"[12]
Possibly some other specimens of the handiwork of this good Deacon Shem
Drowne are still in existence. Who knows?
[Footnote 1: Boston Globe, October 18, 1884.]
[Footnote 2: Neither of these were carved; they were both of metal.]
[Footnote 3: Boston Evening Record, January 10, 1885.]
[Footnote 4: Fac-similes of his signature are given in "Memorial History
of Boston," vol. II, p. 110, written in 1733, and in John Johnston's
"History of Bristol, Bremen and the Pemaquid Plantation," p. 466,
written in 1762.]
[Footnote 5: Johnston's "Bristol and Bremen."]
[Footnote 6: Samuel Adams Drake's "Old Landmarks of Boston," p. 135.]
[Footnote 7: Mss. letter of Henry T. Drowne, Esq., of New York.]
[Footnote 8: Samuel G. Drake's "History of Boston."]
[Footnote 9: History of "Bristol and Bremen."]
[Footnote 10: Drake in "Old Landmarks," says: "the grasshopper was long
thought to be the crest of the Faneuils."]
[Footnote 11: Boston Daily Advertiser, December 3, 1852.]
[Footnote 12: Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. XXVII, p. 422.]
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