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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 1: (search)
-trees. A very tasteful catalogue! It sounds very little like scarcity or self-denial. It seems that the land hereabouts was as rich and productive as in any of the neighboring states: nevertheless, it needed help from manure; and Johnson tells us, that in this region there was a great store of fish in the spring time, and especially alewives, about the largeness of a herring. Many thousand of these they use to put under their Indian corn. They are sometimes so used at this day. May 22, 1639.--It is forbidden to all men, after the 20th of next month, to employ any cod or bass fish for manuring of ground. May 26, 1647.--Ordered, That all cattle that feed on public commons shall be marked with pitch. Hiring land was not unusual. There were many adventurers who did not belong to the company, and they settled where they could buy or hire at the best advantage. Oct. 7, 1640, we find the following record: John Greenland is granted his petition, which is, to plant upon a fiv
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
of fish on the Bank were expected to take them thence to London. Sept. 3, 1635, the General Court chose a committee of six for setting forward and managing a fishing trade. That fishing was profitable, we have the following early record: Thirty-five ships sailed this year (1622) from the west of England, and two from London, to fish on the New England coasts; and made profitable voyages. Through the instrumentality of our fishing interest, the General Court passed the following order. May 22, 1639: For further encouragement of men to set upon fishing, it is ordered, that such ships and vessels and other stock as shall be properly employed and adventured in taking, making, and transporting of fish according to the course of fishing voyages, and the fish itself, shall be exempt, for seven years from henceforth, from all country charges. To show how minute was the fostering care of our fathers on this point, we have the following order of June 2, 1641: It is ordered that fishermen sh
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 6: Essex County. (search)
n-General Dale, and to Mrs. Mary B. Dully for the hospital at Hampden, Virginia, value in all about four hundred and eighty dollars; also, fifty dollars in cash to the Christian Commission. We also sent in 1865 about ten barrels to those various points valued at three hundred and fifty dollars. The total, as near as can be ascertained, is about twenty-five hundred dollars. Contributions were made by other societies to the amount of about two hundred dollars. Gloucester Incorporated May 22, 1639. Population in 1860, 10,904; in 1865, 11,938. Valuation in 1860, $4,171,942; in 1865, $4,505,390. The selectmen in 1861 were John S. Webber, David Allen, Jr., Edward C. Hoyt; in 1862, Charles C. Pettingell, Addison Gilbert, Edward C. Hoyt; in 1863, Gorham P. Low, Charles C. Pettingell, Edward C. Hoyt; in 1864, William A. Pew, Edward C. Hoyt, Gorham P. Low; in 1865, Addison Gilbert, Edward C. Hoyt, William P. Dolliver. The town-clerk during all these years was Henry Center, and the
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
may be confidently believed that he permitted nothing to be done in the one which could bring disgrace upon the other. The first person allowed to sell wine and strong water in Cambridge, March 12, 1637-8, Ibid., i. 221. was Mr. Nicholas Danforth, a selectman, a representative in the General Court, and one of the most active and honored citizens. He resided on the northerly side of Bow Street, near Plympton Street, but died about a month after the date of his license. The next year, May 22, 1639, Mr. Nathaniell Sparhawke was permitted to drawe wine and strong water for Cambridge. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 259. He also was a deacon of the church, and resided on the easterly side of Brighton Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, in the house formerly owned and occupied by the Reverend Samuel Stone. We come next to the establishment of an ordinary which was long known as the Blue Anchor Tavern. Dec. 27, 1652, The Townsmen do grant liberty to Andrew B
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)
mmissioners of that town, to end small causes. Nov. 4, 1646, he was empowered to officiate at marriages in the town; previous to this date, after the departure of Sir Richard Saltonstall, when couples wished to be married they had to leave the town and have the ceremony performed by a magistrate of some other town. Nov. 5, 1633, he was allowed by the Court to keep a ferry over Charles River against his house [near Mt. Auburn], and to have 2d for one person, and 1d each for two or more. May 22, 1639, he was fined £ 5 for going to Connecticut without leave of the Court, he then being a deputy; but in Sept. £ 4 15s of the fine was remitted and the freemen of Watertown were fined £ 3, for sending Mr. Browne away. In 1657 he removed to Charlestown where he died at the age of 84 or 85 years. Nov. 5, 1634, Mr. Browne took a leading part in bringing before the Court of Assistants complaint against John Endicott of Salem, for mutilating the ensign, by cutting out with his sword the red c