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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ounces the conquest of New Netherland and demands its restitution......Nov. 6, 1664 West India Company recalls Stuyvesant......Nov. 28, 1664 Principal Dutch residents, including Governor Stuyvesant and Van Rensselaer, swear allegiance to Charles II. and the Duke of York......1664 Long Island adjudged to New York......1664 Stuyvesant returns to Holland......May, 1665 Negro slavery recognized......1665 Race-course at Hempstead, L. I., selected by Governor Nicolls and named New market ......May, 1665 Holland urgently demands the restoration of New Netherland......1665 Ralph Hill and his wife Mary arrested for witchcraft and sorcery, but the jury found nothing considerable against them ......1665 Peter Stuyvesant returns to New York......October, 1667 Governor Nicolls relieved at his own request......1667 Governor Nicolls leaves New York......Aug. 17, 1668 Col. Francis Lovelace governor......Aug. 28, 1668 Staten Island adjudged to New York......166
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., I. General History. (search)
mmittee of both houses on the petition above, reported that said committee, appointed to take under consideration said petition, having repaired to the lands petitioned for by, and notified the petitioners and the agents for the town of Cambridge, Hon. Spencer Phips, Jonathan Remington, Francis Foxcroft, William Brattle, Esqs, and Mr. Andrew Bordman, were chosen the committee of Cambridge, July 24, 1732, for this purpose. See attested copy of vote, belonging to Mr. J. B. Russell of New Market, N. J. with other petitioners, and having carefully viewed the place and heard the parties, are humbly of opinion that the lands in the Northwest Part of said town petitioned for, be set off a distinct precinct by the following boundaries: On Menotomy River from Charlestown till it comes to Spy Pond Brook, then on said brook till it comes to a watercourse or ditch in Whiting's meadow, so called; the ditch to be the boundary till it comes to Hamblet's Brook, following the course of said bro
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
tter, Joseph Hill, James Cutter, Jr., George Swan, Benjamin Cutter, Jr., John Wilson, Joel Frost, James Fillebrown. On Dec. 5, 1804, Artemas Kennedy was chosen president, Isaac Locke secretary, A. Kennedy chorister, Daniel Locke and John Perry bass assistants, Isaac Locke tenor assistant, Jason Kennedy treble assistant, James Hill treasurer. Ebenezer Rumford Thompson, school-master in West Cambridge, 1814-15, and born here March 6, 1796, refers, in a letter to Mr. J. B. Russell, of New Market, N. J., in 1879, to a visit of Jerome Bonaparte and his Bride to West Cambridge in 1804, to visit Whittemore's Card Factory. 1805 A meeting of the Precinct was held at the hall of Mr. Thomas Russell on Jan. 9, 1805—probably the hall over the store of Thomas Russell & Son, mentioned in town records in 1808. The dedication of the new meeting-house was appointed to be on Wednesday, March 20, 1805, at two P. M. The following memorandum was made on the Precinct Records: March the 20th,