In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill , almost as seasonably as they markedmarkout the first burial-ground , on Isaac Johnson 's lot , and round about his grave , which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King 's Chapel .
Certain it is that , some fifteen or twenty years after the settlementsettlementof the town , the wooden jail was already markedmarkwith weather-stains and other indications of age , which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front .
I markedmarkthe light diediefrom the broad bosom of the river , leaving it a dead man 's hue .