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Title: Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: New York, Chicago, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ved lovingly together in wedlockfifty-five years, and without an estate or anygainful employment, by constant labor andhonest industry maintained a large familycomfortably, and brought up thirteen childrenand seven grandchildren respectably. Fromthis instance, reader, be encouraged to diligencein thy calling, and distrust not Providence. He was a pius and prudent man; She a discreet and virtuous woman. Of quaint epitaphs there are not a few. One of the mostinteresting is that In memory of Daniel Jones, Junr A. M., Who having been earlydeprived of a distinguishing genius By a disease of Body made a happyexit August 23, 1779 in the 29th year of his age. But quaintest of all are the curious lines to the memory ofMary Brackett, who passed away in 1679. Under these clods a pretious gemmly hearBelovd of God & of her husband dearPius and prudent helpful to neighbors allBy night and day whenever they did callPelican like she freely spilt her bloodTo feed her chickens & to do them good
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Copps Hill Burying Ground—Mather Tomb on Right Hull Street Page 40 40 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE Copps Hill Burying Ground is on Hull St. It containsthe tombs of the Mathers, Edmund Hart, builder of OldIronsides, and many other noted men of the colonial period.Opposite the cemetery there stood until recent years the oldGalloupe House, General Gages headquarters during the siege.On the summit of the hill the British set up a battery at thetime of the battle of Bunker Hill and therewith set fire toCharlestown. On the same spot, a century earlier, stood thewindmill, seen in early prints, to grind the settlers corn, Mount Auburn Cemetery lies in Cambridge and Water-town. It is reached by the Cambridge Tunnel and cars forMount Auburn and Watertown, or by surface cars to MountAuburn over Harvard Bridge. It is a pleasant automobileride from Boston by way of the Larz Anderson Bridge. MountAuburn was the first of the garden cemeteries, and the unevensurface of its i6o acres gives opportunity

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