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Edward Burt - sworn
John Owen Sworn William Foot Sworn
were chose Surveyers of Hoops for the Year ensuing ·
Messrs : Joshua Davis - sworn John Cogswell -
do. Moses May - do.
were chose Surveyors of Boards for the Year ensuing
167
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
On a Motion - Voted, that the Choice of such Officers as are wanting & have not qualified themselves as the Law directs, be referred untill May Meeting
The Committee to whom was referred the Application of the Collectors for relief on the Abatements in the late State Tax - Reported
That After conferring with the Collectors and debating the Several proposals are of Opinion -
That by empowering the Town Treasurer, with such other Per- sons as the Town may think best to Add, to be a Committee to procure on the best Terms such kind of Paper as will discharge said Tax & empower the Treasurer to give his Notes to the Lenders payable out of the next Tax with Interest, And that a Tax of four hundred pounds be Added to discharge said Notes-
[63.] The aforegoing Report having been read -
Voted, that the same be accepted, and that Jonathan Mason Esq" : Thomas Walley Esqr. & Joseph Russell Jun". Esq" : be a Committee to Assist the Treasurer in this Business -
On a Motion Voted, that Mr. John Fenno Deacon Sharp Mr. Moses Grant
be a Committee to prepare an Estimate of the Sum necessary to be raised for the Expences of the Current Year, and that they confer with the Committee to Audit the Town Treasurers Account & Report as soon as may be -
The Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Joseph Cunningham & Mary his Wife have attended the service Assigned them - And conferred with the Gentlemen Selectmen, heard the Abutters, viewed the Premises; and take leave to Report as their Opinion : That if the Land whereon the Building mentioned in the said Petition was now Vacant; the Town have a right to Erect Buildings, so as to cover the same-That the Abutters are injured by the present Buildings only under the Idea, that if the Land was now Vacant, the Town would not Build thereon - Therefore that the whole Business be left with the Gentlemen the Selectmen, either to order the Buildings down so far as the In- croachment is made; or dispose of the Land, as they shall Judge most for the benefit & Advantage of the Town - And further that the remaining Part of the Land belonging to the Town, lying South West of and butting on the said"Cunningham House be given into the Streets and Alleys for the better Accomodating the Inhabitants in that Neighbourhood
Thomas Davis # Order
168
CITY DOCUMENT.
[64.] The aforegoing Report having been read & considered, Voted, that the same be Accepted, also
Voted, that the Selectmen be & hereby are Authorised & em- powered in Case they should Judge it best to dispose of said Lands & to give and execute good and sufficient Deeds - there- fore -
The Petition of a Number of Blackmen was read - whereupon
Voted, that the Petitioners have leave to withdraw their Peti- tion -
William Scollay Esqr.
sworn
Mr. Samuel Cabot
excused
Mr. Elisha Sigorney - Mr. Joseph Laughton Mr. Lemuel Cravath -
sworn do.
Mr. John Winslow.
do.
Mr. Henry Prentiss
Absent excused
Mr. John Parker
do.
Mr. Joseph Howard -
do.
Mr. Benjamin Hammet Junr. do.
Mr. Samuel Gore - do. were chose Clarks of the Market for the Year ensuing, by a writ- ten Vote - The Committee relative to Clerks of Market Report- ing as by their Report on file, that it was best for the present Year or at least, that they should be chose by a written Vote -
The Article in the Warrant - Vizt. - " That a Revision of the By Laws of the Town may be had, and that such Additions and Amendments may be made thereon as shall be Judged proper was read - Whereupon -
[65.] Voted, that Thomas Crafts Esq". Christopher Gore Esqr. William Tudor Esq". Mr. John Fenno Thomas Dawes Jun". Esqr.
be a Committee for the purpose aforesaid, and they are to con- sider the Article in the Warrant relative to Sign Boards, project- ing into the Streets - Also of any other Incumbrances - And to Report as soon as may be
On Motion, Voted, that the Committee Appointed to prepare an Estimate of the Sum Necessary to be raised, the present Year, be a Committee to Consider of the Salaries and Grants necessary for the School-Masters ; & that said Committee Notify the School Masters, Town Clark, Town Treasurer & Other Salary Men, who have not had their pay Voted them, of their time of setting that
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do.
Mr. Joseph May -
do.
169
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
they may be heard by said Committee, before they Report thereon to the Town
Moved & Voted, that all Matters and Things which remain unfinished at this Meeting be referred over to the General Town Meeting in May next -
Voted, that the Thanks of the Town be and hereby are given to the Honble : Thomas Dawes Esqr. ye. Moderator for his good services in forwarding the Business of this Meeting
Then the Meeting was Dissolved -
[66.] At a Meeting of the Male Inhabitants of the Town of Boston of twenty one Years of Age and upwards qualified as the Constitution prescribes, and legally warned in public Town Meet- ing Assembled at Faneuil Hall on Monday the 7th Day of April Anno Domini 1788 -9 O Clock A : M -
Prayer was made by the Revd. Mr. Parker
Warrant for calling the Meeting read
Paragraph of the Constitution or Frame of Goverment, relative to choice of Governor Lt. Governor and Senators also Read -
It was declared by the Selectmen that no Votes, would be re- ceived but such as are unfolded, and that they propose the Poll shall be closed at 12 O Clock
On a Motion, Voted, that the Bells in the Town be set a Toll- ing 12 an Hour before 12 O'Clock
Persons Voted for as Governor, with the number of Votes for each Person Vizt.
Votes
His Excellency John Hancock Esqr.
1427
Honble : James Bowdoin Esqr.
5
Honble : Elbridge Gerry Esqr - 5
Persons Voted, for Lieut : Governor with the Number of Votes, for each Person - Vizt.
Votes
[67.] Honble: Samuel Adams Esq" .- -
814
Honble : Benjamin Lincoln Esqr. -
630
Honble : James Warren Esqr.
1
Hon ble : William Phillips Esq". - 1
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CITY DOCUMENT.
Persons Voted for as Senators for the County of Suffolk, with the number of Votes, for each Person - Vizt.
Votes
Honble : Samuel Adams Esqr. - 1450
Honble : William Phillips Esq".
1360
Honble : Cotton Tufts Esq". 1439
Honble. Stephen Metcalf Esqr. 1429
Honble : Thomas Dawes Esq". -
1428
Honble : Elijah Dunbar Esq".
1261
Honble : Benjamin Austin Jur. Esq".
181
Honble : Benjamin Lincoln Esq". 86
Honble : William Heath Esqr. 11
Samuel Breck Esq". -
4
Honble : Richard Cranch Esqr.
15
Honble : Caleb Davis Esq".
2
Hon ble : Stephen Higginson Esq".
1
Jonathan Mason Esqr.
1
Honble : Benjamin Austin Esqr.
1
Honble : John Fisher Esq". "
1
Dr. John Metcalf
4
Attested Copies of the Persons Voted for as Governor Lieut. Governor and Senators for the County of Suffolk, were committed to the Secretary of this Commonwealth, and the Inclosures sealed up in Town Meeting Superscribed as follows - Vizt. For
John Avery Esq". Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[68.] The number of Votes of the Town of Boston for a Governor Lieut. Governor and Six Senators for the County of Suffolk, Certified within and Sealed up in Town Meeting
Then the Meeting was Dissolved
At a Meeting of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified & legally warned in Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneuil Hall on Tuesday the 13th. Day of May. A : D : 1788-10 O'Clock A: M
Prayer was made by the Revd : Mr. Geyer
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
That part of the Constitution or Frame of Goverment which relates to the choice of Representatives - read
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
Sundry Laws to be read at said Meeting or parts of them were Accordingly - read
The Town having determined to Choose Seven Persons to Represent them in the General Court of Massachusetts to be held at the State House at Boston on the Last Wednesday of May Current Agreeably to the Constitution or Frame of Goverment for the Massachusetts -The Inhabitants were directed to with- draw and bring in their Votes for Seven Representatives, and then it was declared by the Selectmen [69.] that no Votes should be received but such as were unfolded, and that they pro- posed the Poll should be Closed at 12 O'Clock -
The Votes being brought in for Seven Representatives, the number of the same were found to be eight hundred & fifteen; and upon sorting them it Appeared that the following Gentlemen were Chosen by a Majority of Votes - Vizt.
Votes
Honble : Caleb Davis Esqr. 576
Samuel Breck Esq". -
805
Jonathan Mason Esqr.
801
John Coffin Jones Esqr. - 580
Charles Jarvis Esqr. - 810
Thomas Dawes Jun". Esqr.
812
Thomas Russell Esqr.
565
The choice of Representatives being over and declared by the Selectmen, it was moved & Voted, that a Moderator be chosen to preside at the Meeting for Transacting the Other Matters mentioned in the Warrant
Hon le : Samuel Adams Esqr. was chosen Moderator by a Hand Vote -
The Petition for Paving Battery March Street was read, and four Other Petitions for paving or Repairing other Streets, were laid before the Town - whereupon
Voted, that the Honble: Thomas Dawes Esqr.
William Bell Esqr.
[0.] Deacon Gibbons Sharp Esq™ :
Charles Miller Esq". Mr. Rufus Sturgis
be and hereby are Appointed a Committee to consider said Peti- tions together with the representation of the Selectmen on the same Subjeet and to Report their Opinion at the Adjournment as to the expediency of paving or repairing any of said Streets Also an Estimate of the expence thereof -
Adjourned to Wednesday the 21st Inst : at 10 O Clock A : M :-
Wednesday the 21st of May 10: O'Clock -Town Met Ac- cording to Adjournment -
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CITY DOCUMENT.
Mr. Prentice excused from serving as a Clerk of the Market - Mr. John Cabot excused from serving a Clerk of the Market - Mr. Jacob Curtis Mr. John Barret
were chosen Clerks of the Market for the ensuing Year
Moved & Voted, not to choose three Constables, for the present number nine are Judged by the Town to be sufficient -
The Committee Appointed to audit the Accompts of the Town Treasurer, and examine the Draughts of the Selectmen & Over- seers - Report
That the Town Treasurers Accompts are right cast & the Charges well Vouched
[1.] The General State of the Treasury is as follows - Dr. Town Treasurer Accots from March 87 to March 88 -Cr. - Sundry Lands Sold - £381 ,, 9,, 9
Two Warrants on the State Treasurer 3788 ,, 16 .. 94 Recd : of J Prince for Potatoes & sold in 80 - 1,, 11 -
To Tax granted in 1787
Received for Fines -
The Commonwealth for Supplying Troops - in suppressing the Rebellion - -
87,, 10 ,, 10
Received of William Foster in exchange of Real Estate -
100 ,, -
Received for Rents
374 ,, 9.,, 2
Ditto for Fanuiel Hall for the Market
223 ,, 6,, 14
By Ballance of last Years Accounts - Abatements on Benjamin Henderson - Taxes committed to D. Parker and
A. Thomas late Collectors Ditto to D. Parker -
74 ,, 11 ,, 4
1642 ,, 6,, 44
Selectmens Draughts
4657 ,, 2 ,, 1}
Overseers - - Ditto -
2887 ,, 14 ,, 13
Paid Interest
910 ,, 5 6층
,,
14,,11,, -
£10,927 ,, 19 ,, 02
Ballance
6,030 ,, 4 ,, 7
£16,958 ,, 3,, 73
The Above Account being the State of the Treasury
[72.]
£16,958 ,, 3,, 72 £344,, 14 ,, 14
396,, 13 ,, 72
Ditto to the several Collectors for State Tax - for 1786
Paid Treasury Jeffries Notes brought in
12.000 ,,-
1 ,,-
173
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
Accounts for the last year, the Committee have made an Estimate of the General State of the Treasury as it now stands - Vizt : To Ballance due sundry Creditors £45,, 8,, 6 Ditto ditto
To D Jeffries Estate - To Partridge & Hammeatt -
To Nazro -
To the several Collectors for Premium on
Taxes in 86
To Ballance due on the Selectmen & Over- seers Draughts -
Treasurers Accounts to Several People on Interest - A considerable Sum of Interest yet due for the Last Year say £1570 exclusive of the Interest on the £12,410 ,, 17 ,, 72 since March 1787 Premiums to the Collectors and Abatements on the £12000 -Tax-
for the Charges Above say -
2900 - ,
£20,031,, 7,, 82
By Towns Powder
£312,, 11 ,, 8
Abraham Savage -
412 ,, 4 ,, 4
Sundry Small Debts due to Town, Bad
58 ,, 16
1
Andrew Tukesbury
100 10 10
Benja : Cudworth -
31 11,, 9%
Colº : Symms who has since Settled
Thomas Green for Rent -
15
Wm : Foster who has Since settled
35 ,, 15 ,, 10
Sundry Notes part bad
42 9, 2
Sundry Rents -
9 , 19,, 2
Daniel Parker for Taxes in 84 & 85. -
1318 ,, 10 ,, 41
[3.] Samuel Jepson -
20 5 -
Due from Thomas Bayley for 87 Tax
2082
11 ,, 02
Ditto James Thompson -
2333 4 ,, 92
Ditto Charles Williams -
2800 „ 11 ,, 14
Ditto Benjamin Henderson -
2390
14 ,, 62
Cash on Hand -
29 6
,,
Due from the Commonwealth
10346
,, 14 , 12
£22,608,, 1,, 8
Old Paper Money at 75 for one which
- it was received
£554,, 0,, 9
The Committee having stated the Account & Given a General State of the Towns Accounts as above They will only Add that the Selectmens Draughts the Last Year was £4,657 ,, 2,, 13 And the Overseers Draughts
2,887 ,, 15 ,, 14
537 ,, 4,,11₴ 110,, 13 ,, 10 699 ,, 4 54 ,, 15 ,, 9
651,, 16 ,, 42 2621 ,, 13 ,, 32
12,410 ,, 17 ,, 7}
167 1 ,, 2
£7544,,16,, 2ª
174
CITY DOCUMENT.
Which was the expence of the Town
the Last Year Joseph Barrell Order of the Committee
The Committee to Estimate the Sum Necessary to be raised to defray the Expences of the present Year & to consider what Sums it will be proper to grant to the Several Officers in the pay of the Town - Reported and the same being, considered, the Town came into the following Resolutions, - Vizt. (memº. about 60 persons present)
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred eighty five pounds, be allowed & paid unto Mr. Samuel Hunt for his Salary the present Year, the same to commence the 1st. of March last & to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due -
Voted, that the Sum of one hundred eighty five Pounds be Allowed & paid unto Mr. Nathan Davis for his Salary the present Year the same to commence [74.] the 1st. of March last, and to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred & Sixty Pounds be allowed and paid unto Mr. John Tileston for his Salary as Master of the North Writing School the present Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence the 1st : of March last -
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred & Sixty Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. James Carter for his Salary as Master of the Writing School in Queen Street the present Year and the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to com- mence from the 1st. of March last -
Voted, that the Sum of One Hundred & Sixty Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. John Vinal as Master of the Writing School in the Common the present Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence the 1st. March last -
Voted, that the Sum of One hundred & Sixty Pounds be allowed & paid unto Mr. Samuel Cheney as Master of the New Writing School at North End, the present Year the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due, & to commence the 1st. March last
Voted, the Sum of One hundred & Sixty Pounds, be allowed & paid unto Mr. Elisha Sticknor for his Sallary as Master of the New [75.] Sº. Writing School, the present Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence the 1st. of March last -
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175
BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
Voted, that Mr. Amasa Dingley Usher of the South Grammar School be Allowed & paid the Sum of Ninety two Pounds ten shillings for his Salary the present Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due, and to commence the 1st. of March last -
Voted, that the Ushers of the Writing Schools be allowed for their Salaries, as Ushers Eighty Pounds & Annum each, the same to be paid them Quarterly as it shall become due & to com- mence the 1st. March last
Voted, that the Selectmen be & hereby are Authorised & im- powered to make according to their discretion an Additional Allowance to any of the Ushers not exceeding ten Pounds -
Voted, that the Master of the Public Schools have ten Cords of Wood each provided for them by the Selectmen -
Voted, that Mr. John Tileston Master of the North Writing School be allowed for House Rent the present Year the Sum of Thirty Pounds, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence from the 1st : of March last -
[76.] Voted, that Mr. Nathan Davis Master of the North Grammer School be allowed & paid for House Rent the present Year the Sum of Thirty Pounds the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due & to commence the 1st ; of March last -
Voted, that Mr. John Vinal Master of the Writing School in the Common be Allowed for House Rent the present Year the Sum of Thirty Pounds the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due, and to commence the 1st : of March last -
Voted, that Mr. Samuel Cheney Master of the New Writing School at the North End be Allowed for House Rent the present Year the Sum of Thirty Pounds, the same to be paid him Quar- terly as it shall become due & to commence the 1st : of March last
Voted, that Twenty Pounds be Allowed for providing Ink for the five Public Writing Schools
Adjourned to 3 : O Clock P. M
3 ; 0 : Clock P : M : Met According to Adjournment
Voted, that William Cooper be allowed & paid the Sum of One hundred & Twenty Pounds for his Services as Treasurer the pres- ent Year, the same to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due and to commence the 1st. of March last --
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CITY DOCUMENT.
Voted, that Peter Boyer Esqr. be allowed & paid the Sum of One hundred & Twenty Pounds for his Services as Treasurer the present Year the same ["7".] to be paid him Quarterly as it shall become due and to commence the 1st : of March last -
Voted, that there be a deduction of one Man from each Watch House which will Leave four common Men and one Constable to each, they to be paid at the rate of six Dollars # Month for each common Man and eight Dollars # Month for the Constable. -
The Committee to whom was referred the several Petitions for paving & repairing several Streets, have attended the Business Assigned them - View'd the Streets - Conferred with the Gentle- men Selectmen on the Subject and Obtained an Estimate of the Expence And take leave to Report as their Opinion -
That the several Streets mentioned in the said Petition and as many more not mentioned, want to be now paved and repaired - but the Abilities of the Town at present will not Admit of it only in Part - Therefore that the Selectmen make such Repaires in some of the Streets as are Absolutely necessary not to exceed the sum of two hundred Pounds ; and that when a Petition is pre- ferred for a Street to be paved, it is expected the Petitioners or Abuttors in said Street lay on an Accurate Estimate of the Ex- pence before the Town & the Sums or proportion which they, the Petitioners and Abutters will be held to pay, the Town will then Judge of their Ability to Advance their proportions, as they have heretofore done in similar Cases of Applications - All which is submitted
Thomas Dawes Order
The aforegoing Report having been read and considered - the Question was put - and the Report Accepted -
[78.] On a Motion Voted, that the Selectmen be a Commit- tee to examine and enquire with whom ye. charge and duty lays, of paving and repairing the lower end of State Street from Admi- ral Vernons Head to the Long Wharff -
Moved, and obtained, that the Sum of Ten Pounds be deducted from - Mr. Nazro's Pay for his Attendance on the Selectmen -
Voted, that the Sum of Seven Thousand five hundred Pounds be raised by a Tax to be Assessed on the Polls and Estates of the Inhabitants of this Town, to defray the Expences of the Cur- rent Year - Also
Voted, that when the Assessors Assess the Town Tax, as Voted Above, they make a special and Separate Column in the Rate List and therein set down as much # centum proportionally on
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
each Persons Tax as shall in the whole amount to Eighteen hun- dred seventy five Pounds, being the one quarter part of the £7,500-to be raised for the expences of the Year ensuing and that the Collectors shall receive the Sums contained in said Column in Specie only and the same shall be paid into the Town Treasury & sacredly Appropriated to the support of the Town Poor and the payment of Interest due to the Overseers for Monys Advanced by them for the use of the Poor -
Moved, and Voted, that all Matters and things unfinished at this Meeting be referred over to the next General Town Meeting that may be called -
Then the Meeting was Dissolved
[79.] At a Meeting of the Freeholders and Other Inhab- itants of the Town of Boston duly qualified & legally warned in Public Town Meeting Assembled at Faneiul Hall on Friday the fourth of July A. D. 1788 - 9. O'Clock - A : M -
Warrant for calling the Meeting - read
John Brown Esqr :
was chosen Moderator by a Hand Vote
The Committee Appointed the last year to make choice of a Gentleman to Deliver an Oration on the Anniversary of Inde- pendence
Reported
That they had made Choice of Harrison Gray Otis Esqr. for the purpose aforesaid -
On a Motion Voted, that the Oration be delivered at the Old South Church 11. O'Clock leave having been given for the same -
Voted, that the Gentlemen Selectmen Acquaint Mr. Otis with the aforegoing Vote -
The Meeting was then Adjourned to the Old South Church, there to Meet at 11. O'Clock -
11. O'Clock Met at the Old South Church According to Ad- journment -
AN ORATION
To commemorate the Independence of the United States was de- livered by Harrison Gray Otis Esqr. at the Old South [80.] Church, to a large & crowded Assembly
Voted, that the Selectmen be and hereby are Appointed a Committee to wait on Harrison Gray Otis Esqr : and in the Name
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CITY DOCUMENT.
of the Town to thank him for the Spirited & elegant Oration this Day delivered by him at the request of the Town, upon the Anni- versary of the Independence of the United States of America, in which, according to the Institution of the Town he considered the feeling manners and principals which led to that great National Event - And to request of him a Copy thereof for the Press
On a Motion, Voted, that the Gentlemen the Selectmen be and hereby are Appointed, a Committee to Apply to Some one learned and able Gentleman to Deliver an Oration on the 4th of July A. D 1789, that Day being the Anniversary of the Inde- pendence of the United States of America wherein the Orator is to consider the feelings manners and principals which led to this great National Event; as well as the Important and happy Effects whether General or Domestic, which have already and will forever continue to flow from that Auspicious Epoch -
Then the Meeting was dissolved -
[81.] Conformably to a Vote of the Town passed the 10th of March 1788. Impowering the Selectmen "to give names to such Streets as have gone by different Names since the revolution and to record the same in the Town Books, as Also the Names of such Streets as have not been recorded " - the following Names given by the Selectmen to such Streets -are here accordingly Recorded & the Names of the Other Streets -may be seen in Town Book Nº. 2. Page 293
The way leading from Cambridge Bay be- ) tween Doctor Spragues Estate and Mr : Harris, cross Orange Street, easterly by William Marshall Estate into the Har- bour
From Orange Street by the South Writing School, through what was called Tilley's Land, to the bottom of the Common and to Frog Lane - -
From Orange Street by the Revd: D" : Boyles's dwelling House to Frog Lane - From Orange Street Opposite Nassau Street easterly to the Harbour - From Orange Street Easterly by Dr : Phil- lips House to the Sea - From Orange Street, Westerly by Mr. Wights Meeting House, to Nassau Street From Orange Street, easterly by Capt. Fellows's House to the Sea - [82.] From Orange Street Westerly by Mrs. Inches House and crossing Nassau Street to Pleasant Street
Castle Street
Pleasant Street
Nassau Street Allens Lane
Bennet Street
Hollis Street
Harvard Street
Eliots Street
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BOSTON TOWN RECORDS, 1788.
From Orange Street easterly by Mr. Kneeland's Estate to the Harbour - - From Newbury Street near the White Horse Tavern, Westerly into the Com- mon by Mr. Holbrooks House -
From the Bottom of Summer Street to near the Bull Tavern, to the bottom of Gridley's Lane - - - From Purchase Street to Battery March - From Milk Street passing by the Loan Office, crossing Cow Lane down to Purchase Street -
From Cow Lane Easterly by Mr. Gray's Rope Walk to Milk Street - From Atkinson Street to Mr. Belknap's Meeting House in Federal Street - - From Milk Street by Mr. Belknaps Meet- ing House up to Cow Lane formerly Longe Lane - -
From Federal Street, by Deacon Williams's house into Atkinson Street -
From Milk Street Opposite Tanner's Lane southerly by the Rope Walks to Cow Lane -
From the bottom of Water Street into Milk Street
From Water Street opposite Leveret's Lane into Milk Street
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