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 93
ad of branches eighty-six feet. In1855 it was measured, and found to be seventy-two and ahalf feet in height; height of first branch from the ground, 72 BOSTON SIGHTS. twenty-two and a half feet; girth four feet from the ground, seventeen feet; average diameter of greatest spread ofbranches, one… … There was once a powder magazine near this tree, onthe little hill at whose foot it stands. This hill, also, dur-ing the siege of Boston, was the site of a British fortifica-tion, bombarded by Washington. TUK GREAT ELM. 73 In the war of 1812 its existence was endangered by theencampment around it…
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