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Identifier: dayswaysinoldbos00ross_0 (find matches)
Title: Days and ways in old Boston
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rossiter, William Sidney, 1861-1929
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Publisher: Boston : R. H. Stearns and company
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An Historic Corner The Revolutionary Period Stephen Greenleaf was born in Newbury in1704. Inheriting wealth, he married in 1731 andcame to reside in Boston. In 1757 he was ap-pointed sheriff of Suffolk County. In August fol-lowing Greenleafs appointment, Thomas Pownallarrived as governor of the province and in the nextyear Thomas Hutchinson became lieutenant-gov-ernor. In September (1758), General Lord Am-herst arrived in Boston and his troops encampedon the Common near the old Usher mansion ontheir way to Lake George. The same year sawPownall depart for South Carolina, and the sheriffearly in August headed a detachment of the gov-ernors troop of guards and rode to Wrentham towelcome the new governor, Francis Bernard, andact as his escort to Boston. In December, 1758, Greenleaf, from the bal-cony of the Town House, proclaimed the newKing, George the Third, and a few days laterassisted in the funeral ceremonies for the lateKing. Soon began the oppression of the colony throughacts of th

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