and Hancock’s pastures, and extended easterly
to Temple Street. Anderson, Irving, Garden, South
Russell, Revere, and the easterly parts of Phillips
and Myrtle Streets, were laid out through it.
Next comes Richard Middlecott’s four-acre pasture,
extending from Temple Street to Bowdoin Street, and
from Cambridge Street to Allston Street. Ridgeway
Lane, the lower parts of Hancock, Temple, and Bowdoin
Streets, were laid out through it. The Independent
Baptist Church, formerly under the pastorship of the
Reverend Thomas Paul; the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, built in 1835 by the parish of Grace Church,
under the rectorship of the Reverend Thomas M. Clark,
now bishop of the diocese of Rhode Island; the Mission
Chapel of St. John the Evangelist, which was erected
in 1830 by the congregation of the Reverend Lyman Beecher,
just after the destruction of their edifice by fire,
which stood at the southeast corner of Hanover and
(new) Washington Streets, stand upon it. Next
comes the four-acre pasture of Charles Bulfinch, the
architect of the Capitol at Washington, also of the
Massachusetts Capitol, Faneuil Hall, and other public
buildings, and for fourteen years chairman of the
board of selectmen of the town of Boston, extending
from Bowdoin Street to Bulfinch Street, and from Bowdoin
Square to Ashburton Place, for which he paid two hundred
pounds, New-England currency, equivalent to six hundred
and sixty-seven dollars. Bulfinch Street and Bulfinch
Place were laid out through it. The Revere House,
formerly the mansion of Kirk Boott, one of the founders
of the city of Lowell; Bulfinch-place Church, which
occupies the site of the Central Universalist Church,
erected in 1822 by the congregation of the Reverend
Paul Dean; and also Mount Vernon Church, erected in
1842 by the congregation over which the Reverend Edward
N. Kirk presided, stand upon it. Then follows
the two-acre pasture of Cyprian Southack, extending
to Tremont Row easterly, and westerly to Somerset
Street, Stoddard Street and Howard Street were laid
out through it. The Howard Athenaeum, formerly
the site of Father Miller’s Tabernacle, stands
upon it. Then follows the one-and-a-half-acre
pasture of the heirs of the Reverend John Cotton,
second minister of the First Church, extending from
Howard Street to Pemberton Square, which constitutes
a large portion of that enclosure. And lastly,
proceeding southerly, comes the four-acre pasture of
William Phillips, extending from the southeasterly
corner of Pemberton Square to the point of beginning,
and enclosing the largest portion of that enclosure.
The Hotel Pavilion, the Suffolk Savings Bank, and Houghton
and Dutton’s stores, stand upon it.