Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger (1856)
Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894, Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr., Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr., Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr., Barry, egr. · John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington · leaf 221
room, a lodging room over it, and a gun roomover that. The erection of this castle gave rise to thepresent name of the island. At one time there was like-wise a strong building erected on the island for the recep-tion of convicts whose crimes deserved the gallows, butby the lenity of the government… … On the west side of the wall a tombstone stands, beneathwhich sleeps the good old Edward Pursley, whose spirit, FORT WINTHROP. VJ7 we trust, has spent nearly a century in heaven. There islikewise an ancient slab, small, of red sandstone, bearingthe name of Nathaniel Ely, but no date, and, stranger…
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