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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitmore, William Henry 1836- (search)
Whitmore, William Henry 1836- Genealogist; born in Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 6, 1836; received a public school education, and engaged in business, devoting his spare time to historical research. His publications include The American Genealogist; Massachusetts Civil list, 1636-1774; Copp's Hill epitaphs; History of the old State House, etc. He also prepared the Laws of adoption; Revision of the City Ordinances (with Henry W. Putnam) ; Report of the State seal, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, John 1588-1667 (search)
Wilson, John 1588-1667 Clergyman; born in Windsor, England, in 1588; ordained in the Church of England; emigrated to the United States with the Massachusetts colony in 1630, landing at Salem, and settled in Charlestown, where he organized a church and was ordained its pastor in 1632. He was chaplain of a regiment sent from Connecticut against the Pequod Indians in 1636, and was associated with John Eliot in his missionary labors among the Indians. He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 7, 1667.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood, William 1580-1669 (search)
Wood, William 1580-1669 Colonist; born in England about 1580; emigrated to America in 1629; returned to England in 1633; and again came to America and settled in Lynn, Mass., which town he represented in the General Court in 1636; removed to Sandwich in 1637, where he became town clerk, and resided till his death. He published New England's Prospect; A true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America commonly called New England, etc. He died in Sandwich, Mass., in 1669.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
is discharged into the room. See heating stove. Air-thermometer of Santorio. Air-ther-mome-ter. An instrument in which the contraction and expansion of air is made the measure of temperature. It differs from the ordinary thermometer, which depends on the contraction and expansion of liquid in an hermetically sealed tube. The air-thermometer is the older form, and its invention is variously ascribed to Drebbel of Holland, about A. D. 1600; to Galileo; and to Santorio of Padua (1561-1636). The instrument was constructed as follows: The air in a tube being slightly rarefied by heat, the lower end was plunged into a colored liquid, which, as the air cooled, was drawn into the tube. The expansion and contraction of the air, by changes of temperature, varied the height of the liquid in the graduated tube. It was a faulty arrangement, as changes in the atmospheric pressure would vary the result, and the truth could only be ascertained by correction with reference to a barometer.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
clavis, a key. l is the clavicymbal, in which the strings are disposed harp fashion. Its strings are of steel wire, sounded by quill plectra on the keys. The illustration is from the Musurgia. m is the manichorde, from a drawing by Mersennus, 1636. It was a superior form of clavichord, with 49 or 50 keys and 70 strings, which rested on 5 bridges, some of the strings being in unison. It had a hammer of brass and a cloth damper to stop the vibration after the note had been struck. It was lgures of warriors, ladies, and birds. The colors are yet bright. q is the spinet, named from spina, a thorn or quill, the tone being produced by a crow's quill inserted in the tongue of the jack. As described by Mersennus ( Harmonicorum, Paris, 1636) it had 49 strings, of which the lower 30 were made of latten (flat brass wire) and the remainder (19) of steel or iron. The note depended on the size of string and tension, there being one note for each string, and but 5 or 6 sizes of strings.
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
corner of the College Yard, nearly on the site of Dane Hall. From 1650 to 1833 that spot was occupied by the Meeting-House of the First Parish. The space between the sites of Church and Garden streets was inclosed as a graveyard or God's Acre in 1636. Of next importance to the church, in a New England town, was the Town-House. In early times the Meeting-House was commonly used for civil as well as ecclesiastical purposes, and there the town-meetings were held. In Cambridge a Court-House, buwhile the congregations of Dorchester and Watertown founded Windsor and Wethersfield. The exodus from the New Town was so great that of the families dwelling there in January, 1635, not more than eleven are known to have remained until the end of 1636. But the places of those who departed were filled without delay. In the autumn of 1635, Rev. Thomas Shepard arrived from England with his congregation, and forthwith the meeting-house and the dwellings of the old company were occupied by the
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge Common. (search)
e town of Cambridge to be used as a training field, to lie undivided and to remain for that use forever, provided, nevertheless, that if the said town should dispose of, grant or appropriate the same or any part thereof at any time hereafter, to or for any other use than that aforementioned, then and in such case the whole of the premises hereby granted to said town shall revert to the Proprietors granting the same, and the present grant shall thereupon be deemed null and void. As early as 1636, the annual elections of the colony for the choice of Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Assistants were held under a large oak-tree which stood on the easterly side of the Common, opposite Holmes Place. One of the most remarkable of these elections took place May 17, 1637, the contest being between Governor Harry Vane and Ex-Governor John Winthrop. The day was clear and warm, when, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the freemen of the colony gathered in groups about this tree. Most of the noted
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Burial-places in Cambridge. (search)
the year 1800, that £ 60 was levied 3d February, 1632, towards making a Palisado about the New Towne. This was actually made, and the fosse which was then dug is in some places visible to this day. It enclosed above one thousand acres. This in a measure protected the little town from Indians and wild beasts. This burial-place was discontinued when the present ancient ground on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street was set apart for burials, and ordered paled in, early in 1635-36. One hundred years later, 1735, the town, with the assistance of the college, built a substantial stone wall in the front, on Menotomy Road, Now Massachusetts Avenue. at a cost of £ 150. The College Records read: Whereas there is a good stone wall erected round the Burying Place in Cambridge, and whereas there has been a regard to the College in building so good and handsome a wall in the front, and the College has used, and expects to make use of the Burying Place, as Providence gives
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Harvard University. (search)
dge, there hangs, framed in a narrow band of oak, a card, perhaps thirty inches long and twelve wide. On this are printed these inscriptions, which in a few words tell the origin, the history, and the purpose of Harvard:— Harvard University is a chartered and endowed institution fostered by the state. The Charter, given to the President and Fellows in 1650, is still in force unaltered. The direct grants of money made by the Legislature of Massachusetts to Harvard College between 1636 and 1785 amounted to $116,000. In 1814, the Legislature granted $10,000 a year for ten years. Between 1638 and 1724 the town of Cambridge repeatedly gave land to the College. In common with other Massachusetts institutions of education, religion, and charity, the University enjoys exemption from taxation on its personal property, and on real estate occupied for its own purposes. Beginning with John Harvard in 1638, private benefactors have given to the University in land, buildings,
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The public schools of Cambridge. (search)
towns in New England, with many fair structures and handsome contrived streets. The inhabitants, most of them, he adds, were very rich. We know from other sources that many of them had scholarly tastes. Moreover, Harvard College was founded in 1636, opened in 1638, and its first class of nine young men was graduated in 1642. In the work of fitting boys for Harvard, Cambridge would naturally have had an early and prominent share. It chimes in with this theory of an earlier school that Mr. Cges may be added finally that indefinable atmosphere which comes from historic and literary associations unmatched elsewhere in the western world, the very breath of which is an education not to be despised. The Newtowne of 1631; the Harvard of 1636; the old burying ground where lie the early presidents of the college; the holiday routes of the British to Concord and Lexington; the bloody routes of their return; the elm where Washington took command of the army, the mansion where he lived wit
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