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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 163 (search)
ame time. Gen. Johnson's brigade followed an hour later on the telegraph road as a reserve. Gen. Heintzelman himself left Headquarters at daylight, and overtook the advance where they were halted, a short distance on the north side of the church. It was soon ascertained that the rebel cavalry had left, having encamped at the church the night before. Our men advanced and occupied the ground, and sent out parties on the different roads. The regiments under Col. Hayman took the road to Colchester. There are no signs of the enemy having been recently in that vicinity, nor were there any indications of their occupying the opposite bank of the Occoquan at that point. Col. Terry, who commanded the troops which followed the telegraph road to Mrs. Violet's, learned that the enemy's pickets had left there two hours before. On the opposite side of the Occoquan there was seen a small force of cavalry and infantry, evidently apprised of the advance. The cavalry pickets on the road towa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foote, William Henry 1794-1869 (search)
Foote, William Henry 1794-1869 Clergyman; born in Colchester, Conn., Dec. 20, 1794; graduated at Yale College in 1816; and became chaplain in the Confederate army. He was author of Sketches, Historical and biographical, of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia; and Sketches in North Carolina. He died in Romney, W. Va., Nov. 18, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gillett, Ezra Hall 1823- (search)
Gillett, Ezra Hall 1823- Educator; born in Colchester, Conn., July 15, 1823; graduted at Yale in 1841; appointed Professor of Political Economy in the University of New York in 1868. Among his writings are History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Ancient cities and empires, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trumbull, Lyman 1813-1896 (search)
Trumbull, Lyman 1813-1896 Legislator; born in Colchester, Conn., Oct. 12, 1813; taught when sixteen years of age; studied law at the Academy of Georgia, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; removed to Belleville, Ill.; was secretary of state in 1841; a justice of the State Supreme Court in 1848; Democratic member of the State legislature in 1854; and elected a United States Senator in 1855, 1861, and in 1867, serving for eighteen years. He abandoned the Democratic party on account of his opposition to the extension of slavery, and labored with the anti-slavery workers. He voted against the impeachment of President Johnson and afterwards acted with the Democratic party, and was its candidate for governor of Illinois in 1880. He supported Horace Greeley for President in 1872, and joined the Populists in 1894. He died in Chicago, Ill., June 25, 1896.
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
st 1657, of a sickness so infectious that it killed all the persons employed in putting him into his leaden coffin. On his decease Hezekiah became possessed of this estate. He was much employed in the civil wars, and a Major-general. （Morant's Hist. Essex, II. 195.) John and Roger, who came into this country with their father, sometime before his death, returned to England. Roger d. on his passage, or soon after his arrival. John [grad. H. C. 1656] settled in the ministry at or near Colchester in the county of Essex in England, where he left issue. Joseph [grad. H. C. 1658] was ordained pastor of the first church in Hartford; [d. 24 May 1679]. Mary, m. Mr. Joseph Cook in England; Ruth, Mr. Samuel Wyllys of Hartford; and Mabel, Mr. James Russell of Charlestown in Mass.; and all had issue. （Trumbull's Hist. Conn., i. 224.) Rev. Joseph Haynes of Hartford had one son John who was a gentleman of importance in the Colony, and for a time was a magistrate and judge;—and the name bec<
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, H. (search)
st 1657, of a sickness so infectious that it killed all the persons employed in putting him into his leaden coffin. On his decease Hezekiah became possessed of this estate. He was much employed in the civil wars, and a Major-general. （Morant's Hist. Essex, II. 195.) John and Roger, who came into this country with their father, sometime before his death, returned to England. Roger d. on his passage, or soon after his arrival. John [grad. H. C. 1656] settled in the ministry at or near Colchester in the county of Essex in England, where he left issue. Joseph [grad. H. C. 1658] was ordained pastor of the first church in Hartford; [d. 24 May 1679]. Mary, m. Mr. Joseph Cook in England; Ruth, Mr. Samuel Wyllys of Hartford; and Mabel, Mr. James Russell of Charlestown in Mass.; and all had issue. （Trumbull's Hist. Conn., i. 224.) Rev. Joseph Haynes of Hartford had one son John who was a gentleman of importance in the Colony, and for a time was a magistrate and judge;—and the name bec<
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
ministers, Hancock. Lexington; Appleton, First Parish, Cambridge; Storer, Watertown; Turell, Medford. were desired to assist in carrying on the public exercises of the day. 1736 Aug. 3, 1736, Mr. Thomas Skinner was chosen minister and provision made for his settlement for life. But some dissent to the choice arising, and his answer containing several articles which were passed in the negative, the matter went no further. Thomas Skinner, H. U. 1732, was afterward minister at Colchester, Conn. His father rented the Ten Hills Farm, now in Somerville, about 1737. See Wyman's Charlestown, 869. The members for Menotomy of a particular and peculiar committee of Dr. Appleton's church, in 1736, were John Cutter and Ephraim Frost. See Paige, 297, &c. 1737 On Jan. 2, 1736-7, the Rev. John Hancock baptized at 'Notomy, Amos Winship and Hannah Robbins. May 16, 1737, the town granted £ 12 for the support of winter schools in this Precinct.—Paige. On Mar. 25, 1737, a me
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Distinguished guests and residents of Medford. (search)
n 1835. He was an admirer of Webster and a distinguished man himself and was called one of the noted clergymen of New York City. He was pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, and at his Sunday evening services the aisles were filled with benches, and people stood up, so great were the crowds that gathered to hear him preach. He published several volumes of sermons and other works, and on giving up preaching became President of Union Theological Seminary. He was born in Colchester, Conn., January 25, 1807, and died in New York, August 31, 1880. Dr. Adams and his family spent the summers in Medford, and he was very well known by many families of this town. They were attendants at the First Trinitarian Church, where the courtesy of the pulpit was always extended to the distinguished clergyman, and when the rumor went round that Dr. Adams was to preach, there was a large audience who had the privilege of hearing a fine sermon. Ex-Governor Boutwell, Secretary of the