. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . ds found dead, five miles from the house, his face scorchedand scarred by the burning embers. This was probably a straywarrior of King Phillips partisans, and was the nearest any hostileIndians approached the New England capitol during the war. The family of Minot, in America, probably originated withGeorge, the first settler of this name in Dorchester, and his nameis especially honored by the Massachusetts Historical Society asone of its founderers. It is said that in the old burying ground,at Dorchester, there was once an old stone with the following i
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . ds found dead, five miles from the house, his face scorchedand scarred by the burning embers. This was probably a straywarrior of King Phillips partisans, and was the nearest any hostileIndians approached the New England capitol during the war. The family of Minot, in America, probably originated withGeorge, the first settler of this name in Dorchester, and his nameis especially honored by the Massachusetts Historical Society asone of its founderers. It is said that in the old burying ground,at Dorchester, there was once an old stone with the following in-scription : Here lie the bodies of Unite Humphry and Shining MinotSuch names as these never die not. 158 ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. TIIE PIERCE HOUSE. Within a few hundred feet of the Minot house stands anotherold building of about the same date. This building is situated onOak Avenue, Adams street, Dorchester, now a part of was built by Robert Pierce in 1640, and has, since his death in16G4, been occupied by his In the year 1629-30, among the divers godly persons in Devon-shire, Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and other places, who dissentedfrom the way of worship then established by law in ye realmcof England in ye reign of King Charles ye first, to use the wordsfrom an old IMS., were Robert Pierce and his wife Anne, who setsail from Plymouth, England, in the vessel called the Mary andJohn, of about 400 tons, commanded by Capt. Squeb. They I
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