Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 113
irst Church of Boston, removed fromState Street in 1640. In1808 the society sold thissite to Benjamin Joy, onwhich he erected a brickstructure, and the churchwas removed to ChauncyStreet. Prom the churchthe space around it tookthe name of Church Square.The old meeting-house wasof wood, but after… … OLD BRICK CHURCH. FEOM THE OKANGE-TREE TO THE OLD BKICK. 85 was of three stories and decorated witli a bell-tower and clock.This clock was, without doubt, the first placed in any publicposition in the town. The records show that in 1716-17 thetown voted to obtain a town clock to be set up in some…
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