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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
 290William Tufts, 4th, m. Susanna----. He died Apr. 27, 1782, leaving--  290-291Nathan, b. May 16, 1754.  292Susanna, b. Mar. 28, 1756.  293Elinor, b. July 20, 1759.  294Abigail, b. May 8, 1760.  295Aaron, b. Dec. 18, 1761.  296William, b. Aug. 20, 1764.  297James Tufts m. Phebe----, and had--  297-298Nathan, b. May 2, 1740.  299Andrew, b. Oct. 9, 1748.  300GERSHOM Tufts m. Mary----, and had--  300-301Gershom, b. Oct. 2, 1754.  302Susanna, b. Dec. 9, 1756.  303Richard, b. Sept. 25, 1758.  304Peter Tufts (possibly 38) m. Deborah----, and had--  304-305 Moses,b. Apr. 20, 1721. Aaron,  306  307Abigail, b. Oct. 6, 1723.  308Aaron, b. July, 12, 1726.  309Ebenezer Tufts (probably No. 267) m. Abigail----, and had--  309-310Ebenezer, b. Dec. 16, 1761.  311Sarah, b. June 1, 1765.  312Ruth, b. Dec. 30, 1766.  313Jonathan Tufts m. Elizabeth----, and had--  313-314Jonathan, b. May 6, 1764.  315Eleazer, b. Sept. 28, 1767.  316Charles, b. May 3,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sower, or Sauer, Christopher 1693-1758 (search)
born in Lansphe, Germany, in 1693; graduated at a German university and studied medicine; settled in Germantown, Pa., in 1731; purchased the High-German Pennsylvanian historian, which became very popular among the German-Americans, in 1739. In 1743 he published the Bible in German, which was the first printed in America, with the exception of Eliot's Indian Bible. He introduced cast-iron stoves into general use, and is supposed to have been their designer. He died in Germantown, Pa., Sept. 25, 1758. His son Christopher, publisher; born in Lansphe, Germany, Sept. 26, 1721; became a minister of the Dunker Church; was bishop or overseer in 1747-84; succeeded his father in the publishing business, and was the largest book manufacturer in America for many years. In 1776 he began to publish a third edition of the Bible in German. When the British occupied Germantown they seized the unbound sheets of this Bible and bedded their horses with them, and in the battle there many of these