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American continent, discovery of by Columbus, 5; early discoveries by Norse and Icelandic navigators, 7; their explorations of the coast south to New Jersey, 7; their probable land- ing on the coast of Massachusetts, 8; their attempt at colonization frustrated by Indians, 9; doubtful authenticity of the reported early discoveries of America, 10; the voyages and discoveries of John and Sebastian Cabot, 11, their voyage to Maryland in 1498, 11; dis- covery of New York harbor in 1524 by John de Verazzani, 11; Popham and Gilbert's colony at Sagadahoc, Maine, 13; annoyance from Indians and abandonment of the settle- ment, 13; success of French colonists in Canada, 13.
Ames, David, 618.
Amory, Rufus G., 343; Thomas C. jr., 369. Anabaptist Church, 63.
Anabaptists, 87.
Ancient Building, style of, in Boston, 588.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 161. See Artillery Company.
Andros Anne, 193.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 167, 234, 492, 532, 534 ; his claim as governor of New England; his abuse of the people, and his seizure and expulsion; his wife, Lady Anne, buried in the King's Chapel burying-ground, 193; resistance to his claim on Deer Island, 469.
Angel, the, in Cornhill, 42. Ann, the ship, 15. Ann street, 113, 114.
Ann street Ward, 138.
Annexation, of Roxbury to Boston, 34; of Dor- chester, 34; of Dorchester Neck, 33; of Wash- ington Village, 33.
Annin and Smith's map, 97.
Annin, William B., 97. Annin's small map, 98. Antram, William, 646, 647.
Apple Island, particulars of its history and also of its owners, 456-9. Story of one of its own- ers, William Marsh, and purchase of the prop- erty by the city of Boston, and its present uses, 459-60.
Apprenticeships, made compulsory in 1735, in cases of vagrant and destitute children, for educational purposes, 132.
Apthorp, Charles, 250, 535, 576; Charles Ward, 535; Grizzell, 535.
Aqueduct -Jamaica Pond Company's - origin, completion and abandonment of the project 412-14. See Conduit.
Aqueducts, 406, 412-414.
Arbella, the lady. See Johnson.
Arbella, vessel, sailing of and arrival of at Salem with Winthrop and the charter, 23.
Arboriculture on the Common. Decayed trees removed by Mayor Josiah Quincy, senior, and Mayor John P. Bigelow, and elms planted on Park street and Charles street malls, and on the Common paths, 330-31; care paid to the trees by Mayors Otis, Lyman and others, 331; the solitary button-wood tree, 331; the number of trees on the Common in 1869, 331; the famous Gingko tree, 331; classification, naming, and labeling of the trees, 332; suggestions for the procurement of varieties of trees suited to the soil and climate, 332. See Malls and Paths.
Architectural peculiarities in Boston in early times, 590, 591.
Arlington street, laying out of, 359.
Archer, John Rose, 541.
Area of common, 318.
Aristides, Statue of, 383.
Arkstree and Merkus, 93.
Armstrong, Samuel T., 324, 377.
Arnold, Benedict, 75.
Arrivet, engraver, 93.
Artillery Company, 161, 399, 454, refused the use of Boston common for drill during the revo- lutionary war; claim of the company to the ownership of Copp's Hill; cancellation of the claim, 161.
Artillery Election, 453.
Artillery Park, 313.
Artillery, South End, 425. Assessors and tything men, 153.
Asylum for Indigent Boys, 506.
Athenæum, 211.
Atherton, Major Gen. Humphrey, appointed colonial officer ; his tragical death and monu- mental epitaph in the old burying-ground on Stoughton street, Dorchester, 282, 283.
Atkinson street, 126.
Atkinson, Theodore, 617; William, 540, 541. Atkinson's Pasture, 126, 163.
Atlantic Avenue, laid out in 1868; description of the improvement, 119.
Atlantic Neptune, 101.
Austin, Benj., 535; Hannah, 535; Jane, 535 ; Jonathan L., 535; Nathaniel, 426; Thomas 256.
Avenues near the chapel burying-ground, 196.
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Babcock, Abraham, 317; Edwin, 679.
Bache, Sarah, 637 ; Richard, 637.
Back Bay, 121, 122, 125, 157, 307. Back street, 109, 663. Baker, Edmund J., 104; John, 198. Baker and Tilden's map, 103. Baker's Corner, 133.
Balch, Nathaniel, 678.
Ball, Capt. Robert, the third keeper of the Bea- con Light, 571.
Ball, Thomas, his statue of Washington on the Public Garden, and its dedication, 364.
Baldwin, Loammi, 421, 424; Thomas, 225. Ballad by Franklin, 446.
Ballard, John, a noted resident in olden times ; his share in constructiug the Paddock (or Granary) Mall, 370.
Balston, Jonathan, 617.
Balstone, Wm., 295, 299.
Bangs, Capt., 573.
Banister's Gardens, 93, 106.
Banks, Nathaniel P., 361.
Baptist meeting houses, 109.
Barracks, 445 ; on the Common, 239.
Barrell, Joseph, the improver of the Franklin Street territory, 382, 383.
Barrell's Point, 422.
Barricado, the, 118, 119.
Barriers against the encroachment of water at South end, 141.
Barristers' Hall, 384.
Barton, James, 107. Barton's Point, 106, 107, 134, 417.
Barton's Rope Walk, 135.
Barwick, Anthony, 676; Elizabeth, 676; Wil- liam, 676.
Bastable, on old map as the site of Salem, 16.
Bates, John D., statue presented by him for a fountain in the Public Garden, 364.
Bath street, 134. Batteries, 116, 119. Batterymarch street, 116.
Bay of Boston, 61.
Beach, John, 421.
Beacon, 44, 61. See Beacon Hill.
Beacon Hill, 110, 138, 159, 424; its look-out, beacon and guns, 44; its ancient name, conspicuous appearance, and topographical position, 170; its eastern slope the fashionable quarter in old times, 171; erection of the Old Hancock House, 171; modern changes and removal of the beacon poles, 172; origin, description, purposes of the beacon, 173; monument erect- ed on the site of the beacon pole, and the inscription thereon, 175-6; the monument taken down in 1811, and the tablets set up in the Doric Hall in the State House, 177; site of the old monument defined, 178; lands on Bea- con Hill sold by the town, and modern changes in the locality, 179, 181.
Beacon Hill Monument and its inscription, 175-6 ; removal of the tablets to the State House, 177; reconstruction of the monument contemplated by the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 177; the spot on which the Beacon Hill monument stood easily identified at the present day, 178. Beacon Lighthouse, its construction on the Little Brewster, granted by the town of Hull for that purpose, 566-9; accidents to the light, and attacks on it and its final destruction in 1776, by the British, 572-3 ; erection of a new one in 1783, and its description, and also that of its apparatus, 573-4.
Beacon Pole, blown down in 1789, 159, 172, 174. Beal, Benj., 385; Samuel, 112. Bean, Aaron H., 385. Bearers at Funerals, 265. Beasts, wild, 51. Beaurain's map, 101. Bedgood, Jeffery, 135. Beer Lane, 130.
Beebee, J. M., 172.
Beecher, Thos., 476.
Belcher, Edward, 300; Jonathan, 212, 523, 495; Joseph, 427. Belknap, Jeremy, 225, 619. Bell Alley, 133. Bell, Edward, 201. Bellamie, John, 38. Belles Isle (Breed's Island), 447. Bellin, map publisher, 101.
Bellin, Jacques Nicholas, 93.
Bellingham, Richard, Governor, 225, 299, 683; his burial place in the Old Granary Ground, 214; his remains found afloat in the tomb vault, 214; story of his irregular marriage, 214; his evasion of trial and stoppage of the prosecution, 215.
Bellingham's Marsh, a portion of the marsh land extending from the Town Dock to Union street, 682; the old triangular warehouse built thereon, 684.
Bellomont, Earl of, 608.
Belmont Square, 386, 446.
Bendall, Edward, 467, 682.
Bendall's Cove, 642.
Bendall's Dock, name given to the dock that reached up to Dock Square, 682, 685.
Benham, Gen. H. W., 551.
Bennett, J., 94.
Benson, Joseph, 568.
Bent, Adam, 257, 425.
Bent and Bush, 641.
Bernard, Governor Francis, 173.
Berry, Grace, 203.
Bethune, George, 212, 424; Nathaniel, 677.
Betterment law, its principle practically applied in 1640, in laying out Long Island into parcels for plantations, 531.
Bewick Company's Map, 97.
Biarne, Biorne, Biron, ancient navigator, 7.
Bigelow, Henry J., 364; Jacob, 266 ; J. P., 330, 331, 350, 384, 385, 400.
Bight of Leogan tavern, 404.
Bill, James, 467; Elizabeth, 512; Richard, 516; Samuel, 511, 512; the sole owner in 1680 of Spectacle Island, by the purchase of Indian and other claims, 511; his family, 512; Thomas, 510. Binney, Amos, 427.
Bird Island (shoal), its position between East Boston and Governor's Island in the harbor - probably once a place for execution, 443.
Biron, his discovery of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the 11th century, 7. Bishop, John, 201; Nathaniel, 651.
Bishop's Alley, 247.
Bite tavern, the, a corruption of the word "Bight "-its original name being " the Bight of Leogan," 404.
Black Horse Lane, 663.
Black Jack, negro servant, 460.
Blackstone, William, 24, 25.
Black stone square, 382.
Blackstone street, 111, 640.
Blackstone's Neck, 32.
Blackstone's Point, 25. Blackstone's Spring, 25.
Blake, James, 289.
Blantaine, William, 409.
Blaxton, William, 106, 294-6, 391, 503, 616; the first Englishman resident in Boston, 24; his sale of land to the early colonists, 294; his removal to Study Hill, near Providence, in 1634, and death there in 1675; sale of all his interest in the peninsula of Boston, 295. See Blackstone.
Blaxton's Cows, 296.
Blaxton's Garden, 106, 126, 181, 383. Blaxton's House, 296. Blaxton's Point, 106. Blaxton's Sale, 297, 301.
Blaxton's Spring, 181, 389.
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Blind Lane, 131, 135, 380. Block House at Castle Island, 496.
Blott's Lane, 315.
Blowers, John, 595.
Blue Ball, 405, on Union street, 626, 638; resi- dence of Josiah Franklin, and its old sign, 627; description and various ownerships of the estate, 627-31; sale of the estate by the Franklin heirs, and its subsequent owners, 630-34.
Blue Hills, 169.
Bluff Head, 437.
Board of Health, 153.
Bogs in Boston, 411.
Boling Green, 126.
Bollan, Frances, 250.
Bond, George, 266; Nathan, 413.
Bonner, Capt. John, 60, 92, 407, 473.
Bonner's Map, 92.
Bonney, Pelham, 358.
Book of Possessions, 408.
Boon, Nicholas, 380, 381.
Borland, Francis, 607, 655, 656, 657, 659, 687; Francis L., 656; John, 607, 685, 686, 687; John Lindall, 687 ; Phebe, 656.
Boston, Borough of, 26, 27.
Boston Cemetery, 254.
Boston, description of, by William Wood, 38; by Edward Johnson, 42; by John Josselyn, 45; by a French Protestant refugee, 46; by Edward Ward, 53; by John Dunton, 59; by Daniel Neal, 60; by Jeremy Dummer, 64; by the Abbe Robin, 67; by St. John de Creve Cœur, 77 ; by the Marquis de Chastellux, 77; by Brissot de Warville, 83.
Boston Free Bridge, 425.
Boston Massacre, the victims of, their graves in the Old Granary burial-ground, 225.
Boston Mill Corporation, 110.
Boston Neck. See Neck.
Boston, origin of name, 53; purchase of, 58.
Boston Sconce, battery at Great Cove, 116; its construction and objects described by a com- mittee of the General Court, 117.
Boston South Bridge, 422.
Boston Stone, its situation in Marshall's Lane, 405.
Boucher's Corner, 133.
Boundaries between Boston and Roxbury changed, 34.
Bourne, Melatiah, 276; Rev. Shearjashub, 276; Zachariah, 675.
Boutcher, Mary, 209.
Boutineau, James, 677.
Boutwell, George S., 361.
Bowditch, Azel, 363.
Bowdoin, James, 212, 225.
Bowdoin square, 126.
Bowdoin's Corner, 134.
Bowen, Abel, 92, 97.
Bowen's Map, 97.
Bowling Green, 109, 126, 163.
Boylston street, extension of in 1843, and the southern boundary fixed, 358.
Boynton, George W., 92, 97.
Brackett, James, 546; Joshua, 79; Lemuel, 546, 565.
Bradbury, Thomas, 117.
Bradford, Governor, 433.
Bradford's Corner, 133, 134.
Bradley, Joseph, 633.
Bradstreet, Gov. Simon, 295, 296, 628.
Braintree, establishment of the town in 1640, its bounds, 33.
Brattle Close, 228.
Brattle Pasture, 228.
Brattle Square, 112, 228.
Brattle Square Meeting-House, 53, 264.
Brattle, Thomas, 60, 63, 229, the founder of Brattle Street Church, and treasurer of Har- vard College; his father the richest Boston
merchant of his day; his brother William, the pastor of the first church in Cambridge, 192; Elizabeth, 229; William, 192.
Brazier's Building. 381.
Breck, Edward, 628 ; Joseph, 402 ; Robert, 617, 628.
Breed, Ebenezer, 426 ; John, 448.
Breed Family, the owners of Hog Island, and sale of the estate, 448.
Breed's Bridge, 448.
Breed's Island, 427, 447.
Brenton, William, 166.
Brereton, Sir William, his claims to the owner- ship of Noddle's Island, 444.
Brevoort, J. C., 47.
Brewer Fountain, 215.
Brewer, Gardner, 172; Nathaniel, 385.
Brewster, Oliver, 678 ; William, 436.
Brewster, the Great, description of the island and its ownerships, 565.
Brewsters, the islands in Boston harbor, so named after the family of William Brewster, the ruling elder of the First Church of New Plymouth, 436.
Bridewell, 65, 211, 309, 310.
Bridge, Cambridge, 83.
Bridge, Charles River, 83, 107, 138.
Bridge, Dover Street, 107.
Bridge, Foot, 112.
Bridge, South Boston, 121.
Bridge, The Great, 83.
Bridge to Pierpont's Farm, 420.
Bridge, Thomas, 191, 631.
Bridges, 89, 113, 137 416; Charles River Bridge ; Cambridge or West Boston Bridge; Great Bridge on the Brighton road, 83 ; Mill Bridge and Draw Bridge, 113; Haymarket Bridge ; Market Street Bridge ; Traverse Street Bridge : Causeway Street Bridge; the Swing Bridge and Oliver's Dock Bridge, 114; proposal in 1785 to build Charlestown and Cambridge Bridges, 417; incorporation of Charles River Bridge Company, names of the corporation and conditions of the act, 417; the bridge opened to public travel, and attendant cere- monies, 418 ; the bridge becomes public prop- erty and travel over it free, 419; incorporation of West Boston (or Cambridge) Bridge Com- pany, its powers, privileges and obligations, 419-20 ; construction and opening, in 1793, of the bridge, 420; the proprietors sell out their franchises, 421; the bridge made free, and public rejoicings in consequence, 421; incor- poration of Canal (or Cragie's) bridge, and building and opening thereof, with charter provisions, 421-2; incorporation of the South or Dover Street Bridge Company, its construc- tion, cost and opening, and surrender of the charter and property to the city of Boston, 422; petition of Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation for authority to construct the Milldam Bridge and Western Avenue, and coincident proposals, 423; the act granted, its terms, and the managers appointed to carry them out, 424; difficulties of the labor of con- struction, the material employed, and the accomplishment of the project, 424; ceremo- nies on opening the bridge in 1826, and tolls removed and the avenue made a public high- way, in 1868, within the city limits, 425; War- ren Bridge company incorporated in 1828, and the bridge built and opened same year, 426; its control assumed by the State, various changes in its management, and final opening free to the public, 426 ; assessment of expenses of repairing and maintaining the draws on the cities of Boston and Charlestown, 427; incorporation of the Chelsea Free Bridge in 1834, its construction and opening, rebuilding and change of name to "Chelsea Bridge," 427 ; gift of land for a free highway by Dr.
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Benjamin Shurtleff, 427; East Boston Free | Burgiss, William, 92.
Bridge and Chelsea Point Bridge, severally built by incorporations and purchased by the city of Boston, 427 ; the Mount Washing- ton Avenue Bridge across Fort Point Channel accepted in 1835 by the city government, 428 ; the Broadway Bridge now (1870) in course of construction, and the cost of its erection, 428 ; notices of sundry proposed bridges, 429 Malden Bridge between Charlestown and Malden in 1787, and opened the same year, and the tolls taken off in 1869, and the bridge made free, 429; olden time approaches to Boston, 429 - 30. See Boston Free, Boston South, Breed, Broadway, Cambridge Canal, Charles River, Chelsea, Chelsea Free, Chelsea Point, Cragie's, Dover Street, Draw, East Bos- ton, Essex, Federal Street Foot, Granite, Great, Hancock Free, Mackerel, Malden, Mav- eric, Mill, Oliver, Prison Point, Roxbury, South Boston, Swing, Turning, Warren, West Boston.
Bridge-ward, 130, 137.
Bridgham, Benj., 654; Elizabeth, 654; Henry, 652, 653, 658 ; his possessions on Milk street, 653-4; builder of the Julien house, 658 ; James, 654 ; John, 654, 655 ; Jonathan, 655; Joseph, 654, 655, 657 ; Samuel, 654.
Briggs, Billings, 385, 463; L., 293.
Brighton, 83.
Brimmer, Herman, 677, 678; Susanna, 677.
Brimmer Mansion, 680.
Brimmer's, T., 119.
Brinley, Francis, 676.
Briscoe, Wm., 300.
Brissot de Warville, J. P., his letter from Boston in 1788, describing the place, 83-89.
British Camp Fires, 310.
British Soldiers buried in Central Burying- Ground, 239.
Broad Channel, a sound which separates the rocky ledges in the mouth of Boston Harbor from Deer Island, 437.
Broad Street, 119.
Broadway Bridge (now under construction), its location and contract price, 428.
Bromfield, 193; Edward, owner by purchase, in 1742, of Spectacle Island, 516.
Bromfield Tomb, 192.
. Brookline, Town of, 83.
Brooks, Gov. John, 338 ; Noah, 425; Peter C., 357.
Brown, Elisha, his opposition in 1769, to the British Troops in Boston, and successful pre- vention of their making his house a military barrack, 220 ; his death in 1785, and inscription on his gravestone in the old Granary burying- ground, 221; Stephen, 122; William, 357, 424. Browne, Benj., 533; Samuel, 533; William, 533. Brownell, Bishop, 250 ; Pardon, 648.
Buffun, Joshua, 231; Robert, 231.
Bug (or spit) Light, 562.
Bugbee, Samuel, 278.
Buildings, 47, 48, 63, 65, 68.
Buildings, ancient style of, and the old land- marks, 588; where first built, 589; how they were constructed, 589-90; introduction of im- provements, 590-1; domestic arrangements, 591-2.
Bulfinch, Adino, 212; Charles, 175, 317, 323, 343. 381, 383; his services in the improvement of the town of Boston, 383.
Bull's Wharf, 135, 215.
Bunker Hill, 72, 75, 81, 95.
Bunker Hill Battle, 161.
Bunker Hill Map, 95.
Bunker Hill Monument, 177.
Buoys, in Boston Harbor, their positions, 500. Burden, George, 109.
Burgess, Col. Elizeus, appointed provisional governor, 596.
Burgiss's map, 92, 131.
Burgoyne, Gen., 75.
Burial Customs, 263, 265,
Burial-Ground at Neck, 142.
Burial-Ground for South Boston, 254.
Burnett, Governor William, 92, 93.
Burrell, George, 628, 668.
Burrill, Joseph, 427 ; Samuel, 668.
Burying-Grounds, 182-293. See Boston Ceme-
tery, Cedar Grove, Central, Chapel, Charter Street, Neck, South Boston, Park Street Meet- ing House, Boston Highlands, Christ Church Cemetery, Church Vaults, Common, Copp's Hill, Dorchester, Dorchester Cemetery, Dor. chester (Old), Dorchester South, East Boston, East Boston Cemeteries, Eliot, Forrest Hills, Franklin, Free South Boston, Granary, Grave yard at Castle Island, Graveyard at Rainsford Island, Hawes, Highlands, Hull Street Ceme- tery, Jewish, King's Chapel, Mount Auburn, Mount Hope, New North, North, Old North, Quaker, Roman Catholic South Boston, Dor- chester and Roxbury, Roxbury Old Cemetery, St. Augustin, St. Joseph's, St. Matthew's, St. Paul's, South Boston Cemeteries, South, South End. Tombs, Trinity Church, Union Cemetery, Warren.
Bush, William, 647.
Buttolph's Pasture, 126.
Button, John, 109, 628.
Butts, Isaac R., 679.
Buzzard's Bay, 9, 12.
Byles, Matthew, 250, 285.
Byles's Corner, 133.
Byrne, Rev. Patrick, 260.
Cabot, John, 10, 11; Lewis, 10; Sancius, 10; Sebastian, 10, 11.
Caddall, Jerusha, 208; Peter, 208.
Cæsar, Charles, 18.
Calef, Joseph, 652, 658, 659.
Calf Islands, Great and Little, in Boston Har- bor, 436 and 576.
Callan, B., engineer, 98.
Callender, Ellis, 686.
Cambridge, 32, 35, 80, 81, 82, 89, 100.
Cambridge Bridge, 83, 421.
Cambridge Street ward, 138.
Camp Hill, East Boston, and its forts erected in 1630 and in 1776, by voluntary service, 446. Canal, 113, 124, 682.
Canal Bridge, 107.
Canal (or Cragie's) Bridge Company incorpora- ted in 1807, and the bridge finished and opened two years afterwards, 421.
Canary Islands, 4.
Caner, Rev. Dr., 614.
Canton Packet Tragedy, narrative of the blowing up of the vessel by a negro cook, 453-5.
Cape Ann, 16.
Cape Cod, 8, 14, 47.
Cape James, 14.
Capen, Barnard, 281 ; Joan, 281.
Carleton, Osgood, 96.
Carleton's Large Map, 96.
Carleton's Map, 96.
Carnall, Ann, 458; Katherine, 458.
Carriages at Funerals, 265.
Carrington, T., 246.
Carruth, Nathan, 293.
Carte du Port et Havre de Boston, 101.
Carter, Richard, 300; Richard B., 679. Carry, John, 612.
Castle, 61, 65, 118.
Castle Island, 61; its position in the harbor, shape, extent, surroundings and cession to the United States in 1798, by the Commonwealth, 472-4; the island fortified in 1634-5, and Capt. Ed- ward Johnson's description of the works, 477; description of the fort by its commander, &c.,
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fifty years afterwards, 478-9; the fort burned | Charlestown, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 37, down, 479-90; curious act of Providence, 481 ; 42, 43, 72, 81, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 112; set- tled in 1629, from the Salem Colony, and by John Winthrop and associates in 1630; pre- vious settlement of the place by Thomas Walford and others; first General Court of Assistants held in Charlestown on the 7th of September 1630, 26. abandonment of the fort and removal of the ordnance, 482; visit of La Tour, great conse- quent panic and renewal of the fortification, 483-6; extracts from the act of the General Court authorizing the new fortification, 485-6; garrison regulations and duties, 487; history of the fort from its restoration in 1674 until Charlestown Bridge, 417. 1701, when it was demolished, 489-92.
Castle William, 438.
Catholics, 87.
Cattle, value of, 49.
Causeway, 109, 112, 121, 406.
Causeway street, 109, 111, 114,
Causeway at Neck, 141.
Cedar Grove Cemetery, 292.
Cemeteries, 182-293.
Cemetery under Park Street Meeting-House, 251; discontinued, 251.
Central (or Common) Burying-Ground, 235-242 ; its location in 1748 near the southeast corner of the Common, 236; its dimensions and boundaries and final establishment in 1754 as a burying-place, 236 ; no part of the public com- mon included in the ground, 237 ; appointment of the first sexton, 238; first tomb erected in 1793 by John Just Geyer, 238 ; alterations and the ground planted with ornamental trees, 239; traditions concerning the burial of soldiers, strangers, and unpopular religionists in the grounds, 239-10; the oldest inscribed grave- stone, 240 ; the memorial tablets of the Wyers, Hon. Thomas Davis, Mrs. Tyng, and Samuel Sprague, 240 ; memorial stone and epitaph on Mons. Julien, the restaurant keeper, 241 ; epitaph in verse, 241.
Central Square, 386.
Central Wharf, 116, 119.
Centry Hill, 172, 174, 178, 213, 300, 308, 309.
Centry Hill Field, 126.
Centry street, 307, 672.
Chaffin, Matthew, 682.
Chamberlain, William, 229.
Chambers, John, 215, 235.
Champlain, Samuel, 13.
Chandler, Peleg W., 386.
Change Avenue, 404.
Change-ward, 130, 137.
Channels, 441. See Broad, Fort Point, Fore Point, Four Points, Hypocrite. Main Ship Passages. Chapel Burying-Ground, the oldest in Boston, its location, 182; the tradition concerning the burial of Isaac Johnson there. 184; the first recorded burial in Boston, 184; form of the Chapel burying-ground and its boundaries, 186; entrances to the ground, 186; tombs and their locations, 186; enclosure of the ground by a fence in 1642, 186; subsequent means provided for its enclosure, 187; the burying-ground let for other than burial pur- poses, 187 ; interesting associations of the spot, 186; description of the memorials of those interred there, 188: the origin and quality of the memorial stones, some of them imported from England, 188-9; armorial and other devi- ces, 189; monuments of prominent characters in New England history, the Dawes, Wins- low, Leverett, Winthrops, Olivers, Cotton, Sheafe, Brattle, Bromfield, Church, Phillips, Paddy, Clap, Savage, and other tombs, 190-6. Chapel Rock, 505.
Characteristics of Bostonians, 85.
Charity, the, 15.
Charity School (or hospital), first established in 1712, in Boston, 167.
Charles River and its tributaries, 154.
Charles River, 16, 25, 30, 31, 36, 40, 61, 72, 108, 116, 130,
Charles River Bridge, 37, 83, 89, 107, 138, 417. Charles Street, laid out, 121, 125, 311.
Charlestown Ferry, 79, 132, 417.
Charlestown Neck, 83.
Charlton, 24, 33.
Charter, First, 17, 18.
Charter, Second, 18.
Charter Street Burying-Ground, 201.
Charter Street Ward, 138.
Charters, the Colonial, granted by James II. of England in 1606, for the establishment of the First and Second Colonies of Virginia, sever- ally to the London and Plymouth Companies, 17; the Massachusetts Bay Charter granted by Charles I., 18; the original of the latter pre- served in the Massachusetts archives, 18. Chart of Boston Bay, 101.
Charts, 102.
Charts of Boston Harbor, 100.
Chastellux, Marquis de, his account of Boston in 1782, 77 ; his approach to the town described, 78; Winnisimmet and Charlestown ferries, 79; his description of the women of the town of Boston, 79; social customs of the people, 79 ; their aversion to the English language, 80; proposal to adopt Hebrew as the national tongue, 80 ; his visit to Harvard College, 80; difficulties of the journey from Boston thence, 81; brief description of Cambridge, 81; the system of education pursued at the University complimented, 82; the Tuesday club, 82; topographical mistakes of the Marquis, 83.
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