Identifier: fortyofbostonshi1912stat (find matches)
Title: Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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two hundred and thirteen pounds, sixshillings, eight pence. In this house his first wife, Sarah (Orne), died in 1773, andto it he brought, in less than six months, his second helpmate, Rachel (Walker).Here, also, were born the majority of his sixteen children. It was while living inNorth Square that he did his patriotic service as the Messenger of the Revolution,and he lived in the house until about 1788, when he removed to another house inCharter Street. He bought, twelve years later, on the same street, the brick man-sion in which he lived until his death. Revere was an engraver, a gold and silversmith, and a bell and cannon founder, and specimens of his handicraft are now muchprized as heirlooms of an heroic past. He is said at one time to have acted as adentist. The patriots home in North Square has been restored by the Paul RevereHouse Association, and is a notable example of a humble home of the older time.It is now one of the foremost attractions of the Old North End of Boston.
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■:■■-.-.. .-,. . CAPEN HOUSE Union Street The Capen house, which still stands at Nos. 41 to 45 Union Street, bears evi-dence, in its solid belted front wall and ancient roof, that it was built about thebeginning of the eighteenth century, although the northerly portion was apparentlybuilt at a later period. It is one of the oldest buildings in that locality. HopestillCapen was a shopkeeper in this building for many years before his death in 1807,and also a town official in Boston and a sergeant in the Ancient and HonorableArtillery Company. He was the master to whom was apprenticed in 1763Benjamin Thompson, of Woburn, Mass., who later became a distinguished scientist,and was known as Count Rumford. Thomas Capen, a son of Hopestill Capen, suc-ceeded his father as a shopkeeper in the old house, and owned the property at thetime of his death in 1819. It was then appraised at five thousand dollars, and itis still assessed to the heirs of Thomas Capen. The oyster business has been co

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