. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . Maiden, over the Mystic, and with Cambridge by a bridgeover Charles River. Somerville is three miles, Waltham ten miles. Concordtwenty miles, Groton thirty-five miles, and Fitchburg fiftymiles from Boston. Copps Hill, not far from the Fitchburg Depot, wasformerly called Snow Hill. It came into the possession 118 BOSTON SIGHTS. of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; andwhen, in 1775, they were forbidden by General Gage toparade on the Common, they went to this, their ownground, and drilled in defiance of his threats. The fort,
. Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger . Maiden, over the Mystic, and with Cambridge by a bridgeover Charles River. Somerville is three miles, Waltham ten miles. Concordtwenty miles, Groton thirty-five miles, and Fitchburg fiftymiles from Boston. Copps Hill, not far from the Fitchburg Depot, wasformerly called Snow Hill. It came into the possession 118 BOSTON SIGHTS. of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; andwhen, in 1775, they were forbidden by General Gage toparade on the Common, they went to this, their ownground, and drilled in defiance of his threats. The fort,or battery, that was built there by the British, just beforethe battle of Bunker Hill, stood near its south-east brow,adjoining the burying ground. The remains of manyeminent men repose in this little cemetery. Close by the. entrance is the vault of the Mather family, covered by aplain oblong structure of brick, three feet high and aboutsix feet long, upon which is laid a heavy brown stoneslab, with a tablet of slate, bearing the following inscrip-tion : — BOSTON AND MAINE RAILKOAD DEPOT. 119 The Reverend Doctors Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather wereinterred in this vault- Increase died August 27, 1723, Feb. 13, 1727, * Jan. 27, 178-5, 79. Tjie whole is surrounded by a neat iron railing.
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