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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 12: crimes and Punishments. (search)
. PeterCaptain Francis Whitmore. LondonSimon Bradshaw. SelbyDeacon Benjamin Willis. PrinceBenjamin Hall. PunchWidow Brooks. FloraStephen Hall. RichardHugh Floyd. DinahCaptain Kent. CaesarMr. Brown. ScipioMr. Pool. PeterSquire Hall. NiceSquire Hall. CuffeeStephen Greenleaf. IsaacJoseph Tufts. AaronHenry Gardner. Chloe-------- Negro girlMr. Boylston. Negro womanDr. Brooks. Joseph, Plato, PhebeIsaac Royal. Peter, Abraham, CooperIsaac Royal. Stephy, George, HagarIsaac Royal. Mira, Nancy, BetseyIsaac Royal. We are indebted to a friend for the following: It may be interesting here to mention a circumstance illustrative of the general feeling of the town in those days with regard to slavery. In the spring of 1798 or ‘99, a foreigner named Andriesse, originally from Holland, who had served many years at the Cape of Good Hope and in Batavia as a commodore in the Dutch navy, moved into the town from Boston, where he had lost, it was said, by unlucky speculations and t
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 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
magery to Virgil and Milton. The epic as a whole is what might be expected when the poet's purpose is to represent such manners as are removed from the peculiarities of any age or country, and might belong to the amiable and virtuous of any period, elevated without design, refined without ceremony, elegant without fashion, and agreeable because they are ornamented with sincerity, dignity, and religion. Into the heroic biblical narrative are woven the loves of Irad and Selima and of Iram and Mira, who take their evening strolls through the lanes and meadows of Connecticut. Though intolerably verbose, the poem contains purple passages which lift it to the level of the average eighteenth-century epic and which perhaps led Cowper to review it favourably. With a noble disregard of congruity, The Conquest of Canaan is, withal, distinctly patriotic, with its union of Canaan and Connecticut and its allusions to contemporary persons and events. The third period of early American verse
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, The old Royall house, Medford (search)
Antigua, afterwards bought it, probably about 1737, and remodeled it after an English mansion in Antigua, from whence he brought with him twenty-seven slaves, whose old brick quarters, with its huge fireplace, is probably the last existing vestige of slavery in Massachusetts. Colonel Isaac Royall, Jr., son of the merchant, was a Loyal-1st, and at the breaking out of the Revolution went to England, leaving for disposal by his agents, among other chattels, his slaves Stephen, George, Hagar, Mira, Betsey, and Nancy, probably among the last owned or kept in these parts. Colonel Royall endowed Harvard College with 2,000 acres of land, founding thereby the Royall professorship of law, which was the beginning of the present Harvard Law School. This ancient Royall estate was once part of Governor Winthrop's Ten Hills Farm, and was then part of Charlestown. In the Revolution the old mansion was for a time the headquarters of General Charles Lee, who afterwards moved to the old Oliver T
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
, 82. Medford Daughters of the Revolution, 23. Medford Street, 47. Memorial History of Boston, 38. Menotomies River, 80. Menotomy, 14, 18. Merrimac River, 86. Middleborough, Mass., 1. Middlesex County, 77. Milk Row, 42, 43, 68, 70, 72, 74, 97, 98, 100. Milk Row District, 16, 64. Milk Row School, 14, 15, 22, 67, 71, 91. 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100. Miller, Captain, Joseph, 64, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72. Miller, Richard, 41. Miller's River, 4, 77. Mill Pond, 78. Mill Street, 78. Mira, 23. Mishawum, 4. Mississippi, S. S., 27, 33, 36. Mobile, 53, 59, 61. Mobile Bay, 57, 58. Moody, Josiah, 96. Moody, Samuel, 95, 96. Morse, Rev. Jedediah, D. D., 44, 63, 66. Morse, Samuel, F. B., 66. Morse's School Geography and Atlas, 101. Moses, 44. Mount Vernon (gunboat), 33. Mt. Benedict, 78. Munroe, Henry, 8. Munroe, Nancy T., 8. Murray's English Grammar and Exercises, 101. Murray's English Reader, 71, 101. Murray's Introduction to His English Reader
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Slavery in Medford. (search)
possible to generalize from such insufficient data. After the beginning of hostilities in 1775 Colonel Royall departed for Nova Scotia, and Dr. Tufts for a while managed his property. Under date of March 12, 1776, Royal writes: Please to sell the following negroes; Stephen and George; they each cost £ 60 sterling; and I would take £ 50, or even £ 15, apiece for them. George had died the day before this letter was written. Hagar cost £ 35 sterling, but I will take £ 30 for her. I gave for Mira £ 35, but will take £ 25. If Mr. Benjamin Hall will give the £ 100 for her which he offered, he may have her, it being a good place. As to Betsey and her daughter Nancy, the former may tarry, or take her freedom, as she may choose; and Nancy you may put out to some good family by the year. The range of prices is here much higher, averaging about £ 40. References to slavery in the Town-meeting Records are very few. The first is in the meeting of Aug. 18, 1718, when it was Put to Vote
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17., A Medford slave Roll (search)
Colonel Royall's personal use was soling your pumps 2s 6d. A different sort of pump was mending your pump box four pence; this time the word mending is used. Probably Jo, peter, plato and the others got water more easily from the Royall well because of this mending of the pump by this ancient Medford cobbler, who also mended bridle and chaze harness several times. The list of Col. Royall's twelve slaves in Brooks' history gives six of these names, but does not include Belinda. Hagar, Mira, Nancy and Betsy may have been the negro woman and garls of the old account. His charges for making shoes for Thomas——your wife and garl was 3£ 10s, the largest amount entered. A pair for calep was 2£ 10s. Simon Bradshaw had a pair for yourselfe 3£ 5s, a pair for your Negro man 2£ 10s. James Perry was charged with a pair for yourselfe, 2£ 18s, a pair for your woman 1£ 10s, a pair for your garl 1£ 4s, while Beniamin parker had for yourselfe, wife and garl. Evidently there was a so