The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . brothersDavis did alarge and lucra-tive business inthe early partof the century*| in packing andshipping pro-visions, whichthey carried onmany years atthe old corner. They were the sons of Capt. Aaron Davis,who lived at the Boston line. Allens furniture store, formerly a gambrel-roof structure,standing end to the street, having its main entrance by a largeporch on the south side, though outwardly much altered, hasthe solid oak tim
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . brothersDavis did alarge and lucra-tive business inthe early partof the century*| in packing andshipping pro-visions, whichthey carried onmany years atthe old corner. They were the sons of Capt. Aaron Davis,who lived at the Boston line. Allens furniture store, formerly a gambrel-roof structure,standing end to the street, having its main entrance by a largeporch on the south side, though outwardly much altered, hasthe solid oak timbers and other evidences of being quite century and a half ago this was the residence of JamesMears, the tanner. The old tannery, that once stood a littleto the south of it, was taken down when Webster Hall wasbuilt in 1845. Commodore Loring, the Tory, who lived atJamaica Plain, served his apprenticeship here. Despite its commonplace appearance, this ancient buildingclaims our attention. If witches or the powers of darknessever visited so reputable a town as Roxbury, this of all othersis the spot they would instinctively avoid, for here dwelt. AAEON AND CHARLES DAVIS 3 ROBERT CALEF. WITCHCRAFT. 143 Rubort Calef, their arch enemy, and here be carried on histrade of clothier, which he had previously pursued for manyyears in Boston. • Calf. as his enemies loved to call everlasting remembrance for the prominent parthe took in giving a quietus to the witch business in NewEngland. He alone had the courage to speak out boldly his ownthought and that of manv others. In an age of credulitv andsuperstition, he opposed reason and common-sense to fanati-cism and delusion, and wrought a revolution in the minds ofmen which he fortunately lived long enough to see. Of hispersonal history, we know only that he was a native of Eng-land ; that his occupations were those of a clothier and busbandman ; that I12 was a selectman of Roxbury,— sufficien:proof of the estee
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