Old Parsonage

Old Parsonage is a Massachusetts historical marker in Shirley, Middlesex County, dedicated 1930.

Phoenix Street, Shirley · location approximate

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The house of the first minister of Shirley, Phinehas Whitney. Dorothy Quincy and Madam Lydia Hancock visited here; and here also in 1773 came John Hancock to accompany them home. Moved to this site in 1906 it became the Rectory of St. Anthony's Church.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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1775 · The seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1776 · A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1776 · New England. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · State of Massachusetts. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · State of Massachusetts. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets…, 1776, covering the location of Old Parsonage, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets…, 1776, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Old Parsonage

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