. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ow ? Yes, sir, certainly. I live here. What name r Longfellow. Any relation to the Wiscasset Longfellers 1 This house will ever be chiefly renowned for its associationswith the Father of his Country, and when it is gone the spotwill still be cherished in loving remembrance. Yet some pil-grims there will be who will come to pay tribute to the literarymemories that cluster around it ; soldiers who conquer with thepens point, and on whose banners are inscribed the watchword, Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. OLD TOllY ROW AND BEYOND.
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. ow ? Yes, sir, certainly. I live here. What name r Longfellow. Any relation to the Wiscasset Longfellers 1 This house will ever be chiefly renowned for its associationswith the Father of his Country, and when it is gone the spotwill still be cherished in loving remembrance. Yet some pil-grims there will be who will come to pay tribute to the literarymemories that cluster around it ; soldiers who conquer with thepens point, and on whose banners are inscribed the watchword, Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. OLD TOllY ROW AND BEYOND. 313 CHAPTEE XIV, OLD TORY ROW AND BEYOND. Damned neuters, in their middle way of steering,Are neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring. Dryden. THE house standing at the corner of Brattle and SparksStreets, almost concealed from view by a group of giant,sweet-scented Lindens, has undergone such material change asnot to be easily recognized for a relic of Colonial times. Theold, two-storied house, seen in our view, has been bodily raised. from its foundations, on the shoulders of a more youthfulprogeny, as if it were anxious to keep pace wdth the growth of ?the trees in its front, and still overlook its old landscape. Of about the same length of years as its neighbor which wehave but now left, this house was in ante-Eevolutionary timesfirst the abode of Richard Lechmere, and later of Jonathan Sewall, royahsts both. To the former, a Boston distiller, we have already alluded; but the latter may well claim apassing notice. He belonged to one of the old distinguishedfamilies of Massachusetts, and was himself a man of very14 314 HISTOrJC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX. superior abilities. He was the intimate friend and associate ofJohn Adams, and endeavored to dissuade him from embarkingin the cause of his country. To Sewall, Adams addressed thememorable words, as they walked on the Great Hill at Port-land, The die is now cast; I have now passed the Rubicon :swim or sink, live
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