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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), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
sisted in leaving Rhode Island, where they were hospitably treated, and coming to Boston, where they were not wanted? There was Mary Dyer, who had lately been hanged on Boston Common because she would not go away when told to; and then came Elizabeth Horton to disturb the peace of Cambridge by crying through the streets that the Lord was coming with fire and sword to judge his people, nor would she desist till she was flogged out of town at the cart's tail. Still worse: there was Benanuel Bowers, gentleman and land-owner (up north, near the Charlestown line), whom no threats could restrain from declaring himself a Baptist, and who for giving a glass of milk to starving Elizabeth Horton was fined £ 5. This bold Benanuel himself turned Quaker, and was for twenty years a thorn in the orthodox flesh of our little town. Over and over again he was fined 20s. for staying away from church, and now and then for entertaining Quakers at his house, £ 4 and costs. In 1677, for refusing to pay h
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)
phen, 35, 36. High buildings, 129. Hill, Dr. G. B., author of Harvard College by an Oxonian, 72. Holmes, John, Ballade by, VI; 35, 183. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 33. Holmes, Rev. Abiel, dismissed from the First Parish, 31, 238; his farm, 41; importance of his pastorate, 337; his ministrations in the Port, 240; founds the Humane Society, 267. Hooker, Rev. Thomas, arrives at New Town, 6; his company not satisfied, 6; they remove to Connecticut, 6, 233; and found Hartford, 6. Horton, Elizabeth, 12. Hospital, Cambridge, opened by Miss E. E. Parsons, 278; incorporated, 278; closed, 278; Isaac Fay's bequest, 278; additional gifts, 278; extent of hospital inclosure, 278; surroundings, 278; buildings, 279; the hospital opened, 279; number cared for, 279; its accommodations, 279; cost of land and buildings, 279; cost of maintenance, 279; property exempt from taxation, 320. Houghton, H. O., tells the story of the first printing-press, 332, 333; 334; founder of the Rivers