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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 15: Historical items. (search)
o the schoolboy strophe:--Cambridge is a famous town, Both for wit and knowledge: Some they whip, and some they hang, And some they send to college. Sept. 3, 1752.--The Protestants in England adopted the 1st of January as the beginning of the year, instead of the 25th of March; and Sept. 3 was changed to Sept. 14. Jan. 29, 1753.--Dr. Simon Tufts, and Lucy Tufts, his wife, of Medford, gave a quitclaim deed to Thomas Dudley of all their right to the property of their honored father, William Dudley, Esq., of Roxbury. In 1755, Massachusetts raised a large part of the two thousand troops who were to dislodge the French Neutrals in Nova Scotia. Medford furnished its share. These Acadians were conquered, and they and their effects scattered through the colonies. One thousand of the wretched and proscribed sufferers were distributed in Massachusetts. Eight of them were cared for in Medford. They staid a long time; and the kindness of our people reconciled them to their lot. The f
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
instructions from Governor Dudley, July 3, 1707, as joint commissioners for the superior command, conduct, rule and government of her majesty's forces on the expedition to Nova Scotia and L'Accadie. Mass. Arch., LXXI. 368. Andrew Belcher, previously of Cambridge, was Commissary five years before 1708. Ibid., p. 456. In the expedition against Port Royal, which sailed from Nantasket Sept. 18, 1710, Edmund Goffe was Lieut.-colonel of the regiment whereof William Tailer was Colonel and William Dudley was Major. Samuel Gookin (grandson of General Gookin) was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt. Robert Handy. Ibid., p. 673. In the Minutes of Council, when raising troops for an expedition against Canada in 1711, are some memoranda concerning Cambridge men: June 20, Mr. Daniel Foxcroft spoken with to be sub-commissary in this expedition, and accepted. June 21, Capt. Gookin Sheriff of Middlesex, and son of Gen. Gookin. and Capt. Phips to be sent to for riding officers.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia. (search)
Artillery. Roll of Captain Thos. Kevill's Company United Artillery (Unattached) Virginia Volunteers. John T. Bullock, 1st Sergeant. Alphonso Bullock, Sergeant. Wm. F. Costino, Sergeant. Jno. Gillis, Sergeant. Geo. J. Allen, Corporal M. Gavian, Corporal. Privates. John Fowler, Jas. Duncan, John P. Kevill, Chas. Fisher, Geo. Scullatas, James Stokes, Wm. P. Pitt, Riddick Miller, Jno. Stare, Jno. Morriss, John Fliym, R. O. Vaughn, Geo. Thompson, William Dudley, Wm. Colonna, Geo. Land, Chas. Reid, John Thomas, Geo. T. Parker, J. H. Dean, Jas. B. Yarborough, Wm. Morgan, F. J. Robinson. [29] Public property on hand: 5 muskets, 5 cartridge boxes, 5 cap boxes and belts, 5 bayonets and scabbards. I certify, on honor, that of the men returned on this roll only (5) five were armed on the morning of the 9th inst. Thomas Kevill, Capt. Commanding United Artillery. List of enlisted men employed on Extra duty by J. I Middleton, Maj
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Volume II of Medford records. (search)
oose Town Officers for the year Ensuing in and no person but what has been ratted one chilling at Least to the Last Province Tax More then The Poole Tax Laid in Said Town Shall be Admitted to Vote in Said Meeting and that the Assessors that Laid said Tax be directed to Lay the Towns Raite Bill, or Lift of the Last year Before them for the Regulating of the Said Meeting Then follows the form directing the constable to make a return of his doings on the order, the whole being signed by William Dudley, Speaker, Josiah Willard, Sectry. Apparently they had political troubles in the good Old Colony Times when we lived under the King. The result of this meeting was the election, among other officers, of Benjamin Willis as town clerk, and it is his writing that appears in the remainder of the book. More than half of the pages of the book are used in the lists of the taxes levied for various purposes. It was the custom whenever a town meeting was held and money appropriated for any p