. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. k in Boston harbor, November22, 1801, and a large portion of the in-surance collected. Fraud being proved,both as to the lading and loss of thebrig, tlie Court decreed that Pierpontand Storey be set in the pillory inState Street two several times, onehour each time, and imprisoned twoyears, and pay the costs of sentence was duly executed, the pillory being placed near Change Avenue. The Sheriff usually performed the whip-ping by deputy. The whipping-post became a perambulatingafiiiir, and at one time was stationed in West Stree
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. k in Boston harbor, November22, 1801, and a large portion of the in-surance collected. Fraud being proved,both as to the lading and loss of thebrig, tlie Court decreed that Pierpontand Storey be set in the pillory inState Street two several times, onehour each time, and imprisoned twoyears, and pay the costs of sentence was duly executed, the pillory being placed near Change Avenue. The Sheriff usually performed the whip-ping by deputy. The whipping-post became a perambulatingafiiiir, and at one time was stationed in West Street. Its ac-knowledged utility appears by the Sessions Justices famouscharge, which lays down the law in somewhat starthng phrase. Gentlemen of the grand jury : You are required by your oathto see to it, that the several towns in the county be provided accord-ing to law with. Pounds and schoolmasters, Whiijping-posts and ministers. John Wilson, first pastor of the First Cliurch, owned landon Cornhill and State Street; the lane bearing his name, and. THE PILLORY. 94 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. running through his tract, was deservedly called CrookedLane. His dwelling was on the site of the Globe Bank, de-molished in 1873 to widen the narrow way, which still retains,however, the old ministers name. Wilsons Lane is chiefly remarkable for the number and ex-cellence of its eating-houses. This circumstance, with its oldname, calls to mind Tom Hoods lines : — I ve heard about a pleasant land, where omelets grow on trees,And roasted pigs run crying out, Come eat me, if you appetite is rather keen, but how shall I get there ?* Straight down the Crooked Lane, and all round the Square. The Merchants Bank succeeded to the location of the UnitedStates Branch Bank, which was in its day a building of consid-erable architectural pretension. The two columns which nowsupport the front of the Merchants Bank performed a like ser-vice for its predecessor, and when taken down were fluted tocorres
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