Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 169
ner; and youhave a profile of the ancient structure. A grasshopper, which still decorates the vane, made by thatcunning artificer Deacon Shem Drowne, was long thought to bethe crest of the Faneuils; especially as a similar insect adornedthe vane of the summer-house in Tremont Street. But the… … NEW FANEUIL HALL, WITH QUINCY MARKET. of the grasshopper than that it was an imitation of the vaneof the Royal Exchange, London. Curiously enough, the first public oration dehvered in FaneuilHall was a funeral eulogy, pronounced on the death of PeterFaneuil, March 14, 1743, by Master Lovell of the…
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