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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 2: (search)
1628, stilo Anglicae. The confidence felt by the Court in Mr. Cradock's judgment was evinced by putting him first on that Committee which was to divide and apportion the lands in New England, thus deciding how and where the first settlements should take place. He did all he could to get the fleet in readiness to sail. On the morning of the 29th March, 1630, when the vessels were lying at Cowes, he made a visit to his friends, and consulted with them on the expediency of sailing on Easter Monday. Hubbard says: They were advised so to do by Mr. Cradock (who was that morning on board the Arbella ), the late Governor, and owner of the two last ships. Gov. Winthrop says: Mr. Cradock was aboard the Arbella. We came to council. Mr. Cradock presently went back, our captain giving him three shots out of the steerage for a farewell. This gentleman, wise, good, zealous, honored, and rich, may be regarded, before any other individual, as the founder of Medford. There is no record of s
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.), Chapter 2: the historians, 1607-1783 (search)
ut taking notice of them. The life of John Winthrop was worthy of this tribute in all respects. Introspection was a Puritan trait, and the first governor at Boston had his share. Early in life he kept a little diary which he called Experiencia, a record of very deep spirituality. His letters show that he thought God directed his love and marriage. It was in the spring of 1630 that he embarked for Massachusetts, and while aboard ship, riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, on Easter Monday, he began a journal which he kept faithfully until a few months before his death. It is filled with colony affairs, but its title, A history of New England, is misleading. It says little about any other colony than that over which the writer ruled, and the form is not that of history proper. Yet it is a valuable record of the life of the time, and presents good expositions of most of the problems of the early colony. While it is not written in so interesting a style as Bradford's boo
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 15: Santo Domingo 1872-1874; aet. 53-56 (search)
o impart to these illiterate negroes was very dear to me. One of the party has an undying impression of this Easter service: the shabby little chapel crowded with dark faces, and the preacher, standing touched by a ray of sunlight, speaking to that congregation of simple black people. In her notes she speaks of these services. A pastoral charge bringing me near to the hearts and sympathies of the people. I have preached five times in the little church, including Good Friday and Easter Monday. This service, which has not been without its difficulties, is so much better to me in remembrance than anything else I have done here that I must make a little break and pause before I speak of other things. In this pause I remember my prayer at Puerto Plata, that I and mine might come to this new region with a reverent and teachable spirit. That prayer was an earnest one to me. I hope it has, as all prayers should, accomplished its own fulfilment. I have been here among dear peo
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John Winthrop (search)
ere discussed, and on October 20, 1629, the court met to elect the new governor, and having received extraordinary great commendations of Mr. John Wynthrop, both for his integrity, and sufficiency, did put in nomination for that place the said John Winthrop, and he was by a general vote, by erection of hands, chosen to be Governor for the ensuing year. Winthrop's voyage to America is described with minuteness day by dayin his diary. It begins:— Anno Domini, 1630, March 29, Monday (Easter Monday). Riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, in the Arbella, a ship of 350 tons, whereof Capt. Peter Milborne was Master, being manned with 52 seamen and 28 pieces of ordnance, etc. At the present day this seems a pretty large armament for such a little canoe of a ship; however, disregarding the proverb of a century or more later, that Greater ships may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore, they sailed from Old England, and after a long voyage full of incident and per
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Carnival ball in Paris. (search)
e same ribbon, with pearls, in her hair, which was dressed with light curls. During Lent, a succession of brilliant concerts will be given at the Tuileries and at the Hotel de Ville. In fact, there is no real cessation of entertainments during the Lenten season, except among very devout Catholics. The beau monde continues its gay career until Holy Week, when a general feeling of remorse and penitence seizes upon it, and it cries "dust and ashes" for a whole week, recommencing with Easter Monday the distractions essential to its very existence.--American society has all winter had no salon of reunion to replace that in which Mrs. Dayton welcomed her guests with so much distinction and kindness, and which will always be remembered as the most agreeable soirees ever given at the American Legation in Paris. Mrs. Bigelow has just resumed her grand Wednesday evening receptions, discontinued during the gay season, her little Sunday evening receptions being of an intimate rather than