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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 18 (search)
pt. 8, 1698.  37Tabitha, b. Nov. 9, 1699; m. Wm. Benford, Sept. 16, 1723.  38William, b. Feb. 9, 1705. 2-13Stephen Hall, of Charlestown, m., 1st, Grace----, who d., of smallpox, Nov. 12, 1721; and, 2d, Feb. 5, 1739, Mrs. Anne Nowel. He d. Sept. 3, 1755, aged 85. His children were--  13-39Stephen, b. Nov. 5, 1693.  40Grace, b. June 17, 1697; m. Isaac Parker.  41Esther, b. Dec. 27, 1700; m. Dec. 18, 1729, Peter Eades.  42Josiah, b. May 12, 1705.  43Willard.  44 Ruth, b. 1708; m.1st,. 23, 1737.  92Mary, b. Apr. 27, 1739.  93Ezekiel, b. Apr. 14, 1741.  94Elizabeth, b. May 15, 1743.  95Jane, b. Apr. 11, 1746.  96Edmund, b. July 15, 1749. 13-39Stephen Hall, the lieutenant, m. Elizabeth----, who d. Feb. 3, 1764. He d. Sept. 3, 1755. Children:--  39-97Mary, b. Apr. 17, 1719.  98Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1721.  99Sarah, b. Oct. 14, 1724.  100Elizabeth, b. Dec. 19, 1725; d. Sept. 9, 1749. 13-43WILLARD Hall grad. H. C. 1722, and was the minister of Westford. He
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
y, 1755. He was with difficulty brought off the field, and borne in the train of the fugitives. All the first day he was silent; but at night he roused himself to say, Who would have thought it The meeting at Dunbar's camp made a day of confusion. On the twelfth of July, Dunbar destroyed the remaining artillery, and burned the public stores and the heavy baggage, to the value of a hundred thousand pounds,—pleading in excuse that he had the orders Sir John Sinclair to Sir T. Robinson, 3 Sept. 1755. of the dying general, and being himself resolved, in midsummer, to evacuate Fort Cumberland, and hurry to Philadelphia for winter-quarters. Accordingly, the next day they all retreated. At night Braddock roused from his lethargy to say, We shall better know how to deal with them another time, and died. Orme in Franklin's Autobiography. His grave may still be seen, near the na- chap. VIII.} 1755. tional road, about a mile west of Fort Necessity. The forest field of battle was le