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Browsing named entities in Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910. You can also browse the collection for Historic Leaves or search for Historic Leaves in all documents.
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John Stone and his descendants in Somerville.
[continued from Vol.
III., no. 4.] By Sara A. S. Carpenter.
Before continuing with the narrative of Gregory Stone and Some of His Descendants, which ended in Historic Leaves, Vol.
III., No. 4, it may be well to add to the notes of the ancestry of Gregory Stone there given further information as to the line of his immediate predecessors, which has been published by the Stone Family Association within two years. A thorough search of the parish records of Great Bromley, Essex county, Eng., has led to the following conclusions on the part of the investigators: The Symond Stone whose will was probated February 10, 1510, had a son David, who was the great-grandfather of Gregory Stone; the intervening relatives were a Symond and a David.
The parish of Ardley adjoined that of Great Bromley, and the Stones named in the Court Rolls of Ardley are without doubt of the same family as that from which Gregory and Simon Stone descended.
The lat
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Reminiscences of Southern Prison life. (search)
Reminiscences of Southern Prison life. By George W. Bean.
[The following story was written for the Memorial, a paper edited by Miss Mary E. Elliot, and published May 30, 1878, under the auspices of Willard C. Kinsley (Independent) Relief Corps, of this city.
It is a story of the experiences in rebel prisons of George Washington Bean, for many years a member of the Somerville police force.
It is presented herewith to the Historical Society for re-publication in Historic Leaves, as a contribution to the Civil War history of Somerville.—Charles D. Elliot.]
Somerville sent three full companies of infantry to the war,—one three-months' company in 1861, one three-years' company in 1862, and one nine-months' company in 1862.
I enlisted for three years in Company E, Captain F. R. Kinsley, attached to the Thirty-ninth Regiment, which left Boston August 12, 1862, for Washington, and did arduous service in the defences of that city for a year, when it crossed into Virginia, and joine
The Walnut Hill School. By Frank M. Hawes.
[Read Before the Somerville Historical Society February 9, 1909.]
From a perusal of the names of persons selected year by year to look after the interests of the outlying schools of Charlestown, it will be safe to conclude that a school district, extending well up to Arlington Centre from the Powder House, was in existence by 1730, or as early as the more famous one, long known as the Milk Row School, whose history has appeared in Historic Leaves.
From 1790, and for a number of years thereafter this school, which we have designated by its location the Alewife Brook School, was known as School No. 3.
Previous to 1786 there was no public school building.
We are justified in making this statement from several references on the town records to private rooms that were hired for school purposes.
In the warrant, February 28, 1785, for the coming town meeting is the following: To know the minds of the town, what they will do with rega
Our Seal. By J. Albert Holmes, for the Committee.
Charles D. Elliot, always interested in the Historical Society, was an active member of its Seal Committee.
The Seal as finally adopted appears for the first time in this issue of Historic Leaves, and the Somerville Historical Society affectionately dedicates the first use of it to his memory.
The original drawing of the Seal was made in April. 1909 by William Henry Upham, of Somerville, an artist and illustrator, and a descendant of John Upham, of Weymouth and Malden, 1600-1681.
It consists of a shield outlined in gold, on which appears illustrated, also in gold, the launching of the Blessing of the Bay, the raising on Prospect Hill of the first American flag, and the Old Powder House.
The shield is surrounded by a looped ribbon of blue, on which in gold letters is the name, Somerville Historical Society, and the date of organization, 1897.
Regarding the Blessing of the Bay, Some time in 1631, to quote Mr. Elliot,