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Title: Antique views of ye towne of Boston
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Stark, James Henry
Subjects: Dwellings Historic buildings
Publisher: Boston : Published by ye Photo-electrotype engraving co. ...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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of the parenttree. In the earliest maps of Boston but three trees are shown onthe Common, one of these was the Old Elm, then known as the Great Tree. Near it stood the Powder House. The supposition is that the witchcraft and other executions whichtook place on the Common in our early history were performedfrom limbs of this tree. The shooting of Matoonas, one* of KingPhilips sagamores, is thought to have occurred under its bran-ches, and it is certain that during the revolutionaiy struggles itwas one of the places of constant resort of the Sons of Liberty.Many a tory was hung in effigy from its branches. Perhaps onthis account it acquired the name of Liberty Tree, which it borein 1784, in honor of its sister elm long and familiarly known bythat name at the corner of Essex and Washington Sts., and whichhad been destroyed by the British in 1755. The engraving—a Mezzotinle—here given of the Old Elm was reproduced from theJune number of the Polyanthos for 1813, In addition to the Elm
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ANTIQUE VIEW8 OF BOSTON. 179 it shows the Frog pond, with Beacon street at the right and theold rope walks at the left. The view was drawn and engraved,the periodical says, by Master J. Kidder, a youth of Boston andis his first essay in the art of aqua tinta. The view was takenfrom the wall near the head of West street.

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