Big Scores · STOP 12 · Downtown Crossing
Captain Kidd was arrested at the door of the governor's lodging in July 1699 - the house that stood here.
On July 6, 1699, Captain Kidd came through the door of the governor's lodging on this spot, and the governor wrote that he 'rushed in and came running to me, the Constable after him.' A search of his lodgings turned up gold dust and ingots hidden in two sea-beds. The house is gone. The bronze tablets across from Old South still mark the door.
This is stop 12 of Big Scores. Walk it - any two stops are free.
The plate
Collected on site
327 Washington Street, west side, opposite Milk Street
Directions
Bellomont held off on the arrest because Kidd had brought his family to Boston, and the governor reckoned he 'would not easily forsake' them.
More footnotes on the story card, in the app.
In these collections: Legends Busted, Crime Scenes
Near Downtown Crossing · Near Government Center · Near Park Street · Near State · Near Bowdoin · Near Chinatown
Sources (8)
- The Province House (HMdb marker 176115)Historical Marker Database · marker 1923; page rev. 2023-01-30
- Here Stood The Province House (HMdb marker 234474)Historical Marker Database · photos 2023-09-17
- The Province House and its OccupantsWalter Kendall Watkins, ed. Richard M. Candee, Old-Time New England (Historic New England) · n.d. (journal reprint)
- America and West Indies: July 1699, 26-31 (Calendar of State Papers Colonial, vol. 17), item 680: Earl of Bellomont to the Council of Trade and Plantations, Boston, July 26 1699British History Online · 1908 (calendar); letter 1699
- Earl of Bellomont to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, 1699 July 8Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Blathwayt Papers (Omeka) · 1699-07-08
- Boston's Old Courthouse Jail on Court StreetWBUR · 2015-04-08
- The History and Antiquities of BostonSamuel G. Drake (Boston: Luther Stevens) · 1856
- Governor's Alley (HMdb marker 215673)Historical Marker Database · photos 2023-01-29