Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 157
s, the night before the evacuation a twenty-fourpound shot from Cambridge struck the tower, and falhng tothe ground was picked up by Mr. Turell, and in 1824 wasimbedded in the masonry, where it remained until the workof demolition began. When the society sold the church, they reserved the… … WINDOW OF BRATTLE STREETCHURCH, WITH BALL. to make Mr. Wakefield the custodian of the cannon-ball, to beplaced by him in the front of his new building on the old site, but this purpose was not carriedinto effect. The rustic quoins, ofConnecticut stone, have been placedinside the tower of the new…
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