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Fitch's Lane, 404.
Fitch's Pasture, its purchase in 1754 for the Common, or Central, burying-ground, 237. Firewards, 153.
Flack, Cotton, 300.
Flagg Alley, 404.
Flagstaff Hill, 390.
Fleet Street Ward, 138.
Fleet-Ward, 130, 137.
Fletcher, Edward, cutler and lay preacher in Boston, 616.
Flint, Rev. Josiah, one of the early clergymen of Dorchester, his death in 1680, 283.
Fly, William, 353, 540, 551.
Folger. Abiah, 635; Peter, 635.
Foot Bridge, 112.
Fore (fort) Point Channel, 107.
Fore Street, 663, 583.
Forefathers, vignette of, 94.
Forest Hills Cemetery, 251, 266, 269; suggested in 1846 by Mayor Clarke of Roxbury, 267; ac- ceptance of the act of incorporation, 268; purchase of the land and dedication of the cemetery by the name of " Forest Hills," 268; increase of its area, and conveyance of the cemetery lands to the proprietors of the cem- etery in 1868, by the city of Boston, 268.
Fort Field, 126, 163, 314.
Fort Hill, 36, 107, 115, 116, 120, 126, 158, 159. 162, 409; its position and early name, 163; failure of attempts to modernize its title, 164; the first place selected for a fort by the Massachu- setts Bay Company, 164; commencement of the fortification in 1632, supplied with ord- nance by Gov. Winthrop in 1633, 164; the people assessed to do labor in improving, 165-6; a windmill placed in 1642 by widow Tuthill, 166; roads to the fort laid out, and land grant to James Penn as an equivalent for that taken from him at Fort Hill. 167; the retreat of Sir Edmund Andross in 1689, and his seizure by the Bostonians 167 ; charity school, or hospital for children ordered to be erected on the hill in 1713 by citizens, 168; changes in the locality within the present century, and appearances now and a hundred years ago, 169; the removal of the hill ordered in 1865, and the advantages of the improvement, 169. Fort Hillers, 125.
Fort Independence, 438; the name assigned, in 1776, to Fort William, 495; appointed a place of confinement for criminals, 496; substantial stone fort built on the site of Fort William, 496.
Fort Point, 106, 107, 158.
Fort Point Channel, 107, 428, 472; Roxbury har- bor, Gallows Bay, South Bay, or Fore point, 107.
Fort Point (Sconce, or South Battery Point), location and origin of its name, 107.
Fort Street, 163, 651.
Fort Strong, East Boston, built by voluntary service in 1776, of the several crafts and trades, and its position, 446.
Fort Warren, 451.
Fort William, on Castle Island, commenced in 1701 and finished two years after, 493; re- mains of the fort built up in the rear wall of Fort Independence, 493; inscription on the gate-way, 493; the fort injured by the British
troops at the evacuation of Boston, 494; the fort burned in March, 1776, taken possession of by the provincial forces, and partially re- stored, 495; called " Fort William and Mary " in old times, 497.
Fort Saint George, 13.
Fort William and Mary, 497.
Fort Winthrop, 451, 496.
Forts. See Castle, Copp's Hill, Fort Hill, Fortifi- cations, Independence, Maverick, Redoubts, Strong, St. George, Warren, William, William and Mary, Winthrop.
Fortifications, the, in 1634, Wood's description, 43; proposed floating, in 1634, 475, 476.
Fortifications at Neck, 43, 93, 140; on Copp's Hill, 161; on Fort Hill, 164, 168.
Fortune, the, 15.
Fosdick family, account of their Boston posses- sions, 619.
Fosdick, James, 619, 624; John, 619: Sarah, 619.
Foster, Ebenezer, 619; Hopestill, 284; John, 284,
456; Gen. J. G., 548, 553, 561, 576, 577; Lydia, 456; Sarah, 619; William, 238, 308, 312.
Foster Lane, 133.
Foster's Pasture, 316.
Foster's Wharf, 36.
Fountains, 215. See Brewer, Blackstone Square, Frog Pond.
Fountain in Blackstone Square, 382; in Frog Pond, 414.
Four Points Channel, 107.
Fowle, James, 631.
Foxcroft, George, 682; Rev. Thomas, 63.
Fox Hill, 115, 312.
Fox Hill Spring, 390, 393.
Foye, treasurer, 516.
Francis, I., 11.
Francis, Ebenezer, 357.
Frankland, Sir Henry, 249.
Franklin, Mrs. Abiah, mother of Benjamin Franklin, 218, 632; her death in 1752, in Bos- ton, 636 ; Agnes, 635; Benjamin, 206, 219, 446, the celebrated printer, philosopher and states- man, his birth in 1706, in Boston, 615; family genealogy, 634 ; reminiscences of his youth, 636 ; his death, burial at Philadelphia, inscription on his tomb, and grave of his son Francis, 637 ; Deborah, 637, 638; Francis F., 637; Henry, 635; Jane, 635; John, 633; Josiah, chandler, father of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, 218, 219, 615, 616, 617, 618, 619, 624, 627, 630, 631, 632, 634; his old house in Milk street, 615; his purchase of the Blue Ball estate in Union street, 627; death and burial in the old Granary burying- ground, 636; Margery, 635; Richard, 646; Thomas, 635.
Franklin Cemetery, 211.
Franklin Corner, 630.
Franklin family, 635.
Franklin House, the old, in Milk street, its his- tory, 615; description of the building, 620; destruction by fire, 622; disposition of the estate, 623.
Franklin Monument, 217.
Franklin's Parents, 405.
Franklin Square, 382.
Franklin Statue, 384.
Franklin Tomb. 217.
Franklin Urn, 383, 396.
Free School, first, 250.
Freemason's Hall, the title given to the Old Green Dragon Tavern, after its purchase by St. Andrew's Lodge, 613.
Freezing, extraordinary, of Boston harbor in 1634-5, as described in Gov. Winthrop's Jour- nal, 465.
French Army, 78.
French Church, 63.
French Families, 50.
French Protestant Refugee, his description of Boston in 1687, 46 ; scarcity of labor and exist-
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ence of negro slavery, 48; severe laws against | German Map, 93.
Kidnapping and running off slaves, 48 ; detail of the products of New England, 49; rigid import rules, 50; bad reports of the Carolinas, 51; depredations of wild animals, 51; demor- alization among the people, 51.
French Protestants, 50, 223.
French Squadron, 78.
Friedlos, adventurer, 7.
Friend and Aub. 98.
Friends. See Quakers.
Friendship, the, 449.
Frizzle, John, 249.
Frizzle's Lane. 249.
Frobisher Benjamin, 240; Mary, 240; William, 240.
Frog Lane, 237, 238, 300, 307, 312.
Frog Pond, 93, 411.
Front Street, 120.
Frost, Oliver, 358.
Frothingham, Richard, 96.
Fuller, Stephen P., 92.
Funeral Ceremonies, ancient and modern; first funeral prayer ever made in Boston; first funeral sermon ; simplicity of funeral arrange- ments among the old inhabitants of Boston, 263.
Funeral Gloves, 265.
Funeral Prayer, 263.
Funeral Processions, 265.
Funeral Rings, 265.
Funeral Scarfs, 265.
Funeral Sermon, 263.
Gales, 1815, 321; heavy in Boston in September, in the years 1815, and 1869, respectively, 321 ; damage to the trees on the common and to property in the city, 323 -- 4.
Gallop, Christabel, 538; John, 537, 538, 542, 544, 682, a noted pilot in Boston harbor in early times, anecdote of his bravery, the owner of Gallop's Island, his residence and death in Boston, 538; sketch of Gallop's history, 542.
Gallop's Island, form, position, approaches, geological characteristics, fertility, and old time ownership and uses, 546; original and intermediate owners and sale to the city of Boston, 546; a rendezvous for enlisted men during the Southern war, and afterwards annexed to the quarantine station, and a sea wall erected for the protection of its northerly part, 547-8.
Gallows, for execution, 244.
Gallows Bay, 107, 142; the name anciently ap- plied to Dorchester Point or Neck, now South Boston 439.
Galvin, John, 363, 364.
Gardens. See Bannister, Blackstone, Blaxton, Governors, Washington, Wheeler's.
Gardiner, Henry D., 427 ; Rev. J. S. J., 247. Gardner, Isaac S., 255; Lyon, 166.
Gasometer, 120.
Gates, Sir Thomas, 17. Gavett, John, 629. Gay, Capt., 614; Ebenezer, 255. Gazetteer Map, 96. Gee, Hannah, 199; Joshua, 199. Gee Tomb, 204.
Gee's Corner, 132. General Election Day, 454. Gentleman's Magazine Map, 94.
George's Island, situation in the harbor, origi- nal and subsequent ownership, purchase by the city of Boston and final sale to the United States, 555-6; extent of, commencement of the erection of Fort Warren thereon and its description, 556; an earthwork erected on the eastern side in 1778 to protect the har- bor against English cruisers, 557; approaches to the fort, and uses as a miltiary rendezvous and as a rebel prison, 557.
Geyer, John Just, 238.
Gibbons, Captain Edward, 166, 467, 479, 482.
Gilbert, Raleigh, 13.
Gill, John, 628.
Gillingham, Edward, 102.
Gilman, Peter, 207.
Glasford, Eng., 686.
Goffe, Thomas, first deputy governor of the Massachusetts Colony, 16.
Golden Candlestick, 404.
Gouldwaithe, Martha, 668.
Gomera Island, 4.
Goodnow, Elisha, a benevolent citizen of Bos- ton, his bequest of valuable real estate for free hospital purposes, 664, 665, 670.
Goodrich, S. G., 98. Goodrich Tomb, 204. Gordon, William, 102.
Gordon's War Map, 102.
Gore, Capt., 614; Christopher, 122, 225 ; Stephen, 141.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 15.
Gorham, Nathaniel, 417.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, his voyage from Bristol, England, and landing in Buzzard's Bay, 12; his building of a fort on Cuttyhunk, 12 ; re- turn home and arrival subsequently in Vir- ginia with a colonizing expedition, 12; death at Jamestown, Virginia, 13.
Gould, A. A., 332, 366; Abraham, 253, 257. Governor's Garden, 450.
Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, 16, 17.
Governor's Green, the name applied to the site of the Old South Church estate, 651.
Governor's House, 651.
Governor's (Conant's or Winthrop's) Island, earliest owner, 449 ; appropriations to public benefits and uses, and subsequent gift to Gov. John Winthrop, and the conditions thereof. 449-50; wine and fruit the specified items of rent, and their mode of payment, 451 ; convey- ance of to the U. S. Government, and the erection of the original Fort Warren, now called Fort Winthrop, 451; great strength of the new fort, and power of the water batteries over the South Boston flats, 452.
Graham, Col., 551.
Grammar School-house, 308.
Granary Building, 65, 211, 215, 309; its situation at the head of Park street in 1737, removal to the site now occupied by Park Street Church, and the adjoining graveyard named after it, 210.
Granary (South Common or Middle) Burying- Ground, 210, 226; establishment in 1660 as the third of the burial-places in Boston, 210; cause of its being established, 210 ; origin of name, 211; futile attempt to change its name, 211; its ancient and present boundaries, 211; the earliest tombs erected, 211 ; the burial-place of Gov. John Hancock, and of the family of that name, 211; tombs erected up to 1813, within the ground, 213; unfortunate selection of the site for this cemetery, 214; its springy character, curious illustrative anecdote, 214; means taken for its drainage, vestiges of the old drain found in 1868 on the site of the Brewer foun- tain on the Common, 215; trees planted in 1830 on the grounds, 216; Tremont street iron fence erected in 1840, 216; arrangements existing for the ornamentation of the ground, 216; the public admitted to them on Sunday evenings, 216; historical data associated with the Old Granary burying-ground, 217; tomb of the Franklin family, 217; laying of the corner- stone and description of the obelisk, 217 ; copy of the inscription upon it, 218; historical notes concerning Dr. Franklin's father and other members of the Franklin family, 219; the
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oldest monumental stone, 219; heraldic de- vices and inscriptions on the gravestones, 220; the fatal Woodbridge duel on Boston Common, history of the event, 221-3; graves of the fugitive French Protestants, 223; dis- covery of the grave of their pastor, Pere Peter Daille, 223; sketch of his history, 224; curious restrictions respecting his burial, 225; names of noted persons buried in the ground, Robert Treat Paine, John Hull, the mint master, Peter Faneuil, John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, Paul Revere, the victims of the Boston massacre in 1770, and General Joseph Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill, 225; the oldest monumental inscription on the ground, 226.
Granite Bridge, 157. Grant tomb, 204.
Grant by the town of Hull, of the Little Brews- ter for building a lighthouse.
Grape Island, near Hingham, 558.
Gravelly Point, 423.
Graves, Admiral, 572, 577.
Graves, the, dangerous rocks in the mouth of Boston harbor, and their surroundings, 437.
Graveyard at Castle Island, 263; at Rainsford Island, 263.
Graveyard Bluff, 463.
Graveyards, ornamentation of in recent time, 266.
Gray, Asa B., 337; Horace, 360.
Great Bridge, 83.
Great Cove, 36, 115, 120, 158, 162, 663; its loca- tion, 115; its docks and batteries, 116.
Great Creek, 445.
Great Elm, 93, 96. See Common.
Great Head, 437.
Great Marsh, 445.
Great Patent of New England, 18.
Great Spring, 390.
Great street, 630.
Great Tree, 93.
Green Dragon, 45, 438.
Green Dragon Tavern, 405; early history, 605, et seq. ; political gatherings therein in ante-revolutionary times, 605; the various ownerships of the land whereon the tavern was built, 606-10; situation of the tavern and its appearance, 610; extent and surround- ings of the estate, and its ancient sign, 611; sale of the property to St. Andrew's Lodge of Free Masons, 612; age of the Old Tavern and its several occupants, 612-13; its uses for politi- cal purposes, 613; the house used in 1776 for a hospital, 614; the old building torn down and a warehouse built on its site, 614. Green Dragon Lane, 609, 611.
Greene, Gardiner, 171, 331, 422; Thomas, 236; John, 540, 541.
Green Hill, 437,
Green Island, one of the Boston harbor islands, 436, 576.
Green Lane, 134.
Green Stores, 142.
Greenland, 7, 8, 10.
Greenleaf, Daniel, 646, 647; Elizabeth, 646: Hannah, 555; John, 646; Stephen, sheriff, 173; Thomas, 255, 647; William, 646.
Greenough, David, lessee of the Old Province House estate in 1817 for ninety-nine years, 598; Edward, 521; Newman, 521; William, a shipwright, owner in 1688, by inheritance, of Rainsford Island, 521. Greenvill, Henry, 353, 540, 541.
Greenwood tomb, 204. Grierson, George, 101. Griffin, the ship, 27, 107, 538. Grist mills, 112. Griswold, Bishop, 250, 253. Grosse, Isaac, 682. Gross, Thomas, 668.
Grover's Cliff, 437. Grubb, Thomas, 594. Guanahani Island, 4.
Gun Houses, 312, 313.
Gunhouse of Sea Fencibles erected in 1817, 311.
Gwynneth, Owen, his reputed discoveries in the West Indies and Mexico, 9.
Gut Plain, 437.
Hakluyt, historian, 9.
Hale, Nathan, 102.
Hales, John G., 97, 102.
Hales's Map, 97.
Half Moon Island, in Quincy flats, 507.
Hall, Jacob, 200.
Hallowell's Ship yard, 134.
Hancock Free Bridge, 421.
Hancock House, built in 1737 on the southern slope of Beacon Hill, 172.
Hancock, John, 171, 178, 179, 212, 225, 325, 374, 375, 417, 573; his burial place in the Old Granary ground, mortuary records of the family, 212-13; Lydia, 335; Thomas, 171, 178, 212, 213, 236, 335, a noted Boston merchant, builder of the Old Hancock House, 311.
Hancock Street, 172.
Hancock Tavern House, 404.
Hancock Tomb, 213.
Hancock's Cow Pasture, 311.
Hancock's Wharf, 115.
Hands, Mark, 666.
Hanover Street, 113, 126, 130, 133, 134, 664. Hanover Street Ward, 138.
Harbor, Boston, 8, 24, 27, 46, 47, 73, 431, 587; its islands, roads, sounds, channels, rocks and spits, 431, et seq. ; early visitors to, Icelandic navigators at Cape Cod nearly nine hundred years ago, and traditional visit to Point Aller- ton, 433; description of, 431, 587.
Harbor Mouth, its description in the olden time by William Wood, in his "New England's Prospect." 562-3.
Harding, William C., 268.
Harding's Ledge, a dangerous rock in the mouth of Boston bay, 436, 562.
Harris, Isaac, 622; John, 426; Rev. Thaddeus M., 290.
Harrison avenue, laid out (as Front street), in 1806, 121.
Harvard College, 75, 80, 89, 95, 229, 420, 560; in- digent scholars provided for by a tax on the Cambridge Bridge Company, 420; first situa- tion as described by Abbe Robin, use in 1775, as a barrack by the English troops, library, character of the professors and amusements of the students, 75; visit of the Marquis de Chastellux to the College in 1782, and difficul- ties of the journey from Boston, 81; compli- ment to the efficiency of the University, 82; Commencement in 1788, as described by Bris- sot de Warville, 89.
Hatch, Alderman Samuel, 327; Estes, 457.
Hatter's Squarers, 125.
Hawes Burying-Ground, 257.
Hawes, John, 254, 257.
Hawkins Lane, 134.
Hawkins, Rebecca, 607; Thomas, 541; Thomas, a noted biscuit baker and taverner in old times, 606-7.
Hawkins street, 109.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 599, 603; William, 117.
Hayes, John, the second keeper of the Beacon Light, 571.
Haymarket Square, 109, 111, 114, 172, 386.
Hayscales, 312.
Head Mansion House, 313.
Headlands, 106.
Hearse House, 312.
Hearses, 264, 265, introduced into Boston about 1796; the funeral customs of the previous period, 266.
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Helluland, 7.
Henchman, Daniel, 335, 648; Hezekiah, 335. Henchman's Lane, 133.
Hendee Charles J., 679.
Henry VII., 10.
Henshaw, David, 152, 425; John, 427; Joshua, 212.
Hewes, Samuel Hill, the superintendent of burials, his passion for the picturesque in the arrangement of the grounds, 245.
Hibbens, Ann, 336, 352, 653; executed in 1655 for witchcraft, 652; Mary, 390; William, 352, 390, 651, 652, 684.
High street, 134.
High lands in Winthrop. Gut Plain, Great Head (or Green Hills), Bluff (or Winthrop's) Head and Grover's Cliff, 437.
Highlands, the, 100.
Highlands Burying-Grounds - The Eliot Bury- ing-Ground, its antiquity, situation and pres- ent condition, 271; bodies of eminent men deposited therein; tombs of John Eliot, the Indian apostle, and of the two governors Dudley, and quaint epitaphs on the Dudleys, 272-3; the minister's tomb and its inscriptions, 275; the oldest gravestone and curious monu- mental inscriptions, 276-7.
Highway, the, 213.
Highway to Roxbury, the, name given to Washington street in early times, 672.
Hill, the, 125.
Hill, Henry, 380, 381; John, 109, 135, 236, 666, 682, 683; Samuel, 678; Valentine, 672, 682. Hill, West, 138.
Hills. See Beacon, Blue, Bunker, Camp, Centry, Copley, Copp's, Cotton, Eagle, Eminences, Fort, Fox, Green, The Hill, Monument, Mount Vernon, Pemberton, Ridge, Sentry, Signal, Snow, Strawberry, Study, Telegraph, Tremont, West, Windmill.
Hilton, Edward, 15; William, 15.
Hingham, 95.
Hirst, Grove, 686.
Hispaniola, discovered by Columbus, 5.
Hoffe, Mr., 465.
Hog Alley, 315.
Hog Island, 95, 445, 448 ; its situation, character- istics and history, 447-8, and 559.
Holden, Nathaniel R., 648.
Holidays, 55.
Holland, John, 354; Samuel, 102.
Hollis, Thomas, 648.
Holmes, Nathaniel, 201.
Homes, William, 405, 633, 636.
Homes's Key, 405.
Hooks and Ladders, 641.
Hooper, Henry N., 574.
Horn Lane, 134.
Horse of Elder Oliver, 303.
Hospital, 168.
Hospital, Massachusetts General, grant of the Old Province House by the State to that cor- poration, 598.
Hotel Pelham moved, 313.
Hough, Atherton, 27, 308, 651; Rev. Samuel, one of the early Boston land owners, 594. Houghton, Jonathan, 354.
House of Correction, 211.
House of Industry, establishment of, on Deer Island, 470.
Houses, number of, in 1784, in the respective natural divisions of the town, 138-40.
Houtchin, Jeremy, 627.
Howard, Stephen, 421.
Howe, Hall J., 425.
Howe, Lord, 598.
Howlet, John, 607; Rebecca, 607.
Hubbard, Elizabeth, 535; Nathaniel, 535; Thom- as, 135. Hubbard's land, 134.
Hudson's Point, 106, 107, 156, 159, 297; origin of its name and its location, 107.
Hull, town of, situated on the west of the prom- ontory of Point Allerton, 436, 439.
Hull, Hannah, 199; John, the New England mint master, 225, 228; his daughter's marriage por- tion, 199.
Hull Street Cemetery, 200.
Humphrey, James, a ruling elder of the Church at Dorchester in early days, 285; his death and acrostical epitaph, 286; John, second dep- uty governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 17. Hunnewell, Jonathan, 323, 425.
Hunt, Amey, 206; Benjamin, 206; Elisha, 318; Thomas, 14.
Hutchins, William B., 421.
Hutchinson, Abigail, 677; Ann, 297, 480, 672; Edward, 295, 672; Richard, 672, 673, 677; Sa- rah, 456; Hon. Thomas, 205, 456; the builder of the first school-house in the North End, on the site of the present Eliot School-house, 205 ; Gov. Thomas, 249; William, husband of the celebrated Ann, the religious reformer, owner of the Old Book-store estate, 672, 674.
Hutchinson tomb, 204.
Hutchinson's street, 163.
Hyde Park, 35, 156, 269.
Hypocrite Passage, a channel in Boston Harbor, 436.
Icelandic Navigators, 7, 9. Ice Pond, 463. Ide, L. N., 98.
Illuminations of Liberty tree and the elms on Paddock's Mall on the arrival of the news of the repeal of the Stamp Act, 375.
Inches, Elizabeth, 677; Henderson, 677.
Independence, ship, 455.
Independence square, 387.
India Wharf, 119.
Indians, 9, 14, 15, 17, 25, 30, 31, 32, 45, 48, 67 ; in- terviews of the original colonists with, 31; their friendly exchanges of food for clothing and knives, 32.
Ingersol, Jonathan, 421.
Insurance maps, 100.
Irish Presbyterians, 75.
Iron fence around the Common, 319.
Irving, Washington, 4.
Isabella, queen, 3, 5.
Islands at mouth of Harbor, 464.
Island, Castle, 61.
Island, Noddle's, 60.
Island of Trevor, 503.
Island Wharves, 119.
Islands, 60, 61. See Apple, Belle Isle, Bird, Breed, Calf, Canary, Castle, Christopher, Conant, Cuba, Deer, East Boston, Elizabeth, Gallop, George's, Gomera, Governor's, Grape, Green, Guanahani, Half Moon, Hispaniola, Hog, Ice- land, Isle of Trevor, Island Wharves, La isla Santa, Long, Lovell, Martha's Vineyard, Mennon's Moon, Moon, Middle Brewster, Nix's Mate, Noddles, Nut, Racoon, Pelham, Pettock's, Rainsford, San Domingo, San Sal- vador, Sheep, Spectacle, Susanna, Thomp- son's, West Indies, Williams's, Wood.
Islands, part of Wards, 144. Islands, shapes of, 440.
Israelitish Society of Peace, 201.
Ivers, James, and his family, proprietors, in 1791, of Long Island, 535.
Jackson, Henry, 419; John, 678; Patrick T., 357. Jackson's shop, 134.
Jackson's Still House, 134.
James, Benj., 344.
James I., 17.
Jamaica Pond, 157, 397, 413, 414.
Jamaica Pond Aqueduct, 392, 412.
Hudson. Francis, 107, 159, 296, 297 ; William, 531. | Jamestown, 12.
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Jarves, Deming, 428.
Jarvis, Dr. Charles, 204.
Jeffries, John, 515. Jeffries, Thomas, 94. Jencks, Joseph, 641.
Jethro. old, 352.
Jetties, 644.
Jewish Burying-Ground at East Boston, 261.
Johnson, Lady Arbella, 27, 28, 185; death of, 27; Capt. Edward, of Woburn, 45, 117, 477; his description, in 1664, of Boston, Roxbury and Dorchester, 43; his account of the early fortification of Castle Island, 477 ; Isaac, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 183, 184, 389; arrival with the Winthrop Colony at Salem and Charlestown, and death at the latter place, 38; Deacon James, 652; glover, captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company in 1656, his ownership of the land on which the Old Green Dragon Tavern was built, 606; Thomas, 92. Jolliffe, John, 652, 655.
Jolliffe's Lane, the old name of Devonshire street, 651.
Jones, Ében, 428 ; Hepzibah, 410; John C., 421 ; John Paul, commodore, employed to deliver "The America," a seventy-four gun ship, a present to Louis XVI. from the United States government, 552 ; Jonathan, 410; Margaret, 352; Sarah, 410.
Joselyn, John, 45, 60, 438, 464; his voyages to New England, 45; his description of the colo- nies, and habits, manners and pursuits of the colonists, 46; his account, in 1675, of Pullin Point, and the main harbor channel at that time, 438.
Josias, the Sachem ; his release of the common lands to the town of Boston, 301.
Joy, Benjamin, 421; Thomas, 682. Joy's building, 381.
Jukes, Francis, 95.
Julien, Charlotte, 657; Hannah, 657, 662; Har- riet, 657 ; Jean Baptiste Gilbert Payplat dis, the famous restaurant keeper, 649, 657, his his- tory, character and death, 660-1; his epitaph in the Common burying-ground, 241.
Julien House, the, in Milk street, its appearance, and origin of its name, 649; the estate and its ownerships, 651-9; ancient appearance of the building, and its character as a haunt of epi- cureans, 660 ; social standing of Mons. Julien, and tribute to his memory, 661; death of his widow, 661 ; the house demolished in 1824, and another erected on its site, 659.
Keayne, Capt. Robert, his bequests in 1653, for vario us specified town purposes, and death three years afterwards, 399.
Kennebec River, 13.
Kenrick, John, 651.
Kerr, Mr. 610.
Kerr, Catherine, 610, 613.
Kidder, Joseph, 613; William, 648. Kiliarnese, 8.
Kind, Arthur, 198; Jane, 198; Mary, 198; Wil- liam, 199. King, Francis, 542. King Philip's War, 195. King street, 114, 130, 134, 137.
King Street Ward, 138.
King's Arms Tavern, 396.
King's Chapel, 65, 137, 195 ; brief history of the building, 195, 247-250.
King's Chapel burying-ground, 185-196. King's Ward, 130. Kingsbury, William B., 267.
Kittredge, Alvah, 268.
Kneeland, Bartholomew, 678. Kneeland's lane, 134.
Knox, General Henry, 311. Krossaness, 8, 433.
L'Atlas, Maritime, 101.
La Isla Santa, 5. La Rochelle, 47.
La Tour, visit of, to Charlestown and Boston, and great consequent panic, 482, 484.
Labor, 49.
Labrador, 7, 11; repeated explorations of the country by the Icelanders, 7.
Lake, D. J., 103.
Lamb, Thomas, 103.
Lamb's map, 103.
Lambert, John, 542.
Land Company of East Boston, its incorporation in 1833, and purchase of Noddle's Island, 444. Landmarks, disappearance of, in Boston, 588. Langford, Hannah, 207.
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