Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . rthan Cognac, Hollands, Jamaica, strong beer, or wme of any j)rice ;here it is by the hogshead or smgle glass, and not a cent to pay !Walk up, gentlemen, walk up. and help yourselves ! Public notices and proclamations Avere affixed to the TownPump. A little south of the Sears estate is the Rogers Building,around which is a vacant space now known as Cornhill Courtand Court Avenue, once Cornhill Square. This is the site of the second location of the First Church J of Boston, removed from -«ife;s^ -I state Street in 1640. In -;-^^ J 1808 the socie
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . rthan Cognac, Hollands, Jamaica, strong beer, or wme of any j)rice ;here it is by the hogshead or smgle glass, and not a cent to pay !Walk up, gentlemen, walk up. and help yourselves ! Public notices and proclamations Avere affixed to the TownPump. A little south of the Sears estate is the Rogers Building,around which is a vacant space now known as Cornhill Courtand Court Avenue, once Cornhill Square. This is the site of the second location of the First Church J of Boston, removed from -«ife;s^ -I state Street in 1640. In -;-^^ J 1808 the society sold this site to Benjamin Joy, onwhich he erected a brickstructure, and the churchwas removed to ChauncyStreet. Prom the churchthe space around it tookthe name of Church old meeting-house wasof wood, but after standingseventy-one years, was de-stroyed by the great fire ofoLi. BiucK cauKcii. 1711^ and was then rebuilt of brick. After the building of the Second Church in Hano-ver Street this house took the name of the Old Brick. It. FROM THE OEANCxE-TREE TO THE OLD BKICK. 85 was of three stories and decorated with a bell-tower and clock was, without doubt, tlie first placed in any publicposition in the town. The records show that in 1716-17 thetown voted to obtain a town clock to be set up in some conven-ient place in Cornliill. Before this the beUs were called bell of the Old Brick sounded the alarm on the evening ofthe Massacre of March 5, 1770. On the corner of State Street, nearly opposite the Old Brick,was the bookstore of Daniel Henchman, and later that of Whar-ton and Bowes. In this shop Henry Knox, afterwards one ofthe most famous generals of the Revolutionary army, was anapprentice. Here he acquired, by reading, the rudiments of themilitary art. The store was the resort of the British officers,who were very friendly with the future general. At eighteenKnox was lieutenant of the grenadier company of the BostonRegiment, — a company d
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