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extravagance in fashion repudiated by the | Page's Map, 96. women, and the men only powder their hair, 86; inside view of a church - simple charac- ter of the religious ceremonies, 86; absence of intolerance-no proscription, religious or po- titical, 87; card-playing for amusement toler- ated, 88; picnic pleasures of the people, and manner of living of the old Bostonians, 88; de- cline of rum distilleries and of drinking habits, 88; Commencement at Cambridge, a day of rejoicing in Boston, 89 ; preference of the citi- zens for the useful rather than the ornamental, 89; the illumination of the streets attended to in advance of European cities, 90.
Oldham, John, 538.
Oliver, Andrew, Jr., 237, 238, 308; Daniel, 245 ; Ebenezer, 343 ; Francis J., 425; James, 345, 390, 682; John, 467 ; Mary, 237; Peter, 345, 390, 652; Elder Thomas, 299, 300, 303, 390, 614; his tomb in King's Chapel burying- ground, 190.
Oliver's Bridge, 682.
Oliver's Dock, 112, 114, 115, 116, 134, 390, 641, 651.
Orange, Prince of, 497.
Orange Street Ward, 138.
Orange Tree, the, 130, 134, 664; an old house of entertainment, 627.
Otis, Harrison G., 238, 318, 324, 330, 339, 422; James, 605.
Out Wharves, 118.
Outer Brewster, its description, 575.
Overseers of Poor, 153; first establishment of a board in Boston in 1790, 127; the manner of their election and powers devolved upon them, 127, 129, 131, 132 ..
Owen Gwynneth, 9.
Oxenbridge, John, 191.
Paddock, Adino, 308, 369, 370, 371, 372, 374, 375, 376, 614; a noted coachmaker, the planter of the elms in front of the Old Granary Burying- Ground, 308.
Paddock's (or Granary) Mall, sometimes called Paddock's Walk, 197, 216, 317, 368-377; age and situation, 368; limits in ancient and in modern times, 369; establishment by Adino Paddock, and the mall named after him, 369; changes in the mall and walk, and the uses of the latter on public holidays, 369; history of Adino Paddock, his business, his retirement from Boston, when Boston was evacuated by the English, his military services, his Toryism, and his death in the Isle of Jersey, 370-1; sketch of the history of his descendants, 371; the Paddock Mall when planted, 371 ; the young trees brought from a Milton nursery, 371; peculiarities of the elms on the Paddock mall, 372; only eleven of the original trees standing, 372; the number of trees in front of the old granary burying-ground planted by Paddock and Ballard probably sixteen, 373; symptoms of their decay, 373; dimensions of the largest tree, 373; comparison of its size with trees on the Tremont street mall thirty-five years older, 374; the trees illuminated on the receipt of the news of the repeal of the Stamp act, 375; mutilation of the trees by inconsiderate persons, and reward offered by Paddock for the depredators, 376; his Toryism the alleged cause of the lawlessness, 376; injuries caused the trees by the cutting for the foundation of the fence in front of the Granary burying- ground, 377; their present appearance and prospects of vitality, 377 ; plea for their careful preservation, 377.
Paddy, Deacon William, a prominent townsman of Boston in its early days, inscriptions on his monument in King's Chapel burying-ground, 194.
Page, Lieutenant, 96, 101, 102; T., 92; William, 413.
Paine, Robert Treat, 225.
Painter, Thomas, 347.
Palmer, Abigail, 677; Eliakin, 677; Sarah, 677; Thomas, 677.
Palmer's Warehouse, 404.
Palos, first voyage of American discovery made thence by Columbus, 3.
Parish tomb in the Highlands, 276.
Park Street Meeting-House, 211.
Parker, Isaac, 266; Jacob, 236; Nicholas, 167, 651, Richard, 672.
Parrott, William P., 386.
Parsons, Eben, 417; Gorham, 421.
Parting Stone, in Roxbury, inscriptions on it, 83, 274.
Paschal, Blaise, 286.
Pasmore, Bartholomew, 682.
Passages in the harbor of Boston, their names, 441.
Pastors of Boston, in 1719, their names and their denominations, 63.
Pasture on the Common, 303.
Pasture, Brattle, 228.
Pasture, Fitch's, 236.
Pasture, Stanley's, 160.
Pasture, Tucker's, 109.
Pastures, 126, 163; list and locations of, in Bos- ton, 126. See Atkinson, Brattle, Butoph, Fitch, Foster, Hancock, Leverett, Merry, Mid- dlecott, Stanley, Tucker, Wheeler.
Paths on the Common, Ridge path leading from West to Carver street; Lyman path, from West street to Joy street, its linden, maple and elm trees; Long path, from Joy street to the corner of Boylston and Tremont streets ; Armstrong path, from Joy street to Winter street; Bummer path, from Winter to Spruce street, 327; suggestions for names for other paths, 328.
Patrick, Daniel, 476. Pauper Act, 128.
Paving of the Neck, 143.
Payne, William, 122, 513, 567, 569 ; his account for building the Beacon Light-house, 570. Peabody, Rev. Oliver, 275.
Peck, John. purchaser of the Old Province House, 598.
Pegypscot, 684.
Peirce, Henry L., 293 ; Nicholas, Jr., 238.
Peirce's Corner, 133.
Pelham, Henry, 95, 119; Herbert, 215; Penelope, 215, 683.
Pelham's Island, 419.
Pelham's Map, 95, 102.
Pell, William, 651.
Pemberton, James, original owner of George's Island, his death at Malden, 555; Martha, 555. Pemberton Square, 384.
Pemberton's Hill, 126, 171.
Pendills of buildings, 644.
Pendleton's Lithography, 104.
Peninsula of Boston, its area, size and shape, and length and breadth of the old town, 35.
Penn, James, 467, 651, 652; beadle, marshal and ruling elder of the First Church, grants made to him in satisfaction for his land on Fort Hill, taken by the town of Boston, 166, 167. Penniman's Corner, 134. Penobscot River, 14.
Perkins, James, 453; John, 443; Sergeant, his curious punishment for drunkenness, 165; S. S., 385; Thomas H., 453.
Perry, Arthur, 594, 595.
Persecutions of Quakers in 1656, 227; their im- prisonment, expatriation, mutilation and hang- ing, 228.
Pest House, 419 ; first establishment of a, by the people of Boston, 469, 470.
Peterson, Erasmus, 542.
Pettick's (Pettick's or Peddock's) Island, ite
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grant to Charlestown on condition that it be| made a plantation, and subsequently added to Nantasket, 557; situation and description of the island; station for the Weymouth pilot, 558. Philip's War, 335.
Phillips, Eleazer, 512; George establishes one of the early churches at Watertown, 29, 32; Gillam, 223; Henry, his execution in Columbia Square for killing Gaspard Dennegri, 382, 244 ; Henry, his participation in the Woodbridge duel, 222; his flight to France and death at Rochelle, 223, 334; John, 225, 236, 329, 338; Deacon John, constructor of the Old Stone House in Cross Street, 666-670 ; Jonathan, 257, 647; Turner, 193; William, 171, 193.
Phipps, Spencer 495.
Phips, William, 228, 608.
Physical features of Deer Island, North, East, and South Heads, Graveyard Bluff, Signal Hill and Ice and Cow Ponds, 463.
Pierce, John, 238; William, 476.
Pierpont's Farm, Roxbury, proposal to build bridge from Boston to, 420.
Pine Island Wharf, 429.
Pine-tree banner, 101.
Pine Tree Brook, 156.
Pinzon, Martin Alonzo, 4; Vincent Yañez, 4. Pipon, John, 492.
Pirates, execution of at Charles river, on the Boston side, and at Charlestown ferry, 353; Fly, the pirate, hung in irons on Nix's Mate, 353; other pirates hanged, 354.
Piscataqua River, settlement at in 1623, by David Tompson and Edward and William Hilton, 15. Pitcairn, Major, 247.
Pitcher, Moll, the reputed witch, her death at Lynn, 351 ; Robert, 351.
Place of elections, 152.
Plan du Havre de Boston, 101.
Pleasant street, 121.
Plummer, Farnham, 358.
Plymouth, 13, 14, 15, 29, 30.
Plymouth Burying-Ground, 203.
Plymouth Colony, 16, 19, 38.
Plymouth, Colonists of, 14.
Plymouth Company, 18.
Plymouth, Eng., 18.
Plymouth Rock, 15.
Point Allerton, 8, 433, 435 ; physical appearance and geographical conditions, monument and buoy, 436.
Point Shirley (or Pulling Point), position in Boston Harbor, 437 ; attempt to establish the fishing business there, grand inauguration of the scheme and its failure, 437-8 ; salt manu- facture attempted, and copper works estab- lished, 438; why the name of "Pullin Point" was changed, and why so called originally, 439.
Points, 106, 158. See Allerton, Barton, Battery, Blackstone, Blaxton, Chelsea, Commercial, Dorchester, Eagle, Foot, Gravelly, Hudson, Lechmere, Mattapan, Merry, Molten, North Battery, Pulling, Pullen, Pullin, Sconce, Sewall, Shirley, South Battery, Wheeler, Windmill.
Pole, William, 283, 284.
Pomeroy, Daniel, 647, 648.
Ponds and Aqueducts, 406 ; the old mill pond, and the town's watering place for cattle, its situation and uses, 407 ; the pond reported a nuisance and sold, 408 ; its mention in the old " Book of Possessions," 409 ; its described boundaries when purchased, 409; estates abutting on the pond, 409-10 ; a skating pond half a century ago, 411 ; the only natural pond on the peninsula, 411; swamps and marshes in Boston in old times and their posi- tions, 412 ; the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct, its object, corporate management and names of the original corporators, 413 ; their powers
under the act of incorporation, capital stock and extent of their operations, 413-14 ; accep- tance by the people of the act authorizing the introduction of Cochituate water, 414 ; ground broken for the purpose in 1846, at Wayland, 414; water let on and great celebration in 1848, on Boston Common, 414; cessation of the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct, 415; supplies of Cochituate water for Roxbury and East Bos- ton, 415; Deer Island furnished with water from Mystic Pond, 415.
Pond Lane, 135.
Pond street, 112, 131, 135, 406.
Pond Town, 138.
Pond, Ward, 131, 137.
Ponds. See Cow, Frog, Wheeler, Town's Wa- tering Place, Eye, Ice, Jamaica, Massapoag, Mystic, Town, Punkapaug, Ward's.
Pons, Thomas, 619.
Poole, Charles H., 103; William, one of the earliest school masters and town clerk in Dorchester, 283; his epitaph, written by him- self, on his tomb in the old burying-ground on Stoughton street, Dorchester, 284.
Poor Money, 127.
Poor Rates, amount levied in 1690, by the town, 127.
Poore, Benj. Perley, his removal of relics of the Old Province House to Indian Hill, Newbury, 603.
Pope, Samuel, 231; William, 293.
Popham, Sir George, 13.
Population, 63, 64, 69.
Pormort, Philemon, the first master of the first free school in Boston, 250, 466.
Portland Street, 134.
Porter, Rev. Eliphalet, 275.
Posts and rails, 314, 316.
Potts, Thomas, 246.
Powder House, 139.
Powder House Hill, 347.
Powder Horn Hill and Pullen Point annexed to Boston, 32.
Pownal, Gov. Thomas, 494, 495.
Prang, L. and Co., 99.
Pratt, H. C., 336.
Precincts, 129.
Prentiss, Henry, 420.
Presbyterian Church, 63.
Presbyterians, 52, 88.
Prescott, William, 409.
Price, Ezekiel, 572; Roger, 247; William, 92, 250, 407, 473.
Prince of Orange, 167.
Prince, Rev. Thomas, 63, 225.
Printed Ballots, 152.
Prison Lane, the oldest name given to what is now known as Court street, 671.
Prison Point Bridge, 422.
Procter, Edward, 667; Thomas 453.
Products of Boston, 49.
Prospective bridge improvements, Eastern ave- nue bridge, the bridge over the channel to East Boston, the Pine Island bridge, etc., 428-9.
Prout, Joseph, 597.
Province House, the Old, 593, 604; the building one of the last landmarks of the Colony and Province, 593; its erection as a private enter- prise, 594; bounds of the estate when the Province House was built by Col. Samuel Ser- geant, 595; history of the original owner and record of his death, 595 ; the house purchased for Gov. Burgess in 1715, by the provincial government, 596; the price paid for the prop- erty, 597; description of the house and its surroundings, 597; decoration of the building by Deacon Shem Drown, 597; conversion of the building into public offices, 598; sold to John Peck, reconveyed to the State and sub- sequently granted to the Massachusetts Gene-
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ral Hospital, 598; leased for ninety-nine years to David Greenough, 598 ; subsequent pur- poses to which it was devoted, 598; Haw- thorne's description of the old building and of its history, 599-602; its conversion into a concert room, 602; removal of its original deco- rations, 603; portions of it carried off as relics, 603; its destruction by fire, 603; the founda- tion walls only remaining, 604.
Providence, curious act of, in the case of shoot- ing a sailor, 481.
Public Buildings, the old, in Boston, 592.
Public Garden, 93, laid out in October, 1837, by the city, 121, 122; originally part of the Com- mon, 355; erection of ropewalks thereon, 355 ; sacrifice of the old Round Marsh and its re- covery by purchase, 356; description of the early condition of the Public Garden territory, 356; the land vested in Boston in its corporate capacity, 357 ; incorporation of the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, and building of the mill-dam 357-8; effects of the company's improvements, 358; the Western Avenue laid out as a street, 358; extension of Boylston street, 358; the tripartite indenture, and estab- lishment of the western boundary of the Pub- lic Garden, 358; attempt to sell the lands defeated by the people, 359; refusal of the citizens to allow any part of the land to be used for burial purposes, 359; grant of the lands for a Public Garden, and the conditions of the grant, 360; incorporation of the " propri- etors of the Botanic Garden in Boston, 360; burning of the Company's Conservatory, 360; more efforts to sell the land frustrated, 360; acceptance by the city of an act providing that no public buildings be erected on the land, 361; award to the city for privileges relin- quished made by commissioners and the re- strictions contingent, 361; the proposed " Sil- ver Lake" improvement, 362; action of the city government regarding the plan for im- proving the Public Garden, 362; elaborate report and adoptions of its recommendation, 363; area of the Public Garden, 363; cost of fencing, 363; area and shape of the pond, 363; greenhouse and conservatory in the gar- den, 363; grading of the lands and laying out of the paths, 364; the granite fountain basins and the statues thereon, 364 ; the Everett statue, the Ether monument and the Washington statue, 364 ; plan for placing the public build- ings on the Public Garden, 365; the bridge over the pond built, 365; summer-house and walks, great resorts of the citizens, 365; boats on the pond kept for the recreation of young people, 366; recent improvements on the gar- den, trees planted, 366 ; promoters of the prin- cipal improvements, 366; value of the Public Garden as a place of recreation for the people, and suggestion for its further embellishment, 366-7.
Public Market for South Boston, 254.
Public Squares, the. Washington square on Fort Hill, the ancient Cornhill of the fathers, 378-9; site of Anne Tuthill's windmill in the early days of the colony, 379; futile attempt to change its old name, 389; improvements on the circular enclosure in the square at various times, 379; area of the square and changes through recent improvements, 379; Fort Hill a place of public resort in old times, and the delightful prospect from thence, 380; Church Green, its ancient name an anomaly, 380; authority granted in 1715 to erect a meeting- house on the land, 380 ; the New South Church built thereon, and its recent removal, 381; Church square in which the first Church on Cornhill was situated, 381; square environing the more ancient church of that society on State street, 381; its sale to an Englishman
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for sixty pounds sterling, 381; application of the purchase money to the rebuilding of the old meeting-house situated where Joy's build- ing now stands, 381 ; destruction of that church by fire, 381; Columbia square on the Neck, the territory now forming Franklin and Blackstone squares, 382; Franklin square formerly called Shawmut square, 382; execu- tion, in 1817, of Henry Phillips in Columbia square, 382; improvements on, and division of, the territory, and constitution of Franklin and Blackstone squares, 382; area of these squares, and the fountains thereon, 382: old Franklin square (or place), in Franklin street, its original condition and improvement, 382; Franklin Crescent buildings commenced in 1793 and sixteen of them erected, 383; the monumental urn in the small grass plot in centre of the Crescent, its removal to Mount Auburn cemetery, 383; Louisburg square on the western slope of Beacon Hill, formerly part of William Blaxston's garden, 383; sta- tues of Columbus and Aristides at the North and South ends of the square, 383; Pemberton square, the style of the old peaks of the east- erly Summit of Beacon Hill, 383; land sold for building lots, and its present name assigned, 384; the City Hall squares, their area, 384; City Hall square, removal of old landmarks, 384; Asa Richardson's grocery and Barristers' Hall on Court square, 384; inauguration and subsequent removal of the statue of Benjamin Franklin, 384; the fencing of the squares with iron, 384; the large triple-thorn acacia near the Franklin statue, a rare specimen of one of our native forest trees, 384; the West Church (or Derby) square on Cambridge street laid out its area, and oak trees planted thereon by Dr. Charles Lowell, 385; the South End squares, order passed by the city government in 1850, for their establishment in connection with the laying-out of streets, 385; names of the official promoters of this scheme, 385; establishment of Chester square, East and West Chester Parks, and Worcester square, 386; Haymarket square and its fountain, 386; Maverick, Central and Belmont squares, East Boston, and their respective areas, 386; Telegraph Hill, Inde- pendence square and the enclosure near the City Point primary school, South Boston, their extent and enclosure, 386-7; condition and superintendence of the public squares and enclosures, 387.
Pulling (Pullin, Pullen) Point, 32, 33, 78, 427, 437, 438, 439, 443, 447, 464. Pumham, Indian, 485.
Pumpkin Island (or Ward's Island) on Hull Shoals, near Hingham, and its devise to Har- vard College, by Samuel Ward of Charles- town, 559.
Pumps, 57, 394.
Punch Bowl tavern, 424.
Punkapaug Lake, 156.
Pursley, Edward, 498.
Quaker Burying-Ground, 227-234; the fourth in point of antiquity in Boston, 227.
Quakers, 63, 71, 87, 227-234, 404, advent, in 1656, of the denomination in Boston, 226; imprisonment, expatriation and persecution of the sect, 228; gross cruelties of the fathers towards them, 228; execution of Quakers, 228; sympathy excited in their behalf in 1692, and their relief from persecutions, 228; pur- chase of a church lot in 1694, on the site of the preser.t Quincy House in Brattle Square, and erection of a brick meeting-house, 228; sur- render of the property in, 1709, and purchase of another lot, 229 ; death of John Soames, senior, a noted Quaker, 230 ; purchase of the Congress street estate and erection, in 1709,
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of a meeting-house, 230; the trustees of | Reynolds (Renolds, Reinolds), Robert, 167; a the estate, 231; description of the build- Boston cordwainer and house proprietor in early times, 616; sketch of the family of that name, 618, 651; Nathaniel, 616, 617, 618, 619; Mary, 616; Priscilla, 617. ing, 232; the house injured by fire and re- paired in 1760, 232; discontinuance in 1808 of meetings held in it, 232; the adjoining land used as a denominational burying-ground for Ridge Hill, 312. one hundred and six years, 232; exhumation Rice, Alexander H., 358, 364; Caleb, 546, 550; Robert, 651. and removal of the dead to Lynn, 232; death and epitaph of Mr. Mumford, a prominent Rich, Thomas P., alderman, improvement of the Quaker, 233; modern buildings on the site of northwestern end of the Common ("the swamp,)" under his official direction, 342. the old church, 233; erection of the Quaker meeting-house in 1828, in Milton place, and its Richards, John, 491; Samuel, 647. sale in 1865, 234; sketches of prominent mem- Richardson, Asa, 384; John, 201; Thomas, 231. Roach, Peter, 542. bers of the society of Friends and the general character of the sect, 234; hung on the Com- Roads, in Boston harbor, their names, 441. mon, 113; inhuman treatment of, 227.
Quaker Meeting-House, first, 229 ; second, 230; third, 233.
Quarantine, 512; first attempt at, in Boston, at Deer Island, 469. See New Quarantine.
Quarantine Ground, 462.
Queen Elizabeth, 9.
Queen street, 130, 134, 671.
Quelch, John, 353, 541, 542.
Quincy, 16, 35, failure of a settlement there in
1626, by Morton, " a London pettifogger," 16; description of the town in 1634 by Wood, 39. Quincy, Edmund, 295; Josiah, Senior, 111, 179, 312, 326, 330, 338, 345, 356, 359, 589, 606 ; Josiah, Jr., 349.
Quincy House, 228.
Quincy Market, commenced building in 1825 and opened for use in 1826, 120.
Quit-claim, Indian, on Deer Island, in 1684, in favor of Boston, by Wampatuck and others, 468.
Rainsford (Raynsford), Elder Edward, the first proprietor of Rainsford Island, his his- tory, 520-1, 531; Elizabeth, 521.
Rainsford (Hospital or Quarantine) Island, sit- uation, approaches, form and extent, 518 ; sketch of its early history, 520-1 ; the original owner of the island and some of his succes- sors, 521 ; purchase of the land for hospital purposes in 1736, by the Commonwealth and a building erected for sick and infectious per- sons, 524 ; passage of quarantine laws by the legislature, 525 ; description of the quarantine buildings, 525-6; the island once a famous pleasure resort ; old graveyard and its me- morials, 527.
Rainsford's Lane, 120.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 12.
Ram Head, an obstruction in the harbor, wreck of a Maine vessel on it and all hands frozen to death, 548-9.
Ranstead, John, the first sexton appointed for the Common (or Central) burying-ground, 238.
Rawson, Ann, 646, Edward, 225; Eliot, 646. Rawson's Lane, 130, 131, 134, 135.
Read, John, father-in-law of Benjamin Frank- lin, inscription on his grave stone in Phila- delphia, 637 ; William, 404, 454.
Real Estate, style of describing its boundaries in ancient times, 626.
Rebel Works, 101.
Receiving Basin, 121.
Red Cross Flag, enmity towards it by the Com- monwealth and individuals, 488-9.
Red Lion Wharf, 133.
Redoubt on Copp's Hill, 161.
Reed, Benjamin T., 427, 428 ; John, Jr., 679.
Reformation, House of, established on Deer Island, 470. Renown, ship, 573.
Reservoirs, 397.
Revere Copper Company, 438.
Revere, Paul, 225, 605; his church bell and can
Robbins, Chandler, 407, 410; Edward H., 231, 660.
Robin, Abbé, his description of Boston in 1781, 67; appearances of the town, 68; number and character of the buildings, 68; good taste of the architecture, 69; brick being substituted for wooden houses, 69; observance of the Sab- bath, streets deserted on that day, 69; anec- dote of a musical Frenchman, 70; plainness of the churches, 70; Boston men and women in 1781, 71; physical description of the town, 72; ruins of Charlestown after the burning in June 17, 1775, 72; Boston harbor and commerce, 73; linen and cloth manufactory established, 74; education and Cambridge College, 75.
Robinson, Thomas, 595; William, 113, 352.
Rocfort, 88.
Rochambeau, Count, 67, 77.
Rocks, dangerous. in the harbor, Centurion, Kel- ley's and Nash's Rocks and Thieves' ledge, etc., 441, 562 and 567.
Roebuck Passage, 404, 683.
Roebuck Tavern, 382.
Rogers, Daniel D., 178, 180; Henry B., 386, 409; Isaiah, 187 ; Mrs. Elizabeth, 180 ; Rev. Ezekiel, 273.
Roman Catholic Burying-Ground in Dorchester, 292.
Roman Catholic Burying-Ground, South Boston, 258.
Romans, B., 94.
Romans's Maps, 94.
Romer, Col. William Wolfgang, constructor of Fort William, in 1701, on Castle Island, 493.
Ropewalks, 135, 312; burning of on Pearl and Atkinson streets, and erection of new ones on the Common lands, 355; removal thence, 121. Rosewell, Sir Henry, his patent for the Massa- chusetts Bay Company, 16, 18, 19.
Rouillard, Frederic, 659, 660.
Round Marsh, the, 300; grant of the land for ropewalks in 1794, and re-purchase, 357.
Rowe, John, 409; Owen, 521.
Rowe street, 126.
Rowe's Pasture, 126, 409, 412.
Rowe's Wharf, 107, 115, 116, 118, 120.
Roxbury, 38, 40, 42, 44, 83, 99, 103, 104, 136, 140, 142, 144, 164, 169, 266 ; incorporation of in 1830, as a town, as a city in 1846, and annexation to Boston in 1867, 34; fifth church planted there, its description in 1634, by Wood, 40.
Roxbury Bay, 142, 433.
Roxbury Bridge, 430.
Roxbury Directory, 103.
Roxbury Gate, 167.
Roxbury Harbor, 107.
Roxbury Line, 32, 36, 122.
Roxbury Maps, 103.
Roxbury Old Cemetery, 270.
Roxbury, West incorporated 1851, on the 24th May, 34.
Royall, Isaac, 289; William, 289.
Royall tomb, 288.
Ruggle, John, 466.
Rum, 74.
non foundry in Canton-his paper money, 156. | Rumney Marsh, 33, 133, 439, 447.
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Russell, Joseph, 655; William, 82; Noadiah, | Seaward, Roger, 628. 559; Thomas, 417.
Sacononoco, Indian, 485.
Sagadahoc, Popham and Gilbert's attempt and failure to establish a colony there, death of Gilbert, loss to the settlement by fire, and its abandonment, 13.
Sagamore of Agawam, 503.
Sagamore Creek, 156.
Sagamore George, 469.
Sagamore head, 436.
Sagamore John, chief of the Aberginian tribe of Indians at Charlestown, 17.
Sailing distances, in the Harbor, 585-7.
St. Andrew's Lodge, 606.
St. Augustin Cemetery, 258.
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