Bernard did not leave Jamaica Plain until a year later -- in 1770. Sir
William Pepperell was the next resident of this house for about three
years. He was a graduate of Harvard, and, in 1776, became a member of the
Council, and was avowedly in sympathy with the royal cause. During the
siege this house was also occupied by the patriotic troops, and later
used as a hospital. The soldiers who died here were buried on the hill in
the rear of the house. This property was confiscated in 1779 by the
State, and purchased by Mr. Martin Brimmer, a Boston merchant, who died
here in 1804. Captain John Prince next owned it, and took down the old
house, a part of which had stood one hundred and forty years, and erected
a very attractive mansion which has recently given place to the one now
occupied by Mr. Rice. Mr. Prince opened the street, which bears his name
through his estate to Perkins Street, and it has since been the seat of
several beautiful residences.

The summer home of Francis Parkman, LL.D., on Prince Street, deserves
more than passing notice, no only because of his great prominence as an
historian and writer an scientific horticulture, but for the remarkable
beauty of the grounds lying along the chores of the lake and covered with
luxuriant and rare shrubs, trees, and plants, many of them models of
symmetry and loveliness. One cannot but regret that this homestead had
not been preserved in its completeness, as a memorial of this
distinguished man.

The old Jonas Chickering estate adjoining Mr. Parkman's, with its lovely
water-front, its unique Gothic buildings, its vine-covered lodge, and its
deer-park, was, in our early days, one of the most charming of our
country seats.

Pinebank, the home of the Perkins family for nearly a century, with its