History of Lowell and its people . ture appears to have been usedfor a school on weekdays and a*- a church on the Lords dav. It isrcc<jr(le<l to h;i\e been a story and one-half high, having an apartmentfor ](jdging the jjreacher during his stay. In it John Eliot conceivablymay, as related, have entertained the Jesuit hather Gabriel Drtiillettes,who was imdertaking among tho IMaine Indians a work of conversionnot dissimilar to that of the Protestant missionary in the Bay State. The work of teaching the natives to read and write was done byan Indian named Samuel. It was part of the colonys
History of Lowell and its people . ture appears to have been usedfor a school on weekdays and a*- a church on the Lords dav. It isrcc<jr(le<l to h;i\e been a story and one-half high, having an apartmentfor ](jdging the jjreacher during his stay. In it John Eliot conceivablymay, as related, have entertained the Jesuit hather Gabriel Drtiillettes,who was imdertaking among tho IMaine Indians a work of conversionnot dissimilar to that of the Protestant missionary in the Bay State. The work of teaching the natives to read and write was done byan Indian named Samuel. It was part of the colonys policv to sub-stitute civil law for the su])remacy of the sachems. Somewhere ttearthe present Ioott canal a native magistrate. John Numphow by name,who frcinK-nll\- figures in deeds and other records, held court in a logcabin. The ch,i])el in which John ])re;iche(l U< the Indians remainedi)i situ down to 1S24. according to a statement made bv Charles Cow-lev in an address delivered at the Illiot Congregational Church on. 1 iMiikiM- lloHsi. loiMltil ill l<-r 1 SI., the oldest housein , hiiilt in (i. .i. The ?•( House, rrim-etoii Boulevard, huilt in 1SII2, used fortenenielils .?m|\ eos ..f th. Kai-t or.\, il. Tli. Mission. Vaiiiuni .\ve,. liist ;,- in develop:\[ext from indiax town ig October 31. 1897. Testimony to this effect was quoted: Josiah , Oliver M. Whipple, Amos Brown and other Old Residents,now no more, remembered it well, and there is one venerable gentle-man still living, Mr. Sidney Davis, whose 82 years have all been spentin this place, who also rememijers that log meeting house, having beennine years old when it was demolis
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