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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., Medford steamboat days. (search)
he boat, &c., &c. One item under date of August 11, 1818, at once fixed our attention. It is this: 1 day to Medford with steamboat, $1.50. The bill bears the check mark of examination and was duly paid. Thus it appears that the little steamboat Merrimack has the unique distinction of steaming through Medford waters on August 11, 1818, one month and six days before the Eagle, (which was but little larger) made her first appearance in Boston harbor. Through this little old town of barely 1400 people with its ship building industry but a few years in progress, close beside, and never far from, but over and across our tidal river, beside our beautiful lake and through the enchanting woodlands that bordered it, to but not into the smaller river then within our bounds, came the precursor of the modern tow-boat, at that time the only steamboat plying in the waters of the old Bay State. The query will be raised, Why was not this apparently successful navigation of canal and river con
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford a century ago—1819. (search)
duty bound he should. Medford's town officers were three selectmen, three assessors, two constables, three fish committee, three overseers of the poor, three highway surveyors, three tythingmen, three auditors, three fence viewers, six fire-wards, eight surveyors of lumber, eight measurers of wood, and ten field-drivers, which with the town clerk, treasurer and clerk of the market, totals sixty-one men to administer the affairs of a little town of about twenty square miles of territory and 1400 inhabitants. Probably there was duplication enough to reduce the number to fifty. It may be noticed there was no school board especially named. The annual town meeting was held in March, hence usually styled the March meeting, and adjourned from time to time as the amount of public business required. At that of 1819, Hon. Timothy Bigelow, who had the experience and distinction of eleven terms as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was moderator. Dr. Luther Stearns, T
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Kansas troubles. (search)
24.--Sales yesterday of 3 500 bales cotton at 10 cts. Sales for the week, 23,500 bales; receipts 26 000 against 25,500 same period last year. Exports 14,000 bales. Steck 139,000 Dales. Freights to Liverpool 17.82@9.16; to Havre 1@3 16 Sterling Exchange 95@98; on New York ½@1 per cent. prem. Charleston, Nov. 23.--Sales to-day of 2,500 bales of cotton; market unsettled. Baltimore Cattle Market. Baltimore, Nov. 23.--The offerings of Beef Cattle at the Scales yesterday, amounted to 1400 head, of which 250 head were driven to Philadelphia and New York, 53 sold to country graziers 150 left over unsold, and the remainder purchased by Baltimore butchers at prices ranging from $2.25 to $3.75 per 100 pounds, and averaging $3 12 ½--a decline of fully 31 ¼ cents per 100 pounds on the rates of last week. The market closed dull and heavy to-day. Sheep $2.50@$3.50 per head, as to quality.--Hogs show a decline of 25 cents per 100 pounds; sales have been made this week at $7@$8 per 100
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
h retreat of Johnston. The morals of the rebel army is now almost as had as when Bragg was in command, and Johnston is looked upon as a repetition of the "Great retreated" Our correspondent with the 4th army corps arrived here a few days since and reports the capture of the rebel ordnance report for July 2d in which document the rebel strength is given at 17,000 cavalry and infantry. The city is full of rebel prisoners. Capt. Good win, Provost Marshal, reports the arrive of about 1400; 300 were captured south of the Kenesaw Mountain, and 141 deserters. Many of these men are of the better class of Southern soldiers, bring from South Carolina and Georgia. The majority are Tennessean and Kentuckian. We have lost only a few men in skirmishing since the 27th. There seems to have been some fighting in the movement over the Chattahoochee river, as the rebel Gen. Geo. Harncy was wounded. Miscellaneous. The streets of Baltimore were barricaded with carts, wagons, a
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], The pedigree of the Lee family. (search)
uptly with the name of "Hugo de Lega, or de Le," without date. The first name with date is that of John de Lee, Miles, to whom Hugo de Hinton gave the lands, as by the old chart. Opposite this name is the date 1333. The father of John de Lee was Thomas de la Lee. The simple name of Lee occurs first as Ricardus Lee, of Langly, about the year 1500.--The first name of Robert is Robertus de la Lee, son of John de la Lee; he married Margarita, daughter and heir of Thomas Astly, of Nordly, about 1400.--The first name written in English is Thomas Lee, of Cotton, in King's Nordley, in the Parish of Alvely, who was the son of Johannes Lee. There are several coats of arms on the manuscript. That of Ricardus Lee, of the direct line, is as follows: A shield with a crescent of a squirrel sejant, eating a nut or flower; a lion in rampant guardant in sinister chief; a star in precise middle chief; dexter chief, a blood-red field with embattled bars of blue and yellow. The dexter base, a blac
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