was severely wounded at the siege of Quebec while in command on Lake
Ontario, and was retired on half pay when he came to live here. Although
probably at heart in sympathy with those who resisted the injustice of
the English government, for personal reasons he adhered to the royal
cause, and, on the morning of the battle of Lexington, he left his home
and everything belonging to it, and mounting his horse, "with pistol in
hand, rode at full speed to Boston." He never returned, but sailing to
England soon after settled in Highgate. During the siege of Boston this
house was the headquarters of General Greene, and has the honor of having
been visited by General George Washington. Colonel David Henley, who had
charge of Burgoyne's captive army while at Cambridge, also occupied this
house at one time. For a while, it was converted into a hospital fore the
Roxbury Camp, and some fifty of the soldiers who died here were buried on
the grounds, near where the Hillside schoolhouse now stands. The remains
have since been removed to the old burial ground on Walter Street. This
property also was confiscated, by order of the General Court of April 30,
1779, and was then purchased by Colonel Isaac Sears, a successful Boston
merchant, who had been one of the most active and zealous of the Sons of
Liberty, and a member of the Provincial Congress. Soon after ( in 1784)
it became to property of the first David Stoddard Greenough, son of
Thomas Greenough, who had been a member of the Committee of
Correspondence in the Revolution.

It was in 1769 that the first church in our village was built, upon land
given by Eliot, -- on the site of the present stone edifice, -- and names
the Third Parish, from its relation to the First Parish on Dudley Street
and the Second or Upper Parish on Walter Street. And it was to Mrs.
Susanna, wife of Benjamin Pemberton, that it owed its origin. The
distance from the other churches, and consequent inconvenience of regular
attendance, led her to desire a nearer church home. She proposed to her