Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Marking Historical Sites of the City of Boston: 1924-1937 An appropriation of was provided by the City Council to carry on the work. Before the Commission had entered upon its labors, Mr. Appleton and Mr. Reade resigned and Judge Thomas H. Dowd and Judge David A. Lourie, justices of the Superior Court, were appointed to fill the vacancies. A searching study of the early history of Boston was immediately begun by the Commission. It was early realized that an exacting and laborious, though intensely interesting, task had been assumed. The march of progress with its attendant changes in the topography of the city had largely obliterated the original setting of early historic places and incidents. Many of the homes, meeting places and scenes of activity of the early colonists had been replaced from time to time by later structures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.