State Street : a brief account of a Boston way . owns-men. He was charged by them with making ex-orbitant profits, found guilty, and cast into his death, in 1656, he left three hundredpounds to Boston for the erection of a TownHouse, and defended in the will his businessconduct. He outlined that the Town House should con-tain a market-place, room for the Courts, room forthe Townsmen, Commissioners, for a library, agallery for the Elders, a room for an armory, androoms for merchants and masters of vessels. Theselectmen considered it, and in March, 1656-57,the town chose a committee to
State Street : a brief account of a Boston way . owns-men. He was charged by them with making ex-orbitant profits, found guilty, and cast into his death, in 1656, he left three hundredpounds to Boston for the erection of a TownHouse, and defended in the will his businessconduct. He outlined that the Town House should con-tain a market-place, room for the Courts, room forthe Townsmen, Commissioners, for a library, agallery for the Elders, a room for an armory, androoms for merchants and masters of vessels. Theselectmen considered it, and in March, 1656-57,the town chose a committee to consider the plansfor the Town House. A committee was given fullpower in August, 1657, to erect a building, and tobind the town for the payment of the contractprice. The building thus constructed was sixty-sixfeet long, thirty-six feet wide, set upon twenty-onepillars ten feet high. The second story was parti-tioned, making the rooms desired. There was awalk on top fifteen feet wide, with two turrets, andbalusters and rails around the walk. 21. The Old State House, as it will appear at the Jamestown Exposition STATE STREET BURNING OF THE OLD TOWNHOUSE. the building cost six hundred and eightypounds, the balance required in additionto the legacy of Captain Keayne was con-tributed by one hundred and four citizens. Thesettlement of the builders bill was on Feb. 28, building stood until the fire of 1711, when itand one hundred houses on and in the neighborhoodof King Street were consumed. This fire burnedall the houses from School Street to Dock Square,all of the upper part of King Street, the TownHouse, and the old Meeting House. The leadingnewspaper of the day, the News-Letter, ascribedthe source of the fire to an old Scotch woman wholived in a tenement at the head of the street. Afire she was using spread to some chips and othercombustibles near by, and thence to the tenementin which she lived. A new Town House was immediately erected,one-half of the expense being met b
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