Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ks, chests, boxes or the like. The penalty wasthe seizure of the whole estate of the offender. Hull began poor, and ended rich, many of his new shillingsfinding their way into his ownstrong-box. He was a very worthyman, and a member of the FirstChurch under Eev. John married Judith, the daughterof Edmund Quincy, ancestor of that family in New England. From her is named that much-dreaded point of Narragansett Bay, where Neptune exacts histribute from voyagers through the Sound. It is said, moreover,that Hannah Hull, his daughter, recei
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ks, chests, boxes or the like. The penalty wasthe seizure of the whole estate of the offender. Hull began poor, and ended rich, many of his new shillingsfinding their way into his ownstrong-box. He was a very worthyman, and a member of the FirstChurch under Eev. John married Judith, the daughterof Edmund Quincy, ancestor of that family in New England. From her is named that much-dreaded point of Narragansett Bay, where Neptune exacts histribute from voyagers through the Sound. It is said, moreover,that Hannah Hull, his daughter, received for her wedding por-tion her weight in pine-tree shillings when she married JudgeSewall, — a statement probably originating in an ingenious com-putation of the weight of the sum she actually received. Fromthis marriage, remarks Quincy, has sprung the eminent familyof the Sewalls, which has given three chief justices to Massa-chusetts and one to Canada, and has been distinguished inevery generation by the talents and virtues of its COPPS HILL AXD THE VICINITY. 213 Salem Street was, in 1708, from Mr. Phipss corner inCharter Street to Prince Street; from thence to Hanover it wasBack Street. Christ Church spire has long dominated over this locality,and served as a landmark for vessels entering the harbor. It isthe oldest church in Boston standing on its original ground,having been erected in 1723, — six years before the Old the fifteen churches built previous to 1750, only sevenoccupy their original sites ; the others may be found in thenew city which has sprung up as if by magic in the old bedof Charles Eiver. This was the second Episcopal Church erected in the has been in its day considered one of the chief architectural,ornaments of the North End. The body of the church has theplain monotonous style peculiar to all the old houses of wor-ship, but thesteeple — thedesign ofCharles Bul-finch — beau-tifies the wholestructure. Theold steeple was
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