Author: Eliza Susan Quincy

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781230412733

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. In July, 1795, 1 went to Princeton to stay at President Smith's until the autumn; but in August I was recalled home to accompany my brother John Morton to Boston. The recovery of a debt due on his former mercantile concerns was the object of his journey. I obeyed the summons with great regret; being agreeably established at Princeton with plans for the summer, which I relinquished with reluctance to go to Boston. Having arrived at home, I found my brother had already engaged our passage to Providence, Rhode Island, on board a packet, for the next day. "We had a pleasant sail through the Sound; touched at Newport; and, attended by our servant, proceeded to Boston in the stage. The chief pleasure I anticipated from this excursion was that of visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Cabot, who, I had been informed, resided in the environs of that town; and, passing through Roxbury, I selected the mansion of Judge Lowell as probably theirs. As we drove over the Neck, and through the Main Street of Boston, I little imagined I was entering the place of my future residence. The ranges of wooden houses, all situated with one end toward the street, and the numerous chaises we met, drawn by one horse, the driver being placed on a low seat in front, appeared to me very singular. At that time, Boston, compared with New York, was a small town. There were no brick sidewalks, except in a part of the Main Street, near the Old South, then called Cornhill. The streets were paved with pebbles; and, except when driven on one side by carts and carriages, every one walked in the middle of the street, where the pavement was the smoothest. We drove to Mrs. Archibald's boardinghouse, in Bowdoin Square; where we were well accommodated. My brother engaged Mr....