The history and antiquities of Boston .. . thefew days which were left of the session. They adjourned onthe twelfth. When they met again in February, there was amotion to have a house for their accommodation built in Cambridge, andanother that it should be located in Roxbury. But it was finally deter-mined that the old one should be repaired. CHAPTER LXIII. Independent Advertiser begun. — View of tlie Commerce. — State of Schools. — Return of Indian Cap-tives. — News of the Death of Dr. Watts. — First Masonic Procession. — First Bibles printed. —Opposition to Parliament. — Theatrical Exhibitio
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . thefew days which were left of the session. They adjourned onthe twelfth. When they met again in February, there was amotion to have a house for their accommodation built in Cambridge, andanother that it should be located in Roxbury. But it was finally deter-mined that the old one should be repaired. CHAPTER LXIII. Independent Advertiser begun. — View of tlie Commerce. — State of Schools. — Return of Indian Cap-tives. — News of the Death of Dr. Watts. — First Masonic Procession. — First Bibles printed. —Opposition to Parliament. — Theatrical Exhibitions forbidden. — Lotteries.—Small-pox.—Numberof Inhabitants. — Linen Manufactures. — New Style. — Indian Treaty. — Boston Gazette begun. —Fire in Marlborough-st. — Singular Punishment of a Female. — Decline of Religion. — Intem-perance. — Jlonster of Monsters. — Daniel Fowle. — Stone Jail. — Post Office in Cornhill. — ExciseLaw. — Opposed. — Great Storm. — Franklin. — His 4 SHIRLEY.* A NEW Paper, called The Independ-ent Advertiser, made its appearance. Itdid not differ much in its mechanical executionfrom other papers of the time. Rogers andFowle were its publishers, next to the Prisonin Queen-street. Its political tendency wasWhig, and it was supplied with essays of thischaracter by an Association of Gentlemen, ofwhom Samuel Adams, afterwards Governor, wasone. The Advertiser continued but two years; *Paly of six, Or and Azure, a Canton,Ermine. — Crest — A Saracens head in profile,-wreathed al)out the temples. Or and .Arms of the present representative of thefamily. From an engraved Portrait of Shirley, in possession of a descendant,Edward Shirley Erving, Esq., of Boston, istaken the following Memorial :— The Honorable William Shirley, Esq., Ap-pointed Captain General and Governor in Chief,&c., of the Pi-ovince of Massachusetts Bay inNew England, in 1741. One of His Majest
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