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Identifier: antiqueviewsofye00star_0 (find matches)
Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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In the year 1629-30, among the divers godly persons in Devon-shire, Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and other places, who dissentedfrom the way of worship then established by law in ye realmcof England in ye reign of King Charles ye first, to use the wordsfrom an old IMS., were Robert Pierce and his wife Anne, who setsail from Plymouth, England, in the vessel called the Mary andJohn, of about 400 tons, commanded by Capt. Squeb. They I
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ANTIQUE VIKWS OF BOSTON. 161 sailed from Plymouth March 20, 1629-30, having a comfortablethough long passage, and arrived at Nantasket, now Hull, May20th, following. They chartered with Capt. Squeb to carry themto Charles river, hut after entering the harbor he was uncertain ofthe course, and refused to carry them further than Nantasket: Robert Pierce made his way to Xcponsct, settled on Pine Neck,now Port Norfolk, near the lower part of Walnut street. A fewyears later, previous to 1640, lie moved on to the hill, his boun-dary lines running about 40 rods wide from north to south, fromthe tide water on the east, and as far west as ii was safe to occupyon account of the Indians. lie was known as Robert Pierce ofthe great lotts, and several generations after the term of thegreat lots was used in conveyances to designate propert) onceowned by him. Several articles of furniture, etc., which he brought from Eng-land are now in the possession of his descendants, and, as areminder of home, he

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  • bookyear:1882
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Stark__James_Henry
  • booksubject:Dwellings
  • booksubject:Historic_buildings
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Published_by_ye_Photo_electrotype_engraving_co_____
  • bookcontributor:Boston_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:166
  • bookcollection:bostonpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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