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Nix's Mate, Boston Harbor

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $9.95

Stock #:1120106
Type: Postcard
City: Boston
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Suffolk
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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It is not known definitely what this structure was erected for and why it is called Nix's Mate. Tradition says that the mate of a vessel of which Captain Nix was master, was executed upon the island for killing the captain. It was know as "Nix's Island" as long ago as 1636.

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