Antique views of ye towne of Boston (1882) (14583884827)

Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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e society a piece of land on the corner of Tremont and Har-vard streets, a beautiful spot, on which to erect the house, whichofier it is thought the parish unwisely rejected. Plancock also gavea bell, on which was inscribed V to the Church the living callAnd to the grave summon all. This was the church of Colman, the Coopers, Thatcher, Buck-minster, Edward Everett, Palfrey and Lothrop, an array of cleri-cal talent unsurpassed in the Boston pulpit. General Gage quar-tered the 21)th in the church and vicinity, taking up his own quar-ters in the house opposite, (rage told Mr. Turell that he had nofears for his men while quartered within such walls. Nevertheless,the night before the evacuation a twenty-four pound shot fromCambridge struck the tower, and falling to the ground was pickedup by Mr. Turell, and in 1824 was imbeded in the masonry, whereit remained until the work of demolition began. When the soci-ety sold the church they reserved the ancient quoins, pulpit, belland cannon ball.
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BRATTLE STREET CHURCH. ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTOX. 32!) FEDERAL STREET CATHEDRAL (ROMAX CATHOLIC) . Under the strict rule of the Puritans, Catholics were prohibitedfrom entering the colony under pain of death. If a Jesuit, how-ever, should be shipwrecked on these shores, in such a case hewould not be hung. This law was made in 1647. Even underthese oppressive laws, the Jesuit priests entered New England,from Canada, and established missions among the Indians on theKennebeck and Penobscot rivers. The most prominent amongthese early missionaries was Sebastian Pale. The reverence of theFrench and Indians for him occasioned the bitter hatred of thePuritans, and a reward was offered for his head. Captain Hiltonwas sent against him at Norid^ewock and the village reduced to aheap of ruins. Again, in 1724, the village was attacked and de-stroyed during the absence of the braves, and the heroic missionarywas riddled with small shot and hacked to pieces. The war of1745, which desolated what is now