e River at the end of the old Dam within the bounds of Medford bounded by the said Brooks his land be the same more or less.
Together with the Dwelling House fences, Trees fruit-trees on said premises with the Banks Damms Streams Wayes wch Mr. Broughton purchased from Mr. Henry Dunster.
Mr. Henry Dunster
See register, Vol.
XII, p. 10. was the first President of Harvard College and father of Jonathan, the grantee named above.
Just here the reader will do well to remember that until 1842 Charlestown extended from the Menotomy River along the Mystic River and lakes and farther on to Woburn line on the high land of Turkey hill in present Arlington.
Also let the reader note the order in which Prout conveyed the three parcels of land:
First, the acre (in present Arlington) that was surrounded on the three landward sides by property of the grantee and on the other by the river.
Second, the two parcels in Medford, bounded landward by Ebenezer Brooks and otherwise by the rive
8, 1798, to Benjamin Joy, a well-known physician of Boston.
The senior Barrel was a well-known wealthy Boston merchant who had a fine house and an elegant garden on Summer street, when it was a residential section of the city, where there were many fine places.
The estate was well laid out, the garden embellished with fish ponds, and when, toward the end of the eighteenth century, he sold this place and moved to Cobble Hill, Charlestown (Somerville was not set apart from Charlestown till 1842), he built for himself a fine brick mansion, a creation of Bulfinch, and duplicated in some ways the garden of the Summer street residence.
The glass in the house is said to have been from the first works erected in Boston.
This beautiful place was called Poplar Grove.
Benjamin Joy sold the estate in 1816 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the Mc-Lean Asylum for the Insane.
The mansion was used as quarters for the officers of the institution, and additions were built each side of
in population.
Every institution is the lengthened shadow of a man.
Mystic Church owes more to Galen James, deacon and ship-builder than to any other.
At the age of thirty-two he led seventeen members out of the old town church, in protest, to establish a new church. Twenty-four years later he led the secession of sixty to organize Mystic Church.
The separation was not due to doctrinal, but to personal and political reasons.
It was a time of swarming.
The Baptist Church organized in 1842, and the Methodist work took on new life two years later.
Between 1840 and '50 population had increased fifty per cent and business was booming, especially ship building.
All pews in the High street church were rented.
Mr. Richards alluded to the real cause of separation, as seen by one article added to the Confession of Faith of Mystic Church:—
This church regards slave-holding, the traffic in and use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, gambling and such things as inconsisten
receiving their appointment and, with perhaps one exception, did not purpose to follow the profession beyond a very limited period.
Believing that the prosperity of the school would be promoted by an incumbent who had had a more practical acquaintance with the art and who had a reasonable expectation of continuing in the profession, the Committee laid much stress upon those points and after a tedious scrutiny of the candidates' experience and qualifications, Mr. Charles Cummings (Dartmouth, 1842) was selected and took charge of the school Friday, December 11, 1846, and continued therein till the close of the school year, June 30, 1876, at which time but one (James O. Curtis) of those who elected him was living.
Mr. Cummings presented his resignation in May and the Committee enjoined secresy upon him in order that, without suffering the importunity of the unemployed, they might make quiet investigation among those in service and select the best man. In this they were eminently succ
on and sugar wagons, strong too, and tight and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty and nothing in the style of a crack ship.
This trade in hides was very profitable and the story of the hardships and dangers connected with it is told in a vivid manner.
The Paul Jones.
Between 1830 and 1840 there had been a great improvement in the design of vessels which greatly increased their speed.
Among them was the ship Paul Jones, built by Waterman and Ewell at Medford in 1842, of six hundred and twenty tons, and owned by John M. Forbes of Boston and Russell & Co. of China.
She was the perfection of the Medford clipper type of 1830, and the fastest vessel of her time, with the exception of the Natchez.
The Paul Jones was commanded on her first voyage by N. B. Palmer. Captain Palmer was born in Stonington, Conn., on Long Island Sound, in 1799, and came from distinguished colonial ancestry.
At the age of fourteen he shipped on a coasting vessel and continued i
probably will never be entirely satisfied) as to why our boundary line beside old Charlestown was made so remarkably crooked, and right here we may well recall that a piece of the middle of Charlestown was cut out and incorporated as Somerville in 1842.
The newspaper clipping referred to closed thus:—
Sir Walter Scott has said, nothing is easier than to make a legend.
We need not invent, but only repeat one of which the Old Mill is a subject.
This clipping proved to be a reprint or c partly in Medford and was fenced into cattle pens and had one small structure on which was painted Medford Cattle Market. One day each week was there for years a busy one.
Aaron Sargent in Historic Leaves tells of Broadway (the Menotomy road) in 1842, when Somerville came into being, naming the then existing houses, and only named two between Medford street and Menotomy river,—the Tufts house and that of Russell, far away on the western slope of Walnut hill.
So the old mill and powder house
A good paper to edit.
--If anybody wants to edit the Vicksburg Sentinel, he will be edified by the following brief history of some of the men who have figured in that position: Dr. James Hagan took hold in 1837, had a number of street fights, fought a duel with his brother editor of the Whig, and was killed in 1842, in a street fight, by D. W. Adams.
His assistant, Isaac C. Partridge, died of the yellow fever in 1830. Dr. J. S. Fall, another, assistant, had a number of street fights, in one of which he was badly wounded.
Jas. Ryan, next editor, was killed by R. E. Hammett, of the Whig.
Next came Walter Hickey, who had several rows, and was repeatedly wounded; he killed Dr. Maclin, and was soon after himself killed in Texas.
John Lavins, another editor, was imprisoned for the violence of his articles.
Mr. Jenkins, his successor, was killed in the street by H. A. Crabbe; and Crabbe was murdered in Sonora.
F. O. Jones succeeded Jenkins, but soon afterward drowned himself.
treaty shortly after concluded with the former.
For these services he received the honor of knighthood, and was presented with the thanks of Parliament, together with orders from the sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia.
In 1811, he was returned to Parliament, and showed him self a zealous Whig, and attracted considerable notice by his strenuous efforts to increase the efficiency of the navy.
Sir Charles was the author of "An Account of the War between Dom Pedro and Dom Miguel," (1840,) and of "The War in Syria," (1842,) besides a number of pamphlets on naval architecture.
He had also, within the last few years, published a number of letters and pamphlets on the state of the English navy, in which he sought to show that this department is woefully mismanaged, and that England is liable at any moment to fall a prey to French, Russian, or American rapacity.
He was marked by great originality and force of character, but was one of the most crotchety and impracticable of men.
nd has added to it about six hundred more.
Assisted by friends, he entered the University of Georgia in 1828, and in 1832 graduated at the head of his class.
In 1834 he commenced the study of the law, and in less than twelve months was engaged in one of the most important cases in the country.
His eloquence has ever had a powerful effect upon juries, enforcing, as it does, arguments of admirable simplicity and legal weight.
From 1837 to 1840 he was a member of the Georgia Legislature.
In 1842 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1843 was elected to Congress.
He was a member of the Whig party in its palmiest days, but since its dissolution has acted with the men of the South, and such has been the upright, steadfast and patriotic policy he has pursued, that no one in the present era of faction, selfishness or suspicion, has whispered an accusation of selfish motives or degrading intrigues against him. In the House he served prominently on the most important committees, and e
not say that they were pulling with the abolitionists, in couples, but that they were striving for the same object.
He then read from the Congressional reports of 1842, showing that a petition then came from Massachusetts, praying for separation.
A resolution to censure Mr. Adams for offering the petition was introduced, and a lrginia, with this record before them, to follow such suggestions and advice now. He would take up the weapons with which the member from Accomac fought disunion in 1842, and fight it to the very death.
He predicted that the ballot-box would send forth a sound that would strike unmitigated sorrow to the hearts of secessionists in f they wanted the icy arms of death to encircle the fair form of the Goddess of Liberty.
He quoted a considerable portion of the speech of Mr. Wise in Congress in 1842, upon the anti-slavery petition, and used it after the manner of seizing an enemy's guns and turning them against himself.
He then went on to speak of England's h
