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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Original English inhabitants and early settlers in Somerville.—(Ii.) (search)
tion. William Rand, 1758, was in the fifth generation of the Robert Rand family. He had two sons, William, who may have lived in Woburn, and Thomas, who lived in Somerville. Descendants here are all through Thomas, thirteen in number. Peleg Stearns, 1761, had a homestead and possessions in the Highfield. His only child, Dr. William Stearns, married Sarah White Sprague, and they had nine children. The homestead was on the northeasterly side of Broadway, near the Charlestown line, and the house is still standing. Besides their possessions in the Highfield, they had land on the southerly side of Washington street, near the Charlestown line, and in Polly's Swamp. Two of the descendants of Peleg Stearns are now in Somerville. Joseph Adams, 1770, was of the fifth generation of the John Adams family, of Cambridge, arid the fourth Joseph in lineal descent. Two Josephs in lineal descent followed him. He lived on the northwesterly slope of Winter Hill, in what is now known as th
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
32. Somerville Light Infantry, 40, 42. Somerville Mass., 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84. Somerville Samaritan Society, 75. Somerville Savings Bank, 8. Somerville Sons and Daughters of New Hampshire, 3. Somerville Y. M. C. A., 3. Southampton, L. I., 28. South-mead, The, 26. South Yarmouth, Mass., 2. Spanish War, The, 83. Spottsylvania, 56, 57, 58, 60. Sprague, Ralph, 79. Sprague. Sarah White, 52. Springfield Street, 34. Spring Hill. 15, 32, 75. Spy Pond, 37. Stearns, Peleg, 52. Stearns, Dr., William, 52. Stevensburg, 22, 44, 45. Stevens, Charles F., 40. Stevens, Edward L., 13. Stevens, Leslie, 18. Stinted Pasture, The, 25, 26, 27. Stokes, Benjamin. 50. Stone, F. W., 8. Stone, Hannah A., 52. Stone. John, 52. Stone, Jonathan, 8. Stone, Jonathan, Jr., .52. Stone, Mrs., Jonathan, 8. Stone, Lucy, 8. Stone. Lydia, 52. Stone, Nathaniel T., 8. 52. Stone. Mrs. N. T., 8. Stone, Sara, 8. Stone, Seth. 52. Stone, Susanna. 53. Strawberry