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Title: Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the Copp's Hill Burial-Ground
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Cemetery Dept
Subjects: Cemeteries
Publisher: Boston : Municipal Print. Office
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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level, extended between Prince and Charterstreets towards Christ Church; thence south a gentle slope ledto the water, which washed the south side of Prince streetbelow, and the north side above Thacher street as far as Salem;eastward from the church, a gradual Ascent led to the NorthBattery, which was considered the bottom of the hill. South-easterly the slope was still more gradual, and terminated at thefoot of North square, leaving a knoll on the right, where atpresent stands the meeting-house of the Second Church. On the southerly slope of this hill, says Dr. Shurtleff inhis Topographical Description of Boston, was Stanleyspasture, extending to Hanover street, and covering the largetract of land lying between Prince and Charter streets, thewesterly end of Bennet street at its junction with Salem streetbeing the centre of the lot. The owner, a tailor, who died inMarch, 1646, deserves to be remembered as the first person tobequeath the town property for the support of public schools,
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one of the items of bis will reading, I give to the maintenance of the free-schools of Boston a parcell of land lying aeere tothe waterside it foiire roads in Length backward. In the early days, Conns Hill and the land around its basewere formed almost into an island by the two coves running upinto the peninsula, — Mill Cove or Pond, or North Cove, as itwas first railed, on the north, and Town Cove on the south. TheNorth Cove stretched over to the point extending north-westfrom the Tramount, or Beacon Hill, and high tides often sweptover the intervening lowlands. The Town Cove, on the otherside, reaehed inland almost to the foot of Brattle street. At the foot of the headland was a small stretch of beach,where Commercial street (formerly Lynn street) now7 runs, thematerial for the street being taken from the summit of the hill,where Snowhill street was cut across. Three of the half-dozen points then prominent in the shdVeline were grouped in the Copps Hill promontory. Where thegasome

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