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Billerica (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
he was fain to escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet 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
Shawsheen (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ation that he was fain to escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet 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
Menotomy (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet 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 p
Brighton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
le demonstration that he was fain to escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet 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,
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
I ascertained the location of the original town lines of Watertown, Cambridge, and Charlestown; but for the purposes of thisis admirable history of Cambridge, reports the arrival at Watertown, the fourth settlement in Massachusetts Bay colony, of ouan in 1637, when his name first appears on the records of Watertown. He then became the proprietor of a fourteen-acre lot, odge former line, being on that strip which was taken from Watertown in 1754 and annexed to Cambridge. He settled hard by, t was in the east boundary line of the original limits of Watertown, or about at the line of the present Sparks street. It isd no doubt a storehouse to accommodate the inhabitants of Watertown and Cambridge, which had no wharf until 1650. Morse kinerchant. Windmill Hill, he says, must have been upon his Watertown lot and near the wharf. Had he not, asks Morse, also buir, valued at £ 40; upland and meadow in the hither end of Watertown, valued at £ 60; ten acres in Rockie Meadow, valued at £
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
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 and grave alike unknown, of his life there is yet left a record of honor, probity, and rugged accomplishment in which his descendants may well take honest pride. In justice to Mr. Brigham, it is no more than right that the following letter should be printed:— Boston, September 25, 1904. My dear Mr. Foss: I have at ha
Marlboro, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
rried 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 DeceMarlboro, 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 SomeMarlboro 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 thMarlboro, 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 T
Puritan (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
een-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-thirds of a mile west of the site of Harvard University—which institution was established, by the way, a year after Thomas the Puritan arrived in Cambridge; while our own family historian, W. I. T. Brigham, is sure only that a part of Thomas Brigham's house lot was in the east boun
Brigham (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
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 ale. 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 sBrigham 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 Brigham towns, under various spellings, but they are of no important interest in the present connection. Burke describes eight different armorial bearings by
Harvard University (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
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-thirds of a mile west of the site of Harvard University—which institution was established, by the way, a year after Thomas the Puritan arrived in Cambridge; while our own family historian, W. I. T. Brigham, is sure only that a part of Thomas Brigham's house lot was in the east boundary line of the original limits of Watertown, or about at the line of the present Sparks street. It is certain that the lot was bounded on the south by the northern bend of Charles river, which comes at the foot of Sparks street. At this point was the first hi
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