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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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. There must have been therefore in Cambridge in 1846 six times as many inhabitants as there were in Cambridge, Brighton, and West Cambridge in 1790. This growth was at a rate nearly three times that of the State at large during the same period. This prosperity resulted from protracted peace, and freedom from great political excitement. For many years after the organization of the state government there were but few events which interfered with it. It is true that the insurrection termed Shays's Rebellion, in 1786, paralyzed for the time being the progress of western Massachusetts, but Cambridge declined to participate in the convention which was called by those who inaugurated this movement. In 1807, too, there was a period of serious business depression caused by the embargo. This was so severely felt by the town that in 1808 a petition to the President of the United States was adopted in town meeting, requesting a suspension in the whole or in part of the embargo laws. To t
geometry and physics, 205; primary schools, 205; superintendents, 205; kindergartens, 206; evening schools, 206; truant officers, 206; statistics, 1845 and 1895, 200; comparisons, 207; further educational advantages, 207. Scientific Cambridge, 72-77. Scientific School. 75, 76; instructors, 75. Second Parish, incorporated as West Cambridge, 9, 16;. Sewall or Lechmere House, 28. Sewall, Jonathan, his windows broken by Cambridge citizens, 23. Sewers, Superintendent of, 404. Shays's Rebellion, 32. Shepard, Rev. Thomas, arrival at New Town, 7,233; his vigilancy against heresies, 7; his ministry, 7, 235; his presence determines the seating of the college, 235. Shepard Congregational Society, organized, 31,239. Simond's Hill, 37. Sinking Funds, Commissioners of the, 403. Social Union, property exempt from taxation, 1320. Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. See Radcliffe College. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,