Category: People of Old North
By Catherine Matthews
Twenty-two years before he wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned an article for the July 1838…
By Mark Hurwitz
In the spring of 1768, John Hancock’s vessel, the Lydia, pulled into Boston Harbor after a transatlantic voyage.…
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In 1716, Arthur Savage displayed the first exotic animal to set foot in the American colonies. He exhibited a male…
Tim Wenrich, Sexton of the Old North Church, was recently presented with the Good Neighbor Recognition Award on behalf of the North End /…
By Mark Hurwitz
The connections between families in 18th century Boston and subsequently their connections to Old North Church are truly…
As a newbie here at Old North, I saw the church bells before I understood them. They are beautiful and impressive—and between two fairly…
Just inside the entrance of the Old North Church stand two white poles with strange gold pine cones on top. The casual observer might pass…
By Mark Hurwitz
Rebecca Theresa Reed was born in 1813 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. She was raised Protestant and attended Christ Church in the…
By Mark HurwitzWith additional contributions by Gloria Baragona, fifth great-granddaughter of Francis Wells
With all the marrying, death,…
By Rev. Steve Ayres
On March 17, 1776, the Rev. Mather Byles, Jr. second rector of the Old North Church, sailed from Boston to New Brunswick,…