. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... FIKST PARISH MKKTINC. HdUSK. effectually. The First Parish Meeting House stands next,built in 1901 to replace the ancient structure that had beendestroyed by fire in the year 1900. The old building, erectedin 1712, was the meeting place of the first Provincial Congress,. CONCORD ANTIOUARIAN HOUSE. in October, 1774, and a tablet on the edge of the greencommemorates this fact. Daniel Bliss the great-grandfather,William Emerson the grandfather, and Ezra Ripley the step-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been successivelythe ministers of this
. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... FIKST PARISH MKKTINC. HdUSK. effectually. The First Parish Meeting House stands next,built in 1901 to replace the ancient structure that had beendestroyed by fire in the year 1900. The old building, erectedin 1712, was the meeting place of the first Provincial Congress,. CONCORD ANTIOUARIAN HOUSE. in October, 1774, and a tablet on the edge of the greencommemorates this fact. Daniel Bliss the great-grandfather,William Emerson the grandfather, and Ezra Ripley the step-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been successivelythe ministers of this parish; R. W. Emerson himself had some- 16 / times preached from its pulpit, and from the doors of its oldhouse of worship the bodies of Thoreau. Hawthorne, Emerson,Judge K. R. Hoar, Sherman Hoar, and many others of Con-cords most famous citizens, were borne to the grave. The house of the Concord Antiquarian Society stands near,on the left side of Lexington Road. This house was occupiedin 1775 by Reuben Brown, a saddler, who made cartridgeboxes, belts, and the like for the patriots; and the Britishsoldiers, on the morning of April 19, in endeavoring to destroythe worthy saddlers stock of war material, managed (quite un-intentionally, for they were under strict orders not to injureprivate property,) to set fire to
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