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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 5: civil History. (search)
ceeded by his son-in-law, John Green. May 2, 1638. It is ordered, That Newetowne shall henceforward be called Cambridge. 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. 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. Ibid., i. 247. March 13, 1638-9. It is ordered, That the College agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shall be called Harvard College. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 253. So called in honor of Rev. John Harvard, who endowed the college with half of his estate together with the whole of his library. Under date of March, 1639, Winthrop says, a printing-house was begun at Cambridge by one Daye, at the charge of Mr. Glover, who died on sea hitherward. The first thing which was printed was the freeman's oath; the n
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 20: Indian History. (search)
for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay, to the Governor and Council for London's Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay in New England, dated In Gravesend the 17th of April, 1629, is this important direction,—--If any of the salvages pretend right of inheritance to all or any part of the lands granted in our pattent, wee pray you endeavour to purchase their tytle, that wee may avoyde the least scruple of intrusion. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 394. Accordingly, at the session of the General Court, March 13, 1638-9, Mr. Gibons was desired to agree with the Indians for the land within the bounds of Watertowne, Cambridge, and Boston. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 254. The deed of conveyance, or release of title, I have not been able to find; yet there is sufficient evidence that the purchase was made of the squaw-sachem, and that the price was duly paid. The General Court ordered, May 20, 1640, that the 13l. 8s. 6d. layd out by Capt. Gibons shall bee paid him, vid.: 13l. 8s. 6d. by Watertowne and 10l.