The history and antiquities of Boston .. . yearone of brick was erected on the same spot,which has stood till the present time. It isperhaps the most noted Meeting-house in the, United States. In it discourses have been, delivered on many great occasions ; in it the/^ fervid eloquence of Warren carriecf all beforeit. There his denunciations were echoedagainst that power under the countenance ofwhich the King Street tragedy was perpetrated. Here were repeatedly held the meetingsof oppressed Freemen, which called forththose peals of patriotic eloquence, which roused this whole country,and shook
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . yearone of brick was erected on the same spot,which has stood till the present time. It isperhaps the most noted Meeting-house in the, United States. In it discourses have been, delivered on many great occasions ; in it the/^ fervid eloquence of Warren carriecf all beforeit. There his denunciations were echoedagainst that power under the countenance ofwhich the King Street tragedy was perpetrated. Here were repeatedly held the meetingsof oppressed Freemen, which called forththose peals of patriotic eloquence, which roused this whole country,and shook the British Throne. The first election sermon was preachedin it—the Old House —in 1712. Coaches are at this time mentioned as being in use in oldest man in New England died this year. His name wasBoniface Burton, and he was aged one hundred and thirteen years.* * Judge Sewall called him Old Father Almanac, 13: 4: 1669. Little appears to beBoniface Burton, and noted his death in an known of him excepting this bare record of. 1670.] NEIGHBORING INDIANS. SSf Early this year died also the venerable Richard Mather, of^^ Dorchester, at the age of seventy-three. He was taken ill inBoston, at the house of his son Increase, and, being conveyed home,died in a few days after. It is incidentally noted that this year were many Earthquakes; butas they probably did no damage in this vicinity, no particulars are given.* The Indians in the immediate vicinity of Boston had been involved ina war with the Mohawks for about six years. It was now terminated,and its end was very disastrous to the Massachusetts Indians. Chika-taubut, called by the English Josias, nephew of old Kutchamokin, wasthe commander-in-chief of the Indians. Himself and about fifty of hisCaptains fell in their retreat; a wise and stout man of middle age,says Major Gookin, who had long known him. This was a severe dis-appointment to the Massachusetts Indians, and they never recoveredfrom the mortification which it
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