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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) 6 0 Browse Search
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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 4: (search)
two specimens of individual zeal in the cause of independence among us, we may mention the remark of our first Medford merchant, Benjamin Hall, Esq.:-- When the struggle began, in 1775, I would not have exchanged my property for that of any man in Middlesex County; and now, in 1784, I am worth nothing. The other case is that of Rev. Edward Brooks. He was librarian of Harvard College two years. On the 19th of April, 1775, he hastened towards Lexington, and did duty through the day. Lieut. Gould, taken prisoner at Concord, was committed to his custody at Medford. He was chaplain in the frigate Hancock, in 1777, when she captured the British frigate Fox. Afterwards, when the Hancock and Fox were retaken by the British off Halifax, he was carried there as prisoner of war, but was soon released. He had not money to give, but he would have given his life, to the American cause. He died at Medford, May 6, 1781, aged 48. Medford took steps to pay its debts at the earliest period
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 12: crimes and Punishments. (search)
aily walk, that they became very irritating to the covenant Puritans; and some wished they should be cropped! In April, 1667, a great dispute was held at Boston between them and the Calvinists. Who were the champions in this gladiatorial encounter we do not know, nor where victory perched; but we have proof of blind, unchristian persecution, which stands a blot on the page of history. At the Ten Hills, in Mistick, lived a servant of John Winthrop, jun., who professed the Baptist faith. Mary Gould, his wife, who was with him in his creed, writes to John Winthrop, jun., March 23, 1669, concerning her husband's imprisonment in Boston on account of his peculiar faith. Whether what was done at Ten Hills was approved at Medford we do not know; but these facts tell volumes concerning the ideas, principles, and practices of some of the Puritan Pilgrims of New England. Indians convicted of crime, or taken prisoners in war, were sold by our fathers as slaves! June 14, 1642: If parent
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
zabeth, b. March 19, 1755. 52-118Samuel Hall served his apprenticeship with his uncle, Daniel Fowle, the first printer in N. H. He published, in 1768, the Essex Gazette, at Salem, whence he removed, in 1775, to Cambridge, where he published the N. E. Chronicle. He moved this latter to Boston the next year. He published the Salem Gazette again, in 1781; and, in 1785, the Massachusetts Gazette. In 1789, he opened a book-store in Boston, which he sold to Lincoln and Edmands in 1805, to whom Gould and Lincoln are the successors. He died Oct. 10, 1807. 66-130Moses Hall m. Martha----, and had--  130-227John, b. Oct. 5, 1776.  228Moses, b. Dec. 8, 1777.  229Martha, b. Mar. 7, 1780.  230Mary Kiesar, b. Sept. 16, 1783.  231Moses, b. Dec. 13, 1785.  232Elizabeth, b. Apr. 11, 1787.  233James, b. May 29, 1788. 74-142Ebenezer Hall m. Eunice----, and had--  142-234Martha, b. Apr. 20, 1798.  235Mary, b. Feb. 6, 1802. 80-147Benjamin Hall m. Lucy, dau. of Dr. Simon and Lucy Tufts, N