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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1,606 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 462 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 416 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 286 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 260 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 254 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 242 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 230 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 218 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 166 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Literary Medford. (search)
d Other Trees of Massachusetts and the Hand-book of the Trees of New England, with Ranges throughout the United States and Canada, are valuabshed as Flowers for Children. The Frugal Housewife; Evenings in New England, 1826; First Settlers of New England, 1829; The Girl's Own Book;New England, 1829; The Girl's Own Book; The Coronal; The Mother's Book, 1831; and the Ladies' Family Library, four volumes of short biographies, followed in quick succession. Somegara, reprinted. Samuel Hall was editor of the Essex Gazette, New England Chronicle, Salem Gazette, and Massachusetts Gazette, 1768-1807. or both. Richard Price Hallowell was the author of Quakers in New England, 1870; Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, 1883; Pioneer Quakers i Ward Dean, whose long and valuable services as librarian of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society has made all investigators ieene Usher, to which is added a genealogy of the Usher family in New England. Henry Grosvenor Cary wrote The Cary Family in England and th
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Rock sculpture in Medford. (search)
istance from Forest street and the new boulevard is a rare combination of the natural and the artificial, or rather accidental, an object of interest and one rarely seen, the Old Man of the Fells. We deem the Old Man worthy of an introduction to our readers and to the public, and show him in his calm and graceful pose in our frontispiece. So far as we know he has never been introduced to the people in print by any one, other than the present writer, It should be noticed here that the New England Magazine has presented a summer view of the same profile, but with no description thereof, in connection with an interesting article on Middlesex Fells by F. W. Coburn. who did so three years ago in the columns of the Medford Mercury and Boston Globe. To the former the Register is under obligation for its illustrations. Shortly after such introduction the old man was visited by numerous people, to whom his existence was a revelation. Some took the woodland walk and returned no wiser,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Walnut Tree Hill division of the stinted pasture. (search)
nce on the westerly slope of Walnut Tree hill, near the pumping station of the Mystic Water Works. An illustration of the condition of this pasture is afforded by the incident above referred to, and which is related in Winthrop's History of New England:— October 11, 163, the Governor, being at his house at Mistick, walked out after supper, and took a piece in his hand, supposing he might see a wolf (for they came daily about the house and killed swine, calves, etc.) and being about half dary line between the Cities of Medford and Somerville. Lieut.—Col. Charles Lidgett came into full possession of Ten Hills farm in the year 1685. Colonel Lidgett was the friend and adherent of Sir Edmund Andros, the first royal governor of New England during the Inter-Charter period. The assertion of Governor Andros that the abrogation of the first colonial charter re-invested all land titles in the Crown caused wide-spread consternation. Some proprietors endeavored to strengthen their ti
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., The Jonathan Watson house. (search)
ouse to his son Charles, then a bachelor, and the west-tern to his daughter, also an Abigail. She is said to have lived and died a quasi widow, for her Scotch husband, Hugh Tarbett, was a Loyalist, and decamped with the Tories in 1776. Charles Fitch rented his half to General John Brooks (afterwards and for seven years governor), who had taken up the practice of medicine in Medford after the Revolution. It was here that he was living when President Washington visited him while on his New England tour, in October, 1789, coming from Boston early in the morning, and going from Medford to Salem. The Medford schoolhouse was then close by and the school kept by Mr. Prentiss. He ranged his young charges before the house, each holding a quill that the illustrious visitor might know that they were school children. Seventy years afterward the testimony of aged residents—these former school children—was gathered up by one interested, and incidents carefully noted. Of these written, b
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., A Fishy story. (search)
from one who says, I am indebted to Professor Tweed for one he received on a winter morning, when the snow had blocked the roads round Walnut hill, The hill was known as Walnut Tree Hill prior to the location of the college thereon. and the New England staple, salt fish, was in request—a dinner of which, by the way, John Hancock used to invite his friends to eat on Saturdays. Under stress of weather the good doctor penned the lines his wife styled silly. There seemed to have been the irons. A contributor says: Fifty years ago it was no uncommon sight to see a young man going through Medford square with a salt fish in one hand and a can of oil in the other. We did not necessarily put him down as one who tilled the soil, or thought him a laboring man, for we knew he dug in Greek roots and was taking his way toward College hill. O tenmpora! O mores! Fancy such a sight today! Boneless cod and electric light are the present order, but salt fish was a New England staple then