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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
en more full of association, since its building has always remained substantially the same. On April 5, 1759, a letter was sent to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, asking aid to build an Episcopal Church in Cambridge. It was desired by five or six gentlemen, each of whose incomes, says an authority, was judged to be adequate to the maintenance of a domestic chaplain. The letter, signed by Henry Vassall, John Vassall, Tho. Oliver, Robt. Temple, Joseph Lee, Ralph Inman, David Phipps and James Apthorp, was drawn up by Dr. Caner, rector of King's Chapel, Boston. The aid granted, these gentlemen proceeded,in 1761, to the erection of a church, over which Rev. East Apthorp was made rector. The architect of the church was Mr. Peter Harrison, Newport, R. I., who also designed King's Chapel (ten years earlier), and the Redwood Library and City Hall in Newport. The land was bought, the rear half from James Reed, the rest from the owners of the common. Some
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
es, Dana and Margaret Fuller. Yet the C. P. P. G. did not count hundreds: we were but thirty. Those of us who rank among the undistinguished were of course mighty and most honorable, howbeit as is said in the Book of Samuel, we attained not unto the first three. Our schoolhouse stood on the south side of Austin street, about midway between Temple and Prospect streets. Nearly opposite were the houses of Dr. Chaplin and Judge Fay with gardens on each side extending from Prospect street to Inman and back almost to Harvard street. Dr. Chaplin was a then celebrated physician. Several cottages in the garden were occupied by his insane patients whom the boys and girls in the school opposite used to see walking about the grounds, or riding forth, a melancholy troop of six or eight. They were always mounted on white horses, sometimes with the stately doctor at their head, oftener with an attendant. This man was an early and zealous abolitionist, and as for some reason now forgotten the
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 11: civil History. (search)
s enemies to the movement in behalf of liberty; they became absentees, and their estates, together with the estates of Ralph Inman, Esq. House on Inman Street, opposite to the head of Austin Street. and Edward Stow, a mariner, Resided on the sr of Brattle and Sparks streets. John Vassall, Esq., £ 100; Widow Penelope Vassall, £ 15; William Brattle, Esq., £ 29; Ralph Inman, Esq., £ 40; Edward Stow, £ 10; David Phips, Esq., £ 40. Five of these estates were subsequently confiscated and sold of Boston, May 25, 1781; and the estate of Vassall (116 acres) to Nathaniel Tracy, Esq., of Newburyport, June 28, 1781. Inman returned soon, and his estate was restored to him. The heirs of Borland and the widow Vassall succeeded to the ownership ve gone with the British troops to Halifax, in 1776; also George Inman (H. C. 1772, died 1789) and John Inman, sons of Ralph Inman, Esq. After the close of the war, it was proposed to permit the proscribed loyalists to return,—not indeed to shar
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 12: civil History. (search)
reet to Somerville line. Pelham also became the owner of the real estate of Simon Bradstreet, one portion of which was a lot of upland and marsh, long known as Pelham's Island; its boundaries very nearly coincided with Columbia Street on the west, School Street on the north, and Moore Street on the east; the east and west lines being extended across Main Street, beyond Goffe's Cove, so far as to embrace sixty acres in the whole lot. These two large lots passed, by several conveyances, to Ralph Inman, who became the owner in 1756; this executor conveyed the same to Leonard Jarvis, Aug. 21, 1792, except ten acres, south of Goffe's Cove, previously sold to Judge Dana. Subsequently Jarvis purchased the land between these two lots, extending from Norfolk Street to Columbia Street, and northerly from one hundred to two hundred feet beyond Austin Street; so that he then owned all the land bordering on the northerly side of Main Street from the point about midway between Hancock and Lee st
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
oxcroft,18.13.4 Caleb Prentice,8.10.0 Saml. Hastings,11.15.0 Deacon Prentice,8.0.0 Eb. Wyeth,8.0.0 John Stratton,8.0.0 Seth Hastings,10.0.0 S. Thatcher,10.3.4 Widow Tufts,13.6.8 Am. Marrett's heirs,8.0.0 And. Boardman,16.10.0 Chr. Grant,8.5.0 Wid. Sar. Hastings,15.0.0 Richd. Gardner,13.9.4 Stephen Palmer,7.0.0 H. Vassall,20.0.0 B. Hancock,10.0.0 Pr. Holyoke,20.0.0 John Dickson,13.6.8 Rich. Dana,15.0.0 Caleb Dana,13.6.8 Mr. Fletcher,14.0.0 Lt. Govr. [Phips]40.0.0 Mr. Inman,10.0.0 Josh. Morse,6.13.6 Aaron Hill,8.1.0 ——— L. M.836.2.0 == in O. T.6270.1.3 The sum total is not precisely accurate. A copy of the original Plan of this meeting-house is here reproduced. The house thus erected by the joint contributions of the College, the Parish, and individuals, served its purpose until 1833, when it was taken down, and the land on which it stood was sold to the corporation of Harvard College. In this edifice all the public commencements and solemn inau<
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
Apthorp, who was born in Boston, 1733, and educated at Cambridge, England. The original subscription for building the church is dated at Boston, April 25, 1759. The petition to the society was signed by Henry Vassal, Joseph Lee, John Vassal, Ralph Inman, Thomas Oliver, David Phips, Robert Temple, James Apthorp. At a meeting held at Boston, September 29, 1759, the six first named gentlemen, with the Rev. East Apthorp, were chosen as the building committee; Ralph Inman, Esq., was appointed TreRalph Inman, Esq., was appointed Treasurer. Hist. Notice, etc., p. 21. These six first named gentlemen resided in Cambridge, and were among the richest citizens, each of whose income was judged to be adequate to the maintenance of a domestic chaplain. Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII. 34. The church edifice, which is still preserved in good condition, was erected on the southerly side of the common, between the old burial ground and Appian Way. A piece of land, one hundred feet square, was bought of Mr. James Reed, for £ 16. 2s.
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Index of names (search)
85, 233. Houghton, 222. Hovey, 131, 2, 77, 224, 5, 314, 38, 69, 79. Howard, 185. Howe, 126, 292, 309, 21, 30, 8, 80, 424, 8. Howell, 76. Howlett, 317. Hoyt, 326. Hubbard, 30, 75. Hudson, 35, 370. Humphrey, 27, 43, 50. Hunnewell, 5. Hunt, 33, 312, 27, 418. Huntington, 312. Hurd, 135. Hutchings, 185, 440. Hutchinson, 30, 50, 2, 67, 77, 8, 115, 28, 38, 49, 57, 254, 9, 346, 54, 403. Hyde, 58, 9, 76, 81. Ingersoll, 185, 322. Ingham, 226. Inman, 169, 70, 6, 293, 307. Isaac, 35. Jackson, 35, 54, 5,8, 9, 74-6, 79-81, 5, 92-97, 105, 17, 18, 99, 215, 220, 5, 62, 3, 9, 70, 8, 9. 88, 339, 55, 67, 406, 19, 26. Jacobs, 313, 23, 9, 53. James II., 96, 113. James (Black), 390. Jarvis, 2, 173, 4, 6-8, 310. Jefferson, 190, 2. Jeffries, 440. Jefts, 62. Jenner, 252. Jennison, 355. Jethro, 391. Jewett, 320. Joel, 388. Johns, 235. Johnson, 3, 6, 18, 43, 4, 69, 83, 321, 32, 82, 97, 428. Jones, 35, 9