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Title: State Street : a brief account of a Boston way
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Streets
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Printed for the State Street Trust Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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merchant,No. 2; Arnold Welles, merchant, No. 14, com-mander of the Cadets and prominent in militaryaffairs; Timothy Williams, merchant, No. 12. Among the other prominent business men onState Street in 1801 were James Abelard, No. 78,with whom Due de Chartres, afterwards LouisPhilippe, lived during his residence in Boston;Peter C. Brooks, father-in-law of Charles FrancisAdams; Humphrey Clark, No. 79, and ThomasClark, No. 61; William Endicott, tailor, No. 9;Joseph Foster, merchant, No. 31; Moses M.Hayes, Insurance, No. 68, Grand Master A. F.& A. M. 1788-92; Benjamin and Josiah Loring,bookbinders; Francis C. Lowell, merchant, No.25, in whose honor the city of Lowell was named;Benjamin Russell, editor and publisher of theSentinel, No. 10; Robert G. Shaw, merchant andphilanthropist; and Samuel Thaxter, mathematicalinstrument maker, No. 49 State Street. Other well-known Boston names can be foundin the Directory of 1801. Some business enter-prises of Boston go back farther than this. 12
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STATE STREET SOMETHING ABOUT STATESTREETS OLD TAVERNS. NUMEROUS and interesting have beenthe public houses on State Street whichat some time or other have offered theirgood cheer to stranger and townsman. A water-side resort, the Crown Coffee House, was thefirst house on Long Wharf in 1712. Seamen fromevery land and the leading merchants and the youngbucks of the thriving town found good cheer here,and gossiped at a time when a gentleman was notabove the seductions of piracy. Many strangetales of those fierce buccaneer times were told overthe glasses of this ancient hostelry. On the south-west corner of Exchange Place and State Streetstood the Royal Exchange Tavern, where in 1690Chief Justice Sewall and Colonel William Phippshad a famous dinner. This William Phipps, bythe way, son of a Maine gunsmith and blacksmith,had located a treasure-ship sunk off Hispaniola.He recovered three hundred thousand pounds,gave the Crown ten thousand as its share, tooktwenty thousand pounds as his, and

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