The history and antiquities of Boston .. . d Colsonshill after this fire were of brick, three stories Stone House about 1732, and stood at thehigh, with a garret, flat roof, and balustrade. north-easterly termination of Cornhill. On— Holmes, i. 505. About four of them are an ancient MS. plan in my possession, « Col-yet standing on the east side, and one, No. 31, sons is marked at the intersection of what ison the west side. One of them, being No. 38, now called Cornhill and , bearing the date of its erec- f Preface to Rev. Mr. Wadsworths Sermons,tion, 1712 ; and
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . d Colsonshill after this fire were of brick, three stories Stone House about 1732, and stood at thehigh, with a garret, flat roof, and balustrade. north-easterly termination of Cornhill. On— Holmes, i. 505. About four of them are an ancient MS. plan in my possession, « Col-yet standing on the east side, and one, No. 31, sons is marked at the intersection of what ison the west side. One of them, being No. 38, now called Cornhill and , bearing the date of its erec- f Preface to Rev. Mr. Wadsworths Sermons,tion, 1712 ; and also the letters S. L., and a 1713. In this preface the author gives some-coat of Arms belonging to the Lynde family, what of a circumstantial account of the fire, towhich was transferred from the ancient Lynde whom Snow and others have been indebted,mansion on Lynde-street to its present locality, J Acts and Laivs of the Prov. of Mass. Bay,with about as much propriety as the grave- <^-c. 1714, p. 218. 1711.] FERRY REGULATIONS. 543. Court, for jointly constructing a House toaccommodate both the Town and Colony. Anarrangement was entered into, and in March1714, the Town voted 235 pounds, fourteenshillings, and eight pence, to pay its part ofthe expense of the building. At this session an Act was also passed, further regulating of the Ferry betwixt Bostonand Winisimmit. * A third sufficient andsuitable boat was ordered to be provided, with able, sober persons to row in her ; andone of the three boats in turn to be passing on the water, unless prevented by ice or extraordinary stormy weather (except on the Lords Day, and thento pass no oftener than necessity shall require); from sunrise until nineoclock at night, from the first of April to the first of October ; and untileight at night from the first of October to the first of April, Posts,however had some special consideration. Mail routes had been estab-lished to the east and west of Boston this year. A Pos
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