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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)
nted by his Majesty with the advice of the Privy Council. The councilors thus appointed were termed Mandamus Councilors. Among them were three Cambridge men: Thomas Oliver, lieutenant-governor, and councilor by virtue of his office, Samuel Danforth, and Joseph Lee. The change in the method of creating the board was but one among Middlesex engaged to do no one thing in obedience to the new act of Parliament. The meeting apparently adjourned from the Common to the residence of Lieutenant-Governor Oliver, on the westerly side of Elmwood Avenue, now known as the Lowell house, where the lieutenant-governor made a promise of a similar nature over his own sie, the concluding sentence in which is, My house at Cambridge being surrounded by about four thousand people, in compliance with their command I sign my name,— Thomas Oliver. There was but one other person with whom the people in their indignation had to deal, and that was General Brattle. He had apparently taken refuge in Bost
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)
ng 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 assembled here to consult in regard to this insult to the people. From the Common they marched to the court-house in Harvard Square, and compelled three councilors, Oliver, Danforth, and Lee, and the high sheriff of the county, to resign their offices. On June 16, 1775, orders were given for one thousand men to parade at six o'clock in the evening on the Common, with packs and blankets, and provisions for twenty-four hours, together with all the intrenching tools in the Cambridge camp. That night, Colonel William Prescott, clad in a simple uniform, with a blue coat and three-cornered hat, took command. The men were drawn up in line and marched to the smal
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 Journalism (search)
scribe the exciting chase of a Bear from Lieutenant-Governor Phips' farm in Cambridge down to the Charles River, and his subsequent capture; or that far more exciting scene in September, 1774, when the British troops from Boston carried off the powder from the Somerville powder-house. And fancy the wealth of display headlines which a Cambridge newspaper would have deemed necessary to set forth properly the story of that eventful visit of about four thousand people to LieutenantGov-ernor Thomas Oliver's mansion on Tory Row, which resulted in his resignation and subsequent flight into Boston. Quiet country towns like Greenfield, Worcester, Salem, Newburyport, and Portsmouth, where life moved on in an endless monotony of pastoral simplicity, all had excellent weekly newspapers, founded a century or more ago. Yet Cambridge, a university town of vastly more importance and with far greater facilities for producing a newspaper than any of these places, had no home paper until 1846. Th
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 Protestant churches of Cambridge. (search)
n the Church Book: My salary from the town is ninety pounds per annum, and the overplus money. Afterwards he had £ 100. There are long lists of donors of wood. The sending of the wood seems to have been discontinued at the time his salary was increased. In 1697 is a long list headed, Sent in since Nov. 3, the day that I was married. From my good neighbors in town. Then follows an account of articles for his table, with the names of the donors: Goody Gove, 1 pd. Fresh Butter, 8d.; Doct. Oliver, a line Pork, 2s.; Sarah Ferguson, 1 pig, 1s. 9d. Mr. Appleton acknowledges gifts made to him: My good friends and neighbors have for several years past, in the fall of the year, brought me a considerable quantity of wood gratis, some years between thirty and forty loads, sometimes above forty loads. Then follow the names of the friends and the quantity of the wood they brought. He needed this. The times were hard. He has left a receipt for £ 3 2s. to complete the payment of his salar
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)
Rev. Urian, minister, actingpresident, and president of the college, 236. Observatory, 75, 76. Odd-Fellowship, its position, 285; strength and popularity, 285; first founded in England, 285; first American lodge, 285; its purpose, 285; its motto and aim, 285; its work, 285; Cambridge organizations, 286; buildings, 286. Old Cambridge, 2. See New Town. Oldest Cambridge, 2. See New Town. Old-time Society, An, 267-274. Old Villagers, 60. Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge, 286. Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor, 23; his promise to Cambridge citizens, 24. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 35. Overseers of the Poor, 403. Owen, John, 51. Paige, Rev. Lucius R., 276, 281, 284. Palisade at the New Town, 5, 8, 133; Watertown refuses to share the expense of building, 8; needed as a protection from wild beasts, 8. Park Commissioners, 403. Parks, committee to consider the subject of, 120; public grounds in 1892, 120; their inadequacy, 120; Park Commissioners appointed