. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . e individuals on this floor. The dining roomon the second floor would seat three hundred persons. The re-maining tloors were occupied as lodging rooms, with a ball roomand several society rooms. Captain Hull, and other Naval and military officers, made theExchange their quarters during the war of 1812. The BritishCaptain, Dacres, who became Hulls prisoner after the engagementwith the Gucrriere, lodged here ; the twain afterwards became fastfriends. It is related that the day on which the Chesapeake leftBoston to engage the .Shannon, then lying outside of
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . e individuals on this floor. The dining roomon the second floor would seat three hundred persons. The re-maining tloors were occupied as lodging rooms, with a ball roomand several society rooms. Captain Hull, and other Naval and military officers, made theExchange their quarters during the war of 1812. The BritishCaptain, Dacres, who became Hulls prisoner after the engagementwith the Gucrriere, lodged here ; the twain afterwards became fastfriends. It is related that the day on which the Chesapeake leftBoston to engage the .Shannon, then lying outside of the harbor,the people of Boston expected an easy and speedy victory underso able a commander as Lawrence, and prepared a banquet, at theExchange, for the captors on their return from the conflict, to whichCaptain Broke and his officers were to be invited. The result ofthe engagement, however, was far different from what was ex-pected. [For a full description of this engagement, see StarksHistory of Boston Harbor, first edition.—Ed.]. ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 12b MONUMENT TO REV. JOHN HARVARD AT CHARLESTOWN. Rev. John Harvard, to whose memory the monument here pre-sented was erected in 1828, was the principal donor to the literaryseminary at Cambridge, in its infancy, and has generally been con-sidered its founder. So important and so large was his donationthat the civil rulers of Massachusetts, who encouraged and patron-ized it from the first, gave it the name of Harvard College, soonafter the bequest. This was in the year 1G38, and the amountgiven by Mr. Harvard was 780 pounds. The magistrates of thecolony, though comparatively few in number (probably not ex-ceeding 5,000) and subject to great charges and costs in removingto this country and preparing for the comfort of their families, in1G3G, agreed to appropriate 400 pounds towards the support of acollege or school in that place. A large tract of land was soongranted to it, and several individuals early made donations of
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