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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 1: (search)
nly two days which I have observed more hot than in England. Here is sweet air, fair rivers, and plenty of springs, and the water better than in England. An experience of only six weeks in June and July was not enough tos. Rev. Mr. Higginson, writing to his friends in England, in 1629, on New England's plantation, gives the fo bigger and sweeter than is ordinary to be found in England. Here are stores of pumpions, cowcumbers, and othe hawes of white-thorne, near as good as cherries in England. They grow in plenty here. The fullest credit r. Graves, of Charlestown, said in a letter sent to England: Thus much I can affirm in general, that I never cail of Mistick and its neighborhood, and the soil of England, and says: Here is as good land as I have seen ther native land. Some plants, which in cold and misty England wooed the sun, could best thrive here if they wooedhere is no satisfactory record of potatoes being in England before they were carried from Santa Fe, in America,
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
be necessary to trace their last movements in England. This can be done most briefly and satisfactd costly voyage, being all wind-bound long in England, and hindered with contrary winds after they that land in the Old World, and especially in England, was scarce and dear. Governor Winthrop infriend's company; for, by special contract in England, the artisans were to work two-thirds of the sed at this time, the provisions brought from England were very cheap. The fall of prices was remasive. Outside shutters were in common use in England at the time above mentioned; and so was it copany, which was a commercial establishment in England, not vested with political power as rulers. are much enlarged since your departure out of England), to give you hearty thanks for your large adl be to get you good venison. The Company in England say (April 17, 1629), William Ryall and Thomars in five thousand pounds of lawful money of England not to sell away or alienate any part of the [4 more...]
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
abot, Bartholomew Gosnold, and others, were understood to give to James I., of England, the coasts and country of New England. The king accordingly claimed, in the gland, different sections of country were owned and controlled by Companies in England, yet the people here claimed and exercised a corporate power in the elections tion-paper to see how each one will subscribe for the support of our agents in England. They gave some of the earliest expressions of enlightened patriotism, and prd, as seen in the years 1748 and 1782, it will appear that the separation from England made not the slightest difference in the municipal organizations or modes of eof the Puritans were stopped. Deep policy suggested this change of affairs in England; and a consequence was, that emigration to New England ceased, and was not renis adjutant-general, in that perilous crisis of our affairs, the late war with England. The prudence and discretion with which he discharged this arduous duty will
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 4: (search)
mpt of all true lovers of liberty, both in Great Britain and America. --Therefore we seriously enjoants generally refusing to import tea from Great Britain while subjected to the payment of the dutye themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, they, the said inhabitants, will solemnlye central government. When the war with Great Britain was declared, June 18, 1812, the town of Mback into the country, and afterwards went to England. That, after said battle, said Royal sent hi him that it would not do for us to resist Great Britain, for they were too strong for us, and woul said Royal was for surrendering up all to Great Britain, rather than make resistance. Mr. Samuee loved the Colonies less, but that he feared England more. He wanted that unbending, hickory tougSir William Pepperell, died on her passage to England, in 1775. Her husband died in London, in 181y Henry Hutton and Elizabeth Royal Hutton, of England, to Mr. Robert Fletcher, of London, dated Lon[6 more...]
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
d a preacher, Mr. James Noyes, afterwards minister of Newbury. He was born in England in 1608, educated at Oxford, came to Boston in 1634, and was immediately calle as a rule of moral conduct. Mrs. Anne Hutchinson brought the controversy from England here in 1634. The Colonists went for the law, and were called Legalists. The rdy, intelligent, Christian adventurers called Puritans, who left their native England that they might here worship God and govern themselves according to the dictatsary to be done to Mr. Turell's fences. When the Rev. George Whitefield, of England, came to this country, as a missionary of the cross, to wake up the dead churche spoke as one who had authority to blow the trumpet of doom. He returned to England, in 1741, for a visit, but left behind him followers who had neither his wisdo His love of country showed itself prominently during our difficulties with Great Britain in 1812. His sermon at the annual election in 1809, that before the studen
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
slate for the future. The establishment of schools, during the first years of their residence, was an impossibility; and, consequently, domestic instruction was the only alternative. The Bible and Primer were the reading-books. In those towns or plantations where a clergyman could be supported, he usually occupied much of his time in teaching the young; and it was common for boys to be received into the minister's family to be prepared for college. Those pastors who had been silenced in England, and who came here to minister to the scattered flocks in the wilderness, were men of strong thought and sound scholarship; and they kept up the standard of education. From the necessities of their condition, however, it is apparent that the children of our ancestors must have been scantily taught, and their grandchildren still greater sufferers; for learning follows wealth. The first movement for the establishment of schools took place under the administration of Governor Prence; and,
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 9: public buildings. (search)
rs had no special services for the dedication of a new house of worship, because they could not tolerate any imitation of the English church; and we have always had to regret their further indiscretion in banishing, for the same poor reason, the sacred observance of Christmas and Good Friday. June 11, 1770: Voted not to grant seats for singers. July 28, 1771, Sunday: On this day was used, for the first time, the new pulpit-cushion given by William Pepperell, Esq., who imported it from England, at a cost of eleven guineas. March 5, 1787: Some inhabitants of taste and public spirit propose to plant ornamental trees in front of the meeting-house. The town voted not to have them! May 10, 1802: Voted to buy a new bell. Oct. 5, 1812: Voted not to have a stove in the meeting-house! Never was there a house that received fewer repairs. In 1814, they who are first to discover needs, and quickest to relieve them, subscribed one hundred and fifty dollars; and soon the pulpit w
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
r pay in sugar, molasses, iron, tea, rum, &c. How different this from the course of trade in England, where a man was forbidden by law to carry on two mechanic trades or different pursuits! A tanwood screws, by a machine entirely new. This would have succeeded; but, the war of 1812 with Great Britain having ended, wood screws were imported from England so cheap as to render competition ruinoEngland so cheap as to render competition ruinous. John L. Sullivan, Esq., the chief agent, afterwards sold the establishment to Mr. Stowell for $4,000, through whom it came into possession of its present owner, Robert Bacon, Esq. He has built tlantation of Massachusetts Bay. Careful and costly preparations for this business were made in England, in 1629, by Mr. Cradock, who believed it the most promising investment then offered from the N we have the following early record: Thirty-five ships sailed this year (1622) from the west of England, and two from London, to fish on the New England coasts; and made profitable voyages. Through
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 11: currency. (search)
rate of fourpence in a shilling more than the same cost, or might be bought for ready money, in England. Sept. 3, 1634: No person that keeps an ordinary shall take above sixpence a meal for a persall see. Taxes. The first inhabitants of Medford, bringing with them the common usage of England with respect to poll and property taxation, adopted the rules which they had followed in their supporting the expedition against the Pequods; also for service-money, to prevent the effort in England to withdraw the charter of Massachusetts, and to liquidate charges in London. The rates and ford for the burial of the dead are not positively known. Whether from unwillingness to follow England's example, in providing expensive and well-secured graveyards, or from their inability to do somade. The oldest gravestones in the present graveyard, near Gravelly Bridge, were brought from England, and are remarkable for their width, thickness, and weight. The oldest bears the date of 1691.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 12: crimes and Punishments. (search)
d not in their masters' business, shall be taken up and whipped, ten stripes on their naked body, by any freeholder of the town, and be carried to their respective masters; and said master shall be obliged to pay the sum of 2s. 6d. in money to said person that shall so do. This vote, we presume, must have been imported from Jamaica. Did our progenitors so learn Christ? 1680: There are as many (one hundred and twenty) Scots brought hither and sold for servants in time of the war with England, and most now married and living here, and about half so many Irish brought hither at several times as servants. Judge Sewall, of Massachusetts, June 22, 1716, says, I essayed to prevent negroes and Indians being rated with horses and cattle, but could not succeed. No cargoes of slaves were brought into Medford; but how many cargoes of Medford rum went to Africa and the West Indies, and were returned in slaves to Carolina or Rhode Island, we cannot say. The gentlemen of Medford have a
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