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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 8: Education. (search)
h knowledge, and Christianity shall fill it with love! My friend, do not misinterpret my letter by supposing that I originated these ideas. Oh, no! They were picked up by me in Europe. There had been an attempt at a teachers' seminary at Lancaster; and the American Institute, unknown to me, had discussed the subject before I was a member; and the idea was not a new one. All I did was to bring it from Europe with me, and talk about it, and write about it, until the Old Colony adopted it.good. Sermons. On the Annual and National Thanksgiving1783 At the Installation of Rev. Peter Thatcher, in Brattle-street Church, Boston1785 Before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, in Boston1788 At Ordination of Rev. N. Thayer, in Lancaster1793 On the Annual Thanksgiving1794 On the Day of the National Thanksgiving1795 On the Death of a Child, killed by a Gun1797 Before the Annual Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts1798 At the Ordination of Rev. Leonard
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ames, Herman Vandenburg, 1865- (search)
Ames, Herman Vandenburg, 1865- Historian; born in Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 7, 1865; was graduated at Amherst College in 1888 and later studied in Germany. In 1891-94 he was an instructor in History at the University of Michigan; in 1896-97 occupied a similar post in Ohio State University; and in the latter year accepted the chair of American Constitutional History in the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, for which he was awarded the prize of the American Historical Association in 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Convention troops. (search)
Convention troops. When Burgoyne's army surrendered to General Gates, these generals agreed that the prisoners (over 5,000) should be marched to Cambridge, near Boston, to embark for England, on their parole not to serve again against the Americans. Suspecting that the parole would be violated, Congress, after ratifying, revoked it. As the British government did not recognize the authority of Congress, these troops remained near Boston until Congress, owing to the scarcity of supplies in New England, ordered them to Virginia, whither they went, October and November, 1778, 4,000 remaining at Charlottesville until October, 1780, when the British were removed to Fort Frederick, in Maryland, and the Germans to Winchester, their numbers reduced to 2,100. Soon after they were removed to Lancaster, and some to East Windsor, Conn. In the course of 1782 they were dispersed by exchange or desertion. See Burgoyne, Sir John.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrington, Timothy 1715-1795 (search)
Harrington, Timothy 1715-1795 Clergyman; born in Waltham, Mass., in 1715; became a Congregational pastor in 1741. It is of him that the amusing story is told that, having always been in the habit of praying for our gracious sovereign King George before the Revolutionary War, after the war broke out he at one time, through habit, uttered the accustomed prayer, but hastily added, O Lord, I mean George Washington! He died in Lancaster, Mass., Dec. 18, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philip, King (search)
1,000 warriors were slain or wounded, and several hundred were made prisoners. The English lost 86 killed and 150 wounded. Canonchet was slain, but Philip escaped and took refuge again with the Nipmucks. During the winter (1675-76) he vainly asked the Mohawks to join him, but tribes eastward of Massachusetts became his allies. In the spring of 1676 the work of destruction began. In the course of a few weeks the war extended over a space of almost 300 miles. Weymouth, Groton, Medfield, Lancaster, and Marlborough, in Massachusetts, were laid in ashes. Warwick and Providence, in Rhode Island, were burned, and isolated dwellings of settlers were everywhere laid waste. About 600 inhabitants of New England were killed in battle or murdered; twelve or thirteen towns were destroyed entirely, and about 600 buildings, chiefly dwelling-houses, were burned. The colonists had contracted an enormous debt for that period. Quarrels at length weakened the Indians. The Nipmucks and Narragans
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
enemies, and to make a winter campaign against them......Nov. 2, 1675 Several bodies of troops from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Plymouth, numbering about 1,000, unite about 15 miles from the Narraganset fort......Dec. 18, 1675 The fort was carried and the Indians routed and the whole place burned; over 1,000 Indians were killed and captured; the English lost about 200 killed and wounded and six captains killed; this swamp fight occurred Sunday......Dec. 19, 1675 Indians attack Lancaster, and after killing all the men carry the women and children into captivity......Feb. 5, 1676 Six hundred additional troops ordered to be levied......Feb. 8, 1676 Medfield surprised and laid in ashes......Feb. 21, 1676 Weymouth, within 18 miles of Boston, attacked and seven buildings burned......Feb. 24 1676 Groton attacked......March 3, 9, 13, 1676 Town of Plymouth assaulted and twelve persons killed......March, 1676 Warwick burned and Providence partially destroyed......
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whiting, Henry 1790-1851 (search)
Whiting, Henry 1790-1851 Military officer; born in Lancaster, Mass., about 1790; joined the army in 1808; promoted first lieutenant in 1811; was placed on the staff of Gen. John P. Boyd, and afterwards on that of Gen. Alexander Macomb; promoted captain in 1817; was chief quartermaster of the army of General Taylor during the Mexican War: won distinction at Buena Vista, in recognition of which he was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, Feb. 23, 1847. His publications include Ontway, the son of the forest (a poem) ; Life of Zebulon M. Pike, in Sparks's American biography; joint author of Historical and scientific sketches of Michigan, etc.; and editor of Washington's Revolutionary orders issued during the years 1778, 1780, 1781, and 1782, selected from the Mss. Of John Whiting. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16, 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Abijah 1722-1789 (search)
Willard, Abijah 1722-1789 Military officer; born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1722; was made a mandamus councillor in 1774, which caused him to be an object of public opprobrium; was arrested in Union, Conn., but by signing a declaration made by his captors he was liberated. He was proscribed and exiled in 1778; was in New York City in July, 1783, and with fifty-four others petitioned Sir Guy Carleton for land grants in Nova Scotia. These petitioners were designated as the Fifty-Five. Willard22; was made a mandamus councillor in 1774, which caused him to be an object of public opprobrium; was arrested in Union, Conn., but by signing a declaration made by his captors he was liberated. He was proscribed and exiled in 1778; was in New York City in July, 1783, and with fifty-four others petitioned Sir Guy Carleton for land grants in Nova Scotia. These petitioners were designated as the Fifty-Five. Willard later settled in New Brunswick. He died in Lancaster, New Brunswick, in 1789.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willard, Joseph 1798-1865 (search)
Willard, Joseph 1798-1865 Author; born in Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 1798; graduated at Harvard College in 1816; admitted to the bar and began practice in Waltham, Mass.; settled in Boston in 1829; appointed master of chancery in 1838; and was elected clerk of the Superior Court in 1856 and 1861. His publications include Topographical and Historical sketches of the town of Lancaster, Mass., with an appendix; Naturalization in the American colonies; Letter to an English friend on the rebellion in the United States and on the British policy, etc. He died in Boston, Mass., May 12, 1865.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 1: (search)
eems to have been a guide, not only to his own, but to the political course of other members of the Sumner family:-- The man who, regardless of public happiness, is ready to fall in with base measures, and sacrifices conscience, honor, and his country, merely for his own advancement, must (if not wretchedly hardened) feel a torture, the intenseness of which nothing in this world can equal. Roger Sumner, second son of the original settlers William and Mary Sumner, early removed to Lancaster with other Christians for the gathering of a church. Remaining there until the town was destroyed by the Indians, he returned to Milton, where he died May 26, 1698. His son William, it is supposed, married Esther Puffer of Dorchester, Jan. 2, 1697, and had, inter alios, Seth, born Dec. 15, 1710; and married for his second wife Lydia Badcock in 1742. He was the father of thirteen children; among whom Job, the fifth son, born April 23, 1754, graduated at Harvard College in 1778, and becam
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