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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 314 0 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 192 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 108 12 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 68 16 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 46 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 42 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 37 1 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) 36 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 27 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 24 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739.. You can also browse the collection for Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) or search for Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) in all documents.

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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
each; the amount was assessed: Boston £ 20, Watertown £ 20, Charlestown £ 10, Roxbury £ 6, Medford £ 3, Winnesemet £ 1. At this Court Sir Richard Saltonstall wasupon the people of Newtown. The infection spread and soon many in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Watertown were burning with the desire to go West. Among them were Ludlow at Dorchester, and Pynchon, one of the Assistants at Roxbury. The grant of lands to Newtown, above referred to, allayed the fever there for a time, but at the anneld May 6, 1635, there is liberty granted to the inhabitants of Watertown, and Roxbury also, to remove themselves to any place they shall think meet to make choice o church of Dorchester and some from Watertown. Pynchon, and seven others from Roxbury selected a site higher up the river afterwards called Springfield. August 30thext time he would burn Chelmsford, Concord, Watertown, Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, Boston, adding at last in their dialect, What me will, me do. Hubbard's In<
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
ead, who was a Selectman in 1745 and 1746. Here, extending on Trapelo Street about three-eighths of a mile, rises Mackerel Hill, from the sides and summit of which to the south and east fine views may be had of Newton and Brighton, Boston and Roxbury, with the Blue Hills of Milton in the distance, and portions of Needham, Dedham, Natick, Weston, and other towns. On its western slope is a dense pine grove, through which the sun but faintly penetrates, whose soft carpet invites repose, and thof N. P. Banks, a member of the Institute, then Governor of the Commonwealth. The manufacture of watches by machinery was first undertaken by Messrs. A. L. Dennison, Edward Howard, and Samuel Curtis, of Boston, who established a factory at Roxbury, Mass., in 1850, under the name of the Boston Watch Company. Finding their expenses very large they moved to Waltham in 1854, but meeting with unexpected obstacles they became bankrupt in 1856. Their property was sold by an assignee, and was purc
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., Index. (search)
Bay, 11 n. 3. Boston Manufacturing Co. incorporated, 130; purchases property of Cotton & Wool Factory Co., 132. Boston Rock Hill, 28. Boston Watch Co. at Roxbury, 135; move to Waltham, 135; failure of, 136. Boundary questions between Watertown and New Town, 19. Bounty for killing squirrels and blackbirds, 98; to soldices of articles, 33. Pumpkin pies give place to quince tarts, 57. Puritans, Seventeenth century, 29. Puritanism, fundamental idea of, 23. Pynchon, at Roxbury, has the Western fever, 36; settles at Springfield, 40. Quinobequin not the original Indian name of Charles River, 13 n. 4. Quonehtacut, River, 35. Qunnubbttlement at, 15, 17, 18. Rogers, John, the famous, 45. Rome, churches of 24. Rooster weather-vane, 77. Rossiter, Edward, arrives, 13; death of, 16. Roxbury, 2, 23, 36, 40, 62, 79. Rum and cider at funerals, 72. Rumford Building erected, 135; first lecture in Hall, 135. Rumford Institute organized, 134; incor