{"id":3503,"date":"2011-10-13T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T05:35:08","slug":"john-coburn-house-1844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"John Coburn House (1844)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John-Coburn-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John Coburn House (1844)\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John-Coburn-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John-Coburn-House-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>John P. Coburn (1811-1873), a free black resident of Beacon Hill in Boston, ran a clothing business and was a community activist.  He was treasurer of the New England Freedom Association, which assisted fugitive slaves and, in 1852, he was a founder and captain of the Massasoit Guards, a black militia unit.  In 1851, Coburn was arrested for his role in aiding <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadrach_Minkins\">Shadrach Minkins<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/?q=aah\/minkins-shadrach-1814-1875\">a fugitive slave<\/a>, in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masshist.org\/longroad\/01slavery\/minkins.htm\">escape from federal custody<\/a> (he was later acquitted).  John Coburn&#8217;s first house on Beacon Hill was located in a cul-de-sac off of Phillips Street at 3 Coburn Court.  Dating to the 1830s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/preservationmass\/4272269544\/in\/photostream\/\">the house<\/a>, now lost, was recognized in 2005 as one of Massachusetts&#8217; most endangered historic resources.  From 1844 until his death in 1873, Coburn lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/boaf\/historyculture\/john-coburn-house.htm\">the house<\/a> at 2 Phillips Street, which was designed for him by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellspublications.com\/rep\/arch\/benjamin\/abc\/index.htm\">Asher Benjamin<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afroammuseum.org\/site7.htm\">The house<\/a> is a site on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maah.org\/trail.htm\">Black Heritage Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John P. Coburn (1811-1873), a free black resident of Beacon Hill in Boston, ran a clothing business and was a community activist. He was treasurer of the New England Freedom Association, which assisted fugitive slaves and, in 1852, he was a founder and captain of the Massasoit Guards, a black militia unit. In 1851, Coburn was arrested for his role in aiding Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave, in his escape from federal custody (he was later acquitted). John Coburn&#8217;s first house on Beacon Hill was located in a cul-de-sac off of Phillips Street at 3 Coburn Court. Dating to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,8],"tags":[62,41,72],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston","category-federal","category-houses","tag-asher-benjamin","tag-beacon-hill","tag-black-heritage-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}