he had married in his native Drogheda when he was only her father's curate,cheerfully laid down his happy, wellspent life. COURTSHIP ACCORDING TO T SAMUEL SEWALL HERE is almost no story of early not connect with the Old South Meeting-House in Boston. The thing that perplexes is which to choose. For the building has been the scene of many great historical crises, during which affairs have been guided by some of the foremost men in the annals of our country. Its site is also famous as that of the home of Governor John Winthrop, and it was here that the governor died March 26, 1649. Subsequent to this event the land was owned by Madam Mary Norton (wife of Reverend John Norton), who gave it in trust for ever "for the erecting of a house for their assembling themselves together publiquely to worship God." The first meeting-house on the spot was a little cedar one, erected in 1669. This stood until 1729, when it was removed to make way for the present structure of brick, built by Joshua Blanchard and dedicated April 26, 1730. In the present building it was some years later (November 27, 1773) that a meeting of five thousand citizens decided that the odious tea should not land; and a few weeks afterward, on December 16th, seven thousand men sat in the church until after candlelight, and, when the messengers returned from Governor Hutchinson at Milton with the word that that official refused redress, a body of them raised the war-whoop at the door and, disguised as savages, rushed |