Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . f his kings chapel and the neighborhood. 67 time, lived in School Street. Hq was a merchant, — Dr. Byles terms him a distiller, — and accumulated a handsome property. He was the general satirist, epic, and epitaph writer of his day, and wielded a trenchant pen, of which none stood more in awe than Governor Belcher. His epitaph on the countryman whose forte was raking hay, in Avldch he excelled all but his employer, is as follows : — He could rake hay ; none could rake faster,Except that raking dog his master. Green, who was Avell advanced in li
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . f his kings chapel and the neighborhood. 67 time, lived in School Street. Hq was a merchant, — Dr. Byles terms him a distiller, — and accumulated a handsome property. He was the general satirist, epic, and epitaph writer of his day, and wielded a trenchant pen, of which none stood more in awe than Governor Belcher. His epitaph on the countryman whose forte was raking hay, in Avldch he excelled all but his employer, is as follows : — He could rake hay ; none could rake faster,Except that raking dog his master. Green, who was Avell advanced in life when the Revolutionarystruggle begun, removed to England, Avhere he engaged in busi-ness, residing in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, died in London in 1780. There is a portrait of JosephGreen, by Copley, in the possession of the heirs of T. Snow. Green often ran a tilt with Mather Byles,unhorsing his clerical opponent with his goose-quill residence was between the house of Dr. Warren and theCromwells FEOM A PLATE BY PAUL REVERE. 68 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. CHAPTEE 11. FROM THE ORANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. Hanover Street. —General Warren. —The Orange-Tree. —Concert Hall. —Brattle Street. — Samuel Gore. — John Smibert. — Nathaniel Smibert. —Colonel Trumbull. — The Aileli^hi. — Scollays Buihlings and Square. — Queen Street Writing School. — Master James Carter. — Cornhill. —Brattle Street Parsonage. — Old Prison. — Captain Kidd. — CourtHouses. — Franklin Avenue. — Kneeland. — Franklin. — Edes and Gill. — Green and Russell. — First Book and Newspaper printed in Boston. —Rufus Choate. — Governor Leverett. — John A. Andrew. — Henry Dim-ster. — To%\Ti Pump. — Old Brick. — General — Coimt Rumford. — John Winslow. STANDING at the head of Hanover Street, we are sensiblethat improvement has ploughed a broad furrow throughthe North End. Away before us stretches a broad avenue,
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