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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
by patent the fee of the soil to the government of the State for the use of the grantees and the parties claiming under them. Whereupon, in pursuance of this authority, on Sept. 22, 1800, Governor St. Clair issued a proclamation establishing the county of Trumbull, to include within its boundaries the Fire lands and adjacent islands, and ordered an election to be held at Warren, its county seat, on the second Tuesday of October. At that election forty-two votes were cast, of which General Edward Paine received thirty-eight, and was thus elected a member of the Territorial legislature. All the early deeds on the Reserve are preserved in the records of Trumbull county. A treaty was held at Fort Industry on July 4, 1805, between the commissioners of the Connecticut Land Company and the Indians, by which all the lands in the Reserve west of the Cuyahoga belonging to the Indians were ceded to the Connecticut Company. Geauga was the second county of the Reserve. It was created by
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Original English inhabitants and early settlers in Somerville. (search)
d in four years, and his only child, a son, went back to London. John Crow went to Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, and he and Yelventon Crow (an ancestor of mine), who owned a Cow Common in Somerville in 1637, were the progenitors of the numerous Crowells, for so the name became in the second generation, on Cape Cod and elsewhere in Massachusetts. John Brinsmeade, 1638, had a house and two acres of land in the Highfield, perhaps on the Somerville side of the line, but he left no issue here. Edward Paine, 1638. His house and thirty acres of land were at the West End. He returned to England, and his children did not remain in town. John Hodges, 1638, had a dwelling house and ten acres of land in Gibbons-field. He left no issue in town. William Baker, 1638, or earlier, had a dwelling house and land at the West End, but it does not appear that he left descendants here. John Mousal, 1638, or earlier, had a homestead in the Highfield, but he subsequently removed to Woburn. Ralph
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
Md., 18. Ogdensburg, N. Y., 10. Old Mill and Other Poems, 3. Olive Branch, 5, 41. Oliver, F. J., 22. Oliver. Judson W., 18, 22. One Hundred and Fourth New York. 62, 71. One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania, 21. Orange and Alexandria Railroad. 44. Orcutt, Edward L., 16. Orcutt, Levi, 8, 16. Original English Inhabitants and Early Settlers in Somerville, 25-31, 49-55. Page, Major, Caleb, 5. Palfrey, Hon. John G., 15. Palfrey's Grove, 15, 37. Palgrave, Richard, 28. Paine, Edward, 30. Palmer, Abraham, 29. Palmer, William D., 56. Park Street, 33. Parochial School, 33, 37, 40. Parry Brick Co., 10. Patten, Margaret, 50. Pemunky River, 61. Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., 19. Perry, William A., 74. Petersburg, 65, 66, 69, 72. Pettengill.———, 14. Philadelphia, Penn., 18. Phillips. 10. Phipps, John, 50. Phipps, Solomon. 50. Pierce, Major, 62. Pierce, Mary, 29, 51. Pierce. Thomas, 29. Pierson, Charles L., 69. Pilgrims. The, 84. <
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
rtain. Hutchinson to Lord Hillsborough, 12 March, 1770. 3. Rev. Dr. Cooper's opinion is worthy of great attention. Soldiers &c. fired without the least reason to justify so desperate a step. Dr. S. Cooper to Gov. Pownall, 26 March, 1770. 4. No one of the soldiers was hurt, nor was there any of the things. Chap. XLIII.} 1770. March said to have been thrown at them, to be found on the place next morning. Boston Gazette, 830, 2, 2. 5. Look at the testimony of trustworthy men. Edward Paine, cited in Boston Gazette, of 7 Jan. 1771, perceived nothing but the talk that he thought would have induced the sentry or any of the soldiers to fire. Henry Knox, afterwards General and Secretary at War, was close by and saw nothing thrown. His testimony is very strong. Among others, Langford the watchman, says, The boys were swearing and using bad words, but they threw nothing. Trial, 11. I saw nobody strike a blow, nor offer a blow. Trial, 12. Brown saw nothing thrown at the soldi