tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post2188673174445552571..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: A “Romantic” Mansion in RoxburyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-19025865647764376782011-02-14T20:06:32.916-05:002011-02-14T20:06:32.916-05:00I couldn’t tell from Drake’s Roxbury which directi...I couldn’t tell from Drake’s <i>Roxbury</i> which direction you should be traveling in when the remains of the mansion came after the new cathedral. <br /><br />Robert Pierpont (or Pierpoint) is an interesting figure in Revolutionary Boston. He was the instigator of a protest that led to a riot against British troops in 1769, and a coroner at the time of the Boston Massacre the next year. In 1775 the army guard at the Neck discovered a wagon hauling, as I recall, 13,000 rounds of ammunition to him at his new Roxbury house. He went to Gen. Gage and insisted that he should be allowed to have those cartridges because they were for his private use.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-35659243766299514302011-02-14T16:17:06.998-05:002011-02-14T16:17:06.998-05:00I found a 1775 map of Roxbury on the Library of Co...I found a 1775 map of Roxbury on the Library of Congress website that shows "Colo. Brindley's" along what is now Tremont Street:<br /><br />http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3764b+ar089200))<br /><br />Drake's "The Town of Roxbury", which you cite, is available on Google Books. It says (pp. 326-7) that the house was after the Mission Church, as you are heading towards the present Brigham Circle.<br /><br />I believe that Robert Pierpont, who bought the house from Brinley, may have been a maternal ancestor of J. Pierpont Morgan.Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91552152397944082562011-02-14T14:10:19.755-05:002011-02-14T14:10:19.755-05:00The Redemptorist order built what is now the Basil...The Redemptorist order built what is now the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, better known as <a href="http://www.themissionchurchboston.com/visit/" rel="nofollow">“the Mission Church,”</a> on the Brinley estate. In the 1870s a “fragment” of the old mansion house was still standing alongside that cathedral, but I don’t know in which direction.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-19577999959522587122011-02-14T09:24:26.559-05:002011-02-14T09:24:26.559-05:00Any idea of where this house once stood, with refe...Any idea of where this house once stood, with reference to current streets and landmarks?Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com