Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . BOSTON. 379 the West End. ComiDanies A and 1> liail tj^uarters in PittsStreet. Lieutenant-Colonel Abbotts company was located inthe old wooden building on the east side of Leverett Street,which was afterwards used as a police station. Captain EdwardWebsters company was enlisted in the famous building on thecorner of Court and Tremont Streets, and in the office of hisfather, Daniel Webster. Captain Webster afterwards becamemajor of the regiment, and died in Mexico. Isaac Hull Wrightwas the colonel. The Mexican war was unpopular in Boston. The
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . BOSTON. 379 the West End. ComiDanies A and 1> liail tj^uarters in PittsStreet. Lieutenant-Colonel Abbotts company was located inthe old wooden building on the east side of Leverett Street,which was afterwards used as a police station. Captain EdwardWebsters company was enlisted in the famous building on thecorner of Court and Tremont Streets, and in the office of hisfather, Daniel Webster. Captain Webster afterwards becamemajor of the regiment, and died in Mexico. Isaac Hull Wrightwas the colonel. The Mexican war was unpopular in Boston. The regimentwas neglected by the State officials, and greeted with oppro-brious epithets, and even pelted with mud, when it paraded inthe streets. IMeetings were called in Faneuil Hall, at whichthe war and the soldiers were denounced by the antislaveryleaders, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, W. Lloyd Garrison,and others. As soon as the regiment was mustered into theUnited States service, the State refused to have anything fur-ther to do with NATIONAL THEATRE. LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. CHAPTER XIII. FROM CHURCH GREEN TO LIBERTY TREE. Church Green. — New South Church. — Dr. Kirkland. — American Headquar-ters. — General Heath. — Anecdote of General Gates. — Jerome Bonaparte. — Sir William Pepperell. — Nathaniel Bowditch. — George Bancroft. —Trinity Church. — Seven Star Inn and Lane. — Peter Faneuil. — GovernorSullivan. — Small-Pox Parties. — Duke of Kent. — Sir Edmimd Andros. — Lamb Tavern. — White Horse Tavern. — Colonel Daniel Messinger. —Lion Tavern. — Handel and Haydn Society. — Lion Theatre. — CuriousStatement about Rats. THE name of Church Green was apphed very early to thevacant space lying at the intersection of Bedford and Sum-mer Streets, from which we may infer that it was looked uponas a proper site for a meeting-house by the earliest settlers ofBoston. The land was granted by the town to a number ofpetitioners in 1715, of
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