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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. (search)
their employes —and through the long swamp to River Meadow brook, also crossed by aqueduct. Thence it was continued to Billerica, where it entered the Concord river by a stone guard lock, with a floating tow path, and passed out on the southern sidtly rafts. Landing and loading places were established at the millpond in Charlestown, in Medford, Woburn, Wilmington, Billerica, and Chelmsford. No goods were allowed to be unloaded or loaded at any other places without a special permit from the badly contaminated, some being little short of open sewers. Mr. Eddy's plan consisted in abolishing the levels betwen Billerica and Middlesex Village and Woburn and Charlestown, conducting the water of the canal from Woburn by thirty-inch iron pip the amount divided among the stockholders. On April 4, 1852, the last canal-boat was run on the canal by Joel Dix, of Billerica. By conveyances made in 1832, the company reserved the right to use the land for canaling purposes; perhaps they th
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
he was fain to escape with no bones broken. We have been a long time reaching the Somerville line, but we are almost here. The townsmen of Cambridge divided the common lands to settlers according to their estates. By this rule Thomas Brigham drew more than quadruple the amount of most others. In the last and principal division he, out of 115 assignees, received 180 acres, the thirteenth largest share, while others received only a few acres. He received grants in Brighton, Shawshine (Billerica), West Cambridge, and Charlestown, amounting to hundreds of acres. His first grant in Charlestown was of one acre made in 1645. In 1648 there was laid out to him seventy-two acres on the rocks upon Charlestown line; and later in the same year he bought of William Hamlet ten acres in Fresh Pond Meadow, on the northwest side of the great swamp. Of these he took immediate possession, and built upon the former. By the help of Peter B. Brigham, Esq., who died in 1872, The Rocks have been
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
38, 56, 74, 87. Ash Street, Boston, 51. Austin Street, Somerville, 3. Baldwin, George Rumford, 3. Baldwin, Loammi, 2, 3. Barrett, Samuel, Jr., 11. Bartlett, Hon., Josiah, M. D., 48. Bell Rock, Malden, 58. Big Bethel, 35. Billerica, Mass., 1, 7, 9. Bishop of London, 18. Blackstone, Lone Settler of Boston, 30. Blackstone Street, Boston, 4. Blessing of the Bay, The, 33. Booth, Dr. E. C., 20, 89, 92. Boston Avenue, Somerville, 3. Boston Gazette, 65. Boston & Salstonstall, Richard, 28, 50, 51, 52. Sargent, Aaron, 40. Sawyer (family), 43. School Committees, 1736-1753, 16. Schoolmaster, Itinerant, 17. Scituate, Mass., 70. Scotland, 35. Sewall, Judge, 84. Shawsheen River, 1. Shawshine (Billerica), 53. Sheafe, Edward, Jr., 43. Shepherd, Rev., Thomas, 73. Shirley, Governor, 31. Simson, Joseph, 11, 12, 65. Skelton, —, 29. Skinner, John, 16, 17. Smith, —, 18. Smith, Betsey, 37. Smith, John, 60. Somerville Historical Society,