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Chauncey, Rev. Dr., 86, 263.
Checkley, Rev. Samuel, 63.
Cheesbrough, William, 295.
Cheese, 88.
Cheever, Abijah, 421.
Chelsea, 33, 95, 133, 439, 447; the town boun- daries set off in 1738-9; incorporated as a city in 1857; its subdivisions, 33.
Chelsea Bridge, 429.
Chelsea Free Bridge, 426.
Chelsea Point, 437.
Chelsea Point Bridge, 427; built by a corpo- ration, opened in 1839, and purchase and laying out by the city as a bighway, 427.
Chelsea Street Bridge, 427.
Chesbrough, E. S., 386.
Cheshire, 88.
Chester Park, 386.
Chester Square, 386.
Chickatabut, indian, 301, 469.
Chilton, Mary. 189, 390.
Choate, Samuel, the Green Island hermit, 576,577.
Chocolate Mill, 113.
Christ Church, 245, 250, 592.
Christ Church Cemetery, 245, 247.
Christmas, and other festivals, fines imposed on such as celebrated them, 625.
Christopher Islands, 449.
Chucks, cognomen given to Boston boys, 125.
Church, Benj., 408, 409.
Church Green, 131, 380.
Church of St. Francisco, 6.
Church Square, 381.
Church Vault Cemeteries, interments under Christ Church in 1723, and subsequently, 245; an embalmed body found in one of the tombs about fifty years ago, 246; epitaph on the monument of the first rector of Christ Church, 247; Major Pitcairne, the leader of the British at the battle of Concord, and who was mor- tally wounded at Bunker Hill, temporarily interred under Christ Church, 247.
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Churches, 63, 65, 70, 86.
Churches, first church of the Massachusetts Bay organized in Charlestown, 29 ; greater part of this church removed to Boston, 25 ; churches established at Watertown and Dorchester, 29, 42; fourth church established at Boston, 43.
City Engineer's annexation map, 99.
City Engineer's map, 99.
City Engineer's new map, 99.
City Hall, 186, 249, 384; erection of and dedica- tion, 365 ; old building taken down in 1863, 196.
City Hall Square, 673.
City Hospital, 664.
City Institutions, 470.
City Wharf, 111.
Clap, Col. Ebenezer, 257; Ebenezer, 289; Capt. Roger, 30, 194, 287, 491; his account of the voyage of the Mary and John from Plymouth, England, to llull, and landing of the company on Nantasket beach, 30; exploration of Charles River and trading interviews with Indians, 31; keeper of the Castle in Boston Harbor, in- scription on his tombstone in King's Chapel graveyard, 195; his description of Castle Island Fort, 478-9; Elder Hopestill, his grave- stone and epitaph in the Stoughton Street burying-ground in Dorchester, 288.
Clapp, Ebenezer, a noted Dorchester antiquary, 289; William Warland, his interest in improv- ing the trees on the Common and Public Gar- den, 366.
Clark (Clarke), Albe C., 293; Henry G., 463; Christopher, 653, 668; James F., 678; John J., 267; Dr. John, 204; Rev. John, 264; Samuel, 678, 679; Thomas, 229, 672, 682; Rev. Mr., 86; Walter, 229, 234; William, 204.
Clark's Wharf, 115.
Clement, Augustine, 666; Thomas, 657, 659.
Clerks of the Market, 153.
Cobham, Josiah, 628, 629, 631.
Cocheco, 16.
Cochituate Lake, 392, 414.
Coddington, Wm., 156, 298, 299.
Codman, Rev. John, his bequest of a burying lot to the second parish in Dorchester, 291.
Codnor, Abraham, 668; Andrew, 647 ; James, 668; William, 668.
Coffee House, 88.
Coffin, Shubael, 374.
Coffins, 264.
Cofran, John, 426.
Cogan, John, 166.
Colbron, William, 166, 299, 300.
Colbron's End, 300.
Cold Lane, 133.
Coleman, William, 127.
Coliseum, 324.
Cole, Morrill, 427 ; Samuel, 353, 540, 541.
Collins, Samuel, 231.
Colman, Rev. Benjamin, 63.
Colombia, 5.
Colonnade Row, 179, 307, 308.
Colson, Adam, 79. Colton, J. H., 99.
Colton's Map, 99.
Columbia Square, 382.
Columbian Artillery Company, 200.
Columbian Magazine, 64.
Columbus, Christopher, his first expedition of discovery, 3; his fleet and associate comman- ders, 4; discovery Oct. 12, 1492 (O. S.), of San Salvador, 5 ; return to Spain, 5 ; second voyage to the new world and foundation of Isabella in Hispaniola, 5; third voyage in 1498, and discovery of the American main land ; fourth voyage, return to Spain and death, 5; exhuma- tion and final interment of his body in Havana, Cuba, 6; Statue of, 383.
Commencement of the year, 151.
Commerce, early, of Boston with Spain and the American Islands, 50; commerce of the town
in 1781, 73-74; restrictions on trade by the English government a principal cause of the Revolution, 74.
Commercial Point, 157.
Commercial Wharf, 119, 139.
Common, Boston, 114, 121, 124, 131, 134, 135, 212, 223, 236, 283, 294, 354; its description in early days by Josselyn; strict regulations of the authorities relative to its use, 46; its pur- chase from William Blaxton (or Blackstone) by the earliest colonists, 295 ; removal of Mr. Blaxton to Providence and his decease there, 295 ; his sale of all his interest in the Boston pe- ninsula,295 ; the town assessed for the purchase money, 295 ; no deed probably taken, or, if taken, lost, 295 ; deposition of John Odlin and others relative to the purchase of the Com- mon, 296; every householder taxed six shil- lings for its payment; laying out of the lands purchased as a training field and pasturage for cattle, 296; the purchase money invested in cattle by Mr. Blaxton, 296 ; the deposition of John Odlin and others witnessed by Gov. Bradstreet and Judge Sewall, 297; its great importance in absence of any legal record, 297; brief sketches of Odlin, Hudson, Walker and Lytherland, the parties to the deposition, 297; proposed division of the Common lands in 1634, 298; the secret ballot used, 298; several of the leading town authorities turned out of office, 298; a second election made necessary, 298; early conflict between labor and capital, 299; dictum of the church regard- ing the manner of settling the question of dividing the town lands, 299; restriction of the ancient area of the Common in 1634 and resolution preserving it within its pre- sent limits in 1640, 300; ancient boundaries of the Common lands not invaded since that date, 300; release of the Indian claim upon the lands confirmed by Wampatuck, the sachem, 301; the lands held by royal grant under the colony charter, by purchase from the Indians, and also from William Blaxton, 301; sufficiency of the title, 302; equal rights of commonage granted to the inhabitants of the town, 303; these rights to be held there- after only by the heirs of those granted this privilege, 303 ; only seventy milk cattle allowed to be grazed on the Common, 303; only one horse allowed to graze as a privilege to Elder Oliver, 303; no inhabitant to have the right to sell, but only to lease his right of commonage, 303; no gift, sale or transfer of privilege allowed only by consent of the inhabitants, 303; town herd appointed, 304; sanitary order of the selectmen with reference to streets, and regarding nuisances on the Common lands, 303-4; limit to modern officials, 305 ; not to be leased or sold by the city council, 305 ; inves- titure of the powers of managing the Common in ancient and in modern times, 305-6; slight curtailment of the original bounds, 307 ; area and boundary lines, 307 ; the old hay-market at the corner of West and Tremont streets, 308; the Washington Gardens, amphitheatre and circus between West and Winter streets, 308; Long acre, the old manufactory house and the Massachusetts Bank, opposite the Park Street Church, 308; reduction of the area of the Common by the setting off of the Old Granary burying ground and Beacon and School streets, 308-9; Centry (or Sentry ) street now Park street, laid out, 309; the Old Gran- ary building described, as also its uses until its destruction, 309 ; its site where Park Street Church now stands, 309; the Almshouse and Workhouse, their location and description, 310; Park street in its old time aspect, 310; Beacon street and its ancient residences and residents, 311; the foundation stone of the
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State house laid, 311; western boundary of Beacon street, 311; the gun house of the "Sea Fencibles." 311; the west side of the Common, Fox hill, and the rope walks, 312; city pound, hay-scales, and stables, 312; re- moval of Ridge hill, 312; the southerly side of the Common. the hearse house and artillery gun-house, 312-13 ; old residents in that vicinity, 313; the Masonic Temple, 313; improvement of the southeast corner of the Common, 313; removal of the hotel Pelham fifteen feet west- erly, 313; care of the early residents for the temporary fencing of the Common lands, and for the proper means of access and egress, 313 ; more permanent arrangements made in 1734, 315; planting of trees on the Common and their mutilation, 315; all entrances to the Common but one ordered to be closed, 315-16 ; the Common fences burned by the British sol. diery during the siege of Boston, 316; another wooden post and rail fence built about 1784, and its mode of construction, 317; its destruc- tion by the great gale of September, 1815, and its restoration, 317; removal of the inner fence of the Tremont street mall, 318; the measured area of the Common, 318; an iron fence built round the Common in 1836, 318 ; the cost of the improvement, 318; lengths of the respective malls, 319. See Great Eim, Great Tree, Malls. New Mall, Old Elm, Paths, Public Garden, Title to, Topography.
Common Burying-Ground, 211, 237.
Common Field, 300.
Common Marsh, 683.
Commonage, 303.
Commonwealth Lands, 125.
Companies of horse, 127.
Conant, Roger, 16, in early times his name given to Governor's, or Winthrop's Island, 449.
Conant's Island, 443, 449.
Condick, George, 540, 541.
Conduit, the old 397; its necessity suggested in
the earlier days of the colony, 399; bequest of Capt. Robert Keayne for a conduit of water to help in cases of fire, 399; privileges granted the town for the procurement of water by William Tyng, 400 ; incorporation of a con- duit company in 1652, and provisions for use of the water at fires, 401; description of the conduit, its situation, capacity, sources of supplies and uses of the building, which cov- ered it, 401, topographical details connected with the old conduit, 402; no marks of the conduit left, 403; its uses, and incapacity for public wants, 403; its surroundings, 403-5. Conduit Street, 401, 640, 645, 683.
Conflagration, serious, in 1760, destroying prop- erty from Washington street east to the sea- shore, 659.
Constables and tything men, 46, 127, 153, 186; their establishment in connection with military watches in the early days of the Colony, 127. Conversation, 63.
Cooke, Elisha, 193, 231, 250, 523.
Coolidge, Joseph, Jr .. 421.
Coomes, Robert, 565; Sarah, 565.
Cooper, J. Fennimore, 687; Mehitable, 608, 629, 630 ; Rev. Dr., a zealous preacher of Ameri- can independence, description of his church audience in 1778, by De Warville, 87; Thomas, 608, 629, 630.
Cooper's A'ley, 115.
Copeland, Daniel W., 186.
Copley, John S., 96, 311.
Copley's Hill, 171.
Copp, Elder David, 201; William, the cobbler, the owner of part of the hill bearing his name, after which it was called, 160.
Copp's Corner, 133.
Copp's Hill, 115, 125, 197 (Windmill or Saw hill), its situation, 158; its height and boun- [
daries, 159 ; the hill formerly the site of a windmill, whence one of its names, 159; its final title derived from the owner, William Copp, the cobbler, 160; redoubt built on Copp's Hill by the English during the siege of Boston, and its armament, 161; claim of own- ership by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and discharge of their mortgage, 161; the Old Burying-ground on the hill, its adornment with trees and its ancient monu-
ments, 162; (see Copp's Hill Burying-Ground. ) Copp's Hill Burying-Ground, 230, 233.
Cordwell, William, 324.
Corn Court, 404.
Corn Market, 404.
Cornhill, 158, 163, 167, 672.
Cornhill, London, 39.
Cornhill Ward, 138.
Corn-mills, first erected on Mill Cove about 1643, their location, 112.
Corwin, George, 117.
Corwin Rock, south of the main ship channel in George's Island flats, 561.
Costume, description of in 1758, in Boston, 624. Cotes, Thomas, 38.
Cotter, John, 629, 631.
Cotting, Uriah, 357, 424.
Cotton, Edward, 97; Rev. John, 26, 27, 77, 130, 191, 298, 455, 538; arrival at Salem from Eng- land in 1633, with other ancient colonists from Boston, 27.
Cotton's Hill, 171.
Council for N. England, 16.
Count D'Estaing, 551, 556, 563.
Count de Grasse, 551.
Courses, in the Harbor, ancient and modern, 582-5.
Court, Antoine, 46.
Court House, 65. Courts, 64.
Cove Lots, on North Cove, names of early grantees, 682.
Coverly's Doggerel, 455.
Coves, 36, 43, 108, 115; their original features and the changes improvement has made upon them, 1 8. See Bendall, East, Great, Mill, North, South, West.
Cow Lane, the ancient name of High Street, one of the approaches to the defences on Fort Hill, 134, 135, 163.
Cow Pond, 463.
Cows on the Common, 303, 304.
Cox, Mr., 417,
Coytmore, Thomas, 487.
Crabtree, John, owner of lands adjoining Mill Pond, and constructor of the causeway across Mill Pond, 109.
Cradock, Matthew, first Governor of the Massa- chusetts Company, 16, 18.
Crafts, N. Henry, 99.
Cragie, Andrew, 421.
Cragie's Bridge, 107, 421.
Craige, David, 380, 381.
Crane, Samuel D., 362, 364, 369.
Crease, Thomas, the builder of the Old Corner Bookstore, 675, 676, 678.
Creek-Ward 130, 137.
Creve Coeur, J. Hector St. John, 77.
Crocker, Mather, 206.
Cromwell, Capt., 489.
Crom well's Head, 79.
Croswell, Mr., 647.
Croychley, Richard, 672.
Cruft, Edward, 357.
Crumwell, Capt., 401.
Cuba, 6.
Cullimore, Isaac. 682.
Cunningham, John, jr., 678.
Curtis, Charles P., 266, 360.
Cushing, Benj., 646; Elizabeth, 646; John, 318; Thomas, 212, 220.
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Cushman, Robert, 16.
Customs, 51.
Cutler, Elizabeth, 246. Cutler, Rev. Thomas, 246.
Cutler's Corner, 133.
Cuttyhunk Island, 12.
Dafforn's Corner, 114.
Daillé, Esther Latonice, 225; Martha, 225 ; Pierre, the French Protestant pastor, his grave dis- covered in the Old Granary burying-ground in 1860, inscription on his monumental slab, 223; brief sketch of his history, 225.
Dakin, Jonathan, 633, 634; Joseph, 633 ; Thomas, 633; James, 655, 657.
Dalton, John, 354.
Dalton's Lane, 655, 657.
Damnation Alley, 404.
Dana, Francis, 419.
Danforth Elizabeth, 629 ; John, 629; Rev. John, 288; Rev. Samuel, colleague of John Eliot, the Indian Apostle ; his family burial place, 276. Darby, Eliezer, 380, 381.
Darling, Betsy, 207; David, 207.
Darracott, George, 360.
Davenport, Addington, 567; Daniel, the sexton of Dorchester, 290 ; his care of ancient monu- mental stones, sketch of his history and epitaph, 290-1; Elizabeth, 191; John, 191; Richard, Capt., 477, 478, 479, 487, 489, 490 ; commander of Castle, killed in 1665 by light- ning, 479 ; Truecross, 489 ; William, 290.
David, indian, 468.
Davies, John, 606; R. B., 98.
Davis, Anthony, 676; Elizabeth, 410; Isaac, 342; Isaac P., 357, 423, 424 ; John, 266 ; Nicho- las, 676 ; Thomas, 240; Thomas W., 79, 104 ; William, 394, 491, 678, 682.
Dawes, Hon. Thomas, author of the inscription on Beacon Hill Monument, 177; Col. Thomas, 189.
D'Estaing, Count, visit of his fleet to Boston in 1778, for supplies, 551,
De Grasse, the Count, his visit in 1782, to Boston harbor, 551.
De Ruither, the Dutch Admiral, his expected hostile visit to Boston harbor, and preparation for his reception, 478.
De Warville, Brissot, 83.
Dearborn, Nathaniel, 97, 100, 102.
Dearborn's Maps, 102.
Dean, Maj., 424.
Deane, Charles, 100.
Deer Hunting, account of on Deer Island, in 1634, by William Wood and John Josselyn, 464.
Deer Island, shape and boundaries, 462; physi- cal features, 463; early grant of, and others in the harbor to Boston, 464; the island a wood- ing place for the people of Boston in 1636, and subsequently, and the disadvantage which has consequently arisen, 465; improved for main- tenance of the free school in 1642, 466; the various lessees of Deer Island, 467-8; Indian Quit Claim of, 468 ; selected for the erection of a Pest House, 469; House of Industry and other institutions established, 470; division of charitable and reformatory institutions and other contemplated improvements, 471.
Deer Park, 307, on the southeasterly corner of the Common, established in 1863, on the site of the old artillery gun house, 313.
Dell, George, 666.
Denmark, 6.
Dennegri, Gaspard, 244, 382.
Deposition of Odlin and others, 296.
Derby Square, 385.
Dermer, Thomas, his visit to Plymouth in 1620, and restoration of the captive Squanto, stolen during Smith's visit to Maine in 1614, and death by wounds received from Indians, 14.
Des Barres, J. F. W., 101, 102.
Deshon, Moses, 610, 613.
Devil's Back, a rock in Boston harbor, 436.
Devon, County, 18.
Dewerson, Richard, 411.
Dexter, Aaron, 421.
Dickinson, S. N., 98.
Difference of time at Boston, Washington and Greenwich, 35.
Dinsdale, William, 651.
Directory map, 97.
Distilleries, 88.
Divisions of Boston, North and South Ends, their bounds of separation, 124; epithets ap- plied to the dwellers in the several localities, titles given to the various sections, the West End, New Boston, East and South Boston, the New Land, the Back Bay and Common- wealth lands, Mill Dam and Mount Vernon lands, 125; the town divided in 1715, into eight wards, 130; their names and boundaries given and defined in Burgiss's map, 131; redi- vision of Boston in 1735, into twelve wards, 131; the new wards and their boundaries, 133-5; names of the new wards, 138; addition of two wards by the annexation of Roxbury in 1868, and of one by the annexation of Dor- chester in 1870, 135-6; latest ward divisions, 145.
Dock, 112, 114, 116, 133, 137. See Bendall, Town, Oliver.
Dock Square, 116, 134, 401, 404, 641. Dock, town, 111.
Dorchester, 29, 30, 31, 33, 38, 39, 42, 44, 95, 100, 103, 104, 136, 144, 164, 169, 269; incorporated as a town in 1630, and annexation in 1868 to Boston, 34; portions of the town set off to Quincy and Hyde Park, 35 ; third church of the Massachusetts colony planted there, 42; curious description of the town, 43 ; the largest town in New England in 1634, 39; description by an old writer, 42 ; the inhabitants the first on the New England coast to establish fisher- ies, 40.
Dorchester Bay, 156.
Dorchester Burying-Grounds, 280-293; seven in number, and their several designations, 280; the first burial-place and memorials of the fathers, 281 ; curious monumental inscriptions, 281-91 ; monument to Major Gen. Humphrey Atherton, his prominence as a colonial officer, his tragic death, pompous funeral, and the in- scription on his memorial stone, 283; William Poole (or Pole), one of the earliest school- masters and town clerks of Dorchester, his tomb and curious epitaph, 284; John Fos- ter, the mathematician, printer, and school- master, designer of the "Indian " seal of the colony, 284-5 ; epitaph on the monument of Rev. Richard Mather, progenitor of the noted Mather family, 285 ; acrostical epitaph on Elder James Humphrey, 286; monument of Lieut., Gov. Stoughton, sketch of his history, his benefactions to Harvard College; translation of his epitaph, said to have been written by Cotton Mather, 286-7 ; epitaph on Mrs. Miriam (Wood) Smith, an ancient school-mistress, 288; tombs of the Rovall family, and inscription on the monument of Deacon James Blake, 289; Sexton Daniel Davenport, sketch of his his- tory, his epitaph by Rev. Dr. T. M. Harris, the historian and antiquary, 290; the South Burying-ground, the second established in Dorchester, 291; the Dorchester Cemetery consecrated in 1848, the Roman Catholic burying ground; Cedar Grove Cemetery ; its location, extent, and management; and a por- tion of it set off for free interments ; provision for the embellishment of the grounds, 296-93. Dorchester Cemetery, 291.
Dorchester Company, 16.
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Dorchester, Eng., 16. Dorchester Map, 104.
Dorchester Neck, 33, 125, 144, 223, 224, 254.
Dorchester Old Burying-Ground, 252, 280. Dorchester Point, 33, 125, 144, 252, 439. Dorchester South Burying-Ground, 291.
Dorr, Joseph H., 357.
Double dating, 151.
Douglass, Cornelius, 610; George, 609; Dr. William, a Boston physician, author of " A Summary of New England History," sketch of his history, 609-10.
Dover, N. H., 16.
Dover Street Bridge, 107, 422.
Dowse, Jonathan, 513.
Draper, John, 629. Draw Bridge, 113, 401, 404, 640, 642, 643.
Draw Bridge street, 402.
Dress, 71, 86. Dripps, M., 98. Dripps's Map 98.
Drown, Deacon Shem, decorator of the Province House, and constructor of the Faneuil Hall | Exchange, 62, 65. grasshopper, 597, 599.
Drury, Hugh, 617.
Dudley, Joseph, 271, 274, 567 ; Paul, 83, 271, 274 ; 'T'homas, 17, 165, 184, 271, 451, 628; William, 523, 524.
Dudley Tomb, in the Eliot burying-ground, and epitaphs and anagrams, 271-4.
Duel at Noddle's Island, 447.
Dumesnil, Anthony, 633.
Dummer, Jeremiah, 597 ; Jeremy, 64 ; William, 225, 492.
Dummer's Corner, 114.
Duncan, Mr., 629.
Dunton, John, personal reminiscences of, 59.
Dutton, E. P. and Co., 97, 102, 103, 679.
Dutton's Maps, 102.
Dwelling houses in 1784, 138.
Dyer (Dyar, Dyre), Mary, 87, 113, 352, barba- rous treatment of, and execution, on Boston Common, 114; William, 166, 352.
Eagle Hill, 445. Eagle Point, 445. Eames, Luther, 413.
East Boston, 99, 125, 144 (formerly Noddle's Island), so called after the incorporation of the East Boston Company in 1833, 125.
East Boston Burying-Ground, 261.
East Boston Cemeteries, 261, 263; two burial lots purchased of the East Boston Company in 1838, 261; the extent and boundaries of the ground used by the citizens of the ward, 261; the Jewish burying-ground, its size and loca- tion, and the peculiarities of the cemetery, 262; enlargement of the lot, 263.
East Boston Free Bridge, 427. East Cove, 115. Eastern Avenne, 119, 120, 428.
Eaton, S. Dwight, 104. Eckley Tomb, 225.
Eddy, Caleb, 111, 357.
Education made compulsory in 1720, 129.
Egg (or Shag) Rocks, the description of, 575. Eirec Rauda, Eric Raude, Eric the Red, 7, 8. Election Days on the Common, 454.
Elephant tavern, 401.
Eliot Burying-Ground, 270.
Eliot Jacob, 166; Rev. John, 45, 270, 272, 275, 276, 552; his settlement as pastor at Roxbury, and his labors in preaching to and converting the Indians, 45; his tomb in the old Eliot burying-ground in Boston Highlands, and inscription thereon, 275; Samuel, 349.
Eliot School, 205. Elizabeth Islands, 12.
Elizabeth, Queen, 12. Ellis Monument and Tomb, 202, 204. Elliston's Corner, 402.
Emerson, Geo. B., 337, 371.
Eminences of Beacon Hill, 171.
Endicott, John, 16, 17, 24, 228 ; his arrival in New England in 1628, and settlement of Sa- lem, 17.
Endicott Place, 112. English Map, 98.
Enigmatical Slab in Dorchester Old Burying- Ground, 282.
Entrances to Boston, 416, 430.
Episcopal Church, 63; First, 248.
Essex Bridge, 89.
Estes, Matthew, Jr., 231. Evening Transcript, 233.
Evans, B. C., 279.
Evered, John, 675.
Everell (Everill), James, 400, 401, 443, 627, 628, 629, 683, 684.
Everett, Edward, Statue of, in the Public Gar- den, 364.
Eustis, William, 225.
Ewer, Charles, 410.
Executions, places of, in early years, capital ex- ccutions conducted on Boston Neck and near Malden street, criminals buried under the gal- lows, executions at South Boston and in Blackstone square, 244; for piracy on the snow Elizabeth in 1726, at Charlestown Ferry, 540; John Quelch and six others, in 1704, at Bird Island, and of Thomas Hawkins and nine others at the same place about 1689-90; of Samuel Bellamy and six others in 1717, and of John Rose Archer and William White in 1724, at Bird Island and other places ; de- scription of the executions of Fly and others and of Quelch and his associates, 541-2. See Dennegri, Dyer, Fly, Matoonas, Pirates, Phil- lips, Quakers, Tully.
Eye Pond, 445.
Faden, William, 96, 101. Fairs, 46.
Fairweather, John, 492.
Faneuil Hall, 65, 152, 404; built in 1743 and en- larged in 1806, 120; not to be leased or sold by the city council, 305.
Faneuil, Peter, 22, 152, 225; his grave in the Old Granary burying-ground, 226.
Farm School, 505.
Farnham, John, 666.
Farnsworth, Ezra, 358.
Farwell, J. E. & Co., 233. Fayerweather, John, 668.
Feakes, Robert, 476.
Feather Store, 401. Federal street, 112. Federal Street Bridge, 426. Fence for Common, 314. Fenwick, Bishop, 258.
Ferdinand and Isabella, 3.
Ferry, Boston and Charlestown, 37; compensa- tion to Harvard College for its suspension by the building of Charles River bridge, 417. Ferries, 79, 429.
Fields, location of, in Boston in early times, their names, 126. See Common, Fort, Massa- chusetts, Mill, Mylne, Neck, New, New Mill, Town.
Fields, James T., 679.
Finch, Lt. William, 447.
Fire, great incendiary, in Boston in 1679, and nearly all the trading part of the town con- sumed, history of the event, 640-2.
Fire Engine, the first one ever used in Boston, and fire matters in olden times, 641.
Fire Swabs, 641.
First Church Pastors, tomb of, in King's Chapel burying-ground, viz: John Cotton, John Davenport, John Oxenbridge and Thomas
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Bridge, and veneration of the people for their memories, 191.
Fish Market, 404, 643.
Fish Street. 133, 688.
Fisher, E T., 47.
Fishery, failure to establish one in 1753 at Point Shirley, 437.
Fitch, Jeremiah, 407.
Fitch, Thomas, 236.
Fitch's estate, 314.
Fitch's fence, 316.
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