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 . 125. O a H ao In 1656 Capt. Robert Keayne died and left the townthree hundred pounds for the erection of a town house. Suchmagnanimity must have impressed the people, coming fromone upon whom they had but a short time previously castopprobrium, placing him in prison and from the pulpit ofthe church given him a verbal castigation, all upon the chargethat he had collected excessive profits upon his town accepte
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 . 125. O a H ao In 1656 Capt. Robert Keayne died and left the townthree hundred pounds for the erection of a town house. Suchmagnanimity must have impressed the people, coming fromone upon whom they had but a short time previously castopprobrium, placing him in prison and from the pulpit ofthe church given him a verbal castigation, all upon the chargethat he had collected excessive profits upon his town accepted the gift and in 1657 the erection of a newtown house was begun at the head of State street. It wasoccupied by the colonial officers until 1711, when in the greatfire of that year (previously referred to) it was delay a new building was erected of brick, onehundred and ten feet in length and thirty-eight in width, threestories in height. It was occupied by the Senate and Repre-sentatives of the General Court, by the justices of the SupremeJudicial Court and their clerks and became the State Housein 1742. Throughits situation it early became the point
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