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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
The Soldiers' Monument in Cambridge: Proceedings in relation to the building and dedication of the monument erected in the years, 1869-1870. 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 5 1 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 5 1 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. 3 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
Second general court makes the Massachusetts colony a theocracy, which lasts for a half-century......May 18, 1631 Rev. John Eliot, afterwards distinguished as Apostle to the Indians, arrives at Massachusetts Bay and becomes first teacher of the cips, and amassed wealth as a buccaneer, or fighter of the Spaniard ; he spends money freely in both places......1646 John Eliot preaches his first sermon to the Indians near Newtown Corners, afterwards called Nonantum, or place of rejoicing ......r Endicott; soon after receiving it Governor Endicott orders the discharge of all Quakers in prison......Sept. 9, 1661 Eliot finishes translation of New Testament into Indian......1661 Charles II. proclaimed sovereign in Massachusetts......Au failure......1690 First paper money issued in Massachusetts to pay the troops in the Canada expedition......1690 John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, dies, aged eighty-six......1690 Second charter granted Massachusetts by England......Oc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Welde, Thomas 1590-1662 (search)
Welde, Thomas 1590-1662 Author; born in England, presumably in 1590; graduated at Cambridge University in 1613; was ordained in the Established Church, but owing to his Puritan belief sailed for Boston in 1632; and became minister of the first church in Roxbury, in July of that year. In the following November John Eliot was made his associate. He was prominent in arousing opposition to Anne Hutchinson and her teachings, and was active in her trial. He returned to England in 1641. He was the author of A short story of the rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists, and Libertines that infested the churches of New England; Antinomians and Familists condemned; and joint author of The perfect Pharisee under monkish holiness (written against the Quakers), etc. He died in England, March 23, 1662.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, John 1588-1667 (search)
Wilson, John 1588-1667 Clergyman; born in Windsor, England, in 1588; ordained in the Church of England; emigrated to the United States with the Massachusetts colony in 1630, landing at Salem, and settled in Charlestown, where he organized a church and was ordained its pastor in 1632. He was chaplain of a regiment sent from Connecticut against the Pequod Indians in 1636, and was associated with John Eliot in his missionary labors among the Indians. He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 7, 1667.
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