On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV: at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association...

On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV: at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association...

On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV : at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Most Worshipful John Abbot, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, did, in the presence of General Lafayette, lay this corner stone of a monument, to testify the gratitude of the present generation to their fathers, who, on the XVII day of June MDCCLXXV here fought in the cause of their country, and of free institutions, the memorable Battle of Bunker Hill ... : officers of the Bunker HIll Monument Association, president, Daniel Webster ... Standing Committee for Collecting Subscriptions, Henry A.S. Dearborn ... Committee on the Form of the Monument, Danl. Webster ... : President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, Gov. of Massachusetts, Levi Lincoln, New Hampshire, David L. Morrill, Vermont, C.P. Van Ness ... Maine, Albion K. Parris. Alexander Parris architect.

Broadside thought to have been printed directly from the silver plate of the cornerstone. Printing on broadside is in reverse.

Imprint at bottom of broadside: Engraved by Hazen Morse."

Description of the celebration, including the text of the inscription on the silver plate of the cornerstone, in: Frothingham, Richard. History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851), pp. 344-345.

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.

USM 001.100

[1825?]

This image is presented for research and educational purposes only, and may not be distributed or re-published without permission from the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library.

English

A2001/003/1

1 item ; 23 x 31 cm.

Museum purchase.