utherly side of Brattle Street, and on both sides of Hilliard Street. (2.) The common pales are supposed to denote the stockade which was erected in 1632, nearly, if not precisely in the line of the present Ash Street, and of which Dr. Holmes says traces existed when he wrote his History in 1800.
It is not unreasonable then to suppose that the old burying-place without the common pales may have been at or near the westerly corner of Brattle and Ash streets, in the grounds now owned by Samuel Batchelder, Esq.
A hundred years after the second burial-place was ordered to be paled in, the town enclosed it by a substantial stone wall, instead of the old wooden fence, or pales.
The corporation of Harvard College contributed one sixth part of the expense, as appears by their Records under date of Oct. 20, 1735: Whereas there is a good stone wall erected and erecting round the burying-place in Cambridge, which will come to about £ 150, and whereas there has been a considerable regard had
1860, Herbert H. Stimpson,Luther Crane.
1861, Luther Crane,Samuel Batchelder, Jr.
1862-1863, Herbert H. Stimpson,Samuel Batchelder, Jr.
186Samuel Batchelder, Jr.
1864, Abraham Edwards,Samuel Batchelder, Jr.
1865-1871, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
1872, Samuel Batchelder, Jr.,Jos. Fay Greenough.Samuel Batchelder, Jr.
1865-1871, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
1872, Samuel Batchelder, Jr.,Jos. Fay Greenough.
1873-1874, Samuel Batchelder, JrWm. A. Herrick.
1875-1876, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
Cambridgeport Parish.—A brief accountSamuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
1872, Samuel Batchelder, Jr.,Jos. Fay Greenough.
1873-1874, Samuel Batchelder, JrWm. A. Herrick.
1875-1876, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
Cambridgeport Parish.—A brief account has already been given (chapter XII.) of the establishment of the Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, in 1805, and of the CambridgeportSamuel Batchelder, Jr.,Jos. Fay Greenough.
1873-1874, Samuel Batchelder, JrWm. A. Herrick.
1875-1876, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
Cambridgeport Parish.—A brief account has already been given (chapter XII.) of the establishment of the Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, in 1805, and of the Cambridgeport Parish, in 1808; also of the erection, dedication, and destruction, of their brick meeting-house on Columbia Street, and the erection of the Samuel Batchelder, JrWm. A. Herrick.
1875-1876, Samuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
Cambridgeport Parish.—A brief account has already been given (chapter XII.) of the establishment of the Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, in 1805, and of the Cambridgeport Parish, in 1808; also of the erection, dedication, and destruction, of their brick meeting-house on Columbia Street, and the erection of the present meeting-house on Austin Street. The church connected with this parish was not organized until July 14, 1809.
Its first pastor was ReSamuel Batchelder, JrJ. Gardner White.
Cambridgeport Parish.—A brief account has already been given (chapter XII.) of the establishment of the Cambridgeport Meeting-house Corporation, in 1805, and of the Cambridgeport Parish, in 1808; also of the erection, dedication, and destruction, of their brick meeting-house on Columbia Street, and the erection of the present meeting-house on Austin Street. The church connected with this parish was not organized until July 14, 1809.
Its first pastor was Rev. Thomas Brattle Gannett, born in Cambridge, Feb. 20, 1789, H. C. 1809, and ordained Jan. 19, 1814.
During his pastorate occurred that t
Reed, 1837.
Ezekiel Hayden, 1839, 1840, 1844.
Joel Giles, 1840.
James D. Green, 1841-1843, 1846, 1853, 1854.
Sylvanus Plympton, 1842, 1843.
John Sargent, 1844-1848.
John S. Ladd, 1845-1847, 1852.
Charles R. Metcalf, 1845.
Samuel Batchelder, 1847.
Stephen T. Farwell, 1848-1852.
William Wyman, 1848, 1849.
Charles Wood, 1850, 1851.
Justin Jones, 1850-1852.
Willard Phillips, 1851.
Franklin Sawyer, Jr., 1851.
Isaiah Bangs, 1852, 1853.
John Livermore, 1852, 18e C. Richardson, 1863.
J. Warren Merrill, 1865, 1866.
Ezra Parmenter, 1867.
Charles H. Saunders, 1868, 1869.
Hamlin R. Harding, 1870, 1871.
Henry O. Houghton, 1872.
Isaac Bradford, 1873-1876.
Frank A. Allen, 1877.
Aldermen.
Samuel Batchelder, 1846.
Ephraim Buttrick, 1846, 1848.
Samuel P. P. Fay, 1846.
William Fisk, 1846.
Joseph S. Hastings, 1846, 1847.
Charles Wood, 1846, 1847.
Stephen T. Farwell, 1847, 1848.
Walter R. Mason, 1847.
William Saunders, 1847.
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7.
He d. here 16 Sept. 1679, or as inscribed on his gravestone 28 Oct. 1679, a. 39.
His widow Sarah survived, and was empowered by the General Court, May 1680, to sell land in Roxbury.
See Gen. Reg., XXVI. 394.
2. Thomas, s. of Thomas (1), m. Experience Parker 30 Nov. 1686.
He removed to Stow, had son Thomas, b. 18 Sept. 1687, and was living in 1715.
3. Bossenger, s. of Thomas and grandson of Thomas who m. Ann Bossenger, in Boston, 1 June 1711, res. on the estate now owned by Samuel Batchelder, Esq., on the south side of Brattle Street, west of Ash Street. He was a gentleman of leisure.
and d. of gout 23 Ap. 1805, a. 63.
He m. Mary, sister to Andrew Craigie, and had (all prob.
b. in Boston) Bossenger, grad.
H. C. 1787, a lawyer, d. unm.
of palsy 17 Jan. 1816, a. 48; Elizabeth, m. Hon. Samuel Haven of Dedham; Andrew, grad.
H. C. 1800, a physician in Dedham, m. Mary Conant in Camb.
19 Nov. 1813, and d. 1831; John, b.—July 1782, grad.
H. C. 1802, d. unm.
3 Nov. 1836; T
0, 9, 90, 2, 4, 7, 8.
Apsey, 335.
Apthorp, 307, 8, 10.
Arnold, 32.
Ashmun. 237.
Aspinwall, 384.
Atherton, 390, 7, 8.
Atwood, 231, 334.
Austin, 35, 176, 200, 6, 20, 34, 428.
Averill, 335.
Bacon, 81, 318, 86, 93, 438.
Badger, 311, 22.
Baker, 428.
Baldwin, 185.
Balfour, 315.
Ballou, 315.
Banbridge, 32, 58, 258.
Bancroft, 369.
Bangs, 312.
Barker, 339.
Barnard, 32, 135, 143, 288.
Barrett, 75, 97, 399, 416, 28.
Bartlett, 81, 231.
Batchelder, 14, 168, 233, 310.
Baxter, 266, 327, 53.
Beach, 81.
Beale, 32. 54, 9, 69, 224, 56, 70, 9.
Bean, 225.
Beebe, 321.
Beecher, 325.
Beiler, 339.
Belcher, 59, 75, 124, 35, 224, 86, 7, 363, 94, 403.
Belknap, 133.
Bell, 327.
Bellingham, 27, 43.
Benjamin, 11, 20, 1, 32, 239, 459.
Bennett, 35, 327.
Bernard, 143, 405, 6.
Besbeech, 35.
Besse, 347.
Bethune, 310.
Betts, 35, 59, 260.
Bidwell, 331.
Bigelow, 187, 326.
Biglow, 208, 310.
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