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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 5: (search)
ved that noble act. He was told; and there, on the stump of a tree, the General immediately wrote his commission of Adjutant. Medford furnished its full quota of soldiers for the war of 1812, and shed its blood in sustaining the national cause. The following are the names of those who volunteered enlistment: John Gates, Zachariah Shed, Edmund Gates, Amos Hadley, Thomas Cutter, Jacob Waite, Samuel F. Jordan, Jonathan Tufts, jun., Randolph Richardson, Rehoboam Richardson, Miles Wilson, Joseph Peirce, John Lee, John Weatherspoon, John McClough, Stephen D. Bugsby, Robert Hall, Benjamin Symmes. The first on the list still lives; the others are dead. Edmund Gates was killed in the battle of Chippewa; and Abiel R. Shed was killed in the sortie of Fort Erie, 1813. One of the most signal sacrifices made by Medford to the cause of the country, in that war, was the death of Lieutenant John Brooks, son of General Brooks, who graduated at Harvard College in 1805, studied medicine with h
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
artha in 1665, and w. Mary in 1673. His chil. were John, b. 10 Mar. 1665-6; Martha, b. 2 Nov. 1667, m. John Comey of Concord 21 June 1688; William, b. 10 Oct. 1669; George, b. prob. 1671; Daniel, b. 12 Aug. 1673; Hannah, b. prob. 1674, m. Joseph Peirce 21 Dec. 1692; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1676, m. Thomas Rugg; Mary, b. 24 June 1678, m. Joseph Fassett; David, b. 6 Oct. 1680; Eleanor, b. 24 Feb. 1682-3; m. William Burgess; Sarah, b. 18 Mar. 1684-5, m. George Blanchard; Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1687; of Samuel Rayner, 7 Ap. 1670; she d. 10 Nov. 1674, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Kendall of Woburn, 9 Nov. 1675. I find no record of children; he resided at the Farms, was an Ensign of Militia, and d. 19 Oct. 1696; his w. Elizabeth m. Joseph Peirce of Watertown, before 23 June 1701. Mr. Winship was one of the pioneers at the Farms, and his situation, as well as that of his associates, is faintly shadowed in a memorandum connected with the settlement of his estate: His honored father-in
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, M. (search)
came to New England in March 1652, and is first named on the Records 17 Sept. 1657, when he was fined six pence for some trivial breach of a town order. He early established himself at the Farms, where a numerous posterity succeeded him. He had w. Martha in 1665, and w. Mary in 1673. His chil. were John, b. 10 Mar. 1665-6; Martha, b. 2 Nov. 1667, m. John Comey of Concord 21 June 1688; William, b. 10 Oct. 1669; George, b. prob. 1671; Daniel, b. 12 Aug. 1673; Hannah, b. prob. 1674, m. Joseph Peirce 21 Dec. 1692; Elizabeth, b. prob. 1676, m. Thomas Rugg; Mary, b. 24 June 1678, m. Joseph Fassett; David, b. 6 Oct. 1680; Eleanor, b. 24 Feb. 1682-3; m. William Burgess; Sarah, b. 18 Mar. 1684-5, m. George Blanchard; Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1687; Benjamin, b. 16 Aug. 1690; Susanna, bap. with the three last preceding 28 Feb. 1698-9, and prob. d. young. Of these fourteen children, all except the last named were living 14 Nov. 1716, the date of their father's will. William the f. d. 27 Jan. 1
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, W. (search)
inship, Winshipp, Winshepp, Winshape, Winshipe, Winshope, Winchip, Winchep, Winchepp, Winchope, Windship, etc. Edward the progenitor wrote his name Winshipp; most of his descendants now write Winship. 2. Ephraim, s. of Edward (1), m. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Rayner, 7 Ap. 1670; she d. 10 Nov. 1674, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Kendall of Woburn, 9 Nov. 1675. I find no record of children; he resided at the Farms, was an Ensign of Militia, and d. 19 Oct. 1696; his w. Elizabeth m. Joseph Peirce of Watertown, before 23 June 1701. Mr. Winship was one of the pioneers at the Farms, and his situation, as well as that of his associates, is faintly shadowed in a memorandum connected with the settlement of his estate: His honored father-in-law, Mr. Francis Kendall of Woburn, in said county, demands these following debts, viz.: that his son-in-law, Ephraim Winship, in the time of the former war, called Philip's War, came to his house for shelter, for fear of the Indians, because his li
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., January 15, 1738. (search)
h of Beaver Street and included the Plains. Each squadron was to furnish a place for the school, and convenient board for the teacher. The Selectmen were to have a school kept in the school-house, on the land of Deacon Jonathan Sanderson, near the junction of Beacon and Lexington Streets, until December, and then were to divide the remainder of the year into proportionate parts, and the school was to be kept in each squadron in turn. The school was kept in North Street in the house of Joseph Peirce. January 5, 1738-9, the Selectmen paid Isaac Pierce £ 1 for killing a wild catte. A committee was appointed to see that the Act of the Province to prevent the destruction of deer be not violated. January 5, 1739-40, the Selectmen voted to provide for the funeral of Wid° Wyeth four paire of men's Gloves and two paire of woman's and also to provide such a Quantity of Rum as should be found necessary. The expenses of the funeral were £ 2 10s. Of her effects they sold an old frock, b