. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ton, a near relation to Sir Thomas Temple,but an episcopalian, and of a gay, free temper. He it was who headed the 164 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. Bostonians in their attack on Sir Edmund Andros and his troops at Fort Hillin 1689. Such a man would have been at least a chevalier in France. In1692 Nelson, having been captured by the French while on a voyage to theeastward, discovered some secret designs which were being maturedagainstthe New-England colonies, and informed the authorities of Massachusettsfrom his prison at Quebec. For this patriotic act h
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. ton, a near relation to Sir Thomas Temple,but an episcopalian, and of a gay, free temper. He it was who headed the 164 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. Bostonians in their attack on Sir Edmund Andros and his troops at Fort Hillin 1689. Such a man would have been at least a chevalier in France. In1692 Nelson, having been captured by the French while on a voyage to theeastward, discovered some secret designs which were being maturedagainstthe New-England colonies, and informed the authorities of Massachusettsfrom his prison at Quebec. For this patriotic act he was sent to Paris, andshut up in the Bastille for a long time, obtaining his release through theintervention of Sir Purbeck Temple. After twelve years of absence, the gal-lant captain returned to his little kingdom of Long Island, where the Nelsonfamily gave a famous feast to celebrate the liberation of their chief. Frag-ments of the table-cloth used on this occasion (about the year 1702) are stillpreserved among his Interior of Battery, Long-Island Head. After Nelson had bought all but 4^ acres of the island, he mortgaged itto certain Salem capitalists, with all and singular the houses, buildings,barns, orchards, gardens, pastures, ffences, woods, stones, beach, wharffes,liberties, immunities, hereditaments, emoluments, etc. From Nelsons heirsit passed to Charles Apthorp, whose heirs sold their domain, butted andbounded Northerly, Southerly, Easterly, and Westerly, by the sea, to Bar-low Trecothick, Lord Mayor of London, who had married Grizzell 1791 Trecothicks brother-in-law sold it to James I vers, whose heirs con-veyed it to Thomas Smith of Cohasset in 1847; and two years later it wasvested in the Long-Island Company, its present owners. In July, 1775, a detachment of 500 Continental soldiers, in 65 whale-boats, landed on Long Island, and took off all the sheep and cattle there,together with 17 British sailors. They were hotly cannonaded by the m
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