first dwelling, built in 1633, was a simple log house, and was burned
three or four years later.

An historical sketch of the First Church in Roxbury, by Dr. De Normandie.

One of the old omnibuses was very long, and named Osceola, for an Indian
chief, a representation of whom was painted on the side.

At the time to which we refer, postage was regulated by distance.
Thus, 6 1/4, 12 1/2, 16 3/4, and even 25 cents, were sometimes
necessary.

For the origin of this peculiar name, see the incident which gave rise
to it described in Drake's Town of Roxbury.

Dr. Thomas Gray's Half-Century Sermon.

Dr. Thomas Gray was born in Boston, March 16 1772, and graduated at
Harvard College in 1790. He married a daughter of Rev. Samuel Stillman,
D., pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, by whom he was prepared
for the ministry, and entered the pastorate at Jamaica Plain, April 22,
1792. His mother, Mrs. Abigail May, widow of Moses Brewer, was then
living in the old homestead, and died April 24, 1849, aged 80 years.
Perkins Street, known in early days as Connecticut Lane, was named for
William Perkins, who came to Roxbury in 1632. Within our recollection, a
very small, old house, on the opposite side of the street, almost hidden
from view by shrubbery and trees, was the humble home of old Simeon
Giles, a Negro, who made a precarious living by wood-chopping and like
service for the neighbors. He was the son of old Peter, who was a slave
of Governor Adams, valued and kindly treated, and who lived to number one