Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . to the jailers girdle, must have been * Drakes History of Boston. FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. 7y 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 was laid, and it was completed in 1836. The buildingis massive and unattractive. Within 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 whi
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . to the jailers girdle, must have been * Drakes History of Boston. FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. 7y 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 was laid, and it was completed in 1836. The buildingis massive and unattractive. Within 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 Franklin Avenue, but was veryearly called Dorsets Lane, and in1722 was a part of Brattle Websters first office was onthe northerly corner of this this corner where also was theAdvertiser building Samuel Knee-land began the printing businessin 1718, in quite another , in his History of Printing,says : —. OLD PR1NTIX<1-PRESS. William Brooker, being appointedPostmaster of Boston, he, on Monday,December 21, 1719, began the publication of another newspaper mthat 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 ; but intwo or three months after the pubhcation commenced Philip Mus-gTave was appointed Postmaster, and became proprietor of it. Hetook the printing of it from Franklin, and gave it to also published here, in 1727, The New England Jour-nal. He occupied the office for about forty years. This is also the location assigned James Franklin, the brotherof Benjamin, who, as we have mentioned, printed The BostonGazette, on Monday, December 21, 1719. He began, August6, 1721, the publication of The I*^ew England Courant, thetliird newspaper in the town. It was, like the other papers, 8U LANDMAK
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