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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 town, 1750-1846. (search)
rts for separation. The General Court, to which the petition was presented, was adjourned by General Gage to Salem before it was considered, and there is no reason to suppose that action could have bod of intense excitement. It appeared that Major-General Brattle, of Cambridge, had notified General Gage that the Medford selectmen had removed from the powder-house in Charlestown, now known as theown, thus leaving only the powder which belonged to the province. On receipt of this information Gage sent out some troops, and brought in to Boston the powder from the powder-house, and from Cambridess was justified by the event. Before the time arrived for the assemblage of the General Court, Gage prorogued that body, and the representatives, who reported at Salem, organized as a Provincial Cofor special action on the part of the town. It was rumored in the early days of the session that Gage proposed to march to Cambridge at the head of his troops and break up the session, but events pro
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)
d Cambridge, and, having been refused the use of the meeting-house, preached several times under a large elm-tree at the northwesterly corner of the Common, to audiences estimated at thousands, and ever after the elm was known as the Whitefield tree. It remained standing until 1855, when it was removed by the city. This Common was famous also as the place selected by the yeomanry of Middlesex on which to assemble on every occasion of public emergency. On Thursday, September 1, 1774, Governor Gage sent four companies of troops in thirteen boats up the Mystic River, and seized two hundred and fifty half-barrels of powder, being the whole stock belonging to the colony, in the old powder-house, still standing, at Medford, and removed it to Castle William, now Fort Independence, in Boston Harbor. A detachment also went to Old Cambridge and carried off two fieldpieces. These proceedings caused great indignation, and on the following day more than two thousand men of Middlesex assembl
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
e, by Dr. Henry N. Hudson; the mathematical works of Prof. J. M. Peirce and Prof. W. E. Byerly, and many others. Among the other books most widely known and most extensively used, of the eight hundred now published by the house, are the Wentworth Series of Mathematics, the National Music Course, by Luther Whiting Mason, Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar, Lockwood's Lessons in English, Collar and Daniell's Beginner's Latin Book, Young's Series of Astronomies, Blaisdell's Physiologies, Gage's Physics, the series of Classics for Children, Montgomery's, Myers's, and Allen's Histories, and Frye's Geographies. It has been the aim of this house to make a careful study of the problems of education, and it has spared no pains to secure the best editorial talent possible. Its list now includes books by the leading educational men all over the country, and in almost every town in the United States some of their publications are used. The house has for many years been second to none
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
Mrs., the ponderous verses of, 2. Bradstreet, Simon, site of his house, 2. Braintree Street, 3, 6; name changed to Harvard, S. Brattle, General, notifies Gage of removal of powder from Charlestown, 23; apologizes to the Cambridge people, 24. Brattle, Rev. William, 236; his salary, 237; donations to, 237. Brattle Sncampment, 286. Charles River National Bank, 304. Charles River Railroad, 399. Charlestown, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; trail to Watertown, 3; General Gage removes powder from, 23; becomes a city, 54. Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street), 8. Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, the one Indian graduate of Harvard, 10. 84. Freight facilities, 127. Fresh Pond, 113, 114, 116, 117. Fresh Pond Park, 117, 125. Friendship Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286. Frozen Truth, 91, 94. Gage, General, seizes powder in Charlestown, 23, 48; and fieldpieces in Cambridge, 23, 48. Gallows Lot, executions on, 5, 12. Gambrel-Roofed House, The, 43-46.