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Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 110

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of Philadelphia, will alwaysexcite a smile. The house was occupied for eighty years as a printing-house,by Kneeland and others. In 1769 it became the office of Edesand Gill, who continued there until hostilities commenced, in1776. Edes and Gill printed a copy of the Stamp Act, ina pamphlet of… … Hancock, Otis, Edes and Gill, when they printed the Stamp Act, occupiedpremises on the south side of Court Street, about on the pres-ent site of the Scollay Building. In their back office, on theold corner, the council for the destruction of the tea was held,of which Samuel Adams was the master…

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