A Short Biography of an antique dealer by Israel Sack

Below is the introduction of an article published in Antiques and Fine Art Magazine the link is included to read full article. I have added some Genealogy for NEFG&H Group

The late Samuel Gelston King was born in Boston in the year 1857, the son of Franklin King and Sarah (Gelston) King. He went into his father’s business immediately upon leaving school, and continued an active interest in it, even at an advanced age walking daily from his Marlboro Street home to his offices on Atlantic Avenue, where, under the name of E. F. King & Co., his son, Gelston King, carries on for the third generation. To Read More Click Link To Antiques and Fine Arts Magazine New England Connoisseur

17 Marlborough Street were Israel Sack visited purchased in February of 1906 by Samuel Gelston King and his wife Alice Tyler (Clarke) King. They previously had lived at 476 Commonwealth.In April of 1917, Samuel King applied for (and subsequently received) permission to add a one story, 6 foot by 9 foot addition at the rear of the building.  The addition was designed by architect William Whitney Lewis. Alice King died in May of 1926.  Samuel King continued to live at 17 Marlborough until his death in December of 1932.  The house was not listed in the 1934 and 1935 Blue Books. The house remained in the King family and, by 1934, was the home of Frederick A. Marsden, a retired physician, who operated it as lodging house. They also maintained a summer home in Nahant. In 1868, it was the home of merchant George Dudley Howe and his wife Alice Lloyd (Greenwood) Howe.

1851 Franklin King House From The Dorchester Illustration of the Day
Franklin King was in business in Boston in E.F. King and Company, wholesale druggists. He was also a real estate developer, at least in a small way.  He was one of the men who signed a petition to the Massachusetts General Court requesting the annexation of Dorchester to Boston.
The house was located where the Byrne Playground is today.   We knew that at some point during the early 20th century, King’s no longer extant residence on the Byrne Playground parcel was operated as the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital.  A look at the atlases shows that the property passed from King to Sarah F. King Nash between 1910 and 1918 and from her to the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital between 1918 and 1933.  A recent inquiry about the Nash facility of the Hospital led to an internet search for Nash, and the result was a photo of the Nash Home for Convalescent Men, which we presume to be the facility that once was the home of Franklin King. Below from The Unitarian Register, Volume 77

See Clam point of Dorchester MA
The Genealogy of the Worthington Family
Sara Gelston d. of Samuel Gelston b. 15 Jan 1785, d. 15 Aug 1823 and Sally Cartwright b. 23 Mar 1786, d. 5 Jan 1874 see Dr. Samuel Gelston Fights the Smallpox
Franklin King s.of Isaac King and Lucinda Worthington d of David Worthington and Affa Gilbert
Isaac King s.of Eleazer King and Elizabeth Day.   
Children of Samuel and Sara Gelston 
Samuel Gelston King. b. Feb. 8, 1857; m.. Oct. 30, 1882, Alice T. Clark
Anne Gelston King, b. in Dorchester, Sept. 5, 1845 m. Frank Edwin Brigham, b. Oct. 6, 1843. m. in Dorchester, Nov. 29, 1870 
Sarah Frances King
Bertha King
Sophia King Sarah Francis King 
Abby C Lawrence King
William Bates King
Theodore Winthrop King

Rare Paul Revere Map Plan of Boston Massacre

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Photo from U S History The Boston Patriots Not only did Paul Revere take a midnight ride, he was also a silversmith and artist. His engraving of the Boston Massacre was used by patriots throughout the colonies as Revolutionary propaganda.

From Saturday, March 5, 1898 Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts) Page: 12

Other documented sources of this map can be found in the Legal Papers of John Adams, Volume 3 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
The Paul Revere Heritage Project Notes: The diagram shows the street plan of the location with figures of the bodies lying down marked with the initials of those whom they belong. It takes some effort to decipher these marks. On the bottom left, you can see two bodies laying together marked by ‘A’ and ‘G’ close the hard-pressed circle of British bayonets. These are Attucks and Gray who, witness agreed, died at the soldiers’ feet. The boy, Maverick, was shot while standing in Quaker Lane. In the diagram his little figure is marked with a ‘G’, presumably for his master, Isaac Greenwood. James Caldwell is indicated correctly with a ‘C’. This drawing was made before Patrick Carr died, because his is not present in it.

According to the Boston Massacre Historical Society the diagram was created to show the position of the British regulars and the Boston citizens killed during the incident. At first glance the image may look like a street plan, but if you look close you can clearly see the bodies laying on the street signed by the initials of those who fell there. It is like a modern-day police sketch of a crime scene. Let’s take a closer look at what is pictured here.

On the bottom left, you can see two bodies laying together marked by ‘A’ and ‘G’ close the hard-pressed circle of British bayonets. These are Attucks and Gray who, witness agreed, died at the soldiers’ feet. The boy, Maverick, was shot while standing in Quaker Lane. In the diagram his little figure is marked with a ‘G’, presumably for his master, Isaac Greenwood. James Caldwell is indicated correctly with a ‘C’. This drawing was made before Patrick Carr died, because his is not present in it.

There is more animation in these struggling pen and ink figure than Paul Revere ever got into his more formal engravings. They suggest that he himself had stood in King Street that night and had actually seen the men dead and dying about him.

From The Magazine of American History, Volume 15
A.S. Barnes & Company, 1886

 See Also  John Tileton's School Boston

Boston Athenaeum The Bloody Massacre 

DAR: Two Real Daughters Annie Knight Gregory & Caroline Hassam Randall Christmas 1940

Caroline Phoebe Hassam Randall

From Springfield Republican December 22. 1940

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 15

From When the cry "To Arms!" was heard in the days of the American Revolution, Richard Knight, a lad of but eleven summers, bravely stepped into ranks, as drummer boy, in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmer. (Photo below)

He appears as drummer and fifer in Captain Thomas Bull's company and as a private in the company of Captain Walter Finney of the above-named regiment; having been transferred to Captain Bull's company in October, 1778.

When Richard Knight entered the army he enlisted for the entire period of conflict, and was one of the youngest and bravest soldiers in the annals of the war. Having safely passed through the first great struggle of our country, he stands again in the forefront of the second conflict in 1812. His name now appears as captain in the First (Kennedy's) Regiment of Pennsylvania militia, and continues on the roll until December 5, 1814.

To-day this hero stands before the world as a man who always met the enemy bravely, and who helped to solve some of the most momentous problems of our Government.

Richard Knight was married three times, and at his death, January, 1850, in his eighty-third year, left a family of five— three sons and two daughters. Annie Knight, whose picture appears in this number, was born in Liverpool, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1843, and is therefore the youngest "original" Daughter in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. On November 25, 1863, at Selins Grove, Pennsylvania, she was married to Mr. B. F. Gregory, of the First National Bank, of that place. Two sons have blest this union. The older, Harry Knight Gregory, born December 4, 1865, is now one of the most prominent lawyers in the New Castle, Pennsylvania, bar, and Forrest Ever Gregory, born April 27, 1868, now in business in Williamsport, Penn

Rare Exhibit 5 Generations of Newburyport Family: Atkinson-Lancaster 1934

1934 Boston Herald See The New England Historical and Genealogical Register V 1947

"M" Standish Trap migrated with Native Americans or another Standish altogether?

A photo of a Standish trap. I've had this trap in my collection for about 30 years. It has teeth in the jaws and is larger than most of the Standish traps I've seen. Miles Standish was a seventh generation descendant of Captain Myles Standish of Plymouth Colony. He made traps for the American Fur Company and other fur companies from 1821 to 1868.

1936 Washington Evening Star article

The Daily Telegram 1953

From Hunter-trader-trapper, Volume 11 1905

OLD TRAPPER'S NOTES. O G Wells. My two sons, Archie and James, and I have been taking the H-T-T and we have been much interested in the questions and inquiries. I see in November's issue. Brother Frazier found an old fashioned trap marked M. Standish, and wanted to know who made traps like that. Undoubtedly it is one of Marquer Standish's makes, a French blacksmith who lived below St. Paul. Minn. I do not know just where, as I was very small then. He made a great many traps for my father. My father established an Indian trading post on the west" bank of Lake Pippen Minn., in 1833. He was a hunter, trader and trapper, and one of the first members of the Minnesota legislature, and it was at this post that I was born in 1840. and It was in one of this style trap that I caught my first coon when I was six years old. In fact, all the traps I saw in those days were made with the bottoms melded together.

See  M.Standish hand forged trap

From 1935 Hamlin Herald Texas

Edward James Doherty, SR & JR Reunited after 25 years North Adams MA 1937

1937 Please contact me if you would like PDF File and if you have any information on family

 

 

 Name:    Edward J. Doherty
Titles and Terms:  
Event Type:    Birth
Event Date:    27 Jan 1905
Event Place:    Boston, Suffolk, , Massachusetts
Father's Name:    Edward Doherty   
Mother's Name:    Sadie Mcgaughlin
Reference ID:    v 553 P 12 #506
GS Film number:    2057532
Digital Folder Number:    4341238
Image Number:    618
Citing this Record:
"Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," Edward J. Doherty, 27 Jan 1905; citing Boston, Suffolk, , Massachusetts, reference v 553 P 12 #506, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,057,532.

George Washington Mezzotint Charles Wilson Peale 1780

From American Art from American Collections Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods, from Private Collections, in an Exhibition Sponsored by The Friends of the American Wing---James Biddle Associate Curator in Charge of the American Wing METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK • 1963