Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 341
D., was the first pastor. Dwight, Beecher,Stone, and other gifted preachers have occupied its pulpit.Underneath were vaults — long since removed — for the dead.Peter Banner, an English architect, the same who made the planfor the fine old mansion-house of Eben Crafts in Roxbury, de-signed this… … LINEN SPINNING-WHEEL. wall a female figure, distaff in hand, symbolic of the industry-it was intended to promote. The establishment of spinning-schools is an interesting inci-dent in the history of Boston. Themanufacture of cotton had begun asearly as 1643, the raw material beingobtained from the…
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