. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. ched to the jailers girdle, must have been* Drakes History of Boston. FROM THE ORAXGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. weighty arguments to liis wards. These keys, when found,were over a hundred years old. What a tale they could tell! In September, 1833, the corner-stone of the present CourtHouse Mas laid, and it was completed in 1836. The buildingis massive and unattractive. AVithin its granite walls the fugi-tive slave cases were tried, and here also Professor John received the death sentence for the murder of The little alley w
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. ched to the jailers girdle, must have been* Drakes History of Boston. FROM THE ORAXGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. weighty arguments to liis wards. These keys, when found,were over a hundred years old. What a tale they could tell! In September, 1833, the corner-stone of the present CourtHouse Mas laid, and it was completed in 1836. The buildingis massive and unattractive. AVithin its granite walls the fugi-tive slave cases were tried, and here also Professor John received the death sentence for the murder of The little alley which enters Court Street opposite the east-erly side of Court Square is not unknown to fame. It is to-day FrankUn Avenue, but has beenDassetts, or Dorsetts Alley, and in1722 was a part of Brattle Websters first office was onthe northerly corner of this the corner where now stands theAdvertiser building Samuel Knee-land began the printing businessin. 1718, in quite another , in his History of Printing,says: —. OLD PRINTING-PRESS. Wilhani Brooker, being appointedPostmaster of Boston, he, on Monday,December 21, 1719, began the publication of another newspaper inthat place. This was the second published in the British Colonies,in North America, and was entitled The Boston Gazette. JamesFranklin was originally employed as printer of this paper ; l>ut intwo or three months after the publication commenced Philip Mus-grave was appointed Postmaster, and became proprietor of it. Hetook the printing of it from Franklin, and gave it to also published liire, in 1727, The New England Jour-nal. He occupied the othce for about forty years. This is also the location assigned James Franklin, the brotherof Benjamin, who, as wc have mentioned, printed The BostonGazette, on Monday, December 21, 1719. He began, August6, 1721, the publication of The New England Courant, thethird newspaper in the town. It was, like the other papers, 80 LANDMA
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