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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The oldest road in Cambridge. (search)
764. He died in the family mansion to which he was brought as an infant. His wife was Mehitable Coney, and, as his brother married Anna Coney, the brothers may have married sisters, perhaps the daughters of John Coney of Boston. Francis and Mehitable had fifteen children, most of whom died young, making tihe parents' lives full of sorrow, we read. There are many mentions of the second Foxcroft in Paige's invaluable History of Cambridge. For instance, when the Meeting-house was built in 1756, the Foxcroft subscription was a handsome one. In 1744 the second Francis was named first on a committee of five appointed by the town a School Committee, to inspect the Grammer School and inquire (at such times as they shall think meet) what proficiency the youth and children make in their learning. As to the house first erected by Danforth and so long used by the Foxcrofts that it was known as the Foxcroft house, there is a seeming disagreement between the Rev. Lucius R. Paige and Mr. J
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
church met the delegates from the towns of the state to frame the constitution of the commonwealth. In his church, too, on October 17, the First Provincial Congress, presided over by John Hancock, met, and it continued to meet here until its dissolution, December 10. Here the Committee of Safety held its first meeting, November 2, and here, on February I, 1775, the Second Provincial Congress met, adjourning to Concord on the 16th. Appleton's portrait, by Copley, hangs in Memorial Hall. In 1756 the Fourth Church of the Society was built. In it, for over seventy years, were held the public commencements of the college, and in it, too, was given the address of welcome to Lafayette, 1824. In Appleton's time Christ Church was built. Then, of course, he lost his Church-of-England parishioners. In 1792 Abiel Holmes began his long pastorate. During his time, in 1814, the college first held separate religious services. It was in Dr. Holmes' pastorate that the important separation ca
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
ch Town and Gown celebrated together. The day was a holiday throughout the province when the shops of Boston were generally closed and their proprietors repaired to the Cambridge common which was completely taken possession of by drinking stands, dancing booths, mountebank shows and gambling tables. The religious interests of Town and Gown were intimately associated in the last century. The college paid a portion of the cost of the erection of the new meeting house of the First Parish in 1756, and in return was given the use of the front gallery for the students. They were regarded as part of the congregation and were expected to contribute to the support of the clergyman. This expectation was not, however, realized and tile corporation finally voted that the box should not be offered on the Lord's day to the scholar's gallery but that instead the students should be taxed in each of their quarterly bills, ninepence lawful money. Cambridge ministers no longer reckon on these ni