Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . grave I summon all. * Whitmores Notes to John Duntons Letters. BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 123 This was the church of Colman, the Coopers, Thacher, Buck-minster, Edward Everett, Palfrey, and Lothrop, an array ofclerical talent unsurpassed in the Boston pulpit. General Gagequartered the 29th in the church and vicinity, taking up his BRATTLE STREET CHURCH. own quarters in the house opposite. Gage told Mr. Turell thathe had no fears for his men while quartered within such , the night before the evacuation a twenty-fourpound
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . grave I summon all. * Whitmores Notes to John Duntons Letters. BRATTLE SQUARE AND THE TOWN DOCK. 123 This was the church of Colman, the Coopers, Thacher, Buck-minster, Edward Everett, Palfrey, and Lothrop, an array ofclerical talent unsurpassed in the Boston pulpit. General Gagequartered the 29th in the church and vicinity, taking up his BRATTLE STREET CHURCH. own quarters in the house opposite. Gage told Mr. Turell thathe had no fears for his men while quartered within such , the night before the evacuation a twenty-fourpound shot from Cambridge struck the tower, and falling tothe ground was picked up by Mr. Turell, and in 1824 wasimbedded in the masonry, where it remained until the workof demolition began. When the society sold the church, they reserved the ancientquoins, pulpit, bell, and cannon-ball. The bell given by Gov-ernor Hancock became cracked, and was sold; the present onehaving been purchased in London in 1809. The society voted 124 LANDMARKS OF WINDOW OF BRATTLE STREETCHURCH, WITH BALL. to make Mr. Wakefield the custodian of the cannon-ball, to beplaced by him in the front of his new building on the old site,and occupy the same position as inthe church. The rustic quoins, ofConnecticut stone, have been placedinside the tower of the new churchon Commonwealth Avenue. One ofthese, which had the name of JohnHancock inscribed upon it, was mu-JJ* tilated by the Kings soldiers, whoowed a special spite to King Han-cock, as they styled him. Dr. JohnGreenleaf s name was on another ofthe quoins. During the occupation by troops,services appear to have been heldoccasionally in the church, as the Boston Gazette, of Septem-ber 21, 1775, states that the Rev. Dr. Morrison receiveda call to preach in the elegant new church in Brattle Street,vacated by the flight of Dr. Cooper, and on Sunday he deliv-ered an excellent discourse to a genteel audience. The tenorof this discourse was upon the fatal
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