INTRODUCTION.
xxiii
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. 1 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.
