The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . Roxbury: — The memorial of us, the subscribers (and sundry others). Inhab-itants of said town sheweth, That by the blessing of God and thebenevolence of divers Catholick and charitable disposed Christians,we purpose to build an Episcopal Church in this town. Its there-fore prayed that you would grant soe much of the common groundnear the house of Robert Auchmuty. Esq., as shall be thought need-full or proper for such a buildiug, leaving suf
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . Roxbury: — The memorial of us, the subscribers (and sundry others). Inhab-itants of said town sheweth, That by the blessing of God and thebenevolence of divers Catholick and charitable disposed Christians,we purpose to build an Episcopal Church in this town. Its there-fore prayed that you would grant soe much of the common groundnear the house of Robert Auchmuty. Esq., as shall be thought need-full or proper for such a buildiug, leaving sufficiency of road on allsides, and which we shall look upon as only just and equal, but anearnest of a true Catholic spirit to your brethren iu the faith, which, ADMIRAL WINSLOW 211 that the great God, the giver of every good thinic. may ever estab-lish between the true churches and the members thereof, are thedevout prayer of us, the subscribers. •? Leonard Laukmax Francis Smith Joxa Plk Robert Auchmuty Lewis Vassall. Situated upon rising ground, a short distance south ofDudley Street, and approached from the west by Kearsarge. ADMIRAL WINSLOW. Avenue which once bore the name of Mount Vernon Place,is the Warren Cemetery, laid out by the First ReligiousSociety in 1818 and given to the town in 1841. It has anarea of about one and a half acres. South of it is the pres-ent building of the old Roxbury Grammar School, erectedin 1853. Kearsarge Avenue perpetuates the fame of Admiral JohnA. Winslow, a resident of Roxbury for nearly thirty home was here, and in it his widow and daughter stillreside. After his brilliant achievement of sinking the Con- 212 ADMIRAL WINSLOW.—THE WARREN ESTATE. federate cruiser Alabama off Cherbourg, which, as hasbeen well said, will never be forgotten •• till the pilgrim canwalk dry-shod from Calais to Dover, he was, on his returnhome, formally welcomed b}_ the citizens of Roxbury on , 1SG4. The State of New Hampshi
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