tiller and merchant.
His dwelling-house and store was on Orange Street, and his distillery on
Harvard Street, directly opposite. At the bottom of the street was his
wharf, wooden distillery, storehouses, etc. The mansion house and store
were burned in the great fire, 20th April, 1787. Gabriel was a member of
St. John's Lodge, Boston, 1780, and a charter member of Hancock Lodge,
Castine, Me., 1794. He was chairman of a committee appointed by the
company of Cadets, of Boston, August 15, 1774, to proceed to Salem, and
return to Governor Gage, the standard presented to them; and was
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 14th Regiment of the Massachusetts line, known
as the Marblehead regiment, commanded by Colonel Glover. He removed to
Castine, Me., soon after the Revolutionary war; took a prominent part in
town affairs, and at one time represented the town of Penobscot in the
Massachusetts Legislature.

[8] Nathaniel Appleton, Commissioner of Loans for the State of
Massachusetts, a resident of Atkinson (now Congress) Street, son of Rev.
Dr. Nathaniel Appleton, of Cambridge; died in June, 1789, aged 66.

[9] The Scollays were an old Scotch family. A John Scollay, the first
mention of whom is found here, in 1692 leased the Winnisimmet ferry for
one year. John, whose name is conspicuous in the early Revolutionary
records of Boston, was a merchant, and was chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, from 1774 to 1790. His portrait, by Copley, represents a
portly, florid man, with a powdered wig, seated, his hand resting on a
ledger. Thomas Melvill married one of Scollay's daughters. Col. William
Scollay, apothecary and druggist, son of John, resided at first on or
near the spot where the Museum stands, and his garden extended back to
Court Square. He was associated with Charles Bulfinch and others, in the
improvement of Franklin Place, now Franklin Street, where they erected
the first block of buildings in Boston. Col. William was commander of
the Independent Company of Cadets.

[10] Francis Rotch, a Quaker merchant, part owner of the "Dartmouth" and
the "Beaver," was born in Nantucket, Mass., 30th September, 1750, and
died in New Bedford, in May, 1822. Joseph, his father, the founder of a
family of eminent merchants, was born in Salisbury, England, in 1704,
and died in New Bedford, 24th November, 1784. In early life he settled
in Nantucket, and rose from poverty to affluence by his industry, energy
and enterprise, gaining, at the same time, un