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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 133 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 59 23 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) 44 0 Browse Search
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. 38 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 31 7 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 26 0 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 24 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 22 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 14 4 Browse Search
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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)
27 says a pasture in the vicinity was called Dorchester fields. A fortnight later, less than a wemiles South from Boston at a place wee named Dorchester. This dispersion troubled some of vs, but heimountaine shall be called Boston; Mattapan, Dorchester; and the towne upon Charles Ryuer, Waterton.men were appointed to be kept every night at Dorchester and at Watertown, the southern and western orch of Boston, and, since the migration from Dorchester to Windsor, is entitled to rank as the secontown. The infection spread and soon many in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Watertown were burning with thesire to go West. Among them were Ludlow at Dorchester, and Pynchon, one of the Assistants at Roxbuwrote to Winthrop, complaining that men from Dorchester had set down at Connecticut near the Plymoutincreased by the emigration of the church of Dorchester and some from Watertown. Pynchon, and sevenblish fortifications at Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Castle Island. Removed with Ludlow's co[4 more...]
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)
. Daniel Shays. In the Constitutional Convention of 1788 the votes of a majority of the Delegates from Middlesex County were given against the adoption of the Federal Constitution; seventeen Delegates voting in favor of the adoption and twenty-five against. The Delegates from Waltham and Weston voted in the affirmative; those from Watertown in the negative. April 13, 1789, John Adams, Vice-President elect of the United States, set out on his journey to New York from Braintree, via Dorchester, Charlestown, and Cambridge. At Watertown Major Kent's Artillery saluted his Excellency, who passed on through Waltham, and arrived in New York at noon on the 20th. In October of the same year Washington visited the Eastern States, leaving New York on Thursday the 15th. He lodged and breakfasted at Captain Flagg's in Weston. Captain Fuller's company of Horse met him and escorted him through Waltham and Watertown to Cambridge. He, too, was saluted by the Watertown Artillery as he pas
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)
24. Dix, Jonas, school-master, 95, 97, 100, 101, 103. Domestic goods, only one shop where sold in Boston, 131. Dorchester settled by the western men, 15; why so named, 14 n. 2; 22, 36, 40. Dorchester Company, the new: grants of land to, 9; solicits and obtains a royal charter, 10. Dorchester fields, first landing in Watertown, 14. Dorsetshire, colonists from, 13. Double speeder invented by Paul Moody, 131. Draft from the militia, 102. Driftway (the), now Gore St., 51. m., of South Carolina, 132. Ludlow, Roger, the assistant, arrives in the Mary and John, 13; has the western fever at Dorchester, 36. Lyford, John, welcomed at Plymouth, 37; his complaining letters intercepted, 37; plays the penitent, 37. Lym. Masters's Brook, named by Gov. Winthrop, 26; in 1815, 17. Masters, John, 26, 30. Mattachusetts, 14. Mattapan (Dorchester), settled, 14. Maxwell House, 82, 96. Mayhew, Thomas, granted the 150 acres on the south side of Charles River by t