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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 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
and Rev. Mr. Phillips; for, in the tax for the support of these gentlemen, Medford paid its share assessed by the General Court. These preachers were paid by six towns, and doubtless considered Medford as belonging to their pastoral watch and Christian fold. At this time, our fathers were troubled with the sect of the Antinomians, whose spiritual father was John Agricola, of Isleben. They were against the moral law, not only as a covenant of life, but as a rule of moral conduct. Mrs. Anne Hutchinson brought the controversy from England here in 1634. The Colonists went for the law, and were called Legalists. The heat on one side for the covenant of grace, and on the other for the covenant of works, caused political as well as ecclesiastical trouble. Vane headed the Antinomians, and Winthrop the Legalists. The synod at Newton, Aug. 30, 1637, condemned the Antinomians; and they were banished. The first inhabitants of Medford belonged to that class of hardy, intelligent, Christ
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894 (search)
Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894 Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 8, 1814; graduated at Harvard in 1833; ordained a Unitarian pastor in 1840; president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and author of History of the battle of Bunker Hill, and biographies of John Mason, William Penn, Anne Hutchinson, Jared Sparks, Count Rumford, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 (search)
been unanimous. This examination was one of the causes which led to a speedy repeal of the Stamp Act. Late in 1773 Dr. Franklin presented to Lord Dartmouth, to be laid before the King, a petition from Massachusetts for the removal of Governor Hutchinson and Chief-Justice Oliver from office. They were charged with conspiracy against the colony, as appeared by certain letters which had been published. A rumor found utterance in the newspapers that the letters had been dishonestly obtainededderburne when before the privy council, and his dismissal from the office of postmastergeneral for the colonies, Franklin was subjected to the danger of arrest, and possibly a trial, for treason; for the ministry, angry because he had exposed Hutchinson's letters, made serious threats. Conscious of rectitude, he neither left England then nor swerved a line from his course of duty. When, in February, 1776, Lord North endeavored to find out from him what the Americans wanted, We desire nothing
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gage, Thomas 1721-1787 (search)
a, when he was lieutenant-colonel; and led the advance. In that hot encounter he was wounded. Late in 1758 he married a daughter of Peter Kemble, president of the council of New Jersey. Gage served under Amherst in northern New York and Canada, and on the capture of Montreal by the English in 1760 he was made military governor of that city. He was promoted to major-general, and in 1763 succeeded Amherst as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America. In 1774 he succeeded Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts, and occupied Boston with troops, much to the annoyance and irritation of the inhabitants. Acting under instructions from his government rather than in accordance with his conscience and judgment, he took measures which brought on armed resistance to British rule in the colonies. When his demand for 20,000 armed men at Boston was received by the ministry they laughed in derision, believing that a few soldiers could accomplish all that was necessary to make th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hutchinson, Anne 1590-1642 (search)
Hutchinson, Anne 1590-1642 Religious enthusiast; born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England, about 1590; was a daughter of Rev Francis Marbury, rector of St. Martin, Vintry, and other London parishes. The preaching of John Cotton and her brotherin-law, John Wheelwright, greatly interested her, and she, with her husband, followed e burned. The place of the tragedy was on Pelham Neck. The region was called Anne's Hoeck, or Point. Several women and children were saved in a boat. When Mrs. Hutchinson's little granddaughter was delivered to the Dutch at New Amsterdam, four years afterwards, according to the terms of a treaty, to be sent to her friends in Boat. When Mrs. Hutchinson's little granddaughter was delivered to the Dutch at New Amsterdam, four years afterwards, according to the terms of a treaty, to be sent to her friends in Boston, she had forgotten her own language, and did not wish to leave her Indian friends. See Hutchinsonian controversy, the. Hutchinson, Thomas
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
Trials. The following is a list of the most notable trials in the United States: Anne Hutchinson; sedition and heresy (the Antinomian controversy); imprisoned and banished......1637 Trials of Quakers in Massachusetts......1656-61 Jacob Leisler, New York, convicted and executed for treason......May 16, 1691 Trials for witchcraft, Massachusetts......1692 Thomas Maule, for slanderous publications and blasphemy, Massachusetts......1696 Nicholas Bayard, treason......1702 John Peter Zenger, for printing and publishing libels on the colonial government, November, 1734, acquitted......1735 William Wemms, James Hartegan, William McCauley, and other British soldiers, in Boston, Mass., for the murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr.......March 5, 1770 Maj.-Gen. Charles Lee, court-martial after the battle of Monmouth; found guilty of, first, disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy; second, unnecessary an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underhill, John 1630-1672 (search)
Underhill, John 1630-1672 Colonist; born in Warwickshire, England; was a soldier on the Continent; came to New England with Winthrop in 1630; represented Boston in the General Court; favored Mrs. Hutchinson (see Hutchinsonian controversy), and was associated with Captain Mason, in command of forces in the Pequot War, in 1637. Banished from Boston as a heretic, he went to England, and there published a history of the Pequot War, entitled News from America. Dover, N. H., regarded as a place of refuge for the persecuted, received Underhill, and he was chosen governor. It was discovered that it lay within the chartered limits of Massachusetts, and the latter claimed political jurisdiction over it. Underhill treated the claim with contempt at first, but, being accused of gross immorality, he became alarmed, and not only yielded his power, but urged the people to submit to Massachusetts. He went before the General Court and made the most abject confession of the truth of the charges
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
relic of antichrist and a Popish symbol ......January, 1634 Anne Hutchinson, of Alford, England, with her husband, William Hutchinson, arrom the meeting-house......1636 Religious controversy with Mrs. Anne Hutchinson begins......1636 Sir Henry Vane chosen governor of Massacribe......October, 1637 Rev. John Wheelwright, brother of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, disfranchised and banished for supporting her......Nov. 2, He journeys to New Hampshire and founds Exeter......1637 Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, under sentence of banishment, is committed to Joseph Welde, 1780. He was descended through a line of reputable men from Anne Hutchinson.] Affray in Richardson's house in Boston; the boy Snider iston Harbor, delivered into the hands of the King's troops by Governor Hutchinson......Sept. 10, 1770 Population of the State, 262,680......1770 Governor Hutchinson's salary, £ 2,000, paid by the English government. He thus becomes independent of the province......1772 Min
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
m......February, 1642 George Baxter, an exile from New England, English secretary; salary 250 guilders ($95)......1642 Johannes Megapolensis the first clergyman in Rensselaerwyck, with a residence and 1,000 guilders ($380)......1642 Anne Hutchinson takes refuge near New Rochelle from religious persecution in Massachusetts......1642 Dutch at Fort Orange seek in vain to ransom Jogues (a French missionary, prisoner of the Iroquois), but his life is spared......1642 Kieft rashly prFeb. 25, 1643 Thus aroused, the Indians begin a war of retaliation......1643 They attack trading-vessels on the river......August, 1643 Capt. John Underhill, a hero of the Pequod War, enters the Dutch service......September, 1643 Anne Hutchinson killed, the settlement destroyed, and her granddaughter, eight years old, captured......1643 Throgmorton's settlement attacked and destroyed......1643 Gravesend, Long Island, attacked, but Indians repulsed......1643 Father Jogues es
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.
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