Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order

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Hartford Convention

Delegates chosen in Faneuil Hall, Aug. 6, 1812

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Harvard College

first established at Cambridge, Dec. 13, 1633

Rebuilt during the year , 1672

Burned and again rebuilt, 1764

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Haunted House

on Springfield street, licensed by mistake, July 9, 1869

License revoked without mistake, Aug. 2, 1869

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Hay

began to be bunched and screwed in Boston, 1713

Weighing “engine” provided near West street, 1746

Scales, South, in Charles street, 1824

South, removed to Concord street, 1843

North, built on Merrimac street, 1824

North, remaining at Haymarket square, 1880

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Health

Officer, appointed by the town, Mar. 28, 1798

Board, Powers vested in the City Council, 1822

Commissioner, appointed by the City Government, May 1, 1824

Board, the Mayor and Alderman, constitute, Aug. 20, 1850

Commissioners, three appointed under a new law, Jan. 14, 1873

Supt., Ezra Forristall, appointed, May 17, 1853

George W. Forristall, appointed May 1, 1870

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Heth, Joyce

aged negress, Washington's nurse, (said to be,) at Concert Hall, Sep. 15, 1835

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Hewes, G. R. T.

the last of the Boston Tea Party at Boston, Aug. 18, 1835

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Highway

Surveyors appointed by the town, 1636

The great, leading over the Neck to “Rocksburie,” 1640

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High Sheriff

Mr. Allen, in office, 1662

Stephen Greenleaf, in office, 1765

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