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60. SITES OF SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH MEETING HOUSES. About on site of Dane Hall (slight difference in site).

SITE OF THE

FOURTH MEETING HOUSE
BUILT IN 1756

HERE WASHINGTON WORSHIPPED
IN 1775.

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

OF MASSACHUSETTS

HELD HERE IN 1779

LAFAYETTE WELCOMED HERE

IN 1824.

61. SITE OF BOARDMAN HOUSE.

E. corner Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street (Brock & Eaton's store).

62. SITE OF FIRST PRINTING PRESS.

S. W. corner Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street (Brock Bros'. store).

HERE LIVED
STEPHEN DAYE
FIRST PRINTER IN
BRITISH AMERICA

1638-1668.

63. OLD COURT HOUSE.

Now on Palmer Street.

64. BURYING GROUND.

Corner Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street.
Soldiers' Monument in old burying ground.

ERECTED BY THE CITY

A. D. 1870

TO THE MEMORY OF

JOHN HICKS,

WILLIAM MARCY,
MOSES RICHARDSON,

BURIED HERE.

JASON RUSSELL,

JABEZ WYMAN,

JASON WINSHIP,
BURIED IN MENOTOMY

MEN OF CAMBRIDGE
WHO FELL IN DEFENCE OF

THE LIBERTY OF THE PEOPLE

APRIL 19, 1775.

"O, WHAT A GLORIOUS MORNING IS THIS!"

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68. HOME OF COL. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. 29 Buckingham Street.

69. HOMES OF THE LATE JOHN FISKE.

22 Berkeley Street, later 90 Brattle Street.

70. HOME OF THE LATE LUCIUS R. PAIGE.

Washington Street.

71. COOPER-AUSTIN HOUSE.

21 Linnæan Street.

72. JOHN WATSON HOUSE.

2162 Massachusetts Avenue, near Rindge Avenue.

AT THIS PLACE
APRIL 19, 1775

FOUR CITIZENS WERE KILLED
BY BRITISH SOLDIERS
RETREATING FROM LEXINGTON

ERECTED BY THE CITY

1880

NAMES OF THOSE KILLED

ISAAC GARDINER, WILLIAM MARCY,
JOHN HICKS, MOSES RICHARDSON.

73. SITE OF WASHINGTON ALLSTON HOUSE AND STUDIO.

Auburn Street, next to brick block at corner of Auburn and
Magazine streets.

74. BIRTHPLACE OF MARGARET FULLER.

71 Cherry Street.

75. FORT PUTNAM.

Fourth and Otis streets, East Cambridge.

PUTNAM SCHOOL

SITE OF

FORT PUTNAM

ERECTED BY THE AMERICAN FORCES

DEC. 1775

DURING THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.

76. LECHMERE POINT.

Second and Otis streets, East Cambridge.

NEAR THIS SPOT
800 BRITISH SOLDIERS
FROM BOSTON COMMON
LANDED APRIL 19TH, 1775,

ON THEIR MARCH TO
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

77. SITE OF HAUGH HOUSE.

First house built in East Cambridge.

78. WADSWORTH HOUSE. OLD PRESIDENTS' HOUSE.

In College Yard, east of Dane Hall, near Harvard Square.

WADSWORTH HOUSE

BUILT IN 1726
OCCUPIED BY

THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS

FROM WADSWORTH

TO EVERETT,

AND IN JULY, 1775

BY WASHINGTON.

79. SITE OF OAK TREE, SCENE OF WINTHROP-VANE ELECTION, 1637.

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The special subject of the evening was "Reminiscences of John Bartlett."

THE CHAIRMAN: I well remember as a boy, living in Berkeley Street, when on the opposite side came a new resident, a Mr. John Bartlett. At one time during the absence of my family I stayed with Mr. John Bartlett and his wife. Though they had no children it was a very pleasant visit. They were extremely kind to me as a young boy of the awkward age of nine years, and I shall always look back upon that two months' stay with very great satisfaction.

Among my very earliest recollections was that of hearing the name of Willard. A Mr. Willard had been president, as you know, of Harvard College, and there was a strong friendship, beginning I am not aware how far back, between the Willard and Dana families-perhaps because some Mr. Willard was kind to the descendants of that early Dana settler, whose humble occupation as one of the town's officers in ringing the swine was referred to at the last meeting of this Society. At any rate this friendship of long standing has been always very sincere.

The two names Bartlett and Willard were brought together when Mr. John Bartlett married Miss Hannah Willard, and again to-night it is most appropriate that we again bring the two names together in the way of an address on this same Mr. John Bartlett by a prominent member of the Boston Bar, Joseph Willard, Esq.

ADDRESS OF JOSEPH WILLARD

MEMBERS OF THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, LADIES

AND GENTLEMEN:

By the courtesy of this Society I have been associated in the pleasant duty of recalling some of the traits of character and incidents of the life of our late excellent friend and your fellowcitizen, John Bartlett. And it is fitting that in this city of his adoption, and in which he lived nearly threescore years and ten of his active and retired life, his many friends should gather to remember him.

John Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 14 June 1820, and died in Cambridge Sunday, 3 December, 1905. He came of good Pilgrim stock, counting the honored names of Elder Brewster and Richard Warren, both Mayflower men, among his ancestors. He was proud of his Mayflower descent, in the right way; not, that is, for ostentation, as is too much the fashion of to-day, but as an incentive to live worthy of the blood he inherited. I think he indeed reproduced their sturdy independence, their patience in suffering, and their single-eyed devotion to duty and principle. But he had beside these traits of character, one, which they may have possessed, -cheerfulness in the trials of life that nothing could weaken or abate; and another, that they are certainly not credited with having, a keen sense of humor, that saving grace of existence which, I think, is perhaps as efficient an aid to wellbeing in life as the theological grace of that earlier day.

At some time in the period of his retirement, probably near the end of the last century, looking back over an active career from the quiet haven of his Cambridge home, as yet uninvaded by sickness or domestic grief, he penned a brief account of his boyhood in

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