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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
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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nvested in real estate and farms in the vicinityof Boston until a fund of $100,000 was formed.With this an Orphan Academy was to be built.But unfortunately for Boston, his estate was in-solvent as the Picquet claim was allowed in thecourts and debts proved to the amounts of $127,-000 and $5,473.34. The Swan assets permitteda payment of but 8.0625 cents on a dollar, andon the 25th of July, 1836, Picquet asked forthe amount due to transmit to his brother CyrilSimon, Baron Picquet in Paris. Thus ended thecareer of the most litigious of the possessors ofthe Usher house. Washington GardensSwans own name does not appear in the Bostondirectory of 1809 as living on Common Street(now Tremont), as he had taken up his enforcedresidence in St. Pelagie the previous year, butthe house and grounds were occupied by theSwan family or remained vacant, till 1813. Thenext year it was the home of John P. Whitwell.Mr. Whitwell previously resided on Pond Streetnow Bedford Street. He was an apothecary and117
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