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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John Winthrop (search)
finally brought to trial, convicted of fraud, and also bigamy, and was imprisoned and his ears cut off. The unfaithfulness of Luxford caused Winthrop to revoke certain testaments in his will, in which document he says that, through his servants, his debts are £ 2,600, whereof he did not know of more than £ 300. In 1645 one of his worst misfortunes in public life befell him; this was his accusation and trial for an invasion of the rights of the people in quelling mutinous practices in Hingham, from which charge, however, he was finally acquitted. His address to the general court after acquittal is certainly worthy of repetition here. He said: I shall not now speak anything about the past proceedings of court, or the persons therein concerned. . . . I am well satisfied that I was publickly accused, and that I am now publickly acquitted. . . . But give me leave, before you go, to say something that may rectifie the opinions of many people. . .The questions that have trou
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools within the peninsula Revolutionary period (search)
hool, at the same rate, and that he opened his school July 19. We are also told that the old town house can be fitted up for about £ 34. This sum is accordingly voted, and it is understood that this building will be for the use of the Latin school. I have been unable to learn anything of these two teachers. Mr. Cushing, we have seen, was keeping a private school in Charlestown at the time of his appointment. He was doubtless descended from Matthew Cushing, one of the early settlers of Hingham. The history of that town mentions a Matthew, son of Solomon and Sarah (Loring) Cushing, born April 4, 1720, a graduate of Harvard College, 1739, who removed to New York, and died there in 1779. This may be the Charlestown teacher. Evidently there were two sides to the school question, and many were dissatisfied with the way Mr. Sweetser had been treated; for at the next May meeting, 1751, the town voted to have but one schoolmaster within the Neck for the present year, and it is recor
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
. Harvard College, 18, 44, 48, 65, 70, 82. Harvard Square, 75, 78, 82. Harvard University, 9, 51, 66. Hastings, Samuel, 79. Hawes, Frank Mortimer, 11, 43, 64, 87. Hawkins, Nathaniel, 89, 90, 91. Hay, John, 67. Hayes, A. A., 9. Hayes, John S., 36, 60. Haymarket Square, Boston, 4. Hays,——--, 67. Hayward, N., 88. Hemans, —, 64. Henley, Samuel, 43. Henley, Samuel, Esq., 67. Henry I., 50. Henry VIII., 25. Hills, John, 66. Hills, Thomas, 66. Hillsboro, N. H., 38. Hingham, Mass., 34, 44. Historic Genealogical Register, New England, 80. Historic Heights and Points, 60. History of Medford, Brooks-Usher, 15. Hittenger, —, 40, 65. Holbrook, Samuel, 68. Hooker, —, 74. Hopkins Classical School, 70. Horn Pond, 2. Horn Pond Brook, 3. Horn Pond House, 3, 7. Horn Pond Locks, 2, 3. Hotten, Camden, 50. Houghton (family), 24. Hunt, William, 55. Hurd, Mercy, 55. Hutchinson, Samuel, 16. Increase, Ship, 73. Ipswich, Mass., 78. Jackson, Dr. Charle