Old Parsonage
1630 - 1930
The house of the first minister of Shirley, Phinehas Whitney. Dorothy Quincy and Madam Lydia Hancock visited here; and here also in 1773 came John Hancock to accompany them home. Moved to this site in 1906 it became the Rectory of St. Anthony's Church.
Marker is on Phoneix Street 0.1 miles south of Front Street (Local Route .1), on the left when traveling west.
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