Browsing named entities in Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill). You can also browse the collection for Thomas Oliver or search for Thomas Oliver in all documents.

Your search returned 4 results in 2 document sections:

Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Tory row. (search)
tately and hospitable mansion as of yore. As famous as Craigie house, and for a similar reason, is Elmwood, the entrance to which is on Elmwood avenue, between Brattle and Mount Auburn streets. This house was built between 1763 and 1767 by Thomas Oliver, the last of the lieutenant-governors under the crown. He was so much disliked by the people that a large number surrounded the house and demanded his resignation. He refused until he feared for his own safety and that of his family, when he wrote on the paper containing his resignation,--My house at Cambridge being surrounded by four thousand people, in compliance with their commands, I sign my name, Thomas Oliver. He left Cambridge immediately and never returned. He died in exile at Bristol, England, in 1815. On his departure the house was taken possession of by the Committee of Correspondence. It was next used as a hospital for the men who were wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill, and in the field opposite this and the
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Historic churches and homes of Cambridge. (search)
uild 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 Apthorphen the Revolution broke out, the denizens of this peaceful row grew unpopular to such a degree that they fled for refuge to General Gage in Boston, and their property was, in most cases, confiscated. The houses of Major Henry Vassall, Lieutenant-Governor Oliver and Mrs. George Ruggles were used as hospitals for those wounded at Bunker Hill. Those whose houses were saved for them were chiefly those whose Toryism, like that of Judge Lee, was of an inoffensively mild type. Never again could