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A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.","text_extract":"F \n73.67 \n\nW3M17 \n\n\n1 \n\n\n^vV)-':-.,'^,^/';./;^^*':-:^. :, \n\n\nWe  have  issued  this  little  book  at  this \ntime  to  mark  another  era  in  the  history \nof  our  business.  We  hope  that^  aside \nfrom  the  personal  references  contained^ \nit  will  prove  of  interest  and  value  from \nan  historical  viewpoint. \n\nMACULLAR  PARKER  COMPANY \nJune,  IQ18. \n\n\n'^^ \n\n\nSOME  OLD   SITES \n\ni^  ON  AN  '^ \n\nOLD   THOROUGHFARE \n\nAnd  an  Account  of  Some  Early \nResidents  Thereon \n\n\n^mm%mm^^ \n\n\nPRINTED    FOR \nMACULLAR    PARKER    COMPANY \n\n\nm \n\n\nBOSTON \n\n\nr \n\n\nCopyright,  1918 \n\nBY \n\nMacullar  Parker  Company \n\n\nrj{'  15  ii    ^//,'A />/>/^/>y/  •^y/zYY'//'.   iii)>yi¥i'L \n\nBusiness  Card  of  the  old  Washington  Cofee  House \n\n\nThe  heading  to  page  $  is  from  an  engraving  published  in  \"Gleasons  Pictorial' \n\nand  shows  a  portion  of  the  east  side  of  Washington  Street  from \n\nFranklin  Street  south  in  i8^j \n\nResearch  Work  by  Walter  K.  Watkims \n\n\narranged  and  printed  by  direction  of \n\nwalton  advertising  &  printing  co. \n\nboston,  mass. \n\n\n3.fo7 \n\n\n^  ^mmm  foreword  m^. \n\nrj  a  previous  history  of  Washington  Street  pubhshed  by  us,  facts \nwere  presented  concerning  that  section  of  the  great  thoroughfare \nbetween  School  and  Milk,  Summer  and  \\\\'inter  Streets  where  the  house \nof  Macullar  Parker  has  been  located  for  more  than  half  a  century. \n\nWashington  Street  undoubtedly  is  the  most  notable  and  probably \nthe  longest  highway  in  New  England.  Beginning  as  little  more  than \na  blazed  trail,  it  has  from  century  to  century  wound  its  irregular  way \nuntil  it  has  reached  beyond  Massachusetts  borders  into  Rhode  Island \nwithout  changing  its  name.  It  has  the  distinction  of  being  the  first \nroad  laid  out  in  the  Massachusetts  Colony,  and,  according  to  an  order \nof  June,  1636,  it  was  begun  as  a  footpath  which  led  over  the  Neck  to \nRoxbury.  The  order  which  concerns  this^  famous  \"High  Waye \ntowards  Roxburie\"  in  the  year  1636  is  to  the  effect  that  \"there  shall \nbe  a  sufficient  footway  from  William  Coleburne's  field-end  into \nSamuel  Wyeborne's  field-end  next  Roxbury,  by  the  surveyors  of \nhighways  before  the  last  of  the  5th  month.\" \n\nThis  order  shows  that  there  were  surveyors  of  highways  in  the \nColony  at  this  early  date.  Early  Washington  Street  is  supposed  to \nhave  extended  from  the  corner  of  Dover  Street  to  the  northerly \nRoxbury  line,  which  was  the  south  end  of  Boston  Neck.  The  early \nroad  laid  out  towards  Roxbury  was  on  the  easterly  side  of  the  present \nWashington  Street,  very  near  the  beach,  the  road  starting  from  near \nBeach  Street. \n\nWe  count  it  a  privilege  to  tell  the  tale  of  these  early  days  and  to \nplace  a  permanent  record  of  them  in  the  hands  of  readers  of  history. \nThe  house  of  Macullar  Parker  has  gathered  these  interesting  facts \nconcerning  the  former  title-holders  of  the  sites  it  has  occupied  on \nWashington  Street,  and  has  recalled  various  associations  connected \nwith  former  residents.  As  we  have  read  the  records  of  these  early \ndays,  it  seems  but  a  short  while  ago  that  the  Market  Place  existed \nand  in  the  Puritan  households  were  enacted  the  stirring  scenes  of \nthe  Revolution,  while  the  stage  coaches  accompanied  by  the  crack  of \ndrivers'  whips  and  baying  hounds  drove  up  to  the  Washington  Coffee \nHouse  and  the  old  Marlborough  Hotel  that  travellers  might  be  re- \nfreshed. So  we  bring  them  back — those  days — in  which  \"mine  host\" \nplays  no  small  part,  and  in  which  industry  and  trade  contribute  a \nvaluable  furtherance  not  only  to  the  history  of  the  Street  but  also  to \nits  development. \n\n3 \n\n\n|i1MMM'|ilMn'|i|iMIMM'IMi|ilMMilMMMiinilMMMMilM'IMMiinMMM'IMM'|llMMl|'l'|l|'l'l'l'|i|i|i|MM'ri'l'|llMi|'IMMi|'l'|i|i|i|l|l|'|i|i|M'|i|'l'l'r \n\n\nii \n\n\nf ''\"^  ^'■■\"\"\"^ \n\n\n£^' '  t  XSa  R*:  t!*  '  ^^  ■'••f  Si\"  ^-V  '•}»'  w ' \nriii..  #  A  »»  «^  f  !n-  i^=:  ''^  ;!:;  ^  £ \n~:-^3K!-r.         ,^i|    '  ,a|    t,,.     ...  •    lii    !  •  x:   ^frv       :.-:.;■: \n\n\nBREcEeK \n\n\n.l.M. Mililil.l.l,l,lililil,lilililil.liliM,l,M,M,l,M,NM,l,l,l,l,M,lililil.liMilil,lililililil,l.lililihlihlili .lilil.lilililililililililililiM \n\n\nm^   SOME   OLD    SITES   ON   AN   OLD    '^ \nTHOROUGHFARE \n\n\nTHE   HIGH   ROAD   AND  THE   MARKET   PLACE \n\nV^!^HE  business  life  and  social  activities  of  early  Boston  centred \n^^^  about  the  Market  Place  near  the  site  of  the  present  Old  State \nHouse.  In  less  than  two  years  after  the  order  was  issued  for  the \nestablishment  of  a  Market  Place,  the  \"High  Road  to  Roxbury\" — now \nWashington  Street — was  laid  out.  The  first  settlers  located  along  the \nharbor  front  at  the  North  End  and  Bendall's  Cove,  later  known  as  the \nTown  Dock.  As  business  increased  about  the  Alarket  Place,  home- \nsteads were  granted  inland,  following  closely  the  line  of  Washington \nStreet  which  passed  the  Market  Place,  the  Governor's  Spring,  and  the \nWatering  Place  at  Bedford  Street — on  over  the  Neck  to  the  mainland. \nThe  market  was  at  first  kept  open  on  Thursdays,  when  a  public  lecture \nwas  held.  A  tavern — the  first  to  appear  in  Boston — was  opened  by \nSamuel  Cole,  and  John  Coggan  opened  the  first  shop  of  merchandise. \nWithin  ten  years  from  the  laying  out  of  the  \"High  Road  to  Roxbury,\" \nthe  lots  along  it  were  granted  on  both  sides  of  the  way  as  far  south  as \nBoylston  Street.  Running  east  from  the  main  street  was  a  lane \nleading  to  a  windmill  near  Fort  Hill.  This  road  was  known  as  Mill \nLane  and  is  the  Summer  Street  of  to-day. \n\nThe  Market  Place,  as  time  went  on,  came  to  be  the  gathering-ground \nof  the  colonists.  The  life  of  the  community  centred  there,  and  as  the \noutlying  districts  became  populated  the  country  people  were  wont \nto  ride  \"into  town\"  to  do  their  trading  and  to  learn  the  news.  There \nis  an  old  legend — the  truth  of  which  has  never  been  vouched  for,  but \nwhich  is  nevertheless  interesting  and  has  been   repeated  over  many \n\n5 \n\n\nThe  First \n\nMarket \n\nPlace \n\nThe  ''High \nRoad  to \nRoxbury  ^^ \n\n\nAn  Old \nLegend \nwhich \n\n\nSITES  on  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\na  cup  of  steaming  cider — which  concerns  the  rural  swain  who  rode  into \nthe  Market  Place,  with  his  best  girl  mounted  behind  him  on  a  sub- \nA  Hogshead  stantial  horse.  Prancing  up  to  a  stoop  on  which  was  a  hogshead  of \n^■^  '^  ^^  molasses,  he  called  out  to  his  companion,  \"Now,  Sally,  you  jump  off \nand  I'll  go  put  up  the  horse  and  come  arter  you!\"  Sally  did  jump, \ndepositing  her  solid  weight  on  the  head  of  the  hogshead — which  gave \nway  and  propelled  her  into  syrupy  depths.  Farther  and  farther  she \nsank,  to  Jonathan's  dismay.  Suddenly  he  turned  and  dashed  with \nfrantic  gallops  up  Washington  Street,  muttering  as  he  went,  \"I'll  be \ndod  durned  if  I  pay  for  that  ere  molasses.\"  Sally  struggled  in  the \nmeantime  from  her  close  but  sweet  imprisonment  in  the  hogshead  at \nthe  Market  Place. \n\nEARLY   TRADES-PEOPLE   OF    BOSTON \n\nThe  First       It  is  a  curious  fact  that  the  first  settler  on  the  site  of  the  stores  of \n\nSettler  on  the  Macullar  Parker  was  a  tailor  by  the  name  of  Richard  Hogg.     His \n\nStores  of  story  and  a  half  thatched  cottage  of  wood  was  no  greater  contrast  to \n\nMacullar  the  present  buildings  than  was  his  trade  compared  to  the  volume  of \n\nParker  business  transacted  to-day.     The  clothes  of  those  early  citizens  were \n\nmodest  in  cut  and  hue,  and  were  worn  to  the  extent  of  their  usefulness \n\nHogg  sells  rather  than  being  changed  by  the  fashion  of  the  day.     Whether  success \n\nhis  Business  qj-  failure  in  his  trade  was  the  cause  of  the  change,  Hogg  disposed  of \n\nj^IIqj.  his  house  and  business  in   half  a   dozen  years  to  John  Lake — also  a \n\ntailor. \n\nEarly       A  great  number  of  the  early  trades-people  of  Boston  came  of  the \n\nTrades-  older   and   prominent   families   of   England.      Edward,    a   brother  of \n\nof  Boston  J°^^  Lake,  was  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Lincoln,  England,  and \n\nAdvocate-General  for  Ireland.     He  was  also  made  a  baronet.    Another \n\nbrother,  Thomas,  whose  grandson  succeeded  him  to  the  baronetcy  in \n\n171 1,  was  a  prominent  merchant  of  Boston. \n\nA  Saddler       In  1648  the  tailor's  shop  was  replaced  by  that  of  another  trade,  and \n\noccupies  Thomas  Wiborne,   a  saddler,  of  a  prominent  Kentish  family,  began \n\nbusiness  there.     Wiborne  came  from  the  same  locality  as  did  Governor \n\nHinckley  of  the  Plymouth  Colony.     In  the  rear  of  the  saddler's  shop \n\nwere   several   other  workers   of   leather:  Henry   Rust,   glover;    John \n\nBarry,    tanner;     John    Marion,    shoemaker;     John    Gilbert,    tanner; \n\nNathaniel  Bishop,  currier.     There  was  a  lane  at  the  rear  of  Wiborne's \n\nhouse,  about  two  hundred  or  more  feet  back  from  Washington  Street, \n\n\nSITES  011  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE  7 \n\nextending  from  Milk  to  Summer  Streets.  From  these  workers  of \nleather  at  different  periods  the  lane  was  known  as  Wiborne's,  Gilbert's, \nand  Bishop's  Lane.     It  is  now  Hawley  Street. \n\nThomas  Wiborne's  son  mortgaged  his  house  and  garden  in  1685  to    The  Estate \nSimon  Lynda,  a  prosperous  merchant,  formerly  of  London  and  Holland,   passes  to \nLynde  died   in   1687,  leaving  a  good  estate  to  his  children.     Of  his    j     j^^ \nproperty,  the  Wiborne  house  came  to  Samuel  Lynde,  a  son,  as  part \nof   his    share.     Samuel    Lynde    married    Mary    Ballard,    daughter   of \nJarvis  Ballard,  and  to  them  was  born  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  married \nJohn  \\  alentine,  a  lawyer. \n\nMr.   Lynde  in    1709  gave  to  Mary  and   her  husband   the  Wiborne    The  Wiborne \nestate.     It  had  a  frontage  of  fifty-five  feet  on  Marlborough  Street,   \"o^-f*? \nas  that  part  of  Washington  Street  had  already  been  named,  in  honor \nof  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough.     Other  parts  of  Washington  Street \nwere  then  known  as  Orange,  Newbury,  and  Cornhill. \n\nJOHN   VALENTINE'S   HOUSE  AND   SUCCESSORS \n\nThe   year   following   his    marriage,  John  Valentine   built  on   Marl-    Valentine \n\nborough    Street  a  brick   house  with  a  front   of  about  forty-seven  feet   ^^^'^f  ^ \n\n'  •  •         Bftck  Hoxisc \n\nand  a  depth  of  twenty-six  feet.     In  the  rear  was  a  wooden  addition \n\nfor  a  kitchen.     The  old    house   of  the  first   settlers — of   timber   and    The  Settlers' \n\nabout  eighteen   feet  square — Valentine  removed  to  the  lower  part  of   House \n,  .  ,       J  ^1111  removed  to \n\nhis  orchard,  on  the  back  lane.  Valentine's \n\nV^alentine  prospered.  He  was  prominent  in  civil  affairs,  a  notary  Orchard \npublic,  and  Advocate-General  for  the  Crown  for  Northern  New \nEngland.  He  acted  as  attorney  in  many  prominent  cases  in  the  early \npart  of  the  eighteenth  century.  As  the  years  went  on,  a  nervous \nbreakdown  seemed  imminent,  and,  suffering  from  melancholia,  John \n\\'alentine  hung  himself  with  his  sash  in  an  upper  chamber  of  his  house \nin   1724. \n\nSoon  after  her  father's  death,  Elizabeth  Valentine  married  Joseph   Joseph \n\nGooch,  a  lawyer.     His  wife's  wealth,  as  well  as  his  own,  gave  Gooch   ^^?^^,  \"'f\"-^ \n\n•  1         ,1,11,  -n  -1         •••r>  L         Elizabeth \n\nan  idea  that  he  should  have  a  more  iniiuential  position  in  Boston  than    y^igj^i-iyig \n\nhis  fellow-townsmen  were  willing  to  concede.     He  therefore  changed \n\nhis   residence   to   Braintree,   where   he   succeeded   in   being  elected   a \n\nrepresentative  to  the  General  Court.     His  ambition  was  not  satisfied     ■ \n\nwith  this,  and  he  aimed  to  be  made  colonel  of  the  Suffolk  Regiment \n\nof  the  militia.     Influence  was  brought  to  bear  on  Governor  Shirley, \n\n\nSITES  on  a?i  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\nand  the  colonel  of  the  regiment,  John  Quincy,  was  dismissed  and  Gooch \nappointed  in  his  place.  The  officers,  indignant  at  the  dismissal  of \nQuincy  and  also  at  Gooch's  very  apparent  avarice,  refused  to  serve \nunder  Gooch,  and  after  a  two  years'  term  the  people  of  Braintree \nelected  another  representative.  So  indignant  was  Colonel  Gooch,  he \nremoved  to  Milton. \n\nThe  Valentine  property  went  to  Mrs.  Joseph  Gooch   and  to  her   Valentine \nbrother,    Thomas    Valentine,    who    married    Elizabeth,    daughter   of   \"'''^P^J^y \nJames  Gooch — a  half  brother  of  Col.  Joseph  Gooch.     By  a  partition  jj/^j.    Joseph \nof  1 741,  the  house  in  Marlborough  Street  went  to  Joseph  Gooch  and   Gooch \nhis  wife.     It  had  various  tenants.     About  1730,  Abel  Kiggell  occupied \nhalf  of  the  house.     He  married  a  daughter  of  Ensign  Edward  Breck. \nKiggell   died   in    1742,   and   his   widow   married   in    1749   Col.  Joseph \nBuckminster  of  Framingham.     While  Kiggell  rented  the  house,  the \nshop  was  occupied  by  William  Rallue  (or  Rillow). \n\nJohn  Gooch,  son  of  Col.  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Gooch,  was  born  in \n1737,  and  was  married  in  1770,  shortly  after  his  father's  death,  to \nSarah  Weaver  of  Milton.  They  occupied  the  Valentine  house  pre- \nvious to  the  Revolution.     During  the  Revolution,  John  Gooch  saw  John  Gooch \n\nactive   service   as   a   captain   of  the  iQth  Continental  Infantry,   and  ■^^''^'^■f  \"M^^ \n\nRevolution \nhe  served  as  assistant  deputy  quartermaster  general,  and  he  was  also \n\na  Commissary  of  the  Forage  and   had   the   rank  of  major.      Major \n\nJohn  died  in   1784 — fourteen  years  after  the  death  of  his  ambitious \n\nfather. \n\nAdam  Colson  in  1780  obtained  possession  of  the  northerly  portion \nof  the  house.  Colson  was  by  trade  a  leather  dresser.  John  Colson, \nhis  father,  had  his  apprentices  plant  the  Paddock  elms  on  Tremont \nStreet,  in  front  of  the  Granary  Burying-ground,  in  the  first  half  of \nthe  eighteenth  century.  The  son,  Adam,  was  an  active  patriot,  a  Adam \nmember  of  St.  Andrew's  Lodge,  which  met  at  the  Green  Dragon.  Golson, \nAdam  was  also  a  member  of  the  Long  Room  Club,  which  met  over \nFranklin's  printing-office  in  Queen  (now  Court)  Street. \n\nOn  the  night  of  the  Boston  Tea  Party  in  1773,  it  was  young  Colson \nwho  shouted  from  the  gallery  of  the  Old  South  Meeting-house: \n\"Boston  Harbor  a  teapot  to-night!\" \n\nColson,  after  buying  the  house  in  1782,  petitioned  to  have  a  license   Colson \nto  keep  a  tavern,  as  the  location  was  favorable  for  the  entertainm.ent   P'^^'^^ohj  to \nof  the  General  Court  and  others  from  the  country.     After  the  Revo-    favem \nlution  he  kept  a  shop  in  the  house,  leaving  on  his  death  in   1798  a \n\n\nSITES  on  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\nII \n\n\nlarge  stock  of  goods  for  his  widow,  Christian  (or  Christiana)  Colson. \nWhile  the  name  of  Marlborough  Street  was  given  in  1708  to  that \npart  of  Washington  Street  now  between  School  and  Summer  Streets, \nthe    name    of  Washington    Street    had    been    conferred    on    the    part \n\n\nTO  -BE  SOLD,  By \n\nAdam  Collfon, \n\n\nju  this  fon \n\ncan  could  temper \n\nOD  was  hoc, \n\nnever  wa»  fritd, \n•s  of  the  lainl  > \nid  can't  be  denied, \n\n\nto  do  ; \n',  in  Ills  time \n\n\nAt  the  Sij;n    of  the   Buck    and  G*.uvr,    in \n\nJ\\IjJ-liutOuglr-Stre:rt,    No.  JC. \n\nA  Good  iiflmtment  o^ErigUpGoods, \n\n■^  ^  and  the  U;ft  tf  UW^u's  cluth  Shoes  fi \nShppcrs;  Men  ik.  VYomen'»  Oloves  as  ufu^i  — \nHe  h.'S  alfo  larbule,  a  rery  genteel  Chariot, \nftroug  and  hanJlon-w;,  with  a  good  pair  of \nBay  KrtRsSs,  an  tjcellent  fecond  h«nd  Chaift \nand  tiuikey,  in  complere  order  ;— Alfo,  one \ndoubU  and  one  lin^Je  Horfe  Sleigh. — As  Jie \niiitcu>ls  to  Jeave  the  I'uwa,  in  about  ci£ht  or \nnine  Week!«. \ng^  TL'ft  -wLo  are  Jifp-fi^J  to  PurcLjfe,  fo.iU \nbitvi:   a    lijrgain. \n\nI       jV.  B.  Any  Petfon  difptJed  to  purchafe  the \nafpin,  no  kiudrcd  U  '  \"'\"■^'^*  \"\"^  Carriages,  paying  Jialf  th.c  Money \n\nj  down,  may  have  Credit  for  one  year,  for  the \nremainder,  giving  ftcurjty  for  the  fame. \n\nHis  HOUSE  will  be  to  Let,  and \n\nit  is  In  very  good  Repair,  an  excellent  good \nStand  Td'  Bufinefs,  a  gof>d  Well  of  Water, \nnever  Jels  than  13  feet  of  water  in  the  dryeft \ntime,  a  handfomc  paved  Yard,&  a  goodG^u-dcn. \n\nho  will)  Bo(!in,   .Sef,t_.    18.    l-iQ3 \n\n\non,  but  'Ai!l \n\n\nI'ow  n \n\nleave  to \n\nA  great  . \n\nEngiifli,  aiiu \nfacSurcdbyhiru \nCloaks,    &c. \nAlfo,  atVcfiifu, \nfuitahle  foi \n\nMufFs  and  Tip \n\nthe  neweft  Caihion,  I'lr \nwhich  he  wiH  warr \nreduced  ready  Moi \n£^  He  is  happy  i \npreference   has   be< \nbulincfs — to  merit  ; \ntinguifhed  patronage \ndcavour. — All  ordc \nledged. \n\n\nI \n\n\nextending  from  Dover  Street  to  near  the  Roxbury  line  less  than  a \ndecade  before  the  death  of  Adam  Colson.  The  change  occurred  when \nthe  nation's  first  President  visited  Boston  in  1789,  though  his  name \nwas  not  given  to  the  whole  thoroughfare  until  1824,  when  Cornhill, \nMarlborough,  Newbury,  and  Orange  Streets  \"became  one  in  name \nas  well  as  in  fact.\" \n\nThe  house  and  shop  of  Adam  Colson  in  1798  was  a  three-story  brick \nbuilding  covering  1,332  square  feet,  and  the  land  in  the  rear  amounted \nto  about  i2,cxDO  square  feet.  On  Bishop's  Alley  was  a  two-story \nwooden  house  covering  1,674  square  feet.  Christian  (or  Christiana) \nColson  carried  on  her  husband's  business  for  six  years  and  then \nmarried  John  Baker,  a  widower  of  Dorchester.  She  w^as  Mrs.  John \nBaker  the  third.     Her  business  career  having  given  place  to  domestic \n\n\n12 \n\n\nSITES  on  a7i  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\nCapt. \n\nBenjamin \n\nand  John \n\nHomans — \n\nBooksellers \n\n\nAdvertise- \nment by \nJames \nMurphy \n\n\nRalph \n\nWaldo \n\nEmerson \n\nlives  ill \n\nBishop's \n\nJllev \n\n\nfelicity,  the  shop  was  occupied  from  1804  to  1806  by  Capt.  Benjamin \nand  John  Homans — booksellers.  The  former  won  some  distinction  in \nGovernment  service,  having  in  181 1  been  appointed  Secretary  of  the \nState  of  Massachusetts  and  in  1813  chief  clerk  of  the  Navy  Depart- \nment at  Washington.  In  1823  Captain  Homans  was  appointed  Naval \nStorekeeper  at  Portsmouth,  but  this  new  post  was  his  for  a  very  short \ntime,  as  he  died  at  Georgetown,  D.C.,  in  December  of  that  year. \n\nThe  Homans  were  succeeded  as  tenants  by  James  Murphy,  who \ncontinued  there  until  1823.  After  the  War  of  1812-1815,  the  shop  did \nan  active  business,  as  will  be  seen  from  Mr.  Murphy's  advertisement: \n\n\"Cheap  Goods — No.  50  Marlboro  St.  bv  James  Murphy.  A  variety  of \nEnglish  and  French  Goods,  which  will  be  sold  at  about  peace  prices. \n\n\"Also  a  large  assortment  of  elegant  Looking  Glasses,  Britannia  Tea  Pots, \nsilver  Table  and  Tea  Spoons. \n\n\"Gold  Necklaces,  together  with  a  quantity  of  other  goods. — To  be  Let — \na  Brick  House. \n\n\"Also — two  apartments  in  a  back  Store  suitable  for  a  mechanic\"  {Columbian \nCentinel,  8  Feb.  181 5). \n\nMr.  Murphy  had  married  in  1803  Betsey,  sister  of  David  Colson \nMoseley,  children  of  Unite  Moseley  and  Eliza,  sister  of  Adam  Colson. \n\nIn  1822  the  dry  goods  shop  of  Jacob  Myers  was  at  50  Marlborough \nStreet,  and  the  next  year  Edward  Callender  sold  fancy  goods  there, \nand  Thomas  Bicknell,  a  shoe  dealer,  appears  to  have  set  up  business \nin  the  shop.  In  the  rear  of  Mrs.  Baker's  lot  a  house  fronted  on  Bishop's \nAlley,  and  a  part  of  it  was  a  livery  stable  for  the  first  quarter  of  the \nlast  century,  the  business  being  carried  on  by  Andrew  Morton — \nhackman. \n\nTHE   PHILOSOPHER   IN    BISHOP'S    ALLEY \n\nIn  the  house  connected  with  it,  during  that  period,  were  many \ntenants,  among  them  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  who  lived  there  in  1823, \nshortly  after  his  graduation  from  Harvard.  The  previous  year  he  had \nassisted  his  brother  William  in  a  school  for  young  ladies  which  had \nbeen  established  at  their  mother's  house  on  Williams  (now  Mathews) \nStreet  in  Boston.  \"I  was  nineteen,\"  recalled  Emerson,  \"had  grown \nup  without  sisters,  and  in  my  solitary  and  secluded  way  of  living, \nhad  no  acquaintance  with  girls.  I  still  recall  my  terrors  at  entering \nthe  school;    my  timidities  at  French,  the  infirmaties  of  my  cheek,  and \n\n\nSITES  on  mi  OLD    THOROUGHFARE  13 \n\nmy  occasional  admiration  of  some  of  my  pupils.  ...  I  was  at  the  very \ntime  already  writing  every  night  in  my  chamber  my  first  thoughts \non  morals  and  the  beautiful  laws  of  compensation  and  of  individual \ngenius,  which  to  observe  and  illustrate  have  given  sweetness  to  many \nyears  of  my  life.\"  \"Better  tug  at  the  oar,\"  he  wrote  towards  the \nclose  of  a  school  year,  \"dig  the  mine,  or  saw  wood;  better  sow  hemp \nor  hang  with  it,  than  sow  the  seeds  of  instruction.\"  While  teaching \nEmerson  lived  in  Bishop's  Alley,  studying,  observing,  writing,  a  part \nof  the  Boston  world — but  not  of  it;  content  in  seclusion  to  listen  to \nthe  great  preachers  of  the  day.  He  brushed  shoulders  with  those  who \nfrequented  thriving  Marlborough  Street,  and  midnight  found  him \nporing  over  his  books,  or  inscribing  the  philosophy  which  has  guided \nthousands. \n\nOCCUPANTS  OF  50  ^ff  51  MARLBOROUGH  STREET \n\nMrs.   Baker's   husband  died  in  1818,  and   thereafter  she  resided   in \ndifferent  parts  of  the  town,  at  one  time  with  the  family  of  Benjamin \nBussey  on   Summer  Street.     In    1825 — the  year  after  Marlborough    Saniuel \nStreet  became  a  part  of  Washington  Street  and  50  Marlborough  (the    Sumner  the \nsite  of  the  present  store  of  Macullar  Parker  Company)  became  194      ^\"     ^\"^\" \nWashington    Street — Samuel    Sumner    occupied    the    premises.     His    JVashington \nfamily  had  been  identified  with  the  crockery  and  glassware  trade  for    Street \nthree-quarters  of  a  century  in  Boston.     With  Mr.  Sumner  were  his \nsons,  Stephen  Salisbury  and  William  Russell  Sumner,  and  they  occu- \npied the  store  for  ten  years. \n\nThe  shop  at  192  Washington  Street  in  1836  was  occupied  by  a \nfurnishing  warehouse  conducted  by  Ferdinand  Herman,  who  sold  tin \nand  wooden  ware.  Previously  he  had  been  a  maker  of  willow  carriages \non  Water  and  Brattle  Streets. \n\nMrs.  Christian  Baker,  after  surviving  her  husband,  Adam  Colson,    Death  of \nforty-two  years,  died  on  the  second  day  of  December,   1840,  at  the    Mrs.  Baker \nage  of  ninety-seven  years.     She  left  to  David  Moseley  $1,000  and  the    Disposition \nestate  on  Washington  Street  which   had  belonged   to  the  Colsons  for    of  the \nmore  than  a  century.     Bequests  were  also  made  to  the  children  of    Property \nJames  and   Elizabeth  Murphy.     The  Union  Church   (Essex  Street), \nAmherst   College,   and   the  American  Tract   Society   received  vSi,ooo \neach,   and   the  American   Bible   Society  was   given   $2,000.     Two  of \nMrs.   Baker's   nieces,   Elizabeth   and   Eleanor  Raynes  of  York,   Me., \n\n\n14  SITES  on  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\nwere  left  ^i,ooo  each.     The  residue  of  the  estate  went  to  the  Ameri- \ncan Board  of   Foreign  Missions  and  the  American  Education  Society. \n\nA  view  of  194  Washington  Street  as  it  appeared  for  twenty  years — \nbetween  1843  and  1863 — is  shown  in  an  engraving  pubHshed  in  1853  in \nGleasoti's  Pictorial*  This  view  also  shows  the  three-story  brick \nbuilding  adjoining  on  the  south,  numbered  196.  This  was  formerly \n51  Marlborough  Street  and  occupied  the  north  half  of  the  site  where \nnow  stands  the  building  numbered  400  Washington  Street.  It  was \nbuilt  later  than  the  Valentine  house  erected  in  1710.  At  that  time \nthere  was  a  five-foot  passageway  on  the  south  separating  it  from  the \nestate  of  John  Marion,  cordwainer,  which  existed  until  a  decade  or \ntwo  before  the  Great  Fire  of  1872.  The  building  at  51  Marlborough \nStreet  was  disposed  of  by  the  Gooch  heirs  and  came  into  the  possession \nof  Hannah,  wife  of  Henry  Sargent. \n\nThe  shop  was  occupied  by  various  tenants:  McFarlane,  jeweller,  in \n\n1800;     Thomas   Brewer,   crockery;     Dommett  &   Fairbanks,   harness \n\nworks;   Miss  Fish,  milliner,  in  1815;   Mrs.  Turner's  Toy  Shop,  1820-25; \n\nAugustus  Peverelly,  confectioner,  1830;    and  Amos  Webster's  Coffee \n\nHouse  in   1840  over  the  shop  of  J.  Quincy  Blake,  fancy  goods  and \n\njewelry. \n\nThe  Colson-       Mrs.  Sargent  died  in  1841,  and  that  year  her  husband  purchased \n\nBaker  Estate   the  adjoining  property  on  the  north — the  Colson-Baker  estate — from \n\npurchased  ^^^  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and  American  Education \nby  ii€7iT\\ \nSargent   Society.     Daniel  Sargent,  father  of  Henry,  was  a   merchant  largely \n\ninterested  in  the  fish  trade.     Henry,  born  in  Gloucester  in  1770,  was \n\none  of  six  sons  all  of  whom  attained  a  considerable  degree  of  prominence \n\nin  Boston.     The  one  best  known  is  Lucius  Manlius  Sargent,  writer. \n\nHenry  was    gifted  as  an  artist,  and  one  of    his  first  attempts  was  a \n\nlandscape  on  the  walls  of  a  summer-house  in  his  father's  garden  on \n\nAtkinson    (now    Congress)    Street,    Boston.     When    very    young    he \n\nmade  a  copy  of  Copley's  \"Watson  and  the  Shark,\"  which  Trumbull, \n\nwhen  in  Boston  in  1790,  praised  with  other  work  of  the  young  artist. \n\nSargent  went  to  London  in   1793,  where  he  had  the  advice  of  both \n\nWest  and  Copley. \n\nSargent's       Art  did  not  lure  Henry  Sargent  so  far  that  he  forgot  his  country. \n\nMilitary  ^nd  there  remain  records  of  his  military  interests.     As  early  as  1799 \n\nhe  became  an  orderly  sergeant  of  the  Boston  Light  Infantry,  of  which \n\nhis  brother  Daniel  was  captain.     A  commission  was  oflfered  him  in \n\nthe  regular  army  under  Alexander  Hamilton,  who  was  commander-in- \n\n•See  Heading  to  Page  5. \n\n\nInterests \n\n\nSITES  on  a7i  OLD    THOROUGHFARE  15 \n\nchief.  Sargent's  term  was  as  short  as  that  of  Hamilton's.  In  1805 \nhe  was  first  lieutenant  of  the  Boston  Light  Infantry  and  in  1808  he \nwas  promoted  to  the  captaincy.  In  the  defence  of  Boston  in  1814 \nhis  company  worked  at  Fort  Strong  at  East  Boston  to  prepare  it  for \nthe  expected  attack  of  the  enemy,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that  Captain \nSargent  was  made  an  aid  to  Governor  Strong  with  the  rank  of \nlieutenant-colonel. \n\nAs  a  military  man  he  was  involved  in  the  Elliott-Austin  duel  at  Serves  as \nProvidence,  acting  as  second  to  young  James  H.  Elliott,  son  of  Gen.  Second  in \nSimon  Elliott,  who  had  been  traduced  in  the  Chrofiicle  by  William \nAustin.  Mr.  Austin  had  as  his  second  Charles  Pinckney  Sumner, \nfather  of  Charles  Sumner.  Throughout  his  service  in  the  army \nLieutenant-Colonel  Sargent  retained  his  interest  in  painting  and \nengaged  on  a  work  of  some  magnitude. \n\n\nAN   ACCOUNT  OF   HENRY   SARGENT'S    PAINTINGS \n\nRev.  William  Bentley  of  Salem  in  his  diary  writes  under  the  date \nof  Oct.  7,  1803  :   \"Mr.  Emerson  [Rev.  William,  father  of  Ralph  Waldo, \nthen   minister  of  the   First   Church   in   Boston,   and   conducting   the \nMonthly   Anthology]    politely   waited    upon   me   to   the   new   Catholic \nChurch,    called    Church   of   the   Holy   Cross.  .  .  .  The   altarpiece,    by   ^„  Altar- \nMr.  Sargent,  is  one  of  the  largest  works  undertaken  in  our  country,    piece  by \nIt  has  undoubtedly  great  merit  in  such  circumstances,  but  the  rising   Sargent \nbreast  and  knees  did  not  agree  with  my  ideas  of  anatomy,  as  stretching  'Cathedral \nin  death,  especially  in  a  violent  one,  is  proverbial  and  as  when  the    in  Boston \nbreast  rises  with  expiring  breath  and  extremities  recedes.\" \n\nThe  Centinel  of  Oct.  i,  1803,  in  describing  the  church,  states  it  is  Sargent's \nadorned  with  a  very  excellent  picture  of  the  Crucifixion  from  the  Portraits \npencil  of  Mr.  Henry  Sargent.  What  the  artist's  works  were  between \n1805  and  1815  can  only  be  conjectured.  He  painted  the  portrait  of \nPeter  Faneuil  in  Faneuil  Hall,  copied  after  the  one  by  Copley.  His \nportrait  of  Gen.  Richard  Devens,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-six \nyears  in  Charlestown  in  1807,  is  one  of  Sargent's  finest  efforts.  This \nportrait  is  hung  in  the  public  reading-rooms  in  Charlestown.  Richard \nDevens  was  the  son  of  a  Charlestown  cooper,  born  in  1 72 1.  In  1757 \nhe  was  an  ensign  in  the  expedition  of  that  year  against  the  French. \nWhen  the  signal  appeared  in  Christ  Church  tower  the  night  before \nthe  battle  of  Concord  and  Lexington,  Devens,  a  member  of  the  Com- \n\n\nl6  SITES  071  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\nmittee  of  Safety,  despatched  a  messenger  with  the  intelligence  of  a \nBritish  expedition  to  Arlington  and  Lexington.  He  was  a  member \nof  the  Massachusetts  Provincial  Congress  1774- 1775  and  on  many \nimportant  committees.  In  1776  he  was  commissary-general  for  the \nState  and  served  during  the  war.  He  became  a  highly  prosperous \nmerchant  and  at  his  death  in  1807,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  he  left \nan  estate  valued  at  about  $120,000,  a  part  of  which  was  bestowed  in \ncharity.  His  portrait  by  Sargent  was  bequeathed  to  the  Charles- \ntown  Library  by  Miss  Charlotte  Harris,  his  granddaughter,  a  liberal \nbenefactor.  Other  subjects  of  Sargent's  work  were  Gen.  Henry \nKnox,  who  died  in  Thomaston,  Me.,  in  1806;  Rev.  John  Clark  of  the \nFirst  Church,  Boston,  and  Rev.  Jeremy  Belknap,  both  of  whom  died \nin  1798;  Rev.  Jedediah  Morse  of  Charlestown  and  his  wife,  parents  of \nSamuel  F.  B.  Morse,  were  also  painted  by  Sargent.  The  artist's  best \nwork  is  considered  to  be  that  of  his  son,  John  Turner  Sargent,  painted \nabout  1823,  when  the  boy  was  ten  years  old. \n\"  The  A  lengthy  advertisement  appeared  in  the  Columbian  Centinel, \nLanding  of  March  4,  1815,  stating  that  the  celebrated  painting  \"The  Landing  of \n'V  Ih^^^'  ^^^  Pilgrim  Fathers,\"  painted  by  H.  Sargent,  Esq.,  was  being  exhibited \nexhibited  on  near  the  corner  of  Walnut  and  Beacon  Streets,  a  location  in  the  rear \nBeacon  Hil!  of  some  unfinished  buildings  owned  by  Uriah  Cotting  on  the  north \nside  of  Walnut  Street.  Admittance  was  twenty-five  cents  and  season \ntickets  were  one  dollar.  The  canvas  contained  upwards  of  two \nhundred  square  feet  and  had  between  thirty  and  forty  life-sized \nfigures.  The  point  of  time  chosen  for  the  picture  was  soon  after  the \nlanding  in  1620,  when  Samoset  came  up  boldly  and  alone,  saying, \n\"Welcome,  Englishmen!\" \n\nThe  advertisement  contained  a  eulogy  on  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  and \n\na  request  for  the   patronage  of   the  public.     By  May,   18 15,  it  was \n\nadvertised  that  the  painting  would  probably  be  sent  to  New  York. \n\nIsaiah  Thomas  in  his  diary  under  the  25th  of  May  said  he  \"went  to \n\nview  Sargent's  painting  of  the  Landing  of  the  forefathers,\"  and  he \n\nsaid  that  it  was  exhibited  in  the  great  hall  of  the  Exchange  Cofi^ee \n\nThe  House.     After  its  first  exhibition  in  Boston  it  is  said  to  have  been \n\nPicture  exhibited  about  the  country  and  that  the  rolling  and  unrolling  of  the \n\ngt'^en   0  ^^j^ygg  cracked  and  completely  ruined  the  painting.     Some  years  later \n\nSociety  the  artist  repainted  the  picture  and  gave  it  to  the  Pilgrim  Society  of \n\nPlymouth    (Dec.   22,    1824).     It   was   then   described   as   thirteen   by \n\nsixteen  feet,  with  seventeen  people  represented  in  it,   and  its  value \n\n\nSITES  on  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\nPicturr \n\n\nwas  placed  at  ^3,000.  The  painiing  still  hangs  in  Pilgrim  Hall  at \nPlymouth  and  is  one  of  the  attractions  of  the  town. \nAnother  Bentley  wrote  in  his  diary,  Nov.  13,  1817:  \"The  picture  of  the \nSargent  entrance  of  Jesus  into  Jerusalem,  by  Sargent,  had  not  the  effect  of \nthe  Landing  of  the  Forefathers.  The  eyes  of  Jesus  not  on  things \naround  him,  too  many  devotional  postures  for  common  joys  and  too \nmany  positions  of  rest  and  altar  attitudes  being  besides  general \nconfusion  from  many  objects  not  characterized  properly.\"  The  size \nof  this  painting  was  eighteen  by  fifteen  feet  and  an  engraving  was \nmade  on  copper  by  J.  R.  Penniman  which  appeared  in  the  Analectic \nMagazine  for  January,  1818. \n\nHenry  Sargent's  residence  was  at  10  Franklin  Place,  now  Franklin \nStreet.  He  is  said  to  have  had  a  studio  at  i  School  Street,  and  in \n1820  he  had  a  room  which  he  used  for  a  studio  in  the  Colson-Baker \nhouse,  where  probably  he  painted  the  canvas  known  as  \"The  Dinner \nParty.\"  In  the  Centinel  of  May  26,  1821,  the  following  advertisement \nappeared: \n\n\"The  Dinner  Party.\" \n\n\"The  New  Picture  painted  by  Col.  Henry  Sargent.  Is  open  for  public \nview  at  Mr.  D.  L.  Brown's  room  No.  12  Cornhill  square  adjoining  his  Academy \nevery  day  from  9  in  the  morning  till  5  in  the  evening.      Admittance  25  cents.\" \n\n\nResidence \nof  the \nArtist \n\n\nColonel \n\nSargent \n\nelected  a \n\nMe7nber \n\nof  the \n\nAmerican \n\nAcademy  of \n\nFine  Arts \n\n\nThe  exhibition  was  to  close  Sept.  8,  1821,  after  which  the  picture \nwas  removed  to  New  York.  On  Dec.  17,  1821,  it  was  again  on \nexhibition.  The  experience  in  New  York  and  Philadelphia  proved \nthe  convenience  of  exhibiting  by  illumination,  and  the  painting  was \nready  for  view  every  day  except  Sunday  and  in  the  evenings  until \nnine  o'clock.  Colonel  Sargent's  exhibit  of  the  picture  in  various  cities \nwas  followed  by  his  election  as  a  member  to  the  American  Academy \nof  Fine  Arts.  Other  pictures  painted  by  him  were:  \"The  Starved \nApothecary,\"  \"The  Tailor's  News,\"  and  \"The  Tea  Party.\" \n\n\nARMS  of  THE  MERCHANT- \n\n\nTAYLO, \n\n\n^RS^l \n\n\n^LONDON  incI5°l \n\n\n[jiniiiiiiiiniMinMnMmMMiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii'iiiMiMiinMinBTi'^jIwsi^^ \n\n\n^ \n\nr. \n\ncc \n\n•■k \n\nO \n\n■=• \n\nu. \n\n.^ \n\nZ \n\nx \n\nV \n\nD \n\n:: \n\n- \n\n> \n\nr \n\n- \n\n.; \n\n'  f ' . \n\n> \n\n:-» \n\n-■ \n\n< \n\nt \n\n— \n\n^, \n\nZ \n\nCI \n\ni \n\nQ \n\n~ \n\n--.'■ \n\nt \n\nZ \n\n-■ \n\nu \n\n\n\n< \n\n:'-^ \n\n> \n\nr \n\n.'■^  ' \n\n^ \n\n::., \n\n-  !'--i  v:j \n\nd: \n\n^ \n\n■■  ^  0  '- \n\n< \n\n5 \n\n:>T \n\n22  SITES  011  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\nANOTHER      NOTABLE      FAMILY     OCCUPIES      THE     OLD \nPREMISES \n\nThe  famous  Colson-Baker  estate  at  192  Washington  Street  besides \nbeing  associated  with  Colonel  Sargent  was  occupied  by  an  equally \nfamous  family — the  Warrens.  Among  the  descendants  of  John \nWarren  who  settled  in  Watertown  in  1 631  was  Josiah  Warren,  a \ncaptain  of  artillery  in  the  Revolution,  living  at  Brighton.  His  son \nwas  Capt.  Joseph  Warren,  a  carpenter,  who  was  also  sexton  of  the \nchurch  and  maker  of  coffins.  Joseph  in  1797  married  Sally  Brown, \nand  among  their  children  were  George  W.,  John  A.,  Alfred  B.,  and \nJames  L.  L.  F.  Warren.  In  1827  the  last-named  opened  a  dry  goods \nstore  at  117  Washington  Street,  nearly  opposite  the  head  of  Water \nStreet.  He  removed  in  1834  to  85  Washington  Street  at  the  corner \nof  Court  Avenue  near  the  head  of  State  Street.  Later,  his  brothers \njoining  him  in  business,  the  firm  became  George  W.  Warren  &  Com- \npany. J.  L.  L.  F.  Warren  was  also  interested  in  horticulture  and \ncarried  on  the  Nonantum  Vale  Gardens  at  Brighton  from  1820  until \n1845,  where  he  received  many  visitors,  among  them  noted  men  of \nthat  period.  Mr.  Warren  travelled  in  Europe,  delivering  temperance \nlectures,  and  he  also  appeared  on  the  American  platform.  He  was  one  of \nthose  who  went  to  California  in  '49,  where  he  resided  until  quite  aged. \nGeorge       George   Washington   Warren   carried    on    a    successful   business    at \n\nWashington  g^  Washington  Street  up  to  1843  when  he  removed  to  192  Washington \nrV  QTven  .      .  .     . \n\nremoves  to  Street.     It  was  at  this  time  that  the  front  of  that  building  was  changed \n\nIQ2  and  the  windows  of  the  two  upper  floors  enlarged   and  lengthened. \n\nH  ashington  ^,j[j._  Warren  was  the  pioneer  in  Boston  of  the  one-price  cash  system, \n\nand  also  of  the  employment  of  women  clerks.     With  the  crash  of  1857 \n\nhe  failed,  and  the  following  year  he  was  the  company  in  the  firm  of \n\nWilliam  B.  Barry  &  Company,  and  later  became  a  buyer  for  Jordan \n\nMarsh  Company  which  succeeded  to  the  business.     G.  W.  Warren \n\nlater  became  superintendent  for  the  agency  of  the  New  York  Life \n\nInsurance  Company  and  he  was  also  interested  in  banking  with  Asa  P. \n\nPotter.     John  A.  Warren,  who  died  about  1895,  was  also  a  salesman \n\nin  the  store  of  Jordan,  Marsh  &  Company. \n\n\nG  W.  WARREN  a  CO, \n\nDEALtRS  >.H  DRY  GOODS \nN?192  WASHINGTON  ST. \n\nTHE    SITE    OCCUPIED    BY  MACULLAR,   WILLIAMS    &. \nPARKER  IN   i860,  AS  IT  APPEARED    IN   1852 \n\n\n24 \n\n\nSITES  071  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\nTHACHEK.SHAW  8:  CO \n\nout  i,roOS \n\n\nTHE  OLD   MORTON   BLOCK   IN   1852 \n\nSite  occupied  by  Macullar,  IVilliams  ^  Company  in  18^4 \n\n\nMacullar, \n\nWilliams    iJ \n\nCompany \n\nremoves \n\nfro  m \n\nWorcester \n\nto  North \n\nStreet, \n\nBoston \n\n\nEARLY  DAYS   OF   AN   OLD   CONSERVATIVE   FIRM \n\nIn  a  shop — No.  35 — on  the  right-hand  side  of  North  Street  going \nfrom  Union  Street  was  located  in  1852  the  firm  of  Macullar,  Williams \n&  Company.  Addison  Macullar,  who  in  1849  with  George  B.  Williams \nand  C.  R.  Moules  opened  in  W^orcester  a  store  for  the  sale  of  ready- \nmade  clothing  at  retail,  was  the  founder.  In  1854  the  firm  moved \nto  47  Milk  Street — the  present  corner  of  Milk  and  Devonshire  Streets \n■ — and  below  Morton  Place  (now  Arch  Street)  on  the  north  side  of \nMilk.  During  the  financial  panic  of  1857,  in  order  to  dispose  of  their \nsurplus  stock  of  clothing,  the  firm  moved  to  the  Old  Washington \nCoffee  House  building  at  158  Washington  Street.  The  old  Coffee \nHouse  had  an  interesting  history.  In  the  last  decade  of  the  eighteenth \ncentury  it  was  run  as  a  boarding-house  and  then  stood  at  what  was \n37  Marlborough  Street.  It  figured  prominently  in  Boston's  annals \nin  the  early  years  of  the  nineteenth  century,  when  it  was  known  as \nthe  Indian  Queen  Tavern,  and  was  the  stage  house,  or  starting-point \nfor  the  Groton  and  Leominster  stages.  About  1820  its  name  was \nchanged  to  the  Washington  Coffee  House  and  from  it  started  a  num- \nber of  stage  routes.  Among  the  stages  which  took  on  and  left  pas- \nsengers at  this  place  were  those  which  ran  to  South  Boston,  Bridge- \n\n\nSITES  on  an  OLD   THOROUGHFARE \n\n\n25 \n\n\nwater,  Randolph,  Foxboro,  Sharon,  Medfield,  Medway,  Mendon, \nWoonsocket,  Easton,  Stoughton,  and  Taunton.  Here,  too,  was  the \nrendezvous  of  the  Manufacturers  Line  of  Providence  Stages.  It \nceased  to  be  a  stage  house  in  1855. \n\nMacullar,  Williams  &  Company  in  i860  removed  to  192  Washington \nStreet,  and  it  was  also  in  that  year  that  Mr.  Charles  W.  Parker \nbecame  a  member  of  the  firm.  The  site,  as  has  already  been  stated, \nhad  been  occupied  by  George  W.  Warren  &  Company  for  the  dry \ngoods  business. \n\nA  large  five-foot  passageway,  already  mentioned,  disappeared  when \n400  Washington  Street  front  was  built  in  1864.  Its  site  was  about \nthe  centre  of  400  Washington  Street,  where  the  store  occupied  by \nMacullar  Parker  Company  now  is.  South  of  this  in  the  seventeenth \nand  eighteenth  centuries  was  the  estate  of  the  Marion  family.  In \n1 741  Joseph  Marion  conveyed  the  property  to  John  Erving,  a  wealthy \nmerchant,  who  had  a  pronounced  habit  of  acquiring  other  people's \nreal  estate  through  mortgages  held  by  him.  The  property  was \nextensive,  and  included  five  houses,  four  shops,  a  stable,  yards  and \ngardens,  occupied  by  ten  tenants.  The  most  northerly  of  the  houses \nwas  of  wood,  three  stories  high,  and  was  occupied  by  numerous  tenants \nduring  the  last  half  of  the  eighteenth  century.  In  1792  it  passed  from \nthe  possession  of  the  heirs  of  William,  son  of  John  Erving,  to  William \nLeach.  The  house  had  a  frontage  of  nineteen  feet  on  Marlborough \nStreet,  but  its  depth  was  about  ninety  feet.  On  the  lower  floor  Leach \nhad  his  saddler's  shop.  He  lived  on  the  floors  above.  Samuel  Swett, \na  merchant,  bought  the  property  from  Leach  in  1805,  and  the  same \nyear  he  conveyed  it  to  John  Osborn  who  had  begun  his  career  as  a \npainter  on  the  site  of  the  Crown  Cofi\"ee  House  on  Long  Wharf.  Later \nOsborn  became  a  prosperous  merchant,  taking  up  his  residence  in \nthe  Harrison  Gray  Otis  house — now  the  headquarters  of  the  Society \nfor  the  Preservation  of  New  England  Antiquities  on  Lynde  Street. \nOn  his  death  Osborn  left  the  Leach  house  to  his  daughter,  Elizabeth, \nwife  of  Alexander  Mactier  of  New  York.  Her  trustee  sold  the \nhouse  to  Henry  Sargent  in  1842  at  the  same  time  he  bought  the \nColson-Baker  house.  This  gave  him  the  ownership  of  the  sites  of \nthe  two  buildings  which  have  been  occupied  by  Macullar  Parker \nCompany. \n\nThe  tenants  of  198  Washington  Street  during  the  first  half  of  the \nlast  century  were  numerous  and  varied.     After  Mr.  Sargent  bought \n\n\nThe  firm  of \n\nMacullar, \n\nWilliams  i^ \n\nCompany, \n\nat  IQ2 \n\nWashington \n\nStreet \n\n\nSITES  071  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\n\n27 \n\n\nthe  property  the  wooden  house  was  replaced  by  a  brick  structure, \nshown  in  the  engraving  of  1853.  The  store  was  occupied  by  John \nFletcher,  a  tea  merchant,  whose  business  was  absorbed  by  Redding  & \nCompany  in  1847.  George  W.  Redding  and  A.  Williams,  who  had  a \nbook-store  and  a  depot  for  Redding's  Russia  Salve  at  8  State  Street, \ncarried  on  this  tea  business.  At  their  store  was  Ar  Show,  a  Chinaman, \nthe  first  Chinaman  to  live  in  Boston.  Above  the  tea-store  was \nMooney's  hair-dressing  rooms,  and  on  the  top  floor  John  C.  Haskell, \na  manufacturer,  was  established.  Redding  &  Company  w'ere \nsucceeded  at  198  Washington  Street  by  Thomas  Whytal,  tea  dealer, \nand  Ar  Show  established  himself  at  21  Union  Street. \n\nAfter  the  death  of  Henry  Sargent  the  property  at  196  and  198 \nWashington  Street — a  part  of  his  estate — was  ofi\"ered  for  sale  and \npurchased  by  the  trustees  of  the  Estate  of  Joshua  Sears,  who  erected \nthereon  a  store  building  for  Macullar,  Williams  &  Parker.  This \nbuilding  was  destroyed  in  the  Great  Fire  of  Nov.  9,  1872 — a  fire  which \nbroke  out  on  Saturday  night— just  a  year  after  the  conflagration  in \nChicago.  A  historian  tells  the  story — and  it  is  a  strange  one — of  a \nman,  unknown  in  his  day,  who  had  informed  himself  concerning  the \nmaterial  composing  the  roofs  of  the  attractive  stores  in  which  the \nfire  originated,  and  who  wrote  a  letter  of  warning  to  one  of  the  daily \npapers  saying  that  if  fire  got  among  the  buildings  they  would  be \ndevoured  like  so  much  chafi^.  In  condemning  the  Mansard  roofs,  he \npredicted  that  \"when  that  dozen  lumber  yards  on  the  roofs  is  once \nfull  of  fire  the  devouring  element  will  be  taken,  not  in  little  sparks \nonly,  but  by  cords,  into  and  upon  every  building  within  half  a  mile. \nEvery  window  on  the  line  of  the  gale  will  be  beaten  in  by  fiery  brands \nto  every  place  where  there  is  wood  for  fire  to  catch  upon,  and  fires  will \nsoon  be  rushing  from  fifty  of  those  windows  or  roaring  from  the \nexposed  wood.  Such  a  fire  (and  it  will  surely  occur)  will  stop  just \nwhere  there  is  no  wood  to  burn.  The  earnest  men  of  the  fire  depart- \nment will  be  inefficient.  There  will  come  the  story  so  lately  told  of \nChicago:  'Awful  conflagration!  Boston  in  ruins!  Thousands  of \nhomes  in  the  burned  portion  of  the  city  in  ashes!'\"  This  conflagration \npredicted  did  come — much  to  Boston's  sorrow — and  the  story  is \nfrequently  repeated.  A  horse  epidemic  had  broken  out,  which \ncrippled  the  use  of  engines,  leaving  men  to  draw  them  instead  of  beasts \nof  burden.  The  flames  raged  for  hours,  sweeping  the  east  side  of \nWashington  Street  from  Summer  to  Milk,  and  leaving  only  the  white \n\n\nHenry \n\nSargent \nonce  Owner \nof  the  Site \n\n\nAr  Show \nBoston's \nFirst \nChinaman \n\n\nBuildiyig  of \nMacullar, \nIF il Hams  & \nParker \ndestroyed  by \nthe  Great \nFire  of  18 J2 \n\n\nProphecy \nconcerning \nthe  Fire \n\n\n28  SITES  on  an  OLD    THOROUGHFARE \n\nmarble  fagade  of  iVlacullar,  Williams  &  Parker's  building  standing. \nThe  Old  South  Meeting-house  was  injured  but  not  destroyed. \n\nThe  present  building  occupied  by  Macullar  Parker  Company  was \nerected  after  the  fire,  and  its  plan  is  practically  the  same  as  the  one \ndestroyed,  with  various  improvements  added.  No.  398  Washington \nStreet  (formerly  192),  the  building  adjoining,  was  vacated  when  the \nfirm  of  Palmers  &  Batchelders  retired  from  business,  and  this  was \nannexed  by  Macullar,  Parker  &  Company  and  a  new  department \nopened  there. \n\nMacullar,  Parker  &  Company  purchased  the  Joshua  M.  Sears \nEstate  in  1893.  It  is  now  owned  by  the  Business  Real  Estate  Trust \nof  Boston.  Numbered  200  Washington  Street  before  the  Great  Fire \nof  1872,  the  site  became  400  when  Washington  Street  was  extended \nto  Haymarket  Square. \n\nThis  concludes  the  review  of  the  residents  and  changes  in  the \nlocality  where  has  been  conducted  for  more  than  half  a  century  the \nbusiness  of  Macullar  Parker  Company.  The  site  of  the  present \nbuilding  furnishes  an  excellent  example  of  the  changes  Washington \nStreet  has  undergone  from  the  days  of  the  first  settler,  through  nearly \nthree  centuries  of  town  and  city  life,  to  the  present  time. \n\n\nm      CHRONOLOGY      M \n\nJS49 \n\nBusiness  established  by  Addison  Macullar  in  Worcester,  Mass. \n\n1852 \n\nMr.  George  B.  Williams,  a  former  clerk  with  Mr.  Macullar,  is  taken  into  the \nfirm,  and  Macullar,  Williams  &  Company  formed.  A  store  is  opened  in \nBoston  at  35  and  37  Ann  (now  North)  Street,  for  the  manufacture  and  sale \nof  clothing  at  wholesale. \n\n1854 \n\nThe  firm  moved  to  47  Milk  Street. \n\nJ857 \n\nIn  order  to  dispose  of  their  surplus  stock  the  firm  took  temporarily  the  Old \nWashington  CoflFee  House  building  at  158  Washington  Street.  This  was  the \nfirst  large  clothing  stock  to  be  exhibited  on  Washington  Street. \n\ni860 \n\nThe  company  removes  to  192  Washington  Street,  the  store  formerly  occupied \nby  George  W.  Warren  &  Company.  Mr.  Charles  W.  Parker,  for  some  years \nassociated  with  the  firm  \"as  boy,  book-keeper,  and  salesman,\"  was  admitted \nto  the  firm,  the  name  being  changed  to  Macullar,  Williams  &:  Parker. \n\n1864 \n\nRemoved  to  new  building  at  200  Washington  Street,  erected  for  the  company \nby  the  Joshua  Sears  Estate.  This  building  was  burned  in  the  Great  Fire  of \n1872.     33  Washington  Street  was  occupied  during  the  rebuilding. \n\n1884 \n\nThe  adjoining  store,  192-198  (now  392-398),  was  annexed.     This  is  the  site \n\nof  the  old  Warren  store  previously  occupied  in  i860. \n\n1895 \n\nThe  business  was  incorporated  as  Macullar  Parker  Company. \n\n1918 \n\nAt  the  expiration  of  leases  of  the  two  stores  the  business  was  consolidated  in \n400  Washington  Street,  some  6,000  square  feet  being  added  by  connecting \nthe  Hawley  Street  and  Washington  Street  buildings  at  each  of  the  five  floors. \n\nMACULLAR  PARKER  COMPANY \n\n19  I  8 \n\nJames  L.  Wessox,  President  and  Treasurer \nHatherly  Foster,  Assistant  Trcasnrer \nRoss  Parker,  ]'ice  President \nHerman  Parker,  Clerk \n\n30 \n\n\n3  1205  02528  6020 \n\n\nW3  rni^ \n\n\nTHE  LIBRARY \nUNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA \n\nSanta  Barbara \n\n\nTHIS  BOOK  IS  DUE  ON  THE  LAST  DATE \nSTAMPED  BELOW. \n\n\n\\CILITY \n\nIII \n\n\nSeries  9482 \n\n\n","title":"Some old sites on an old thoroughfare and an account of some early residents thereon","updated_at":"2026-09-05T10:00:09.639118Z","urn":"urn:lemay:boston:document:some-old-sites-on-an-old-thoroughfare-and-an-account-of-some-early-residents-thereon","version":1,"withdrawn_reason":null},"urn":"urn:lemay:boston:document:some-old-sites-on-an-old-thoroughfare-and-an-account-of-some-early-residents-thereon","version_history":[{"change_note":"accessioned from the Internet Archive, item someoldsitesonol00macu","changed_by":"archive-ingest 0.1.0","recorded_at":"2026-09-05T10:00:09.943094Z","version":1}]}