Days and ways in old Boston . West and Washington Streets. Fromhis residence there West Street was early knownas Cowells Lane, and down the lane to the pas-ture he led the horses that he rode as messengerfor the Colony to Hartford and New York. In 1680 Mrs. Hunt and her daughter , sold the pasture to Hezekiah UsherJunior. Hezekiah Usher, Senior, was the firstbookseller of the colony. He lived on the northside of the Market Place and his warehouse inthe rear faced the Town Dock. He died in 1676,leaving a goodly fortune and two sons to quarrelover it and evoke the aid of the law. Six m
Days and ways in old Boston . West and Washington Streets. Fromhis residence there West Street was early knownas Cowells Lane, and down the lane to the pas-ture he led the horses that he rode as messengerfor the Colony to Hartford and New York. In 1680 Mrs. Hunt and her daughter , sold the pasture to Hezekiah UsherJunior. Hezekiah Usher, Senior, was the firstbookseller of the colony. He lived on the northside of the Market Place and his warehouse inthe rear faced the Town Dock. He died in 1676,leaving a goodly fortune and two sons to quarrelover it and evoke the aid of the law. Six monthsafter his fathers death Hezekiah Usher marriedBridget, the widow of Dr. Leonard Hoar, Presi-dent of Harvard College. Mrs. Ushers parentswere Lord John Lisle, who was assassinated atLausanne, Switzerland, in 1664, and Lady AliciaLisle, beheaded at Winchester, England, in a few years of married life, spent in tJie househe erected in 1684 in Carters pasture. Usherdeveloped such eccentricities that in 1687
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