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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
n Endicott, to punish the Indians of Block Island for the murder of John Oldham......1636 Pequod War begins......August, 1636 General Court of Massachusetts agrees to give £ 400 towards a school or college......Oct. 28, 1636 Roger Williams baffles the Pequods by an alliance with the Narraganset Indians, leaving the Pequods single-handed against the English, visiting the sachem of the Narragansets, Miantonomoh, near Newport, while the Pequod ambassadors were there in council......December, 1636 John Winthrop chosen governor of Massachusetts......1637 Capt. John Mason, with some sixty men from the Connecticut colony, and Capt. John Underhill, with twenty men from the Massachusetts colony, accompanied by 200 Narraganset warriors, attack the Pequod fort on the Mystic, capture and destroy it with all its occupants, numbering 600 and over......May 26, 1637 Gov. Henry Vane returns to England......Aug. 3, 1637 Pequod War ends by total annihilation of the tribe......October
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
on the building begun by Mr. Eaton, was committed to Mr. Samuel Shepard, by the General Court, in Sept. 1639. He was Selectman 1638, Representative or Deputy 1639, 1640, 1644, 1645, Clerk of the Writs 1640, and Commissioner for small causes 1641. He had a military spirit, and was closely associated with Col. George Cooke; they came together, served here together, and returned to England, to serve together under Cromwell. He was the first Ensign of the military company here, organized in Dec. 1636, with Cooke for Captain. In Oct. 1645, he and his friend Cooke were excused from their duties as members of the General Court, being to go for England. In the Civil War, which commenced in England at about that time, both were engaged for the Parliament, Cooke as Colonel, and Shepard as Major. Mitchell in his Church Record, commenced in 1658, says, Major Samuel Shepard and his wife, now living in Ireland, do yet stand in memberly relation to us. He had then probably been in Ireland sev
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, S. (search)
on the building begun by Mr. Eaton, was committed to Mr. Samuel Shepard, by the General Court, in Sept. 1639. He was Selectman 1638, Representative or Deputy 1639, 1640, 1644, 1645, Clerk of the Writs 1640, and Commissioner for small causes 1641. He had a military spirit, and was closely associated with Col. George Cooke; they came together, served here together, and returned to England, to serve together under Cromwell. He was the first Ensign of the military company here, organized in Dec. 1636, with Cooke for Captain. In Oct. 1645, he and his friend Cooke were excused from their duties as members of the General Court, being to go for England. In the Civil War, which commenced in England at about that time, both were engaged for the Parliament, Cooke as Colonel, and Shepard as Major. Mitchell in his Church Record, commenced in 1658, says, Major Samuel Shepard and his wife, now living in Ireland, do yet stand in memberly relation to us. He had then probably been in Ireland sev
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown School in the 17th century. (search)
rell his wife, three children, and a servant. Savage adds that, after preaching in Duxbury, he became the minister of the second parish of Scituate in 1645, that several children were born to him in this country, and that he died April 9, 1684. A recent genealogical note in the Boston Evening Transcript gives his age as twenty-five in 1627, when he married in Canterbury, Eng., Mary Fisher. That he was for several years the schoolmaster of Charlestown appears from the following:— 11: 12 mo. 1636. Mr. Wetherell was granted a House plott with his cellar, selling his other house and part of his ground. 12: 12 mo. 1637. About Mr. Wetherell it was referred to Mr. Greene and Mr. Lerned to settle his wages for the Yeare past in pt and pt to come & they chose Mr. Ralph Sprague for a third. 28: X mo. 1638. John Stratton was admitted a townsman & has liberty to buy Mr. Wetherell's house. 1641. Mr. Wethrall's name appears in a list of those to whom an assignment of lotts was made
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
the river's mouth, where all were disbanded. The remnant of the Pequots decided to join the Mohawks on the Hudson, but murdering some more English on the way, Mason, with forty men, and one hundred and twenty from Massachusetts, under Israel Stoughton, One of the Deputies; in March, 1634, disabled from holding office for three years for publishing a book affirming that the Assistants were not magistrates, which he himself requested the Court to burn as being weak and offensive. In December, 1636, he was again a Deputy, and was chosen an Assistant the next Spring. He had liberty granted him to build a mill, a wear, and bridge over Neponfit River, and is to sell the alewives he takes there at five shillings the thousand. He went to England, became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Parliament's service, and died during the Civil War. He was father of William Stoughton, Chief Justice in the trial of the witches, and a liberal benefactor of Harvard College. His name was given to Stoughto