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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
se Mystic Indians voluntarily put themselves under the protection and jurisdiction of the English government at Boston. Eliot's first sermon to the Indians was preached in 1646 at Nonantum, south of Charles River, and at that time within the limits of Cambridge. More than 1000 Indians in the country between Boston and Worcester came to profess Christianity, and it was hoped that Harvard College could be used effectively in civilizing them. But Harvard had only one Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, who received his degree in 1665 and died the next year. In the terrible crisis of King Philip's War some of the praying Indians found the ties of blood stronger than those of religion, and a fierce popular distrust was aroused against them. In the early spring of 1676, there was a feeling of alarm in Cambridge lest the town should be attacked, and timber was gathered for strengthening the fortifications, which had suffered from neglect; but the panic soon subsided, and after that
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
I., intended to suppress the Company of Massachusetts Bay, 1. Charles River Bank, 304. Charles River embankment, advantages as a place of residence, 127. Charles River Embankment Company, 106, 107. Charles River Encampment, 286. Charles River National Bank, 304. Charles River Railroad, 399. Charlestown, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; trail to Watertown, 3; General Gage removes powder from, 23; becomes a city, 54. Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street), 8. Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, the one Indian graduate of Harvard, 10. Cheverus, Cardinal, 245. Christ Church, founding of, 13; its chime of bells, 13; occupied by the Continental Army, 49; opened for service, 239; Dr. Hoppin's ministry, 239. Churches, Catholic: First record of Catholic worship in the colony, 244; School Street Chapel, Boston, purchased, 244; early priests, 245; erection of church on Franklin Street, 245; Cardinal Cheverus, 245; Bishop Fenwick, 245; Cambridge part of St. Mary's paris