Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 394
by order ofthe General Assembly, and signed by Jeremiah Powell, Presi-dent of the CounciL Besides these are two old firelocks, bequeathed to the Stateby Rev. Theodore Parker. One of them has the makers nameon the lock-plate, Grice, 1762, and an inscription on the buttas follows : — The First Fire… … *This Firearm was usecl by Capt John Parker in the Battle of Lexington April 19th 1775. In connection with the State House we present an en-graving of the desk, long used in the Old State House bysuccessive speakers of the House of Eepresentatives. On theremoval of the Legislature fromtheir…
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