. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . reets, mention of which has been previously made in thiswork. The estate passed through many hands among, them thatof (iiles Alexander, whom tradition says treated his wife so ill thatone evening a party of young men of some of the best families inBoston came disguised to his house, broke oftthe heads of two-lone lions who kept guard at the front gate, and wound up theirfrolic by bestowing on the obnoxious proprietor a complete suitof tar and feathers. A labyrinth in front of the house consti-tuted the limit of Mrs. Alexanders prescribed bounds for out-d
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . reets, mention of which has been previously made in thiswork. The estate passed through many hands among, them thatof (iiles Alexander, whom tradition says treated his wife so ill thatone evening a party of young men of some of the best families inBoston came disguised to his house, broke oftthe heads of two-lone lions who kept guard at the front gate, and wound up theirfrolic by bestowing on the obnoxious proprietor a complete suitof tar and feathers. A labyrinth in front of the house consti-tuted the limit of Mrs. Alexanders prescribed bounds for out-doorexercise. In 1798 the estate was purchased Iry Capt. James Magee,who, while in command of the privateer brig General Arnold,was shipwrecked in Plymouth Harbor. The brig broke from heranchorage in the Cow yard and was driven by the violence ofthe gale upon the low sand flats. It was a terrible snow storm andso intense was the cold that seventy-eight of the crew includingthe captain were frozen to death, and from the merciless pelting. A N TIQ UE T IE WS OE B OSTOJST. of the waves, which froze hard to them, they looked more likesolid statues of ice than human bodies. They were all buried inone grave on Burial Hill, Plymouth, where a tablet is erected totheir memory. It was three days before the survivors, twenty-eight in number, could be rescued by the men of Plymouth ; theyhad been during that time huddled together on the quarter-deckwith no extra clothing, with no shelter but the skies, and no food,they were more dead than alive when rescued. Magees widowsold the estate to Gov. Eustis in 1819 and there he passed the re-mainder of his days, and died there in 1825, aged 71 years. was very hospitable, which procured him the acquaintance ofmany persons of distinction. Among the guests that accepted hishospitality M as John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun. One of his visitors was Lafy-ette, the guest of the Nation, and his compat
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