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8 the great men of that period, comparatively few now remain among us; and any thing that they can relate of their personal knowledge of bygone scenes and circumstances in our history cannot but be interesting:—

“In the letter of April 11, 1776, not long after the evacuation, Mr. Andrews speaks of entertaining General Washington, &c., at dinner. Mr. Andrews then lived, as his son Henry Andrews tells me, in School Street, in a house occupied afterwards by Dr. John Warren, brother of Joseph, and father of the late John C. Warren, M.D. That house, as I well recollect, stood next above Joshua Brackett's tavern, at the sign of Cromwell's Head, upon the site where Palmer's fruit-shop now stands."

Referring to this entertainment of General Washington, Mr. Breck says:—

Mr. Andrews was elected a selectman of Boston in 1785, and continued in that office until 1790, when he declined to serve longer.

It only remains for me to add, that such passages of the correspondence as have been considered rather too free-spoken