La città di Roxbury: Le sue memorabili persone e luoghi, la sua storia e antichità, con numerose illustrazioni dei suoi antichi monumenti e personaggi noti . Questa vecchia casa fu acquistata nel 1742 da JeremiahWilliams, fabbro, fratello del col. Joseph e la patria Del Maggiore Edward Payson Williams. Un vecchio palazzo, onceThe residenza di MR. John Amory, ora una casa pubblica, andstyled l'hotel Amory. È sulla nostra sinistra come approachw- Gamblins Fine. Mentre sulla nostra destra un nuovo brewerysembra tristemente fuori posto in questo ritiro sylvan. In cui questa immediata vicinanza era la casa e quattro

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The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . th hugewillows. This old house was bought in 1742 by JeremiahWilliams, blacksmith, brother of Col. Joseph and the fatherof Major Edward Payson Williams. An old mansion, oncethe residence of Mr. John Amory, now a public house, andstyled the Amory Hotel. is on our left as we approachw- Gamblins End. while on our right a new brick breweryseems sadly out of place in this sylvan retreat. Somewherein this immediate vicinity was the house and fourteen rods ofground belonging to John Maw or Maves. as it was thenwritten, the ancestor of the well-known family of that name.The book of Houses and Lands describes it as •• a triangleabutting on R. Gamblin east, the highway northwest, andThomas Bells orchard southwest. May. who had beenmaster of a vessel called the • James. sailing as early as1035 between London and New England, came to Roxburyin 16-40, and died on April 23, 1G70. The fine old mansion near the corner of Amory and Boyl-ston Streets, now the residence of Gen. W. Raymond Lee. was. GEN. W. RAYMOND LEES RESIDENCE. built in 1766 on the land given by Thomas Bell in 1672 to theRoxbury Free School, of which he was the most liberal bene-factor. Near it stood, until its demolition in 1765. Mr. Bells THOMAS BELL. 399 homestead, afterwards that of Capt. Ebenezer Gore, thesound portion of the old materials being made use of in thenew structure. The homestead came about 1810 into thepossession of Thomas Amory, London Tom, whose daugh-ter Mr. Lee married. At the bend of the road is a largeEnglish elm. and on the grounds in front of the house areman} fine specimens of elms, English and American, so dis-posed as to add greatly to the picturesque effect produced bythe low, irregular outlines of the residence itself. The old por-tion of the house is central, the wings are modern additions. Mr. Bell bequeathed all his real es

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