Maizie P. Seabrook
In 1797 this house was build and owned by George Middleton who was a jockey and horsebreaker. The house was co-owned by Lewis Glapion, a hairdresser and barber.
George Middleton was a veteran of the American Revolution. He was a colonel who led an all-black company called the “Bucks of America.” John Hancock came to his home on Beacon Hill and presented the Company with a special silk flag bearing Hancock’s and Middleton’s initials, and the figures of a buck and a pine tree, and the words, “The Bucks of America.” During the Civil War, William C. Nell donated the banner to the Massachusetts Historical Society, where it is preserved today.
