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St. Botolph's, 26.
St. James Hotel, 243.
St. John, Hector, 77.
St. Joseph's Cemetery, 279.
St. Joseph's Church, 279.
St. Mary's Church, 37.
St. Matthew's Church, 253
St. Matthew's Church Cemetery, 253.
St. Paul's Cemetery, 250-251.
Salem, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 27, 28, 78, 93; settlement of, by Roger Conant in 1626, 16; by John Endicott, Samuel Skelton and others in 1628-9, 17; arrival there of John Winthrop and his company in June 1630, 23; description of Gov. Winthrop's company, 28; privation, sickness and death amongst them, 28; first Fast day in New England appointed, 29.
Salem Monthly Meeting of Quakers, 231. Salem Turnpike, 429.
Saltonstall, Sir Richard, and associates, pledge themselves at Cambridge (England), to em- bark for New England in March, 1629, 17. San Domingo, 6.
San Salvador discovered by Columbus, 4.
Sanford, John, 474; chosen as canoneer at the defences of Fort Hill in 1634; his allowance from the public treasury, 165.
Sanborn, D. A., 100.
Santa Maria de la Antigua, 6.
Sargeant, Peter, 609, 618, 630; the builder of the Old Province House, 594, 696.
Sargent, Lucius Manlius, his purchase of land at South end, 122.
Savage, Ephraim, 685; James, 480; Thomas, 187, 491; a noted man in the early history of Shoals, in Boston harbor; their names, 441.
Boston, and a commander during King Phil- ip's war, and his tomb in the Old Chapel bury- ing-ground, 195. Saw Mill, 113.
Sayer, R., 94, 95.
Scavengers, 153; first regularly appointed for the separate Wards in 1713, 129.
School committee, 153.
School House lane, 675.
Schoolhouse, 135 ; given by Thomas Hutchinson, 205.
Schoolhouse lot, for South Boston, 254.
Scollay. William, one of the most earnest friends of improvements in Boston, 383.
Sconce, 108, 116, 117.
Sconce Point, 108.
Scottow, Joshua, 400, 683, 684; Thomas, 672, 674.
Scottow's Alley, 405. Scudamore, Christopher, 542. Scull head, 436.
Sculpin Ledge, 508.
Sea street, 108.
Sea Wall, 118.
Sears, David, 362, 656. Seaver, Mr., 238. Seaverns, Joel, 267.
Seaverns Farm, Roxbury; its purchase in 1847 for a rural cemetery, 267.
Sedgwick, Robert, 480, 672. Selectmen, 127, 153.
Sellick, David, 682.
Sentry Hill, 213.
Settlement, of Boston, in 1630 by the Charles- town colonists, 26; privations of the first set- tlers, 30 ; setting off of the town of Boston and its original boundaries, 32; proposed planting of the Boston colony at Cambridge. 32.
Settlers of Boston, their character, architectural and domestic taste, 589, 590.
Sewall, Jonathan, 222; Rev. Joseph, 63; Samuel, 184, 199, 225, 295, 296, 417; Hannah, wife of Samuel, daughter of Mint-master John Hull, their conveyance of lands to the town of Bos- ton for burying purposes, 199; Professor, 75. Sewall's Point, 423.
Shapes and descriptions of the Harbor Islands, 440.
Shaw, John, 468, 683.
Shaw tomb, in Copp's Hill Burial-Ground, 204.
Shawmut, original name of Boston, 25, 389.
Shawmut square, 382.
Sheafe, Jacob, 607; his burial place in the Old Chapel Ground, 192; Margaret, 192.
Sheep on the Common, 303.
Sheep Island (or Sun Island) at the mouth of Hingham harbor, 558.
Sheffield, Lord, 16.
Sheehan, John, 349,
Sherburn, Mr. 331.
Sherman, Richard, 651; Roger, his homestead at Canton, 156.
Shields, J. B., 102. Ship street, 133.
Ship-building, flourishing in Boston in 1654, as described by Capt. Edward Johnson of Woburn, 42.
Ship Courses from Nix's Mate seaward; des- cription thereof, and of passages now disused, 543-4.
Shippen, Edward, 229, 234. Shipping, 62.
Shirley, Frances, 250; Governor William, 65, 437; lays the foundation stone of King's Cha- pel in 1749; buried there in 1771, 250.
Shirley Gut, the channel separating Shirley Point, Winthrop, from Deer Island, 437.
Shirley's Battery, located on the northeastern side of Castle Island, 496.
| Shore, Sampson, 682.
Shrimpton, Abigail, 675; Henry, 675 ; Col. Sam- uel, 60, 469 ; a large landholder in Boston in its carly days, 594, 595.
Shrimpton's Lane, 396.
Shurtleff, Dr. Benjamin, 111; his gift of land in Chelsea, for a road to be free for public travel, 427.
Shurtleff Schoolhouse, and its dedication in 1869, 257.
Shute, Col. Samuel, Provincial Governor in 1716, and probably the first official occupant of the Old Province House, 598.
Sidewalk to Common, 318.
Sidney, F. C., 102.
Sidney's Map, 102.
Signal Hill, 463.
Simpkins, Capt. Nicholas, 478, 479, 480.
Simpson, Daniel P., 647; John K., 647; William B., 647.
Skelton, Samuel, an original colonist of Salem, 17. Skinner, John, 426. Skrælings, 7.
Slade, James, 99, 364, 463.
Slate Ledge, an island in the harbor, its situa- tion and description, 456.
Slatter, J., 98.
Smelt Brook, 40.
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Smith, Alexander, 612; Capt. John, 13, 16; his | South-Ward, 131, 137.
participation in Virginia colonization, 13; his exploration of the New England coast from the Penobscot to Cape Cod, 14; his map of the localities visited by him and their nomencla- ture, 15; kidnapping and enslaving of New England Indians, death of Capt. Smith, 15; John, 606; George G., 92, 97, 174; Joseph, 631; J. V. C., 339, 340; Oliver, 325, 329, 372; Thomas, of Cohassett, owner in 1847, of Long Island, 535; Lovett & Co., 187.
Smith's Hill, 445, 446.
Snake Island, a small and almost valueless ter- ritory in the harbor, off Winthrop, 461.
Snakes, 51.
Snelling, Col., 614; George H., 362.
Snow, Dr. Caleb, 92, 97.
Snow, Elizabeth, piracy on board of, and execu- tion of the pirates at Charlestown and burial of their bodies on Nix's Mate, 540-42.
Snow Hill, 126, 158, 160.
Soames, John, 229, 230, 686.
Social condition of Boston, account of by J. P. Brissot de Warville, in 1788, and of the man- ners and morals of the people, 83-8.
Sohier, Edward, 677.
Soldiers' Monument, an early attempt to erect one on Powder House hill on the Common, the foundation laid and buried up, 345.
Somers, Sir George, 17.
Sons of Liberty, their meetings in the Old Dragon Tavern, 605.
Soper, Steven L., 622.
South Battery, 116, 119.
Sonth Battery Point, 108.
South Bay, 107, 142, 439.
South Block, 163.
South Boston, 99, 144; named in 1804 on its annexation to Boston, 125.
South Boston Bridge, 121; incorporation of the company in 1804, construction, cost, opening and surrender of franchise to the city, 422.
South Boston Cemeteries, 252; tombs under St. Matthew's Chapel, their use discon- tinued on the church being sold, 253; selection of the St. Matthew's Cemetery lot by commis- sioners in 1817, 253; erection of tombs and release of the rights to the city by the propri- etors, 254; location, extent and boundaries of a new burial lot, 255; its inadaptability and abandonment as a place of sepulture, 256; erection of the Shurtleff school on the land in 1868, 257 ; establishment of the Hawes burying- ground, its location, extent and boundaries, 257; location and extent of the Union Ceme- tery, 257; establishment of the St. Augustin Catholic Cemetery, its extent and boundaries, enclosure and monuments, its chapel, its com- memorative tablets and remarkable grave- stones, 258-61.
South Burying-Ground, 242-245.
South Church, 63.
South Cove, 36, 115, 120, 125, 158, 162.
South Cove Company, 125.
South Cove Corporation, its filling up, laying out, and improvement of the South Cove ter- ritory, 120.
South End, 111, 121, 124, 139.
South End Burying-Grounds, the, 243; situation of the South End cemetery, the spot formerly used for executions, 244; improvements made on the grounds, 244; building and sale of a hundred and sixty-two tombs, and discontinu- ance of a portion of them, 244; the monuments and gravestones, 245; Samuel Hill Hewes, the veteran superintendant of burials, and his great interest in the cemetery , 245.
South End dust, 424.
South Island Wharf, 119.
South Meeting-House, 135.
South Mill, 112, 113.
South Windmill, 167.
Southcot, Capt., 31.
Southack, Capt. Cyprian, 92.
Southack's Court, 134. Spear, John, 550.
Spectacle Island, position and prominent fea- tures, 508-9; allotment by the provincial gov. ernment to Boston, and its uses, 509 ; perils of a party of wood-cutters, 509; the island rent- ed, in 1649, for sixpence per acre, failure of the leaseholders to pay, and surrender of the land to the planters on payment of arrearages, 510; subsequent ownership, purchase of a por- tion of it for a quarantine hospital, and history of that institution, 513-15, present uses of the island, 517.
Spit (or Bug) Light, in the Narrows, description of the structure of, 562.
Spoor, Elizabeth, 657.
Spoore, John, farmer, 390, 651, 652; the original proprietor of the Julien estate, his punishment for entertaining free religious opinions, 657, 658.
Sprague, Samuel, 240.
Spring, in Spring lane, 407.
Spring street Spring, 392,
Springate, the, 112, 389, 651, 658.
Springs, Town Pumps and Reservoirs in Bos- ton, 41, 44, 389; the lack of water felt by the Charlestown Colonists, 388; its plentifulness in Boston the reason for their removal to that place at the solicitation of William Blaxton, 388; the "Springate" well and pumps in Spring Lane, their situation, appearance and notoriety, 390; the street ramed from the spring, 390; old dwellings and residents near the spot, and topographical description of their possessions, 390; cessation of the sprin- gate spring and reappearance while excavating for the site of the new Post Office, 391; the Blaxton Spring on the site of Louisburg Square, 391; its abundant product of water and its great advantage to the people in its neighborhood, 392; the spring on the north west of Spring street, not the Blaxton Spring, 392; the punch drinkers' spring near West Hill, a famous resort in old times, 392; the famous Hall Spring in Hawkins street, its misfor- tune, and the decay of its medicinal reputa- tion, 393-4; the first well in Boston sunk in Washington street, its pump a public nuisance, and its disuse, 394-5; discovery of the re- mains of the old well in 1858, and its condi- tion and closing up again, 395; the old well and pump on Dock square, its great public benefit and disuse, 396; the old well in Ex- change street and other noted wells, 396; re- servoirs made for fire purposes, 397; the Jamaica Pond water supply, 397; the old conduit in Dock square, and the cattle pond in Bedford street, 397. See Blackstone, Blax- ton, Fox Hill, Great, Mineral, Spring Lane, Spring Street, Springate.
Spurre, John, 658.
Squanto, Indian, 14.
Squantum, 35, 156; a promontory in North Quincy, 500; feasts held there, 505; annexed in 1855 to Quincy, 505.
Squantum Feasts, 505.
Squantum's Neck 506.
Squares, 378. See Blackstone, Blaxton, Bow- doin, Central, Chester, Church, City Hall, Columbia, Court, Derby, Dock, Franklin, Hay- market, Independence, Louisburg, North, Pemberton, Public Squares, Shawmut, Union Park, Washington Park, Washington Square, Worcester.
Squaw Rock, 505.
Squeb, Capt., 30, 31.
Stackpole, William, 959.
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Stackpole House, the residence of a noted Bos- [ T Wharf, 118.
ton merchant, but subsequently a famous restaurant on the east corner of Devonshire and Milk streets, 659.
Stanbridge, Henry, 668.
Stanbury, Thomas, 533, 534, 642, 645, 646, 647 ; the builder of the Old Feather store, 642. Standish, Miles, 503.
Stanley, Christopher, 126, 160, 684; tailor, large owner of property in the old North end, own- er of Stanley's Pasture, and the first deviser of a gift to maintain a free school, 160-1.
Stanley's grant to the free school, 161.
Stanley's Pasture, 126, 160.
Star, Mr., 607.
Star tavern, 405, 630, 656.
State Arms Tavern, 641.
State House, new, 171, 172; foundation laid in 1795, by Gov. Samuel Adams, 172.
State Houses, old and new; times of their erec- tion, 592.
State Map, 104.
State Prison, at Charlestown, built in 1805, and prisoners removed thence from Fort Indepen- dence, 496.
Statue of Aristides, 383; of Columbus, 383; of Franklin, 384.
Statues on the Public Garden; Story's statue of Everett, Ball's statue of Washington, and the Ether monument, 364.
Steel, John, 535; Margaret, 535.
Stevens, James M., 404 ; Mr., 476.
Stevenson, John, 616, 651; Marmaduke, 113, 352. Stewart, Mr., 82.
Stillman, Samuel,, 225.
Stimpson, Charles, jr., 97.
Stirling, William, Earl of, his claim to the own- ership of Long Island, 532.
Stoddard, Mrs., 609; Simeon, 127, 595, 596, 617, 631.
Stone Chapel, 195 ; sketch of its ancient and modern history, 248-50.
Stony Beach, 436.
Stony Brook, 103; (and muddy brook), their origin and course, 157.
Stony River, 40.
Storey, Roland, 643.
Story, Joseph, 266; William W., his statue of Edward Everett on the Public Garden, and its dedication, 364,
Stoughton, Elizabeth, 533; Israel, 608; Lieut. Gov. William, 286, 287, 533, 607, 608, 612, 528, 629, 630; his public services, 286; benefactions to Harvard College, his epitaph, written by Cotton Mather, 287; sketch of his history, and also of his possessions in Boston, 608.
Straumey, 9.
Straumfiords, 9.
Strawberry Hill, 436.
Streets. description of, 46, 54, 62, 79, 83.
Study Hill, 295.
Styles and gates, 314.
Sullivan James, 214, 225, 413, 419 ; John, 667; William, 384.
Sumner, Increase, 220, 225; William H., 424.
Sun Tavern, the old, at the corner of Dock square and the Old Corn Market, 404.
Sunday, observance of, 69.
Susanna Island, 447.
Swan, the, 15.
Swan, James, 308, 417.
Sweet Auburn, 265.
Sweet, John, 666.
Sweetser, John, 619.
Swett, C. A., 99.
Swing Bridge, 114, 404, 683.
Symons, Henry, 109, 110, 683; the first proprietor of the Old Feather Store estate, 645; Susanna, 645.
Synoptical description of the harbor of Boston, 582, et seq.
Tablets in the State House, 177.
Tailer, William, 567, 569, 629 ; acting Provincial governor, 598.
Talbye, Difficulty, 352; Dorothy, 352; John, 352.
Talmage, William, 300.
Tanners' Lane, 654.
Tappan and Bradford, 104.
Tappan, Richard, 653.
Tapping, Richard, 672.
Telegraph Hill, 387.
Temple, Margaret, 535; Robert, 535; Thomas, 468, 469, 532.
Temple street, 172; laid out in 1824, and divis- ion of the town lands on Beacon Hill, 179.
Teulon, Edward A., 103.
Tewksbury, John W., 427.
Thacher, Judah, 199 ; Mary, 199 ; Thomas, 192, 607.
Thaxter, Col., 596 ; Samuel, 513, 567, 569.
Thayer, Minot, 678; Samuel M., 678; Sylva- nus, 551.
Thieves' Ledge, and other noted fishing grounds in the harbor, 543.
Thomas, Mr., 246.
Thompson, David, 15, 520; the original owner of the island of that name; claim of his heir to its possession acknowledged, 502; sketch of the history of Thompson, 503, 505; John, 502, 503, 504; Robert, 409.
Thompson's Island, 42; position, extent and ap- pearance, its bar and its treasures, 500-1 ; sin- gular geographical peculiarities, 501 ; grant of the island to the inhabitants of Dorchester, and its rental applied to school purposes, 502; the Thompson claim to its ownership recog- nized, 502; failure of attempt towards its re- covery by the town of Dorchester, 503 ; curious particulars concerning its original ownership, 503-4; purchase of the island by the Boston Farm School corporation, an asy- lum erected on it for indigent boys, 506; the island set off from Dorchester and annexed to Boston, and the condition, 506.
Thomson, Benjamin, schoolmaster and physician in Roxbury, his epitaph in the Eliot graveyard, 276.
Thorfin, adventurer, probable discoverer of Mar- tha's Vineyard, 9.
Thormoder Thorfæus, navigator, 6.
Thorndike, John P., 357.
Thornton, Timothy, 205.
Thorwald, navigator, 8.
Three Hills of Boston. ( See the account of Copp's, Fort and Beacon Hills.)
Thurston, William, 174, 178, 180.
Thurston House, its position on Beacon Hill, 174.
Thwing, John, 203.
Ticknor, William D., 679.
Tileston, William, 424, 648.
Tilton, Peter, 117.
Tisquantum, Indian, 14.
Tithing men, 127, 153.
Title to the Common, 295, 302.
Tolman, John, 292.
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Tombs at City Institution, 263; in Central Bury- ing-Ground, discontinued, 238; in Trinity Church, 247; in King's Chapel, burial places of noted Episcopalians and other celebrities, 250 ; in St. Paul's Chapel, Gen. Joseph Warren and other celebrated men buried there, 251; in Park Street Church, removal in 1862 of the bodies therein to Mount Auburn, to the So- ciety's lot, and the graves therein, 252.
Tompson. See Thompson.
Topography of the Common; the old training field on the eastern side, 341; the parade ground on the western side, 342; the marsh at the corner of the ground on Beacon and Charles streets improved and filled up, 342;
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sea wall built from Beacon to Boylston street, and six rope-walks erected in 1796, 342; their destruction by fire in 1806, and rebuilding and burning a second time, in 1819, of four of them, 342; a street laid out from Pleasant to Beacon sreets in 1803, 343 ; the Charles street mall laid out by Mayor Josiah Quincy, senior, 343; the west part of the Common used as a cavalry training ground in 1787, 343; its use for that purpose refused in 1797, 343; order preserving the west part of the Common as a parade ground for the use of the soldiers passed in 1852, 344; the modern uses of the parade ground, 344 ; Powder House hill, and the abortive attempt to place the soldiers' monu- ment there, 345 ; the foundation laid and bur- ied up in 1866, 345; sketch of the ancient his- tory of the hill, 345; a windmill there in 1652, 345; entrenched by the British troops during the Revolutionary war, 345; circle of thirteen trees on its summit, 345 ; erection and removal of the flag-staff, 345 ; popular coasting place for boys in winter, scene of drinking and gamb- ling on election days, 345; Fox hill, Painter's windmill and the adjoining marsh, 347 ; Ridge hill and traces of excavations made by British soldiers for cooking places, 347; Washington hill and its circle of seven elms, 347; the music circle, its ornamentation with trees, flag-staff and facilities for public accommodation, 348; the gallows formerly erected on a knoll on the Common, 348 ; the Frog Pond not marked on early maps of the Common, but supposed to be of artificial construction, 348; its recent improvement and futile attempts to change its name, 349 ; Sheehan's Pond and origin of its name, 349; account of the execution of John Sheehan in 1787, on the spot, 349; the present parade ground the site of this pond, 349; Cow pond, or Horse pond, the watering place for animals grazed on the Common, filled up with coal ashes, 350; the " wishing stone," its situa- tion near the " Gingko tree " and its removal through improvement, 350; story of the qual- ities of the wishing stone, and of the wishing ceremonies, 351; British fortifications on the Common during the siege of Boston, their po- sitions, 351; topographical survey and meas- urement of the Common, cemetery, malls and fence, 352; executions on the Common during nearly two hundred years, and at other places in the vicinity, 353; executions stopped on the Common at the request of the people of Boston, and the gallows removed to South Boston, 353; executions at Nook's hill and Boston Neck, 354.
Tower Rock, a dangerous harbor obstruction, its removal by sub-marine blasting, 561.
Town Clerk, 129, 153.
Town Dock, 111, 112, 116, 641.
Town elections, times, places and manner thereof, 152-3.
Town Fields, 313.
Town House, 46, 62, 675.
Town Officers, 153; chosen in olden times in March, 151.
Town Pond, 138.
Town Pump, 57, 388, 394, 395, 641.
Town Pump in Dock square, 396.
Town's Watering Place, 137, 163, 406.
Townsend, Joseph, 668.
Trade of Boston, 49, 50.
Train bands, first raised in the early days of the colony to keep watch and ward, 127, 129.
Training Field, 212, 237, 2-6, 307, 316.
Tramount, 41.
Trask, William, 476.
Travel, only one carriage way into Boston in early times, 416.
Treamount, 170; the great changes which have taken place in the territory, 180.
Treamount Hill, 159.
Treamount street, 134.
Treasurer, 128, 153, 535.
Trecothic, Barlow, a London alderman, pur- chaser, in 1758, of Long Island, 535.
Trees set out on the neck, 143.
Trees, waste of, 315.
Tremont House, 212.
Tremount street, 122, 126; formerly called Long acre, Common street, or Tremont street, 213. Trespassing cattle banished to Deer Island, 466.
Trevore, William, one of the May Flower Sail- ors, his act of taking possession of Thomp- son's Island and grant of the land to David Thompson of London, 503.
Triangular Warehouse, the, 404, its situation and peculiarities, 681-3; description of the building in its architectural aspect, 684-5; its uses in early and in modern times, and notice of it made by the novelist Cooper in his " Lionel Lincoln," 687; its sale to the city of Boston and demolition, 687.
Trimountaine, 26, 170; the name applied to Boston by the first settlers, who invite Gov. Winthrop to settle in Boston, 25.
Trinity Church, 167, 247.
Trinity Church Cemetery, 247.
Troop of Horse, 63.
Trotman, John, 606.
Truesdale, Richard, 672.
Tucker's Pasture, 109, 126.
Tudor, Mrs., her gift of a statue for the Public Garden, 364; William, 422.
Tuesday Club, 82. Tufts, Nathan, 426.
Tully, Samuel, pirate, 244, 354.
Tupper, Benjamin, 575.
Turell, Daniel, 198; John, 668; Samuel, 668; William, 668.
Turner, Nathaniel, 476; Robert, 178, 672.
Turning Bridge, 683.
Tuthill, Anne, 379; Richard, 379; Zachariah, 569.
Tuthill's Windmill, 166.
Tuttle, J. W., 98.
Tyler, William, 135.
Tyley, Samuel, 612, 629.
Tyng, Dudley Atkins, 240; Edward, 682; Sarah, 240; William, 229, 684, privileges granted by him to the town of Boston for the procurement of water for the Dock Square Conduit in 1649, and his death three years later, 400.
Underhill, John, 166, 476.
Union Cemetery, 258.
Union Park, 386.
Union Park Street, 141.
Union Stone, its situation, 405.
Union street, 134, 405.
University at Cambridge, 75.
Upper Middle, a troublesome shoal, projecting from South Boston Point, and the means taken for its removal, 452.
Upton, George B., 361.
Uring, Capt. Nathaniel, his visit to Boston har- bor (probably in 1721), and his description thereof, 434-5.
Urquahart's Map, 96.
Valley Acre, 126.
Vane, Henry, 166.
Vassall, Anna, 687; Samuel, 250.
Vaubaird, the French Admiral, his visit to Bos- ton harbor in 1782, loss of the Magnifique, a seventy-four gun ship of his fleet, 551; at- tempts to obtain treasures from the wreck, and anecdote concerning the pilot who run the vessel ashore, 551-2.
Vaughan, Charles, his prominence in improving the style of building in Boston, 383.
Venner, Thomas, 394, 642.
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Venner's Pump, 642.
Venner's Well, 395.
Verazzani, John de, 11.
Vespucci, 10, 11.
Vessels. See Ann, Arbella, Fortune, Friend. ship, Griffin, Independence, Little James, Magnifique, Mary and John, Matthew, May Flower, Renown, Swan, Santa Maria, Pinta, Niña.
Viall. John, 409. Victims of the massacre, 226.
Vinal, Judge, 311. Vinland, 7. 8. Virginia Colony, 18. Voting, how performed, 152.
Wadsworth, Alexander, 358; Rev. Benjamin, 63. Wadsworth's Corner, 133.
Waite, Thomas, 599, 601.
Wakefield, John, 270.
Walford, Thomas, 24.
Walker, Abigail, 646; Benjamin, 127; Isaac, 645; Robert, 296, 297, 300 ; Susanna, 646.
Walling and Gray, 103.
Walling, H. F., 99, 102.
Walling's Map, 99, 102.
Wallis, Samuel, 647, 687.
Walter, Rev. Nehemiah, 275; Rev. Thomas, 275.
Wampatuck, the Indian Sachem, 511 ; his testi- mony that the peninsula of Boston was fairly purchased from the Indians, 301-2; his execu- tion of a quit-claim to Deer Island, 468. (See Josias.)
Wanton, Edward, his conversion to Quakerism through the persecutions of that sect in Bos- ton, 228, 229, 234; Gov. William, 234.
Ward Boundaries in 1870, 144-151.
Ward Divisions, 1715, 129; in 1735, 131; in 1736, 138.
Ward, Edward, 53, 59, 60; Nahum, 516; Samuel, of Charlestown, his gift of Pumpking (or Bumkin) island, in 1682, to Harvard College, 559-60.
Ward's Pond, 157.
Wards, 127, 129, 132, 137; established, 143; de- termined once in ten years, 143; number of, 135; New Division of, 144; fifteen in 1868, sixteen in 1870, 144.
Warham, Rev. John, 29, 30.
Warren Association, 257.
Warren Bridge, 421; company incorporated in 1828, and bridge built and opened same year, 426.
Warren Cemetery, its establishment in 1818; its location and boundaries, and presentation of the grounds to the town of Roxbury, 278.
Warren, Fort, commencement in 1833 of its erection, and description of its construction, earthworks and inscription over its entrance, 556.
Warren, Isaac, 426; John, 278; John C., 93, Gen. Joseph, 226, 291, 277, 451, 605; killed at Bunker Hill, body interred in the granary burying-ground, remains removed thence and deposited in a tomb in St. Paul's Church, the body again removed to Forest Hills Cemetery, 251; Joseph, father of Gen. Warren of Bunker Hill fame, his death by accident and burial place in the Eliot graveyard, 277.
Washington, Ball's statue of, on the Public Gar- den, 364.
Washington Gardens, 308.
Washington Park, a name attempted to be given the Common in 1830, and failure of the prop- osition, 328.
Washington Square, 163. Washington Village, 33.
Watches and Wards, organized by districts in the early days of the colony, and origin of the present system of ward divisions, 127. Water Works, 415.
Waterhouse, Rev. Thomas, 502.
Watering Place, 138, 397. Waters, Daniel, 458.
Waterston, Rev. R. C., 409.
Watertown, named by the Court of Assistants at Charlestown in September, 1630, 26; church organized there same year by George Phil- lips, 29.
Webb, Henry, his gift to Harvard College, 192; Rev. John, 63.
Webster, J. G., 358.
Weld, Benjamin, 200, 201, 421; Samuel, 278; Thomas, 648.
Welden, Capt. Robert, his funeral the first in Boston, 183. Wells, Samuel, 523.
Wellington, A. A., 404.
Wells, Charles, 201, 217 ; mayor of Boston in 1833, improvements during his incumbency, 111; Ebenezer, 668.
Welstead's Meeting-House, 609.
Wendell, Jacob, 132, 135; Oliver, 419.
Wessaguscus (Weymouth), 39.
Wessagusset, 15.
West Boston, 125.
West Boston (or Cambridge) bridge, 419, 421. West Church, 263.
West Cove (or Back Bay), 36; its condition in 1784, first improvements, Roxbury dams and causeway built in 1823, and water shut out of the receiving basin, 121; sale of cove lands in 1830, to Lucius M. Sargent, 122; their value since increased a thousand fold, 122; cession of a portion of the land to Boston, and mod- ern improvements, 123.
West End, 125, 139.
West Hill, 106, 138, 171.
West Hill Spring, 392.
West Head, 445.
West Roxbury, 268; set off from Roxbury, 34. West, John, 96.
Western Avenue, 125, 421, 423 ; company incor- porated in 1814, 121; laid out as a street, and opened in 1821 to public travel, 358.
Western Passage, Boston harbor, its descrip- tion, 517.
Westminster, 17.
Weston, Thomas, his failure in 1622 to establish a colony at Weymouth, 15.
Wetmore, William, 419.
Weymouth, 15, 39.
Weymouth River, 102.
Wharf, 62.
Wharton, Bethia, 684; Martha, 684, 686; Rich- ard, 684, 686, 688, a noted Boston merchant, about 1650, who built the Triangular Ware- house, 684, and his death in 1690 in reduced circumstances, 685 ; Sarah, 684.
Wharves of Boston, their size and cost in the year 1654, the resort of French, Dutch and Portuguese traders, 44.
Wheate, Mr., 246.
Wheeler, David, 408, 410; Dorcas, 410; Eliza- beth, 410; Hepzibah, 410; Jonathan, a large proprietor at the South End, and corner of Wheeler's Point, 108; Timothy, 117; Thomas, 167, 409.
Wheeler family, owners of Wheeler's pond, brief history of, 410.
Wheeler's Garden, 167.
Wheeler's Pasture, 126.
Wheeler's Point, 106, 108.
Wheeler's Pointers, 125.
Wheeler's Pond, 138, 410; the town's watering place for cattle in Pond (Bedford) street, 407, et seq.
Wheelwright, John, 246, 480.
Whipping post, 56.
Whitcomb, Tilly, 633.
White and Finch duel in 1819, on Noddle's Island, and death of Finch, 447.
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White, John, 668; Lt. Francis B., 447; William, 541.
Whitehead, 436.
Whiting, Elbridge, 104; Z., the builder of Cam- bridge bridge, 420.
Whitman, Zachariah G. 258.
Whitmore, W. H., 60.
Whitney, Charles, 103.
Whittemore, Nathaniel, 425.
Whitwell, Samuel, 404.
Wightman, H. M., 99; T., 97.
Wilbore, Samuel, 295.
Wilcox, Joseph, 458, 459; Mary, 458; Robert, 459, 460.
Wild, Daniel, 619; Sarah, 619.
Willard, Josiah, 225; Samuel, 80.
Willard's corner, 134.
Williams, Alexander, 679; John D., 142, 506; Jonathan, 320; Nathaniel, 127, 637; Samuel K., 425; Thomas, 447, 667; William, 667.
Williams's boat, 627.
Williams's Court, 672.
Williams's Island, 444.
Williams's Market House, 141.
Willis, Clement, 369; Nicholas, 629, 652, 653. Willoughby, Francis, 117.
Wilson, Rev. John, 25, 27, 28, 32, 276; arrival at Boston with the Winthrop colony, and his
connection with the first church in Boston, 29. Winds, the prevalent, in Boston Harbor, 581-2. Windmill Hill, 41, 125, 158, 159.
Windmill on Fort Hill, 166.
Windmill Point, 106, 115, 120, 436; (or Wheel- er's Point,) the derivation of its original name and change thereof, 108.
Windmill Walk, 113.
Windmills, 41, 108, 115, 142, 160 ; placed on every eminence in the old town of Boston, 115; widow Tuthill's windmill on Fort Hill, 166.
Wineland. See Vinland, 8.
Wing's Lane, 130, 134, 401.
Winnisimmet, 33, 81, 101, 439, 447.
Winnisimmet Ferry, 32, 36, 79, 93.
Winnisimmet Ferryways, 107 138, 664.
Winnuequassum, an Indian claimant for the possession of Thompson's Island, 504.
Winslow, Edward, 16, 390 ; John, 189, 390.
Winthrop, town of, 33, 437, 439, 449, 450 451; set off from Chelsea in 1852, 33.
Winthrop, Adam, 513, 567; Deane, 439; Jane, 656; James, 459; John, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 160, 164, 166, 184, 185, 296, 297, 298, 299, 312, 390, 449, 465, 651, 684; his | Zeno, brothers, explorers, 10.
pledge to embark for New England, 17; arrival at Salem in the ship Arbella, 23; chosen gov- enor in place of Cradock, 17; arrival in the harbor of Boston, 24; removal from Charles- town to Boston, 25; John, jr., 166; John Still, 656; Robert C., 656; Thomas L., 452, 656.
Winthrops, the three governors, 190.
Winthrop's Head, 437.
Winthrop's House, 163.
Winthrop's Marsh, 390.
Wishing Stone, its situation near the " Gingko tree," and its removal, 350; legend concerning the virtues of the stone, 351.
Withington, Matthew, 278.
Wollaston. ( See Quincy), its description in 1834, by Wood; 39.
Wolseley, signer of the charter, 19.
Women of Boston, 53, 57, 85.
Wood, Miriam, an ancient schoolmistress in Dor- chester, her epitaph, 288 ; William, 42, 464, 528; his description of Boston in 1634, also of Wey- mouth, Quincy, Dorchester, Roxbury, 38-45. Wood Island, 445.
Wood Lane, 130, 133.
Woodbridge duel, the, history of, 221; the first event of the kind which occurred in Boston, 223.
Woodbridge, Benjamin, 221, 334.
Wooded Islands in Boston harbor, evidences of the fact, 439,
Wooden Buildings, erection of, prohibited in 1679, after the great fire at the North End, 642.
Woodward, Robert, 167, 409.
Woody, Richard, 443.
Worcester Square, 386.
Workhouse, 65, 131, 309, 310, 316 ; first establish- ment of one in 1735, 131.
Worthylake, Ann, 206, 571; George, 206, 446, 570, the first keeper of the Beacon light, his perquisites, and death by drowning, together with his family, 570-1; Ruth, 206, 571; "the Lighthouse Tragedy," 206, 571.
Wright, William, 425.
Writing School-house, 130.
Wroe, Ann, 646.
Wyer tomb, 240.
Wyman, Charles, 242.
Young, Sir John; associate patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 16.
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