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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
e they sent Capt. Miles Standish with some aid ; Morton's followers are disarmed and dispersed without bloodshed, while he is conducted to Plymouth and from there sent to England (upon this incident Hawthorne writes, The Maypole at Merry Mount)......June, 1628 A second and larger company, numbering sixty women and maids, twenty-six children, and 300 men, among whom is the Rev. Francis Higginson, on several vessels, leave England for Salem, bringing food, arms, tools, and 140 cattle......May, 1629 Ralph, Richard, and William Sprague, with others conmmence a settlement at Mishawums, now Charlestown......June 24, 1629 A church established at Salem with Mr. Skelton as ordained pastor and Mr. Higginson as teacher......August, 1629 John and Samuel Browne, members of the colonial council and of the Massachusetts Company, are sent back to England by Governor Endicott for their opposition to the church and advocacy of Episcopacy......1629 Transfer of the Massachusetts colony's
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., An old Medford Agreement. (search)
ach, as the ruling is but three-sixteenths of an inch apart. It was certainly some job Mr. Hooper did. Any who doubt will be quickly convinced by an examination of the ancient record books, with their quaint spelling and queer chirography, now carefully preserved under silk tissue. The reading of those old deeds certainly refutes some of the statements in the History of Medford, especially that of the lands of Medford were apportioned to the first settlers by decision of the Court of May, 1629. The librarian here calls attention to page 24, Vol. XVII, Register, where, in Notes About Town, certain bounds and marking points were mentioned, and would be pleased to have some expert now locate them after a careful reading of the following from Mr. Hooper's transcript:— It is also agreed that there shall be a common landing place upon Stephen Willis' land, in his second division, by the River, free to all the proprietors of the farm, and a convenient way to it, for which landin