Oliver Peabody House, Eliot Square, Roxbury, Mass. This tablet marks the site of the house built by the Reverend Oliver Peabody for the parsonage of the First Church. Occupied by the Reverend Amos Adams, patriot minister of the church, chaplain in the Continental Army, scribe of the convention of ministers at Watertown whose appeal to the people was for war. The headquarters of Major General John Thomas who reviewed the Army in front of the house and from its dormer windows watched with his spyglass the movement of the British at Charlestown. For more than a century and a half the abode of the high ideals in learning patriotism and righteousness. This tablet placed here by the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts June 2, 1905.
