Periodical Collections of the Bostonian society. Volume 1 - Copy 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 - Copy 1- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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- Date: 1886
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Image 3 of Volume 1 - Copy 1- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
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Image 7 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 COLLECTIONS OF THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY VOL. I. No. i WILLIAM BLAXTON READ BY THOMAS COFFIN AMORY November 9, 1880 PRICE FIFTY CENTS BOSTON OLD STATE HOUSE 1 886- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 8 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 PROSPECTUS. Original contributions relating to the history of Boston, as read before the Society, will be, from time to time, published each mon- ograph will be complete in itself, and will also...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 9 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 €tye l3o^toniajiT octct? WILLIAM BLAXTON THOMAS COFFIN AMORY- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 10 of Volume 1 - Copy 1- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 11 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 COLLECTIONS OF THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY VOL. I. No. i WILLIAM BLAXTON READ BY THOMAS COFFIN AMORY November 9, 1880 HZ -7/ J. 1 1 J BOSTON OLD STATE HOUSE 1 886- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
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Image 13 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 595- 6 75- FOR several years before Winthrop came in 1630, William Blaxton constituted the entire population of this penin- sula, which, until comparatively recent accretions from the sea, and...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 14 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 4 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 4 with romantic interest for us, who have assumed the grateful responsibility of preserving and transmitting what is worthy of note in our legendary history. Whence he came, what...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 15 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 5 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 5 and Beacon streets, several notices of Blaxton in our public prints, elicited by late commemorations, have reasserted the earlier conclusions which Mr. Bowditch proved to have been a...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 16 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 6 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 6 which his orchard was famous, and distributed them among his very limited audience. They no doubt added an accept- able flavor to his discourses. Lechford, the lawyer, says...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 17 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 7 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 7 known as Blackstonc s Neck, or Point, he did not allow it to stand in the way of his humanity. Moved to compassion by the great mortality of...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 18 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 8 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 8 plicated in its slopes that before Thomas Hancock in 1737 erected his spacious mansion near its crest there were upon this large area but few dwellings. Much of...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 19 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 9 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 9 map of 1728 as Banister s Gardens is recorded as follows: (Suffolk Deeds, 26, 84.) The deposition of Anne Pollard of Boston, widow, aged about eighty-nine years. This...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 20 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 io WILLIAM BLAXTON. 10 understood, as the modes of expression were less plain. The depositions themselves do not exist, and probably were con- sumed in the Town House in 1747. Nor is...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 21 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 ii WILLIAM BLAXTON. n joining and belonging to the said messuage, known by the name of the Blackstone lot, which was formerly purchased by Nathaniel Williams, deceased, aforesaid, of and from Richard...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 22 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 i2 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 12 Mulligan Smith, being arrested, acknowledged that he was yesterday, being the Sabbath, in an orchard at the bottom of the common between bells ringing for the afternoon exer-...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 23 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 I3 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 13 town elevations it appeared divided by an isthmus into two portions, one was the mill-pond and the town dock, not far apart at high tide. Wood, in his...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 24 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 i 4 WILLIAM LAX TON. 14 topographical account in 1792, what was at the earliest period seven hundred acres, though now thrice that area, was much as nature made it. No other...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 25 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 15 WILLIAM B LAX TON. 15 the waters of Boston, drawn up by Dr. John Lathrop, in 1800, In this he states that the spring Blaxton mentioned to Win- throp as an...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 26 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 1 6 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 16 neighborhood of West Cedar street, between Cambridge and Pinckney streets. Southeast of this was situated Blaxton s garden, and, not far distant, the memorable spring which supplied...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 27 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 r 7 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 17 Information has been sought at Emanuel College by Mr. Tuttle, but nothing positive has been learned. The County Histories, Extinct Baronetcies, and other genealogical works, reveal, among...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 28 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 iS WILLIAM BLAXTON. 18 name of the fifth son, and, if born in 1595, his mother would have been thirty-seven years of age at the time of his birth. Sir William seems...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 29 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 1 9 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 19 Sir William, of Gibside, was also a devoted royalist, as well as another Sir William, his nephew, and Surtees may have confused these many Sir Williams. Knights...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 30 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 2 o WILLIAM BLAXTON. 20 note in Durham at the time, we find Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and many others famous in our American an- nals and there were, as we have...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 31 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 21 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 21 right rises a sylvan scene of great extent, hanging woods on inclining grounds, from a lofty summit of the hill, to the very skirts of the vale. Rising...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 32 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 22 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 22 maidens must have been singularly attractive to a young collegian, and our Blackstone, if from Durham, must, at least, have seen it, if a near kinsman, as supposed....- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 33 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 23 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 23 NOTES. BLAXTON IN MERRYMOUNT. As the forms of Blackstone, Boston s First Inhabitant, a poetical tribute to his memory, printed in 1877, were going to press, Merry- mount,...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 34 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 24 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 24 PROMINENT RESIDENTS ON HIS ESTATE. Gleaner, speaking of Blaxtorfs estate, says it must have been a sheltered and sunny enclosure of almost unrivalled beauty. In Blaxton s vision...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 35 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 2 5 WILLIAM BLAXTON. 25 in the presence of Major Denison, the Pequods shot him; Mohegans cut off his head, quartered and dismembered his body; Ninnicroft s men burnt the remains, except...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 36 of Volume 1 - Copy 1- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 37 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 President, CURTIS GUILD. Directors, Thomas C. Amory, Thomas J. Allen, William S. Appleton, John T. Hassam, Joshua P. Bodfish, Hamilton A. Hill, Curtis Guild, Samuel H. Russell, William Wilkins Warren. Clerk and...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 38 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 13ogtou Antiquarian Club* Samuel M. Quincy, President, 1880. William H. Whitmore, President, 1881. 130jStouiau ocict^ Organized to promote tlie study of tlie History of Boston, and the preservation of its Antiquities, INCORPORATED...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 39 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 COLLECTIONS BOSTONIAN SOCIETY VOL. I. No. 2 ABEL BOWEN WILLIAM HENRY WHITMORE PRICE SEVENTY- FIVE CENTS BOSTON OLD STATE HOUSE 1887- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886
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Image 40 of Volume 1 - Copy 1 PROSPECTUS. Original contributions relating to the history of Boston, as read re the Society, will be, from time to time, published; each monograph will be complete in itself, and will also be...- Contributor: Bostonian Society, Boston
- Date: 1886