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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)
t not adopted. A compromise measure offered the next day met a better fate. The residents south of the Charles did not secure their separate autonomy, but an annual allowance of £ 52 was granted them for the support of preaching in their meeting-house, and they were exempted from paying their proportion for the new meeting-house of the First Parish. A strip of land in Charlestown was at the same time annexed to the First Parish. This extended from the salt-water creek adjoining Lieutenant-Governor Phips's farm up to the Stone Powder-House, and thence to the Medford line. Unfortunately for Cambridge this annexed territory was not to become an integral part of the First Parish unless the inhabitants thereof should fail within two months to give security to the treasurer of the parish for the annual payment of their proportion of the charges of maintaining public worship in the parish, so long as they should attend worship there. The threat to these Charlestown people of being perm
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)
ore she awoke to the necessity of maintaining a local newspaper. To the modern journalist who is familiar with the numberless interesting and dramatic episodes that are associated with the early history of Cambridge, the fact that we should have had no local newspaper to record these events properly seems an appalling waste of opportunity. Why, for instance, should it have been left to the Boston News Letter of September 19, 1754, to describe 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 r
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
taggered towards the clearing. On reaching it he found it deserted, and was obliged to continue his journey. Towards night signs of civilization began to appear,—the heavy, continuous roar of water was heard; and, presently emerging from the forest, he saw a great river dashing in white foam down precipitous rocks, and on its bank the gray walls of a huge stone building, with flankers, palisades, and moat, over which the British flag was flying. This was the famous Saco Fort, built by Governor Phips two years before, just below the falls of the Saco River. The soldiers of the garrison gave the poor fellows a kindly welcome. Joseph, who was scarcely alive, lay for a long time sick in the fort; but Isaac soon regained his strength, and set out for his home in Haverhill, which he had the good fortune to arrive at in safety. Amidst the stirring excitements of the present day, when every thrill of the electric wire conveys a new subject for thought or action to a generation as eager
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
He sought aid from the Massachusetts; Cornwallis to Lords of Trade, 30 April, 1750. but only received for answer, that, by the constitution of that province, the assembly must first be convinced of the necessity of raising supplies; Lieut. Gov. Phips to Cornwallis. Boston, 20 Feb. 1750. that to insure cooperation, compulsory measures must be adopted by the British government to- chap. III.} 1750. wards all the colonies. He was therefore able to send from Halifax no more than a pardford, 1 May, 1750. At the same time the governments of New Hampshire and the Massachusetts Bay were informed of the audacious proceedings of the French, and invited to join in punishing La Corne as a public incendiary. Cornwallis to Lieutenant-Governor Phips at Boston, 3 May, 1750. The New England colonies received the news without any disposition to undertake dislodging the French. In England the Earl of Halifax insisted Lords of Trade to Bedford, 4 June, 1750. effectually that pro