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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 43 1 Browse Search
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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 38 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 26 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 22 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 22 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
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., And who was Peter Tufts? (search)
. Young Peter, who successively was Ensign, Leftenant and Captain Peter, was twenty-two when he took unto himself a wife, Elizabeth Lynde of Malden, in 1670. As their daughter Anna, born in 1676, is the first written in Medford records, there may have been more of the family that we have no record of. What legends shall we build up of that time, the Medford people, and its dwellings and homes? Well, the Medford people of that day were not the cosmopolitan Americans of today; they were English emigrants and their children, distant but loyal subjects of the British king. Peter Tufts' boyhood was during the time of Cromwell and the commonwealth, and during its last eight years was the restoration. And during all these years a Puritan commonwealth and a Puritan church were growing and established this side the sea, its capital, Boston, but five miles away. But the home town of Peter Tufts was a small and slow-growing one, barely emerging from the status of a twenty-five-hundred