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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 42 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 28 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 8: civil History. (search)
unately, however, a certified copy of the order, which is equivalent to an act of incorporation, is on file in the office of the clerk of the Judicial Courts in Middlesex County:— At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Boston on Wednesday the eleventh day of January, 1687; Present, His Excy. Sr. Edmund Andros, Kt., &c. William Stoughton, Esqs. Robert Mason, Esqs. Peter Buckley, Esqs. Wait Winthrop, Esqs. John Usher, Esqs. Edward Randolph, Esqs. Francis Nicholson, Esqs. Upon reading this day in Council the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village in the County of Middlesex, being sixty families or upwards, that they may be a village and place distinct of themselves and freed from the town of Cambridge to which at the first settlement they were annexed; they being in every respect capable thereof, and by the late authority made distinct in all things saving paying towards their school and other town charges, for which they are st
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 9: civil History. (search)
re subjected under the arbitrary government of Sir Edmund Andros. Other communities suffered like evils; and other persons were only less rapacious than Edward Randolph. At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Boston on Wednesday the nine and twentieth of February, 1687. Present, His Excellency Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., &c. Joseph Dudley, Esqrs. John Winthrop, Esqrs. Wait Winthrop, Esqrs. John Usher, Esqrs. John Green, Esqrs. Edward Randolph, Esqrs. ffrancis Nicholson, Esqrs. Samuell Shrimpton, Esqrs. Upon reading this day in Council the petition of Edward Randolph Esq., praying his Majesty's grant of a certain tract of vacant and unappropriated land, containing about seven hundred acres, lying between Spy Pond and Saunders Brook, near Watertown in the County of Middlesex,—Ordered, That the Sheriff of said County do forthwith after receipt hereof, give public notice both in Cambridge and Watertown, that if any person or persons have any claim or p
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Index of names (search)
, 363. Monis, 292. Montague, 416. Moore, 36, 59, 75, 6. 92, 8, 105, 207, 30, 1, 7, 57, 305. Morrill, 11, 32. Morse, 231, 92, 324, 8, 9, 36, 413. Morton, 261, 8, 82. Mousell, 215. Mudge, 320, 1, 39. Mullin, 339. Munroe, 231, 303-6, 428. Murray, 325. Muzzey, 11, 12, 32, 119, 75, 311, 32, 438. Mygate, 33. Nanepashemet, 382, 3. Nelson, 111. Newbe, 216. Newell, 250, 3, 304, 28. Newhall, 322. Newhouse, 345. Nichols, 36, 73, 168, 327. Nicholson, 95, 103. Norris, 244, 313. Norton, 5, 69, 71 Nowanit, 391. Nowell, 6, 8, 27, 77. Noyes, 116. Nutting, 165, 6, 70, 215. Oakes, 57, 74, 5, 117, 262, 6, 9, 71-80, 2, 3, 351, 99. Obbatinewat, 382. O'Brien, 329. Oldham, 59. Oliver, 76, 124, 5, 38, 50, 1, 4-6, 68, 9, 226, 7, 74, 86, 7, 307, 10, 75, 407, 18. Olmstead, 11, 20, 1, 32, 5, 49, 463. Onge, 81. Ordway, 328. Orr, 341. Osland, 80. Otheman, 321. Otis, 186, 309. Packard, 326, 69.