Scope and Content: During the period of the  Province of the Massachusetts Bay (1692-1774), a structure erected in 1679 on Marlborough (now Washington) Street in Boston, Massachusetts, was known as the Province House and used as a gubernatorial residence; after the Revolutionary War it served as office and residence for the treasurer and other state officials.  Resolves 1794, Jan 1795 Sess, c 66 (Feb. 16) provided for the building of a new state house and the sale of the Province House.  Such sale was made by agents Edward Robbins and Thomas Dawes to John Peck, Jan. 29, 1796. Peck mortgaged it with the Commonwealth, Feb. 2, 1796, and deeded it to Thomas Cushing, Apr. 6, 1797; it was in turn deeded to Daniel Wild, July 12, 1798. –Peck defaulted on his mortgage, and after various resolves passed to address the default (Resolves 1798, c 24 (June 20), Resolves 1798, c 87 (Jan. 24, 1799), and Resolves 1798, c 93 (Jan. 29, 1799)), Peck and Wild returned the property to the Commonwealth on Apr. 6, 1799, in return for Peck’s down payment and a token payment to Wild. The Province House continued to be occupied by the treasurer, until leased July 1, 1806 to Joseph Bradley for a boarding house, per Resolves 1806, May Sess, c 31 (June 23). At the incorporation of the Massachusetts General Hospital per St 1810, c 94 (Feb. 25, 1811), the Commonwealth granted the Province House and its land to that institution in exchange for free care of indigent state patients at the hospital.
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