Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 5: civil History., page 43

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March 9, 1636-7.

For Newetowne, Mr. George Cooke chosen captain; Mr. Willi: Spencer, leiftenant; Mr. Sam: Shepard, ensign.²

Nov. 15, 1637.

The College is ordered to be at Newetowne.³

Nov. 20, 1637.

For the College, the Governor, Mr. Winthrope, the Deputy, Mr. Dudley, the Treasurer, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Humfrey, Mr. Herlakenden, Mr. Staughton, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Damport, Mr. Wells, Mr. Sheopard, and Mr. Peters, these or the greater part of them, whereof Mr. Winthrope, Mr. Dudley, or Mr. Bellingham, to be alway one, to take order for a College at Newetowne.

Edward Michelson, being appointed marshall of the Court, is appointed to have for any execution 12d. in the pound for the first ten pounds, and 6d. in the pound to 40l., and after, 3d. in the pound to a hundred pounds, and 1d. in the pound for all above 100l., to be paid out of the estate which the execution is served upon. For every attachment of goods or persons the marshall is to have 2s. 6d.; and if he goeth any way, he is to have 12d. a mile beside. And the marshall is to have 2s. 6d. for every commitment in Court, and 10l. stipend for this year to come.⁴

May 2, 1638.

It is ordered, That Newetowne shall henceforward be called Cambridge.⁵

Dec. 4, 1638.

The town of Cambridge was fined 10s. for want of a watch-house, pound, and stocks; and time was given them till the next Court.⁶

1 Mass. Coll. Rec., i. 186, 187.

2 Ibid., i. 190.

3 Ibid., i. 208. In his Wonder-Working Providence, Johnson says concerning the College: “To make the whole world understand that spiritual learning was the thing they chiefly desired, to sanctify the other and make the whole lump holy, and that learning being set upon its right object, might not contend for error instead of truth, they chose this place, being then under the orthodox and soul-flourishing ministry of Mr. Thomas Shepheard, of whom it may be said, without any wrong to others, the Lord by his ministry hath saved many hundred souls.” Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., XVII. 27, 28.

4 Mass. Col. Rec., i. 217. Mr. Mitchelson held this office, equivalent to that of High Sheriff, until 1681, when he died and was succeeded by his son-in-law, John Green.

5 Ibid., i. 228. This name is supposed to have been selected, because a place of the same name is the seat of a university in England, where several of the Magistrates and Elders had been educated.

6 Ibid., i. 247.

Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.

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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register