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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
ommissioned officers. The whole amount of money raised and expended by the town for war purposes, exclusive of State aid, was nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety cents ($19,847.90). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for State aid during the war to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $379.80; in 1862, $1,406.70; in 1863, $1,957.92; in 1864, $2,326.67; in 1865, $1,350.44. Total amount, $7,421.53. Boylston Incorporated March 1, 1786. Population in 1860, 929; in 1865, 792. Valuation in 1860, $469,794; in 1865, $467,551. The selectmen in 1861 were Robert Andrews, Jr., Oliver S. Kendall, Stephen H. Hartshorn; in 1862, Robert Andrews, Jr., Stephen H. Hartshorn, Sylvanus Reed; in 1863, Henry H. Brigham, Horace Kendall, A. V. R. Prouty; in 1864, John Andrews, David T. Moore, Tertullus Ray; in 1865, Robert Andrews, Horace Kendall, A. V. R. Prouty. The town-clerk during all these years was
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Cambridge Hospital. (search)
ss; Sister Banbrick, being sick, had a breast of mutton; Sister Albone 7lbs. of venison, some physic, and a bottle of sack, and brother Sill four quarts of sack for his refreshment in times of fayntness. Others were aided in supply of their manifold necessyties. About 1663 the care of the poor passed into the hands of the town, and for a hundred years after the poor were cared for by the selectmen in private families. In 1779 the first workhouse and almshouse was opened on the corner of Boylston and South streets. This proving unsatisfactory, soon another was built on the corner of North Avenue and Cedar Street, and called the Poor's House. Here, for the first time, were appointed overseers of the poor, distinct from the selectmen, who were charged with providing everything necessary for the support of the poor, and the appointment of a physician. This served the purpose till 1818, when a third was built in the square bounded by Harvard, Norfolk, Austin, and Prospect streets. In
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The African slave trade in the British Parliament. (search)
tter of course. The cows were pastured on the common. Faneull market at this time was the only market, but provisions were sold all over the town. Much of the poultry, game, butter, eggs, milk, cream, etc., was brought from the country by women on horseback, in two large square panniers thrown across the animal, and the woman perched on top. There were several noted stands for these women--one in particular at Miss Peggy Moore's tavern, on the corner of what is now Washington street and Boylston street, belonging to the Wells family, and now covered by the Boylston market-house. I have seen, early in the morning, fifteen or twenty horses tied to hooks at the back of Miss Peggy Moore's woodshed fronting on Boylston street, while their owners were at breakfast in the house. Quails, partridges, and pigeons could be bought at that time for about twenty- five cents a dozen; and I have myself purchased a goose for the same sum, and many other articles of food at equally low rates.