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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
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entirely disregarded, and that nolaws were of force in .Massachusetts until confirmed by the ColonialLegislature : that the lives of the (oinmissioners were in danger,—that they were insulted and obliged to leave the country in disgrace.A writ of V Warranto was issued, and thus ended the firstCharter of Massachusetts, Oct. Hi«4.The powers of government contained in this instrument have been dilferentlv interpreted, and the primary cause of the dissen- tions between England and her American colonies, during thewhole period of the exi>tanee of those relations, was the debata-ble -round between her imperial and their municipal rights.Alte nate inroads on either side were kept up, which naturallyended by bringing into collision the forces of each people, andinvolving them at length in an implacable war. which commencedal Lexington and ended at Yorktown. A duplicate of this Charter was sent over, in 11>2!>, to < iovernorEndicott at Salem, and is now in fche Salem Athenaeum.
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Fac-Similes of the First Massachusetts Charter. ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 53 THE HUTCHINSON HOUSE. The picture of the stately mansion here given is a correct rep-resentation of the Hutchinson House in the North Square. Itwas prominent as the house attacked by the mob in 1765, and wastaken down fifty years ago—1834. It served as the residence ofthe Hutchinson family, viz. Col. Thomas Hutchinson and his sonGovernor Hutchinson from the year 1711 to 1774, when the lat-ter left for England, where he died 1780—The house was built byCol. John Foster, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, agentleman who was born at Ayelsboro, in Buckinghamshire, Eng-land and came to Boston as early as 1675, where he became a richmerchant and resided on Charter Street, at the corner of what isnow called Foster Street, formerly a lane leading from his houseto his wharf on Commercial Street. He was very active in theAndros troubles, was a member of the Provincial Council andJudge of the Common Pleas

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