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Tag: Hancock Street

  • Sunday, April 25, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm – Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands Annual Meeting

    The Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands celebrate 30 years of service at the  Annual Meeting taking place Sunday, April 25, from 12:30 – 4:30 pm at Long Island-Camp Harbor View.  Pre-registration is required by Thursday, April 22.  Call 781-740-4290, or email info@fbhi.org.  To get there by T, go to North Quincy on the Red Line, and carpool volunteers with a FBHI banner will be waiting downstairs in the Hancock Street parking lot by the north exit.  Arrive by 12 noon to give the drivers plenty of time to shuttle you.  Driving instructions can be found at www.fbhi.org.

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  • Sunday, December 13 – Hancock Holiday Home Tour

    The Lexington Historical Society announces the Hancock Holiday Home Tour, which will take place Sunday, December 13, featuring beautiful homes on Hancock Street and Hancock Avenue in Lexington.  Advance sale prices for the tour are $15 for LHS members, $20 non-members.  Day of Tour: $20 members, $25 non-members.  To register, call 781-862-1703, or email office@lexingtonhistory.org. Below is a description of a Hancock Street house which should whet your appetite.

    The Hancock-Clarke House, built in 1737, is 1/4 mile from Buckman Tavern, on Hancock Street. On the evening of April 18, 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, prominent leaders in the colonial cause, were guests of the Reverend Jonas Clarke in the parsonage. Fearing that they might be captured by the British, Dr Joseph Warren of Boston sent William Dawes and Paul Revere to Lexington with news of the advancing British troops. Arriving separately, they stopped to warn Hancock and Adams, then set off for Concord. Today Dawes is all but forgotten, but Paul Revere’s midnight ride has been immortalized by Longfellow.

    The Hancock-Clarke House was the home of the Reverend John Hancock and the Reverend Jonas Clarke – two ministers who served the spiritual and secular needs of Lexington for 105 years. The Reverend Hancock’s grandson John, a frequent visitor to this house, was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first Governor of Massachusetts. Succeeding Hancock as minister in 1752, the Reverend Jonas Clarke, who reared twelve children in this parsonage, was an eloquent supporter of the colonial cause. The Reverend Clarke’s fervent sermons were a source of inspiration to the citizens of Lexington during the crisis with Britain.