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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908,
Union Square
and its neighborhood about the year 1846. (search)
the Somerville minuteman killed on Prospect Hill on April 19, 1775, by the British; to whose memory a tablet was erected on Washington street, bearing his last words: I am too old to run. Beyond Mr. Miller's came the estate of Mrs. Underwood; her son, James Underwood, a cripple, I well remember as a schoolmate. His sister was the wife of Horace Runey, deceased. Near here also lived John Thorning, an estimable old gentleman, whom I well knew; he was a Universalist, and was the father of Mrs. Nancy (Thorning) Munroe, wife of Edwin Munroe, Jr.; she was a lady of great literary attainments, and a poet. Next came the residence of Andrew M. Kidder, music printer, who had previously resided on Mystic avenue, at the foot of Convent Hill; two of his sons, Arthur T. and Andrew M. Kidder, still reside in Somerville. On the west corner of Medford street and south side of Washington street, then or a few year later stood the law office of Francis Tufts, captain of our military company before
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, chapter 8 (search)
ell as for eighteen years Selectman. The grandparents of Mr. Kendall were Isaac (died July, 1833) and Lucy (Sables) Kendall, of Woburn. They were the parents of Isaac, Jr., born in Woburn April 23, 1806, died in Somerville June 27, 1894. Isaac, Jr., married at Charlestown, May 1, 1833, Nancy, daughter of Seth Bradford, of Medford, where she was born March 8, 1805. She had been brought up by Mrs. Kendall Bailey, of Charlestown, and had as a stepmother a sister of her husband's mother. Mrs. Nancy (Bradford) Kendall was a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth Colony. She died at her home on Winter Hill July 10, 1888. Isaac Brooks Kendall, the second child of his parents, and the only one to survive infancy, was born in Charlestown June 4, 1835. He married (1874) Alice R. Fitz, of Somerville, only child of the late George H. and Rebecca S. (Moulton) Fitz. Her mother is a resident of this city. The three children of this marriage are: Dr. Arthur I. Kendall
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., Foreword. (search)
e Nieces of Abigail and Edward Brooks. Mrs. Putnam. A neighbor. (Husband was killed at Lexington.) Abigail Brooks. Rev. Edward Brooks. Her husband. Lieutenant Gould. Of the King's Own. Two farmer lads. Mrs. Putnam. Good day, Mistress Nancy. Tell your aunt I must e'en go home to make ready the supper, it grows late. Nancy. Of a surety, Mrs. Putnam, and thank you vastly for your assistance. 'T has been a busy day indeed, and sorely troubled would Aunt Abigail have been to do e them some, sez he, jest like that, and gave me a strange look, ana off lie legged it, carryina tha ole flintlock he'd used in the Cannedy campaign. Sixty-three year old if a day, ana yet he must be mixina in! We're all strong for libbity, Mistress Nancy, you ana your folks ana me ana my folks. Nancy. Yes, Mrs. Putnam, we're all High Liberty Men together, come what may. Mrs. Putnam (really going). Tha ain't no one more willina to give fer the cause 'n what I be, but when it comes to was
The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
Female postmasters. --Holbrook's Mail tells the following anecdote of the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson: A post-office not far from his residence becoming vacant, a lively contest sprung up for the appointment, and among the applicants was a Mrs. Nancy W--. Congress being in session at the time, the worthy Senator, in accordance with usage in such cases, was requested to call at the Department to look at the papers in the case in hand. The request was promptly complied with, and the documents were duly inspected, not without some perplexity in the mind of the Senator; for two of his personal and political friends, both highly respectable and competent men, were, as appeared from the papers, about "neck and neck" in the race for office, so far as influential signatures on either side could make them so. But suddenly a light dawned upon the Senator. A neatly written note in a lady's handwriting came to view, applying for office in her own behalf, and giving but a single name as
The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock. (search)
Trespassing. --A charge was preferred yesterday morning against a white man named Joseph. W. Wood, who claims to be a detailed soldier, for trespassing on the promises of Mrs. Nancy. Riddell and severely whipping a slave woman belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock. The evidence given by Mrs. R. proved Wood's conduct before his encounter with the negro took place to have been of a very characters and his subsequent behavior, as testified to by the officers who arrested him, left little doubt upon the mind of Alderman Sanxay of the punishment, he should receive. Wood was ordered to prison for three months and then to give security for his good behavior in the sum of $150.