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Mount Auburn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
hes, and a liberal benefactor of Harvard College. His name was given to Stoughton Hall. pursued and overtook them near where New Haven now stands, and completed the extinction of the Pequot nation, the survivors being merged, under English mediation, in the Narragansett, Mohegan, and Nyantic tribes. And from savage violence the land had rest forty years. Palfrey. There is nothing in the records to show the location of the first Church built in Watertown, but it was doubtless East of Mount Auburn, in the principle settlement called the town, near the homestead of Sir Richard Saltonstall, in the part of the town now belonging to Cambridge. The next house of worship was built in 1635, above Mt. Auburn, opposite the old graveyard, on the Meeting-house Common, in the N. E. corner of Mt. Auburn and Grove Sts., then doubtless the most central or convenient point. August 7, 1635, the Freemen Agreed, that the charges of the new meeting-house being a Rate of 80 lbs. shalbe levied as oth
Halifax (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
at least. Lt. Governor Dudley thus sums up what transpired in the colony during the first eight and a half months after their arrival, in his Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, written March 28, 1631. At the time of the dispersion of which Dudley speaks, when they were unable by reason of sickness to carry their ordnance and baggage soe farr as three leagues vpp Charles riuer, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Sir Richard Saltonstall was son of Samuel, the son of Gilbert Saltonstall, Esq., of Halifax, Yorkshire. He was the first Associate to the six original patentees mentioned in King Charles's charter to the Massachusetts, of March 4, 1628-9. A worthy Puritan, one of the five undertakers, the first founder of the town and first member of the Congregational Church of Watertown. His uncle Richard was Lord Mayor of London in 1597. Zzz. Rev. George Phillips, and a goodly number of the planters, went up Charles River about four miles to a place well watered and settled a plantation, j
Charlestowne (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nt dispersedly, some at Charles Towne which standeth on the North Side of mouth of Charles Riuer; some on the South Side, which place wee named Boston (as wee intended to have done the place wee first resolved on) some of vs vppon Mistick, which place wee named Meadford; some of vs westwards on Charles Riuer, four miles from Charles Towne, which place wee named Watertoune, others of vs two miles from Boston in a place wee named Rocksbury, others vppon the riuer of Sawgus between Salem and Charlestowne. And the westerne men four miles South from Boston at a place wee named Dorchester. This dispersion troubled some of vs, but helpe it wee could not, wanting abillity to remoue to any place fit to build a Towne vppon, and the time was too short to deliberate any longer least the winter should surprise vs before wee had builded our houses. The best counsel wee could find out was to build a fort to retire to, in some convenient place, if any enemy pressed thereunto, after we should have for
Ipswich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
two persons chosen to confer about a public stock; he had a house near the Wear burnt in August of the same year; and on April 1, 1634, the Court granted him a farm of 500 acres between Stony Brook and Waltham Plain, in which Mount Feake was included, which was long known as the Oldham Farm. After his death the General Court ordered the land to be laid out for Matthew Cradock, of London, to whom Oldham was indebted. This farm then passed into the hands successively of Simon Bradstul, of Ipswich, Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, and Richard Dummer, of Newbury. The latter, and his wife Frances, sold the N. E. half (250 A.) of the farm to Richard Gale. December 24, 1684, Jeremie Dummer, goldsmith of Boston (son of Richard), and Anna his wife, sold the other, West or S. W. half to Robert Harrington for £ 90. Bond. It is described as bounded W. by Joseph Garfield; N. by Richard Cutting, Widow Sarah Fiske, and said Garfield; E. by Abraham Gale and John Gale; S. by Charles River. Thi
Piscataway (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
retire to, in some convenient place, if any enemy pressed thereunto, after we should have fortifyed ourselves against the injuries of wett and cold. So ceasing to consult further for that time they which had health to labour fell to building, wherein many were interrupted with sickness and many dyed weekely, yea almost dayley. The ships being about to return to England and Ireland, upwards of 100 returned in them, and glad were wee so to be ridd of them. Others joined a settlement at Piscataway, whereby though our numbers were leffened yet wee accounted ourselves nothing weakened by their removeall. Rev. Mr. Higginson of Salem, a zealous and profitable preacher, Mr. Johnson and the lady Arbella his wife, and Mr. Rossiter, one of the assistants, were among those who died. So that there were now left of the 5 vndertakers, says Dudley, but the Gouernour, Sir Richard Saltonstall and myselfe and seven other of the Assistants—And of the people who came over with vs from the time of t
Amsterdam (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
; being uncertain where to make their beginning.—Hubbard's N. E., p. 134. three leagues vpp Charles riuer. This, says Palfrey, would correspond to what is now Waltham or Weston, and I think it very likely to have been near the mouth of Stony Brook, which divides those two towns. And there vppon unshipped our goods into other vessels and with much cost and labour brought them in July to Charles Towne; but there receiving advertisements by some of the late arrived shipps from London and Amsterdam of some French preparations against vs (many of our people brought with vs beeing sick of feaver and the scurvy and wee thereby unable to carry vpp our ordnance and baggage soe farr) wee were forced to change our counsaile and for our present shelter to plant dispersedly, some at Charles Towne which standeth on the North Side of mouth of Charles Riuer; some on the South Side, which place wee named Boston (as wee intended to have done the place wee first resolved on) some of vs vppon Mistic
Suffolk, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the new Post Office in Boston, on Milk Street, there was found the grave-stone of Joshua Hewes. Hewes and Deacon Bright married sisters; the former Mary, the latter Anne Goldstone, daughters of Henry and Anne Goldstone of Wickham Skeith, County Suffolk, England, who came to Watertown in 1634, when the daughters were respectively 15 and 18 years of age. Deacon Bright was married probably in the latter part of the year 1634. October 14, 1690, the town voted to treat with Mr. Henry Gibbs to asers of the last three named signing the twelve articles May 19th, and the government of Plymouth ratifying the same August 29th. May 10th, the thirty towns of Massachusetts were distributed in the four Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, each containing a regiment, the chief commander over which had the rank of a Lieutenant, and the second in command was a Sergeant-Major. The Water-Town Band was led by Capt. Jenings William Jenison, whose name was sometimes written Jenings
Weston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
r note states, For want of a Penalty set, this order of no force. The same date an order was passed relative to the measuring out the remote meddows (probably in Weston). July 17, 1638, there was a grant of Waltham lands in the order yt all those Freemen yt have no Lotts at ye Towneship shall have 12 Acre Lotts beyond Bever Plain and The Farms, October 14, 1638, the territory, now Weston, was distributed. The Westward growth of the town, particularly the taking up of the farm lands (in Weston), removed the farmers so far from the meeting-house that it was inconvenient for them to attend service there, and a considerable number of them united with the Ctheir threat to burn Watertown as well as the other settlements, the Indians penetrated the western part of our town and burnt a barn. C. H. Fiske's Oration at Weston, July 4. 1876. In December, 1675, a warrant was issued to the militia of Watertown for impressing twenty soldiers, with provisions, arms, ammunition, and good clo
Saybrook, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
number reached Boston after a ten days march, and the 10th of December the ship Rebecka brought back seventy more men and women who had wandered down to the mouth of the river in search of the vessels that were to bring them supplies. October 6, young John Winthrop arrived, commissioned to settle, hold, and govern for one year, the territory of Lords Say, Sele, and Brooke, and others, patentees of Connecticut. He had men, ammunition, and money at his command, and having a small fort at Saybrook, drove off a Dutch vessel sent to defend the Dutch claim to the river. The winter's severity bore heavily upon the emigrants to the new settlements. Many returned, and the Dorchester men alone lost some £ 2000 worth of cattle. The Colonists were increased by 3000 immigrants, So as like an hive of bees overstocked, there was a necessity that some should swarm out.—Hubbard. including eleven ministers, in 1635. In June 1636, the Newtown congregation, having sold their immovable property
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
first member of the Congregational Church of Watertown. His uncle Richard was Lord Mayor of LondonThe Committee agreed that the bounds between Watertown and Newtown shall stand as they are already ken by Concord, and this was divided between Watertown, Weston, and Waltham. In 1756 Waltham and WNowell (elder at Boston), and others went to Watertown, July 21st, 1631, to confer with Mr. Phillipnd others again met in assembly with them at Watertown; the complaints were heard, and, after much Mr. Leonard Chester arrived in 1633 and left Watertown in 1636. Some modern improvers, says Bond, h a mile from the meeting-house in his town. Watertown people, being farmers chiefly, were soon widTradition also says that some explorers from Watertown had established themselves where Weathersfieut near the falls of Charles River, opposite Watertown or Waltham, October 28, 1646. among the natiay. The territory of the original town of Watertown was so extensive that its several parts were[95 more...]
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