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Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Records Relating to the old Powder House . (search)
Records Relating to the old Powder House.
In a special message, dated April 25, 1746, from Governor Shirley to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay we find the following paragraph:—
Another thing I must report to you (having twice before moved it since the Beginning of this War), which is, the great Importance and Necessity of building another Powder House, as well in Consideration of the dangerous Situation of that we now have in Boston and of the great Hazard of rising ou at deal of Powder which now lies exposed; then the present Powder House is so full, that there is no Room to turn the Powder, and so keep it from spoiling. W. Shirley. Council Chamber, June 13, 1746.
[Vol.
XIII., acts and Resolves of Massachusetts Bay, Chap.
36, p. 606.]
In the House of Representatives, voted that a suitable Magazine for Powder be built on Charlestown Common between a place called the Neck of Land and Cambridge, near a large gravel pit, and that Andrew Boardman, Esq.