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Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
ion throughout the United States proclaimed, Jan. 1, 1863 Sleighs carrying sixty-two persons, come in use, Feb., 1846 Smokers in the streets on Sundays, arrested and fined, April, 1822 In the streets on week-days, arrested and fined, Oct., 1829 In the streets, vigorously prosecuted, June, 1848 Smokers' Retreat with seats prepared on the Common, June, 1851 Snodgrass, Emma A girl about the streets in men's clothes, Nov., 1852 Small-pox prevalent in town, Nov., 1633 Forty persons died during the year , 1666 Very fatal in town and country, Nov., 1698 Carried off many inhabitants, 1702 Inoculation with kine-pox, by Dr. Boylston, May, 1721 Red flags denote its presence, May, 1751 Inoculation forbidden by the Governor, Jan., 1764 Rages in town, the Court removed to Concord, Nov., 1792 10,000 school children vaccinated in three months, 1824 Created great alarm in Boston, Sept., 1872 Hospital built at Pine Island, Oct., 1872
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
alf long, which secures all their weaker Cattell from the wilde beasts; what was true of New-towne was doubtless equally true of Watertowne, a place nothing inferior for land, wood, medow, and water to the former, and the wealthier of the two at this time. From 1632 to 1635 near twenty confiderable ships came each year, and with the increase in numbers of settlers there arose a scarcity of laborers and consequent demand for excessive wages. To check this, the General Court ordered in November, 1633, that carpenters and masons should not receive above 2s. per diem, and laborers not above 18d, At the court held September 28, 1630, the wages of common laborers were fixed at 6d. a day, and those of mechanics who were employed in building, at 16d., in addition to meat and drink. The following March this order was rescinded. and that merchants should not advance above 4d. in the shilling on what their goods cost in England. But this first attempt to regulate prices met with no better
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
New England by common consent, that it brings to mind the new heaven and new earth wherein dwells righteousness. While the state was thus connecting by the closes: bonds the energy of its faith with its form of govern ment, Roger Williams, after remain two years or a Chap. IX.} 1633. little more in Plymouth, accepted a second invitation to Salem. The ministers in the Bay and of Lynn used to meet once a fortnight at each other's houses, to debate some question of moment; at this, in November, 1633, Skelton and Williams took some exception, for fear the custom might grow into a presbytery or a superintendency, to the prejudice of the church's liberties; but such a purpose was disclaimed, and all were clear that no church or person can have power over another church. Not long afterwards, in January, 1634, complaints were made against Wil- 1634. liams for a paper which he had written at Plymouth, to prove that a grant of land in New England from an English king, could not be perfec