Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . e Atlantic in the last ship that sailed fromBoston under the British flag before the Decla-ration of Independence. Lyndhursts sister was Mrs. Gardiner Greeneof Boston, and to the generosity of her husbandhe owed his chance when a youth to make thesplendid place he ultimately did make for himselfin England. For Copleys fortunes began todecline about the time his son was ready topractise law, and he was obliged to ask to help the young man out. This wasabout 1804, and after the farm, to whichCopley h
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . e Atlantic in the last ship that sailed fromBoston under the British flag before the Decla-ration of Independence. Lyndhursts sister was Mrs. Gardiner Greeneof Boston, and to the generosity of her husbandhe owed his chance when a youth to make thesplendid place he ultimately did make for himselfin England. For Copleys fortunes began todecline about the time his son was ready topractise law, and he was obliged to ask to help the young man out. This wasabout 1804, and after the farm, to whichCopley had always hoped some day to return,had slipped irretrievably from his grasp. Cop-leys step-brother, Henry Pelham, had lookedafter the property for him during the occupationof Boston by the British and, after the close ofthe war and the restoration of peace, the bigestate at the head of the Common began tobe really valuable. Especially did the wasteland of the western slope of Beacon Hill becomean object of much interest to the speculatorsof that day when it was whispered about that. ELKANAH WATSON. From a painting done in England by Copley. The stars and stripes onthe flag in the background were painted in immediately after George IIIhad declared the American colonies free and independent states. Page 209
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