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Show THE TRUE CASABIANCA "BOY OF THE BURNING DECK-WAS DECK-WAS REALITY. Was Son of French Admlr.t.1, and the Man Who Ordered Vessel Blown Up Watt Born at Jamaica Plains. The "Hoy on the Piirutug Deck" t'-not t'-not a myth, but uu actual fact, and few know that the man who gave the order lor the tlefctructiuii ot the vessel, on whoM- deck the aloft -said boy stood, was bom in Jamaica Plain, and lived there till his royalist father, who objected ob-jected slrcuutais'y to the American revolution, transplanted him to Kng land, where he served under Nelson iu the liatlle of the Nile The boy wus French, son of the admiral ad-miral of the Fre ich ship Orient, and lli at was the vessel that blew up with the Immortal boy stundiu by the mainmast. The boy's unconscious destroyer, Captain ilenjaiuin Hallowell, was bom iu tlie old Poylston house, sitll stand lug at the corner of lloylston and Cen ter streets, Iu Jamaica Pialna. The house was built in 1726 by the lloyls toiis, and afterward passed to th rabid royalist, lienjaiuiu Hallowell alter whom the captain was named. .The old mau lived in Jamica Plain long enough to make himself unpopu lar when the American revolution ' broke out. The son, had been ei'.rl) ; sent to Fug laud for his education. a-itl I he became one of the seven Aim rb'ar i born men to attain diatlnciioit u tin i ltritish navy. . In the battle of the N .fl Cap. alt . Hallowell had command of the t! ll Swiftsure. which ran down the la-k less l'Orient. When Cap.va Hallow ell gave the command for tJ.e Frencl ' vessel to be blown up, he knew noth " tug of the thirteen year-old son of tin f French admiral who, foallsl'lv bu heroically, obeyed his s'.era .. II'T' I order, "Don't leave the vessel unt.l , sive you permission," and hi "pr'-ud . though childlike form" graced th doomed vessel when she "with fras II ments strewed around the sea." ''" t'Hptaln Hallowell afterward hear the sad tale and was mm 'a i.e ve ! ! it The boy called out three tm.es o agony to his father, he learned, bu ... stood resolutely by the maiu.nas' 1(1 though bis father lay cold In death. , So much moved was the capt.tl that he had a coftin made In the bo)' III honor out of the floating fragment 111 of the FOrient and sent It to hi "f friend and patron, l-ord Nelson, wit the story of the boy s brav. ry, an is expressing deep rret for the yocn f hero's untimely end. Nelson had the coffin -..vd la 'h y. ciihtn In remembrance of .' : . :', ?n ' . Captain Hallowell tilmse'? t J tale to the then widely k. a v ' Felicia llemans. Her y..i;aih. ir'' were Immediately excited, and si nt Immortalized the boy In her . ntiaiei ta. verses, and she named bliu wise; (.;. Tasabl mca." |