Exploring
the former homes of the British Loyalists in and around Boston.
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Sites Kings Chapel 58 Tremont Street, Boston 617-227-2155, 617-523-1749 On the Freedom Trail between Park St. and Government Center MBTA stations. Open regularly for visitors. Sunday worship service at 11 am. Granary Burial Ground Tremont Street, Boston Tomb of Rev. Mather Byles, Sr., witty Loyalist preacher. Old State House The Bostonian Society 206 Washington St., Boston 617-720-1713 education@bostonhistory.org Site of the Boston Massacre. “All that I have been able to gather concerning the late unhappy affair...is that there was a Quarrel between two soldiers and some Towns-People about 8 o’clock at night, and the latter rang the Fire Bell,” General Gage reported, “upon which the people assembled” and attacked the sentry at the Custom House, and reinforcements sent to protect him “fired in their own defense.” Province House Steps Province Street, Boston Only remnants left of the Royal Governor’s residence. Governor Hutchinson’s Field Adams St., Milton Site of last Royal Governor’s house. Owned by the Trustees of Reservations. Angered by the Stamp Act, Bostonians took out their frustrations on the King’s representatives. “...The hellish crew fell upon my house,” Governor Hutchinson wrote. “Furniture...was cut to pieces...and most of the beds cut open and the feathers thrown out [into] the roadway.” Hutchinson wanted to take his family to his summer home in Milton, but his daughters felt they would not be safe there, so “I was forced to shelter them that night at the Castle.” Old North Church 193 Salem St., Boston 617-523-6676 Christ Church, later renamed Old North, became famous when Patriots hung lanterns in its steeple to signal Paul Revere. But it was originally Anglican, and used during the seige of Boston for the burial of British officers. Dr. Mather Byles, Jr., its rector, left town the afternoon of April 18, 1775, apparently forewarned that the British intended to march on Lexington and Concord the following day. Castle Island (Fort Independence) South Boston 617-268-5744 Formerly Castle William. Open Saturday and Sunday, June through August, noon–3:30 p.m., Thursday evenings until dusk. Sunday only, September and October. Brattle Street, Cambridge 617-547-4252 Known as “Tory Row”. Walking tours given by the Cambridge Historical Society. Christ Church 0 Garden Street, Cambridge. Across from the Cambridge Common. Because it was “second best”, the communion silver sent to King’s Chapel by their Royal Magesties William and Mary in 1694, ended up in Christ Church, Cambridge, handed down when George III sent a more fashionable set. The newer silver disappeared when the rector of King’s Chapel, a “noted Loyalist”, left for Halifax. But the older silver, now displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, survived the Revolution, and is still used at Christ Church at Christmas and Easter. Ropes Mansion (1727) Peabody Essex Museum 318 Essex St., East India Square, Salem 978-745-9500 King Hooper House (1728) Marblehead Art Association 8 Hooper Street, Marblehead 781-631-2608
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