The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . is the parsonage built by Rev. Oliver Peabody, apreacher of acknowledgedability, the successor ofNehemiah Walter, andwhose brief life and min-istry closed in Itwas subsequently, forabout eighty years, ten-the paksojiagk. anted by his successors. Rev. Amos Adams and Rev. Dr. Porter. It is in excellentpreservation, and is now owned and occupied by Charles , Esq. The parsonage, together with much otherland north and west of it
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . is the parsonage built by Rev. Oliver Peabody, apreacher of acknowledgedability, the successor ofNehemiah Walter, andwhose brief life and min-istry closed in Itwas subsequently, forabout eighty years, ten-the paksojiagk. anted by his successors. Rev. Amos Adams and Rev. Dr. Porter. It is in excellentpreservation, and is now owned and occupied by Charles , Esq. The parsonage, together with much otherland north and west of it, belonged to Col. Joseph Heath. Here, without doubt, was the headquarters of Gen. JohnThomas. -The exigency of the times, that compelled theremoval of Rev. Mr. Adams and his family at the commence-ment of the siege, was the occupancy of the hill for the mainpost of the army. The headquarters having, as we know,been on Meeting-House Hill, this would naturally be a mosteligible situation, as from its rear windows Boston, the Britishworks on the Neck, and even the heights of Charlestown werein full view. The battle of Bunkers Hill and the couflacrra-. KEV. AMOS ADAMS. 311 tion ot Charlestown were witnessed from its upper windows bythe general and his officers. Here, too. we find, a little later,our old friend Enoch Brown, whose house and shop on theNeck having been destroyed, had removed his wares andbusiness to Cambridge, and who, now that the siege was over,bavins* vet left on hand a few valuable articles, sought hereanother opportunity* for business. Benjamin Duick, victualler,and family, from Brookline or Cambridge, moved in in 1786. Bev. Amos Adams, the sixth minister of the First Church,a native of Medfield, Mass., graduated at Harvard Collegein 1752. and was ordained here Sept. 12, His wife wasSarah, daughter of the eminent Dr. Charles Chauncy, of theFirst Church in Boston. Mr. Adams was a very energeticpreacher, his voice was uncommonly sonorous and plaintive,and t
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