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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 30 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 28 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 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.) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 3 1 Browse Search
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. 2 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
suspension of the privilege of Habeas corpus. —25. English-Confederate steamer Peterhoff captured by the Vanderbilt. National currency act approved by the President.—26. Cherokee national council repeal the ordinance of secession.—28. Confederate steamer Nashville destroyed by the Montauk in Ageechee River.— March 4. Palmyra, Mo., burned by Union gunboats.—6. General Hunter ordered the drafting of negroes in the Department of the South. Confederates capture Franklin, Tenn.—8. Brigadier-General Stoughton captured by Moseby's cavalry at Fairfax Court-House, Va. Twenty-three Confederate steamers captured on the Yazoo River.—11. Governor Cannon, of Delaware, declared the national authority supreme.—18. House of Representatives of New Jersey pass peace resolutions.—19. Mount Sterling, Ky., taken by Confederates, and retaken by Nationals on the 23d. English-Confederate steamer Georgia, laden with arms, destroyed near Charleston.—25. Impressment of private property in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
udley, president1684 to 1686 Sir Edmund Andros, governor-general1686 to 1689 Thomas Danforth (acting)1689 to 1692 governors of Massachusetts appointed by the King under the second charter. Name.Term. Sir William Phipps1692 to 1694 William Stoughton1694 to 1669 Richard Coote, Earl of Bellamont1699 to 1700 William Stoughton1700 to 1701 The Council1701 to 1702 Joseph Dudley1702 to 1715 The CouncilFeb. to March, 1715 Joseph DudleyMarch to Nov., 1715 William Tailer1715 to 1716 SamuWilliam Stoughton1700 to 1701 The Council1701 to 1702 Joseph Dudley1702 to 1715 The CouncilFeb. to March, 1715 Joseph DudleyMarch to Nov., 1715 William Tailer1715 to 1716 Samuel Shute1716 to 1723 William Dummer1723 to 1728 William BurnetJuly, 1728 to Sept., 1729 William Dummer1729 to June, 1730 William TailerJune to Aug., 1730 Jonathan Belcher1730 to 1741 William Shirley1741 to 1749 Spencer Phipps1749 to 1753 William Shirley1753 to 1756 Spencer Phipps1756 to 1757 The CouncilApril to Aug., 1757 Thomas Pownall1757 to 1760 Thomas HutchisonJune to Aug., 1760 Sir Francis Bernard1760 to 1769 Thomas Hutchinson1769 to 1771 Thomas Hutchinson1771 to 1774 The C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stoughton, William 1632-1701 (search)
Stoughton, William 1632-1701 Colonial governor; born in England, May 30, 1632; graduated at Harvard College in 1650; became a clergyman and attained eminence as a preacher; member of the council of Gov. Edmund Andros in 1686-89; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1692-1701; appointed chief-justice of the Superior Court of the colony in 1692, which office he held during the witchcraft agitation (see witchcraft, Salem). He died in Dorchester, Mass., July 7, 1701.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
......May 19, 1637 At Narraganset Bay about 200 Narraganset warriors join him. He approaches the Pequod fort on the evening of May 25, and next morning, at early light, he attacks and completely destroys it, together with about 600 Indians, men, women, and children, losing two killed and about twenty wounded......May 26, 1637 Court of Connecticut calls for forty more men for the war against the Pequods......June 26, 1637 Pequods attempt to escape into the wilderness westward. Captain Stoughton, with a Massachusetts company, pursues along Long Island Sound. With Sassacus, their sachem, the Pequods take shelter in a swamp near Fairfield, and after another severe fight surrender, but their sachem and a few followers escape......July 13, 1637 [These fled to the Mohawks, who treacherously murdered them. The prisoners were sold into slavery or incorporated with other tribes. There remained not a sannup nor a squaw, not a warrior nor a child. ] the Hector lands at Boston Rev.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
lish government a description of New England, headed, An answer to several heads of inquiry concerning the present State of New England......Oct. 12, 1676 William Stoughton and Peter Bulkely sent to the King as agents by Massachusetts with an address......Oct. 30, 1676 Proceedings of England against Massachusetts charter.....6, 1679 Simon Bradstreet made governor, then seventy-six years of age......May, 1679 Edward Randolph, collector of customs at Boston......December, 1679 Stoughton and Bulkely return to Boston, unsuccessful in their efforts to conciliate the English government......December, 1679 Massachusetts becomes the lord proprietaof Ryswick proclaimed at Boston......Dec. 10, 1697 Captain Kidd seized in Boston as a pirate and sent to England......1699 Earl of Bellomont supersedes William Stoughton as governor of Massachusetts, and arrives at Boston......May 26, 1699 Boston contains 1,000 houses and 7,000 people......1700 Joseph Dudley appointed g
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.), Chapter 3: the Puritan divines, 1620-1720 (search)
e removed and the people see, shall not the people judge concerning their own causes? In this faith Thomas Hooker lived and laboured, thereby proving his right to be numbered among the stewards of our American democracy. The fibre of the emigrant leaders had been toughened by conflict with old-world conservatism and turned radical by the long struggle with an arrogant toryism. By a natural selective process the stoutest-hearted had been driven overseas, and the well-known words of William Stoughton, God sifted a whole Nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness, From a sermon entitled, New-Englands true interests; not to lie: or, a treatise declaring . . . the terms on which we stand, and the tenure by which we hold our . . . precious and pleasant things. Cambridge, 1670. were the poetic expression of a bitter reality. But seated snugly in the new world, in control of church and state, the emigrant radicalism found its ardour cooling. The Synod of 1637
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.), Index. (search)
310, 314 Stael, Madame de, 332 Stanley, Charlotte, 286 Stansbury, Joseph, 173 Stansbury, Philip, 191 Stanton, T., 324 n. Stanzas on the emigration to America and Peopling the Western country, 212 Steele, Richard, 112, 116, 235, 238 Steere, Richard, 9 Sterling, James, 122 Sterne, 285 Sternhold, Thomas, 156 Stevenson, Marmaduke, 8 Stiles, Ezra, 91, 103 Stith, Rev., William, 26, 27 Stoddard, Solomon, 57, 61, 64 Stone, John Augustus, 221, 225, 226, 230 Stoughton, William, 48 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 231 Strahan, William, 99 Stranger, the, 219 Strictures on a pamphlet, entitled a friendly address to all Reasonable Americans, 138 Sullivan, James, 148 Summary view of the rights of British America, etc., A, 142 Summer Wind, 272 Superstition, 220, 225 Survey of the Summe of Church discipline, 47 Swallow Barn, 311 Swift, 91, 98, 109, 112, 115, 116, 287, 320 Sword and the Distaff, the, 315 Sybil, 225 n. Sydney, Letters of, 148
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 5: civil History. (search)
finished, and the next Court to appoint where and what building. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 183. President Quincy (Hist. Harv. Coll., i. 1), states that this foundation of the College was laid Sept. 8, 1636, overlooking the fact that the General Court, which met on that day, adjourned until October, and made this grant on the 28th day of that month. The College was ordered to be established at Newtown, Nov. 15, 1637, and the town granted to the Professor 2 2/3 acres of land, on which Holworthy, Stoughton, and Hollis Halls are supposed to stand. This grant to the Professor, made May 11, 1638, is defined on the record to be to the Town's use forever, for a public school or college; and to the use of Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as long as he shall be employed in that work; so that at his death, or ceasing from that work, he or his shall be allowed according to the charges he hath been at, in building or fencing. Dec. 13, 1636. It is ordered, That all military men in this jurisdiction shall b
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 7: civil History. (search)
Mr. Blaithwait per Capt. Foy, will make the whole faction tremble. Ibid., 535. During these distresses of the colony, says Hutchinson in 1681, there were two parties subsisting in the government, both of them agreed in the importance of the charter privileges, but differing in opinion upon the extent of them, and upon the proper measures to preserve them. The governor, Mr. Bradstreet, was at the head of the moderate party. Randolph in all his letters takes notice of it. . . . . Mr. Stoughton, Mr. Dudley, and William Brown of Salem, these fell in with the Governor. The deputy governor, Mr. Danforth, was at the head of the other party: the principal members of the court with him were Major Gookins of Cambridge, Peter Tilton of Hadley, Elisha Cooke and Elisha Hutchinson of Boston. This party opposed the sending over agents, the submitting to acts of trade, &c., and were for adhering to their charter according to their construction of it, and leaving the event. Gookins, bein
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 8: civil History. (search)
ords of the Council during the administration of Andros were carried away, and no copy of the portion embracing this date has been obtained. Fortunately, however, a certified copy of the order, which is equivalent to an act of incorporation, is on file in the office of the clerk of the Judicial Courts in Middlesex County:— At a Council held at the Council Chamber in Boston on Wednesday the eleventh day of January, 1687; Present, His Excy. Sr. Edmund Andros, Kt., &c. William Stoughton, Esqs. Robert Mason, Esqs. Peter Buckley, Esqs. Wait Winthrop, Esqs. John Usher, Esqs. Edward Randolph, Esqs. Francis Nicholson, Esqs. Upon reading this day in Council the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village in the County of Middlesex, being sixty families or upwards, that they may be a village and place distinct of themselves and freed from the town of Cambridge to which at the first settlement they were annexed; they being in every respect capab
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