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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
hat my messuage or tenement late in the tenure of the saide Dawstin commonly called Dixes house, together with six acres of planting ground adjoining, also seven acres of meadow commonly called by the name of Rock meadow, together with firewood from the woods near there, also wood sufficient for building and sustaining his dwelling house on the land aforesaid. It would seem by these facts that the house was of wood. Its name, Dixe's house, might refer to a house built by Anthony Dixe, or Dicks, carpenter, who is mentioned as an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1641. Josiah Dawston, or Duston, was in Reading in 1647, where he died January 16, 1671-2. His widow, a woman of eighty in 1692, was arrested that year for witchcraft, as was her daughter, Mary Colson. The former was accused of witchcraft practised in Malden, but the jury found her not guilty. Robert Gorges had leased or granted to John Oldham and John Dorrell all the lands within Mattachusetts Bay betweene Charles River a
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
, mark me, the result will be such as to make him and everybody else wonder why the thing was so long delayed." The man who said all this seemed to be honest; he certainly was intelligent, and, so far as I can as certain, from a pretty tree intercourse with the people, I am constrained to say that his judgment is entirely in accord with theirs. The Governor ought to see these things in their right light. The fifteen or twenty self-appointed "committees," which interpose their "Toms," "Dicks," and "Harris," between the recruits and the "bounty," must all be brushed away, and everything must be made to stand on its own bottom. The meeting to organize the much-talked-of "Merchants' Brigade," in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, turned out a failure. Only half a dozen people were present, exclusive of the newspaper reporters. The Chairman said he thought the merchants must all be out of town, and an adjournment was accordingly ordered until such times as it may ple
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], List of Casualties in the battles near Fredericksburg. (search)
rs: Capt Squires, Lts Owen and Galbraith, Sergt Hardie, Privates Alsohook, Berthelot, Bogent, Tellowes, Hanly, Harris, McCormick, Micose, Myers, Phelps, E Peshand, C Peshand, Florence, Siebault Turner, T S Turner, Vincent, Eshman Hock, Kennedy, Ryerson Smith. Second company--wounded: Lt Derussy, Privates Kirk and Coln. Prisoners: Privates Summers, Coleman, Giffern. third company--Killed: Corpl R P many. Wounded: Privates Adams and frank. Captured: Sergeant Handy, Privates noble and Dicks. Fourth company--Killed: Corp'l Lewis. Wounded: Corp'l Valentine, Privates Callahan and Anderson. the 1st company lost one Napoleon and one 3 inch rifle gun; the 2d company lost one 12 pounder Howitzer; the 3d company lost two Napoleons and one caisson; and the 4th company lost one Napoleon and one 12-pounder Howitzer. List of Killed and wounded in Col. E. P. Alexander's battalion of light artillery in the battles near Fredericksburg--1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th of May, 186
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
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