xpelling the regulars from Boston was under
consideration, that John Hancock exclaimed, "Burn Boston, and make John
Hancock a beggar, if the public good requires it."

[4] Thomas Crafts was, in 1789, a painter and japanner, opposite the
site of the great tree (corner of Boylston and Washington Streets). He
became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew in 1762.

[5] Benjamin Edes, journalist, born in Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 14,
1732; died in Boston, December 11, 1803. In 1755, he began, with John
Gill, the publication of the "Boston Gazette and Country Journal," a
newspaper of deserved popularity, unsurpassed in its patriotic zeal for
liberty,--the chosen mouth-piece of the Whigs. To its columns, Otis, the
Adamses, Quincy and Warren, were constant contributors. Their
printing-office, on the corner of Queen (now Court) Street and Dassett's
Alley (now Franklin Avenue), was the place of meeting of a party of the
"Mohawks," on the afternoon of December 16, 1773. During the siege of
Boston, the "Gazette" was issued at Watertown. It was discontinued
September 17, 1798. At the opening of the war, Mr. Edes possessed a
handsome property, which was wholly lost by the depreciation of the
currency. Edes was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company in 1760, and a prominent "Son of Liberty."

[6] Dr. Benjamin Church, physician, orator and poet, grandson of the
famous Indian fighter of the name; born in Newport, R.I., August 24,
1734; was lost at sea in May, 1776. He graduated at Harvard College in
1754; studied medicine in London, and after his return to Boston, became
eminent as a surgeon. For several years previous to the Revolution, he
was a conspicuous and leading Whig. He was a representative, a member of
the Provincial Congress of 1774, and physician-general to the patriot
army. Pecuniary embarrassment is supposed to have led to his defection
from the cause of his country. In September, 1775, an intercepted letter
of his, in characters, to Major Cain, in Boston, was deciphered; and
October 3, 1775, he was convicted by a court martial, of which
Washington was president, of "holding a criminal correspondence with the
enemy." Confined in jail at Norwich, Conn., he was released in May,
1776, on account of failing health; sailed for the West Indies, and was
never afterwards heard from.

[7] Gabriel Johonnot, born in Boston, 1748; died in Hamden, Me., October
9, 1820. Zacharie, his father, a Huguenot, was a dis