Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 56
n money to complete the chapel were madein every direction. Among others, Captain Thomas Coram^founder of the Foundling Hospital in London, who had re-sided in this country, was appHed to by a gentleman then inLondon; but no sooner had he mentioned the object of his visitthan he was obhged to… … an oath, that if the twelve Apostles were to apply to him inbehalf of the church, he would persist in refusing to do it. The portico was not completed until 1789. In that yearGeneral Wasliington was in Boston, and attended an oratorioin the chapel, which had for its ohject the completion of…
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