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In connection with Boston, there was a street, I believe called Grant, or there was a building called the Grant Building or residence, which was used in connection with a church. Perhaps as living quarters of the minister.

The address itself had two fives in the number. There is a connection with a 1632 date that I do not understand. Perhaps we can clear it up later. (Long pause.) A Gaylor family was connected with the church. Rich members I believe, and they were buried nearby. A Sarah and an Oscar.

G-r-a-n-o-l-d-y. A connection with St. Ambrose, and the church. (Long pause.) Church records kept in a vault in the basement. (Long pause.) Later, much later, a track of some kind was built very near by the church property. For a while in later years, the house where you lived had front rooms converted into a barber shop. Perhaps from 1870 to 1890.

Later still, a dress shop, and then a restaurant, as the neighborhood deteriorated. Then, all new buildings. You were portly. The church was near the water, and it was visited on occasion by sailors. (Many pauses, some of them long. Jane’s eyes were closed and she was very restless.)

Before this it was more elegant, and when it was the ships came in further to the north to dock. As shipping increased the docks moved southward to take in the area near the church.

A hill behind the church. Not high, but containing several streets. A lighthouse to the northwest. Several small villages which later became part of Boston, one to the northwest and one to the southwest, separated at this time, approximately 1830, by fields.

You did not act as a minister in the other location, but worked with lumber. When you returned to Boston you became minister of a church in the same denomination but in a different building. The other, or later location, was a socially better one by contrast, but you did not move in the best circles by any means. The northern area of the city was the most elite.