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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 105 11 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 44 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 24 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 23 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 16 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 15 1 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) 12 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 12 0 Browse Search
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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
e, dwelling amongst or neer to the Narragansets, who desired that some English be sent to plant his River.—Adams' Life of Eliot, p. 87. The river may, therefore, have had another name, in the middle or upper part of its course. as he was bound to dogh rock west of Mount Feake is now called Boston Rock Hill, and from its eastern side a fine view of Waltham is had. John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, describes in a letter a singular event that occurred at Sherman's Pond in June, 1676. Somnary work The missionary labors of young Mayhew among the Indians at Martha's Vineyard antedate those of the Apostle John Eliot, whose first essay in preaching to the Indians was made in a hut near the falls of Charles River, opposite Watertown orIndians for the land within the bounds of Watertown, Cambridge, and Boston. Mass. Records, 1. 254. In the fall of 1646 John Eliot began his missionary labors with the Indians across the Charles River, and five years later the Indian village and chur
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
y are ratified and confirmed to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. Waltham was the 145th town incorporated in the State. There are six parishes of the same name in England, from one of which probably the name was taken. Perhaps the best claim can be made for Waltham-Abbey, called also Waltham Holy Cross, a market town and parish of the County of Essex, twelve miles N. by E. from London, on the left bank of the river Lea, to which place belongs Nasing, the birthplace or home of the Rev. John Eliot, and other early settlers of New England. It is a large, irregular town, situated near the Lea, which is here separated into divers streams, and skirted by low meadows, which have been long celebrated for the succulent and nourishing qualities of the grass. The Convent of Waltham was originally founded about A. D. 1020, by Tovi, (Stallere or Standard-bearer to Canute the Dane, King of England), who built a hunting-seat in the forest, The original great forest which extended, in
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., Index. (search)
ed, 46. Edward the Confessor, 67. Edye (or Eddie), John, insanity of, 32; chosen one of the first three selectmen, 34. Elections, how conducted, 34. Eliot, John, begins missionary labors, 60; antedated by those of Thomas Mayhew, Jr., at Martha's Vineyard, 47 n. 1; birth-place, 66. Eliot, John, fish story told by, 28.Eliot, John, fish story told by, 28. Ellison, James, 84, 96. Endicott, John, and five associates, the new Dorchester Company, 9; agent of the patentees, 10; at Naumkeag, 10; made Governor under the Massachusetts Bay Company, 10; cuts red cross from the king's ensign, 25; censured for the act, 26; commands first expedition against the Pequots, 41. England, shippture of, 61. Narragansetts, fear of an uprising of, 41; aid the English in Pequot War, 43. Nashaway, plantation at, 47; 62. Nasing, the birth-place of John Eliot, 66. Natick, Indian church at, 60, 69, 79. Naumkeag, 10, 11 n. 2. Negro infant baptized, 99. Negroes, 59. Neihumkek, 11. Neipnett, 20. New-