Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . THE OLD XORTH CHURCH. Page 122 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 115 To his brother, Charles Pelham of Medfordand Newton, Henry Pelham on May 1, 1770wrote: Inclosed I send you two of my printson the late Massacre. The fact that the Mas-sacre plate which Revere engraved shows moredistinct artistic power than any other of histhings unfortunately gives color to Pelhamsclaim. For Henry Pelham was an artist andRevere was not. So profitable did Revere find the engravingof militant cartoons that he was able, in 1770,to purcha
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . THE OLD XORTH CHURCH. Page 122 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 115 To his brother, Charles Pelham of Medfordand Newton, Henry Pelham on May 1, 1770wrote: Inclosed I send you two of my printson the late Massacre. The fact that the Mas-sacre plate which Revere engraved shows moredistinct artistic power than any other of histhings unfortunately gives color to Pelhamsclaim. For Henry Pelham was an artist andRevere was not. So profitable did Revere find the engravingof militant cartoons that he was able, in 1770,to purchase the house in North Square nowassociated with his name. North Square wasthe Court end of Boston at that time, and con-tained some of the finest residences of whichthe town could boast. Here, then, it was thatRevere lived about a quarter of a cen-tury, and all through the years of the Warof the Revolution. Here, too, on May third,1773, Sarah, the wife of his young manhood,died. Yet the North Square home was not long with-out a mistress, for after a few months, hishousehold bei
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