. Boston, a guide book . enceDoorway, Exchange Building he removed to his last Boston home, themansion which stood next to the Old SouthMeetinghouse. T\iQfirst General Court — the incipient Legislature — ever heldin America, October 19, 1630, may have sat in the governors first house, theframe of which was brought here from Cambridge, where the governor firstproposed building. At the corner of Kilby Street (first Mackerel Lane), where theExchange Building ends, stood the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern of Provin-cial times, with its sign of a gilded carved cluster of grapes, the pop-ular resort of the
. Boston, a guide book . enceDoorway, Exchange Building he removed to his last Boston home, themansion which stood next to the Old SouthMeetinghouse. T\iQfirst General Court — the incipient Legislature — ever heldin America, October 19, 1630, may have sat in the governors first house, theframe of which was brought here from Cambridge, where the governor firstproposed building. At the corner of Kilby Street (first Mackerel Lane), where theExchange Building ends, stood the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern of Provin-cial times, with its sign of a gilded carved cluster of grapes, the pop-ular resort of the High Whigs in the prerevolutionary period. Itdated from 1711, and was preceded by a Colonial ordinary, as tav-erns were then called, of 1640 date. In the street before the Bunch-of-Grapes. doors, the lion and unicorn, with other emblems of royaltyand signs of Tories that had been torn from their places during the cele-bration of the news of the Declaration of Independence in July, 1776,were burned in a great STATE STREET SQUARE The Bunch-of-Grapes was a famous tavern of its time. In 1750 CaptainFrancis Goelet, from England, on a commercial visit to the town, recorded inhis diary that it was noted for the best punch house in Boston, resorted to by-most of the gent merchts and masters vessels. After the British evacuation,when Washington spent ten days in Boston, he and his officers were entertainedhere at an elegant dinner as part of the official ceremonies of the tavern was especially distinguished as the place where in March, 1786, thegroup of Continental army officers,under the inspiration of General Ruf usPutnam of Rutland (cousin of GeneralIsrael Putnam), organized the OhioCompany which settled Ohio, begin-ning at Marietta. State Street, when King Street,practically ended at Kilby Street onthe south side and Merchants Row onthe north, till the reclamation of theflats beyond, high-water mark beingoriginally at these points. MackerelLane was a narro
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