In  1812  Edward  Everett,  the  third  son,  was  or-
dained 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.
Introduction  xxv

Mr.  Everett  left  that  church  in  the  year  1815,
and  my  grandmother  and  her  family  established
themselves  in  a  house  in  Bumstead  Place  —  a
"  court "  which  exists  no  longer  —  and  there  my
mother  was  married.
The  newly  married  couple  lived  first  in  Ash-
burton  Place,  then  called  Somerset  Court,  in  a
house  now  standing.  A  year  or  two  after  they
removed  to  Tremont  Street  to  a  house  which  has
been  absorbed  by  Parker's  Hotel,  the  second  from
where  the  Tremont  Theatre  was  built  in  1827.
Here  I  was  born.  The  family  afterwards  lived
at  the  corner  of  School  Street  in  a  house  which
also  has  been  absorbed  by  Parker's.  In  1828  we
removed  to  No.  i  Tremont  Place,  a  house  still
standing;  and  in  1833  to  one  of  Mr.  Andrews's
houses  in  Central  Court,  a  property  now  covered
by  Jordan  &  Marsh's,  just  behind  where  old  Judge
Sewall  lived  most  of  his  life.  It  is  in  the  four
houses  last  named  that  the  scenery  of  the  home
life  described  in  these  chapters  is  to  be  placed.
To  this  introduction,  written  in  1893,  I  need
only  add  a  few  words  in  1 899.
