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 Narragansett Indians. 57   Murder of Mr. Oldham.
Visit of Miantonomo to Gov. Vane, Treaty, &c.
Narragansett Art.
Coining money.
Marriage of Children.
Egyptian Custom.
Marriage of Cleopatra.   VI.  Names of Places, Streets, &c. 62   Curious Indian Names;
Names of Streets, Taverns, &c.;
Paddy Alley and William Paddy;
Dates of the Streets and Lanes;
Royal Names, Names of Patriots, Puritans and Union Names;
Names of Taverns and Shops;
Number of Streets and Wharves.   VII.  Persecution of the Quakers. 74   Church Government and Civil Government.
Interference of the King.
Arrival of Quakers, 1656.
Execution of Quakers.
Order from the King, 1661.
Hutchinson’s Opinion.
Triumph of the Quakers.
Their Meeting House.
Meetings discontinued.   VIII.  First Newspaper in America. 87   First ever issued—in writing.
Gazette in Venice, 1583.
English Mercury, 1588.
“Publick Occurrences” 1690.
Legislative Interference.
To cure the ‘Spirit of Lying.’
The Christian Indians.
Massacre of French Indians.
General character of the paper and its reading matter.   IX.  Curious Boston Lectures. 98   History of Boston;
“Boston’s Ebenezer;”
A Stone of Help;
Widows and Orphans;
Hope in God;
Appeal to the Public Officers;
Household Religion;
Fanaticism and Declamation.   X.  Remarkable Proclamations. 1774-5. 104   March 29, War against France;
October 18, On account of a Riot;
October 19, War against Indians;
October 20, Thanksgiving Day;
Nov. 2, Rewards for Indian scalps;
1745, March 25, For a Fast Day;
"July 8, Thanksgiving Day;
"Sept. 6, For a Fast Day;
"November 22, Sailor’s Riot;
"November 25, Thanksgiving.   XI.  Popular Puritan Literature. 115   An Earthquake in Boston;
Deborah; a Bee;
Popish Invasion of England;
The Scotch Rebellion.   XII.  Revolutionary Proclamations. 126   Gen. Gage’s Administration;
Shutting up of Boston Harbor;
Election of delegates to Congress;
General Gage’s Proclamation;
Against non-importation league.
Remarkable Proclamation for the promotion of Piety and Virtue.
Its Character and Observance.   XIII.  Curiosities of the Market. 131   Supplies of Gov. Winthrop;
Bartering for Furs;
Scarcity of Provisions;
Hunting, Game, Fish, &c.;
Living in the Olden Time;
Supplies for a British fleet.     CONCLUSION.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I.

TOPOGRAPHY OF BOSTON.

 

THE ORIGINAL PENINSULA.

There is a line of Cowper to the effect that “God made the country, and man made the town;” and there is probably no more striking evidence of the truthfulness of the axiom than is to be found in the history and growth of Boston, between the years 1630 and 1880, confirming in a remarkable manner Capt. Wood’s prophecy concerning the town, in 1650: viz., “whose continuall inlargement presages some sumptuous city.” The original territory which has formed the basis, so to speak, of Boston proper, was a peninsula, and appeared like two islands, or, by the continued operation of the sea, was likely to become so. Its distinguishing feature was to be found in its three