 ; sketch of, 279 ; personal appear- ance, 280 ; resides in Park Street, 352, 389.
Gore Hall named, 280.
Gore, Samuel, 72, 282, 314, 408.
Gorges, Robert, 4.
Gorham, Mr., residence of, 275.
Gouch Street named, 373 ; noted for, 374
Gould and Lincoln, bookstore of, 402. Gould, John, 215.
Government of Boston, 14.
Government House. See Province House, 246.
Governor's Alley, 64.
Governor's Dock, location of, 114.
Governor's Foot Guards. See Cadets.
Governor's House. See Province
House. Grafton, Duke of, 140.
Grand Lodge occupy Old State House, 91.
Granary, Constitution's sails made in, 182; the site of, 298 ; description and uses of, 299 ; removed, 299.
Granary Burying-Ground, 54, 76, 204 ; Governor Cushing buried in, 248, 289 ; history of, 296, 297, 298 ; noted persons buried in, 296, 297 ; Frank- lin cenotaph, 298; called South Burying-Ground, 298 ; Faneuil tomb, 296 ; victims of Boston Massacre buried in, 297 ; filled with bodies, 298; tombs erected in, 298; en- larged, 298 ; legends of, 298; stone
wall built, 298, 307, 323 ; Benjamin Woodbridge buried in, 332; Gov- ernor Eustis buried in, 366.
Grant, Moses, 206, 282, 314. Grant, U. S., 105 ; James, 243.
Graupner's Hall, 394.
Graves, Admiral Thomas, residence of, 272.
Graves, Daniel, 206. Gray, Edward, 273.
Gray, Harrison, 44, 245, 273 ; pro- scribed, 274 ; goes to London, 274. Gray, John, 273.
Gray, Captain Robert, discoverer of Columbia River.
Gray, Thomas, 38.
Gray, William, 201, 324, 382. Gray's Wharf, 201.
Great Mall, The, 305, 306 ; first trees planted in, 306 ; description of, 306 ; trees cut down by British, 306 ; in cidents of, 310, 360.
Greeley, Horace, 312.
Green, Bartholomew, prints News Let- ter at, 82 ; residence, 98 ; printing- office, 392.
Green Dragon Tavern, 64, 148, 149, 150.
Green, Joseph, 33, 66 ; residence, 67 ; lampoons the Masons, 96 ; residence, 67, 414.
Green, Jeremiah, 285
Green, John (and Russell) office, 76, 81. Green Lane (Salem Street), 153, 210. Green Lane. See Congress Street.
Green, Samuel, innkeeper, 176.
Green Street, 151; residents of, 372; church, 373.
Green Store Battery, 425. Greene, Albert G., 300.
Greene, Gardiner, 47; residence, 52, 53 ; President of the United States Bank, 94 ; Copley's agent, 336, 363, 389.
Greene, General Nathaniel, 66, 144, 282, 310; to assault Boston, 359 ; commands in Boston, 382, 405.
Greenleaf's Gardens. See Washington Gardens.
Greenleaf, Dr. John, 124.
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Greenleaf, Stephen, 304; residence, | Hall, Captain James, 282. 313, 352.
Greenleaf, William, reads Declaration of Independence, 91.
Greenough, Henry, 247.
Greenough, Richard S., 38, 57, 58, 226. Green's Barracks, 271.
Greenwood, Ethan A., 42.
Greenwood, Rev. F. W. P., 30.
Greuze, 147.
Gridley, Jeremy, 71, 314 ; residence, 402.
Gridley, General Richard, at Bunker Hill, 208, 426 ; lays out works on Neck, 427.
Griffin, Rev. Edward D., 301. Griffin's Wharf, 410. See Liverpool.
Griggs, John, recollections of Boston Neck, 426.
Grove Street, 370 ; Medical College in, 377.
Growth and progress of Boston, 23.
Gruchy, Captain, 200, 215.
Guerriere, British frigate, 99, 188, 189, 190 ; flag of, 193.
Guiccioli, Countess, 193.
Gun-house, on Copp's Hill, 204; in Cooper Street, 223; attack on, 224 ; on Fort Hill, 288.
Gun-house in West Street, 314; re- moval of guns from, 314 ; history of the guns Hancock and Adams, 315 ; one on the Common, 322 ; removed to Pleasant Street, 322.
Gun-house (Thacher Street), materials of, 375.
Gunpowder Plot. See Pope Day, 149.
H.
Hackett, James H., first appearance in Boston, 368.
Hagen, P. von, 303.
Haley, Madam, 52.
Half-Square Court, 98 ; Custom House in, 106.
Halifax, Lord, 78.
Halifax, N. S., 32; patriots carried to, 65.
Hallowell, Benjamin, residence of, 148 ; assaulted, 170, 273, 285.
Hallowell, Benjamin Carew, 148. Hallowell's shipyard, 275, 287.
Hamilton, Alexander, 296 ; statue of, 344.
Hamilton, Colonel, 355.
Hamilton College, 381.
Hamilton Place, 39; Manufactory House in, 301 ; built, 304.
Hamilton Street, 286.
Hammock, John, 215.
Hancock, Ebenezer, 66; office and residence, 144, 145.
Hancock, frigate, 220.
Hancock House, 141.
Hancock, Governor John, 24, 40, 42, 43, 44, 49 ; house occupied by Per- cy, 53, 57, 69, 71 ; portrait by Trumbull, 73, 91, 110 ; gives a bell to Brattle Street Church, 122, 123, 124, 125 ; store, 129, 130 ; portrait, 140, 141 ; builds Hancock's Row, 144 ; Pope Day, 150 ; warehouses, 170, 176, 208, 214 ; address on Mas- sacre, 228, 233, 248 ; action to sup- press theatres, 261 ; gives bell and vane to Federal Street Church, 263 ; presides over Federal Convention, 264; widow, 264 ; commands Ca- dets, 293; commission revoked, 294; fireward, 295; tomb of, 296; funeral, 297, 308 ; anecdote of, 309 ; house, 338 ; extent of estate, 338, 339 ; description of mansion, 339, 340 ; pillaged, 340; quarters of General Clinton, 340 ; incidents of, 340, 341, 342 ; anecdotes of, 341 ; dies intestate, 341 ; sketch of, 341, 342 ; personal appearance, 343 ; 350 ; in- troduces music on Common, 359, 393 ; dinner to Rochambeau's offi- cers, 437.
Hancock, John (son of Ebenezer), 349.
Hancock, Lydia, residence of, 76 ; gives her mansion to Governor John, 338, 342.
Hancock, Madam, anecdote of, 341
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Hancock mansion, history of, 338 to |Harris's Folly, 281.
343 ; efforts to preserve it, 341, 342 ; demolished, 342 ; Stamp Act repeal, 359, 362.
Hancock's Row built, 144.
Hancock School, 155.
Hancock Street, named, 352; called George Street, 352.
Hancock, Thomas, 76, 130, 163 ; his wharf, 170; funeral, 208; builds house on Beacon Street, 338, 342, 351.
Hancock's Wharf, description of, 170; events at, 170, 171 ; Lafayette lands at, 356.
Handel, 32.
Handel and Haydn Society, sketch of, 394 ; occupy Boylston Hall, 403.
Hanover Avenue, 172.
Hanover Church. See Beecher's Church.
Hanover, Massachusetts, anchors of frigate Constitution made at, 182. Hanover Square, 396.
Hanover Street, 10, 19, 25, 68, 70, 75, 130, 143, 144 ; widened, 145 ; Frank- lin's birthplace, 146 ; widened, 147 ; bridged, 152; a neck, 152, 161; Governor Hutchinson's gardens, 167, 172, 173.
Hanover Street Church (Methodist), 415.
Harper, Mr., 256.
Harris, Isaac, 182; hoists flag over Constitution, 185 ; saves Old South, 233.
Harris, Lord George, 203.
Harris, Master, residence of, 161.
Harris, Rev. Thaddeus M., anecdote of, 413.
Harris Street, 175.
Harrison Avenue, origin and descrip- tion of, 404, 405.
Harrison, John, first rope-maker, 273 ; Heath, General William, 40, 144, 145, ropewalks, 273.
Harrison, Joseph, Collector in 1770, 97; assaulted, 168 ; Richard Ack- lom, 170.
Harrison, Peter, 29.
Harrison, General W. H., 45.
Hart, Zephaniah, 180.
Hartford Convention, 44, 295.
Hartly, Mr., 182, 197.
Hartt, Edward, 180.
Hartt, Edmund, 180; residence, 181, 196 ; buried, 206.
Hartt's Naval Yard, 181, 183, 195, 196, 197.
Hartt, Ralph, 180.
Harvard College, 33, 84; Rumford Professorship, 87, 103, 160; Gore Hall named, 280.
Harvard Place, 270.
Haskell, S., innkeeper, 398.
Hatch, Israel, innkeeper, 96 ; adver- tisement, 399.
Hatch, Mrs., 307.
Hatch's Tavern, location of, 313.
Hatters' Square, 145.
Haverhill Street, 378.
Hawkins's Shipyard, 175.
Hawkins Street, 371.
Hawkins, Thomas, 175; shipyard, 178. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, description of
Old Prison, 77 ; invocation to Town Pump, 84 ; Scarlet Letter, 92 ; Le- gends of Province House, 235.
Hay, Theodocia, 206.
Haymarket, The, 313, 322.
Haymarket Square, 151.
Haymarket Theatre, site of, 313, 317 : opening and description of, 318.
Hayne, Robert Young, 45.
Hays, Catherine, 293.
Hay-scales. See Haymarket.
Hayward, Dr. Lemuel, residence of, 392.
Hayward, John, Postmaster of Boston, 104.
Hayward Place named, 393.
Healey, G. P. A., 140. Heart and Crown, 146, 234.
231, 267 ; commands in Boston, 383 ; headquarters, 383.
Henchman, Captain Daniel, 200 ; ac- credited with planting the Great Elm, 331.
Henchman, Colonel Daniel, rasi .ence
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of, 76 ; builds first paper-mill, 76; Holmes, Francis, innkeeper, 105. store, 85, 137.
Henchman's Lane, 199, 200.
Hercule, French ship, 437.
Hermione, French frigate, 356.
Hewes, George R. T., residence of, 269 ; Tea Party, 282, 283.
Hewes, Shubael, butcher-shop of, 270. Hibbins, Anne, 53 ; executed, 330.
Hibbins, William, 53.
Hichborn, Benjamin, residence and sketch of, 250 ; commands Cadets, 294.
Higginson, Francis, portrait of, 346.
ยท Higginson, Stephen, 196.
Higginson, Stephen, Jr., 196.
High Street, 37, 46, 272 ; called Cow Lane, 273 ; affray in, 274 ; described, 280.
Hill, Aaron, Postmaster, 269.
Hill, Thomas, 406.
Hillier's Lane (Brattle Street), 71.
Hillsborough, Lord, 249, 398.
Hills Wharf, 127.
Hinckley, David, residence of, 362 ; tra- gic incident connected with, 363.
Historic Genealogical Society, 364 ; origin and sketch of, 365 ; building and library, 365.
Historical Society, Massachusetts, 39, 40, 141; relics of Hutchinson in, 167 ; of Province House, 247; in Franklin Street, 255 ; Speaker's Desk and Winslow's chair, 347.
Hodgkinson, Mr., 256.
Hodson, Thomas, 351, 352.
Holbrook, Abraham, 314.
Holland's Coffee House, 50. Holley, Rev. Horace, 415.
Hollis Street, British works near, 328, 411 ; originally called Harvard, 414 ; great fire in, 416.
Hollis Street Church, 102, 103.
Hollis Street Church, history of, 414, 415, 416 ; Stamp Act celebration, 414; burnt, 414 ; removed to Brain- tree, 415 ; tablets in, 416 ; fire of 1787, 416 ; troops quartered in, 416. Hollis, Thomas, Hollis Street named for, 414.
Holmes, Dr. O. W., 65, 192. See Hub of the Universe.
Holy Cross Cathedral, site and sketch of, 255, 256 ; removal, 256.
Holyoke, Edward A., 39; residence, 159.
Holyoke Street. See Tremont.
Home of Little Wanderers, 222.
Homer, B. P., residence of, 338.
Hood, Lord, 310.
Hood, Thomas, 94.
Hooper, Rev. William, 374.
Hooten, John, 283.
Hopkinton, Sir Charles Frankland's estate at, 162.
Horn Lane. See Bath Street.
Horse Pond, 329.
Horticultural Building, 294. Horticultural Hall, 42 ; statues on, 344.
Hospital Life Insurance Company founded, 317, 377.
Hotel Boylston, site of J. Q. Adams's residence, 319.
Hotel Pelham, 313.
Houchin's Corner, 70.
House of Correction, site of, 299 ; in Leverett Street, 375 ; at South Bos- ton, 375.
House of Industry, 376.
Hovey and Company, 389.
How, Edward C., 282.
Howard, Captain Anthony, 25.
Howard Atheneum, 40 ; site, 366. See Millerite Tabernacle ; opening, 368 ; burnt, 368 ; rebuilt and sketch of, 368.
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Howard, John, 48. Howard, S., 283. Howard, Simeon, 374.
Howard Street, 47; (Southack's Court), 48, 49.
Howe, Lord George, monument erected to, 241.
Howe, Sir William, 65, 69 ; at Bunker Hill, 70, 86, 90 ; arrival in Boston, 125, 127, 136, 160, 177, 207, 208, 225; residence, 236 ; at council of war, 243 ; sketch of, 244 ; address before battle of Bunker Hill, 245, 246 ;
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quarters of, 271, 373 ; stops destruc- tion of trees on Common, 306, 382, 432.
Hub of the Universe, Dr. Holmes ori- ginates the saying, 344.
Hubbard, Deacon, 231.
Hubbard, Thomas, residence, 389.
Hubbard, Tuthill, Postmaster of Bos- ton, 104.
Hudson, Francis, 202.
Hudson's Point, 5; (Mylne Point), 24; named, 202.
Hull, 116.
Hull, General, Lafayette visits, 364.
Hull, Hannah, 204; anecdote of, 212.
Hull, Commodore Isaac, at Exchange Coffee House, 99 ; anecdotes of, 99, 100, 139, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 290.
Hull, John, 51, 52, 204, 211 ; estab- lishes mint, 212 ; supposed residence of, 296.
Hull Street, 204; named, 211.
Humphries, General David, 100, 364.
Humphries, Mrs. General, residence of, 364.
Humphries, Joshua, designs frigate Constitution, 182, 192.
Hunnewell, Jonathan, 283.
Hunnewell, Richard, 283.
Hunnewell, Richard, Jr., 283.
Hunt, William M., 141.
Huntington, General, 364. Hurd, Mr., assists in planting trees of Great Mall, 306. William, 283. Hurdley, William, 282.
Hutchinson, Anne, 51, 62 ; trial and banishment of, 63, 226.
Hutchinson, Edward, residence of, 171, 200.
Hutchinson Street. See Pearl Street. Hutchinson, Thomas (Elder), 163, 164; residence of, 168, 175 ; buried, 207; gives land for school-house, 219.
Hutchinson, Governor Thomas, 31, 40, 63, 90, 102, 122, 125, 158 ; residence of, 166 ; sacked, 166 ; description, 167 ; sails for England, 167 ; house built, 168 ; succeeds Spencer Phips,
211, 223, 230, 233, 236, 240, 241, 267, 271, 278, 293, 308, 347, 399. 413.
I.
Iasigi, Mr., 344.
Inches, Henderson, 125; ropewalks of, 329.
Independent Cadets, march to Rhode Island, 250 ; quarters and sketch of, 293 ; disbanded, 294; reorganized, 294 ; escort Lafayette, 355.
Independent Chronicle, enterprise of, 433.
India Street, 109, 110 ; built, 111. India Wharf, 111.
Indians, Eastern, 8.
Indian Hill, West Newbury, 247.
Ingersoll, Joseph, innkeeper, 42, 105, 122.
Ingollson, Daniel, 283.
Insurance Office, first, 107.
Ipswich, 57.
Irving, Mr., 170.
Island of Boston, 152.
J.
Jackson, Andrew, 95 ; visits Boston, 139, 183, 185, 192, 193, 194 ; head of, 195 ; at Tremont House, 290, 373. Jackson, Judge Charles, 100.
Jackson, Dr., residence of, 365.
Jackson, General Henry, 182; anec- dote of his regiment, 430.
Jackson, James, 38, 61. Jackson, Hon. Jonathan, 43. Jacobs, Mr., 322.
Jamaica Pond, 23.
James I., 50. James II., 34, 237.
Jarvis, Leonard, 293.
Jarvis, Rev. Samuel F., 311.
Jason, American ship, 220.
Java, frigate, 190.
Jefferson, Thomas, 126 ; his embargo, 279 ; opinion of Samuel Adams, 308, 319.
Jeffrey (and Russell) purchase North Battery, 177.
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Jeffrey, Patrick, estate of, 25 ; Scollay's Building erected by, 75, 76.
Jeffrey's Wharf, 177. See North Bat- tery.
Jeffries, Dr. John, recognizes War- ren's body, 69 ; buried, 296, 363.
Jekyll, John, 50.
Jenks, Rev. William, 57, 219; his church and residence, 373.
Jenkins, Robert, 215.
Johnson, Lady Arabella, 35.
Johnson, Edward, 3; description of Boston, 17.
Johnson Hall, 59.
Johnson, Isaac, 10 ; his location, 35, 52, 59, 234.
Johnson, Samuel, 193.
Joliffe's Lane. See Devonshire Street. Jones, Inigo, 369.
Jones, Commodore Jacob, 186, 193.
Jones, John Coffin, 124 ; residence of, 148, 253, 389.
Jones, John Paul, sails from Boston in French fleet, 437.
Jones, Margaret, hung, 320.
Jones, Mrs., 256.
Jones, Thomas Kilby, Morton Place named for, 253.
Jonson, Ben, 61.
Josselyn, John, 17, 21.
Joy, Benjamin, 196, 385.
Joy, Dr. John, 333 ; shop and resi- dence, 338.
Joy Street, 338.
Joy's Buildings, corner Congress and Water, 37, 109 ; Washington Street, 84.
Julien Hall, 277.
Julien House (" Restorator "), site and sketch of, 270, 271.
Julien, Jean Baptiste, residence of, 270; dies, 271; widow succeeds him, 271.
Junon, British frigate, 191.
K.
Kean, Charles, 258.
Kean, Edmund, first plays in Boston,
257 ; second visit and riot, 257 ; anec- dote of, 258.
Keayne, Captain Robert, 58 ; house, 88, 137, 300.
Keith, Colonel, 383.
Keith, Lieutenant Robert, 221.
Kendrick, Captain John, 254. Kennedy, Timothy, murdered, 424. Kent, Benjamin, 269.
Kent, Duke of, in Boston, 390.
Kemble, Thomas, 13, 162.
Kidd, William, imprisoned in Boston Jail, 77 ; piracies, arrest and execu- tion, 77, 78.
Kilby, Christopher, residence of, 272 ; Kilby Street named for, 272.
Kilby Street, 23, 41, 105 ; description of, 109 ; Stamp Office in, 110 ; named, 272 ; filled, 288.
Kimball, Moses, 42.
King Philip, 40 ; Philip's War, 5, 83, 331.
King, Rufus, 82, 269.
King, Thomas Starr, sketch of, 415. Kingman, Edward, innkeeper, 392. King's Arms. See George Tavern.
King's Chapel, 28, 29; architect of, 29; history of, 30; description of Old Chapel, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 ; tombs under, 36, 46, 56, 61 ; Warren's re- mains deposited in, 69, 163 ; Gov- ernor Burnet attends, 239 ; Governor Shirley buried under, 267 ; over- crowded, 385 ; royal gifts to, 386, 394, 416.
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