The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . been shipwrecked near Plymouth, Mass., in the winter of1779. The brio- was driven ashore in a terrible intense was the cold that seventy-eight of the crew werefrozen to death, and from the merciless pelting of the waves,which froze hard to them, they looked rather like solid statuesof ice than human bodies. The survivors, twenty-eight innumber, who had been huddled together on thequarter-deck,with no extra clothing, with
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . been shipwrecked near Plymouth, Mass., in the winter of1779. The brio- was driven ashore in a terrible intense was the cold that seventy-eight of the crew werefrozen to death, and from the merciless pelting of the waves,which froze hard to them, they looked rather like solid statuesof ice than human bodies. The survivors, twenty-eight innumber, who had been huddled together on thequarter-deck,with no extra clothing, with no shelter but the skies, and nofood for three days, were finally rescued by the men of Plym-outh. All that was saved from below was a keg of rum. ofwhich all who drank, after a brief excitement, sunk into astupor from which they never awoke. The others made awise and salutary use of it by pouring it into their boots. In August, 1819, soon after his return from the mission toHolland, Gov. Eustis bought the property of Magees widow,and there passed the remainder of his days. After the de-cease of , the estate was sold at auction in Hon. William Shirley, Esq. GOV. SHIRLEY. 125 1867, and cut up into house-lots. In order to lay out ShirleyStreet the mansion house was moved a little to the elm-tree marks the place near which stood its northerlycorner. The adjacent hill has been dug away to the level ofthe street, so that at present nothing of the old attractivenessof the place remains. A fine large painting, The Carnivalof Venice, that hung in the main hall, was sold at the sametime as the house. William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to175G. was the son of a London merchant, who by marriagebecame possessed of the estate of Otehall in the parish ofWivelslield. Sussex, England. He was educated at Cambridge,and designed for the bar, where his superior talents and addressprocured him the notice of Sir Robert Walpole, and of theDuke of Newc
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