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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 265 265 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 52 52 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 25 25 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 13 13 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 13 13 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 11 11 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 10 10 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 9 9 Browse Search
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 9 9 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The road through the woods. (search)
recent years less used since the opening of the Mystic Valley parkway. Stone walls four feet high border either side, overgrown with woodbine and unbroken save only at entrance drives. No sidewalks are needed, but instead grassy borders and natural shrubbery, including the brilliant barberry and sumac. It is still a road through the woods. Though the old-time forest is gone, it is replaced by the modern forestry of the later generation of owners. Historian Brooks gives a glimpse of it in 1789:— Thomas Brooks, Esq., marrying justice, while riding on horseback to Woburn, discovered a party of six young persons riding toward him. He guessed their errand; and they guessed that the cocked hat, bush wig, and silver buckles approaching them belonged to the squire. The bridegroom announced his wishes, and the squire replied thus: My young friends, we are here in the midst of this lofty forest, on an unfrequented road, with God's clear sky above and his green earth beneath and we will
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Thatcher Magoun house. (search)
was very quick at figures, often doing sums in his head. Now we quote from another page of Mr. Swan:— The visit of General Washington to Colonel Brooks in 1789 was in the forenoon. He came on horseback, escorted by several gentlemen from Boston. They came through Cambridge to old Menotomy across Wear bridge, through Hbefore quoted. And what sort of a place or house was it? The Benjamin Leathe house may have been farther west on the lot than the house of Isaac Greenleaf in 1789, and Captain Ward's house, built soon after the death of John Leathe in his father's house in 1815. There was abundant room for both houses and barn between the orom the rear side at the end farthest from High street. Mr. Swan's writing gives the idea that Capt. Ward's house was built on the site of the Greenleaf barn of 1789, that Capt. Ward died there, and that after his widow's death in 1831, Thatcher Magoun bought it. A careful examination of the Thatcher Magoun Residence (steel