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Lanquedoc, 47.
Lark Rock, 518.
Larrabe, John, 498.
Lathrop, John, 225.
Latin School, 466.
Latin school-house, 249, 407.
Latitude and Longitude of Boston, 35.
Lawson, Christopher, 683.
Leavitt, Elisha, 546, 550, 555,
Lechmere Point, 417.
Ledges, 441, 577. See Rocks.
Lee, Thomas, 364.
Lee tomb, 204.
Leeds, Samuel, 648, 684.
Legal voters, the basis of division of wards instead of population, 143.
Leger, Jacob, 300.
Leif, discovery of Cape Cod and islands south of the Massachusetts coast by him, 7, 8.
Leighton, Charles, 111.
Leverett, Elder Thomas, 27, 190, 466, 531, 538, 565, 658; John, 116, 117, 170, 231, 347, 491, 564, 672; reward and thanks for engineering Sconce Battery on Great Cove, 117; governor of the Colony, and death, 347; burial-place, and that of his family, in the Chapel burying- ground, 193; small islands granted to, 565. Leverett street, 36, 109, 128, 134.
Leverett tomb, 192.
Leverett's Lane, 231.
Leverett's Pasture, 126.
Lewis, Alonzo, 97; George, 268; Job, 677; Mar- tha, 668 ; Sarah, 677; Winslow, 313.
Lewis Wharf, 115, 118.
Liberty Square, 115, 116.
Liberty tree, 96.
Lincoln, Countess of, 184.
Lincoln, Lionel, 687.
Lindall, John, 686.
Light-house, on Long Island, its description and purposes, 535 ; on Little Brewster, 566-9, 572-4; on Brewster's spit, 543, 562. See Beacon, Bug, Long Island.
Light-houses, 62, 65, 434.
Light-house Tragedy, the, written by Benjamin Franklin, 206, 468, 571.
Lillie, John S., 620, 623; Thomas J., 622. Lincoln, F. W. jr., 361. Lindall, Jane, 656; Timothy, 656.
Link Alley, 112.
Little, James, the, 15.
Lloyd, Henry, 525; James, 171; Rebecca, 535. Lobdell, Capt. Thomas J., 425; Martha, 560. Lodge, J., 93.
London Company, 18.
London Magazine, 96. London Magazine, Map, 93. Long Acre, 213, 308. Long Beach, 436.
Long Island, situation, form, dimensions, posi- tion, approach, and description as it was in ancient times, 528-30; the island and adjacent ones rented to Boston for a nominal sum, 530; its forests cut down and the land laid out in parcels, 531 ; failure of the tenants to pay their
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rents and surrender to them of the land, claim of the Earl of Stirling to the ownership of the island, 532; purchase of the island by John Nelson, 532; the various subsequent proprie- tors and terms of their ownership, 533-5; the land finally vested in the Long Island Corpor- ation, 535 ; the recent uses of the island and its situation as a summer resort, 536.
Long Lane, 163.
Long Wharf, 62, 115, 118, 119, 134, 138, 396.
Longevity, 72.
Lorenzo de Medici, 10.
Loring, Benjamin, 521; Caleb, 523; David, 523; Elizabeth, 523; Hannah, 523; James T., 647, 648; Jane, 523; John, 521, 523, 565; Rebecca, 523 ; Samuel, 523.
Louis Phillipe, of France, his residence in the Hancock tavern house, Boston, during " the reign of terror," 404.
Louisburg Square, 126, 383, 391.
Love street, 133.
Lovejoy, Charles J., 648.
Lovell, Capt. William, of Dorchester, after whom Lovell's Island was named, 548.
Lovell's Island, position in the harbor, area, and geographical relations, 548; in 1636, a posses- sion of Charlestown, granted for a fishing station, being at that time wooded, and half the wood conserved for the Castle garrison, 549; various sales of the island and its final conveyance, in 1825, to the United States Gov- ernment, 550; the island at one time a pasture ground and rabbit warren, 550; measures em- ployed for its protection from destruction by the sea, and legends associated with its coast, 551-3.
Lowe, John, 683.
Lowell, Charles, his improvement of West Church (or Derby) Square by planting Oak trees thereon, 385; John, 179.
Lower Mills, 1.57.
Lucas, John, 325; Roger, 207; Sarah, 207.
Luce, Peter, 676.
Ludlow, Roger, 476.
Lumber, 74.
Lyle, Francis, a surgeon barber in early Boston times, and his landed possessions, 594.
Lyman, Theodore, 330, 501.
Lynde, Simon, 468, 629.
Lynn, 38, 78.
Lynn Creek, 78.
Lytherland, William, 296, 297.
Mackay, Mungo, 419, 420.
Mackerel Bridge, 403.
Mackerill Lane, 114, 115, 134.
Mackintosh, Mary, 677.
Madoc, adventurer, 9.
Magner, John, 258.
Magnifique, French seventy-four gun ship, lost in 1782, near Lovell's Island, 551; construc- tion of the America by the United States government to replace it, and its fate, 552; portions of the wreck found, 553, 563.
Mahoney, Rev. John, 260.
Main Ship Channel, its boundaries and obstruc- tions, 561.
Malcom, Capt. Daniel, his opposition to the op- pressive revenue acts of the English govern- ment, 208; inscription on his memorial stone in Copp's Hill Cemetery, 208, 209.
Malden Bridge, uniting Charlestown and Malden, 89; its completion in 1787 and opening to travel, and, in 1859, made a public highway, 429. Malham, Rev. John, his description of Boston Harbor, 579-81.
Malls -The great, or Tremont Street Mall, the little, or Paddock's Mall, opposite the Old Granary Burying-Ground, the Beacon Street and the Charles Street Malls on the Com- mon, 317; lengths of the respective Malls,
319; the Tremont Street Mall, the oldest, 320; its sycamore and English elms trees, and their partial destruction in the great gale of September 23, 1815, 321; account of the effects of that gale, 322-3; further damage done to the trees on the Common during the gale of Sept. 7,1869, 324 ; improvement of trees on the Beacon Street Mall in 1780, 325; the Common graded in 1784 by subscription, and a third row of trees planted in Tremont Street Mall, 325-6 ; completion of the Charles Street Mall in 1824, 326-7 ; improvements on the Park Street Mall ; preservation of venerable elms, extension of the Boylston Street Mall through the burying ground in 1836, thus surrounding the whole Common with malls, 326-7.
Man-of-war Bar, an obstruction in the harbor, 548.
Manners of ancient Bostonians, 51.
Manufacturing House, 65.
Maps of Boston. Bonner's map, published in 1772-'33-'43 and '69; Burgiss's map, 1728; Ger- man map, 1758; London Magazine map, 1774; Romans's map, 1774; Gentleman's Magazine map, 1775 ; Almon's map, 1775; Bunker Hill map, 1775; Pelham's map, 1777; Page's map, 1777 ; Gazeteer map, 1784 ; Norman's map, 1789 ; Carleton's map, 1800; Directory map, 1809; Hales's map, 1814; Annin and Smith's map, 1824 ; Bowen's map, 1824; Morse's map, 1829; Bewick Company's map, 1835; Annin's Small map, 1835; Morse and Tuttle's map, 1838; English map, 1852; Dripps's map, 1852; Mc- Intyre's map, 1852; Colton's map, 1855; Mitch- ell's map, 1860; Walling's map, 1861; City Engineer Slade's map, 1861; City Engineer Crafts' Annexation map, 1867; City Engineer Crafts' new map, 1868 ; Insurance maps, 1867-8; other maps of city and environs and Harbor of Boston, 90-105. See Almon, Annin, Annin and Smith, Baker and Tilden, Beaurain, Bewick Company, Bonner, Bowen, Bunker Hill, Bur- giss, Carleton, Charts, City Engineer, Colton, Dearborn, Des Barres, Dorchester, Dripp, Dutton, English, Gazetteer, German, Gordon's War, Hales, Insurance, L'Atlas Maratine, Lamb, London Magazine, McIntyre, Mitchell, Morse and Tuttle, Morse, Neal, Norman, Page, Pelham, Plan du Havre, Roman, Sidney, Ur- quahart, Walling.
Mare, Henry, 534.
Marginal Wharf, 118.
Mariners' Tomb, in Copp's Hill Cemetery, 204.
Maritana, loss of on, Egg Rock, with twenty- six lives, 575.
Market House, 120; Williams's, 140.
Market Street, 114; Highway leading to Rox- bury, 671.
Markland, 7.
Marlborough street, 79, 130, 131, 135.
Marlborough Street Ward, 138.
Marliave, Edward T., 460.
Marriage, 51.
Marsh, William, 459, 460.
Marshall, John, 102; Thomas, 607.
Marshes, positions of, in Boston in old times; fowling in a marsh at the South End in the present century, 412. See Bellingham, Com- mon, Great, Round, Winthrop.
Martha's Vineyard, 9, 14.
Martyn, Edward, 205.
Martyn Tomb, 204.
Mary, Queen, 17.
Mary and John, vessel, 30.
Mason, John, 15, 476; Jonathan, 258, 422.
Masonic Temple, in Tremont and Boylston streets, foundation stone laid in 1864, com- pletion of the building in 1867, and its dedica- tion, 313.
Massachusetts Bank, 308.
Massachusetts Charter, 18.
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Massachusetts Colony, Purchase and bounds of | Middle Burial District, 211.
the territory, 16; the first colonial government, 16; settlement of Salem and Charlestown, 16; arrival of John Winthrop in 1629, and his ap- pointment as governor, 16; the colonial char ters and "the great patent of New England," 18; the Massachusetts charter, 18.
Massachusetts Fields, 39.
Massachusetts General Hospital, 665.
Massachusetts Historical Society's Hall, 186.
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, its pur- chase of Mount Auburn, and establishment of a cemetery there, incorporation in 1835, and the corporators' names, 266.
Massacre, Boston, 96.
Massapoag Pond, 156.
Massie, Lieut. Robert F., killed in a duel on Castle Island, his epitaph, 497.
Mather, Cotton, 63, 77, 199, 205, 285, 286; Rev. Increase, 63, 205, 285; Richard, 77, 191, 283, 285; his death and burial-place, 283: his epi- taph, 285; Samuel, 205; Sarah, 191; Mather tomb, 205, 206.
Matignon, Father Francis Anthony, a Roman Catholic minister, his death and funeral, in- scription on his memorial tablet in St. Augus- tin Cemetery, South Boston, 260.
Matoonas shot on the Common, 352.
Mattapan, 26, 31, 104. See Dorchester.
Mattapan Point, 465.
Matthew, ship, 11.
Maud, Daniel, the second Latin schoolmaster in Boston, 466.
Maudesley, Henry, 628.
Maverick Bridge, 428.
Maverick, Rev. John, 29, 30, 43; helps to organ- ize the first Church in Dorchester, 29; acts as its first pastor, 43; Samuel, 443, 444, 447, 474 ; a resident prior to 1630, at Noddle's Island, East
Boston, and grant of that island to him and his heirs, by the General Court, 444.
Maverick Square, 386.
Maverick's Fort, 446.
May Flower, the, 14, 15, 189, 390.
May, John, 141.
May's lot, 142.
Mayer, Ferdinand, 98.
Mayhew, Rev. Dr. Jonathan, 263; Mr., 476.
Mayo, Watson G., 427.
McCleary, Samuel F., 424, 460.
McGuire, Rev. James, 259.
McIntyre, H., 98.
McIntyre's map, 98.
Meacham, George F., architect, the author of the plan of the Public Garden, 364, 365.
Meeting-Houses, 46, 54, 63, 65, 70, 109, 138, 592; Meeting, See Baptist, Brattle Square, Christ Church, French Church, King's Chapel, New North, New South, North, Old Church, Old South, Park Street, Quaker, St. Joseph's, St. Mary's, South, West.
Memorials on Castle Island, Massey's and Pur- cell's graves, 497, 498.
Mennen's Moon, the ancient name for Moon Island, 506.
Merchant's Row, 114, 116, 134.
Meridian Street Free Bridge, East Boston, its construction by a corporation, and purchase by the city, 427. Merrimac River, 16.
Merry, Jonathan, 201 ; Walter, one of the ear- liest Boston shipwrights, his death by drown- ing, 107.
Merry Mount, 33, 42.
Merry's Pasture, 201.
Merry's Point (or North Battery Point), 117, 158; its location, origin of its name and con- version into a battery, 107.
Messinger, Henry, 672.
Methodists, 87.
Middle Brewster, its description, 574.
Middle street, 133, 664.
Middlecott's Pasture, 126.
Military Companies, 127.
Military Divisions, 137.
Militia, 63.
Milk street, 112, 114, 116, 124, 130, 134.
Milk for Babes, 455.
Mill Bridge, 113, 114, 133, 138, 139, 405.
Mill Bridge street, 630.
Mill Corporation, 11v.
Mill Cove, 36, 108, 112, 113, 115, 126, 663; its boundaries, location of the first Baptist Meet- ing-House on its border, old Indian causeway across it, use of the pond for mill purposes up to the close of the eighteenth century, 109; filling up of Mill Pond and important addition to the territory of the city, 110.
Mill Creek, 109, 110, 111, 112, 124, 130, 134, 137, 138, 401, 404, 627, 682; construction of, about 1643, its location and filling up about thirty-five years ago, 111.
Mill Field, 126, 159, 314.
Mill Lane, the former title of Summer street, 163, 167.
Mill Pond, 37, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 125, 138, 406.
Mills, 112, 113, 115.
Milldam (or Western Avenue) incorporation, 357 ; constructed and opened in 1821, and the avenue made a public highway, 423-5.
Milldam Land, 125.
Millard, Thomas, planter, his possessions in Boston, 594.
Miller, Charles, Jr., 687; John, 542.
Miller's Lane, 115.
Milliken, Thomas, 613.
Milom, John, 666, 682.
Mineral Spring, 393.
Ministers' Tomb, Eliot burying-ground, the inscriptions thereon, named the "Parish tomb," 275-6.
Minot, Albert T., 385, 386; Hannah, 609; Han- nah, 629; James, 609, 629.
Minot Tomb, 226.
Minot's Building, 391; Minot's Ledge and light- house outside Boston Harbor, 436.
Minot's T., 119.
Mint Master, 225.
Mishawum (Charlestown), 17, 24.
Mitchell, S. Augustus, 99.
Mitchell's Map, 99.
Moffit's Ledge, an obstruction in the lower har- bor of Boston. 436.
Molineaux, William, 178.
Molten's Point, 465.
Momentaug, Robert, 511.
Monahigon Island, 13.
Money Head, 463.
Montagu, Duke of, 435.
Montgomery, Gen., 75.
Montressor, Captain, 101.
Monument at Nix's Mate, description of, 539.
Monuments. See Beacon Hill, Bunker Hill, Ellis, Ether, Franklin, Franklin Urn, Nix's Mate, Soldiers'.
Monument Hill, 178.
Moody, David, 424.
Moon Island (or Moon Head), its position, ex- tent and associations, 506.
Moorfields, 46.
Moriarty, Joseph, 463.
Morris, Richard, Lt., 476, 478, 479, 480, 481; commander of Castle Island fort, his religious scruples, dismissal from office, and banish- ment, 480.
Morse and Tuttle's map, 98.
Morse, Hazen, 97, 98. Morse's map, 97.
Mortimer, Hannah, 457, 458; James, 457, 458; Mary, 458; Peter, 457, 458; Philip, 458.
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Morton, Nathaniel, 28; Thomas, 16, 33, 42. Moseley Iron Building Works, 428.
Mother Brook, 154, 157.
Moulton, Robert, 476.
Mount, the, 33.
Mount, 1., 92; W., 92.
Mount Auburn, 182, 251.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, its establishment by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1831, location and extent of the grounds, and names of the corporators, 266.
Mount Hope Cemetery, 200; its location, the proprietors incorporated in 1851, its extent and conveyance to the city of Boston, or pur- chase, 269.
Mount Vernon, 125, 171, 391.
Mount Vernon street, 174.
Mount Washington Avenue bridge, accepted by the city government, its location, 428.
Mount Wollaston, part of Boston, 16, 33.
Mountfort Pump, 396.
Mountfort tomb, 204.
Mountjoy, George, 667; Sarah, 667.
Mourt's relation of a visit paid by the Plymouth forefathers, in 1621, to Boston bay and harbor, and what they found and saw there, 433-4. Muddy Brook, 33, 157.
Muddy River, 33, 41, 46; once part of Boston, 33; placed within the jurisdiction of Newton, 33.
Mumford, William, 229, 231, 233, 234; his pur- chase of land in Brattle street for a Quaker meeting-house, 228 : his death and burial at Copp's Hill in 1718, his enterprise as a build- er, 223.
Municipal Election, date of, 152.
Munroe, Abel B., 385.
Munt, Thomas, 442.
Murdock, George, 404.
Muscle Bank Shoal, between South Boston Point and Castle Island, 500.
Museums, 401, 404.
Myles, Samuel, 249.
Mylne Field, 126, 159.
Mystic Pond, 415.
Mystic River, 72.
Nahant, 78, 101. Nantasket (Hull), 30, 78.
Nantasket Beach, 8; its physical features, South Head, Strawberry Hill, White Head and Saga- more Head, and its subdivisions, 436.
Napoleon's Willow, tree grown from a slip of the willow at Napoleon's grave, planted in Copp's HIIl burying-ground, 202.
Naumkeik, Naumkeag, 16, 17. See Salem.
Navigators, Icelandic, 7; Norwegian, 8. Nazro, Henry J., 293.
Neal, Andrew, 607, 656, 686; Daniel, his account of Boston in 1719, 60; the harbor, channel, bay and islands, 61; Castle Island and its for- tifications, 61; the light-house signal, 61; the north and south end batteries, 61; the ship- ping tonnage, 62; Long Wharf, the town house, exchange, shops, and boot-printing trade, 62; the streets, lanes and alleys, build- ings and population, 63; places of public worship, 63; names of the pastors, 63; char- acter and manners of the people, 63 ; prospects of the town, 64; Milicent, 607; Sarah, 656, 686.
Neal's Map, 100.
Neck, Boston, 93, 115, 121, 124, 126, 416; the old fortification, its description and duties of the garrison, its decay and erection of a new fort in 1710, discovery of part of its founda- tion in 1860, its position, 140-41; May's grant of neck lands in 1785, 141-42; the gallows and old windmill, improvement of the neck, 142-43.
Neck Field, 126, 140.
Negro Cook, 453.
Negroes, Slaves owned in 1687, by householders in Boston, 48.
Nelson, Elizabeth, 629; John, 629; his seizure of Sir Edmund Andros, in 1689, in the fort on Fort Hill, and purchase of Long Island, 532; Mary, 534; Temple, 535.
Neponset Mill, 628.
Neponset River, 35; its rise, 155; course and means of supply, 156.
New Boston, name formerly given to the West End, 125; constituted a ward in 1838, 144.
New Comers, 300.
New England Primer, 455.
New England Shilling, 199.
New Field, 126.
New Land, 125.
New Mall, 318.
New Mill Field, 126.
New North Burying-Ground, 200.
New North Meeting-House, 63.
New Quarantine Ground, its selection, purposes, and establishment, 463.
New South Meeting-House, 63, 381.
New State House, 310.
New Style adopted in British provinces in 1752, 152.
Newberry, Walter, 231.
Newcomb, Charles, 546; Margaret, 546, 547; Peter, 546.
Newfoundland, colonized by the Northmen in the eleventh century, 7, 11.
Newhall, Estes, 232.
Newton, 33, 160.
Nix, Capt., 539.
Nix's Mate, shoal, and its pyramidal monument, 537; the shoal once an island granted to John Galop, a noted pilot, 538 ; construction of Nix's Mate monument described, 539; tradition con- nected with the island, 539; tragedy of the snow Elizabeth, and execution of the pirates at Charlestown, 540; no record of the dispos- session of Galop's heirs of Nix's Mate, 543.
Noddle, William, "an honest man of Salem," after whom the island now constituting East Boston was originally named, 443.
Noddle's Island, 60, 125, 144 (East Boston), name derived, 443; restraint put on the people from putting cattle on the island or cutting wood thereon, 444; grant of the island to Samuel Maverick and its conditions, 444; the island well wooded in old times, 444; its rental in 1719 twelve hundred and fifty dollars, 144; the incorporation of the East Boston Company and purchase of the island, 444; claim of Sir William Brereton to the ownership of Nod- dle's Island made, but unconfirmed, 444; the island annexed to Boston, 445; its physical appearance and geographical relations, 445; Smith's and Camp Hills and their revolutionary associations, 446 ; noted events associated with Noddle's Island, 446-7 ; the place a great resort for picnic parties in old times, 447.
Norman, John, 96, 678. Norman's Map, 96.
Northmen, their early voyages of discovery, 7; colonization of Labrador, Greenland, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, 8.
North and South Ends, divided by Spring tides in certain seasons, at the early settlement of Boston, 111.
North Battery, 116, 119.
North Battery Point, 107.
North Battery Wharf, 107.
North Bennet street, 126.
North Burying-Ground, 197-209.
North Causeway, 109, 113.
North Chelsea, 33, 439.
North Church, 63, 2 7.
North Cove, 108, 115.
North End, 111, 124, 126, 138, 161.
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North Federal Court, 113.
North Island Wharf, 119.
North Market street, 111. North Mill, 112.
North Square, 37.
North Street Ward, 138.
North Ward, 130, 137.
Nova Scotia, colonies established there by the Northmen, 7.
Norwegian Navigators, 8.
Nowell, Increase, 17.
Noyes, Capt., 596; Dr., 404.
Nut and Raccoon, and Rock Islands, 560.
O'Beirne, Rev. Patrick, 279.
O'Flaherty, Dr. Thomas John, 259, 260.
Ober, John P., 463.
Occupations, list of, of those who inhabited the Old Feather store, from its erection, 647.
Odiorne, George, 357.
Odlin, John, 296, 297.
Ohabei Shalom Congregation, 261.
Old Block House, on Castle Island, 496. Old Church, 63.
Old Corner Book Store, the, ancient condition and surroundings, 672; history of the old building, 672 et seq. ; William Hutchison, hus- band of Ann, the noted religious reformer, the original owner, 674; sale of the property by him to Richard Hutchinson, of London, his brother, and its subsequent disposal, 675; the old building burned down in 1711, and the present one built by William Crease, 675, 676 ; changes in the ownership of the old house and lot, 677-9; list of occupants and the occupa- tions of the building, 678, 679; its description, 679, 680.
Old Drain, 215.
Old Elm, on the Common, one of the most noted objects in the town, 332; history beyond tradition, 332; dismemberment in the great storm of June 29, 1860, 333; symmetry de- stroyed, 333; preservative efforts of city for- ester John Galvin, 333; the fallen limbs carried off as relics, 333; rival elms in Pittsfield and in Brookline, Mass., 334; executions supposed to have taken place on the Old Elm, 331 ; named the "Liberty Tree," from having been the rendezvous of the Sons of Liberty, 334; the vicinity of the tree the scene of the Wood- bridge and Phillips duel, 334; traditions con- cerning the age of the venerable elm, 335; its age undoubtedly anterior to the colonization of the peninsula, 336; dimensions and beauti- ful appearance of the tree, 336; gold medal awarded in 1825, for the best picture of it, 336; its dimensions by measurement in 1855, 336; earlier measurements, 337; its further mutilation by a storm in September, 1869, 337; cavities in its trunk closed up, 337; its shelter sought by the cows in the common pasture and detriment to its roots, 338; bad effects of the improvement of the soil around it, 339; the tree renovated, pruned and enclosed with an iron fence in 1854, 334; inscription placed upon the fence gate, 340; a young tree rising from the parent root, 340.
Old Feather Store, the, corner of North street and Market Square, 639, et seq. ; construction managed in evasion of law, and description thereof, 643-5; title and original owners of the estate, and its conveyances and occupants, 645-8; demolition of the old building and de- scription of its substitute, 648.
Old North (or Copp's Hill) burying-ground, 197; age and distinctive parts, with their several boundaries, 198 ; first used as a place of burial, 198; the oldest monumental inscription, 198; additions to the burying-ground in 1709 and 1711, 199; establishment of the "Hull street" section, 199; its discontinuance, 200; estab-
lishment of the "New North " section and in- terments therein, 200; establishment of the Charter street division, 201; origin of the name " Copp's Hill," 201; number of tombs in the burying-ground, 202; trees planted on the grounds, 202; interest of the people in the old cemetery ground, 202; their arrangement as a promenade, 203; alterations and mutilations of inscriptions on old memorial stones, 203; the British soldiers make targets of the grave- stones during the siege of Boston, 203; family monuments in the ground exquisitely carved, 204; infants' and mariners' tombs, 204; the cemetery chapel made into a tool house, 204; tombs of the Clarke and Hutchinson families, 204; tomb of Increase, Cotton and Samuel Mather, the celebrated preachers, and inscrip- tion thereon, 205; various curious monumen- tal inscriptions, 200-8; gravestone of Capt. Daniel Malcom mutilated by British soldiers, 209.
Old Places, reminiscences of, 403-5.
Old South, 124, 622.
Old South Church estate, 651.
Old South Meeting-House, laying of its corner- stone, 592.
Old State House, 194.
Old Stone House, in Cross street, 662 et seq .; its age and construction by Deacon John Phillips, and singular massiveness and strength of the materials of which it was built, 666; its subsequent possessors and subdivisions among them, 666; improvements made on the estate, 668; curious description of relics of the building after its demolition, and legends of the purposes it had been employed to serve, 669-70; the property bequeathed to the city and sold for the purposes mentioned in the bequest, 670.
Old Style, 151.
Old Wharf (and breastwork ) begun in 1673, 118; its decay and remains, 119.
Olden Times, accounts of Boston in, by early visitors, 37; the physical disabilities of the settlement, 40; view of the town from " Tra- mount," 41 ; ship-building flourishing in Boston in 1687, 49; trade with the West India Islands and with Spain, exportation of dried fish, and importation of oils, wines, and brandies, 50; French settlers in the town, 50; descrip- tion of Boston in 1699 by Edward Ward, 53; neatness of the buildings and their expen- siveness, churches, 54; ministers and their peculiarities, 54; sad account of the religion and business honesty of the people, 54; public holidays, arrogation of saintship, 55; anti- kissing laws, and penalties for drunkenness, swearing and petty crimes, 55-6; busy-bodies encouraged, 56; curious punishment of a zealot, 56 ; the women, 57; boys' dispute at the old town pump, 58; summary way of balanc- ing mercantile accounts, 58; the purchase of the territory of Boston from the Indians a smart trade, 59; great fires in Boston in olden times 59; the first ministers of the town, 59; French refugee's account of Boston in 1687, 47; Neal's description of Boston in 1719, 60; article on Boston in " Columbian Magazine," 64; description of Boston 1799 by Edward Ward, 53; account of Boston by Abbé Robin, in 1781, 67; descriptions by French writers, 77; description of the town, people and sub- urbs in 1782 by Marquis de Chastellux, 77 ; J. P. Brissot de Warville's description of Boston in 1788, and its people and their pursuits, 83; religious austerity then passing away, 84; morals, hospitality, love for music, and parental kindness of the people, 85; freedom of young women and fidelity of lovers, 85; exemplary character of Boston mothers, neatness in dress, in their houses and in the churches, 86 ;
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