Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . osite the BostonStone, the ancient eighteenth-century building which was formerly the home ofEbenezer Hancock, a younger brother of John Hancock, the patriot. Through thelatters influence while President of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia,Ebenezer Hancock was appointed in 1776 Deputy Paymaster-General of the Con-tinental Army. This appointment made his home an important place during theRevolution for disbursement of mone
Forty of Boston's historic houses; a brief illustrated description of the residences of historic characters of Boston who have lived in or near the business section . osite the BostonStone, the ancient eighteenth-century building which was formerly the home ofEbenezer Hancock, a younger brother of John Hancock, the patriot. Through thelatters influence while President of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia,Ebenezer Hancock was appointed in 1776 Deputy Paymaster-General of the Con-tinental Army. This appointment made his home an important place during theRevolution for disbursement of money to the troops. Ebenezer Hancock, however,left the house many years before his death in 1819, and by the year 1789 it hadbecome the property of Ebenezer Frothingham, a china and glass merchant, whohad his store in the first story. In 1798 Benjamin Fuller, a shoe dealer, also hada shop in the building, and he in turn was followed about the year 1821 by WilliamH. Learnard, who continued the shoe business until his death in 1886. The sametrade is carried on to-day in one of the stores, the rest of the ancient house beingdevoted to restaurant and tavern DALTON HOUSE Congress Street James Dalton, a sea-captain, bought in 1756 an estate situated between Milkand Water Streets, and on this estate built a mansion in 1758. At about this sametime a new street was laid out by the town of Boston, on which the house thoroughfare was called Dalton Street, and became Congress Street in Captain Daltons death in 1783, the house was occupied by his son, Peter RoeDalton, who was Deputy Commissary-General of Supplies of Issue in the Conti-nental Army. He was afterwards cashier of the Massachusetts Bank, and still latercashier of the United States Branch Bank. His death occurred in the house in the Dalton estate was sold, the front portion on Congress Street was coveredby a row of brick dwelling-houses, which were later altered into stores, as the locali
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