BOSTON THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE

BOSTON THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE
by M.a. De Wolfe Howe

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: B O M People. M. A. DeWOLFE HOWE Illustrated by Louis A. Holman New York The Macmillani Company London: Macmillan & Co. Limited Nineteen Hundred and Three. All rights reserved Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-four. AH rights reserved PREFATORY NOTE THE volumes of biography bearing directly upon Boston history are many. To these and to shorter memoirs of men and women whose lives have been identified with the place, the author is chiefly indebted for whatever flavor of reality his own pages have attained. How many persons and events he has been forced to ignore, or touch but lightly, the reader with the slenderest knowledge of the local records will detect. Others will recognize, as familiar friends, the most bountiful sources of information. The list of them would be long; and the writer must content himself with a special word of acknowledg ment to the text and references of the exhaustive Memorial History of Boston, edited by Justin Winsor, and to the shorter narrative, Boston, by the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. Finally to Mr. J. P. Quincy and Mr. Edwin M. Bacon, for their valuable com ments upon manuscript and proof, a peculiar debt is due. BOSTON, August, 1903, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. FOUNDATION AND EARLY YEARS i II. COLONIAL BOSTON .... 26 III. PROVINCIAL BOSTON ..... 54 IV. REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON . . . - 87 V. FROM TOWN TO CITY . . . . 123 VI. THE HUB AND THE WHEEL . . 156 VII. & quot; THE BOSTON RELIGION& quot; . . . .190 VIIL THE & quot; LITERARY CENTRE& quot; . . . 222 IX. THE SLAVE AND THE UNION . . . 250 X. MEN AND MONUMENTS . . . . 297 XL WATER AND FIRE ..... 350 XII. THE MODERN INHERITANCE , . . 372 THE FANEUIL HALL VANE ILLUSTRATIONS John Winthrop : autograph, seal, and portrait by Van Dyck, in Massachusetts State House .... Frontispiece Mural Tablet, Liberty Tree Block, Washington Street . Title-page PAGE Faneuil Hall Vane ........ xi Province House Vane ....... xv Seal of City of Boston, adopted 1827 . . . . I Initial, Original Charter, Massachusetts Bay Company . . 5 Winthrop Cup, First Church Communion Plate ... 8 Facsimile of Resolution naming Boston, from Town Records , 1 1 Old Corner Bookstore . . . . . . .15 Sir Henry Vane . . . . . . . .21 Autograph of Robert Keayne . . . . . 25 Royal Arms, from Council Chamber, Old State House . . 26 A Bit of Fort Independence ( Castle Island) ... 29 Tremont Street and the Common, about 1800 . . 34. Roger Williams . . . . . . . .39 John Eliot preaching to the Indians 45 King Philip s Mark 50 King Philip s Bowl ....... 51 Pine Tree Shillings , . , t , . 52 xii ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Cross captured at Louisburg . . . . . . 54. From the Great Seal of New England . . . .57 Cotton Mather ........ 63 Samuel Sewali s Book-plate ( reduced) .... 66 Old Brick Church . 71 Cockerel Church Vane . . . . . . .72 Mather Byles s Clock = 73 Old South Church, 1903 . . . . . - 75 George Whitefield 78 Original Faneuil Hall . . . . . . .80 Faneuil Hall of To-day 81 Entrance to Governor Shirley s Mansion . . . 85 Stamp Act Stamps .. ..... 87 Samuel Adams ........ 92 Royal Proclamation, for suppressing Rebellion and Sedition . 95 Proposal of & quot; Loyal Citizens& quot; of Boston to support General Howe 97 Hutchinson House . . . . . . . .100 & quot; Boycott Handbill 104 Francis Rotch 106 Christ Church . . . . . . , .109 Paul Revere ! ! I Revolutionary Handbill . . . . . . .113 General Gage s Headquarters . . . . . .114 Tower on Dorchester Heights ( South Boston) . . .119 Washington Medal . . . . . . .121 John Hancock s Tea-kettle and Money Trunk . . .123 Hancock House . . . . t . . .127 Federal Street Theatre . . . t . . 135 ILLUSTRATIONS xiii PAGE Tontine Crescent . . . . . . 138 Boston Athenaeum . . . . . . . .142 Removing Beacon Hill . , . , . . 151 House of John Phillips . . . . * . .154 Seal of Boston Marine Society . . . . . .156 Earliest Chart of Boston Harbor . . . . 157 & quot; Hull s Victory & quot; - 159 The Constitution . . . . . . * .161 Autograph of

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