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H. W. Dutton (search for this): chapter 9
ter until I could investigate further. Mr. Elliot kindly offered to take up the matter with me at my convenience, but I was out of town from May to September, and since have been immersed in another (and this time victorious) political campaign. I can give the matter no thought until after election. My error, if there is one, is due to my confidence in the alleged researches made by the late Peter B. Brigham, as reported by Morse (page 4, Brigham, by Rev. Abner Morse, A. M., press of H. W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1859). The identification here is explicit, but the description of the old site is that of Morse, I should judge. The Rocks was the name of the old Brigham place, and Mr. Elliot points out two important facts: one, that there is no mention of Thomas Brigham in the early Charlestown records, which were well kept; and that The Rocks was the name of a well-known ancient landmark, as Morse styles it, in Arlington, not in Somerville. Brigham's identification was wholly wit
Saxon (search for this): chapter 9
the belief that there were no less than four distinct Brigham lines, from one of which sprang Thomas. The belief that this was of Yorkshire is strengthened by the fact that Sir Richard Saltonstall, his friend and neighbor in Cambridge, and upon whose suggestion he may have come from England, was of a Yorkshire family. Without detaining you too long with details of more remote interest, I may say that the name Brigham has been spelled in no less than eighteen different ways. It is Anglo-Saxon, and comes from two words meaning bridge and house. It originally signified a village of freemen situated by a bridge. The name is authentically traced back to the period of Henry I., who was born in 1068; and it is said by English Brighams now living that it was borne with honor in Palestine in the time of the Crusades. I fear, however, that we are getting farther away rather than nearer to Thomas Brigham the Puritan. The first and only authentic mention of him found in England is in
Peter B. Brigham (search for this): chapter 9
ten acres in Fresh Pond Meadow, on the northwest side of the great swamp. Of these he took immediate possession, and built upon the former. By the help of Peter B. Brigham, Esq., who died in 1872, The Rocks have been found and the place of our old settler's last habitation identified. To quote Morse, who wrote in 1859, the sitign. I can give the matter no thought until after election. My error, if there is one, is due to my confidence in the alleged researches made by the late Peter B. Brigham, as reported by Morse (page 4, Brigham, by Rev. Abner Morse, A. M., press of H. W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1859). The identification here is explicit, but the Brigham, by Rev. Abner Morse, A. M., press of H. W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1859). The identification here is explicit, but the description of the old site is that of Morse, I should judge. The Rocks was the name of the old Brigham place, and Mr. Elliot points out two important facts: one, that there is no mention of Thomas Brigham in the early Charlestown records, which were well kept; and that The Rocks was the name of a well-known ancient landmark, as
Nicholas Wyeth (search for this): chapter 9
an uplift of clay slate about seventy feet in height, overlooking Fresh Pond one and one-half miles at the south. A few rods southwest of this, continues Morse, there is another uplift of the same formation and of about the same size and altitude, but the rock does not, as in the former, crop out, yet it was doubtless one of The Rocks which constituted a well-known landmark; for Thomas Danforth, as if connected with Thomas Brigham, immediately after the above assignment, purchased of Nicholas Wyeth forty-eight acres upon the Rocks near Alewive meadow, having Thos. Brigham on the north. This lot must have included the site of the poorhouse, and probably the S. W. rock, and by its boundaries it contributes to the identification of Brigham's location, which had been ascertained from other evidence. I have perambulated the territory described here by Mr. Morse, yet without my assurance I think you would readily conceive that the second homestead of the Brigham family in this count
Allerdale Ward (search for this): chapter 9
that it is scandalous to degenerate. Later researches prove nothing more definite of the English origin of Thomas the Puritan than a strong inference that he hailed from Yorkshire. There are four Brigham places in Great Britain, as follows:— First—Town of Brigham, Driffield, in Dickering Wapentake, East Riding, Yorkshire; and it is germane to, say that a large percentage of the people of this neighborhood are known by the surname of Brigham. Second—There is a Brigham parish in Allerdale Ward, above Derwent, Cumberlandshire. To this locality tradition assigns the vague (because ancient) references to the manor of Brigham and the lords of Allerdale. Wordsworth penned a graceful sonnet to the Nun's Well of this place. Third—From the Acts of Parliament of Scotland we learn how that assembly convened at Brigham, near Berwick-on-Tweed, on two occasions during the period when it was peripatetic, namely, in 1188 and 1289. You will also recall that a treaty of Brigham was sig
Edmund Rice (search for this): chapter 9
f worthy husbands whom a lady married is the measure of her worth, our maternal ancestor was a most worthy and attractive woman, for she married no less than three. These were Thomas Brigham, who died in 1653, by whom she had five children; Edmund Rice, of Marlboro, by whom she had two daughters; and William Hunt, of Marlboro, who died in 1667. Mercy Hurd-Brigham-Rice-Hunt died December 23. 1693, after a third widowhood of twenty-six years. During this period she saw two bloody Indian waRice-Hunt died December 23. 1693, after a third widowhood of twenty-six years. During this period she saw two bloody Indian wars. During the first Marlboro was burned, and she, with one of her sons, is believed to have fled to their former home on The Rocks in Somerville, while her other sons went in pursuit of the enemy. The children of Thomas and Mercy Hurd-Brigham were Mary, Thomas, John, Hannah, and Samuel. All were identified with the early history of Marlboro, whence their mother had removed upon the death of Thomas the Puritan. The men became very prominent in town life, and Samuel, it is said, founded th
Cambridge (search for this): chapter 9
ndation stones of the old commonwealth. Thomas was then thirty-two years of age, and he appears quickly to have attained to respect and prominence. He was made a freeman in 1637, when his name first appears on the records of Watertown. He then became the proprietor of a fourteen-acre lot, of seven-eighths of the size and adjoining that of Sir Richard Saltonstall. This land was bought of John Dogget & bounded W. by the homestall of Sir Richard Saltohstall, S. by Charles River, & E. by Cambridge former line, being on that strip which was taken from Watertown in 1754 and annexed to Cambridge. He settled hard by, and built his house in Cambridge, on a lot of three and one-half acres which had been assigned him by the townsmen in 1638. The exact location of our Puritan's homestead cannot be stated. Paige places it at the easterly corner of Brattle and Ash streets. Morse quotes the boundaries of the lot, which would be unintelligible to this audience, but says it was about two-t
Allerdale (search for this): chapter 9
upon trustworthy evidence; and where there is doubt I have indicated it. For example, good old Rev. Abner Morse, the first genealogist of the Brigham family, would have it that Thomas came of noble blood, in direct descent from the lords of Allerdale, whose reputation for courtesy, honor, truth, and justice filled all Cumberland; and the worthy clergyman works into his pages the sage suggestion to posterity that it is scandalous to degenerate. Later researches prove nothing more definiteood are known by the surname of Brigham. Second—There is a Brigham parish in Allerdale Ward, above Derwent, Cumberlandshire. To this locality tradition assigns the vague (because ancient) references to the manor of Brigham and the lords of Allerdale. Wordsworth penned a graceful sonnet to the Nun's Well of this place. Third—From the Acts of Parliament of Scotland we learn how that assembly convened at Brigham, near Berwick-on-Tweed, on two occasions during the period when it was peripa
William Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 9
orkshire. There are four Brigham places in Great Britain, as follows:— First—Town of Brigham, Driffield, in Dickering Wapentake, East Riding, Yorkshire; and it is germane to, say that a large percentage of the people of this neighborhood are known by the surname of Brigham. Second—There is a Brigham parish in Allerdale Ward, above Derwent, Cumberlandshire. To this locality tradition assigns the vague (because ancient) references to the manor of Brigham and the lords of Allerdale. Wordsworth penned a graceful sonnet to the Nun's Well of this place. Third—From the Acts of Parliament of Scotland we learn how that assembly convened at Brigham, near Berwick-on-Tweed, on two occasions during the period when it was peripatetic, namely, in 1188 and 1289. You will also recall that a treaty of Brigham was signed here. Fourth—Brigham, Norfolk county, Eng., which is mentioned in the Calendar Close Rolls, time of King Edward II. The Domesday Book mentions also four other Brig
Hannah (search for this): chapter 9
m she had two daughters; and William Hunt, of Marlboro, who died in 1667. Mercy Hurd-Brigham-Rice-Hunt died December 23. 1693, after a third widowhood of twenty-six years. During this period she saw two bloody Indian wars. During the first Marlboro was burned, and she, with one of her sons, is believed to have fled to their former home on The Rocks in Somerville, while her other sons went in pursuit of the enemy. The children of Thomas and Mercy Hurd-Brigham were Mary, Thomas, John, Hannah, and Samuel. All were identified with the early history of Marlboro, whence their mother had removed upon the death of Thomas the Puritan. The men became very prominent in town life, and Samuel, it is said, founded the tanning and shoe industry. The present writer, although coming immediately from a branch resident in Vermont, is a direct descendant of Thomas, the first son. This, at greater length than I had intended, is something of the story of Thomas Brigham the Puritan. Cradle an
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