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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 4., Medford Assembly or Dancing Class. (search)
Medford Assembly or Dancing Class. Organized Nov., 1808. copied by Helen T. Wild. THE Gentlemen of Medford desirous to enjoy the Social and Elegant Amusement of Dancing for at least three evenings do hereby agree, all who subscribe our names, to bear an equal share of the expenditures of the same, in testimony whereof we severally subjoin our signatures. No gentleman to be admitted under Twenty-one years of age. Genl John Brooks Honl Timothy Bigelow Josiah Bradlee Sam Buel Ebenr Hall. Hon P. C. Brooks. Edmt. Dunkin N. B. Dunkin Sam. Gray John Brooks Isaac Brook James Brooks Jno. Le Bozquet James Gilchrist Jona. Warner. Jona. Porter. John Hosmer Dudley Hall Josh. Manning Saml Swan Jr. B. L. Swan Joseph Swan Samuel Weed Nath'l Hall Jno. Bishop Jno. Bishop Jr. Thos. Brooks Epm. Hall Abner Bartlett. Rules for the Assembly. Nov. 18, 1808, at the Meeting of the Committee of arrangements the following rules were drawn up for the regulations of the Medford Assembly.
The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d — her docks and arsenals were rotting — her commerce was gone — her army had become an undisciplined rabble — she lay, apparently, helpless, cursed with the fatal gift of beauty, a temptation to the spoiler, without the strength to resist his enterprises Such was Spain, when her condition aroused the cupidity of the first Napoleon, and lured him on to destruction. There is scarcely a record, in all history, of a more terrible invasion than that which swept over Spain in the months of November and December, 1808. The whole Spanish army scarcely amounted to 150,000 men. They were ill disciplined, ill armed, turbulent, factious even mutinous. They paid but a very slender obedience to their officers, and these officers were little better than their men. In strict accordance with their prominent national characteristics, they were full of presumption, and constantly spoke of driving the French back to Paris, following on their footsteps, and dethroning the Emperor. Against this r