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Exterior view of the Boardman House, with three people next to the Tercentenary historical marker, Saugus, Mass., undated

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GUSN-199057

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Description

The number 7 appears on the doorway. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary historical marker reads: "The Scotch House. Erected in 1615 or 1651 by the Undertakers of the Iron Works in Lyn (Saugus) to house the Scotch prisoners captured at the Battle of Dunbar and sold into seven years' service in New England as indentured servants (Howard Street)."

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Descriptive Terms

exterior views
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID boa00006
Other identifier HNEDID-boa00006

Collection Code

PC006

Collection Name

Historic New England properties photographic collection

Reference Code

PC006.BOA.01.006

Record Details

Material Type

photographs

Subjects

Architectural photography
Historic New England properties

Publications Referencing This Collection

(1930). Historical markers erected by Massachusetts bay colony tercentenary commission; text of inscriptions as revised by Samuel Eliot Morison ... with a foreword by Charles Knowles Bolton .... The Commonwealth of Massachusetts,.

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