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Some events of Boston and its neighbors

State Street Trust Company, Boston, 1917. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

Author

State Street Trust Company, Boston

Publisher

Boston, Mass., Printed for the State Street Trust Company

Published, as stated

1917

Language

en

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F 73 .37 .S82 Copy 1 Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors Printed for the State Street Trust Company Boston, Mass. 1917 Frs .37 Copyright, 19 17, BY THE State Street Trust Company Compiled, arranged and printed by direction of Walton Advertising & Printing Co. Boston, Mass. / m 16 1917 'CI.A457107 FOREWORD THE State Street Trust Company takes pleasure in presenting the twelfth in the series of brochures which it has issued on subjects connected with the history of Boston. The pamphlet covers this time some interesting events of Boston and some of the neighboring towns and is supplementary to the one issued last year entitled — "Some Interesting Boston Events." Many things have happened in Greater Boston which, though quaint and curious and, perhaps, amusing, have not been of sufficient importance to re- ceive more than a brief mention in the pages of the historians. It has been the aim in the present pamphlet to narrate such little-noticed happenings, and to illustrate the text as far as is possible with repro- ductions of old prints and photographs. The unusual interest shown in the historic brochures prepared during the past eleven years by the State Street Trust Company encourages the hope that the present volume will also prove acceptable and entertaining to the depositors of the Company and the general public. Among those to whom we are indebted for information used in the preparation of this brochure are the following: The late Gov. Curtis Guild; the officials of the Boston Public Library; Mr. Philip Hale; Mr. Walter K. Watkins; Mr. Charles F. Read of the Bostonian Society; Mr. Charles K. Bolton of the Boston Athenaeum. For special information in regard to certain subjects we are indebted to the following: Hon. Edmund Billings and Mr. Lawrence F. Sher- man for data pertaining to the Islands of Boston Harbour; Mr. George H. Tripp, of the Free Public Library, New Bedford, for data pertain- ing to the Gosnold Memorial; Mr. William C. Lane, of Harvard Col- lege Library, for information concerning the Harvard Ferry; Granville C. Mitchell, of Medford, for help regarding the Peak House; the Librarian of the Milton Library for material concerning Capt. Samuel Wadsworth; Mrs. George Philler and Mr. T. Dennie Boardman for data pertaining to the Prince of Wales Ball; Dr. Charles M. Green for information concerning the Royall House; Mr. Richard H. Dana for information pertaining to Anthony Burns; Mr. L. W. Jenkins for assistance in compiling the story of General Ward; Mr. J. T. Linzee for the picture of the New England Guards; Mr. Alfred Bowditch for data about the Practical Navigator; Mr. Hervey E. Wetzel for information concerning the Louisburg Expedition. FOREWORD Among the authorities consulted are: Old Landmarks of Middlesex, by S. A. Drake. Mt. Desert, by Geo. E. Street, edited by Samuel A. Eliot. Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches — Dedication of the Gosnold Memorial, Gosnold and his Colony at Cuttyhunk, by Annie R. Wall. The Gosnold Memorial Shaft, by Walter Ricketson. Curiosities of History, by W. W. Wheildon. The Ferry, the Charles River, and the Charlestown Bridge — Chairman Boston Transit Commission, Boston, the Place and the People, by M. A. de Wolfe Howe. Quincy's History of Harvard University. Old Boston Landmarks, by Drake. Social Life in New England, by Mary C. Crawford. The Islands of Boston Harbour, by Mrs. Julia Kn

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