Quaker Lane

I found Quaker Lane today!

A topographical and historical description of Boston By Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (google books)
has a chapter on the Boston Quaker Burying ground, which is where Quaker Lane now is located.

Quaker Lane had come up a few times in various readings, but I just couldn't find the place. This time I made note of the address of the connecting streets, and there it was. It is a street about 300 yards long, with four intersecting streets coming into it. An odd configuration, it comes from the paving-over of the original cemetery paths. The bodies buried there were interred in Lynn, but the lane remains by State and Congress streets in the middle of bustling Boston.

This book is also great for mentioning Edward Wanton, who became a Quaker after the hanging of Mary Dwyer, and was a shipbuilder in Scituate. I'm still researching the Quaker connection there.

THE QUAKER BURYING GROUND

BOSTON. The Quaker Burying-Ground was established in the year 1709, in Leverett Lane,now Congress Street, opposite Lindall Street. In the rear of the lot the front of the Quaker meeting-house was built, and stood for 100 years. The interments in the grave-yard were comparatively few and infrequent. In 1826, the remains of the dead buried there, were removed to the Quaker burying ground in Lynn, Mass., with the exception of those of two adults, which were deposited in King's Chapel Burying-Ground. The business building first erected on this estate, after the removal of the graves, was occupied by the "Transcript" newspaper.

I will post pix when I can remember to take the camera in for my next trip.