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Phillips, William, Sr., 302.
Phillips's Pasture, 409.
Phips, Mary, anecdote of, 210.
Phips Place, 209.
Phips, Spencer, residence of, 211. See David Bennet.
Phips, Sir William, 200 ; residence, 209 ; arrival in Boston, 210, 211.
Phœbe, frigate, 171.
Pickering, John, 39.
Pickering, Timothy, 100.
Pierce's Alley (Change Avenue), 105.
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Pierce, William, shop of, 145, 283. Pierpont, Rev. John, sketch of, 415. Pierpont (and Storey), set in pillory, 93. Pillmore, Rev. Joseph, 172. Pillory, incidents of, 92, 93, 313. Pinckney Street, 334. Pine Street Church, 220.
Pitcairn, Major John, quarters of, 158, 159 ; death and burial, 217.
Pitt, William, 141.
Pitts, Hon. James, residence of, 369.
Pitts, Lendall, one of Tea Party lead- ers, 282, 283.
Pitts Street, Mexican Volunteers in, 379.
Pitts Wharf, 127.
Pleasant Street, 64, 305 ; laboratory in, 322 ; British works in, 328.
Pleiades or Seven Star Inn, site of, 387. Plymouth Colony, 2 ; relics of, 347.
Plymouth, Mass., 2.
Plymouth Rock, Choate's mot on, 219.
Poinsett, Joel R., 139, 192.
Point Alderton, 116, 188.
Point Judith, named for, 212.
Polk, James K., 385.
Pollard, Anne, her landing and deposi- tion, 5.
Pollard, Colonel Benjamin, 115.
Pomeroy, Colonel (British), 285.
Pomeroy, General Seth, 208.
Pomeroy, Zadock, 248. Pond Lane. See Bedford Street.
Pond Street. See Bedford.
Ponsonby, Lord, 97.
Poor debtors, 375.
Poore, Benjamin Perley, owner of Franklin's press, 80 ; relics of Prov- ince House, 247.
Pope, Alexander, 38.
Pope Day, 107 ; description of, 149, 150, 167 ; anniversary celebrated, 399.
Poplar Street, 370. Population of Boston, 20, 21.
Pormont, Philemon, 56.
Porter, David, Sr., residence of, 171. Porter, Commodore David, 111; res- idence of, 171, 186.
Porter, Admiral David D., 171.
Porter, Thomas, 282. Portland Street, 126, 145. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 45 ; first stage-coach to, 26.
Portsmouth, flying stage-coach, 26. Post-Office in Old State House, 89 ; on site Brazier's Building, 92; in Mer- chants' Exchange, 269 ; history and locations of, 104; corner Congress and Water Streets, 104; New, 141, 254 ; in Summer Street, 385.
Post-routes, first established, 104; post-rider to Hartford, 253.
Pound, site of, 300.
Powder, scarcity of, in American camp, 430, 431.
Powder-house on the Common, 329 ; at West Boston, 329 ; duel near, 332 ; on the Copley tract, 334 ; descrip- tion of, 334.
Powder-mill, first in New England, 118.
Powell, Charles S., first manager of Federal Street Theatre, 256, 257 ; fits up a theatre in Hawley Street, 261 ; opens Haymarket, 318.
Powell, Jeremiah, 346.
Powers, Hiram, 38, 345.
Powers, Michael, hanged, 424.
Pownall, Governor Thomas, 40, 236, 240 ; anecdote of, 241, 348.
Pratt, Benjamin, office and description of, 402.
Preble, Ebenezer, residence of, 382.
Preble, Edward E., 195.
Preble, Commodore Edward, 111, 186, 187, 211.
Preble, Captain George H., 179, 184.
Prentis's, Captain Henry, residence of, 148, 282.
Prescott, Colonel William, sword of, 40, 208.
Prescott, Judge William, 277 ; resi- dence of, 390.
Prescott, W. H., 38 ; residence of, 333 ; blindness, and literary work, 334.
President's Roads, 187.
Preston, Captain Thomas, 71, 85 ; de- fence, 126, 166, 266 ; trial, 402. Price, Roger, 386.
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Price, William, 32.
Prince, John, residence of, 275, 283. Prince Library, 234.
Prince of Orange, 401.
Prince Street, 151, 153, 162, 202 :
named, 219; description, 219 ; British barracks in, 219. See Black Horse Lane.
Prince, Thomas, 52; library burned, 231.
Prince's Pasture, 376.
Princess Louise, 272.
Prison Lane, 229.
Proctor, Edward, 282.
Proctor's Lane, 219. Street.
See Richmond
Proctor's School-house, 223.
Prospect Hill, 203.
Protector, frigate, 211.
Protector, ship, 186.
Province Hospital, location of, 369.
Province House, 64, 65, 225, 232 ; his- tory and description of, 235 to 248 ; location, 235 ; first gubernatorial oc- cupant, 236 ; successive inhabitants, 236 to 245; robbery in, 242; Lex- ington expedition planned in, 242 ; divulged by a groom, 243 ; Church's treason discovered in, 243; built, 246 ; purchased by the colony, 246 ; occupied by State officers, 246 ; styled Government House, 246 ; sold, 246 ; relics of, 247, 293, 431. Province Pest-House. See Hospital. Province Snow, 48.
Province Street, 64.
Provincial Congress, 159.
Public Garden occupied by ropewalks, 324; a marsh, 325; secured to the city, 325 ; Ticknor's bequest, 352. Public Library, 313 ; relic in, 323.
Pudding Lane, 98.
Pulaski, Count, 264, 310.
Purchase Street, 87; named, 273 ; rope-field in, 273; birthplace of Samuel Adams, 281 ; description of, 309.
Purkett, Henry, anecdote of, 264, 282, 410.
Putnam, Colonel, 364.
Putnam, General Israel, 69, 129; at Bunker Hill, 207, 208, 220 ; to as- sault Boston, 359; commands in Doston, 382, 432.
Quakers, 15; persecution of, 268 ; build first brick meeting - house, 268.
Quaker Burying-Ground, site and his- tory of, 267, 268 ; remains exhumed, 268.
Quaker Lane, 101. See Congress Street.
Quaker Meeting-house, 101; site and history of, 267, 268 ; burnt, 267 ; in Milton Place, 268.
Queen's Ball last held in Boston, 246.
Queen's Chappell, 33.
Queen Street, 65 ; changed to Court, 77 ; Franklin's printing-office, 80. Queen's Light Dragoons, 231.
Quincy Block, 279.
Quincy, Dorothy. See Hancock and Scott.
Quincy, Edmund (son of Josiah), 212. Quincy, E. S., 54, 188.
Quincy, Josiah, 14, 23, 82 ; improves Town Dock, 128, 129, 130, 139, 196 ; birthplace, 248; establishes House of Industry and Reformation, 249 ; President of Harvard, 249 ; anecdotes of, 250, 279, 354 ; reception of La- fayette, 356 ; Neck paved by, 421.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (Mayor), 23; res- idence, 357.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (patriot), resi- dence, 248 ; dies, 249 ; sketch of, 249 ; Mrs. Sigourney's lines on, 249. Quincy, Judith, 212.
Quincy, Mass., President Monroe at, 100.
Quincy Market, 127 ; description, 128, 129.
Quincy Place, 275, 280 ; trees in, 409. Quincy, town of, 14, 26.
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R.
Railways, experiment, 26, 278; Low- ell, 26, 151, 350; Worcester, 26; Providence, 26 ; Maine, 26, 151 ; Eastern, 26, 151, 350 ; Old Colony, 27; Fitchburg, 27, 151; Hartford and Erie (Norfolk County), 27.
Rainbow, British ship, 220.
Rainsford, Edward, 404.
Rainsford's Island, 188.
Rainsford's Lane. See Harrison Ave- nue.
Rand, Isaac, 363.
, Randolph, Edward, first Collector, 34, 156, 157, 200 ; imprisoned, 285.
Randolph, town of, 14.
Rantoul, Robert, portrait of, 346.
Ratcliff, Rev. Robert, 34.
Rawdon, Francis, 203. Rawson, Edward, 222. Rawson, Grindal, 3.
Rawson's Lane. See Bromfield Street.
Raymond, James, 394.
Read, John, residence of, 402.
Red Lyon Inn, site of, 156 ; fire of 1676, 169.
Red Lyon Wharf, 157.
Reed, Commodore George W., 189.
Reed, Joshua, 429.
Reed, William, store attacked, 224. Rehoboth, 5.
Repertory, The (newspaper), 91.
Reservoir grounds, 338, 350, 352.
Revenge Church. See Second Church. Revere, Paul, 32, 61 ; celebrated ride, 69 ; shop, 118; foundry, 120, 148, 149 ; residence of, 159, 211; en- graves and prints money for Pro- vincial Congress, 159, 173, 182 ; narrative of ride to Lexington, 214, 243, 282; shop, 338; illustrates Stamp Act repeal, 359, 371.
Revere House, site of, 371; named, 371 ; distinguished guests, 371. Revere Place, 211.
Revere's cannon and bell foundry, 200. Rice, Benjamin, 282. Richards, John, shipyard of, 178.
Riedesel, General Baron, 231, 324. Rimmer, Dr., 344.
Riot of 1863, 142.
Ripley, Henry J., residence of, 222. Robertson, Alexander, 313.
Robin, L'Abbé, his description of Bos- ton, 18, 19, 114.
Robinson, John, assaults James Otis, 108, 253.
Robinson, William, executed, 330.
Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste, Count de, 18, 61 ; army of, 113, 429.
Rochefoucauld, Liancourt, Duke de, 141.
Rochester, Earl of, 34.
Rodgers, Commodore John, 186, 188.
Roebuck Passage, 131. See Merchant's Row.
Roebuck Tavern, 131.
Rog, John P., hanged, 424.
Rogers, Daniel D., residence of, 358.
Rogers, Isaiah, architect of Tremont House, 290; of Tremont Theatre, 293 ; of Howard Athenæum, 368.
Rogers, Simon, innkeeper, 428.
Rogers, Rev. William M., 259.
Roman Catholic Church, mass first celebrated in, 64.
Romney, frigate, 170. Romney, Lord, 78.
Ropes, William, residence of, 366.
Ropewalks, first, 273 ; in Pearl Street, 273 ; at Barton's Point, 273 ; riot at, in Pearl Street, 274; at the foot of Common, 324 ; burnt, 325 ; title of proprietors purchased, 325 ; on Bea- con Hill, 329, 352.
Rose, frigate, 34.
Ross, General, burns Washington, 369.
Rostopchin, Governor, burning of Mos- cow, 320.
Rouillard, innkeeper, 254.
Round Marsh, The, 305.
Rowe, John, suggests throwing the tea overboard, 230 ; residence of, 390.
Rowe Street named, 230, 390.
Rowe's Wharf, 109, 284. Rowse, Samuel, 40.
Richmond Street, 19, 155, 156, 157,198. Rowson, Mrs. Susanna, at Federal
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Street Theatre, 258 ; establishes Saltonstall, Colonel Richard, 33. school for young ladies, 259 ; school, Salutation Street (Alley), 175. 429.
Roxbury, 17 ; annexed, 23.
Royal Custom House, site in 1770, 97, 98.
Royal Deux Ponts regiment, 434 ; uni- form, 435.
Royal Exchange Lane, 96.
Royal Exchange, London, 136.
Royal Exchange Tavern, location of, 96, 97, 98.
Royal Marines, part of, in Lexington expedition, 304.
Ruby, Ann, 206.
Rudhall, Abel, 214, 215.
Ruggles, Samuel, builds Faneuil Hall, 135.
Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thomp- son), 39 ; apprentice in Cornhill, 86, 87, 154.
Russell, Benjamin, 100, 207 ; anecdote of, 266 ; anecdote and residence of, 38S.
Russell, John, 282.
Russell, Joseph, 76. See Green.
Russell, Joseph, Jr., 389.
Russell, Thomas, 96, 180, 184, 253, 383.
Russell, Hon. Thomas, Collector of Boston, 169.
Russell, William, 283.
S.
Sabin, Thomas, puts on first stage to Providence, 392.
Sabine, Lorenzo, 97, 410.
Sailor's Home, 87.
Saint Andrew's Lodge, 150.
Saint Helena, 139. Saint James Hotel, 96.
Saint Maime, Count de, 435.
Saint-Onge (regiment), 435.
Salem, 25, 27, 35. Salem Church, 219, 220.
Salem Street, 7 ; widened, 145; called Back Street, 153; description of, 213, 219 ; origin, 219; Massachu- setts Spy printed in, 223.
Salutation Tavern, site of, 175 ; ren- dezvous of the Boston Caucus, 176. Sandeman, Robert, 107, 212. See Mein.
Sandemanians, first meetings of, 150 ; Chapel, 172.
Saratoga, battle of, 87, 103.
Sargent, Henry, 104, 141.
Sargent, Lucius M. (Sigma), 114, 332, 353, 384.
Savage, Arthur, 217, 218.
Savage, James, 227.
Savannah, Ga., 103.
Savings Bank (Tremont Street), 37. Savings Bank founded by, 417.
Scarlet, Elizabeth, 206.
Scarlet Letter, 92; description of, 93. Scarlett's Wharf, 114 ; description of, 168.
Scarlett's Wharf Lane, 168. See Fleet Street.
School Street, 28, 32, 56, 57, 63, 67.
Schwartzenburg, Prince, 321.
Scollay's Buildings, 37; description of, 74 ; history of, 75, 76 ; spinning school on site of, 302, 388.
Scollay, John, 74.
Scollay, William, 39, 74 ; residence of, 75 ; improvement of Franklin Street, 254.
Scollay Square, 74, 97. Sconce. See South Battery.
Sconce Lane. See Hamilton Street. Scoot, Thomas, 206.
Scott, Madam Dorothy, 124 ; residence of, 264 ; dies, 265 ; witnesses battle of Lexington, 265 ; anecdotes of, 265. Scott, Captain James, 264.
Scott, General Winfield, presents flag to Mexican Volunteers, 379.
Scotto, Thomas, 58. Seafort, ship, 178.
Seamen's Bethel founded, 373.
Sears's Building, 82, 83. Post-Office on site of, 104.
Sears, David, 196; residence, 334 ; commands Cadets, 337; mansion, 337, 389, 396.
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Second Baptist Church, location and Sheaffe, Margaret, 97. sketch of, 222, 223.
Second Church (New Brick), 84; history and location of, 155, 156, 158, 161. Seekonk Branch Railroad Company located on South Cove, 411.
Segur, Louis Philippe, Count de, 19; account of Boston Society in 1782, 362, 435.
Selfridge, Thomas O., kills Austin, 114.
Serapis, frigate, 180.
Sergeant, Peter, builds Province House, 236, 246.
Seven Dials, 153.
Seven Star Inn. See Pleiades.
Seven Star Lane, Summer Street so- called, 387 ..
Sever, James, 184.
Sewall's Elm Pasture, 52.
Sewall, Jonathan, 273, 364.
Sewall, Rev. Joseph, 138, 232.
Sewall, Samuel, 13, 35 ; residence of, 51 ; marriage, 52 ; presides at witch- craft trials, 52, 204, 211, 228, 271 ; buried, 296, 362 ; plants trees, 409. Sewall Street, 52. Seward, Major, 206.
Shattuck, Lemuel, 365.
Shaw, Charles, 6, 8, 37, 102, 109.
Shaw, Chief Justice, 83.
Shaw, Francis, residence of, 158. Shaw, Lemuel, Chief Justice, 283 ; usher of Franklin School, 417.
Shaw, Robert G., residence of, 158.
Shaw, Major Samuel, residence of, 158 ; challenges Lieutenant Wragg, 159. Shaw, William S., 38. Shawmut, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10.
Shays, Daniel, 103.
Shays's Rebellion, 361. Shea, Lieutenant, anecdote of, 217. Sheaffe, Helen, 65.
Sheaffe, Mrs., 53 ; residence of, 74, 410. Sheaffe, Sir Roger Hale, 97, 154; resi- dence and sketch of, 410, 411.
Sheaffe Street supposed residence of John Hull, 212.
Sheaffe, William, 65 ; Deputy Collec- tor in 1770, 97.
Sheaffe, Susanna, 97. Shed, Joseph, 282. Sheehan's Pond, 329.
Sheerness, British man-of-war, 332. Shelburne, Lord, 398.
Shelcock, Richard, innkeeper, 112. Shepard, Colonel, 275.
Shepard, Preston, innkeeper, 248. Sheppard, John H., 221.
Sheriff, Captain, 137.
Shirley, Frances, 32.
Shirley, Governor William, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 42, 62 ; supersedes Belcher, 102; returns from Louisburg, 115, 140, 162, 179, 211, 215, 236 ; resi- dence of, 239 ; colonial stamp tax, 239, 240 ; events of his administra- tion, 240; funeral of, 267; troops for Louisburg, 326 ; gifts to Trinity Church, 387.
Shirley, William, Jr., killed, 240.
Ship Street (North), 153; description of, 168.
Ship Tavern, site and history of, 174, 175, 178.
Short, Captain Richard, 210.
Short Street (Kingston), 45.
Shubrick, Commodore William B., 186.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., 8, 62.
Shute, Samuel, 31, 49, 102, 236, 247.
Shreve, Crump, and Low, 390.
Shrimpton's Lane, 56, 96.
Shrimpton, Colonel Samuel, 56.
Sidewalks in Boston, 22.
Siege of Boston, 86.
Sigourney, Lieutenant James, 221.
Sigourney, Lydia H., 35.
Simons, Henry, 151. Simpson, Daniel, 150.
Simpson, Isaac, 282.
Sister Street, 262 ; name changed, 280. See Leather Street.
Sixty-fifth British Regiment, 32.
Sixty-fourth British Regiment, 285. Skillin, Simeon, 92. Slater, Peter, 282. Slavery, negro, 13 ; white, 13, 14, 183. Sloper, Samuel, 282. Snelling, Colonel Josiah, 221.
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Snow, Caleb H., 133 ; residence of. 158. Snow Hill. See Copp's Hill.
Snow-Hill Street, 198, 204.
Snow, Rev. W. T., 67.
Small, General John, 69, 125. Small-pox parties, 389.
Smibert, John, residence of, 72 ; studio, 73 ; architect of Faneuil Hall, 135, 165, 334.
Smibert, Mary (Williams), 72, 276 ; Governor Oliver a patron. 279.
Smibert, Nathaniel, 72.
Smith, Abiel, 196. Smith, Barney, 230.
Smith, Captain, 357.
Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis, commands Lexington expedition, 242, 304.
Smith, J. V. C., 331.
Smith, Dr. Oliver, 306.
Smith, Richard, innkeeper, 112 ; keeps Crown Coffee House, 112.
Smith, Sydney, 129.
Smith, W. H., 40, 378.
Society of the Cincinnati, 71 ; met at Bunch of Grapes, 105 ; anecdote of, 367.
Soissonnais (regiment), 435. Somers, Lord, 78.
Somerset, British frigate, 203, 214, 217. Somerset Club House, 363. Somerset Court. See Ashburton Place.
Somerset, Mass., 52.
Somerset Place (Allston Street), 363.
Somerset Street, Webster's house in, 46; named for, 52; conveyed to town, 52, 363. See Valley Acre.
Somerset, The, 363 ; house built, 363; Lafayette lodges in, 363.
Sons of Liberty, 331 ; Stamp Act re- peal, 359, 396, 397, 398. Sontag, Madame, 394. Southack's Court, 48. Southack Street, 370.
Southack, Cyprian, 48, 49, 302.
South Allen Street, called Fayette Street, 316. See McLean Street.
South Battery (Rowe's Wharf), 109,
115, 158, 251 ; blown up, 272 ; de- scription of, 284, 327. See Sconce. South Berwick, Me., 26.
South Boston, 23, 25; City institu- tions, 376.
South Boston Bridge, 7.
South Boston Point, 338.
South Burying-Ground (Washington Street), gates of, 96; Granary so called, 296.
South Cove, 7, 8 ; improvement, 411. South End, 10.
South Margin Street, 150.
South Market Street, built, 129, 130.
South Meeting-house. See Old South, 228, 229. South Mills, 151.
South Street, 7.
Souverain, French ship, 437.
South Writing-School, location and in- cident of, 314 ; concealment of can- non in, 314.
Sparhawk, Nathaniel, 384.
Sparks, Jared, 233. Spear, Nathan, 129.
Spear, Samuel, 349.
Spear, Thomas, 283.
Spear's Wharf, 129.
Spinning-schools, establishment of,302.
Sprague, Charles, 364; impromptu on Lafayette's reception, 354 ; home, 416 ; anecdote of, 417.
Sprague, Samuel, 283. Spring Gate, 234.
Spring Lane, 10, 39, 109, 234.
Springs of water, 10, 22.
Spurr, John, 282.
Spurzheim, John Gaspard, residence of, 275.
Stackpole House, 254. Stackpole, William, 254. Stamps of Colonial Stamp Act, 239, 240. Stamp Act, celebration of repeal, 358, 359.
Staniford Street, 370.
Stanley, Lord, 204 ; visits Boston, 341, 367.
Stark, General John, relics of Ben- nington, 346. Starr, James, 282.
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State Bank, 95, 104, 201.
State House (new), 336, 339 ; built on Hancock's Pasture, 339; architect of, 343 ; styled the "Hub," 344 ; history of, 344 ; statue of Webster, 344 ; of Horace Mann, 345 ; of Gov- ernor Andrew, and General Wash- ington, 345 ; tablets in, 345 ; Lafay- ette's reception in, 345, 346 ; Senate Chamber, portraits and revolution- ary relics in, 346 ; ancient codfish in Representatives' Chamber, 348, 355 ; faulty proportions of, 370.
State Street, 26, 41; Governor Lever- ett's house, 83 ; early settlers in, 88 ; celebration of Declaration of Inde- pendence, 91 ; widened, 101 ; called the Broad Street, 101 ; Jeremiah Dummer born in, 103 ; retrospective view of, 113 ; military displays in, 113 ; fire of 1711, 113 ; affray in, 114 ; signs in, 146.
Statues, public, 344, 345.
Stavers, Bartholomew, 26.
Stebbins, Mrs., 407.
Stebbins, Miss, 345.
Steele, John, commands North Bat- tery, 177 ; ropewalk, 370.
Stevens, Ebenezer, 282, 295.
Stevenson, Marmaduke, hung, 330.
Stevenson, Mary, 5.
Stewart, Charles, 186 ; commands Con- stitution, 191, 194.
Stewart, Captain, 62.
Stewart, T. L., 378. Stewart, W., 378.
Stillman, Rev. Samuel, residence of, 222; buried, 296. Stillman Street, named, 222.
St. Andrew, Holborn, 67. St. Andrew's Lodge, 196.
St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Eng- land, 6, 7, 50.
St. Clair, General Arthur, 221.
St. Mary Woolnoth, church of, 210.
St. Paul's, Warren's remains entombed in, 69 ; architect of, 310 ; descrip- tion of, 311 ; a new era of church architecture, 311 ; fourth Episcopal church, 311.
St. Paul's, London, England, 32. St. Vincent, Lord, 407. Stocks, location of, 92. Stoddard, Mr., 217. Stoddard, Mrs., 21. Stone, Captain, 15. Stone Chapel, 33. See King's Chapel. Stone, General Ebenezer W., 147.
Stone, Emily, 206. Stone, innkeeper, 96.
Storer, Mr., 389.
Storey. See Pierpont.
Storrs, Rev. Richard S., 415.
Story, Joseph, 44, 100 ; anecdote of, 249 ; opinion of Dexter, 353.
Stoughton, Governor William, 148. Strafford, Earl of, 51.
Strong, Governor Caleb, sword of, 40 ; resides in Province House, 246 ; sketch of, 246, 247 ; builds works on Noddle's Island, 247 ; personal appearance, 247 ; town residence of, 307, 364.
Stuart, Gilbert, 38 ; portrait of Knox, 86; of Washington, 141 ; anecdote of Talleyrand, 142, 276 ; residence of, 407 ; sketch and anecdotes of, 407, 408.
Stuart, Jane, 407.
Sub-Treasury (Exchange), 103.
Sudbury Lane, 47. See Sudbury Street. Sudbury Street, 41; Governor Eustis lives in, 367, 369 ; trees in, 409. Sudbury River, 23.
Sullivan, James, 39, 114, 201 ; tomb of, 296 ; residence of, 371 ; sketch of, 388, 433.
Sullivan, General John, 359, 381.
Sullivan, Richard, anecdote of, 388. Sullivan, William, 32, 190, 280, 388. Sully, Thomas, 276, 336.
Summer Street, 46, 201, 227 ; descrip- tion and residents of, 381 ; called Mylne Street, 381.
Sumner, Governor Increase, 344 ; por- trait of, 346.
Sumner, General W. H., 243, 346, 348, 367.
Sumner Street. See Mount Vernon. Sun Court Street, 159, 161, 287.
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Sun Fire Office in Boston, 107.
Sun Tavern, General Dearborn's res- idence, 106, 286 ; other taverns of same name, 286.
Surriage, Agnes (Lady Frankland), 162, 163. Swan, James, residence of, 283, 313. Swasey, Major, 383.
Swedenborg, Baron, 280. Swift, General Joseph G., 100. Swing Bridge, 127.
Symmes, Andrew, Jr., 66.
T.
T Wharf, 114, 115.
Tabernacle, Millerite, location, 367 ; incidents of, 367, 368 ; changed into a theatre and destroyed, 368. Talbot, Commodore Isaac, 187, 196. Talleyrand, Prince, in Boston, 141 ; amour of, 142.
Talleyrand, Perigord, anecdote of, 435. Tarleton, Colonel, 436.
Taylor, Rev. E. T. (Father), residence of, 169.
Taylor's Insurance Office, 196.
Tea Party, 72, 115, 120, 148, 149 ; meeting, 229, 230, 231, 264 ; route of, 271 ; arrival at Griffin's Wharf, 281 ; names of, 282; anecdotes of, 282, 283, 284. Tedesco, Fortunata, 368. Temple, Sir John, 337, 349. Temple, Robert, 215. Temple Street, named, 350.
Territory included in Boston, 14; en- largement of, 23. Thacher, James, 430.
Thacher, Peter, 39, 123, 155 ; installa- tion, 173. Thacher, Peter O., 38 ; office, 402. Thacher, Samuel C., 38. Thatcher, Mary, 204. Thacher, Rev. Thomas, 227. Thaxter, Adam W., 141. Thayer, Ephraim, 182. Theatre Alley, 254. See Devonshire Street.
The Great Artillery. See Ancient and Honorable Artillery, 137.
Thirty-eighth British Regiment, 113, 116 ; arrival of, 170.
Thomas and Andrews, bookstore of, 391. Thomas, Isaiah, 79, 80, 98, 100, 107 ; prints Massachusetts Spy, 223 ; bookstore, 223, 252; anecdote of, 413, 433.
Thomas, Mr., body of, exhumed, 216. Thompson's Island, incident of pur- chase, 431.
Thorndike's Building, 287.
Thorndike, Israel, 389.
Thorne, Charles R., 259. Thornton, J. Wingate, 365. Thornton's Shipyard, 181.
Thorwaldsen, 344. Three Doves, 146, 147.
Three Nuns and a Comb, 146.
Three Sugar Loaves and Canister, 146.
Ticknor, George, residence of, 353.
Ticknor, Mrs., 364.
Ticonderoga, removal of cannon from, 86, 87.
Tileston, John, residence of, 218.
Tileston Street, 174, 213 ; named, 218. Tileston, Thomas, 66.
Tilley's Wharf, 180.
Tingey, Commodore, 382.
Tinville, Fouquier, 436. Tippecanoe, battle of, 168.
Tontine Crescent, 39 ; built, 254 ; de- scription of, 255.
Topliff's Reading Room, 269.
Topography of Boston, 7. Tout, Elizabeth, 206. Tower, Abraham, 222. Town Bull, 129. Town Cove, 7, 8, 115, 177.
Town Dock, 7, 8, 19, 102, 108; de- scription of, 126, 127 ; corn market at, 141, 152, 389.
Town House, 34 ; (Old State House), 58, 89 ; Pillory and Stocks in front of, 92 ; Post-Office in, 104 ; burnt, 113 ; massacre, 126, 285, 399, 400. Town Pump, location of, 84, 118 ; an other in North Square, 159. Town Records, 19.
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INDEX.
Town Watering-Place, 381. Townsend, Colonel Penn, 289. Transcript, Boston, 267. Trask, Isaac, innkeeper, 248. Trask, Nabby, 248.
Traveller Building. See Columbian Centinel.
Traverse Street, Warren and Eagle Theatres in, 378.
Trefry, Widow, 26.
Trees, disappearance of, 409 ; planting of, by early settlers, 409, 410.
Tremont House, 289 ; built, and anec- dotes of, 290, 291 ; Common extends to, 296, 353.
Tremont Row, 47, 56 ; Choate's office in, 82 ; Dr. Lloyd's in, 363.
Tremont Street, 9, 10, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 47, 48, 49, 63, 65, 68, 70, 72, 75 ; Faneuil's house in, 135 ; description of, 289 ; Long Acre, 289 ; muster of Earl Percy's brigade, 304 ; Mather Byles a resident of, 412 ; a part called Nassau and Holyoke Street, 412 ; opened to Roxbury, 412. Tremont Temple burnt, 292.
Tremont Theatre, history of, 291 ; cast at opening, 292; managers, 292 ; description of, 293, 378.
Triangular Warehouse, 130, 131. Trimountain, 6, 17.
Trinity Church, 30; description and history of, 386, 387 ; General Wash- ington attends, 387, 416. Trinity Church, New York, 227.
Triomphant, French ship, 437. Tripoli, 171. Trucks, long, 177.
Truckmen, 177.
Truman, John, 283.
Trumbull Gallery (Yale), 73.
Trumbull, Jonathan, 414.
Trumbull, Colonel John, 69 ; studio in Boston, 73 ; paintings 74, 269, 336 ; exploit of, 426.
Truxton, Commodore Thomas, 182.
Tucker, Joseph, rebuilds Christ Church steeple, 214.
Tucker, Commodore Samuel, residence of, 220 ; exploits, 221.
Tuckerman, H. T., home of, 421. Tuckerman, Joseph, 38.
Tudor, Frederick, founds the ice trade, 304.
Tudor, Deacon John, 175.
Tudor, William (Judge), 82, 304. Tudor, Madam, 175.
Tudor, William, Jr., 38 ; originates North American Review, 304 ; pro- poses a monument on Bunker Hill, 304.
Tudor's Buildings, 82.
Tun and Bacchus, 146.
Tupper, General Benjamin, exploit on Boston Neck, 427.
Turell, Mr., 123 ; Captain, 161.
Turner, Robert, innkeeper, 122.
Tuttle, Charles W., 272.
Twelfth Congregational Church, 64. Twenty-third British Regiment, part of, in Lexington expedition, 304.
Twenty-ninth British Regiment, 89 ; quarters, 121, 123 ; at the Massacre, 126 ; on the Common, 326.
Twickenham, 145. Two Palaverers. See Salutation Tav- ern, 176.
Tyler, Royal, 269.
Tyler, sculptor of London, England, 32.
Tyng, Captain Edward, 179.
U.
Uhlans, 436.
Umbrellas first used in Boston, 116.
Union Bank, 113.
Union Church, 148. Union College, 262.
Union Hill, 203.
Union Street, 10, 126, 130 ; named, 145 ; widened, 147.
United States Bank, first location, 92 ; directors of, 389; in 1824, 94; sketch of, 95 ; second location, 95 ; Eagle from old Bank, 95 ; iron gates of, 96 ; third location, 96, 104, 295. United States frigate, 181 ; accident to, 183. United States Hotel, located on South Cove, 411.
INDEX. 481
Universalist Church, School Street, 63, Wadsworth, Recompense, first master 64. of North Latin School, 218.
University Hall (Cambridge), 370.
University of Utrecht, 103.
Upshall, Nicholas, residence of, 157. Urann, Thomas, 282.
Uring, Captain Nathaniel, account of the Neck, 419.
Urghart, James, 383.
Ursuline Convent in Boston, 256.
Usher, Mr., Andros confined in house of, 285.
V.
Valley Acre, situation of, 365, 369.
Valparaiso, Essex blockaded in, 171.
Van Buren, Martin, visits Boston, 139, 185, 192.
Vane, Sir Henry, 50; executed, 51, 108, 109, 226.
Vardy, Luke, keeps Royal Exchange Tavern, 96.
Vassall, Florentine, 31, 32.
Vassall, John, 55.
Vassall, Leonard, residence of, 389.
Vassall, William, 31, 76 ; residence of, 389.
Vaudreuil, M. de, 61 ; fleet of, in Bos- ton, 437.
Vaughan, Charles, 39; improves Frank- lin Street, 254. Vergennes, Count de, 58.
Vermont, ship-of-the-line, 185.
Vernon, Admiral Edward (Old Grog), 110.
Vernon Street, 375.
Vidal, Captain, 142.
Vila, James, innkeeper, 105.
Vine Street, built. 376.
Viómenil, General, 356; entry into Boston in 1782, 433, 434.
Virginia, ship-of-the-line, 185.
Vyal, John, innkeeper, 174.
W.
Wade, Edward, 26. Wadsworth, James, bounty for rats, 395.
Wakefield, Cyrus, 124.
Wales, Prince of, in Boston, 371.
Walker, Admiral Sir H., 48.
Walker, Robert, 305.
Wallach, Mr., 262. Wallcut, Mr., 39.
Waller, Edmund, 181.
Walley, Thomas, 196.
Walnut Street, 334 ; residents of, 337, 338.
Waltham Street, sea wall built to, 420.
Walter, Arthur M., 38.
Ward, General Artemas, 69; com- mands in Boston, 382 ; relieved, 383, 432.
Wardell, Jonathan, 25, 70.
Wards, division into, civil and military, 21.
Warren, John C., 38, 61, 247 ; resi- dence of, 297, 311, 376.
Warren, Dr. John, house, 60.
Warren, Joseph, birthplace of, 60 ; residence of, 68; manner of his death, 69, 70, 124 ; portrait, 140, 148, 149, 176, 203, 211, 214 ; bullet which killed him, 218; address in Old South, 228, 248, 269 ; chaise of, 274, 283 ; remains placed in Granary Ground, 297, 308, 311 ; a student of medicine, 363 ; Governor Eustis stud- ies with, 366 ; anecdote of, 423.
Warren Street, Roxbury, 61.
Warren Theatre, 378.
Warren, William, 40 ; début in Boston, 368.
Washington Artillery, 288.
Washington Bank, site of, 404.
Washington Gardens, old Masonic Temple built on site of, 312 ; loca- tion of, 312 ; history of, 313.
Washington, George, 31, 38 ; visit of, to Boston, 42, 43, 44, 58 ; visits Boston, 1756, 62, 66, 73 ; third visit, 91, 124; portrait by Stuart, 141, 158; ap- proves building six frigates, 181 ; first monument to, 216, 220 ; de- feated, 244, 266, 279, 285, 310 ; stat-
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INDEX.
ues of, 344, 345 ; orders Boston at- tacked, 359, 373 ; attends Brattle Street and Trinity in 1789, 387 ; Stuart's portrait of, 408 ; orders levelling of works on Neck, 426 ; uniform of, 429 ; arms of, 431; en- try into Boston, 1776, 432. Washington Hall, site of, 430.
Washington House, site of, 429.
Washington Hotel. See Hall.
Washington Market, 426 ; site of, 429. Washington, Martha, 38.
Washington Monument, 278.
Washington Place, 288 ; Gilbert Stu- art's residence in, 407.
Washington Street, 20, 22, 35 ; (Corn- hill, Marlborough, Newbury, Or- ange), 102 ; great fire of 1787, 416 ; narrowness of, 419; named, 420 ; extent of, 420.
Washington Theatre. See Garden, 313. Washington Village, 23.
Wasp, American ship, 280.
Watch-house on Beacon Hill, 334.
Water, supply of, 22, 23.
Water Street, 37 ; bridge at foot of, 109, 141 ; description of, 234 ; Brit- ish barrack in, 234 ; trees in, 409. Watertown, 159. Webb, John, 173, 174.
Webb, Mr., leaves legacy for Alms- house, 300.
Webster Buildings, 46.
Webster, Daniel, 44; law office, 44 ; school, 45 ; anecdotes of, 45, 46, 47 ; first office, 79, 82, 124, 140 ; portrait in Faneuil Hall, 140, 150, 279 ; statue of, 344, 353 ; Lafayette visits, 365 ; anecdotes of, 382; receives Lafayette, 382 ; defends Powers, 424.
Webster, Edward, died, 46, 379. Webster, Ezekiel, 45.
Webster, Fletcher, killed, 46.
Webster, John White, residence of, 165 ; execution of, 375, 378.
Webster, Redford, residence of, 165. Weekly Rehearsal, 234.
Welsh Fusileers at Bunker Hill, 203, 229, 285.
Wells, S. A., 141. Wells, William, 38. Wellfleet, 49
Welsteed, Rev. William, 336.
Wendell, Jacob, 42, 65, 115.
Wendell, John, 42.
Wendell, Oliver, 65, 66 ; residence of, 279.
Wentworth, Mrs., 389. Wesley, John, 172.
Wesleyan Association Building, site of Indian Queen, 248.
West, Benjamin, 38, 336 ; Stuart a pupil of, 408.
West Church (Lynde Street), 72, 234 ; windmill near, 369 ; history of, 374, 416.
West Boston, 10; windmill at, 199; Powder House at, 329 ; defence of, 362 ; description of, 369, 370 ; streets of, 370 ; town institutions at, 374.
West Boston Bridge, 369.
West End, 10.
West Hill, mortar battery on, 325.
West Newbury, Franklin's press at, 80
West, Raphael, 408.
West Row, location of, 371.
West Roxbury, 23.
West, Rev. Samuel, 415.
West Street, 10, 93 ; limit of, the Mall, 306 ; Haymarket in, 313; Whipping- Post and Pillory near, 313.
Western Avenue (Mill Dam), 25. Westminster Abbey, 32.
Wetherle, Joshua, appointed mint- master, 422.
Wetmore, Judge, 403.
Wetmore, William, 389.
Whalley, General Edward, 55. Wharton and Bowes, shop of, 85.
Wheatley, John, 233.
Wheatley, Phillis, residence and sketch of, 233.
Wheeler, Benjamin, 66. Wheeler, David, 20. Wheeler, Josiah, 282 ; builds Hollis Street Church, 415. Wheeler, Mr., 322.
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INDEX.
Wheeler's Point, 25 ; trees planted on, 409.
Wheelwright's Wharf, British barracks on, 274, 284, 358.
Whidah (ship), 49.
Whig Club, 269.
Whipping-Post, location of, 92, 313. Whiston, Mr., 314, 315.
White Horse Tavern, site and sketch of, 392, 393.
White, Marcy, 206.
White Plains, battle of, 87.
Whitebread Alley. See Harris Street.
Whitefield, Rev. George, 64, 102 ; preaches on the Common, 358.
Whiting, William, 74.
Whitman, Zachariah, 416.
Whitmore, W. H., 122.
Whitney, Colonel, 287.
Whittington, Richard, 131.
Whitwell, William, 387.
Wilder, Marshall P., 365.
Wildes, Ephraim, innkeeper, 154.
Wilkes, John, 52, 269, 432.
Willard, Solomon, architect of United States Bank, 94, 310 ; sketch of, 311 ; architect of Bunker Hill Monument, 312 ; discovers Bunker Hill Quarry, 312, 337.
William and Mary, 210.
William III., charter of, 209, 237.
Williams College, 120.
Williams Court, 338.
Williams John, 170.
Williams, John, hanged, 424.
Williams, John D., 420.
Williams, John Foster, 211; died, 211, 264 ; street named for, 280.
Williams Market, old fortifications near, 424, 425. Williams, Major, 203.
Williams Street named, 280. See Mat- thews Street. Williamsburg, battle of, 168.
Willis's Lane. See Winter Street. Wilmington, Mass., 26.
Wilson's Lane, 56 ; description of, 101. Wilson, John, 50, 91; estate of, 92, 212.
Windmill, old, 199 ; one at West Bos- ton, 199. See Windmill Point.
Windmill Hill. See Copp's Hill.
Windmill Point, 7; (Wheeler's) 25, 381.
Wing's Lane (Elm Street), 102, 126, 145.
Winnisimmet, 14, 24 ; ferry, 68.
Winslow, Governor Edward, 40 ; his chair, 347.
Winslow Blues, 137, 190.
Winslow, John, recognizes Warren's body, 69; store and residence of, 87.
Winter Hill, 203.
Winter Place, Samuel Adams's house in, 308.
Winter Street, noted residents, 307 ; Mrs. Dexter's, 307 ; Samuel Adams's, 308 ; called Blott's, Bannister's, and Willis's Lane, 308.
Winthrop House, site, 318 ; burnt, 318.
Winthrop, John, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11; chosen selectman, 14, 19, 25 ; burial- place, 35 ; portrait, 40, 47, 50, 51 ; Anne Hutchinson on trial, 63; at- tends First Church, 91 ; invites Lord Ley to his house, 109 ; journal, 130; orders ship built at Medford, 178 ; company, 202 ; residence, 225 ; house destroyed by British, 225 ; sketch of, 225 ; death, 225 ; statue of, 226- 234 ; portraits of, 346, 347
Winthrop, Judge, 39. Winthrop's Marsh, 109.
Winthrop Place, 364.
Winthrop, Robert C., 57 ; birthplace, 254 ; residence of, 337 ; proposes Franklin statue, 337, 352.
Winthrop, sloop, 186.
Winthrop, Lieutenant-Governor Thom- as L., 139, 190 ; residence of, 337; Lafayette visits, 364
Wirt, William, 82. Woburn, 86.
Wood, original growth of, 10.
Wood, William, 6, 16. Woodbridge, Benjamin, 96, 332.
Wiltshire Street. See Chambers Street. | Woodbury, Levi, 139, 185.
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Woodmansie's Wharf, 127.
Worcester Spy. See Massachusetts Spy.
Wolfe, General, proposed monument to, 241, 244, 326, 327.
Workhouse in Park Street, 203, 299, 300 ; occupied by wounded, 300, 359.
Wortley, Lord, visits Boston, 341.
Wragg, Lieutenant, quarters of, 158.
Wren, Sir Christopher, epitaph, 76, 369.
Wright, Colonel Isaac Hull, 379.
Wyeth, Mr., 283. Wyre, Robert, residence of, 171.
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Yale College, 72. Yale, Governor Elihu, 73 ; epitaph, 73. York (Toronto), Royal Standard cap- tured at, 106.
Yorktown, Va., 103. Young, A. B., 113. Young, Dr. John, 176, 269. Young, Thomas, 282.
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