The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . the fort. Prom its balcony until 1775 the appointment of all theRoyal Governors was proclaimed, and within they were sworninto office. John Adams has well said, In it independencewas born. July i8th, 1776, from its balcony was read to athrong which filled the street below the Declaration of Inde-pendence, and from it was given the news of the adoptionof the Constitution of the United States, which was draftedwithin its walls
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . the fort. Prom its balcony until 1775 the appointment of all theRoyal Governors was proclaimed, and within they were sworninto office. John Adams has well said, In it independencewas born. July i8th, 1776, from its balcony was read to athrong which filled the street below the Declaration of Inde-pendence, and from it was given the news of the adoptionof the Constitution of the United States, which was draftedwithin its walls by the convention whose delegates lateradopted it in the church on Federal street. The inaugurationof John Hancock as the first Governor of the state took placehere. Again from the balcony was read, in 1783, the Procla-mation of Peace. From here, in 1789, General Washington re-viewed the procession which passed in his honor. Upon thecompletion of the State House upon Beacon Hill, in 1798, thehistoric building came into possession of the City of Boston,from whom at the present time it receives tender care, and itsrooms are filledwith relics of the by-gone days, 127. I o O « Cl,< o T Kings Chapel, at the corner of Tremont and School streets,was erected in 1754 and was the first Episcopal Church inBoston. In the year 1686 a number of people met at the homeof Mr. Ratcliffe and formed an Episcopalian Society, and byorder of Governor Andros, 1688, a building was erected whichhe named Kings Chapel, a full Episcopal service intro-duced, and continued as such until 1776, when the Britishevacuated Boston. Until 1782 no service of Episcopalian formwas held in it, when that year the remaining proprietorsresumed worship in it, but they adopted the Unitarian liturgy,altered from the common prayer book of the Church ofEngland, which form of service is still continued. It is a veryquaint and interesting church; the interior, with its high old-fashioned pews, its tall pulpit, the massive p
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