Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order

Trees

A gallows for hanging criminals, 1659

Hancock family claim date of planting, 1668

Trunk badly burned by boys, June, 1847

Repaired and hooped, Aug., 1847

Iron fence and tablet, by Mayor Smith, Sep., 1854

Large limb broken off in a storm, Mar. 9, 1860

Blown down in a storm, Feb. 15, 1876

A sprout from a root stands ten feet high, 1880

Liberty, corner Newbury and Essex streets, said to be planted, 1646

Pruned by the “Sons of Liberty,” Feb. 14, 1766

An Anti-Tea Party, under its branches, Nov. 3, 1773

Cut down by British soldiers, one killed, Sep. 1, 1775

A row planted on Paddock's Mall, May, 1662

On Paddock's Mall, removed, Mar. 2, 1874

Several planted, at the south end of the town, May, 1695

A row planted on east side of the Common, May, 1728

A second row planted, east side the Common, May, 1734

A third row planted east side the Common, May, 1784

Three rows east side Common decayed and removed, 1880

The Ghingo removed from Pemberton hill to Beacon street Mall, May 8, 1835

Planted over the east side of the Common, May, 1843

Planted “on each side of the Neck,” May, 1825

Planted in the Granary burial-grounds, May, 1830

Planted on Washington, south of Dover street, May, 1842

Planted on Copp's Hill burying-grounds, May, 1843