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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. ...
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ase of disaster,between the intrenched Americans and reinforcements from Cam-bridge. It was an anxious consultation, and resulted in the battleof Bunker Hill. After the evacuation of Boston, the Province House property\\ ;i> confiscated and became a Government House. The east-ern half was occupied by the Governor and Council, Secretary ofState, and Bcceiver-Gencral. The other half was the dwelling ofthe Treasurer. In 1811, the State gave the property to the Mass.General Hospital, who leased it to David Greenough for ninety-nine years. He erected the stores now in front of it, and con-verted the building to the uses of trade. It became a tavern, ahall of negro-minstrelsy, and was finally destroyed by fire, Octo-ber, 1864, leaving only the walls standing, which is all that nowremains of the Old Province House. Our engraving of it wasmade from sketches taken a short time before it was leased andaltered over. The royal arms and the Indian vane are on exhibi-tion in the Old State House.
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* ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 22b GENERAL GAGE. On the 15th of October, 1768, Gen. Thomas Gage arrived inBoston from New York. He was a veteran officer, had seen hardservice under Gen. Braddock, being severely wounded at theMonongahela battle, and carried a musket ball in his side for theremainder of his life as a sad memento of that fatal battle ; therehe fought side by side with Washington. An intimacy then ex-isted between them, which was cherished afterward by a friendly

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Dwellings
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Published_by_ye_Photo_electrotype_engraving_co_____
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