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Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 321

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a cold wintry after-noon, when Just as glorious Sol was setting,On the wharf a numerous crew,Sons of freedom, fear forgetting,Suddenly appeared in view. The three Indiamen, with their high poops and ornamentedsterns, were lying quietly moored at the wharf. They hadbeen for some time under guard of… … 282 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. cargo. The names of the three ships were the Dartmouth,Captain James Hall, The Eleanor, Captain James Bruce, andbrig Beaver, Captain Hezekiah Coffin. The number of persons disguised as Indians was not more than seventeen, but the accessions from theOld South, and of…

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