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xxii Philadelphia for a milder climate in winter, had fallen in love with Mary Blchey, and that they had married without the knowledge of their parents. A handsome couple they were, as the fall-length portraits by Copley attest to this day. They both died young. I have the love-letters which passed between Lucy Hill and Oliver Everett; it was a happy marriage until his death, but he died in consumption in 1802. After this the family Jived sometimes in the North End of Boston, sometimes in the old house in Dorchester. In 1812 Edward Everett, the third son, was ordained minister of Brattle Street Church in Boston. He was not married—was, indeed, but twenty years old. His mother and sister moved into the parsonage in Court Street, where are now the offices of Adams Express. Mr. Everett left that church in the year 1815, and my grandmother and her family established themselves in a house in Bumstead Place—a place which exists no longer—and there my mother was married.

The newly married couple lived first in Ashburton Place, then called Somerset Court, in a