Note 5 — CASE OF WILLIAM KIDD.

Peter Sergeant, a rich merchant, who had the finest house in Boston, had given it over to the new governor's use. Mass. Hist Soc., Proc., XXII. 123-131. Lord Bellomont held his council meetings in its best chamber. It was afterward the famous Province House, having been bought later by the province, for a residence for the governors. Hawthorne, at the beginning of part II. of his Twice-Told Tales, describes it as it was in 1845. A portion of the walls was in 1919 still visible from Province Court.