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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 4: civil History. (search)
nd September, 1630; after which all the courts were held in Boston until May, 1634. The Assistants had even voted, Oct. 3, 1632, It is thought, by general consent, that Boston is the fittest place for public meetings of any place in the Bay. Yet when Dudley was elected Governor, in May, 1634, the courts, both general and particular, were transferred to New Town, and were there held exclusively until May, 1636. Then they returned to Boston; then to New Town again in April, 1637, until September, 1638, when they became permanently fixed at Boston. Dr. Holmes, writing in 1800, says, In some of the first years, the annual election of the Governor and Magistrates of the Colony was holden in this town. The people, on these occasions, assembled under an oak tree, which stood on the northerly side of the Common in Cambridge, a little west of the road leading to Lexington. The stump of it was dug up not many years since. —Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII. 9. This was probably the tree men
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
a house and land at the westerly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets, a lot on the opposite side of Harvard Street, where the Sewall house stood, and several acres out of the village. By his w. Mary, he had s. Joseph, b. May 1638. His w. d. Sept. 1638, and he m. Vashti——, and had Samuel, b. 23 Feb. 1639-40, d. 6 July 1642; John, b. 3 Dec. 1645; Samuel, b. 28 Nov. 1648. d. 9 Dec. 1648; he had also, perhaps by first wife, James; Hannah; Mary, in. Matthew Gibbs. Robert the f. d. about 1659; ime to Camb. in the same ship with Shepard. in 1635. He had buried his w. Emlen, 18 Aug. 1634; and he brought with him his 2d w. Elizabeth, dau. of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. (m. 4 June 1735), by whom he had Elizabeth, b. Dee. 1636; Margaret, b. Sept 1638. Roger the f. purchased the Gov. Dudley estate, at the N. W. corner of Dunster and South streets, where he d. of small-pox, 17 Nov. The Town Record has October as the date of his death; but this is a manifest error, because on the 28th day
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
his w. Sarah m. successively Dr. Samuel Alcock of Boston, and lion. Thomas Graves and Col. John Phillips, both of Charlestown. Bradish, Robert (sometimes written Bradishe, Breadish, Broadish, and Brodish), purchased of John Steele, 28 Aug. 1635, a house and land at the westerly corner of Harvard and Holyoke streets, a lot on the opposite side of Harvard Street, where the Sewall house stood, and several acres out of the village. By his w. Mary, he had s. Joseph, b. May 1638. His w. d. Sept. 1638, and he m. Vashti——, and had Samuel, b. 23 Feb. 1639-40, d. 6 July 1642; John, b. 3 Dec. 1645; Samuel, b. 28 Nov. 1648. d. 9 Dec. 1648; he had also, perhaps by first wife, James; Hannah; Mary, in. Matthew Gibbs. Robert the f. d. about 1659; in his will, dated 1 May 1657 and proved 29 Oct. 1659, he named w. Vashti (who d. in 1672), and chil. James, John, Joseph, Mary Gibbs, Hannah; also son-in-law Ezekiel Morrill. 2. Joseph, s. of Robert (1), was in Sudbury, 1662, in Framinghaim, 1672
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, H. (search)
, while on a visit 18 Mar. 1852, and was buried here. Harlakenden, Roger, whose ancestry is traced from William Harlakenden (who d. in Wood-Church in Kent 30 Ap. 1081, was a younger son of a wealth family at Earls-Colne, Essex Co., England, and came to Camb. in the same ship with Shepard. in 1635. He had buried his w. Emlen, 18 Aug. 1634; and he brought with him his 2d w. Elizabeth, dau. of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. (m. 4 June 1735), by whom he had Elizabeth, b. Dee. 1636; Margaret, b. Sept 1638. Roger the f. purchased the Gov. Dudley estate, at the N. W. corner of Dunster and South streets, where he d. of small-pox, 17 Nov. The Town Record has October as the date of his death; but this is a manifest error, because on the 28th day of that month he was reelected to the office of Townsman. 1638, a. 27; his w. Elizabeth m. Herbert Pelham, Esq., by whom she had several children. Though Mr. Harlakenden was young at the time of his death, he was much employed and trusted in public