. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. from our gov-ernment as consul at Tunis. He died in 1852. Who knowsthat Sweet Home was not the plaint of his own heart, sigh-ing for the scenes of his youth 1 An exile from home, pleasure dazzles in vain,All, give me my lowly thatched cottage again ;The birds singing sweetly that came to my call, —Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all, FROM THE OLD SOUTH HOUND FOKT HILL. 2G3 Another al)aiuloned church-site is near. The Oh I Prcshyto-rian Meeting-lioiise stood on the iu)rth corner of Fc(Ural andBerry Streets. The hitter lias chan
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. from our gov-ernment as consul at Tunis. He died in 1852. Who knowsthat Sweet Home was not the plaint of his own heart, sigh-ing for the scenes of his youth 1 An exile from home, pleasure dazzles in vain,All, give me my lowly thatched cottage again ;The birds singing sweetly that came to my call, —Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all, FROM THE OLD SOUTH HOUND FOKT HILL. 2G3 Another al)aiuloned church-site is near. The Oh I Prcshyto-rian Meeting-lioiise stood on the iu)rth corner of Fc(Ural andBerry Streets. The hitter lias changed its name to Channing,as it did its ancient orthography,Bury into Berry. The fountkrsof this church were Irish Pres-byterians, and tlieir first liouseof worsliip was a barn, whichsufficed until they were able, in1744, to build a neat woodenedifice. Governor Hancock pre-sented the bell and vane whichhad belonged to the Old BrattleStreet Meeting-house. The oldhouse was a pattern of many thatmay still be seen in our olderNew England villaj^ An amusing incident is related OLD FEDERAL STREET CUURCH. of the vane, — Hancocks gift. Colonel Erving, meeting Moorhead, directed his attention to the fact that thevane did not move, but remained fixed in its position. Ay,I must see to it, said the honest parson, who ran immediatelyto the mechanic who placed the vane on the steeple. A fatiguingclimb to the top revealed that the fault was in the wind, whichhad remained due east for a fortnight. Mr. Moorhead, the first pastor, was ordained in Ireland, andwas installed in Boston in 1730, a hundred years after the set-tlement. This was also the church of Jeremy lielknap, and ofDr. AV. E. Channing, for whom the neighboring street is named. It was to this church the Convention from theOld State House, when it met to consider the adoption of theFederal Constitution, January 9, 1788. The Vention did in Boston meet. But State House could not hold em ;So then they went to
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