Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . resent site of Horticul-tural Hall in 1841, and in 1846 Avhere it now stands. At the corner of Court and Tremont Streets was the resi-dence of John WendeU, an old Boston merchant of the timeof Governor Shirley. He married a daughter of Judge EdmundQuincy, and was the nephew of Hon. Jacob Wendell, a leadingBostonian in the troublous Eevolutionary times. The Royal Custom House was located in Wendells house in1759, at which time George Cradock, Esn., a near neighbor ofWendells, was collector. The old building long standing here, shown in the engra

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Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . resent site of Horticul-tural Hall in 1841, and in 1846 Avhere it now stands. At the corner of Court and Tremont Streets was the resi-dence of John WendeU, an old Boston merchant of the timeof Governor Shirley. He married a daughter of Judge EdmundQuincy, and was the nephew of Hon. Jacob Wendell, a leadingBostonian in the troublous Eevolutionary times. The Royal Custom House was located in Wendells house in1759, at which time George Cradock, Esn., a near neighbor ofWendells, was collector. The old building long standing here, shown in the engrav-ing, is the one in which Washington lodged during his visit in 1789, as was set forthon the small tablet placedin the Court Street the time Washingtonoccupied it, it was kept byJoseph Ingersoll as a board-ing-house. The coming ofWashington to the town Jiehad delivered in 1776 wasmarred Ijy an act of officialpunctilio on the part of Gov-ernor Hancock, which causedthe greatest mortificationalike to the people and theillustrious visitoi:. 51 n ?^Mlil^:^: nnQf

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