Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . s in the British regi-ments that landed in Boston in 1768 and 1774, and St. An-drews Lodge united with them in organizing a Grand first Lodge of Freemasons met in Boston July 30, was the first in the Colonies, receiving authority from LordMontague, Grand Master of England. Daniel Webster styledthe Green Dragon the Headquarters of the Eevolution, a nameto which it has an undoubted claim. In the Green Dragon theSandemanians held their first meetings in America. In latertimes it was kept by Daniel Simpson, the veteran
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . s in the British regi-ments that landed in Boston in 1768 and 1774, and St. An-drews Lodge united with them in organizing a Grand first Lodge of Freemasons met in Boston July 30, was the first in the Colonies, receiving authority from LordMontague, Grand Master of England. Daniel Webster styledthe Green Dragon the Headquarters of the Eevolution, a nameto which it has an undoubted claim. In the Green Dragon theSandemanians held their first meetings in America. In latertimes it was kept by Daniel Simpson, the veteran the corner where once stood the Baptist Church buildingwas formerly a brewery. The Mill Pond, or Cove, mentioned in the Introduction, oncecovered all tlie tract endn-aced within North and South MarginStreets, being divided from the sea on the northwest by theCauseway, now Causeway Street. The station-house of theBoston and Maine Railroad stood in the midst of this Mill * General Sumners Reminiscences. FEOM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 151. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1853. Pond, until with the Lowell, Eastern, and Fitchburg it took a sitebeyond the Causeway rescued from the sea. The high groundsloping away from Green and Leverett Streets once marked tlieboundary of the Cove in tliat direction, whilst the eastern mar-gin, reaching to Distill-houseSquare, included all of Haymar-ket Square. On the northernshore the water covered EndicottStreet, reaching to Prince, belowThacher, and penetrated to therear of Baldwin Place, almost toSalem Street. AVhen the SecondBaptist Church was situated inBaldwin Place, candidates forbaptism were immersed in therear of the church. Before En-dicott Street was laid out, about1836, over a part of what wasknown as the Old Way, Prince Street was the thoroughfareto Charlestown. The Mill Pond thus embraced an area as largeas the Common. The origin of the Causeway was in a footpath of the Indiansover a more elevated part of the marsh. One Mr. Crabtreer
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