Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . rth Street and Market Squarewas another of those ancient structures now extinct among was known as the Old Cocked Hat, from its fanciedresemblance to an article of wear now as obsolete as the western gable, fronting Dock Square, was the dateof 1680. The building was of wood, covered with plaster onthe outside, with which were mixed fragments of glass ornamental figures were traced upon this rough two sides, south and southwest, the water once flowed, andin digging not far from here some years ago to
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . rth Street and Market Squarewas another of those ancient structures now extinct among was known as the Old Cocked Hat, from its fanciedresemblance to an article of wear now as obsolete as the western gable, fronting Dock Square, was the dateof 1680. The building was of wood, covered with plaster onthe outside, with which were mixed fragments of glass ornamental figures were traced upon this rough two sides, south and southwest, the water once flowed, andin digging not far from here some years ago to settle a disputedboundary question, the capstan and ring-bolt of the old wharfwere uncovered within the present sidewalk. The Old Cocked Hat was of two stories, the upper pro-jecting, and is supposed to have been built the year followingthe destructive fire of August 3, 1679, which began aboutmidnight and raged till midday of the 4th. A hundred andfifty dwellings and warehouses, with several ships and their BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWX DOCK. 133. ANCIENT HOUSE IN DOCK SQUARE. cargoes, were consumed. This old house was at first a dwell-ing, and for a time, according to Snow, the principal apothe-carys shop of the town was kept there. It was taken downin July, 1860. The fame of Faneuil Hall is as wide as the country has been called the Cradle of Liberty, because dedicatedby that early apostle of freedom, James Otis, to the cause ofliberty, in a speech delivered in the hall in March, of its early history has appeared in the account ofthe town government. Its walls have echoed to the voices ofthe great departed in times gone by, and in every great publicexigency the people, with one accord, assemble together to takecounsel within its hallowed precincts. Though much too smallfor popular gatherings of the present day, its long use for thispurpose, with the many glorious associations that cluster aroundit, still mark it as the centre from which the will of the
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