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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)
Sons of Liberty, May 6, 1766 Was Captain of the Cadets, 1772 His Military Commission revoked by Gen. Gage, Aug. 18, 1774 President of the Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 Elected the first Governor of the State, 1780 Died at Boston, aged 55 years, Oct. 8, 1793 Likeness placed in Faneuil Hall, Apr. 19, 1830 Handcarts no longer allowed to stand in State st., Oct. 4, 1809 Hanged William S. Schouler, for murder, Sep. 28, 1637 Dorothy Talbe, an insane woman, Dec. 10, 1638 James Britton and Mary Latham, for murder, Mar. 21, 1643 William Franklin, for murder, Apr. 8, 1644 Margaret Jones, for witchcraft, June 15, 1648 Anna Hibbins, for witchcraft, March, 1656 Robinson and Stephenson, Antimonians, Oct. 20, 1659 William Ledro, for being a Quaker, Mar. 16, 1659 Hanged Mary Dyer, for being a Quakeress, June 1, 1660 John Littlejohn, for murder, Sep. 22, 1675 About 30 Indian prisoners-of-war, Aug., 1676 Capt. James Hawkins, and s
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)
en yt inhabited most remote from ye meeting-house, and dwell most fcattered; but a later note states, For want of a Penalty set, this order of no force. The same date an order was passed relative to the measuring out the remote meddows (probably in Weston). July 17, 1638, there was a grant of Waltham lands in the order yt all those Freemen yt have no Lotts at ye Towneship shall have 12 Acre Lotts beyond Bever Plaine and all other townesmen shall have six Acre Lotts in ye said Plaine. December 10, 1638, three orders of general interest were passed; one confirming the Highway to ye little Plaine beyond the Mill, another ordering that ye Highway leading to Concord shalbe 6 rods broad, and a third yt whosoever shall kill a wolfe in ye Towne shall have for ye fame 5s. Wolves were constantly giving trouble, and frequent bounties were offered as in this last order. In 1647, the town sold their right in the palisade that enclosed the wolfe pen. Another evidence that the inhabitants lived
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
e same date, stated that about 1638 (not 1633, as Mr. Cushing states) Mr. Davison lived at Meadford house, who shewed me the accommodations of the farme being about to to take ye said farme and stock of him and Captaine Will Ting; and I testify that Mr Mayhew did not then dwell at Meadford house to ye best of my knowledge. In fact, we find that Thomas Maihew was one of the eleven freemen at Watertown to dispose of all civil affairs, October 10, 1636; again, December 30, 1637; again, December 10, 1638. In a letter dated London, March 15, 1636-7, the following appears in a postscript:— I thinke I shal be forsed to bee a suytor for some land at Shaweshynne the best of myne as I ame informed neere my house beeing allotted to Mr. Wilson & Mr. Nowell therefore pray your furderance wherein shall bee needfull. It would seem by this that the house stood in the east part of Cradock's lands, adjoining Wilson and Nowell lands, in what is now Malden. March 12, 1637-8, a grant of one