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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Boston, 1726--1765. HE young Thomas Amory of Boston, for whom his father was paying "Schoolmaster fines" by 1726, entered the Latin School in 1735, and Harvard two years later.152 After his graduation in 1741 he studied Theology and, Mr. T. C. Amory says, would have taken orders in the Church but that his mother needed his presence and help. He is described in a deed153 in 1769 as "Thomas Amory, Gentleman;" in 1772, as " Distiller;" at other times, as "Merchant." The house, distill--house, stores and wharf at the east end of Castle Street were in his share of his father's property. After his mother's death (she died in 1770) he bought Governor Belcher's house at the corner of Orange and Hollis Streets, the land measuring 40 x 102 feet. It was along Orange Street and the rest of what we call Washington Street, that he and his two brothers were accustomed to take with great regularity their afternoon walk together, earning the nickname of " The Three Cocked Hats." Thomas married when he was forty-two his cousin, Elizabeth Coffin, aged twenty-three, daughter of his mother's sister, Ann Holmes, and of William Coffin, sea-captain, merchant, distiller, vestryman of Trinity Church, native of Nantucket, son of Nathaniel Coffin and his wife, the beautiful Quaker preacher Damaris Gayer, and great-grandson of Tristram Coffin, emigrant from Devonshire in 1642. Elizabeth Coffin was the tenth of the thirteen children of William and Anne; her elder brothers "Billey," "Nath," and John Coffin,154 were about the ages of the three Amorys. Jonathan and John Amory were in partnership together155 by 1757, as importers of dry goods, "at the Sign of the Horse at the Head of Dock Square." In this year John married Katherine, daughter of Rufus Greene, great-grandson of...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155067186
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 102
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155067185
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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