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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
inental army, m. Abigail Fowle of Wat., 1767; Elizabeth, bap. 1 May 1748, perhaps m. Francis Whitmore 3d of Medf., 6 June 1765; Andrew, bap. 3 Mar. 1754, a physician, d. 9 Feb. 1777. He had also dau. Susanna, adm. to the Ch. 1777. In his will, dated 19 May 1782, and proved 2 Oct. 1782, are named w. Hannah, grandson Nataniel Bowman, living in his family, and then in College, nephew Samuel Kidder, and son-in-law Nicholas Pike of Newburyport. 11. Solomon, parentage not ascertained, m. Abigail Brown 1 Mar. 1768, and had Abiqail Brown, b. 12 Mar. 1769, m. Ebenezer Cutter of Charlestown, 6 Dec. 1789; Sybil, b. 2 Oct. 1770, m. Nathan Nurse 24 Mar. 1803; Elizabeth, b. 23 July 1773, d. 24 Ap. 1797. Bowtell, John (otherwise written Boutell, Bouttill, and Boutaile), by w. Margaret, had Mary, b. 26 Oct. 1646; Margaret, b. 4 Jan. 1650-51; John, b. 1652, d. 1 Dec. 1673. John the f. d. 30 Aug. 1676, a. about 60 his w. Margaret was living in 1689. Mary, who was burned to death in a fit, 24
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
inental army, m. Abigail Fowle of Wat., 1767; Elizabeth, bap. 1 May 1748, perhaps m. Francis Whitmore 3d of Medf., 6 June 1765; Andrew, bap. 3 Mar. 1754, a physician, d. 9 Feb. 1777. He had also dau. Susanna, adm. to the Ch. 1777. In his will, dated 19 May 1782, and proved 2 Oct. 1782, are named w. Hannah, grandson Nataniel Bowman, living in his family, and then in College, nephew Samuel Kidder, and son-in-law Nicholas Pike of Newburyport. 11. Solomon, parentage not ascertained, m. Abigail Brown 1 Mar. 1768, and had Abiqail Brown, b. 12 Mar. 1769, m. Ebenezer Cutter of Charlestown, 6 Dec. 1789; Sybil, b. 2 Oct. 1770, m. Nathan Nurse 24 Mar. 1803; Elizabeth, b. 23 July 1773, d. 24 Ap. 1797. Bowtell, John (otherwise written Boutell, Bouttill, and Boutaile), by w. Margaret, had Mary, b. 26 Oct. 1646; Margaret, b. 4 Jan. 1650-51; John, b. 1652, d. 1 Dec. 1673. John the f. d. 30 Aug. 1676, a. about 60 his w. Margaret was living in 1689. Mary, who was burned to death in a fit, 24
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
a Cutter, both Camb., m. 21 Jan. 1773 —see Cutter (par. 17). Nathaniel, d. 8 Aug. 1805, a. 27. Bowes, Lucy, and Rev. Jonas Clarke of Lexington, m. 21 Sept. 1757. Dorcas m. John Hill, 1 Aug. 1765. (See Paige, 494.) Bowman, Solomon, m. Abigail Brown, 1 Mar. 1768, and o. c. 26 Mar. 1769, and had Abigail Brown, b. 12 Mar., bap. 2 Apr. 1769, m. Ebenezer Cutter of Charlestown, 6 Dec. 1789—see Cutter (par. 33); Sybil, b. 2, bap. 7 Oct. 1770—prob. the Sibbel of Charlestown who m. Nathan NourAbigail Brown, b. 12 Mar., bap. 2 Apr. 1769, m. Ebenezer Cutter of Charlestown, 6 Dec. 1789—see Cutter (par. 33); Sybil, b. 2, bap. 7 Oct. 1770—prob. the Sibbel of Charlestown who m. Nathan Nourse of Camb. 24 Mar. 1803; Elizabeth, b. 23, bap. 25 July, 1773—prob. the Miss Betsey, who d. 24 Apr. 1797, a. 24; an infant, stillborn 24 Aug. 1775. Solomon was adm. to the ch. 23 July, 1797. Mrs. Abigail d. 3 Nov. 1798, a. 52. Solo-Mon the father d. 31 July, 1823, a. 78. Born 1745, s. of Thaddeus, s. of Joseph Bowman b. 1674, per F. E. Fowle, gr.—grandson. Solomon Bowman was lieutenant of Capt. Benjamin Locke's company of Menotomy minute-men, 1775, afterward a company of Col. Ga
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., William Gray of Salem and Samuel Gray of Medford. (search)
nited States. There are several reasons to account for the Grays being here, relationship for one, as Mrs. Gray was the daughter of John Chipman and Elizabeth (Brown) Chipman of Marblehead, the latter's sister, Abigail Brown, being the wife of Rev. Edward Brooks of Medford. At that time our town was a small one, with a populAbigail Brown, being the wife of Rev. Edward Brooks of Medford. At that time our town was a small one, with a population of eleven hundred. There were not many houses on the Woburn road (our present High street) between the market place and Meeting-house brook. Most of them had wide spaces of land around and between them, with an open view across the river. Save for a few buildings close to the market place on the east, there were still feweirst Anna Orne of Marblehead, by whom he had six children. He married a second time, at Medford, April 25, 1799, Mary, daughter of Rev. Edward Brooks and Abigail (Brown) Brooks. There were seven children by this marriage. It was natural, then, that he should finally settle in Medford. Before the erection of the Angier-Boynton
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Parson Turell's Legacy or the President's old Arm-Chair. (search)
one Crown lesse than he gave to claime, That being his Debte for use of same.” Smith transferred it to one of the Browns, And took his money,—five silver crowns, Brown delivered up to Moore, Who paid, it is plain, not five, but four. Moore made over the chair to Lee, Who gave him crowns of silver three, Lee conveyed it unto drew,gave up the chair to Dunn,— All he got, as you see was one. Dunn released the chair to Hall, And got by the bargain no crown at all. And now it passed to a second Brown, Who took it and likewise claimed a crown. When Brown conveyed it unto Ware, Having had one crown, to make it fair, He paid him two crowns to take the chair; And Brown conveyed it unto Ware, Having had one crown, to make it fair, He paid him two crowns to take the chair; And Ware, being honest, (as all Wares be,) He paid one Potter, who took it, three. Four got Robinson; five got Dix; Johnson primus demanded six; And so the sum kept gathering still Till after the battle of Bunker's Hill. When paper money became so cheap, Folks wouldn't count it, but said ‘a heap,’ A certain Richards, the books dec
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Shepherd Brooks. (search)
dford. He took an active part in the stirring events of 19 April 1775, and in 1777 was appointed chaplain on the frigate Hancock, which was captured by the British off Halifax, Mr. Brooks being held for some time as a prisoner. By his wife, Abigail Brown, whom he married in September 1764, daughter of Rev. John and Joanna (Cotton) Brown of Haverhill and great-great-granddaughter of the famous Puritan teacher, Rev. John Cotton of Boston, Mr. Brooks had two sons and two daughters. His second sBrown of Haverhill and great-great-granddaughter of the famous Puritan teacher, Rev. John Cotton of Boston, Mr. Brooks had two sons and two daughters. His second son, Hon. Peter Chardon Brooks, who was born at North Yarmouth 6 January 1767 and died in Boston 1 January 1849, was named for one of his father's Harvard classmates, Peter Chardon, who died prematurely in the West Indies in October 1766, the son of an eminent Boston merchant of Huguenot descent, whose house stood at the corner of the present Bowdoin Square and Chardon Street, on the site recently occupied by the Bowdoin Square Baptist Church. The family of Rev. Edward Brooks was in straightene
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Medford and her Minute Men, April 19, 1775. (search)
he wrote on August 18, 1775, My dearest Father: . . . I have enclosed a newspaper containing copies of some letters wrote by some of the principal people at the Congress, wh were intercepted by us. You will perceive from them that their aim is (what I am convinced it has ever been) Independence. To that end rose Medford and her Minute Men one hundred and fifty years ago today. Bibliography. Wild, Medford in the Revolution. Medford, past and present. Usher, History of Medford. Cutter, History of Arlington. Sears, Menotomy. Arlington, past and present. Corey, History of Malden. Farrington, Paul Revere and his famous ride. Bolton, Letters of Hugh Earl Percy. Murdock, The nineteenth of April. French, The day of Concord and Lexington. Coburn, The battle of April 19, 1775. Hooper, Roads of old Medford and bridges in Medford. （Medford Historical Register, 1899). Old Medford houses and Estates. (Medford Historical Register, 1904.) Dyer, Sons of liberty. Brown, Beneath old roof-trees.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Herbert Newton Ackerman. (search)
cular duty of shipment of supplies to distant missionaries. He served our city faithfully on its School Board for several years. In his early youth he joined the Trinitarian Church on High street, and in 1872 he became a a charter member (perhaps the youngest) of the West Medford Congregational Church, of which his father was one of the first deacons. He was a leader among its young people and later a deacon. He was well qualified to take up the work (previously assigned to former President Brown, so suddenly taken from us) of preparing the Register's history of that church. During his later years he was connected with the Mystic Church—one of its deacons, emeritus at the last, doing some fine historical work at its seventy-fifth anniversary. He was chosen a vice-president of this Society in 1915, and ever after gave of his time and effort to our work. During the five years he thus served, in which were strenuous days and exacting duties (two of the vice-presidents being la