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Chapter 1

The Prison Door

A throng of bearded men, in sad colored garments, and grey, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed

with women, somewhere in hoods, and others bare-headed, was assembled in front of a wooden

edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes.

The founders of a new colony, whatever utopia of human virtue and happiness, they might

originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities

to a lot of portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the sight of

a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers

of Boston had built the first prison house somewhere in the vicinity of Corn Hill, almost

as seasonably as they marked out the first burial ground on Isaac Johnson's lot, and

round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated supple-curs

in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.

Certain it is that some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the

wooden jail was already marked with weather stains and other indications of age, which gave

a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.

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