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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) 18 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 14 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
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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 10: trade. (search)
274 ShipMiddlesexSprague & James'sFoster & TaylorJ. H. PearsonBoston500 275 ShipBerlinS. Lapham'sS. LaphamWm. 2991843ShipEssexSprague & James'sFoster & TaylorJ. H. PearsonBoston700 300 ShipLaplandJ. Stetson'sJ. StetsonB 339 BrigChicopeeSprague & James'sFoster & TaylorJ. H. PearsonBoston200 340 BarkLaconiaSprague & James'sFoster & TaylorJ. H. PearsonBoston200 341 ShipCorsairJ. Stetson'sJ. StetsonWheeler & AdamsBoston325 342 ShipFaneuilk800 381 BarkNashuaSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. H. PearsonBoston200 382 BarkHannah ThorntonJ. O. Curtis'sJ447 ShipTrimountainSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJohn H. PearsonBoston1020 448 ShipPresidentSprague & James'sJ. 453 ShipPolar StarSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. H. PearsonBoston690 454 BarkChesterSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. H. PearsonBoston242 455 ShipTelegraphJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisP. Sprague & Co.Boston1040 456 ShipSu485 BarkEdward EverettJ. T. Foster'sJ. T. FosterJohn H. Pearson & Co.Boston245 486 ShipMorning StarJ
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 6 (search)
set him. The fault that I rather choose to note is, that the owner of the brig Acorn can walk up State Street, and be as honored a man as he was before; that John H. Pearson walks our streets as erect as ever, and no merchant shrinks from his side. But we will put the fact that he owned that brig, and the infamous uses he made ofc applause.] The time shall come when it will be thought the unkindest thing in the world for any one to remind the son of that man that his father's name was John H. Pearson, and that he owned the Acorn. [Renewed cheering.] [At this point a voice called out, Three cheers for John H. Pearson! after what had been said from the John H. Pearson! after what had been said from the platform, such a call was not likely to be very warmly responded to; but one or two voices were raised, and Mr. Phillips continued.] Yes, it is fitting that the cheer should be a poor one, when, in the presence of that merchant [pointing to the portrait of John Hancock], of that merchant who led the noblest movement for civil l
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
ty of a colored man who had been claimed as a fugitive slave. Boston Courier and Boston Whig, Sept. 25, 1846. Early in the month the brig Ottoman, owned by John H. Pearson, a Boston merchant, arrived in the harbor, having the negro on board, whom the captain had discovered some days after sailing from New Orleans. The negro shocapitalists, and old politicians kept away; to them not even the name and sanction of the illustrious statesman who presided could make the occasion respectable. Pearson, in defending himself and his captain against the free use of his name by the speakers, said that what he had done was commended by the merchants of the city, and that on 'Change five to one would, if inquired of, answer that they would do as he had done; and there is no reason to doubt his statement. Pearson was the owner of the brig Acorn, which carried Sims, a fugitive slave, back to Savannah in April, 1851. A letter to Sumner written soon after the meeting shows the temper of soc
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
s officers, surrounded the court house with chains. Sims's counsel, S. E. Sewall, R. Rantoul, Jr., C. G. Loring, and R. H. Dana, Jr., sought to secure the negro's liberty by writs of habeas corpus, bringing him before the Supreme Court of the State and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, but without avail. The commissioner gave a certificate of rendition, and the negro was taken by three hundred armed policemen to Long Wharf, and put on board the brig Acorn, owned by John H. Pearson, a name already associated with a kidnapping case. Ante, p. 130. The agent of the owner on his return to Georgia published a card acknowledging gratefully the assistance he had received in Boston, particularly in the co-operation and sympathy of merchants of high standing. （Boston Courier, May 8, 1851.) The Boston Advertiser, April 14, announced the surrender of Sims as a matter of gratulation. While Sims's fate was pending, a public meeting was held to denounce the Fugitive Slave Act
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 35: Massachusetts and the compromise.—Sumner chosen senator.—1850-1851. (search)
compunction at the atrocious features of the Fugitive Slave law, were ratified with the demand that agitation against them must cease. Webster's followers joined heartily in the execution of the Fugitive Slave law. G. T. Curtis sat as commissioner to hear cases under it. B. R. Curtis aided with his legal opinion. George Lunt, district attorney, was always ready to assist. The mayor, John P. Bigelow, and the aldermen, by formal vote, volunteered the co-operation of the city police. J. H. Pearson,Ante, p. 132. Pearson in May, 1852, returned without opening an envelope addressed to him with Sumner's frank, writing on it that it was returned as coming from one who had obtained place by bargain and intrigue of corrupt coalition. He thought it immoral for Free Soilers and Democrats to combine, but altogether right and honorable to return human beings to bondage. The document enclosed waste of mercantile interest, being Seward's speech in favor of national aid to the Collins line of
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
feeling in this class, that, though they would not have personally assisted in a rescue, they would have rejoiced to see it accomplished by others. It is worthy of note, as showing the revolution in public sentiment, that among the signers was Pearson, who had before cordially supplied vessels for the transportation of fugitive slaves when recovered by their masters. Ante, pp. 130, 193. Pearson in his letter (Boston Courier, November 13), while stating that he had signed the petition, justifPearson in his letter (Boston Courier, November 13), while stating that he had signed the petition, justified his former action. The hearing of the Burns case, with the popular resistance and the death of Batchelder, produced an excitement in Washington not less than that in Boston. The sensation was prodigious; and the first thought among pro-slavery men was to attribute the homicide to some antislavery leader holding a public position. By an anachronism it was ascribed to Sumner's midnight speech, which was not known in Boston till the day after the affair at the court house, and particular