Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . early youth was passed here is certain. Here he practised theart of making tallow candles for his father, and employed hisleisure in throwing rubbish into the neighboring Mill here he wended his way through Hanover and CourtStreets to the Latin Scliool, and, after his fathers businessbecame distasteful to him, to liis lirothers printing-of&ce inQueen Street. The sign of Josias Frauldin, father of Benjamin, was a Blue Ball, suspended by aniron rod from the front —^ ^2* ^^i^ *^f lii^ shop, which stood at the southeast comerof Hanover an
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . early youth was passed here is certain. Here he practised theart of making tallow candles for his father, and employed hisleisure in throwing rubbish into the neighboring Mill here he wended his way through Hanover and CourtStreets to the Latin Scliool, and, after his fathers businessbecame distasteful to him, to liis lirothers printing-of&ce inQueen Street. The sign of Josias Frauldin, father of Benjamin, was a Blue Ball, suspended by aniron rod from the front —^ ^2* ^^i^ *^f lii^ shop, which stood at the southeast comerof Hanover and UnionStreets. Before the streetswe/e numbered, and whilethe buildings were scat-tered, it was the universalcustom among the inhab-itants to designate theirshops by some emblem. Tlius we iind the Heart and Crown,^ Three Xuns and a Comb, and Brazen Head in Cornhill,Three Doves in Marlborough Street, Tun and Bacchusand Three Sugar Loaves and Canister in King Street. Thislast was thus distinguished from the Two Sugar Loaves *in Cornhill: —. THE BLUE BALL. FKOM BOSTON STONE TO THE NORTH BATTERY. 147
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