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Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Charlestown schools after 1793 (search)
to transact business. At the May meeting it was voted that four trustees be chosen within and three without the Neck. Thereafter this seems to have been the established rule. In August of this year it is voted to build a schoolhouse of brick on or near the spot in which the schoolhouse within the Neck now stands, for the accommodation of schools, town meetings, and other public business, and that all the other school buildings be put in repair. The committee to procure estimates were Lemuel Cox, George Bartlett, Matthew Bridge, Oliver Holden, Thomas Harris. The town proposes to pay one-third the cost at commencement of the work, one-third when completed, and another third at a distinct period to be agreed upon. Later the trustees are empowered to dispose of the old school building to the best advantage. May 10, 1802. Voted $100, to repair the schoolhouse near Alewife bridge, and voted the thanks of the town be extended to Mr. Zabdiel B. Adams for the present of a lot of lan
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
City Square, Charlestown, Mass., 65, 78. Clark, Joseph, 47. Clark, Joseph H., 47. Cleveland, Miriam, 85. Coffin, Damaris (Gayer), 87. Coffin, Nathaniel, 87. Colburn's Mental Arithmetic, 101. Colburn, Mr., 93, 94. College Avenue, 14. College Hill, 6. Collier, Rev., William, 64, 66, 67, 72, 73, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96. Conant, Peter, 99. Concord, Mass., 87. Concord Street, 7. Coombs. Michael, 100. Cordis, Captain, 19. Cordis Street, 100. Court of Assistants, 77. Cox, Lemuel, 44. Cummings' First Lessons in Geography and Astronomy, 101. Cushing, Luther S., 96, 97. Cutter, Ebenezer, 64, Cutter, Edward, 16, 90. Cutter, Fitch. 16. Cutter, Miss Rebecca, 94. Cutter, Lieutenant, Samuel, 16, 19. Cutter, Sarah, 95. Daboll's Arithmetic, 101. Dahlgren Guns, 58. Danford, Esq., 83. Danforth, Samuel, 82. Danforth, Thomas, 78. Dartmouth College, 70. Davis, Jefferson, 62. Davis, Mary B., 10. Dean Academy, 2. Dedham, Mass., 80. Delta Chapter
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, The old
Medford Turnpike
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e times, a sort of a seven days wonder to the people of that time. It was longer than the celebrated London bridge over the Thames, and as a triumph of engineering skill was not surpassed by any other in existence. It was planned and built by Lemuel Cox, of Medford, a shipwright. This same man, in 1787, built Malden bridge, and later, the old Essex bridge at Salem. On the completion of the structure a great celebration occurred in Charlestown, a vast feast was given; this took place on the 1on guns! The bridge is finished now, I say, Each other bridge outvies, For London bridge, compared with ours, Appears in dim disguise. Now Boston, Charlestown, nobly join, And roast a fatted ox. On noted Bunker Hill combine To toast our patriot, Cox. At the Neck, Milk Row road turned off towards Cambridge, connecting with the new West Boston bridge, built in 1793; it was the first road built out from Charlestown. Two of the original logs used in the construction of the corduroy road ov
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Index (search)
I.—19. Choate, Rufus, IV.—15. City Point, Va., I.—39; II.—38. City Square, Charlestown, III.—7. Clark University, II.—30. Clay, Henry, IV.—15. Cochran, Captain, I.—38. Cold Harbor, Va., I.—38, 39; IV.—28. College Hill, III.—14. Combination Park, II.—14. Concord, Mass., IV.—29. Congress, The, IV.—31. Continentals, The, Retreat of, IV.—13. Corduroy Road, Charlestown Neck, II.—9. Cow Commons, III.—7. Cow Commons, English law concerning, III.—9. Cox, Lemuel, II.—8. Crampton's Gap, I.—36. Crasswell, Thomas. III.—11. Cross Street, Somerville, II.—25; III.—13, 14, 20. Cumberland, The, IV.—31. Cunningham, Captain, Thomas, IV.—29. Curtis, J. O., II.—13. Curtis Street, I.—31, 32; III.—14. Curtis Street, houses on, I.—31. Curtis Street, first house on, I.—32. Curtis Street, a rangeway, I.—31. Cutter Family, The, II.—13. Cutter, Anne Benjamin, II.—22. C
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., chapter 14 (search)
Papers and addresses. 1905-6. October 16.—Vacation Experiences. Hon. William Cushing Wait. Followed by a social hour. November 20.—Major General Benjamin Lincoln and the War of the Revolution. Mr. A. P. Soule of Hingham. December 18.—Russia and the Russo-Japanese war. Rev. H. W. Stebbins of Boston. January 15.—Tufts College. Rev. F. W. Hamilton, D. D., Acting President. February 19.—Lemuel Cox, (1743-1806) Medford Bridge Builder and Inventor. Mr. Walter K. Watkins of Malden. March 19.—Annual Meeting. April 16.—Side Lights on the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party. Charles G. Chick, Esq., President Hyde Park Historical Society. May 21.—Ye Olde First Meeting House of Medford. Mr. Moses W. Mann. Supplementary course. December 2.—Japan and the Japanese-Russian war. Marshall P. Thompson, Esq., Boston. January 6.—The Metropolitan Park System. Illustrated. Mr. John Woodbury, Sec. of Commission, Boston. February 3.—Medford in 1865. Hon
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 5 (search)
nner was William Hickling, brother-in-law of Lemuel Cox. The officers appointed an overseer, to svict labor in nail making was the project of Lemuel Cox, and he sent one of his sons to instruct thebuild the bridge, and settled other details. Cox was to be paid nine shillings a day and his boauperintending the work. 25 April they added to Cox's pay a gratuity of $55, to be drawn when the b probable that it was not all to be consumed by Cox. From the first some trouble had grown up bete to the lessee, Capt. Asa Leach, with whom Lemuel Cox had boarded while the bridge was building. Lemuel Cox's neighbor on the west, on Batterymarch street, was Robert Hallowell, who was Comptrollarly as June, 1789. It was in June, 1789, Lemuel Cox returned from Londonderry, and with him he bwport, Bart.: Chairman of their committee, Mr. Lemuel Cox, A native of Boston in America, architect.res and a bridge of American oak constructed by Cox. Its length was five hundred and eight feet and[39 more...]
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 6 (search)
d was honorably acquitted. The jury did not leave their box. ( Columbian Centinel, 23 Aug. 1794.) In 1666, on the second of September, a fire broke out on Fish street hill in London which burnt over thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven parish churches, six chapels, the Royal Exchange, Custom House, Guildhall, and other public buildings, among them fifty-two halls of the London Trade companies. To commemorate this disaster Christopher Wren designed a column known as the Monument, which was built of Portland stone two hundred and two feet high and fifteen feet in diameter. During the eighteenth century it was used for astronomical purposes, but it was found that it vibrated, and the alarm was so great, about 1795, that tradition states that while in Great Britain Lemuel Cox was approached by the Corporation of the City of London to take down the structure as being unsafe, but his price being too high the shaft still stands as one of the sights of London. [To be continued.]
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 11 (search)
A Medford tax Payer. Lemuel Cox, the Bridge builder and inventor. by Walter Kendall Watkins, Mald from Vol. X., No. 2. 25 February, 1790, Lemuel Cox prepared and presented to the Massachusetts y to your Honors that he is yet a Poor Man. Lemuel Cox. This petition, written shortly after s from the Boston side, it was the opinion of Lemuel Cox, who was consulted in the matter, that theree summer of 1803 by John Foster Williams and Lemuel Cox, and they reported it would be expedient to terward. He left a widow and two children. Lemuel Cox, wheelwright, of Charlestown, was administra for board was brought against the estate of Lemuel Cox, but it was contested, and a suit brought ag in 1750. He was a mariner, and neighbor of Lemuel Cox at Mill Village, selling his house in 1803 twhich Lemuel Cox died. In Charlestown, Capt. Lemuel Cox, an eminent mechanic, aged 65. The funerentennial, that the builders made terms with Lemuel Cox, an eminent English engineer, to build the b[20 more...]