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The memorial history of Boston Volume 2; including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880. Ed. by Justin Winsor - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of it! And may Loyalty to a king, under whom we enjoy this liberty, ever remain our character!--a character always justly due to this land, and of which our enemies have in vain attempted to rob us." The loyalty of the town had already been shown by hanging the portrait of George II. within the new hall. The town's love of liberty was abundantly exhibited before Mr. Lovell sailed away to Halifax with the British fleet thirty-three years afterward. Long before that time the hall was almost entirely destroyed by fire. son-in-law, John Robinson, a commissioner of here given, is taken from a bill which he renthe customs in 1772, made the aggravated as-dered the province of Massachusetts Bay, Jan. sault on James Otis, from the effects of which II, 1748, "To translating Governour of Canada's Otis never recovered. (See Sabine's American letter to Gov. Shirley, 13 pages in French, £1 Loyalists, i. 241-243.) 1 It is printed in Snow's History of Boston, pp. 235-237. It was also printed at the time,--A Funeral Oration Delivered At the opening of the Annual Meeting of the Town, March 14, 1742, in Faneuil Hail, in Boston: Occasioned by the Death of the Founder, Peter Faneuil, Esq. Green, Bushell, and Allen, 1743, pp. 14. Sec Brinley os. od.; two other papers, 6c. total, £1 i6.t Catalogue, Nos '653-54. Lovell's autograph, od." preserved in the Mass. Archive--K" 1 Vol. II.--34. 4d This unfortunate event occurred on the 13th of January, 1761. About half-past nine o'clock in the evening of that day a fire broke out in one of the shops in Dock Square belonging to the town, says the Ncivs-Letter of the 15th, and after destroying that and the adjoining buildings crossed the street to " that stately edifice, Faneuil Hall Market, the whole of w...
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