Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . of Isaiah Thomass heirs. It bears no date, and isold enough to be located at any time since printing began,without danger of dispute. Major Poore was confident of theauthenticity of this , tracing it by Thomas to the office ofJames Franklin. The buihling, interesting by its associationwith the early history of printing in Boston, became a book-store, ornamented with a head of Franklin, and disappeareda great many years ago. The amusing rencontre of Franklinwith his future wife, Miss Reed, of Philadelphia, will alwaysexcite a smile. The ho
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . of Isaiah Thomass heirs. It bears no date, and isold enough to be located at any time since printing began,without danger of dispute. Major Poore was confident of theauthenticity of this , tracing it by Thomas to the office ofJames Franklin. The buihling, interesting by its associationwith the early history of printing in Boston, became a book-store, ornamented with a head of Franklin, and disappeareda great many years ago. The amusing rencontre of Franklinwith his future wife, Miss Reed, of Philadelphia, will alwaysexcite a smile. The house was occupied for eighty years as a printing-house,by Kneeland and others. In 1769 it became the office of Edesand Gill, who continued there until hostilities commenced, in1776. Edes and Gill printed a copy of the Stamp Act, ina pamphlet of twenty-four pages. They also published TheBoston Gazette and Country Journal, a successor of the Ga-zette of Franklin, Kneeland, etc., which had been discontinued. FROM THE ORAXGE-TREE TO THE OLD BRICK. 81. Edes and Gill, when they printed the Stamp Act, occupiedpremises on the south side of Court Street, about on the pres-ent site of the Scollay Building. In their back office, on theold corner, the council for the destruction of the tea was held,of which Samuel Adams was the master spirit. The Gazette,under the control of Edes and Gill, wasthe paper in which Adams, Otis, Warren,Quincy, and other leaders of popular feel-ing, wrote, and became conspicuous for itsable political articles. We present two speci-mens of the renowned British Stamps. Over the printing-office was a long roomin which were wont to meet the active pa-triots. They took the name of the LongEoom Club. Samuel Adams was the leader, Hancock, Otis,Samuel Dexter, William Cooper, town clerk. Dr. Cooper, War-ren, Church, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Thomas Dawes, Samuel Phil-lips, Eoyal Tyler, Paul Revere, Thomas Fleet, Jolin Winslow,Thomas Melvill, and some others, were members. In th
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