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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 44 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
e her husband had gone......March, 1638 John Harvard, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, bequeaths his library and half of his estate, which amounted to £ 700, for a college......Sept. 14, 1638 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company organized as the Military Company of Boston......February, 1638 Rev. John Harvard dies at Charlestown......Sept. 14, 1638 Three thousand emigrants arrive from England during......1638 Printing-press established at Cambridge by Stephen Daye......March, 1639 College at Cambridge (then Newtown) the place fixed upon as the site of it, is named Harvard, after its founder......March 13, 1639 Inhabitants from the town of Lynn settle on Long Island......1640 First original publication from Massachusetts, a volume of poems by Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, wife of Governor Bradstreet......1640 New England navigation and commerce date from......1640 Cultivation of hemp and flax successfully undertaken, and the manufacture of li
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
e then esteemed a large edition. Catchwords at the foot of pages were first used at Venice by Vindeline de Spori. They have but lately been abolished. Signatures to sheets were used by Zorat in Milan in 1470. The first press in America was in Mexico. The Manual for adults was printed on it in 1550 by Juan Cromberger, who was probably the first printer in America. The second press was at Lima, in 1586. The press at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was established in January, 1639, by Stephen Daye. It still exists as the University press, and at that establishment this Dictionary has the honor to be set up. The Faculty of Harvard College was censor till 1662, when licensers of the press were appointed. In 1755 the press was free. A Psalter in the English and Indian languages was printed at the University press in 1709. A printing-press was established in New London, Conn., in 1709; the first printing-press in Turkey was brought from Paris by Mohammed Effendi, in 1721; the fir
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 1: old Cambridge (search)
ery year when the town assumed its name. We all knew the romance of the early arrival of this press; that the Rev. Joseph Glover, a dissenting minister, had embarked for the colony in 1638 with his wife, his press, his types, and his printer, Stephen Daye; that Mr. Glover died on the passage, but the press arrived safely and was at length put in the house of President Dunster, of Harvard College; that this good man took into his charge not merely the printing apparatus, but the Widow Glover, whom he finally made his wife. For forty years all the printing done in the British Colonies in America was done on this press, Stephen Daye being followed by his son Matthew, and he by Samuel Green. We know that the first work printed here was The Freeman's oath, in 1639; and that about a hundred books were thus printed before 1700, this including Eliot's English Bible. It was not till 1674, nearly forty years later, that a press was set up in Boston; and Thomas in his History of printing say
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
57, 104. Cleveland, Pres., Grover, 195. Cleveland, H. R., 123. Cogswell, J. G., 14, 27, 116, 117. Coleridge, S. T., 38, 91, 95. Collamer, Jacob, 161. Cooper, J. F., 35. Craigie, Mrs., 124, 129. Cranch, C. P., 58, 64, 70. Crichton, the Admirable, 155. Curtis, G. T., 16. Cuvier, Baron, 35. Dana, Francis, 15. Dana, R. H., 14, 15. Dana, R. H., Jr., 15, 191. Dana, Richard, 15. Danforth, Samuel, 152. Davis, Admiral C. H., 113. Davy, Sir, Humphry, 95. Daye, Matthew, 6. Daye, Stephen, 5, 6. Devens, Gen., Charles, 181. Devens, S. A., 76. Dickens, Charles, 123. Dowse, Thomas, 18. Dunster, Pres., Henry, 5, 6. Dwight, J. S., 57, 58, 63, 137. Dwight, Prof., Thomas, 94, 96. Elder, William, 67. Eliot, Rev., John, 6. Eliot, Rev., Richard, 7. Emerson, R. W., 34, 53, 54, 57, 60, 62, 63, 64, 68, 70, 85, 86, 90, 91, 104, 139, 158, 166, 168, 169. Everett, Pres., Edward, 14, 27, 44, 117, 123. Everett, Dr., William, 17. Fayerweather, Thomas, 150. Felton, Prof. C. C.,
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)
ee Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden) was the east gate of the town; and where the palisade crossed the Watertown highway (Brattle Street) at Ash Street was the west gate. In 1639, the first printing-press in America north of the city of Mexico was set up by Stephen Daye, at the west corner of Dunster Street and Harvard Square. Among its earliest productions were Peirce's New England Almanack, and the Bay Psalm Book, and there was afterward printed that monument of labor, Eliot's Indian Bible. The complaints of insufficient land led to extensive grants of territory, until from 1644 to 1655 Cambridge attained enormous dimensions, including the whole areas of Brighton and Newton on the south side of the river, and on the other hand in a northwesterly dir
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Burial-places in Cambridge. (search)
and in 1893 the present substantial iron fence erected on Massachusetts Avenue, Garden Street, and the northerly boundary. This God's Acre, as it is often called, contains the dust of many of the most eminent persons in Massachusetts: the early ministers of the town, Shepard, Mitchel, Oakes, Appleton, Hilliard, and others; early presidents of Harvard College, Dunster, Chauncy, Willard; the first settlers and proprietors, Simon Stone, Deacon Gregory Stone, Roger Harlakenden, John Bridge, Stephen Daye, Elijah Corlett; and, later, the Lees, the Danas, Allstons, and Wares. It is much to be regretted that so many graves remain unmarked, and equally so that the names of tenants of many costly tombs are unknown by the very imperfect registration, or want of registration, in the town records. Some tombs of once prominent families, who have become extinct, were built on a level with the sod, and as no name or mark whatever is to be seen, are walked over unknown. Several of the substantial
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge Journalism (search)
blic grievances and find out means of redress, with its answer, was ordered to be printed by our selectmen, it appeared, July 27, 1786, in the Boston Independent Chronicle. There is a bare possibility, however, from the similarity of name, that our Cambridge Chronicle and Gazette had been moved into Boston as a broader field for journalistic enterprise. Be that as it may, it is a somewhat singular fact that Cambridge, where the first printing-press erected in New England was set up by Stephen Daye in 1639, should have arrived at the mature age of two hundred and sixteen years before she awoke to the necessity of maintaining a local newspaper. To the modern journalist who is familiar with the numberless interesting and dramatic episodes that are associated with the early history of Cambridge, the fact that we should have had no local newspaper to record these events properly seems an appalling waste of opportunity. Why, for instance, should it have been left to the Boston News
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
president was appointed on this board also, but of this fact I have not been able to find sufficient corroboration. Stephen Daye was apparently an employee of the president. He was not a successful printer. He did not know how to spell or punctuf, and a three-year-old heifer. He also owned land in the outlying districts, mainly in Lancaster, Mass. In my judgment Mr. Daye was not in any sense the first printer. The first printer was Dunster. Although he did not set up type (it is not quite certain that Stephen Daye himself did), he was the controlling power of the press, and so far as a man who marries a printing press, and has control of it, can be called a printer, Dunster was that printer. After Mr. Daye left the press, which wasMr. Daye left the press, which was very soon after new relations had been established, a man by the name of Greene, who came over with Winthrop, and was one of the boys of the town, became the manager of the press. He proved to be a very energetic man. He had charge of the press for
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)
, publisher of the Cambridge Press, 221; the Nestor of Cambridge journalism, 222. Craigie Bridge, 29, 30. Craigie House (Longfellow House), 69. Cross Canal, 30. Dame schools, 189. Dana, Richard Henry, 35, 269. Dana Street, dividing line between Cambridgeport and Old Cambridge, 398. Danforth, Samuel, appointed mandamus councilor, 23; determines not to serve, 23. Danforth, Thomas, deputy-governor, 11; Benanuel Bowers's verses to, 12. Davenport, Charles, car-builder, 321. Daye, Stephen, sets up the first printingpress, 8; works printed by, 8; all employee of President Dunster, 333; not a successful printer, 333; becomes a real-estate agent, 333. Death-rate, 131, 132. Debt of the city, 59, 319, 320. Declaration of rights, approved, 28. Delta, etc., 37. Deputies, House of, established, 5. Dexter, D. Gilbert, founder of the Cabridge Tribune, 222. Dilke, Sir Charles, contrasts Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Cambridge, England, 60. Dodge, Col. Th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ve, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. Chapter 29: Book publishers and publishing The history of book publishing in British North America begins with 1640, when Stephen Daye printed at Cambridge The Bay psalm Book, the first real book to issue from a press north of Mexico. Daye continued to print for only about seven or eight years, when he was succeeded by Samuel Green, for causes known only to the authorities oDaye continued to print for only about seven or eight years, when he was succeeded by Samuel Green, for causes known only to the authorities of Harvard College, under whose direction this first American press was operated. Back of Harvard stood the more or less arbitrary authority of the Crown, exercised against publication in more than one colony through some ultra-conservative governor or council. In fact not until about twenty-one years before the Revolution were legal restrictions removed from publishing in the colony where it was born. These restrictions, in the case of Massachusetts, were largely motivated by religion; and
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