Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 167
OF BOSTON. contention among tlie people as to whether they -would beserved at their houses in the old way, or resort to fixed locali-ties, and one set of disputants took tliis smnmary method ofsettling the question. Pemberton says, this mob were dis-guised like clergymen. In 1740, the question of… … FANEUIL HALL BEFORE ITS ENLARGEMENT. maintain it for the purpose named. Mr. Faneuils noble offerwas courteously received, but such was the division of opinionon the subject, that it was accepted by a majority of only sevenvotes, out of seven hundred and twenty-seven persons voting.The building was…
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